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by gorwell 5y ago
Godaddy isn't a problem per se. But what about AWS? Or data centers? What if banks and farms and electric companies start doing this? That's where this is going. Companies taking political or ideological approaches is becoming nor
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Ask yourself: why does the big photo only show the veterinary version? Why do so many headlines classify it as horse paste medicine? They are fully aware most people only read the headlines or above the fold. They bury mention of human dosa
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This is probably what they are referring to. Some areas are limiting outdoor time and fining people who are "outside without a reasonable excuse". "From September 13, NSW residents that are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 w
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That means the government and media successfully manufactured consent with the population. A majority of the US supported the War on Terror. That was manufactured consent with thanks to the corporate press. It was only the outliers that pro
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That word is doing a lot of work. I think this explains the phenomenon well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSAWylw8dwQ
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by gorwell 5y ago
Can anyone explain this? "So early on, Newsom identified some key wildfire prevention projects, and that includes things like forest thinning and prescribed burns, and they were meant to protect some of the most vulnerable communities
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by gorwell 5y ago
You're not kidding. Notice the language they're using and how the government is granting "new freedoms". "From September 13, NSW residents that are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 will be given new freedoms . Res
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by gorwell 5y ago
"The truth is that for many Apple workers -- a reality faced disproportionately by our Black, Indigenous, and other colleagues from minoritized racial, gender, and historically marginalized groups of people" Chances are these Ap
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Don't Be Evil. Project Hug. Your antennae should go up whenever you hear phrasing like this.
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Afghan women forced from banking jobs as Taliban take control(reuters.com)
125 points by gorwell 5y ago|219 comments
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This is like the Apple photo scanning issue. Start with something all of society agrees is reprehensible and implement the tools of authoritarian censorship on that basis. "We will shortly be trialling the development of a new product
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No Preferred Racial Term Among Most Black, Hispanic Adults(news.gallup.com)
2 points by gorwell 5y ago|4 comments
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Did anyone else notice this euphemism treadmill update? "for people experiencing homelessness" "the number of people experiencing homelessness" "of those experiencing homelessness" This softer language with mor
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How Many Deaths Justify Giving Governments Control of Everything?(mises.org)
2 points by gorwell 5y ago|0 comments
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"no code", "serverless" Is anyone else annoyed by these terms?
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The strawman images that destroyed online discourse(twitter.com)
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A Modern Odyssey – Animated Short Film(youtube.com)
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by gorwell 5y ago
Let's grok these carefully constructed statements. "SARS-CoV-2 most likely originated in nature and not in a laboratory... We believe the strongest clue from new, credible, and peer-reviewed evidence in the scientific literature,
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Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Words in News Media Discourse(davidrozado.substack.com)
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"Now you will see videos of politicians saying something and even then you cannot be sure whether this is actual video or a fake." This is actually already the case with Biden and Trump video clips even without being deepfaked. Of
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It will target leftists too; many of whom are highly critical of the current regime. It's just being branded as far-right so they don't get pushback from both sides simultaneously. This is how it gets implemented, then it'll
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by gorwell 5y ago
It's useful, at this point, to carry a default assumption that reporting is propaganda or otherwise misrepresented. This arguably extends even into research; Richard Smith, who edited BMJ for 13 years, on the state of health research:
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Americans' life ratings reach record high(news.gallup.com)
131 points by gorwell 5y ago|189 comments
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Governments Planning a Coordinated Attack on Bitcoin(reddit.com)
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by gorwell 5y ago
Because it used an outdated term according to the new rules. Have you missed how many terms are being retired and renamed? git checkout master branch is a well known example here, but that's not a lone example and it'll continue u
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by gorwell 5y ago
It's not to ridicule liberals. I'm a liberal. It's to mock the illiberalism and totalitarianism that is replacing liberalism, and is increasingly flexing its power in our cultural institutions.
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by gorwell 5y ago
Latino is already inclusive. There's nothing to be done, as Latinos aren't preoccupied with creating fake problems.
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Sometimes people can't tell with Titania McGrath, a masterclass in satire. https://twitter.com/TitaniaMcGrath
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And it's worth noting that they have overtaken a wildly expensive, ineffective government program and built a competitive industry, driving down the cost of getting a kilogram into Low Earth Orbit by 44-fold already.
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Half of vaccinated Canadians unlikely to spend time with the unvaccinated(angusreid.org)
1 points by gorwell 5y ago|0 comments

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