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  • Mark Zuckerberg says anyone who quits Meta is 'virtue signaling'

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  • Those guys also have an outsized influence over what someone would have to do to be seen as virtuous. The guy being pelted with rotten vegetables and publicly executed for opposing them? Not seen as virtuous. The guy running a church that does some good things but in a way that reinforces their power? Seen as virtuous.

    Even if people are overall good, that doesn't mean they can translate that into successfully coordinating to come to correct collective agreement about complicated problems and be immune to elaborate efforts to distort their beliefs in particular directions. If you think, here is what people are saying about what I should do, so that must be an accurate expression of their combined good intentions, well no, it isn't, because that isn't something that is easily achieved by default.

  • Mark Zuckerberg says anyone who quits Meta is 'virtue signaling'

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  • "gives more credibility"? Think about what consensuses various cultures through history and currently have arrived at about what is the right thing to do and who is worthy of admiration. Someone who assumes conformity = virtue would end up being pro slavery in most of those, public opinion on morality is wrong most of the time about most things, and pursuing it isn't the right thing to do at all, let alone the same thing as actually trying to be virtuous.

  • Mark Zuckerberg says anyone who quits Meta is 'virtue signaling'

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  • An act being seen as virtuous doesn't mean it actually is. Or it could be only a little virtuous, but outweighed by how smug and obnoxious someone is being about it.

  • Mark Zuckerberg says anyone who quits Meta is 'virtue signaling'

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  • No, it's saying they're doing something mostly superficial and useless because they think it will make people see them as virtuous, where they wouldn't have done it if it wasn't a highly visible act, not that the actions are actually virtuous. So like someone volunteers for one day for some charitable cause, but spends the whole time taking selfies and not actually helping much.

    That said I'm not sure what the logic is that quitting facebook counts as this

  • Oxymoronic

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  • Have you noticed the effects of dystopia yet?

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  • It could be reasonable in general but the given reason is bullshit

  • FSF Urges Moving Off Microsoft's GitHub to Protest Windows 11's Requiring TPM 2.0

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  • Damn. Thanks for the info

  • FSF Urges Moving Off Microsoft's GitHub to Protest Windows 11's Requiring TPM 2.0

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  • Normally, offloading cryptography to a different hardware module could be seen as a good thing — but with nonfree software, it can only spell trouble for the user...

    Could someone explain more about this? What about TPM + proprietary OS is bad? What are the risks here?

  • I wish you would step back from that ledge, my friend

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  • I remember the lore already being convoluted 20 years ago lol

  • Read More

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  • I keep my ereader by my bed and my phone in the other room, so procrastinating getting out of bed is my reading time.

  • Why are the freemasons often the target of conspiracy theories?

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  • lol touche

  • Why are the freemasons often the target of conspiracy theories?

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  • Well what things can a group of adults really do that are both not lame and boring, and also not illegal

  • 87.4% of population experienced a decline in freedom from 2020 to 2022

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  • The Human Freedom Index measures the degree of freedom in 165 countries using 86 indicators of economic and personal freedom.

    Why is it useless

    Edit: after looking at this some more it seems like there are probably some ideological biases in what is considered relevant to freedom here

  • Missiles Are Now the Biggest Killer of Airline Passengers

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  • paywall

  • Make a Wish [Cassandra Calin]

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  • Just drink it

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    Anyone else here that stopped watching TV almost completely?

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  • Yeah I haven't owned a television in years

  • Fellow Americans, how do you deal with the day to day knowing this capitalist hellhole system is absolutely rigged against us?

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  • I'm all for trying to make it out, but for most people day trading in particular is a terrible idea and 90%+ lose money. I think most people would be better advised to just dump money into an index fund or other longer term investment and not think about it too much, at least that way you are betting on the market as a whole rather than your personal trading skills vs pros, which isn't likely to work out.

  • AI company trolls San Francisco with billboards saying “stop hiring humans”

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  • So what does Artisan actually do? Its main product is an AI "sales agent" called Ava that supposedly automates the work of finding and messaging potential customers. The company claims it works with "no human input" and costs 96% less than hiring a human for the same role.

    This company is selling telemarketer stalker bots. I think it will probably do fine.

  • Postiz v1.10.0 - open-source social media scheduling tool (introducing plugs)

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  • I upvoted because I'm generally excited by the idea of software that lets you interact with different social media via one interface. Idk if the project itself is good but it seems like a neat idea.

  • Have you ever met somebody who didn't seem quite human?

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  • I remember seeing a teenage girl in a small food store I go to address the guy behind the counter as ‘human’. “Thanks, human.” Stuff like that. I think she was just doing a bit or something but I thought it was strange.

    My ex would say this type of shit to people she didn't know, I'd say it was half "doing a bit", and half she is just a strange person.