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davel , 10 months ago

I wouldn’t say I’m forgetting to do them.

davel , 10 months ago

Thief. Writing code is for chumps, and the more code you right, the more of a chump you are.

davel , 10 months ago

• How Racism Found a Home in Pumpkin Spice Latte Culture
• Pantsuit Nation and the Tale of the Pumpkin Spice Allies

davel , 10 months ago

Neutraface » The gentrification font: how a sleek typeface became a neighborhood omen

davel , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Bonus: the app is just an Electron wrapper to their website.

davel , 10 months ago

The Global North is losing its neocolonial grip all over the place, and deservedly so.

davel , 10 months ago

Every Hospital Israel Has Bombed in the Last Decade: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrUdEERhQks

davel , 10 months ago

This is gonna cost you so many fake internet points, comrade. TYFYS 🫡

davel , 10 months ago

Sorry sweaty, but pre-February 2022 Western media is fake news now.

davel , 10 months ago

Vladimir Zelensky? The actor?!

davel , 10 months ago

It’s funny how IMDB changed his name sometime between January 2022 and now: web.archive.org/web/20220129175259/…/nm3305952/

davel , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Initiate sauce separation.

davel , 10 months ago

Pretty sure it was done by a Chinese spy anchor disguised as a weather anchor.

davel , 10 months ago

Please say what platform(s) a thing is for next time, so I don’t dig around & discover it’s of no use to me.

Edit: It’s for Android.

davel , 10 months ago

He’ll inform only when it suits his own ends, and never out of a sense of justice or patriotism, or a want of walking around money.

davel , 10 months ago

Not for long: the Global North countries have the fediverse on their radars now.

Atlantic Council » Collective Security in a Federated World (PDF)

Many discussions about social media governance and trust and safety are focused on a small number of centralized, corporate-owned platforms that currently dominate the social media landscape: Meta’s Facebook and Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, and a handful of others. The emergence and growth in popularity of federated social media services, like Mastodon and Bluesky, introduces new opportunities, but also significant new risks and complications. This annex offers an assessment of the trust and safety (T&S) capabilities of federated platforms—with a particular focus on their ability to address collective security risks like coordinated manipulation and disinformation.

davel , 10 months ago

They tried to set up a Ministry of Truth last year, and they’ll never give up.

The disinformation czar, all the way up her own ass: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNcEVYq2qUg

davel , 10 months ago

Which is some bullshit, because Russiagate was long-ago debunked, as well as the actual efficacy of Cambridge Analytica (it largely wasn’t). But thanks to Rachel Maddow’s daily conspiracy theorizing over the span of years, most liberals still believe that foreign State propaganda is going to Manchurian Candidate the populace and steal their democracy. Which makes them rather accepting of the idea that the government should decide what is mis/dis/malinformation. In other words they’ve been primed to accept censorship.

davel , 10 months ago

• First they came for the lemmygrads, and I did not speak out because I was not a Marxist-Leninist
• Then they came for the Hexbears, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist
• Then they came for the lemmy.mls, and I did not speak out because I was not a security nerd
• Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me

davel , 10 months ago

Typical Hexbear W.

davel , 10 months ago

Jeff Gerth at Columbia Journalism Review on Russiagate: Editor’s Note | Part one | Part two | Part three | Part four

IT Pro: Cambridge Analytica models were exaggerated and ineffective, [UK Information Commissioner’s Office] claims

Based on your vernacular, it sounds like you’re a hexbear user washed up on our shores and circumventing the defederation, shilling for Russia.

We’re orphans living in a Siberian labor camp, forced to post Putler talking points 14 hours a day for our gruel.

davel , 10 months ago

Man do you ever suck at this: I’m an elder gen-x senior software developer at a Fortune 100 tech company.

davel , 10 months ago

washed up on our shores

lemm.ee user, you seem confused about who has washed up on whose shores. If you understood this instance better, you would see that, unlike most instances, this isn’t a haven for liberal hegemony.

davel , 10 months ago

24 is the highest number, fuggedaboutit [1] [2] [3]

davel , 10 months ago

The revolution ethnic cleansing will not be televised

davel , 10 months ago

Remember when we used to make fun of parliamentary governments when they became “without a government.”

Well joke’s on us right now with a Speakerless House.

davel , 10 months ago

And people who want to fund death, which is a shockingly large number of Democrats.

davel , 10 months ago

The US has blocked every opportunity for a negotiated peace, thereby causing tens of thousands of needless deaths, with nothing to show for it. The National Interest: How Will the Ukraine War End?

