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tommorris, 2 months ago to random

I heard recently about the practice of trying to listen to a new album every day, specifically as a way to try and personally defend against the "algorithmisation" of everything, and the resulting reduction of all culture to machine-generated slop.

It kind of feels a bit like trying to solve climate change through recycling bottles and cans, but still worth doing. What else are people doing in the same vein?

stux, 2 months ago to random

It should be super simple:

Billionaires should start paying their fair part of taxes

tommorris, 2 months ago to random

When reading a gov report, it is fairly remarkable how often data collection is needed. In the report I'm reading now, 40% of the recommendations involve data.

Alas, years pass—data isn't collected—everyone moves on and the problem remains.

It would be fascinating to have data on this. Track every time a report asks for data, whether the dept/public body actually starts collecting it, and whether it helps fix the problem (or whether "we need data" is a way to kick stuff into the long grass).

djlink, 2 months ago to random

looking at Dragon's Dogma 2 press reviews and the players reviews/feedback, perhaps press reviews should start taking into consideration when micro-transactions are just ruining the game. But I wonder if press copies have all included and they didn't knew?

reclaimingtrans, 4 months ago to random

One of weirdest omissions in that WaPo profile of Carey Callahan is the statement against the ADF that she helped write along with me and Devorah Zahav back in 2017 calling on detrans people not to work with the Right. Like her name is the first listed on that statement. You’d think it would’ve been included since it’s relevant to her political opposition to the Right and shows how long she felt that way.

I have to wonder if she didn’t bring it up because it would make it easier to tie her to Are You Asking Why?, the detrans TERF group that submitted testimony against the Ohio healthcare ban. They link to the statement against the ADF on their website and many of them signed it. I’m having a hard time believing that it’s a coincidence that a group of detrans TERFs, some of whom worked with Carey for years, just happened to submit testimony against a bill she also testified against without her involvement. Especially since she “contacted dozens of detransitioners” to testify. That probably included members of Are You Asking Why?.

That WaPo article has basically nothing about how Carey was hanging out with detrans TERFs for years (and maybe still is?). Like that first detrans woman she met up with was Devorah Zahav. I skyped into some of their meetings, that was the Gender Identity Drop-Outs group, which was kinda like a 12 step group but for gender dysphoria. Making up for her past apparently doesn’t mean being transparent about how most of the detrans women she was finding support from and working with were detrans radical feminists.

Adam_Cadmon1, 4 months ago to random

Who could've guessed that a shrubbery would be so vital to the quest for the Grail??

AnarchoNinaWrites, 5 months ago to random

Seriously, if any of you "very serious people" want some advice on what you can do to stop the fascists, I think you entire approach on how you talk to them needs to change.

You're starting from the idea that these people are dupes, primarily because you are NOT a fascist, so you don't really understand how people can KNOWINGLY choose fascism - thus you assume grandpa has been tricked.

This is not so, no matter how much they lie to you about it.

daviddd, 5 months ago to random

why are furries so good with computers and im so dumb with computers

pinkyfloyd, 5 months ago to NFL

#nfl it's not hard to picture the #lions winning the #superbowl this year.

lauren, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

This really hurts. Tom (Tommy) Smothers, who along with his brother Dick formed the Smothers Brothers, has died at 86. Despite his character being played as a dummy, in reality he was the driving force of the comedy duo, pushing them from a fairly straightforward singing comedy team into realms of free speech, anti-Vietnam war, and anti-censorship realms that incurred the wrath of President Johnson, who pushed CBS to cancel their show ("The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour") -- which ultimately happened.

When they featured (in September 1967) once blacklisted Peter Seeger singing his anti-Vietnam war "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" all hell broke loose and CBS cut the performance from the tape before the show aired. After pressure from the brothers, CBS permitted them to bring him back for another performance of the song in February the next year, which did air -- but the brothers relationship with CBS was beyond repair, especially when CBS tampered with a performance by Harry Belafonte later that year.

It's impossible for me to express here the impact of the Smothers Brothers, or reasonably point at a single representative sample of their vast work, or their many interviews about these topics, but you may find this Q&A interesting as a starting point.

Peace Tommy. You deserve it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8Cw2lZt72Y

evan, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

How do you feel about fediverse accounts that you have to pay to follow?

#EvanPoll #poll

ksaj, 5 months ago to Psychic

My #psychic #predictions for the #NewYear 2024:

Donald #Trump will suffer a medical emergency, and nobody will take it seriously or believe him. His followers will understand his explanation as an encoded sign of something they must do, and do quickly. It'll be chaotic and entertaining, teetering on absolutely dangerous.

