@unusual_whales Theyre so broke they can’t afford Microsoft contracts lol
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France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech, per TC
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@funkentechno I was listening to the Masahiro Takahashi this morning! So good.
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last 7 days. heard some insanely good music this week, a whole lot of it new to me.
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What's the most direct EFF replacement (i.e., an organization like early-2000s EFF) today?
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The founder of the Electronic Freedom Foundation vs the current executive director of the Electronic Freedom Foundation.
EFF@EFF
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵(1/5)
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@prada_gym_bag They are both fake grievances. It makes sense to group them.
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Why r they grouping together Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women together with gay guys???
Samantha Smith@SamanthaTaghoy
“MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+” The Canadian government just dropped this absolute monstrosity (and no, it isn’t satire).
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@feelsdesperate Because loss of autonomy is a key leftist tenet, enabling them to control and suppress the populace.
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If we have electric cars that are efficient, drive themselves, and are more or less publicly available why do we need ‘trains’ which are fundamentally a 19th century transportation technology?
Just because they’re a charming historical anachronism?
big blue bird@azubarrend
@feelsdesperate Not only is this true, but technology seems to be a better long term strategy to addressing the solutions these policies are supposed to solve. I don’t need trains if my car drives itself.
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Nearly every institution is captured and subverted by leftists using tax payer money that gets funneled into the pockets of the people who are supposed to lead those institutions.
Melian Refugee@escapefrommelos
the old anti-surveillance and censorship EFF is dead. the EFF that is “logging off of X” is a just another skinsuit organization taken over by HR women who hate you
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@SwipeWright It’s never over. You don’t get it win, go home, and put your feet up. Libs have won so much since 1970 it’s embarrassing. Constant battle is the only fate.
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If you think "it's over," just wait. If a Democrat wins the presidency in 2028, the censorship industrial complex will come back so fast you'll get whiplash.
The woke haven't been defeated. They're laying low while they build up their armies in Mordor.
Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸@pmarca
It's incredible the extent to which the social sanctioning engine has simply seized up. Hit pieces that would have been 5-alarm fires 5 years ago now come and go with no notice. Nobody cares, it's over.
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My uncharitable view is that insecure people increasingly treat their dogs like humans because they know a dog lacks the agency to reject them like a human could
Matthew Zeitlin@MattZeitlin
i'm not a bioethicist studying human-dog relations, i'm just a guy, but there's no "arms race" going on. dog owners knowingly and blatantly violate long settled, clearly established norms and formal rules and people aren't happy about it
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The dog people are so ridiculous; there's no equal right to public space for dogs and children. How could there be? And the fundamental issue, aside from all the sanitation concerns, is a safety one: Your dogs do, on occasion, bite, growl, and steal from little children. They have no right to be in human establishments! They present a huge risk that parents must then manage.
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everyone's mad about this but what'd you expect when you pit albums against each other like march madness
Pitchfork@pitchfork
Four albums remain. Head to our Instagram stories to vote now in the semifinal round of our Best Albums Bracket
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Sounds insane. But it’s very probably true.
Andy Churnwell@churnwell
Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan says rock music was “purposely dialled down" by CIA and MTV from the late '90s
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Oddly, there is no nationwide campaign to end after school detention.
I nominate @JonHaidt to lead it. Professor Haidt, I bet this would help your anti-screen cause, at least in the eyes of otherwise embittered kids - at least he ended detention.
I can see the research conclusions now: "After school detention was shown to significantly worsen depression, feelings of loneliness, and lack of self-worth, and actually worsened behavior and academic performance."
Detention is not only medievally undignifying, it is just so obviously dumb to make being at school a punishment.
Schools have evolved beyond corporal punishment and tolerating bullying. Isn't it time they abandoned solitary confinement?
Aaron Stupple@astupple
There is a thing in public school called detention. It’s actually NAMED detention, no cute euphemism like “seat time” or time spent “on task.” Try detaining any self-respecting adult for a non-crime and see what happens, but children are routinely detained, after school hours, not allowed to go home, for “crimes” like disobedience (pursuing their own interests/passions rather than what’s approved). Self respect is the point. Kids are not supposed to have self respect until they’ve sufficiently shown that they will behave. A friend recently described getting detention, the infraction was so trivial that I forgot why it was, and I was genuinely surprised that it still exists. There’s been a crackdown on bullying in school, but this medieval and legally dubious practice is still widespread. Let that sink in. What kind of deep seated irrationality tolerates a policy of after school detention?
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What is stopping humanity from living peacefully together?
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People over-estimate the intelligence of a single human in the modern economy.
wanye@xwanyex
What’s currently cooking the brains of every smart AI booster is the idea that if LLMs autocomplete good enough, then that magically becomes something different in kind. But there’s no evidence for this. It’s just breathlessly asserted over and over again on the basis of thought experiments.
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