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psychothumbs

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  • Why I ditched Twitter for Bluesky - and hope you will, too!

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  • Bluesky is just a lot better. I have no particular commitment to the ActivityPub protocol.

  • Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox

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  • Sadly Mozilla is not immune to following the dumb fads that run through Silicon Valley, but Firefox is still clearly the best browser option.

  • In South Korea, deepfake porn wrecks women's lives and deepens gender conflict

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  • I'm not sure I understand how deepfake porn is supposed to be ruining lives here. From the article it seems like the issue is not any concern that it would be mistaken for real, but instead just people having a very horrified reaction to seeing that sort of depiction of themselves? Mostly it seems like the deepfake aspect is sort of a trivial distraction to the real issue on display there of gangs of men targeting random women for online harassment. If there was no such thing as deepfakes other sexually explicit or disturbing images could sub in easily enough.

    Maybe the new deepfake ban will be useful as a way of going after these harassment gangs that previously didn't face legal consequences? But it's sort of an inexact tool for that job, given that there are presumably lots of deepfake images out there not used for harassment, and that's it's easy enough for harassers to switch away from deepfakes if using them becomes a major legal vulnerability.

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    Bassem Youssef removed from X over "Antisemitism" [August 20th, 2024 | albawaba.com]

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  • If someone is using it as a platform to get their message out to people obviously they'll care if they're banned from it. Can't just say that someone bad having the power to issue those bans means they don't matter.

  • The line war has begun

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  • How can any line that is on the surface of a sphere be straight rather than a curve?

  • Video of Eric Schmidt blaming remote work for Google’s woes mysteriously vanishes

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  • I think you got it and effectively answered it, thanks.

  • Video of Eric Schmidt blaming remote work for Google’s woes mysteriously vanishes

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  • How do you work the office only having space for 20% of employees? Makes a lot of sense but would be annoying to hot desk. My office only has us in two days a week but has not cut down on the number of desks at all, giving up the potential savings.

  • TIL Will Smith turned down Django because “Violence begets violence”

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  • And that's why Jamie Foxx is cooler than Will Smith

  • South Carolina cops target out-of-state drivers for highway robbery

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  • Reason is consistently libertarian, so they're pro-billionaire but anti-cop.

  • First-known TikTok mob attack led by middle schoolers tormenting teachers

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  • Yeah I'd say it's equivalent to any other inappropriate joke a kid might tell - a moment for a conversation but not anything too serious.

  • First-known TikTok mob attack led by middle schoolers tormenting teachers

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  • This was impersonation on the level of "hey look at me, I'm funkless_eck, I'm a pedophile! dur dur dur" not some attempt to make it seem like those teachers were actually pedophiles.

  • First-known TikTok mob attack led by middle schoolers tormenting teachers

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  • I mean everyone gets that it was in fact a joke right? What are we talking about here? People are trying to make it sound like the kids were harassing these teachers or trying to trick people into thinking they were pedophiles as opposed to passing around dumb memes about them between each other.

  • First-known TikTok mob attack led by middle schoolers tormenting teachers

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  • I'd say it's a lot more like the lunch table, or even like a table at a restaurant off-campus. These kids were not directing these jokes at anyone but each other, but were in a semi-public place where they could be overheard. It's basically equivalent to a teacher walking by a table full of students making jokes about their teachers by pedophiles and getting them in trouble after overhearing.

  • First-known TikTok mob attack led by middle schoolers tormenting teachers

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  • Again, how is it harassment if it's just jokes these kids are passing around between each other that are only discoverable by snooping in them?

  • First-known TikTok mob attack led by middle schoolers tormenting teachers

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  • Yeah I'm not really seeing the harassment angle when you have to track these kids down on TikTok to see the videos.

  • First-known TikTok mob attack led by middle schoolers tormenting teachers

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  • So kids are joking around with each other online and the school is monitoring their accounts and punishing them for mean jokes about teachers? Leave these kids alone

  • Hawaii governor says Biden could decide within days whether to remain in the presidential race

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  • It's just sort of a non sequitur if it's about Trump - this is an article about picking a candidate to maximize Dem chances of beating Trump, neither side of the argument on who that should be wants Trump.

  • Hawaii governor says Biden could decide within days whether to remain in the presidential race

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  • That sounds more like Trump than Biden. The trouble is Trump is probably what we'll get if Biden doesn't suck it up and drop out of the race.

  • Yet more examples of how copyright destroys culture rather than driving it

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  • No copyright is about the "right" to "copy" the work in question, not the attribution. Works that are in the public domain still list the author.