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cherold

@cherold@zirk.us

Best-selling author in my head, unpublished author in the real world.

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kevbob, to random
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Hell yeah!

Idaho drag performer awarded $1.1 million in defamation case against far-right blogger

https://apnews.com/article/drag-performer-defamation-blogger-idaho-c0f3188081e17843059b27d19d5be980

cherold,
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@kevbob I love that the jury wanted to know if they could force the filthy disgusting liar to take down the posts and apologize. The posts are still up - could Posey sue for libel a second time, since it's like she's retelling the lie every day?

The_Icarian, to random
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cherold,
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@The_Icarian This is clever, but those people are in their 80s and 90s now, if they're alive at all, so I don't think they're really the driving force of this. It's more people exactly like them who don't want people to understand the full context of the horrible things they do.

flexghost, to random
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We live in a timeline where Libertarians have more sense than the alt-left

Here’s Trump getting booed…

Trump being rotund asking for votes. This is the Same timeline as Libertarians having more sense than students getting their DoorDash sent to their hunger strike before receiving a degree in imagination and poetry as interpreted through a Marxian lens

cherold,
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@flexghost @MattMerk This is so weird. You absolutely refuse to define "alt-left" and get furious at someone who is willing to play the game for a while of trying to figure out the point you are refusing to spell out.

I'm beginning to suspect you don't know what alt-left means and just use it the way Republicans use "communist," as a way to describe "people I don't like."

gwynnion, to random
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This is fucking terrifying.

"We're right and everybody else is wrong" from a key Democratic strategist.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/is-the-biden-campaign-running-on-false-hope

cherold,
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@gwynnion OMG, this guy wants to bully the polls into submission!

I don't know if you read David French, but he said when he worked for the Romney campaign they were convinced all the polls were skewed. They were 100% certain they were ahead. He recommended Dems not fall into that trap, but it doesn't seem like they're listening.

GottaLaff, to random
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“Provocative.” 🤦🏻‍♀️🙄 GET HIM OFF THE COURT. Gift: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/us/justice-alito-flag-appeal-to-heaven.html?unlocked_article_code=1.t00.Ihnd.LkwD_75RA6zD&smid=url-share

“Another Provocative Flag Was Flown at Another Home

The justice’s beach house displayed an “Appeal to Heaven” flag, a symbol carried on and associated with a push for a more Christian-minded government. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/us/justice-alito-flag-appeal-to-heaven.html

cherold,
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@GottaLaff So interesting that the two most MAGA justices weren't even appointed by Trump. Shows that what Republicans are now is what they've been for decades.

kottke, to random
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How to get Google search results without the AI garbage. “It’s essentially Google, minus the crap. No parsing of the information in the results. No surfacing metadata like address or link info. No knowledge panels, but also, no ads.” https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/

cherold,
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@scottytrees @kottke I use ddg as my default but I often have to add !g to get useful results. That's the problem - there are other search engines, but even though Google intentionally degrades its results to get more hits, it still gives better results than the competition.

cherold,
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@scottytrees Most people would rather get useful results as quickly as possible, so until there's a search engine that is at least as good as Google, it will still be the search engine of choice. The number of people willing to inconvenience themselves to avoid benefiting Google is, I'm afraid, far too small to have any effect on Google whatsoever. :-(

cherold,
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@scottytrees I'm not saying nothing can be done. The government can regulate, and bring lawsuits, and that may help. I'm saying an individual not using Google is as effective as people who claim the only way to change the electoral system is to vote 3rd party. It's not an effective strategy, it's just a way to feel like you're doing something. I choose not to make meaningless gestures. But continue to shout at Google if it makes you feel good.

cherold,
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@scottytrees Mate, if I wanted self-righteous condescension I would go back to Twitter. We're done.

cherold, to random
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@Teri_Kanefield says we don't need legal pundits, and at first I thought, of course we need someone who understands how the legal system works and can tell us what's what. But then she wrote

"...lawyers confuse people. Confused people then turn to lawyers for explanations."

And I realized that if pundits quit saying the legal system was corrupt, we wouldn't keep asking, "is this corrupt behavior?" We would just ... follow what happens and see how it turns out.

https://terikanefield.com/beware-the-lawyers-follow-up/

cherold, to random
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Conservative states ban vaccines and wearing masks when you're sick are gonna be a breeding ground for pandemics. And when it happens, they'll say God is mad about gay people or abortion or something. Because that's who they are.

JamesGleick, (edited ) to random
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James Fallows, who should know, explains why presidential debates are WORSE than useless.

There’s one more reason this year. By sharing a stage, Biden will normalize the idea that it’s all right for Trump to be a free man, as opposed to an incarcerated criminal.

https://fallows.substack.com/i/143279747/a-no-debates

cherold,
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@JamesGleick A) Trump hasn't been convicted of anything, and it's okay to normalize that we're all innocent until proven guilty, and B) I don't know what this guy's debate claims are, because that part is subscribers only, but I think Biden is right to give people a chance to see the difference between a rational person and a deteriorating lunatic.

Lana, to random
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"After taking office and examining hundreds of pages of curriculum, Gore was shocked by what she found — and didn’t find. The pervasive indoctrination she had railed against simply did not exist.

Children were not being sexualized. She could find no examples of critical race theory. She examined curriculum related to social-emotional learning, which has come under attack by Christian conservatives who say it encourages children to question gender roles and prioritizes feelings over biblical teachings. Instead, Gore found the materials taught children how to be a good friend and a good human."

