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Cory Doctorow: Inaction Is a Form of Action (2020)(locusmag.com)
3 points by noodles_nomore 6y ago|1 comments
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by noodles_nomore 6y ago
Clearly censoring political speech is an issue that cuts right to the heart of democracy. The idea that corporations should be in control of public discourse is foreign to us. Government embodies the will of the people through democracy ena
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by noodles_nomore 6y ago
Echo of majority view on incident. Clarification of legal basis for censorship on private platforms. Support of section 230. Concern about bias in private censorship. Call for transparency and consistency. It's as neutral as can be.
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by noodles_nomore 6y ago
The most interesting thing about this incident is that it's a repeat of what happened earlier, late last year, in Germany.
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by noodles_nomore 6y ago
Propaganda isn't about lying at all. Wiktionary etymology: From New Latin propāganda, short for Congregātiō dē Propagandā Fide, "congregation for propagating the faith", a committee of cardinals established in 1622 by Gregory
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RC3 – What the cyberoptimists got wrong – and what to do about it(youtube.com)
2 points by noodles_nomore 6y ago|0 comments
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by noodles_nomore 6y ago
>I had very few resources and had nobody to ask if I got stuck That's exactly the self-learning experience. You had simple foundations that demanded to be explored and conquered. My first programming book was a ~700 page Java tome b
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by noodles_nomore 6y ago
Imagine how furious they would be if that applied not only to savings but also to wages.
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by noodles_nomore 6y ago
I'm watching almost any video on 2.5-3x speed nowadays, which is faster than reading. Look for the 'Video Speed Controller' Firefox plugin.
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by noodles_nomore 6y ago
Surprisingly hollow. There is almost no information on the screens to indicate what any swipe or touch might do. Explains a lot about their decisions in Windows 8/10. Their ideal is magic bullshit.
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by noodles_nomore 6y ago
It's amazing how quickly the internet has indeed become srs bsns, and grown men and women are angrily typing at teenagers and each other completely unaware of the farceness of it all.
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by noodles_nomore 6y ago
Best argument for GPLv3 I've seen yet.
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by noodles_nomore 6y ago
In some sense it's still a weird state of affairs. I tried to compare it to the fact that you can't find fault in 'how your neighbor came to decide on his vote', but the federal election is a two level system and they do
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by noodles_nomore 6y ago
If a state can't have an interest that the constitution is followed, what point is there in even having a union? What did the states actually agree on? Edit: The answer to this is that the supreme court is there to judge in material ma
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by noodles_nomore 6y ago
In other words, rigged elections (hypothetically speaking) in one state do not cause any demonstrable damage to another state? I was expecting this to come down to an argument over state sovereignty on election matters, but reality appears
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by noodles_nomore 6y ago
100% waste will fix the economy?
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by noodles_nomore 6y ago
'Cozy'? They're snugging it under the table during meetings. They eat lunch together in Big Tech's office and lock the door. This relationship is like a 30 year nonstop honeymoon in the interstices of decency.
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by noodles_nomore 6y ago
Future headline: I was captured as a sex slave for two years and when I finally sneaked internet access Google had deleted all my contacts
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by noodles_nomore 6y ago
Slightly offtopic but, one thing I've been thinking: If we can produce plastic that won't degrade for thousands of years, why not leverage this and make books from it?
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by noodles_nomore 6y ago
(Edit: I'm talking about related videos here. Maybe that's not the same thing.) 5 to 10 years ago I would frequently get lost in Youtube's music recommendations, just going down one rabbit hole after the other with dozens o
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by noodles_nomore 6y ago
> "It is unpractical, and it goes against human nature. That is why it is worth carrying out." This citation of Oscar Wilde made me curious. It's from his essay The Soul of Man under Communism[1], which turns out to be a r
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by noodles_nomore 6y ago
Sorry for being curt in the last reply. To expand on this, I think a key line might be >bad actors use these techniques to control people to their advantage. which I interpret broadly as enticing people to do things not sanctioned by the
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by noodles_nomore 6y ago
varispeed talks about control and manipulation. That's far broader than misinformation.
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by noodles_nomore 6y ago
>This reads like an assumption that the article is about tech companies in the United States and their effects to combat election misinformation. I completely disagree with this. The parent didn't mention companies once. This must b
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by noodles_nomore 6y ago
Centralized control means centralized pressure points. The idea that this is "not the way we operate" is laughably upside-down coming from any corporate entity.