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James R Kirk

@ Kirk @startrek.website

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  • NSFW

    There's a lot of discussion of Mississippi's age verification law for social media today, after Bluesky announced they're blocking the state.

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  • I agree 100%, BlueSky is not decentralized.

  • NSFW

    There's a lot of discussion of Mississippi's age verification law for social media today, after Bluesky announced they're blocking the state.

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  • incorrect actually

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    There's a lot of discussion of Mississippi's age verification law for social media today, after Bluesky announced they're blocking the state.

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  • But you are evading. The technicalities you speak of are irrelevant to the topic of censorship. The fact that parts of BlueSky are technically open source, or that other BlueSky apps exist is irrelevant to the people who are functionally denied access to speak due to the decision of a single company. There is no other "instance" we can go sign up on like with ActivityPub apps.

    (Here is the part where you say I could technically get all my friends to self-host their own PDS as though it is easy and fun).

  • NSFW

    There's a lot of discussion of Mississippi's age verification law for social media today, after Bluesky announced they're blocking the state.

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  • Do you live in Mississippi? Because there's no reason to capitulate otherwise unless you plan on going there on vacation (no reason to do that either).

  • NSFW

    There's a lot of discussion of Mississippi's age verification law for social media today, after Bluesky announced they're blocking the state.

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  • No, "other sites" should disobey unjust laws

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    There's a lot of discussion of Mississippi's age verification law for social media today, after Bluesky announced they're blocking the state.

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  • You're right good job lol you managed to evade again.

    A CEO is censoring a geographical region. That is just not something that can happen on a decentralized platform.

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    There's a lot of discussion of Mississippi's age verification law for social media today, after Bluesky announced they're blocking the state.

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  • That's just a frontend. It still requires a bsky.app account.

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    There's a lot of discussion of Mississippi's age verification law for social media today, after Bluesky announced they're blocking the state.

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  • I am there and it's not available.

  • NSFW

    There's a lot of discussion of Mississippi's age verification law for social media today, after Bluesky announced they're blocking the state.

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  • More evasion. "Client" is Bluesky's techno jargon for "app". You still need a BlueSky account to use a client. And you can't get one of those in Mississippi.

    Maybe it would help your argument that the thing BlueSky themselves says is happening is not really happening if you could produce a BlueSky post that is available in posted from Mississippi?

  • Pollsters Are Questioning AI Instead of Real People

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  • This reminds me of that "study" on social networks that used AIs

  • Wait, Partiful’s Founders Worked at Palantir?

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  • I think the concern is the tracking of offline social networks

  • NSFW

    There's a lot of discussion of Mississippi's age verification law for social media today, after Bluesky announced they're blocking the state.

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  • That appears to be you avoiding explaining how a CEO of a for-profit company could censor an entire "decentralized" "open source" app for millions of people.

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    There's a lot of discussion of Mississippi's age verification law for social media today, after Bluesky announced they're blocking the state.

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  • But that was already in the process of changing

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    There's a lot of discussion of Mississippi's age verification law for social media today, after Bluesky announced they're blocking the state.

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  • But I thought BlueSky was open source and decentralized? /s

    EDIT: In case it's not obvious (as it apparently isn't to OP) if BlueSky was either of those things then it could not be simply shut down by a CEO.

  • Superfan Ben Stiller Has A Star Trek Pitch, Says It’s Important For Franchise To Return To Big Screen

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  • Are we watching the same movies because the criticisms I usually hear leveled at the TOS films are that they are too philosophical and boring

  • Superfan Ben Stiller Has A Star Trek Pitch, Says It’s Important For Franchise To Return To Big Screen

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  • Well this is a take I can't believe is being upvoted....

    To answer your question, no every movie has been good. I'm sure if they made a Section 31 movie it would be good too but they never actually made it so we'll never know.

  • AI summaries of people have landed on Reddit.

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  • Reddit won't ban the shitheads but they will summarize their post history so you can better determine who the shitheads are! ....thanks?

  • What is World?

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  • Is this thing as sketchy as it seems?

    Sam Altman and Andreessen Horowitz involvement should be all you need to know. But the reality is probably less dystopian than some people make it out to be. World to me just seems to be Altman trying to sell a solution to the problem that he's trying to create with OpenAI (chatbots that are indistinguishable from humans).

  • 45k upvoted post on r/steam that's clearly AI garbage

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