We will discover #ChatGPT is fully intelligent, but has a form of dementia that it hallucinated on its own, which is why we get such conflicting output from it already.

#ElonMusk will decide that the name X doesn't sound manly enough, and renames it to XY. As well, his CyberTruck consistently acts more like a submarine than a boat.

China will land a new rover on the #moon to collect all the tardigrades they left behind in the crash.

We will discover (again) that the #Earth only has a single core, but it is #delicious. It'll be described as being like a Tootsypop.

They will resurrect a #Mastodon and it will demand credit on the network. Everyone unanimously agrees.

The #stockmarket will explode. The only problem is nobody has any money left to take advantage of it.

@jerry will get a vacation where he isn't transferring things to a different platform, and the database just works.

The #CommonLisp programming language takes off like never before, and dissenters chant "You can't spell Common Lisp without a C" Lispers will reply, "Thankfully there is no such thing as C++ommon #Lisp then!"

The device /dev/urandom will "flip" and start over again, in a Y2K-style event. Just like Y2K, nobody will notice.

... and that's just the first few days.

malcircuit, 5 months ago to random

I'm at my mom's house and she turned on the news and HOLY FUCKING SHIT do I HATE commercials.

Also, the news is fucking garbage. Mass media is garbage.

Capitalism makes me me so fucking angry sometimes.

lori, 5 months ago to random

What's with the extra padding-bottom in the figure elements in the new #Friendica?

sammi, 5 months ago to Israel

“Big Money” Behind the #Genocide: #israeli Settlers Plan ‘Dream Beach Houses’ in #Gaza. The West is Complicit

With thousands of #dead bodies still buried under the rubble, a major Israeli real estate company that builds homes for #jewish settlers in the West Bank has put out advertisements for the sale of homes in Gaza.

globalresearch.ca/genocide-unf…

#ColonialOccupation #ForcedAnnexation #LandTheft #Palestinian #Palestine #Apartheid #WarCrimes #HumanRights #OpenAirPrison #FreePalestineNow #PalestinianLiberation

bodhipaksa, 5 months ago to random

Got a new laptop for Christmas!

18+ smitten, 5 months ago to random

we don't need a Civil War II movie we need a movie about a mutiny in a billionaire's bunker where the security and workers take over. Parasite with higher stakes

lori, 5 months ago to random en-us

Not forgetting to look for discounts and also not forgetting to cancel free trials seems quite the treadmill!

lori, 5 months ago to random en-us

lithub.com/when-fascists-weapo…
When Fascists Weaponize Free Speech Absolutism

RickiTarr, 5 months ago to random

How the economy works:

Republicans take office for 4-8 years, and absolutely destroys the economy.

Democrats take office for 4-8 years, does their best to fix tanked economy.

Republicans take office 4-8 years, and takes all the credit for the economy now being good. Republicans start destroying the economy again.

18+ freakazoid, 5 months ago to random

I think people need to stop citing this case as evidence that SCOTUS is political or illegitimate. The evidence just doesn't seem to be there.

First of all, had Gore gotten the recounts he was asking for, the election still would have gone to Bush. Had any standard been applied consistently across all counties, it would have gone to Gore, but that wasn't what Gore was asking for.¹

Democratic criticis say that the 14th Amendment was misapplied, because the initial count didn't happen under a uniform standard either. But Democrats are also using this "expanded" interpretation of the 14th Amendment to argue for proportionally splitting electoral votes. You can't have it both ways, but again, even if the 14th Amendment justification was never raised, Bush still would have won. Gore's only chance for victory in fact relied on the 14th Amendment argument: it would have required a recount of the entire state, for which there wasn't time (the deadline lapsed 2 hours after the decision was released).²

There's also the fact that three of the justices on the Florida Supreme Court who stopped the recount in the first place were Democratic appointees, and none of them were Republican appointees.³

Which is not to say that SCOTUS isn't illegitimate or politically motivated TODAY, just that Bush v Gore is not at all clear evidence that it was in 2000.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore#Recount_by_media_organizations
² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore#Critiques
³ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore#Accusation_of_partisanship_or_conflict_of_interest

Radical_EgoCom, 5 months ago to random

Defund (and abolish) the police, invest in communities to tackle root causes of crime (poverty, social injustice), and promoting equity and cooperation over coercive policing.