lmmarsano
@lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com
- Comment on This whistle fights fascists | How thousands of 3D-printed whistles are derailing ICE. 2 weeks ago:
cheaper = ecologically friendlier? NOPE
- Comment on This whistle fights fascists | How thousands of 3D-printed whistles are derailing ICE. 2 weeks ago:
Why 3D print them? Isn’t that more ecologically wasteful than just getting any of the mass-produced ones? They aren’t exactly hard to come by. Fuck your wasteful printing.
- Comment on Lawyers set to argue that Instagram and YouTube intentionally addicted and harmed teen in landmark social media trial 2 weeks ago:
skill issue, failed parenting, & cash grab
- Comment on Kid Rock is the people version of an above ground pool 2 weeks ago:
- opinion
- missing functionality
choose one
- Comment on Kid Rock is the people version of an above ground pool 2 weeks ago:
It actually saves on resources because it’s not loading in CSS and JS.
I see no evidence of that: I’m pretty all clients load a web engine and related resources including CSS, which means you’re installing a redundant, special-purpose web client when you already have a general web client installed. Plus, lacking basic functionality as OP states makes it the opposite of useful.
- Comment on Kid Rock is the people version of an above ground pool 2 weeks ago:
OP just stated it’s less capable by lacking basic features from the website, so if “works great” means “works like shit”, then I’ll concede your point.
- Comment on Kid Rock is the people version of an above ground pool 2 weeks ago:
Does your device not have a web browser that can go to the far more capable website?
“Though this app might waste more space, it also works worse!” doesn’t seem a compelling value proposition.
- Comment on YSK TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale. We know this because we obtained messages from TikTok engineers and executives 2 weeks ago:
skill issue
- Comment on Kid Rock is the people version of an above ground pool 2 weeks ago:
Comments taken from this post lemmy.world/…/123a6d45-dfca-49ac-891c-d535025d7cb…
Failing to link to the correct source is a crime both to web accessibility & humanity.
Did you know it is possible to edit your post & set the URL field?
screenshot of form Create Post marking the field label URL
the more you know🌈🌠 - Comment on Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters— Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism 2 weeks ago:
If you publish there, you are supporting right wing propaganda.
Not how taking a cut of subscription revenue works. If you publish right wing propaganda, then maybe you have a point.
- Comment on Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters— Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism 2 weeks ago:
Yes, and that’s exactly why the article is important.
Explain to us how subscriptions work like we’re idiots is important? Or was that common knowledge a breakthrough for you?
- Comment on Top of the world, ma 2 weeks ago:
atp
- Association of Tennis Professionals
- Adenosine Triphosphate
- Advanced Threat Protection
- Access to Patients
- Adult Treatment Panel
- Available To Promise
- Area to Protect
- Airline Transport Pilot
- Army Techniques Publication
- Ambient Temperature and Pressure
- Automatic Train Protection
- Ask the Professor
- Army Training Program
- Acceptance Test Procedure
- Authorized to Proceed
- Australian Technology Park
- Advanced Travel Partner
- Antitachycardia Pacing
- All Tomorrow’s Parties
- Authorization to Proceed
- Alternative Transients Program
- Advanced Technology Program
- Automated Theorem Proving
- After Tax Profit
- ⁝
- Comment on Top of the world, ma 2 weeks ago:
here’s a fun activity: define it
not because I don’t know, but because it’s pretty clear to anyone who’s written a few mathematical proofs that you don’t know
- Comment on ‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI 2 weeks ago:
I can’t read URLs.
- Comment on ‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI 2 weeks ago:
That trauma adds up for everyone
if they bitchass
does he look like a bitch? - Comment on ‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI 2 weeks ago:
Why would i want to watch someone die?
- Comment on The criminal elite exposed in the Epstein files are burying the truth 3 weeks ago:
Conspiracy theorists were spinning their fabulist nonsense about Epstein & beyond[^nonsense] years before the scandal gained traction in the mainstream. Are we unironically going full conspiracy theorist?
