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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, based on nationalist reasons, to chnage facts to suit governments.

  This is no different to google kowtowing to China’s imagined borders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Chatgpt is also censored.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Changing facts to suit a nationalist and fascist state, purely for jingoism, is appeasement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anonymous: Trump is making America weaker and we’ll exploit it - News Cafe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s how you win asymmetric warfare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anonymous: Trump is making America weaker and we’ll exploit it - News Cafe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I am, because this government has decided the US constitution just doesn’t matter, and now, we have literal nazis running the government.

  I stand by my people, not the government oppressing them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Or, we could use it for free! Get two birds stoned at once!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The rise of ethical social media: can open-source alternatives challenge the tech giants? | The Optimist Daily⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Weird, I get a splash page of “This site has been blocked by the Department of Defense, in the name of national security”…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitterrific team launches new ‘Tapestry’ iPhone app for Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, more⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Think of “Google News”, but for social media and RSS… Or Google Reader for all of those.

  The point isn’t to be able to comment and whatnot, but to get all the things you want updates on, in a single pane of glass, so to speak.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitterrific team launches new ‘Tapestry’ iPhone app for Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, more⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks! I’ve not seen this before, gonna go look into it :)

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study of 8k Posts Suggests 40+% of Facebook Posts are AI-Generated⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  chat bots have been a thing, for a long time. I mean, a half decently trained Markov can handle social media postings and replies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RedNote may wall off “TikTok refugees” to prevent US influence on Chinese users⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, though: The US government isn’t really all that keen on democracy, either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own community⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no real need for the kind of permanence you think you need.

  Imagine if a building could only be a bar, for perpetuity, and nobody opened any other bars, because that first bar existed.

  Bars would suck for like… 99.99999% of the human population, huh?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own community⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So…

  Start alternatives, on a host ypu maintain, and then everything can be ran perfectly how you want it to run

  Problem solved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Congressmen aren’t individually drafting bills, they direct their aids to draft the bills and hammer out the details

  One slight point, this isn’t how they get legislative drafts. Legislative drafts come from thinktanks like Heritage, ALEC, Vote Blue, etc.

  Oligarchs write legislation, and then find a congresscritter that owes them a favor. They “lobby” for it, ie they stop into the congresscritter’s office, drop the envelope with the text, drop a check for their campaign fund, and then the congresscritter gets it to pass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  NYS pays more in federal taxes than we get in Federal dollars.

  I think we’ll be ok.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Money.

  Lots of potential tax revenue with cannabis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is an egg a chicken?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  but you do see Unborn Children as a “Cluster of cells” that can be murdered at a whim

  Do you consider acorns to be trees?