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by badRNG 5y ago
"bro culture" is often used because it immediately evokes for most people that very familiar casually sexist environment that is tolerant of sexual harassment and intolerant of those who report inappropriate behavior. A workplace
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Regardless of how impartial the journalism may be on the story, this does seem like something you'd put in a disclaimer at the top of the story.
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You aren't asking your contacts to delete WhatsApp as well in solidarity or to fully "switch", you are asking them to simply use Signal to communicate with you. If you mention you are uncomfortable using WhatsApp, and they ar
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I mean let's look: - 2020 - Biden - 2016 - Trump - 2012 - Obama - 2008 - Obama - 2004 - Bush - 2000 - Bush - 1996 - Clinton - 1992 - Clinton I'd think that Bush represented a socially conservative position, and I'm not entire
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> There, since 2018, the Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Tola) has allowed government agencies to compel telecommunications providers to allow authorities to intercept criminal messages – powers that are not yet avail
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I read the news in part to be entertained, and to have something to talk about with others in the way that sports fans always keep up with new players, stats, and upcoming games. We can all think of low quality, highly polemic news sources
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Agreed. I read "quietly" as "without any money or effort put into advertising, PR, or messaging the fact." If someone sues Facebook and does the media circuit, advertises the fact, and gets their face out there, and the
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I find value in being ethically consistent, but I don't care for arguments like these. Another variation of this is "why should I care about ethical issue 'X' since we all purchase goods and services that enable child or
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FDA Approves First Human Trial for Potential CRISPR-Led HIV Cure(biospace.com)
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This is a good counterexample to those who believe that atheists arrive at their position through "good epistemology." Some atheists can be ideologically in lock-step with anti-science and conspiracy theorist movements often attri
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There's a correlation between religiosity and anti-vaccine sentiment, but I'd go as far as to say we have good reason to think there isn't causation. Case in point: the LDS church leadership is insisting on vaccination an
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> homogeneity of thought, with little options for those who go against the grain, either in general or on one particular issue. Doesn't this differ drastically from subreddit to subreddit? It's really hard to talk about Reddit
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I think there are generic non-surveillance reasons as well. Whenever an industry gets big enough (tobacco, oil, advertising) it can have enough momentum and capital to have its interests protected by the state to a degree that anything shor
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I think they meant: You’re Wrong About is an incredible podcast. Spot on about information density and humor. I love it
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This has nothing to do with the post nor the comment you're replying to. There's no need to inject an unrelated political point into the top post's top comment; just make your own post about the subject so it can be discussed
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There is an incredibly well produced podcast episode on these ex-NSA engineers working for the UAE that came out a couple of years ago. Check out Darknet Diaries Ep47: Project Raven [1]. Synopsis is that the UAE hires ex-NSA employees as &q
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Anecdotally, I've seen far more polemic and vitriolic posts on so-called alt-tech social media sites compared to even Twitter and Facebook, which are horrendous in this regard. Sites like Gab, Voat, Ruqqus, etc seem to be filled with
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by badRNG 5y ago
So basically "How much daily misery can we put our users through algorithmically before they break down and uninstall"? Why does anyone who is sufficiently aware of this still use Facebook? Not even as an ethical question, why use
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Why do you say that? Content here seems pretty reasonable most of the time.
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Anecdotally, I've known several folks who've left Facebook for one reason or another, often at least in part because of the poor experience they had on the platform. > Or at least it drives up engagement up until a person-speci
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Don't the constant flamewars push people away from Facebook, thereby reducing engagement in the long run? I quit Facebook several years ago because I honestly just didn't like the experience. It was miserable and I didn't enj
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Do Chairs Exist?(youtube.com)
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There's a difference between what the NSA and CIA can do and what the FBI can do. Even if you are an outspoken dissident, the FBI likely won't burn the supposed fact that they have backdoored all VPN companies to try to prosecute
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I assume it takes time to go from "this person could have potentially been targeted with Pegasus" to "this person's iPhone was exploited by Pegasus, and here is how they did it."
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> All this will change, the day some of the NSO exploits will be used against Israel, the same way some of the NSA leaked tools are now used in the wild. Has the leak of NSA tools changed anything?
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Zerodium will pay up to $2,500,000 for no-click iPhone/Android exploits [1]. I'm sure they'd only pay that much if they were highly confident they have clients who'd pay enough to make the risk and investment worth it. [
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This episode just came out last week, and this is the second time NSO has made news since it aired (along with Germany being a confirmed client.) Surprisingly apropos, but I imagine Jack's disappointed the big news makes it just after
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>Note, too, that engineers at NASA are at the whim of Congress. I know several whose life work was cut in a budget negotiation thousands of miles away. I know several more who left aerospace for better pay in other industries. Fair point
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I don't really see how an engineer at Blue Origin is more willing to take risks or has more ownership in the results than say an engineer at NASA JPL. If anything the engineer at NASA has more ownership since their work is in the publi
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Everyone's anecdotes will be different (and may differ along generational lines.) For a more concrete example of users seeking non-standard software, within a few years of it coming out Chrome became the most popular desktop web browse

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