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millie

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  • Polish government adopts resolution protecting Netanyahu from arrest if he attends Auschwitz event

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  • Eighty years ago a generation came together across 51 countries to fight fascism and put an end to a genocidal regime bent on conquering as much territory as it possibly could.

    And then their children handed it all over without a fight over the next several decades in exchange for some trinkets and the promise of carrying their social and economic power to their deathbeds. What a fucking waste.

  • On Friday SCOTUS Will Decide Whether TikTok Can Be Banned; We Told It The First Amendment Says No

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  • Is it actually a free speech issue, though?

    It's not as though SCOTUS is trying to rule on whether to ban short-form video or content from particular person. The allegation in regard to TikTok isn't 'dangerous speech', it's the platform's collection of user data and the manipulation of available content via an algorithm that they claim is a tool of a hostile foreign entity. Neither of those issues constitute 'speech' whether related to a foreign or domestic company.

    It seems to me like this is being framed as a speech issue to protect other vendors with hostile algorithms. If Google were forced to stop pushing AI and paid results to the stop of its searches, would that be a free speech issue? If Facebook were forced to put more weight on users' choices about what shows up on their feed rather than pushing dodgy political posts and paid advertisements, would that be a speech issue?

    Honestly, deciding that toxic algorithms are protected speech seems like a much more dangerous precedent to me than coming to a conclusion that a company that's beholden to a foreign entity that may be forcing it to engage in hostile intelligence operations and soft power can be restricted.

    If someone made a piece of malware that ropes your PC into a botnet and uses it to perform DDOS attacks, would banning it be a speech issue if it happens to come in the form of a blogging platform? A chat client? A music sharing service?

    Just having speech on a platform doesn't mean everything that platform does qualifies as speech and requires first amendment protections.

  • Pornhub Is Now Blocked In Almost All of the U.S. South

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  • 404 Media: we're not like the rest. Except when we are.

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  • Have you actually seen the posts from the people this thread is about?

    One of them is literally in the habit of sending people death threats and encouraging suicide. There's a difference between supporting neopronoun use and being completely blind to literal bad faith trolls.

    If you can't tell the difference I don't know what to tell you.

    Edit: Some of y'all need to go touch some grass.

  • ‘Elon Musk is a national security risk’: Retired U.S. Army General sounds alarm on Musk and his newfound role as close advisor to President-elect Donald Trump

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  • So like, how about these big tough military guys stop hand-wringing and do something about it. Fulfill your oath and defend the fucking constitution.

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  • Do you think this is the one thing that there are no bot-farm trolls injecting disinformation about?

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  • PSA: It's Electron, vscodium or vscode, not your KDE desktop.

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  • It seems like a lot of people who do that don't understand that there's an inverse relationship between devs soaking up all the emotional labor that comes with being the target of end users' ire and having the energy to get the actual work done. Especially when it comes to open source stuff, they could literally be spending the time they're spending shouting at a dev to do more dev things like.. learning to fix it themselves and submitting a commit.

  • The CEO killer watching from his hidey hole as authorities try to pin everything on some random dude named Luigi

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  • Luigi is player 2.

  • Double standards

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  • Systematically killing people based on their income by denying them essentials like health care, shelter, and legal protection from financial predation sounds like warfare to me. Especially when you couple it with a complete double standard on what constitutes protection from physical violence.

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    Employee charged in stabbing of president of Muskegon County manufacturer

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  • I feel like we're on that part of the roller coaster when you're juuuuust getting over the peak of the big hill and you feel that initial momentum. Gravity will kick in eventually. History doesn't lie.

  • euphemism treadmill is not a get out of rule free card pt2

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  • One of these things is not like the others.

  • Happy John Mastodon day to all who celebrate!

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  • I needed that. <3

  • IRIS²: the new satellite constellation aimed at ensuring communications autonomy for the EU is launched today

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  • You know what seems like a really good idea when we're trying to reduce carbon emissions? A bunch of new satellite networks. We could get, like, one of the least trustworthy people on Earth to launch thousands of the things and then get everyone else to launch their own because he can't be trusted. Literally just blot out the sun with them. No biggie.

  • Blacksky Is Nothing Like Black Twitter—and It Doesn’t Need to Be

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  • There is a world of difference between being excluded from spaces where you're marginalized (such as society on the whole) and creating spaces where you aren't marginalized. Does that make sense?

  • Location Data Firm Offers to Help Cops Track Targets via Doctor Visits

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  • Cool, another paywall.

    I miss the old Internet.

  • TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appeal

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  • Honestly? Good.

    I don't really see this as a free speech issue. TikTok isn't being banned because of the kind of speech that's on there, it's being banned because it's a predatory app created as a means of soft power by a hostile foreign nation. Does that mean we should also shut down Twitter? Yeah. Probably.

    This isn't some newspaper with dissenting opinions, is a foreign intelligence operation that simultaneously interferes with the normal operation of our democracy, puts our citizens in danger, massively inflates narcissism, and collects our user data to hand to a country that literally is actively spying on us.

    Frankly, I'd be okay with tossing any similar social media with obfuscated engagement algorithms anyway. Make YouTube and Facebook bring all that shit above board while we're at it. All this is is corporate regulation, and I fully support it. Fuck TikTok.

  • NHS hospitals gear up to get cyberattack systems back online • The Register

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  • It's good to hear that soon the NHS will be capable of launching cyber attacks again.