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JoBo

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  • UK government lawyers say Israel is breaking international law, claims top Tory in leaked recording

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  • A Tory. If you read the article, 'the' Tories are doing their very best not to publish the legal advice because it would mean they couldn't export any more arms to Israel.

  • Salt Lake City police defend not arresting Ahn Pham after initial hit and run case

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  • You're on the wrong thread. I don't care that you got here because you're an idle blabbermouth who prefers spouting words to reading them. It's well past time for you to fuck off.

  • Salt Lake City police defend not arresting Ahn Pham after initial hit and run case

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  • No one has argued for anyone to be locked up for causing minor damage to inanimate objects.

    If you are unwilling to grapple with the details of this offender and/or unable to quit your knee-jerk defence of the police persistently ignoring the crimes of predators, just keep your fucking mouth shut.

    Before the first crash, on Aug. 22, 2023, witnesses saw a white sedan with a license plate number registered to Pham pull up beside a 36-year-old woman. She shrugged off the vehicle and began to run away when the car “sped up and hit [her] causing her to fly over the vehicle and land on the ground hard,” charging documents state. The driver then sped away.

  • Renewable energy overtakes gas in the UK, analysis shows

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  • It's good news but the hype is nonsensical. Domestic energy generation has shifted a lot but the primary driver of lower emissions is exporting our manufacturing jobs. And now they're polishing their halos while wagging their fingers at China.

    The decoupling of economic growth from carbon emissions: UK evidence . Figure 10 is the quick way to grasp the point.

    The UK economy gradually shifted from a carbon-intensive manufacturing-based economy to a less carbon-intensive services economy after-1986. The gap between the consumption-based and territorial-based emissions started to widen. By 2007, the consumption-based CO2 emissions reached their peak and were 37% higher than the territorial CO2 emissions. This implies that the absolute decoupling of gross domestic product (GDP) from territorial CO2 emissions in 1986 was not solely because of policy impacts, but also because of the outsourcing of the production of manufactured goods to developing countries.

  • Salt Lake City police defend not arresting Ahn Pham after initial hit and run case

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  • I've no idea why you're wriggling so very hard to exonerate the police here but it is a really fucking terrible look. HTH

  • 19-page PDF accuses Wikipedia of bias against Israel, suggests editors be forced to reveal their real names, and demands a new feature allowing people to view the history of Wikipedia articles

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  • Please don't do this. There is absolutely nothing strange or startling about a people who have been subjected to genocide going on to commit it (see also: Serbia).

    This sort of finger-wagging is crude and insulting, and the only outcome is far-right Zionists trying to pin the Holocaust on Palestinians and claiming that Palestinian animosity towards Israel is because of a European-style irrational hatred of Jews, not its colonial and genocidal actions.

    This is not a morality play.

  • Salt Lake City police defend not arresting Ahn Pham after initial hit and run case

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  • I don't think that is true. But even if it was, this particular hit and run hit a person. As you know because the guy turned out to be a fucking serial killer using his car as a weapon.

  • Salt Lake City police defend not arresting Ahn Pham after initial hit and run case

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  • First off, the police didn't even arrest him. This is nothing to do with a 'failure' to lock him up, it's a failure to bring any charges at all.

    But, more importantly, hit and run is a very serious crime. Whether or not you were at fault for hitting someone, leaving the scene instead of getting them help is the most serious element of the crime (in the absence of evidence of intent).

  • Report – Unsafe: Meta Fails to Moderate Extreme Anti-trans Hate Across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads | GLAAD - might be a reason to defederate from Threads

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  • That's a problem for people who use Meta. How is it a problem for people on Mastodon?

  • Report – Unsafe: Meta Fails to Moderate Extreme Anti-trans Hate Across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads | GLAAD - might be a reason to defederate from Threads

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  • But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t federate in other ways.

    How does it federate in ways that affect users?

