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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?