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by davidw 2y ago
This is an interesting movie along those lines, although it's about pirating music rather than games. The protagonists live in Naples. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_by_Erry
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by davidw 2y ago
Thanks - this was one of the more interesting things I've read here in a while. I wonder if "Programming languages seem to have somewhat stagnated to me.", a sentiment I share, is just me paying less attention to them or a re
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by davidw 2y ago
Sad news. He did a lot for Debian and Ubuntu.
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by davidw 2y ago
> The tricky part of creating your own OS is debugging. The older I get, the more I think I can figure out most problems that don't require some really gnarly domain expertise if I have a good way to iterate on them: code something,
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by davidw 2y ago
What sorts of conversations are you attempting to engage in that it is 'censoring' you? It seems pretty rare to me - even in heated exchanges.
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by davidw 2y ago
Oh, I'm 100% on board with the housing stuff. That's what I do in terms of local politics here in Oregon. But by and large, the 'branding' is places like Fox News crapping on California.
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by davidw 2y ago
Sure they are. People like the Cheneys or Mitt Romney are not mainstream conservatives in the US any more.
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by davidw 2y ago
How can you build that brand if someone is determined to tear it down for ideological reasons?
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by davidw 2y ago
That's a complicated topic, but part of that is because California has become a target for a number of people with money, influence and media outlets. Not to say it doesn't have problems - like housing - that are self-inflicted. J
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by davidw 2y ago
Most voters don't care much about any of the details of this. They're not terribly unhappy with FB because they're using to keep track of people from high school back in the 90ies, or their families, or local recreation group
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by davidw 2y ago
> The kid working the panda express in california can afford a 1br apartment A lot of them can't, actually, but that's really a different problem.
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by davidw 2y ago
It's not about actual employees, it's about signalling "Texas - yay!" and "California - booooo!" in order to make good with the incoming administration.
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by davidw 2y ago
The only thing that "turns out" is they wish to curry favor with the incoming administration. FB hasn't been censoring much of anything as far as I can tell; there are all kinds of vile, nasty comments all over it. Just unfri
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by davidw 2y ago
And Redding, California is far to the right of it. It's just coded language for who they're going to favor, otherwise it makes no sense at all, as it's possible to find people of all political stripes in both states, as well
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by davidw 2y ago
Facebook is a corporation and can 'censor' whoever they like. They are not 'the US'. Part of the reason why they moderate content is the same reason that a bar owner turfs out people who are rowdy and threatening the oth
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by davidw 2y ago
That's a housing problem. California is very NIMBY and doesn't build enough homes. That has nothing to do with how 'objective' fact checking or content review or whatever is from people in both places. This is just very
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by davidw 2y ago
As a product decision taken independently, maybe. Running one of those things at scale with all kinds of people trying to subvert it for various reasons, including some downright evil ones, is not an easy task. Announced together with every
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by davidw 2y ago
The ideological bits are: * Dana White added to the board. * "Move our trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California, and our US content review to Texas. This will help remove the concern that biased employees are ove
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by davidw 2y ago
Yeah, it's not perfect, but it seems way less toxic.
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by davidw 2y ago
"The Gods Must Be Crazy - 2025"
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by davidw 2y ago
Here's an article from Margaret Sullivan that goes into the details of one recent example of "both sides" from the NYT: https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/an-ugly-case-of-fals... But it's hardl
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by davidw 2y ago
He's actually been trying that. It kinda sorta works, but it's still not there.
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by davidw 2y ago
This is a great point. A significant part of the problem right now is the 'oligarch' aspect.
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by davidw 2y ago
It's not even all that "left". Immediately after the election, they scurried off to the vermin infested hotel in Florida to kiss the ring. And Joe himself is a former Republican congressman https://en.wikipedia.org
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by davidw 2y ago
Right - and big enough news outlets can even "make their own weather". This investigation of "circular reporting" at the NYT is pretty illustrative: https://css.seas.upenn.edu/new-york-times-a-case-study-
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by davidw 2y ago
> the housing shortage is so acute that service workers cannot find places to live. You can trace all kinds of seemingly unrelated problems back to the "housing theory of everything".
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by davidw 2y ago
> Would you be more specific about what you think should be done differently? For example, in reporting about whether someone supports democracy? No, because I'm not a news person myself. I can see there's a problem, but I don&
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by davidw 2y ago
I don't think it's black and white. I've seen good stories from both even recently. But they're sliding in the wrong direction, as this resignation highlights.
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by davidw 2y ago
Here's a thorough critique from 2014, well before the current election or even the 2016 election, about an article in the NYT. It doesn't mention T---p. It's illustrative of the problem: https://pressthink.org&#x2F
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by davidw 2y ago
It's not a 10/10; I've seen better. But if the person in question quit over it, I suspect it wasn't just because they were asked to rework it, something they've probably been asked to do in the past because somethin

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