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Situationists never die, they’re just remixed.

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Fighting Back: PoliticalHumor Breaks Down Barriers by making ALL subscribers Moderators (old.reddit.com)

The protests get even more creative. PoliticalHumor mods have set it so that if you subscribe to the community you can now do moderator actions through comments....

Does Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS Block Archive.is? (jarv.is)

tl;dr: No. Quite the opposite, actually — Archive.is’s owner is intentionally blocking 1.1.1.1 users....

Why doesn't Obama catch more flak for setting the stage for the kid-gloves treatment of Trump?

EDIT: Downvotes with no comments. Shocker. Guess it’s hard to back up your opinions, huh? I guess some people are totes fine with war criminals walking free?...

Compassion Rule (lemmy.ml)

…because I have only been actually using my account for a few weeks.

87% Missing: the Disappearance of Classic Video Games | Video Game History Foundation (gamehistory.org)

May as well be an iFunny watermark. (lemmy.ml)

The website isn’t worthless so much as the watermark on memes.

Please remind me how we are moving forward. On application responsiveness to user input. (nitter.net)

Nitter thread from Julio Merino on application responsiveness in early 2000’s Windows computers versus modern Windows computers. Videos available in linked thread....

Origins of modern right wing discrimination? EA Wins Worst Company in America in 2013. (Trigger warning: violence against LGBT)

I wonder if anyone else remembers this. It came to my mind because I was reading this story:...

When I hear about YouTube banning AdBlockers (lemmy.ml)

These cities are ending fares on transit. Here's why (www.cnn.com)

What’s interesting about this article is what it leaves out. It cites experts who claim this is “diverts scarce resources from more pressing priorities: transit service and quality” yet that was far from the case in one of the cities cited in the introduction....

Ceci n'est pas un mème | This is not a meme (lemmy.ml)

The Picard Song: A Gem of Star Trek Internet History (www.youtube.com)

YTMND is dead. Long live YTMND.

Does anyone else feel more engaged with the community here compared to reddit?

I'm realizing I hadn't actually voted on posts or comments in a long time, perhaps years. Between vote fuzzing and massive vote counts, it began to feel pointless to throw an upvote or downvote into the fray. Like how is my downvote supposed to count against over 1000 upvotes?...

Brands New Rule (lemmy.ml)

Pwned Rule (lemmy.ml)

Black Mirror Creator Says He Used ChatGPT to Write an Episode. It Was Terrible. (gizmodo.com)

Next up on Charlie Brooker's Newswipe: Cunk on AI.

Mr. Old Memes goes to Lemmington (www.youtube.com)

Some comments not federating?

I have noticed that when I create comments or posts to a a community I'm subscribed to but is on another instance: only some of the comments make it to the instance I am posting to. Even 10 hours or more later, some of them are showing up while others are not....

Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day (www.youtube.com)

Is Reddit Setting Themselves Up for Disaster? The AOL Chat Room Monitor Revolt (priceonomics.com)

Aol’s chat rooms and message boards had the same community/pioneering feel, but they were hitched to a company whose main business was Internet connectivity and looked poised to dominate the Internet age. So Aol monetized and the monitors revolted. Aol finally ended its volunteer program in 2005 and settled the lawsuit in 2010...