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  • Hungary's parliament passes constitutional amendment banning public LGBTQ+ events

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  • I am not surprised that Orban would push such a thing. But I am surprised that they would go as far as to amend the constitution for this, with seemingly a very comfortable majority. Is this really a reflection of Hungarian society nowadays? Have so many jumped on the conservative moral panic bandwagon over LGBTQ?

  • Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains

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  • Such a shame that Coppola’s movie was bad. He was onto something there.

  • Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains

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  • Zuck puts out this weird “pick me” or “me too” energy lately, trying to fashion himself as one compatible with Trump’s world. His interest in Rome may precede Trump’s ascension to power, but his coming out is not a coincidence in my view. And yes, a fascination with Rome started as so many other things as an “innocent” meme and became a fascist dog-whistle.

  • Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains

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  • Thanks for the correction, it’s Augustus Cesar. Still, what an odd connection. Good article btw.

  • British Museum is right to keep Parthenon marbles, says new trustee

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  • Whether they are returned or not, truth is it will make no difference to any of my life concerns as a Greek. It will make the Acropolis museum a little more spectacular. And it may then bring a little more money than before. That’s it. So yeah, I support the return of all stolen treasures in principle, but the truth is that if they were ever returned it would be more cause for a brief swell of national pride and milked for what it’s worth by whichever government happens to be in place than anything of actual consequence.

    Also, by having the artifacts stay at the British Museum, they bear testament to the massive scale extractive exploits of colonialism and how the fates of entire peoples have depended on the favor or disfavor of great powers. I kind of find it more embarrassing for the UK that they are keeping them and every time they refuse to return them it reminds me how rotten and racist the underbelly of western powers is, hidden not-so-well beneath a cultured and democratic veneer.

  • Trump’s expansionism threatens the rules-based order in place since second world war

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  • Yes, but Trump does represent a qualitative change. At least there was some consensus in Washington before him, both on domestic and international affairs. That made the US rather predictable. You knew where your values and interest met theirs and where they did not. That is no more. The US is now home to both some of the most forward thinking people and institutions and some of the most influential regressive beliefs. And all helmed by a fan of the latter and whose tempers change by the minute. The US is right now in some regards a bigger source of uncertainty than either Russia or China, erratic and extremely polarized as it has become. And it’s not only markets that hate prolonged uncertainty. Foreign governments and the people do too.

  • Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains

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  • Zuckerberg wears t-shirts comparing himself to Julius Caesar? Why is that every time I think I’m up-to-date on the latest weirdness there’s more of it?

  • Euronews: Why are online users claiming Ukrainian soldiers are staging combat?

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  • Ok thanks. So not owned by Orban, just maybe connected to him. Good to know, I just wish people weren’t so keen to dismiss anything that might potentially endanger their world view. The article posted was actually debunking anti-Ukraine claims, so I see no evidence of propaganda in this instance. Not that I much cared for Euronews anyway, just saying.

  • Euronews: Why are online users claiming Ukrainian soldiers are staging combat?

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  • What? How?

  • Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta

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  • Huh had no idea. I still wonder how accurate this is though, like whether it can be used forensically as the word “fingerprint” suggests to identify a specific person/private machine. It’s kind of fascinating as a topic. I would think that given that most people use similar setups, similar hardware and software, similar routers and settings, it would be impossible, but perhaps with enough details of a particular setup, a specific machine and user can be identified with decent accuracy.

  • Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta

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  • Usually fingerprint plays a supporting role for example when you do those "click here" captchas that's actually just giving the browser time to fingerprint you and evaluate your trust to decide whether to give you a full captcha or let you through. So fingerprint is always there in tbe background these days tho mostly for security and ad tracking.

    I’ve been wondering about those “click here” captchas and their purpose 🤔

  • Why do males complain about female-led stories or too many female characters when the majority are still dominated by males?

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  • Yeah well I wasn’t there, so just going by your post and pitched in to say that it’s a valid question in general: how is this book relevant for me? If asked in good faith, the author I suppose can see it as an opportunity to explain for example why that woman’s story can be interesting to a male audience. Maybe even school the interviewer if so inclined.

    I just feel like we should sometimes check our feminist impulses and recognize that some questions are valid, even when we may suspect that they come from a bad place.

  • Why do males complain about female-led stories or too many female characters when the majority are still dominated by males?

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  • I’m not sure the interpretation has to be that “female themes” are “lesser”. People will generally and naturally relate more to themes that strongly correlate with personal, lived experience. It is not strange that a man would relate less to motherhood as a theme. Similarly, a woman might naturally relate less to fiction on father-son relationships. A city dweller might relate less to stories about life in the countryside. And so on. It is useful and instructive to get out of one’s own skin and mind now and then. It helps build empathy and works of fiction can be very helpful in that regard. But that does not change the fact that themes hit much harder when you can relate from personal experience.

    As a man, strongly female themes and lead female characters are a-ok and can be touching even, but some male themes hit me much harder because I know what that feels like in my own skin so to say.

  • Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta

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  • So… how effective is it? The fingerprinting. I’m guessing there are studies? Also don’t know whether there’s been legal precedent, ie whether fingerprinting has been recognized as valid means of user identification in a court case.

  • Bernie Sanders blasts Trump for federal loans and grants freeze: ‘He is not a king’

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  • Regardless of one’s politics, over-reliance on presidential decrees can be problematic in more ways than one.

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    They're rare, but they're unfortunately here

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  • Jesus Christ so many of you on here are in love with your echo chambers aren’t you? Every other day there is something about instance wars and oh let’s see, whom do we want to exclude today. You don’t have to like what others have to say, but you have to be able to listen to them.

  • instance wars

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  • Gotcha thanks

  • instance wars

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  • Wait did world defederare from ml after all? I thought it hadn’t. Because people keep complaining about ml and I still see memes.ml and comments from ml users. Or is it one of these things where federation works in ways that are more complex than most of us assume? Is it that the other instances defederated from world? But I’ve seen ml users comment on my comments. Argh federarion is confusing…

  • EU will defend borders, says French minister in response to Trump’s Greenland threats

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  • He clearly thinks he’s going to extend it. But he may indeed cause irreparable damage.