[^nonsense]: blood libel, pizzagate, qanon, cabal of pedophile adrenochrome harvesters, political & Hollywood elites, George Soros
- Comment on YSK that everything the New York Times about Donald Trump actually happened 3 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, he’s in the Epstein docs, so I can’t recommend him otherwise.
Also read an introductory textbook on logic & pay attention to fallacies like ad hominem. Shit’s timeless & really pays off far better than whatever joke of an education people got.
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- Comment on Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them? 3 weeks ago:
are you illiterate?
- Comment on PSA 3 weeks ago:
Bailey was the Northwestern professor who had a live demo of a reciprocating sex toy, put on by a volunteer and her partner. It was optional to attend the demo, students were over 18 and allegedly informed on what they were going to see.
How is this a problem? Do we live in a free society or not?
Can we raise the standard of criticism in a community dedicated to science to scientific integrity & facts rather than throwing mud? These objections look like the latter & that wikipedia article isn’t panning out your claims.
A transgender woman whom he described in the book filed a complaint with Northwestern University alleging that her many discussions with Bailey about his view of trans women and the book he was writing made her a non-consensual subject of IRB-regulated research by Bailey, and that during this time, she had consensual sex with him. Northwestern found no basis for the complaint.
Pretty frivolous, no, to claim a book qualifies as IRB-regulated research & to self-anoint oneself as subject of it? Worse to present the accusation as credible by filtering out all the relevant information. More omissions:
Alice Dreger, a bioethicist, published an account of the controversy in the Archives of Sexual Behavior. According to Dreger, the allegations of misconduct could accurately be described as “harassment”, and an “anti-Bailey campaign”. Dreger wrote that of the four women who complained to Northwestern, two acknowledged that they were aware they would be included in Bailey’s book in their letter to the university. The other two were not described in the book. Dreger also reported that while there was no definitive evidence to refute the allegation of sexual misconduct, datestamps on e-mails between Bailey and his ex-wife indicated that he was at her home looking after their two children at the time the misconduct was said to have occurred.
Regarding case evaluation letters
however, the department did not pursue those allegations, as he did not accept remuneration for the services and therefore did not violate the law.
Ironically, those accusations seem to mirror what you’re doing:
The book generated considerable controversy. A paper on the controversy was written by Alice Dreger, a bioethicist and historian, known for her support of intersex rights. Dreger included additional details in Galileo’s Middle Finger, an analysis of modern clashes between scientists and activists whose beliefs are challenged by them. In her documented account of the Bailey case, she concluded that a small group of self-styled activists tried to bury a politically challenging scientific theory by attacking Bailey: “These critics, rather than restrict themselves to the argument over the ideas, had charged Bailey with a whole host of serious crimes,” but that “what they claimed about Bailey simply wasn’t true.”
Misleading, antagonistic rhetoric of this sort is antithetical to the expectations of a community that purports to support science & is worthy of the strongest contempt. Not linking to the article doesn’t seem accidental. By attempting to mislead us, you’ve also wasted our time. You & your upvoters are an utter disappointment: we should expect a focus on science, not on throwing mud.
- Comment on PSA 3 weeks ago:
Link to source: by lacking accessibility, this image of text sustains a pattern of systemic discriminatory exclusion.
Images of text break much that text alternatives do not. Losses due to image of text lacking alternative such as link: - usability - we can’t quote the text without pointless bullshit like retyping it or OCR - text search is unavailable - the system can’t - reflow text to varied screen sizes - vary presentation (size, contrast) - vary modality (audio, braille) - accessibility - lacks semantic structure (tags for titles, heading levels, sections, paragraphs, lists, emphasis, code, links, accessibility features, etc) - some users can’t read the image due to lack of alt text (markdown image description) - users can’t adapt the text for dyslexia or vision impairments - systems can’t read the text to them or send it to braille devices - web connectivity - we have to do failure-prone bullshit to find the original source - we can’t explore wider context of the original message - authenticity: we don’t know the image hasn’t been tampered - searchability: the “text” isn’t indexable by search engine in a meaningful way - fault tolerance: no text fallback if - image breaks - image host is geoblocked due to insane regulations. Contrary to age & humble appearance, text is an advanced technology that provides all these capabilities absent from images.
