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by _bfhp 4y ago
I guess I was reading between the lines: p174 : "There is no such thing as a 'public charter.' 'Public' does not just denote public money but also public accountability; most charter schools are not under the contro
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by _bfhp 4y ago
Funny, I was just talking with someone about The Cult of Smart by Freddie deBoer on another comments thread here. Every American should read it. I read Scott Alexander's critical review and I'd recommend it as a nice response over
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by _bfhp 4y ago
Because I can't resist reading a dialogue, I read this now. I appreciate the summary of the book as it's written but I break with it here: "He wants a world where smart people and dull people have equally comfortable lives, a
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by _bfhp 4y ago
As an anti-tech-censorship absolutist, I can see the utility of this as an opt-in feature for non-native English speakers. I don't love it, sure, but I'd rather us break up the tech monopolies entirely, than play tug of war with l
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by _bfhp 4y ago
"Hey, I noticed you are trying to use the term 'torture'. Do you want me to replace it with the more correct 'enhanced interrogation'?"
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by _bfhp 4y ago
is this the article that relies on Grace Lavery's commentary without mentioning that she got a huge advance but left after barely produced any writing? And that she lamented Substack's lack of political content modeation, but does
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by _bfhp 4y ago
Not to lionize him as an important voice on the issue, but any of Greenwald's posts on gender.
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by _bfhp 4y ago
I'm about halfway into his book. I'm not someone familiar with the education field so I just nod along during his discussions of the studies, but that introduction chapter was so good . I want to send it to everyone I know.
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by _bfhp 4y ago
If you think a ToS can capture every bigotry, propaganda technique, and misinformation campaign in perpetuity, I am impressed and hope for success in installing it on every centralized internet platform. Otherwise we would need individual h
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by _bfhp 4y ago
On the contrary, the question I was asking is unclear: if, for a given platform, the only reason the wrong political speech shouldn’t be censored by rich and powerful men is because it’s too populous, what’s the difference if the government
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by _bfhp 4y ago
Most people don't see the full underlying logical endgame, because you have to be really immersed in the conversation to have a sense for it. Here's how I understand the logic: Sex doesn't exist, at all , we are each a kind
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by _bfhp 4y ago
"Humans are mammals, so they are mostly either male or female" misinformation or opinion? "Israel is an apartheid state, even one of its former ministers said this" misinformation or opinion? "Government-funded grou
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by _bfhp 4y ago
Newspapers are an influential platform, but most people aren't reading them. It's not that big of a deal if the government decided to censor them, agreed?
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by _bfhp 4y ago
Do you ask the Chamber of Commerce which malls and stores to frequent whenever you want to shop? I think that would be a great way to avoid the bad areas with all the hobos and sketchy businesses that are probably fronts for drug dealers an
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by _bfhp 4y ago
Which user in the chain of comments above is arguing that "government should compel commercial or private entities to give all voices a megaphone"?
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by _bfhp 5y ago
You were talking about free speech: > Free speech in this case is code for saying anything without consequence and weaponizing it at morons. I was just curious if the government's guarantee not to censor political speech is just as
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by _bfhp 5y ago
https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/gender-inclusive-lang... > biological man, biological woman | cisgender person or non-transgender person A good FAQ item might be: Are humans mammals?
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by _bfhp 5y ago
It's a really simple question (yes or no, and just a single sentence about the reasoning if "no") and I hope the principle of charity can be extended when I say the discussion will come back to Twitter very quickly. The OP ha
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by _bfhp 5y ago
So these forms and processes can be essentially spammed and nobody gets any real fine or other legal penalty, even when flagrant criminality is found? It seems like there would be major incentive for press outlets to expose this as governme
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by _bfhp 5y ago
Do you think the government should censor incorrect or hateful speech and if not, why not?
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by _bfhp 5y ago
> blind Wow that's very troubling. Can you show some examples of studies, or representative serious anecdotes?
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by _bfhp 5y ago
By the principle of charity I sympathize with this, but this doesn't hold up without evidence. For example, what are the penalties for lying/grifting in this area? Does this all vary with the degree of corruption in the particular
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by _bfhp 5y ago
You caught me, I'm one of those blank slate extremists who say harmful and unreasonable things like "Individual humans are capable of overcoming biological tendencies." Hard to argue though that eugenics, forced sterilization
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by _bfhp 5y ago
It takes too much scrolling to see an end result of all the habits. Put a preview of someone's sick 6-months-in-the-works garden close to the top, that's what I'd sign up for. Loot boxes you can buy with gems offering limited
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by _bfhp 5y ago
I have come to read any statement like "we are biologically wired to X" as a declaration of nihilism and misanthropy. Wired is what a light bulb is to a switch. Individual humans are complex, beautiful and capable of overcoming pr
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by _bfhp 5y ago
In some time the future generations will come to consider this contractor/employee dichotomy with the same disgust we have for child labor. Same with surrogacy and many other things.
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by _bfhp 5y ago
> It gives you the peace of mind by keeping you in control of your data. I like the sentiment and the points made, but the author uses this amorphous concept of "your data" throughout and I feel like it simplifies things a lot
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by _bfhp 5y ago
There's a difference for sure, though in some cases one follows the other. I agree that there should be consequences for powerful people who preach hatred, when the consequences don't require giving even more power to tech giants
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by _bfhp 5y ago
Tech giants deciding what political ideas are delete-worthy, in the places where most people get their information and hear political arguments, is not the same as boycotting... > In the digital age, we are nearing the point where an ide
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by _bfhp 5y ago
I think the idea is that they're invisible in the sense that nobody announces them to the general public. Moral challenges to the status quo used to be communicated explicitly by heads of reform movements or revolutionary struggles. Yo

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