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thirtyfold8625

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  • Louisville dropping ‘sanctuary city’ policy

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  • This stuck out to me, and I didn't see it from this post or a comment:

    Greenberg said the city stood to lose “hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants” with the “sanctuary city” designation. Those funds provide food, rental assistance and medical care to “our most vulnerable residents,” he said, adding, “I will not risk hurting them either.”

    This was also interesting:

    “This should set an example to other cities. Instead of forcing us to sue you — which we will, without hesitation — follow the law, get rid of sanctuary policies, and work with us to fix the illegal immigration crisis.”

    “We do not want to see highly coordinated and often violent federal enforcement action here, especially in workplaces, residential areas, schools, places of worship, parks, and other areas where law-abiding people gather. We do not want the National Guard occupying the streets of Louisville. I will not risk the safety of our broader immigrant community,” Greenberg said.

  • Orb

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  • I suspect that they reproduce quickly, since it is a species of algae. I don't know much about this topic though.

  • Tesseract has been discontinued

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    Does the fediverse really have a civility problem and what can we do about it?

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  • I don't think that anyone should be "humiliated". If someone expresses an idea, it's likely that they are making use of that idea in their life (or that a reader might start using that idea in their life), so if you think their idea is harmful, it's surely better to provide an alternative idea rather than only question their dignity. Expressing that someone should "come back when they are better educated" makes me think that you want people to stop making comments as frequently and to read comments more often than they did before. I think that reading more comments can be helpful, but suggesting that someone should avoid commenting deprives us of an opportunity to understand that person better, and if we want to cooperate with someone, it would be better to have a better understanding of them (and if we don't cooperate with someone, we will probably have to compete with them: "When goods don't cross borders, soldiers will"). The only reason I know of to stop engaging with someone is if they're acting in bad faith: if someone is trying to distract you by trying to get you to make uninteresting comments instead of allowing your attention to be focused on something more productive, it'd be a help to other people to make that clear. In essence, this is "trolling". Something like Bluesky lists might be useful in that situation. I don't see how targeting someone to "dump on" is helpful: that seems like a distraction from more productive activities, which is probably exactly what a "troll" wants. I suspect that the best "consequence" in response to harm is to start ignoring someone and to make it easier for other people to ignore that person.

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    Does the fediverse really have a civility problem and what can we do about it?

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  • I haven't had any notably negative experiences while using the Fediverse. Even in cases when someone makes an "aggressive" reply to a comment of mine, if I ask a follow-up question, most people respond genuinely, so I often end up having a productive and enjoyable conversation. The situation is probably different when someone is really mad at you: if someone makes dozens of accounts to spam messages and downvotes, that would be really annoying and would make it more difficult to use the Fediverse productively, and I've seen reports of that happening to several people (and that might be what happened to the maintainer of Tesseract). Handling that situation would probably be harder to deal with than while using a centralized service since someone could use various servers to target one person, so there might not be one person who can handle all the spam. Reddit probably has a system to automatically block ingenuine downvotes and spam messages (especially if a particular person is receiving a lot of them), but I'm not sure that the Fediverse has an automatic system to achieve the same results, so it might be down to an administrator or a group of administrators to manually detect disruptive accounts/users. In consideration of how a typical person would view typical Fediverse comments, they would probably be put off by how they are probably more political and violent in nature when compared to those from other services. I've seen several comments that quite explicitly expressed "rich people should be killed", and I've seen that at least one was removed by a moderator/administrator. Such comments surely do more harm than good: most people surely prefer to talk to people who aren't calling for violence and are generally civil. To help with this, it's probably good to report comments that are outright violent or that would be of interest to an administrator and to downvote "aggressive" comments so that people are more likely to be able to peruse comments without having a bad experience. In general, it's surely a good thing to provide comments that engage with a post/comment in good faith so that people have something/someone that they can enjoy interacting with, but I don't often have a thought that is coherent enough to be worth sharing, so I don't expect this to happen very often.

  • Why are so many Afghans suddenly being deported back to Afghanistan? Why is it from so many different countries?

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  • Forgejo v12.0 is available

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  • Ukraine wing of US-founded terrorist group says it was involved in killing of intelligence officer in Kyiv

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  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Base_(hate_group)

    The organization's founder was a former employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Pentagon. Nazzaro, who used to work for the FBI and the Pentagon, moved to Russia around the time he created The Base, and directs the group's activities from there. In November 2020, a feature-length interview with Nazzaro was broadcast on Russian state television. In April 2025, The Base solicited volunteers and offered financial rewards for attacks on power plants, military and police vehicles and government buildings in Ukraine, as well as for the assassination of Ukrainian military, police and political figures.

  • sigh

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  • Jack Dorsey’s New App Just Hit a Very Embarrassing Security Snag

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  • life in the cosmos

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  • Micro-retirement

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  • Are you a law-abiding citizen?

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  • Systemic problems cannot be solved at individual level

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  • Are you a law-abiding citizen?

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  • Writers need to be interpreted, because it's unlikely that they actually understand what they wrote. Therefore, when employing a novel to address a problem, my interpretation is probably more important than the original work.

    I took them some of the most elaborate passages in their own writings, and asked what was the meaning of them - thinking that they would teach me something. Will you believe me? I am almost ashamed to speak of this, but still I must say that there is hardly a person present who would not have talked better about their poetry than they did themselves. That showed me in an instant that not by wisdom do poets write poetry, but by a sort of genius and inspiration; they are like diviners or soothsayers who also say many fine things, but do not understand the meaning of them.

    It's not even clear that Bram Stoker had a good understanding of the word "Dracula": https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=2467&v=BvFwqVzEsfw

  • Are you a law-abiding citizen?

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  • I believe that a vampire is a representation of exploitative forces that you invite into your own life but could avoid if you chose to. A policeman is hard to avoid, especially if they have a warrant. Therefore, a vampire cannot be a policeman in the first place, since the state of being a policeman overwhelms the state of being a vampire.

  • It's even infecting the wider lemmy network!

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  • Can't make this up

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  • Why shouldn't justice be punitive?

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