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- Comment on What is anti-propaganda? 13 hours ago:
1984 as written by Dr Seuss.
- Comment on What is anti-propaganda? 13 hours ago:
I’d like to add that Wikipedia itself, while an amazing resource, can be full of propaganda. I came across a page for an international organisation against chemical warfare and went to the edit history. Sourced additions regarding complaints by scientists on the ground in Syria that their findings were being completely misrepresented to show Assad was using chemical warfare were consistently scrubbed without any reason given.
It’s funny that I was actually looking at that page randomly while considering how to code a tool that would highlight the most recent (and therefore unreviewed) edits on wiki. I got the idea from a Defcon talk on how to counter and deal with misinformation. It’s ironic that in this instance, it was the more established editors that were propagating misnformation.
- Comment on Trump plans to announce a company called TikTok America, with a 50% stake for US investors and 19.9% for ByteDance, which would license the algorithm. 5 days ago:
Wtf, do proprietary algorithms actually cost this much?
- Comment on How likely is the US government going to identify and arrest every online user who have disagreed with the current administration? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah they’ll arrest at random and show the brazen cruel incompetent inconsistency of the law. (I live in a country that does this).
- Comment on Mozilla Introduces Firefox’s First-Ever Terms of Use 4 weeks ago:
Awh. I was gonna go with Floorp on the name alone. Great name…
- Comment on FCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’. 4 weeks ago:
Is that the difference between when something like Google Maps has your general location and when it has your specific location?
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 4 weeks ago:
That statements is actually infused with some recital epithets.
- Comment on tetrapods 5 weeks ago:
Is Japanese curry basically like the curry you would get from a chipper in the UK?
- Comment on William Shatner Confirms Talks for Star Trek Return at 93 Years Old 5 weeks ago:
Omg, bring back mirror Kirk and get Shatner to just play himself. Like he’s not a fascist, just make him really snarky with his trademark humour.
- Comment on Uber Eats undercover: Delivering your food for $1.74 an hour 2 months ago:
How much did the CEO of Uber, Dara Khosrowshahi, earn last year?
- Comment on Jonathan Frakes Talks Directing And Tawny Newsome Talks Writing For ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ 4 months ago:
That was a backdoor pilot?! I never knew that.
- Comment on New frog just dropped!!! 4 months ago:
Omg, when I saw that thing as the group was going through the cave I knew they were fucked.
Image from Bezerk manga for those who don’t know. These kinds of malformed beings are essentially lower demons from the Bezerk’s Boschean version of hell. Great manga but deeply fucked up.
- Comment on Colin Anderson Calls GTA 2 the ‘Unsung Hero’ of the Franchise | Retro Gaming News 24/7 5 months ago:
GTA Chinatown Wars probably got most of its promotion from the South Park episode where Cartman really wants it.
- Comment on Just Terrible 5 months ago:
Blasphemy!
- Comment on Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic 6 months ago:
Yeah, I would say that this applies in general. That hat that we associate with a particular kind of socially maladjusted individual is not the faithful fedora but its contemptable cousin: the thrilby.