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by _djo_ 3y ago
This is an unserious proposal from an increasingly unserious party, proposed as a throwaway idea just as the hottest summer on record shows that we need to be taking a much more sober approach to addressing climate change.
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by _djo_ 3y ago
I don't think you have any idea of the kind of time pressures journalists are under, and how little time they have to devote hours or days of deep research to each and every story they work on. At best you can get that for a large stor
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by _djo_ 3y ago
The 'MSM' (what a dated phrase) didn't create it, it was just a single reporter at a NASCAR race who either misheard it or bowdlerised it for the live TV audience.
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by _djo_ 3y ago
That would be true if newsrooms keep the same number of journalists on staff, so that they're freed to conduct more investigative work. Looking at the trend in global newsrooms and the way they've already been gutted in the name o
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by _djo_ 3y ago
That you call them a 'politburo' and refer to 'normies' gives an indication that the types of edits you were making were neither well sourced nor neutral. I've never had an edit reverted on Wikipedia.
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by _djo_ 3y ago
Or, some US tech companies grew massive and greedy off violating the privacy of hundreds of millions of people and can't think of a business model that works when even the most basic data rights rules are implemented.
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Twitter refuses to pay arbitration costs for 891 laid-off workers, lawsuit says(arstechnica.com)
76 points by _djo_ 3y ago|43 comments
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by _djo_ 3y ago
Text of the tweet: We have just launched a new, improved version of TweetDeck. All users can continue to access their saved searches & workflows via tweetdeck.twitter.com by selecting “Try the new TweetDeck” in the bottom left menu. Som
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TweetDeck will soon be available to verified users only(twitter.com)
64 points by _djo_ 3y ago|19 comments
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by _djo_ 3y ago
The pre-Musk behaviour was fairly straightforward to my recollection: All logged out accounts could view a single tweet and some percentage of the replies. They could also view a profile but, similarly, scrolling down a certain number of tw
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by _djo_ 3y ago
Not quite. They're experimenting with commodity hardware to provide additional experimental functionality on missions, not to replace the core mission hardware. For instance the mars helicopter, Ingenuity, was effectively an expendable
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by _djo_ 3y ago
This isn’t just about Apollo, it’s about the API changes in general and how those affect all third party apps as well as the extensive tools that mods have had to build and use to make up for Reddit’s poor tooling.
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by _djo_ 3y ago
They’re not. The political leaders at the top are, but the civil servants who actually keep the lights on and everything running stick around from administration to administration. We’ve learnt a lot about the necessity for institutional kn
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by _djo_ 3y ago
One of the most frustrating things is how the group advocating inaction was successfully able to spread the view that climate scientists and the IPCC were being alarmist. In truth they were being conservative and overly cautious.
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by _djo_ 3y ago
Agreed, like the cold shoulder shown to white South Africans during Apartheid. Overall, it helped to change national sentiment and led to the end of Apartheid even though it might've harmed some people living abroad who were opposed to
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by _djo_ 3y ago
Except that in context nobody, not even the self-proclaimed doomer who wrote the post, is suggesting we all go running around in blind panic with our hair on fire over this. Rather, that it’s severe enough and so far out beyond recorded tem
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by _djo_ 3y ago
I can’t tell if you’re trolling, in denial, or just very naive. Climate change is already causing economic damage and the loss of lives. This isn’t some theoretical future problem.
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by _djo_ 3y ago
Given that such rapid and severe deviations as shown in the charts are unheard of at this scale, perhaps a little panic is justified. It’s certainly worrying.
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by _djo_ 3y ago
This isn’t moving that slowly any more.
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by _djo_ 3y ago
I didn’t even know that long pressing on a QR code decodes it. Thanks for the tip.
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by _djo_ 3y ago
Some are doing that, which I agree is a better approach. First thing I saw when loading Reddit was a bunch of those protest notices.
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by _djo_ 3y ago
Not your fault, I had an edit that I’d forgotten to submit but sent a few minutes later when I remembered. I didn’t see you’d replied to me already, my apologies.
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by _djo_ 3y ago
No, it was my fault. I edited it and forgot to submit it till a few minutes later. I didn’t see the responses before I did.
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by _djo_ 3y ago
Indeed. My recollection of similar threads at the time was not a celebration of Russian deaths, but a mockery of official Russian statistics that were claiming an implausibly low number of hospitalised and dead.
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by _djo_ 3y ago
Yes, it’s accurate. I tested it at the time and was shown that video. It was later fixed for ‘cats’, but it took a while. There have been other examples beyond that cat video too, that just got a lot of attention.
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by _djo_ 3y ago
> Eh, even if we can agree on it being fair I still don't see anything wrong with what Reddit is trying to do. While the profit might be minuscule compared to what Reddit is looking for, its still currently more than reddit is makin
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by _djo_ 3y ago
Yes, it is. Why wouldn’t it be? Third party apps benefit the platform, especially in the early days. They result in more content from power users and easier moderation, so they contribute to revenue and aren’t only a cost. They generally ha
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by _djo_ 3y ago
Nonsense. The API had clear terms of service that allowed for third party clients, and Reddit explicitly promoted and supported them in the past. The current Reddit app was even built on one such app (Alien Blue) that Reddit acquired. For a
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by _djo_ 3y ago
Reddit and Twitter embraced third party clients because it saved them the early cost of doing it themselves and provided extra avenues and incentives for power users to create content and moderators to cultivate communities. Both benefit th
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by _djo_ 3y ago
The App Store doesn’t allow for mass refunds like this, you have to ask Apple and they only grant it in special circumstances such as the third party Twitter clients. I do not see them approving a mass refund just for a price increase.

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