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by gorwell 5y ago
I agree, it's likely over 50%. If Twitter simply labeled viral political tweets as misleading by default, it would be more accurate than the system they are using now.
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by gorwell 5y ago
In our internet age, the freedom of speech that truly matters is all digital.
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by gorwell 5y ago
An outlier example from 1907.
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by gorwell 5y ago
Define `harmful` and `misinformation`.
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by gorwell 5y ago
In our internet age, the freedom of speech that truly matters is ALL digital. The US has no Public ISP, nor Public Speech Platform equivalent of Twitter, Google, Facebook, etc.
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by gorwell 5y ago
Can you provide more info re: compliance propaganda? I haven't heard about that.
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by gorwell 5y ago
“All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions.” George Bernard Shaw “
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by gorwell 5y ago
That combined with an ineffective leadership. Just look at what these groups spend their time squabbling over. This DSA meeting is reflective of how little chance they have of getting anything accomplished: https://www.youtube.co
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N.C. hospital system fires workers in one of the largest-ever mass terminations(washingtonpost.com)
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YouTube's CEO says free speech is a 'core value' even after removing videos(businessinsider.com)
61 points by gorwell 5y ago|17 comments
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by gorwell 5y ago
Narrative violation detected. -4 applied to your social credit score. Have a good day, comrade.
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Scientific American: Why the Term ‘Jedi’ Is Problematic(scientificamerican.com)
14 points by gorwell 5y ago|14 comments
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Marvel Studios May Drop the ‘Men’ from X-Men(wegotthiscovered.com)
6 points by gorwell 5y ago|1 comments
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by gorwell 5y ago
This is why I've stopped buying books on kindle. It gives Amazon the power to censor your book library, and it would not surprise me at all if we see them exercise that power soon.
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by gorwell 5y ago
I would bet on the US letting them take it. Like they let the Taliban take Kabul. There's little appetite for starting a new war after Afghanistan, and wouldn't starting a war with China send civilization back to sticks and stones
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by gorwell 5y ago
How useful is meta analysis if half or more of the experiments don't replicate? As we increasingly discover with the replication crisis.
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by gorwell 5y ago
This is why resumes with recent FB history should be thrown in the trash.
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Why 2024 Will Be Like Nineteen Eighty-Four(slate.com)
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The data is bad too, not differentiating "with covid" and "from covid", in death metrics and hospitalizations. As well as not differentiating severity. "A new study suggests that almost half of those hospitalized wi
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by gorwell 5y ago
What I meant is that we made progress in terms of separating "I plead the fifth" and assumed guilt in the eyes of the public. Now that's getting entangled again.
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It's actually a good take. They pointed out that you don't need an extra piece of software or device.
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by gorwell 5y ago
Sounds nice, but sometimes I'm just being lazy.
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by gorwell 5y ago
This is really being put to the test right now in the US with the Gabby Petito case. Where her fiance was refusing to talk to the police, exercising the 5th. The media and police kept asking, rhetorically, "If he's innocent, why w
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by gorwell 5y ago
It's all performative and a distraction from the fact that the Met Gala is literally an event for rich people to show off their incredibly expensive clothes that will only be worn once. Unmasked while the servant class is masked, helpi
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SF Mayor violates strict mask mandate, which city has yet to soften(sfgate.com)
25 points by gorwell 5y ago|5 comments
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by gorwell 5y ago
How do they determine who to sell to?
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Mouse Utopia Experiment(youtube.com)
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by gorwell 5y ago
The sacrifice element is key. To quote Douglas Adams, “The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get
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by gorwell 5y ago
"they're definitely not about to take up arms against the state, and if they think they would do that, then they're certainly LARPing and live in a fantasy world." Didn't the Taliban prove otherwise? That would sugg
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by gorwell 5y ago
If you watch for it, you'll notice that pattern is common with discrimination claims. It's self destructive too because it prevents self analysis and improvement if you believe you didn't get a promotion or whatever because o

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