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  • One aspect is that mass media is overall owned by those people and is propaganda. If you don't have ways of seeing what's happening on the ground, you miss a lot of the good news. Even your twitter/bs/mastodon feeds won't give you the full story, you have to (where possible) get involved in a real community organization.

  • In botched DEI purge, OSHA trashes workplace safety guidelines

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  • This is your daily reminder to also build up worker power outside of legal rights. Those privileges can be taken away easily if you collectively don't have the power to demand them.

  • Bill Burr calls on 'billionaires to be put down like rabid dogs' in podcast

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  • Edginess has nothing to do with it. Valuing one innocent life over the millions of other innocent lives, if that's the only realistic choice, is antisocial and selfish, and in reality makes someone responsible for the suffering of millions. It's a horrible hypothetical, one which hopefully never comes up again in history, and one which is unlikely to manifest in reality, but one where the outcomes are as clear as day.

    I say 'again in history' because this is similar to the dilemma facing revolutions which rose against monarchy, where killing the royal children would prevent monarchists from trying to violently reinstate the monarchy with a war that would kill even more people. (I don't mean this to suggest nepo babies are inevitably going to follow their parent, even Elon's own supplies a counter-example)

  • Bill Burr calls on 'billionaires to be put down like rabid dogs' in podcast

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  • Really hope they're posting from Venuzuela or Antarctica or orbit rn.

  • Codeberg is currently suffering from hate campaigns due to far-right forces

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  • Exactly. I've already hosted a small script project there but this blog post reminded me I'd forgotten to add them to my December donations list.

  • Newcomers who joined Lemmy last week, how are you doing?

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  • For what it's worth, there is a long history of banning subreddits once they get negative mass-media flak, even if they were well-known on reddit beforehand. The site is a business nervous about its reputation.

  • Newcomers who joined Lemmy last week, how are you doing?

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  • Ah, the good old hackintosh routine!

  • Anonymous: Trump is making America weaker and we’ll exploit it - News Cafe

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  • Sorry, you are correct. I assumed the person you replied to was talking about the whole Middle East region and didn't think twice for posting.

  • Anonymous: Trump is making America weaker and we’ll exploit it - News Cafe

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  • There do exist somewhat legitimate sub-factions that actually take serious actions and do serious ops

    Any examples or sources for me to learn more about these? The only Anonymous news I've heard of since the early days is updates on Kirtaner.

  • Anonymous: Trump is making America weaker and we’ll exploit it - News Cafe

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  • Iran, for one example, is a prolific cybersecurity adversary of the USA. One of the top four advesaries alongside China, North Korea and Russia. In fact, Iran is believed to be responsible for disclosing a CIA covert channel to China which led to a critical dismantling of CIA assets. I don't know as much about other Arab states because Iran is most famous for its advanced cyber-warfare capabilities, but honestly, to avoid exploiting the USA would be very foolish.

    Obviously this goes both ways. Israel and the USA are infamous for Stuxnet, a computer virus which reportedly destroyed a fifth of Iran's nuclear centrifuges in the early 2000s.

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  • Sell it to who, Ben? Fucking Aquaman?

    Good choice, no point throwing it away if it was too late for you to realize, but it's more powerful as a platform to disavow Musk and Tesla.

    The US is collapsing and all I got was this lousy car

  • Unmasked: Musk’s secret DOGE goon squad—who are all under 26

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  • Protests are good to demonstrate a movement has real numbers, but don't just go to one to stand there. It's a great place to find political organizations which can work to create actual change.

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    The future of fediverse :)

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  • For what it's worth. I suspect fed-run relays have sped up the Tor network substantially. I'm really mostly using it to avoid commercial tracking and passive dragnet so it doesn't really bother me...

  • Elon Musk installs illegal server to seize all federal workers’ data

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  • Yes. So what?

    Law doesn't matter. Breaking the law is common. And if anything, Trump's first term is all the proof we didn't even need that laws won't stop this.

  • FBI Agents Involved In Trump Cases ‘Escorted Out’ of Offices in Friday Night Purge

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  • What the fuck is a right-winger doing in a neoliberal cabinet?

    I don't understand what's surprising about that. I'd expect most people in a neoliberal cabinet to be right-wing.

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  • You wouldn’t, because you are (presumably) knowledgeable about the current AI trend and somewhat aware of political biases of the creators of these products.

    Well, more because I'm knowledgeable enough about machine learning to know it's only as good as its dataset, and knowledgeable enough about mass media and the internet to know how atrocious 'common sense' often is. But yes, you're right about me speaking from a level of familiarity which I shouldn't consider typical.

    People have been strangely trusting of chat bots since ELIZA in the 1960s. My country is lucky enough to teach a small amount of bias and media literacy skills through education and some of the state broadcaster's programs (it's not how it sounds, I swear!), and when I look over to places like large chunks of the US, I'm reminded that basic media literacy isn't even very common, let alone universal.

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  • Well, it would require more than just legislation change. Truth be told, in the US, a working democracy requires some form of revolution since the people holding all the power benefit from the broken system. But on the other hand, organizations and communities (including territories of hundreds of thousands) practicing direct democracy on a smaller scale have seen success with these strategies.

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  • Try buying Monero, it is very hard to buy.

    • Acquire BTC (there are even ATMs for this in many countries)
    • Trade for XMR using one of the many non-KYC services like WizardSwap or exch

    I haven't looked into whether that's illegal in some jurisdictions but it's really really easy, once you know that's an option.

    Or you could even just trade directly with anyone who owns XMR. Obviously easier for some people than others but it's a real option.

    Both of these methods don't even require personal details like ID/name/phone number.

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  • How do you solve the problem that half the country can’t even be bothered to participate once every four years?

    I assume you're talking about the US electoral system?? That's very different.

    but how would we get people to engage with such a system?

    By empowering them.

    Consider how the current electoral system disempowers people:

    1. Some people literally cannot vote or risk jeopardizing their job taking the day off, others face voter suppression tactics
    2. The FPTP system (esp. spoiler effect) and the present political circumstances mean that there are really only two viable options for political parties for most people, so many feel that neither option represents them, let alone their individual positions on policy
    3. Politics is widely considered to be corrupt and break electoral promises regularly. There is little faith in either party to represent voters

    But, in a system where you are able to represent yourself at will, engagement is actually rewarding and meaningful. It won't magically make everyone care, but direct democracy alongside voter rights reform would likely make more people think it's worth polling.