  • Report – Unsafe: Meta Fails to Moderate Extreme Anti-trans Hate Across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads | GLAAD - might be a reason to defederate from Threads

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  • Mastodon is unusable if you follow Lemmy communities, so no one does.

    But that wasn't my question. If a Lemmy instance I am on federates with Threads, how do I find people on Threads, follow them, and have their posts appear in my Lemmy feed? The people who are saying it can be done are not also explaining how it can be done. You seem to be saying, in a roundabout way, that it cannot be done?

  • Report – Unsafe: Meta Fails to Moderate Extreme Anti-trans Hate Across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads | GLAAD - might be a reason to defederate from Threads

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  • There are, thankfully, plenty of instances which allow it.

    I was responding to a poster who wants it to not be possible. Because a centralised authority making decisions for all users is good, or something.

  • Report – Unsafe: Meta Fails to Moderate Extreme Anti-trans Hate Across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads | GLAAD - might be a reason to defederate from Threads

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  • There's very little point telling me it is possible without telling me how. I have tried and failed with kBin and I don't even know where to start with Lemmy.

    I would like to follow Cory Doctorow's Mastodon account on Lemmy. Could you explain how?

    Thanks,

  • Why Bluesky Remains The Most Interesting Experiment In Social Media, By Far

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  • What is there to disagree with? He's describing what looks like a very good system for federation (especially moderation), not telling anyone which way to go.

  • Why Bluesky Remains The Most Interesting Experiment In Social Media, By Far

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  • You're not required to agree with him. But if your disagreement with the headline is stopping you from reading the article, you're missing out. There's some useful ideas described which Fedi-coders would do well to take notice of.

  • Why Bluesky Remains The Most Interesting Experiment In Social Media, By Far

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  • If you think Mike Masnick does not spend enough time on the Fediverse, you do not spend enough time on the Fediverse.

  • Report – Unsafe: Meta Fails to Moderate Extreme Anti-trans Hate Across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads | GLAAD - might be a reason to defederate from Threads

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    1. Because that is not a decision Lemmy can make; thousands of different instances running Lemmy can choose to do whatever its admins choose to do.
    2. Because (AFAIK) Lemmy instances cannot federate with Threads anyway.

  • Report – Unsafe: Meta Fails to Moderate Extreme Anti-trans Hate Across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads | GLAAD - might be a reason to defederate from Threads

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  • For anybody looking to avoid ads on Lemmy, it seems like direct federation with Threads is not a good idea currently.

    Can Lemmy federate with Threads?

    I can follow Lemmy communities from Mastodon (but don't because it just fills your feed with an avalanche of out-of-context posts).

    I can't follow anyone on Mastodon from Lemmy (and while I think it is, or should be, possible from kBin, that doesn't seem to work well yet).

    So how can a Lemmy instance federate with Threads and how would their micro-blog posts turn up on Lemmy?

    I'm not remotely bothered by federation on Mastodon because there is no algorithm pushing crap on me there. I'll get what I follow and nothing else.

  • Report – Unsafe: Meta Fails to Moderate Extreme Anti-trans Hate Across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads | GLAAD - might be a reason to defederate from Threads

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  • The Fediverse is not large enough to replace Twitter/Reddit (for breadth and depth of content) and it is unlikely to become large enough any time soon.

    Fortunately, Mastodon does not push an algorithmic feed on me so I can follow people I want to hear from on Threads without having to put up with the bullshit that comes from being on Threads.

    I recognise that the lack of moderation on Threads means that instances which do federate may be faced with a lot of extra work and not all instances will be up for that, and that's totally fair.

    But it would be good if there was at least one instance which allowed access to people on Threads without having to make an account with Meta.

    FWIW it's not a coincidence that Threads didn't make federation possible until after they'd found a legal way to launch in the EU. They knew that if they federated first, the Fediverse would get a lot of EU users who would otherwise have joined Threads. I don't think the entire Fediverse should cut itself off from Threads when many of its users might also like access to the feed without the Meta bullshit piled on top.