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/15/texas-granbury-isd-school-board-courtney-gore/

cherold,
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@Lana Of course, like every right-winger who's ever had the brains to actually look at the evidence and be honest about what she found, she instantly became a pariah and enemy to her own tribe.

GottaLaff, to random
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FYI, someone just asked me, "Could you please put a CW on those US politics posts?"

I said no sorry,, just mute me.

I don't understand CWing political posts. And that doesn't mean you need to @ me explaining why. I know THEIR reasons, I just disagree with them and won't do it.

I respect CWs for other things, but not politics. Politics is news and people need to be aware of what's happening. It's not gory or violent, it's politics.

Kthxbye.

cherold,
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@GottaLaff Content warning: This post contains information about the state of human existence. Avoid if you wish your bubble of ignorance to remain intact.

cyberlyra, to random
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The age of Google is over. The next great search engine must needs filter out LLM-generated sludge and actually privilege information instead of content.

cherold,
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@cyberlyra I have yet to find a search engine that doesn't serve up LLM pages. And instead of improving their algorithms, it seems the plan is to use AI to just give us bad information directly instead of providing us a link to bad information. So I'm not optimistic, but here's hoping.

cherold, to random
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I think everyone should read this @tkanefield piece on what's going on in the Trump trial, simply because if he's not convicted then instead of freaking out and raging you'll say, "oh yeah, that was a distinct possibility. Kinda sucks, but I get why."

She's not saying he won't be convicted (she says the odds are that he probably will) but she explains why it's not the slam dunk some people think it is.

Also, law is kinda interesting if it's explained well.

https://terikanefield.com/wheres-the-beef-trumps-manhattan-criminal-case-and-some-mind-bending-legal-puzzles/

cherold,
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@tokensane @tkanefield I don't think breaking a contract is usually a crime. You sue people for breaking contracts, you don't generally have them arrested. And it's a verbal contract, which I suspect is very hard to prove in court. But I'm not a lawyer, I'm just guessing.

jon, to Vivaldi
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This month it is 30 years since I started working on browsers. April 1994 is when Geir and I started working on the Opera browser. We founded the company a year later.

Initially I made the UI, while Geir did a lot of the core.

Since that time I have dedicated myself to making the Web live up to its potential. First at Opera and now at Vivaldi.

If you ever used Opera and you have not tried Vivaldi, I invite you to give us a try!

If you never used Opera or Vivaldi, you are invited as well!

@Vivaldi

cherold,
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@jon @Vivaldi Recently I decided to look for a good alternative to Chrome that would let me keep using my extensions, of which I have many. My research indicated the two most promising choices were Vivaldi and Brave. Vivaldi sounded like the more interesting of the two. So I installed them both and imported my Chrome data into both. And as part of that import, Brave installed all my extensions. So the choice became, easy route or hard route. But I'll still test Vivaldi one of these days.

RickiTarr, to random
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Have you ever met someone who lies all the time, but doesn't seem to realize they are lying?

cherold,
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@RickiTarr Years ago I dated a girl who lied constantly, but didn't think that. She had a therapist have her keep a journal in which she wrote down every single time she told an untruth for any reason whatsoever, and she discovered that she did, in fact, lie constantly. But she had to keep a record to realize it.

cherold,
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@RickiTarr Yeah. She did understand that she lied, and believed lies were okay if they spared someone's feelings or got her out of trouble, but she didn't realize that she told several lies an hour. It caused some self examination.

cherold,
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@RickiTarr The people I've known who lie a lot tend to do it to 1) ease a situation 2) make themselves sound good, or 3) make the story more interesting. The third group can be interesting - because they're like telling stories, they tell them until they believe they're true.

I have one friend in the 3rd category who you would think was just lying because her stories are insane, but so much of what she says turns out to be true that her craziest stories are only slight exaggerations!

GottaLaff, to random
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Via Roger Parloff:

jurors' news sources. (More watch BBC than Fox. Not one reads NY Daily News--ouch.) From
nytimes:
https://bit.ly/3xKEg4L

cherold,
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@GottaLaff wow, I guess pretty much everyone here reads the Times. I didn't realize.

GottaLaff, to random
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'Night all. Having no Internet all day, fighting with all the Big Corps. involved with fixing (they didn't), and resetting stuff, I'm so over today.

But at least it's back, and ready for Monday's big doin's.

News will break. I will post.

cherold,
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@GottaLaff Impressed you kept feeding us the scoop with all the goings on. Thanks!

By the way, you always say when you're posting news, "if you comment, say NFL." Have you considered making people (who are bad at following instructions and forget things they mean to do, including me) instead have to specifically say they want to speak to you with a signifier like "YFL?" Then you could just ignore the rest.

GottaLaff, (edited ) to random
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GOP Fascist Party

Via Bruce Bartlett (Bio: "Once a conservative, now progressive")::

Republican lickspittles appointed to the federal courts by Trump and Bush have succeeded in destroying 235 years of trust in the American judicial system.

cherold,
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@GottaLaff This is not the thing you want to be tied with Italy for.

GottaLaff, (edited ) to legal
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1/... Klasfeld:

News

In 's NY criminal case, prosecutors file so-called "Sandoval" notice—disclosing unchged prior bad acts they intend to use at trial to impeach his credibility.

The list rattles off NYAG civil fraud case, case, & more.
"If the defendant chooses to testify, the People intend to inquire regarding the following"

Full list of litigation prosecutors intend to confront Trump w, if given the green light by judge: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24554324-peoples-sandoval-notice-filed

cherold,
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@GottaLaff Yeah, he knows he'd have to lie like a dog and would just wind up with a couple dozen perjury charges to deal with. Not much upside.

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