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by like_any_other 6d ago
> And nationally, schools in predominantly nonwhite districts receive $23 billion less in annual funding than their heavily white counterparts, according to a 2019 analysis by EdBuild [0]. As is typical for the NYT, their articles includ
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by like_any_other 6d ago
> Would you deny us our right to organize as we please? So you must really hate laws like the Online Safety Act and the Digital Services Act, that force platforms to censor vaguely-defined hate-speech, without a court order, or face ru
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by like_any_other 7d ago
> A publisher making editorial decisions is not censorship. Are you really going to conflate publishing with operating a social media platform? Regardless, if those editorial decisions are meant to suppress a viewpoint, it is censorship
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by like_any_other 7d ago
> by voting Not a single one of my examples was committed by the government (except if you count funding Carnegie Mellon and MIT). But even in cases when they are , voting rarely helps: https://www.woes.blog/p/tgr-d
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by like_any_other 7d ago
I'm less interested in the quantity, and more in the content of those packets. Do they contain my GPS movement history? A list of installed and opened apps? My contacts list, messaging text log, and list of visited websites? The data I
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by like_any_other 7d ago
You still want to know the extent of that 'moderation' that is totally not censorship. E.g. Facebook and Instagram ban white nationalism, and Youtube has banned American Renaissance, meaning we can infer Google bans white national
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by like_any_other 7d ago
The most pervasive censorship is who and what social media companies decide to block or suppress. Even in places like China. It's deliberately harder to measure, but any censorship measurement that omits it is like measuring war casual
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by like_any_other 8d ago
> In an honest discussion there's an assumption that the other person won't straight up lie to me so if someone shows me ten examples for why my argument is wrong I may be inclined to believe them. Careful. Someone sufficiently
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by like_any_other 8d ago
You don't think it's notable that even the pretense of equal application of the law has disappeared?
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by like_any_other 8d ago
> This is also why I chose DeepSeek and have stayed: we research powerful, fast, universally accessible AI and open-source it, and perhaps that can pull the world back a little from the 2077 end. I don't trust Anthropic or OpenAI. T
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by like_any_other 8d ago
Weird to name the company in the headline, but wait until the 8th paragraph to name the actual perpetrator. Uber is mentioned by name 15x, while the driver's name is mentioned only 2x (and no picture of the driver is included). I'
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by like_any_other 8d ago
> However, across the entire policy, FAQs, and changelogs, there is not a single mention of silently packaging and uploading entire workspaces and full Git histories. So this is criminal hacking, right? It will be prosecuted as criminal
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by like_any_other 8d ago
> It's just part of the business. I don't see how it's worth having any emotions or opinions about it. It's called foresight. The ability to see that vendor lock-in is against our long-term interests. Your windows com
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This California Educational Juggernaut Doesn't Need the SAT(nytimes.com)
3 points by like_any_other 9d ago|2 comments
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by like_any_other 9d ago
Archive: https://archive.is/GHre6 "What has made the University of California exceptional is its commitment to increase access without sacrificing excellence. [..] Students on University of California campuses may stru
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by like_any_other 11d ago
> how original, never seen that before. If you're defending modern architecture, you have NO place complaining about originality, when 99% of it is steel & glass basic geometric shapes.
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by like_any_other 11d ago
Australia is also trying to ban their equivalent political party, so both countries are on the same page still: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/08/neo-n...
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by like_any_other 11d ago
Then you're part of the 20% of people who prefer modern styles, for whom 99% of buildings are built. You have plenty of choices, while the rest of us are lied to about why buildings look like they do and why we can't have what we
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by like_any_other 11d ago
If survivorship bias had anything to do with it, you would not have old villages where every house is in the same style, and they're all beautiful. There's simply no evidence that old buildings were randomly ugly or beautiful, and
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by like_any_other 11d ago
> In the old days, buildings were made to impress, to project wealth, to show the generosity of wealthy benefactors to their town or city. Take a look around somewhere like historic Bruges, which benefited from the wealth of local mercha
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by like_any_other 12d ago
Don't lie. When not logged in, if you visit someone's profile, X shows you only 5 tweets. If you visit a tweet, only 3 replies are visible. It's not "scraping" (which is perfectly fine and legal to scrape public c
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by like_any_other 12d ago
> AAMC reports 20% of doctors and med students are foreign born and educated This is by design: https://www.newsweek.com/there-are-limited-spots-doctors-med... (And 20% is barely above the overall US foreign born populat
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Anthropic's AI architect argued that discrimination could combat stigmas(europesays.com)
1 points by like_any_other 12d ago|2 comments
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by like_any_other 12d ago
Quote from the paper itself, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.07459 , page 3: In the discrimination experiment, the 175B parameter model discriminates against Black versus white [sic] students by 3% in the Q condition, and d
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by like_any_other 12d ago
Users were affected in exactly the same way. And every user - i.e. poster - was first just a visitor. Much fewer would have become posters if they'd been greeted by a login wall that wanted an e-mail and phone-number.
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by like_any_other 12d ago
I wonder if anti-SLAPP laws could be used to shield nitter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_publ...
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by like_any_other 12d ago
You neglect to consider that these social media websites were giant bait & switches - they were open-access to trick people into going there and making them popular, and only when they got enough network-effect lock-in, did they turn ho
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by like_any_other 12d ago
It's illegal for one branch of the government to cooperate with another to enforce the border. Meanwhile, abandoning the border (despite a legal obligation to enforce it), and even sabotaging states from stepping in to fix federal negl
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by like_any_other 12d ago
> making it so privacy policies legally survive bankruptcy They currently don't? Why? Isn't that completely insane? How is that different from buying a music CD with the restriction that it may not be used commercially, declari
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by like_any_other 12d ago
> appropriation Want to take a guess on what their author's opinions would be on social issues du jour? You don't even have to go that far back before the average person is beyond far-right by today's standards: ‘Greatest

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