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@ squirrel @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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formerly /u/squirrelrampage on Reddit

  • We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself

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  • After years of giving a platform to climate change denialism, transphobic fearmongering, pearl clutching over too much woke at liberal colleges, both-sideing the efficacy of vaccines and indulging in Covid conspiracy nonsense, the NYT has finally achieved its goal.

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  • That reads a little bit like victim-blaming, because the worship of billionaires only applies to one segment of the working poor. Another big part of the problem is billionaires corrupting the political system to the point where whoever gets elected immediately gets love-bombed by the richest people in the world who promise them a share of the loot. Convincing people that voting "for the other guy" won't solve the systemic problems of our political systems is a tremendously difficult job and the billionaires and their bought lackeys know this.

  • [Opinion] Europe is selling its soul to Trump

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  • Everyone who remembers TTIP knows: It's not the first time that European leaders are attempting to use trade deals to forego the democratic process in their countries/the EU.

  • Javier Milei’s government will monitor social media with AI to ‘predict future crimes’

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  • Strange how self-declared """libertarians""" like Milei always turn out to loooove mass surveillance once they are in power. /s

  • The warning signs the AI bubble is about to burst

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  • The news of the "AI bubble bursting" make me thing of Hunter S. Thompson (as quoted in the movie "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas):

    There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. And that, I think, was the handle - that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting - on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark - that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

  • European data debunks misinformation about gender transitions

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  • As Stephen Colbert famously said: "Reality has a well-known liberal bias."

  • LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think.

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  • I remember when Microsoft first attempted to prevent the standardisation of Open Document Format (used by LibreOffice and others) and then bullied its way into getting approval for own OOXML standard. Already back then, supporters of FOSS warned that Microsoft would use the overly complicated OOXML to maintain its stranglehold on users of Office-like software.:

    Whenever applicable and possible, standards should build upon previous standardisation efforts and not depend on proprietary, vendor-specific technologies. Albeit, MS-OOXML neglects various standards and uses its own vendor-specific formats instead. This puts a substantial burden on all vendors to fully implement MS-OOXML. It seems questionable how any third party could ever implement them equally well, especially when a standard comes with 6000 pages of specifications without serving its minimalistic purpose.

  • oh my science

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  • Exclusive: Medical journal rejects Kennedy's call for retraction of vaccine study

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  • It is very telling how much science backlash is rooted in the base desire of the rich and powerful to suppress any speech that contradicts them. It never was about (scientific) truth or facts, it was always about the power to impose their will on others and independent science challenges this totalitarian claim to power.

  • Mutual Flirting

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  • Aren't we all!? 😅

  • Mutual Flirting

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  • I think... Apart from anyone's personal reasons, this community is either extremely silly or extremely serious, so miscommunication is somewhat inevitable.

  • Trump fires commissioner of labor statistics after weaker-than-expected jobs figures slam markets

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  • Since the first messenger who told Tigranes that Lucullus was coming had his head cut off for his pains, no one else would tell him anything, and so he sat in ignorance while the fires of war were blazing around him, giving ear only to those who flattered him.

    Plutarch, ~ 100 A.D.

  • Zukunft der Grünen - Özdemir warnt vor Linksruck - "bei unserem Kern bleiben"

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  • Es ist schon interessant, wie solche Gestalten wie Özdemir die Geschichte der eigenen Partei bewußt zu verschleiern versuchen: Brokdorf, Startbahn West, Wackersdorf sind die Orte, wo sich die Grünen als politische Kraft etabliert haben, nicht in den Chefetagen von DAX-Unternehmen.

  • What I will look like in a year... [CW: Assumes Viewer is Transfem]

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  • When Britain's 'feminists' cheer for bombs and sneer at Palestinian suffering

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  • While I certainly agree with you, I think that the upper crust of TERFdom is much less interested in performative contrarianism than they are in inflicting actual harm. Their ideology is entirely centred on attacking anyone they perceive as a threat to their status. Like most fascists, they justify their merciless cruelty as self-defence and that aligns nicely with Netanyahu's justifications for his genocidal attacks on Palestinians.

  • When Britain's 'feminists' cheer for bombs and sneer at Palestinian suffering

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  • Julie Bindel gets mentioned... Yeah, Julie Bindel is a big time TERF too and the Venn diagram of those "feminists" and TERFs happens to be a circle. The F in TERF stands for fascism.

  • New Flag(ellation)

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  • The art is by Aïda Amer who works for Axios.

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  • It's quite amazing how these people show their asses on LinkedIn and think it makes them look smart, instead of proving that they completely lost touch with reality. It fits the picture that one the very same day they laid of thousands, Microsoft also send out an invitation to hear them pitch genAI at GamesCom. That's corpo brain on late stage capitalism.

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  • I was once a fan of Nina Paley, because of her activism against copyright and even bought some of her merch. Then I found out that she is a capital-letters TERF.

    You can find a "TERFy Archive" with all her transphobic writing on her website, she hosts a transphobic podcast with the subtitle "A TERF and a t-slur walk into a podcast studio" which she uses to promote the "autogynephilia" conspiracy theory, among so, so much more transphobia.

    Paley would consider this comment of mine to be "censorship". As usual with her type she wants to dish out, but doesn't want to be criticized for it.