- Comment on French MPs demand explanation over tech firm’s contract to help ICE in US 3 weeks ago:
Since when? Here’s how we can picture it going down.
French MPs: Capgemini, explain your contract with ICE.
Capgemini: Easy, money. Fuck USA & suck my cock until you make that illegal.
The end.
- Comment on French MPs demand explanation over tech firm’s contract to help ICE in US 3 weeks ago:
Does a business ever need a better explanation that money?
- Comment on Meet ‘Amelia’: the AI-generated British schoolgirl who is a far-right social media star 4 weeks ago:
As I understand it, the character was reappropriated from an oh exploitable publicly funded game Pathways (play it) designed to inform students about part of a public counterterrorism program for voluntarily deradicalizing extremists without legal consequences for opting-out. The player plays a new college student, Charlie, who runs into scenarios. First scenario: on a sketchy social media website her new friends use, a video is shared, and the player is offered choices:
- download the video
- ask about the video
- tell a trusted adult
If the player chooses to download
Charlie downloaded the video and shared it with different people online.
Charlie felt relieved and happy that people were liking the video and also sharing it.
Deep down, Charlie wasn’t sure if this was the right thing to do, as some of the ideas in the video were extreme and violent.
It’s important to remember that downloading or streaming certain content can lead to a terrorist offence conviction.
Apparently, download implies more than that, the game bundles unnecessary actions together, & merely downloading/viewing content has legal risks. The other choices aren’t much better: an extremist tells Charlie people who care about their country will download & share the video or an adult explains extremism, so Charlie simply doesn’t download it. Charlie can’t just view the video to judge it: great message for self-reliance & developing the criticism to participate competently in democracy.
I’m guessing the other scenarios play out similarly. At some point, Charlie is courted by Amelia, a nationalist teenager with purple hair who Charlie can refer to the deradicalization program.
I can see why derision of this game took off & the alt-right embraced Amelia as their meme: trolling potential like that is irresistible to pass up.
- Comment on With what's happening in Gaza, what can we as socialists (and non-socialists) do to fix Gaza? 4 weeks ago:
Only Israelis & Palestinians are in any position to fix their conflict. Except to defend international law & universal rights, other parties getting involved is a foolish endeavor.
- Comment on I've wondered since I was a youngin 4 weeks ago:
Nonviolent resistance exists, been explained before, & has been done before. It also takes more courage.
- Comment on I've wondered since I was a youngin 4 weeks ago:
This has come up & been explained before: it’s been done before.
- Comment on I've wondered since I was a youngin 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, those in power always preach peace to preserve the status quo.
Those in power are interested in provoking violence to delegitimize a cause. Violence is their playbook: they know to how to retaliate against violence with violence. Repressing nonviolent resistance, however, backfires: when the government’s illegitimate violence is harder to contest, more people condemn the government’s use of force and shift their support away from the regime. Nonviolence is harder to deal with, attracts people, and leads to “defections” within institutions sustaining authoritarian regimes.
Such movements are statistically more effective at combatting authoritarianism than violent resistance. Where violence fails, nonviolence has succeeded in overcoming oppression & authoritarian rule. This documentary covers multiple instances of that happening in the 20th century in India, USA, South Africa, Denmark, Poland, Chile.
It takes greater courage to resist injustice nonviolently. Plus, you may have seen the post months ago on research that shows nonviolent protest is more successful than the alternative.
The message is that intuition is fallible, and we should follow the historical evidence & research.
