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by hkt 2y ago
> reducing what they can publish about what's happening to their country. To what audience? It isn't quite what you're getting at in your post but this is worth saying: graffiti, zines, contact with journalists, radio oper
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by hkt 2y ago
I2P, possibly
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by hkt 2y ago
This is simply untrue. Most of the dire circumstances of people around the world today can be traced back to European or American imperialism and increasingly financialised economies.
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by hkt 2y ago
Not exactly a top tier analogy with a company that has really shat the bed both technically and in terms of PR, again and again.
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by hkt 2y ago
You should really watch live, unedited footage of parliament, or local council committees, or anything of that nature. You'll see that most of these meetings are in fact boringly productive and void of anything "entertaining"
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by hkt 2y ago
One assumes the information divulged there has a public interest angle if it is about the most common operating system, one of the largest cloud providers, etc.
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by hkt 2y ago
I take this to imply a dichotomy that does not exist: it isn't just MSM vs the rest. There is a lively, informative section of the press which is dedicated to specialist topics, or specialist treatment of current affairs, etc. Le Monde
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by hkt 2y ago
What we have is a deficit in expert, diverse journalism. Our media landscape just isn't fit for the amount of information that's out there: ideally, a newish profession would exist that straddles academia and journalism, with more
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by hkt 2y ago
Google has been heading this way for twenty years. Maybe just consider its behaviour in a very general way.
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by hkt 2y ago
Thanks!
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by hkt 2y ago
IRC is still good! Libera (née freenode) is alive and kicking and has sane people on it. It is worth just.. having an idle in a bunch of channels and checking them out. We're also pretty lucky to have the fediverse now, which the 90s l
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by hkt 2y ago
Not all political opponents are idiots or Trump-esque
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by hkt 2y ago
What's happening is clear: Elon doesn't like Lula, the Brazilian president. Lula is left wing: his predecessor was a Trump-esque idiot. I'd guess many of Lula's actual policies harm the Musk's material interests in
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by hkt 2y ago
Violent?
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by hkt 2y ago
This is nice and all, but also let's not forget that X can arbitrarily undo this decision too. Remember folks, fediverse.
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by hkt 2y ago
> socialists at The Guardian A _liberal_ paper, not a socialist one. Always calling an ambulance when there's a medical problem may simply be a terrible policy that puts a strain on public resources for the benefit of reduced liabil
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by hkt 2y ago
Tesco Direct has a pretty large non-food section including things like white goods, various appliances, etc. You're right that they're not fulfilling orders from foreign vendors, but as you suggest, this may be part of the problem
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by hkt 2y ago
The UX to people without accounts is actively hostile. That's why. If someone was telling me to look up information from a print edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica from the 1970s, I'd have the same problem: it is an absurd th
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by hkt 2y ago
I'm incredibly interested as it happens. I had honestly never questioned it before and I'm fascinated.
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by hkt 2y ago
When referring to a stakeholder in a cooperative, customarily one means anyone who qualifies for membership. Users would simply have votes for board members and be able to propose and vote on motions at regular meetings. Board members choos
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by hkt 2y ago
Self hosting and federation might be a poor substitute for a cooperative approach: daters are natural stakeholders in the platform, so should be allowed to run it democratically, as per other dating apps. This removes the technological barr
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by hkt 2y ago
Training, too. The people who load up on certifications then attempt to make reality conform to their understanding of the course content they learned rather than vice versa are the culprits here.
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by hkt 2y ago
I've been around a bit while contracting and have experienced about 15 organisations, a handful of which did not estimate work except the occasional natural tendency of one engineer to say to another "this seems a bit big". T
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by hkt 2y ago
I used to love things like this, now I realise that actually caring for living things is quite nice and life affirming, and spending yet more time behind a screen really is not. 40 hours+ per week obligate online-time plus recreation is not
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by hkt 2y ago
Some other examples: * Yugoslavian worker self management (arguably successful: the place had some other problems that hampered them, shall we say) * Mondragon (the world's largest worker cooperative) * John Lewis Partnership/Wait
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by hkt 2y ago
The answer here is "monsanto is a de facto monopoly" - they're essentially the only company on earth that this kind of business can be done with on any kind of scale. A decent intro to Monsanto (now Bayer, really) that covers
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by hkt 2y ago
Since this was written, Delta Chat came into being: https://delta.chat/
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by hkt 2y ago
Foreign currency the US is Cuba's most logical export market. So, with a shortfall of dollars/etc, importing things is problematic. So Cuba's reliance on importing food - especially from the US - looks like a spiral: eating t
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by hkt 2y ago
Maybe there's more to having values than competitive advantage. Just a thought.
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Bridgen compared vaccinations against covid to the holocaust.

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