Dudelander

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by Dudelander 4y ago
The Blaire White tweet she retweeted was pretty transphobic.
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by Dudelander 4y ago
Looking at the thread, most of the replies are kissing Lex Fridman's ass. The dude went searching for haters and made a video whining when he found some.
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by Dudelander 4y ago
What the fuck are you talking about? How the fuck am I defending Ian Miles Cheong?
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by Dudelander 4y ago
I already live in this society. Back in '02 I was fired for opposing the Iraq war. Before that people were fired for being communists. The only way to prevent this is to allow employees to sue their employers if they get fired for no g
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by Dudelander 4y ago
The Digital Services Act (DSA) defines disinformation as ‘false, inaccurate, or misleading information designed, presented and promoted to intentionally cause public harm or for profit’. The DSA requires social media companies to remove dis
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by Dudelander 4y ago
But does it work for ROFLMAO?
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by Dudelander 4y ago
They're simply not economical if you do the math. You're still better off getting a fuel efficient gas powered car. The cost of a new Tesla needs to drop by around 20k before it's worth it, even with the tax break.
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by Dudelander 4y ago
I see this as an AM/FM problem. If one of these disasters happen, then we should rely on "actual machines" to mitigate or avoid them, and not rely on "F*ing Magic" like interplanetary colonization. I'm not sayi
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by Dudelander 4y ago
Yeah, but those aren't related to human space exploration. Not saying we should get rid of the space program 100% - just reduce it's cost by cancelling all the human spaceflight projects.
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by Dudelander 4y ago
Probably an unpopular opinion around here, but honestly I think defense, healthcare, and food security to be more practical than human space exploration. I know that major advances in computing were made during the Apollo mission, but that
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by Dudelander 4y ago
I think most people who want Twitter to fail mainly want the cult of personality surrounding him to go away. He's gotten billions of government money for his projects and managed to get at least one public rail project cancelled. IMO I
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by Dudelander 4y ago
I don't see how it's conspiratorial at all. There are market forces that are influencing these decisions, and there will always be exceptions. It is a generalization, but it's a stochastic generalization based on real life da
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by Dudelander 4y ago
The Propaganda model proposed by Herman and Chomsky has been widely discussed on the left for 35 years, even if those discussions didn't mention it by it's formal name. So yeah it's nothing new. But to sum up: 1) Local media
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by Dudelander 4y ago
He's photogenic and good with media. Look at his twitter profile - he obviously spent a lot of time and thought on that picture, and it makes him look like a kid from the movie Hackers - that's not accidental.
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by Dudelander 4y ago
> Because there are clearly efforts by government institutions to pressure social media platforms to comply with content moderation decisions. This statement applies to 100% of all privately held media companies. Since it's possible
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by Dudelander 4y ago
I think you're kind of playing dumb here, but I'll indulge. Private companies can censor whomever they want, and that has been the case as long as the US has existed. I'd prefer it if Twitter was more consistent about it, b
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by Dudelander 4y ago
All privately owned business work with the government. Ownership of private property means that armed people who work for the government will enforce your claim. If no government employees are enforcing your claim, then you don't act
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by Dudelander 4y ago
How did you jump from that to Communism? I though the meaning was pretty clear: People will be more critical regarding social networks. Meaning they will more carefully assess the merits and flaws of Social Networks, instead of just assumin
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by Dudelander 4y ago
I think the take away here is that any "digital town square" should not be a privately owned for-profit corporation.
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by Dudelander 4y ago
The terms "right-wing" and "left-wing" do not refer to objective philosophical positions. They literally referred to where French delegates sat in the National Assembly of 1789. Today they refer to a web of political all
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by Dudelander 4y ago
> Would a person who supports Universal healthcare, safe access to abortion and reducing their carbon foot print but also thinks immigration is an issue that needs addressing and supports the second amendment be left or right? This isn&#
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by Dudelander 4y ago
> "It’s not an “article” (it is also being published in long-form) or “reporting”, just a little series of tweets". Given that Twitter does not engage in independent fact checking or peer review, I feel that this is a fair char
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by Dudelander 4y ago
Mainly because most people here don't care. This is a professional tech community, and we view news from that lens. Because of this, what looks like a scandal to you is not surprising to us at all. Your idea of "The Freedom of Spe
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by Dudelander 4y ago
I agree. I've had an open mind to the possibility that Twitter's policy was inconsistently applied based on political affiliation, but I have yet to see event one piece of evidence that's held up under scrutiny. At this point
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by Dudelander 4y ago
That's not against the TOS. Snowden tweets about PRISM all the time on Twitter.
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by Dudelander 4y ago
None of that stuff is against the rules. New York Times articles and overly optimistic predictions do not constitute private information or misinformation. Just because you don't like them doesn't mean they violate the TOS. Also,
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by Dudelander 4y ago
While I agree that Twitter should have taken down the tweets about non-public figures, they're not against the rules: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/personal-info... Names are explicitly liste
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by Dudelander 4y ago
In all honesty they're probably a little more careful and don't flagrantly violate the rules.
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Why not though? I don't see an issue if they use the same tools as everyone else does. Police departments do it all the time, as does the CDC.
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by Dudelander 4y ago
Stuff like that gets removed all the time. It's a meme that posting certain Islamic songs can get you banned on Twitter. They might not get them all, especially with a reduced moderation team, but tons of Islamic terrorist tweets are r

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