In the early weeks of the war, peace was still possible before the unimaginable loss of life, the devastation of infrastructure, and the loss of land in Ukraine. That peace was possible three times: in talks in Belarus, in talks mediated by then-Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennet, and, most promisingly, in talks in Istanbul. In all three, the war could have been ended on terms that satisfied Ukraine. In all three, Ukraine was willing to renounce membership in NATO. And, in all three, the United States blocked the negotiations.

davel , 10 months ago

One’s interpretation of this relationship might make for a good liberal/socialist Voight-Kampff test.

davel , 10 months ago

From what I hear, 20% of them have dual passports, and half of those live there only part time. These Global North expats who have an easy out should fuck off back to where they came from.

davel , 10 months ago

Imperial America is a death cult.

davel , 10 months ago

I think mostly because the Allied Powers won WWII and got to make the rules. Often the argument is made that, by giving the nuclear-capable countries veto power, they’re less likely to use those weapons, but that might be more of a rationalization than the actual reason.

davel , 10 months ago

We were that one time, and we’ve been milking it ever since.

davel , 10 months ago

We also nuked two cities, for reasons much less honorable or necessary than the one we are told.

davel , 10 months ago

Hollywood war reenactments are a psyop.

davel , 10 months ago

You & I are the only people who seem to know this. Everyone else is busy arguing whether we can “afford” to give Ukraine “free stuff”, when in reality none of it is free, and whatever few Ukrainians are left alive after this war will be paying onerous debt for generations. They’re already auctioning off many public assets to mostly foreign buyers at fire sale prices, up to and including seaports.

davel , 10 months ago

I’m super-fun at parties 😐

davel , 10 months ago

Two reasons, I think:

• So Japan would unconditionally surrender to the US instead of (conditionally or unconditionally) surrendering to the USSR.
• As a warning to the USSR to not spread communism further. The Cold War started even before WWII ended.

davel , 10 months ago

The reason for the bombs being dropped is very clear and you’re free to read countless books, articles, papers on it.

I’ve read the same arguments & documents as every other red-blooded American, but unlike most I’ve also read the counterarguments.

davel , 10 months ago

Neither of you are wrong, but Americans should understand that the USSR suffered over twenty million deaths vs ~117,000 Americans on the Western Front. They had their own western cities & infrastructure invaded/destroyed. The undertaking & sacrifices are hard to compare.

Russians trying to rewrite history

Okay my bad: you actually are wrong.

davel , 10 months ago

That is the standard argument we’re given, yes: that it would ultimately save lives compared to a conventional war. You can find dissenting views from Noam Chomsky & Michael Parenti & Howard Zinn & others, including the US government’s own analysis, if you care to.

davel , 10 months ago

It’s been argued that Churchill & Roosevelt wanted Germany and the USSR to grind each other down, saving the them the trouble, because, being capitalists, they had no love for the Soviet State.

davel , 10 months ago

Ryan Cooper, 2018: The fake resistance inside the Trump administration

What a crock.

If there were real organized resistance to Trump within the administration or the Republican Party more broadly, these people would be doing dramatically more than they are. If they really believe Trump is a danger to the nation and world — and he is — it should hardly be a mystery what to do about it.

tl;dr:

1. Get rid of Trump — before the 2020 election
2. Quit and join the opposition
3. Undermine him from the inside

davel , 10 months ago

Yes, it’s called tendering your resignation.

davel , 10 months ago

There’s a very good primer on this topic, written almost 80 years ago by the precursor to the CIA: Simple Sabotage Field Manual by Office of Strategic Services

davel , 10 months ago

Israel & the US will never be on the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism no matter what heinous shit they do. Torture programs, ethnic cleansing, whatever.

davel , 10 months ago

I’m not going to do that, because my point is more general, about a larger issue.

Remember the Disinformation Governance Board, which lasted all of four months, because it was all too obvious that it was the formation of a formalized censorship regime?

Global North governments are trying to make themselves the arbiters of what is true, and then suppress what they decree to be untrue.

Take a look at this report on the fediverse from the Atlantic Council, the premier Global North foreign policy think tank. They’re going to come for us, just like they came for the corporate social media platforms. Collective Security in a Federated World (full PDF report)

davel , 10 months ago

The US government is already trying to pile on:

US Senator Michael Bennet Invokes EU’s Censorship Demands, Calls For Big Tech to Censor “Misinformation”