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by corbulo 3y ago
Its all too common for states to have soft free speech. I wonder why Indians haven't pushed more for nailing that down.
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by corbulo 3y ago
You're absolutely correct. Curation is the ethical answer, not censorship. Gigantic difference. >No matter how critically I approach it, I will not be able derive objective truth from biased and fuzzy information. That will always b
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by corbulo 3y ago
It is. See Philip II of Macedon vs Athens. It's not true today because of how OP the US is in geography+natural resources, but also from alliances like NATO. Without NATO European states would be getting flipped one by one (as seen by
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by corbulo 3y ago
Democracies cannot function if the people are shielded from all the evil things that necessitate thinking critically. Bad information is a fact of life, not social media. The only way you get someone to think critically is putting them in a
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by corbulo 3y ago
Ill admit I don't know a ton about India's constitution. Do they have freedom of speech? How is it phrased?
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by corbulo 3y ago
I stopped caring about DDG once they announced search blacklisting about the Ukraine war. Once a search engine crosses that line its over, why wouldn't they apply it to anything else they feel similarly about? You're not gonna com
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by corbulo 3y ago
The format of the fediverse is anti-virality and anti-discovery. It's also anti-index. It's a joke that anyone thinks it could ever compete with Twitter. It's not for a lack of interest or advertising.
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by corbulo 3y ago
"see the murderer wasn't random therefore we were right nananabooboo SF isn't a total crime infested dystopia" Is really weird spin on a murder story. What is wrong with people? Does anyone notice how insane spinning a
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by corbulo 3y ago
Respectfully, meme magic says otherwise
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by corbulo 3y ago
There's an adjustment period to understand each boards specific signal:noise. You can't just walk in and find Aristotle and Kant figuring shit out. Each board has its ridiculous bullshit, groupthink, absurd extremists, edgelords,
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by corbulo 3y ago
US Politics revolves around being the underdog. If you're state affiliated you can't pitch yourself as the plucky underdog trying to change the world. Thats why NPR would rather leave twitter than live with the label.
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by corbulo 3y ago
AI in that capacity will be functioning as a highly competent secretary. Not necessarily revolutionary except for the latency between request for information and fulfillment.
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by corbulo 3y ago
Its about the same?
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by corbulo 3y ago
No city is immune to it of course, particularly today.
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by corbulo 3y ago
EVs don't help global emissions. They centralize them to power plants and mining. Its debatable whether its net better than ICE for global emissions.
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by corbulo 3y ago
No city symbolizes that more than SF, followed by LA
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by corbulo 4y ago
Loneliness today is frequently a consequence of overstimulation and total withdrawal from our local environments, so even when we stop there's no social infrastructure to find comfort in. Busyness 'yesterday' would be in such
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by corbulo 4y ago
The extroverts are advised by introverts, however.
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by corbulo 4y ago
That's simply untrue. What today we refer to as misinformation and conspiracy theory was just rumors from the traveling merchant. The most obvious examples of this is in ancient history how few political issues were actually campaigned
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by corbulo 4y ago
Todays threshold for lonely is yesterdays busy. How far back do you have to go in time to get to people actually having time to themselves and walk (15+min) to get most places? Idiosyncratism is increasingly rarer today than it used to be.
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by corbulo 4y ago
Lockdowns were already a test of exactly what you're saying here. When almost no one had to work economics became ridiculous, people were paying $40 for a $15 meal to be delivered to them, fiscal policy became clinically insane, tech s
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by corbulo 4y ago
Are we moving from denial to bargaining now? How long until acceptance of what was once one of the most beautiful cities on earth becoming a cyberpunk opium den? You people are doing your city such a disservice. Fix it sooner, not later. Co
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by corbulo 4y ago
The reason why Twitter is interesting is precisely because it reached that critical mass where everyone jumps in. It's a terrible social media site without it. There's always value to niche forums, but that was my point from the b
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by corbulo 4y ago
Both are informed by their general audience. Mastodon has yet to make a big splash outside of highly insulated niche and/or politically charged circles. Mastodon simply can't reach the heights that Twitter can currently, its userb
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by corbulo 4y ago
I dunno. Mastodon is having a veganism-style social effect from what i've observed. There are some networks that are very interesting there (such as the infosec ones) but its mostly contrarians and obsessivism for whatever the corpo ze
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by corbulo 4y ago
Twitter is the only social media site every news org can't shut the fuck up about. That alone makes it not niche and beyond the influence reach of all the others; which in turn invites more interesting people, sources, conversation, pu
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by corbulo 4y ago
SV Cyberpunk dystopia edition will be fascinating to watch from the outside.
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by corbulo 4y ago
The same place where stuff comes from, duh!
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by corbulo 4y ago
>Something not being easily available makes it more attractive and makes people more curious about it. Such is human psychology. Can you cite a period when drug enforcement was more successful causing increased consumption? >Again, if
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by corbulo 4y ago
Does supply play a role in addiction? Opportunity?

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