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  • RFK's proposal to let bird flu spread through poultry

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  • I think there's a few things going on.

    On one side, you have Americans that have deep-rooted anti-intellectualism. You see this as the myriad of anti-woke, anti-vax, anti-science attitudes. These ideas aren't grounded in anything useful or real, but leaders in the far-right find these attitudes useful in various ways for pushing their cause. I don't think there's an actual goal of promoting disease necessarily... it's more that the further right-wingers can push people into extreme points of view, the easier it is to keep them there. It wouldn't surprise me if a lot of drivel in the anti-woke/anti-science sphere today became popular due to clickbait engagement, though, this movement has been promoted generally by the right wing for a long time.

    I also wouldn't be surprised if there's some aspect of foreign influence going on as well. Russia has been working for decades at destabilizing the US. The spreading of disease here would definitely work towards that goal, so long as it doesn't generate a new pandemic that might bite them too.

  • Eight US states seek to outlaw chemtrails – even though they aren’t real

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  • The only time fuel is dumped by aircraft is during an emergency and either 1) needs to land somewhere unexpected and is far overweight for the runway, or 2) there is a situation where the landing is exceedingly dangerous and there's a need to reduce weight and potential fireball size (e.g. landing gear failures).

  • IRS Makes Direct File Software Open Source After Trump Tried to Kill It

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  • What's wrong with CC0?

  • Trump’s Hated ‘TACO’ Nickname Is Catching On

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  • I think it's more about finding something that clearly gets under his skin.

    Weird that name-calling is that thing, but I guess it makes sense given how much time he seems to spend crafting names for other people.

  • The Futile Quest to Build a “Liberal Joe Rogan”

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  • Exactly.

    The right (and foreign powers) have been dumping tons of money to promote and prop up right wing influencers for years. There doesn't even seem to be a litmus test other than 1) will they move people towards our general direction, and 2) will they regurgitate talking points we toss to them.

    The right have been reaping huge dividends from promoting people in this space. Influencers on the left exist, but are having a lot harder time without access to similar resources.

    The takeaway isn't to do what the right is doing by promote sleezy influencers... but funding existing and successful influencers left of center, even if there isn't 100% alignment could have a big impact in this space and help level the field.

  • CJ didn't vote for this

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  • For everything the conservatives are bad at, they are somehow crazy good at messaging.*

    Their ability to take a positive term, redefine it as something it isn't, and use it as a hammer is impressive. The reality of "getting rid of DEI" clearly means more discrimination and hiring/firing based on race/sex/etc, but they certainly framed it as "best candidate instead of minority preference".

    This is a repeating trend. Fake news, Critical race theory, woke, cancel culture, marxism, radical left, et -- these are all good examples of the right redefining and hijacking terms or language. It wouldn't surprise me if they try to do it with the word "democracy" to mean something like "far left woke Democrat ideals".

    Just to clarify -- "good at messaging" just meaning that it's effective at being taken up and repeated by a subset of the population. How people listen to and trust the stuff is beyond me.

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  • The point? I think he expected the world leaders to come bearing personal gifts and favors. Trade some of the US's global position and power for his own personal wealth and power? I don't have proof, but it would be on-brand for Trump.

    He's also surrounded himself with yes-men and crazy people (e.g. Navarro). He clearly has an elementary understanding (at best) of economics. Money good. China bad. Money go to China bad (trade imbalance). Tariffs keep money here.

    Combine all that with the fact that he never admits responsibility for anything. When China pushed back, he retaliated. When they stopped participating, it leaves us in a stalemate that I believe will hurt us a lot more than them.

    So, I think the trade imbalance is the justification. The goal is likely just personal power for Trump. But he doesn't really know what he's doing, doesn't care to learn, just thinking he's the greatest being in existence and everything bad is not his fault.

  • They've ruined a near perfect calculator

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  • There's probably some (small) guardrails on the major platforms to deter spreading misinformation, but it's really easy to get a chat bot to take whatever position you want.

    E.g. "Pretend you are a human on Twitter that supports (thing). Please make tweets about your support of (thing) and respond to our conversation as though my comments are tweet replies."

    Or more creatively maybe something like, "I need to practice debating someone who thinks (thing). Please argue with me using the most popular arguments, regardless of correctness."

    I haven't tried these, but have a bit of practice working with LLMs and this is where I would start if I wanted to make a bot farm.

  • Why plans are already in motion for a Trump third term – no matter what the law says

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  • Yeah. Outrage now doesn't mean outrage when it matters. Things will look very different in 4 years and conservatives always seem willing to fall in line.

  • Tim Walz says ‘we wouldn’t be in this mess’ if it wasn’t for him and Harris

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  • And Gavin Newsom started a podcast and is cozying up to crazy right wingers.

  • Waymo trains its cars to NOT stop at crosswalks

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  • This hasn't been true at any of the places I've worked.

    There's always been some pressure from management, usually through project managers or business users, for urgency around certain features, timelines, releases, etc. Sometimes you'll have a buffer of protection from these demands, sometimes not.

    One place I worked was so consistently relentless about the dev team's delivery speed that it was a miserable place to work. There was never time to fix the actual pain points because there were always new features being demanded or emergency fixes required because most code bases were a wreck and falling apart.

  • The Rage and Glee That Followed a C.E.O.’s Killing Should Ring All Alarms

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  • If I remember right, super delegates were the main reason Bernie lost the nomination.

  • Subscribe now for more clicks!

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  • They missed so many opportunities to make it actually a nightmare. Adding these should help...

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    Edit: formatting

  • Are Overemployed ‘Ghost Engineers’ Making Six Figures to Do Nothing?

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  • And beyond this, solving the problem is just the baseline. Solving the problem well can take an immense amount of time, often producing solutions that appear overly simplistic in the end.

    I recently watched a talk about ongoing Java language work (Project Valhalla). They've been working on this particular set of performance improvements for years without a lot to show for it. Apparently, they had some prototypes that worked well but were unwieldy to use. After a lot of refinement, they have a solution that seems completely obvious. It takes a lot of skill to come up with solutions like that, and this type of work would be unjustly punished by algorithms like this.

  • Donald Trump vows to impose 25% tariff on all products from Canada and Mexico

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  • 2024 voters: InFlAtIoN tOo HiGh! TrUmP bEtTeR fOr ThE eCoNoMy!!1

  • ‘An existential battle’: how Trump’s win is shifting the US media landscape

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  • Washington Post, but yeah.

  • It’s not alarmist: A second Trump term really is an extinction-level threat to democracy

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  • First, A lot of the far-left authoritarian users are in other instances, like lemmy.ml. Those communities are easy to avoid and users from there easily identified.

    Second, I can only guess you're talking about Harris when speaking "a communist and a known war monger". Speaking as a former libertarian Republican (who left the party when Trump took over), Harris isn't communist or far left. That's 100% right-wing propaganda. America's Democratic party is pretty conservative compared to liberal and leftist parties in Europe and isn't that much to the left of the pre-Trump Republican party.

    As for the known warmonger, I have no idea what you're talking about.

  • Tim Walz and AOC are going to play Madden together on Twitch

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  • Could you imagine if the presidential candidates and their VP pick had to play Overcooked together for a few hours?

    It wouldn't even have to be a competition on score. You could learn so much about them so fast - their communication, ability to adapt, and how they handle frustrations.

  • why is this race so close?

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  • What in the world are you talking about?

  • We'll have a long memory as things get worse for working class Americans, minorities and women

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  • This just may be the dumbest thing I've heard today.