ranandtoldthat @ ranandtoldthat @beehaw.org

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Thanks for the share.

Mike Brock is one of the few "doomer" types I read because his analysis is usually enlightening. I guess maybe that means he's not a true doomer.

Great read, thanks.

Still, we don't condemn the German victims of Nazis for fascism. We don't condemn the French resistance for Vichy France. There's a real resistance movement in America. Support it.

Thanks for the context and analysis. Hope it works out for smaller forums.

When something similar happened in the UK, it was pretty much exclusively smaller/niche forums, run by volunteers and donations, that went offline.

I gotta reread Vinge's Rainbows End

Wait. You're advocating for collective punishment for Americans resisting Trump?

Recognizing bias is indeed important. But every source has some bias. Refusing to engage with biased sources will rule out everything. If you think it doesn't rule out something, you've found your own bias! Good, it's powerful to know your own bias.

Neutrality is in fact its own bias. Not everything need or should be neutral.

So, check the source. Eff? OK you know or can readily discover they are going to have a bias toward protecting individuals online. Read the piece knowing that and you can get valuable information from it.

If you like, you can reference the information with attribution, Eg "the Eff says..." to avoid taking on their own bias as your own.

As a reader, you can't rely on headlines to be a replacement for reading the article. Headlines tend to be shorter than the corresponding article and require a level of summarization to be effective.

There are millions of trans people in the US.

Unconventional choice, as it is 3D, but Supraland. Fantastic world to explore, so satisfying getting new powers and reaching areas.

Your referring to faithless electors and, no, it's blatant misinformation to claim that swung any recent election.

It's no coincidence the escalation occurred right as his feud with Elon Musk was growing.

I enjoyed that book. Really apropos reading in these times, an interest examination of "post truth" ideas.

And that "certain level" is very low. The media narrative is trying to make it seem much higher than it is. They largely omit the speeches, the chanting, the dancing, and the standing around. They minimize the extraordinarily violent response.

You've been led to believe this by a media narrative. The protests are not violent. The policing is violent, but the protests are not.

I read the article, but nothing can convince me the discord execs aren't purely thinking of how ways to further enshittify.

It applies. The Microsoft requirements are different than the standard requirements. Stricter in some ways, but more lenient in others.

It's like Infinite Jest, just an alternate timeline.

He's not saying this because he has influence with Microsoft directly. He's doing it because he's Brian Eno and he will be heard, and because of the respect he's earned amongst his peers, he will be heard by people with even louder voices. So Microsoft and other companies and consumers will hear. Hopefully with enough acts like this, companies are shamed enough that it affects their bottom lines enough that they stop supporting genocide.