lmmarsano
@lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com
- Comment on YSK that everything the New York Times about Donald Trump actually happened 14 hours 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? 2 days ago:
are you illiterate?
- Comment on PSA 3 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 1 week 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? 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
This has come up & been explained before: it’s been done before.
- Comment on I've wondered since I was a youngin 1 week 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.
- Comment on With all this talk about Ai not being profitable why aren't we using it in video games? I dont mean replacing developers I mean in NPCs in the game. I make them more realistic. 1 week ago:
crazy expensive
Citation missing, so unconvincing. We’re not talking about a general purpose LLM here. Are pretrained, domain-specific LLMs or SLMs “crazy expensive” to run?
- Comment on With all this talk about Ai not being profitable why aren't we using it in video games? I dont mean replacing developers I mean in NPCs in the game. I make them more realistic. 1 week ago:
Would it? Game developers can run anything on their own servers.
- Comment on With all this talk about Ai not being profitable why aren't we using it in video games? I dont mean replacing developers I mean in NPCs in the game. I make them more realistic. 1 week ago:
Is an API key necessary? Pretty sure there are local LLMs.
- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 1 week ago:
inaccessible image of text
Do commenters know they can copy text instead of break web accessibility?
- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 1 week ago:
Did OP know the form to create/edit posts has a field named URL?
screenshot of form Create Post marking the field label URL - Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 1 week ago:
Are you saying deplatforming doesn’t work & open discourse matters? Someone’s got to break it to the purists here.
- Comment on Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday | Hacker News 1 week ago:
Bending Spoons laid
offalmost everybody at Vimeo yesterdayI totally misread that & thought what a beast.
- Comment on ChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He Died | Futurism 2 weeks ago:
Nah, people are the worst & judging them is fair. Plus, the mod is overstepping: “Be excellent to each other!” means each other in the discussion, and the subject of contempt is clearly not here with us.
We don’t owe humanity reservation from our contempt just because someone did something massively stupid to themselves. And we don’t need to accept the premise that the power of “big, evil megacorp” somehow relieves an individual of the duty to exercise critical thought. They had all the time & power to make a decision & chose poorly: this failure is entirely theirs & we have every reason to scorn them for it. Everyone is entitled to their opinion.
- Comment on ChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He Died | Futurism 2 weeks ago:
He was 19. Cut this victim blaming bullshit.
No, fuck not holding dumbfucks responsible for being dumb as fuck.
- Comment on YSK you can turn off Google's personalised advertising. This prevents them from using things like your browsing history, search history, or personal data to serve you customised advertisements. 2 weeks ago:
Nah, I’m using that machine. Works great!
- Comment on Bluesky just verified ICE 2 weeks ago:
simple paradox of tolerance shit
Nah, misinterpretation. Censorship doesn’t stop shit. Suppression of intolerance means stopping it through coercion or criminalization.
we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force
we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal
Moreover, intolerance doesn’t mean the baby-brained notion on the internet of espousing offensive, exclusionary views. The nonviolent & noncoercive are still tolerant. Intolerance means rejection of rational discourse through appeal to force: coercive/violent action or incitement of it to overthrow a tolerant society.
for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols
Karl Popper opposed censorship/argued for free inquiry & open discourse.
I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise.
Censorship (or willfully blinding ourselves to information) plays no part in suppressing authoritarianism, and it’s extremely moronic to pretend it does.
- Comment on YSK you can turn off Google's personalised advertising. This prevents them from using things like your browsing history, search history, or personal data to serve you customised advertisements. 2 weeks ago:
Why would we want less relevant advertising? This just seems daft.
- Comment on Lose yourself 2 weeks ago:
Cool redaction rendering the message unreadable.
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- Comment on I HAVE BEEN BANNED FROM SO MANY SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS FOR NOT BEING OKAY WITH FASCISM AND VIOLENCE! 2 weeks ago:
Please look at the next reply in the chain.
Free speech is free speech. The only justifiable limitation is harm, not mere offense. While fascism is harmful, their speech merely offends. Only they, their violence, threats, & appeal to force can be justifiably suppressed, not their merely offensive opinions.
If anything, your tact is counterproductive, because it robs everyone the open discourse necessary to observe the reasons against fascism & their effective articulation to discredit fascist rhetoric. People need practice to hone their abilities to deliberate & articulate themselves effectively. Relying on dogma, taboo, & censorship leads to brittle thinkers & incompetent defenders of righteous causes.
Moreover, their remark of “disagreeing about ICE” (as outlandish as it seems to me) doesn’t automatically make them a fascist. You’re making somewhat of a leap here. Do you know the US is full of douches?
We can politely disagree on almost everything, but absolutely not fascism.
Impoliteness is ineffective & unskilled at discrediting bad positions. Having reason on your side & articulating it effectively makes a more resounding (& satisfying) defeat.
I wanted to tackle that “devil’s advocate” crap head on.
Then you boldly played yourself & deluded yourself into “victory”.
Seems you’re raising an etymological fallacy. Unless you’re psychic, you don’t know what the commenter truly believes & no one needs to declare/imply/admit they’re playing devil’s advocate to do so.[^lemmy-sucks]
Exposing someone’s hypocrisy over the principle of free speech by eliciting a response just as the commenter had fits the definition exactly.
We are not just having a friendly, weightless debate
That’s up to you. We’re on Lemmy: nothing you do here does anything to oppose fascism. The fight against fascism is out there where the fascists are. I’m not even sure the commenter is advocating fascism: I think they were just luring you into a trap to expose your lack of principle regarding free speech. All we’re doing here is exchanging insignificant words.
so we certainly do not need ICE advocates
On the contrary, exclusion instead of correction is a mistake that got us here. Before we got complacent, we dealt with idiots by legitimately discrediting their rhetoric in open discourse & advocating better ideas. Before deplatforming began, the problem was more manageable. Relying on censorship to knock them off platforms fanned the flames: their persecution complex feels justified with “liberal social media” against them, and by forming separate platforms where their rhetoric goes unchallenged, they can radicalize themselves & organize to defeat the liberal system “persecuting” them. Civic disengagement, apathy in our political system didn’t help either.
The same complacency that got us here won’t get us out. Censorship is incompetent advocacy.
[^lemmy-sucks]: Especially on here: prefatory explanations for any move Lemmy could maliciously interpret in the worst way possible (which is all of them) gets exhausting & inspires defiance.
- Comment on I HAVE BEEN BANNED FROM SO MANY SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS FOR NOT BEING OKAY WITH FASCISM AND VIOLENCE! 2 weeks ago:
Seems like you fell for the bait & made their point, and I figured they were just playing devil’s advocate. “Free speech” only when it doesn’t offend you isn’t free speech. This is just plain hypocrisy.
- Comment on I HAVE BEEN BANNED FROM SO MANY SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS FOR NOT BEING OKAY WITH FASCISM AND VIOLENCE! 2 weeks ago:
18%? 🪫
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- Comment on yeet 2 weeks ago:
24/7 stream of this trash
Why should we want them gone? They’re fun!
Imagine being horrified of your own thoughts. They’re you. Just welcome them & delight in their wild machinations.
