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hypna

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  • Whats something new thats actually good?

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  • Are we talking about the Donut Labs battery, or is someone alse promising to bring solid state batteries to market this year? My gut says Donut Labs is like 1/8 odds of coming through.

  • All in the family: In 2026, a surge of politicians' kids are running for office

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  • What was a time when you drank the kool aid?

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  • No love for radical skepticism round here I see.

  • What was a time when you drank the kool aid?

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  • I tend to think at some point that was true, that Tesla was about saving the planet and SpaceX was about making humanity multiplanetary.

    It could be he was always a wretched creep and just really good at hiding it, but it seems to me that the wealth and power just ruined him. He wouldn't be the first person to fall in that trap.

    I'll append my confession here.

    I supported Ron Paul once upon a time. The non-interventionism appealed to me in the context of the Iraq war in particular, and the rights-based libertarian philosophy seemed sound. I was young.

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  • Problematic - it's just so lazy. Makes me doubt whether the speaker has any coherent reason for why they don't like the given thing. Might as well say 'yucky'. It's the kind of word one uses when assuming everyone already agrees with you, and if they don't, well then they're probably problematic too. /rant

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    TIL: 91% of Venezuelans Hold Unfavorable Views of Opposition Leader María Corina Machado

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  • I don't know much about Machado, but I do know that polls conducted under dictatorships are often not worth much.

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  • The last time I recall having engaging, thoughtful discussions on the internet was way back in the days of forums. And that was so long ago I'm skeptical of my own memory of it.

    Lemmy comments may be different from Reddit comments, but they're not better. I've concluded it's structural. This format simply does not produce useful conversation.

    None of the other social media formats produce it either. Perhaps it's the result of optimizing for attention, which all social media does, whether by deliberate design or natural selection. Platforms that get attention grow. Those that don't, languish. It may be that things which gather attention to themselves best are repellent of deeper, slower, more careful thinking.

    Actually, maybe I can think of one example. I'm stretching the definition of social media, and I haven't firsthand experience, but the way that Wikipedia operates may be a clue toward how to build a platform that produces useful dialogue.

  • Jeffrey Epstein, in newly released email, says Trump ‘knew about the girls’

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  • You Are How You Act

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  • If you are what you do, then what determines what you do? Random chance? I don't see how one can argue that people don't have an essence and explain why they act at all. Rousseau said it was benign. Hobbes said it was wretched. It has to be something. If people were perfectly free of compulsion, would they do nothing?

  • As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity

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  • Finally got my last PC switched off Windows. It feels good.

  • The New York Times Argues “Moving to the Center Is the Way to Win.” But the Data Shows the Strategy Is Tapped Out.

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  • I think there may be more opportunity for success here than your argument seems to suggest.

    I agree with the focus on inequality. The sense that society is fundamentally unfair has a corrosive and a radicalising effect on politics. People can react to it in very different ways, from redistribution to out-group scapegoating, but the underlying motivation is that people see that there is vast wealth available in our society and they're still struggling.

    Where I may disagree is that most people are non-ideological. Not everyone, but a healthy majority. They aren't focused on the philosophical roots of a candidate's policies. They care that the candidate

    1. Sees, likes, and cares about themselves and their group
    2. Has a vision that gives them hope for something better

    Many people can find that in candidates with a variety of ideological positions. The overlap between people who supported Bernie after the great recession, and went on to support Trump is bigger than one would expect.

    So the equation is much less zero sum. You don't lose one reactionary for every radical you bring into your camp. There really aren't that many committed radicals and reactionaries.

    The most toxic message today is the economic moderate. "Hey, it's not so bad. Things could be a lot worse." This is the zero sum relationship. You can't keep both the people who are doing well and like how things work, and the people who are struggling and want the life they deserve. The material difference isn't left vs right, it's status quo versus change. There's a lot more room for flexibility in the change camp.

  • Software by the Electronic Frontier Foundation that, when linked up with the correct hardware, becomes a Stingray for detecting Stingrays.

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  • Fucking cool, and also remember to leave your phone at home, or at least on airplane mode.

  • One Republican Now Controls a Huge Chunk of US Election Infrastructure

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  • Pretty sure they're typically publicly owned. Maybe some places lease them. Couldn't find a national survey, but here's at least one example of a county that bought some machines and a service contract.

    https://fm.kuac.org/elections/2025-03-10/assembly-fails-voting-machine-contract-may-force-change-to-hand-counting-ballots

    Maybe a car fleet is a good example. Ford designs and builds the cars. Counties buy them, and often buy service and maintenance contracts to keep them running. The counties still own the cars.

    I suppose counties could receive the source code, have it audited, and then compile and load it themselves.

  • One Republican Now Controls a Huge Chunk of US Election Infrastructure

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  • I thought about this for a second, and I don't actually think being open source would do any good. It's not like we can compile and run our own voting booths. There's no way to know what's actually running in the machine at your polling place.

    And voting machines are publicly owned, but perhaps you meant designed and manufactured by the government?

  • The Trump administration is positioning the upcoming No Kings protests as an excuse for crushing dissent

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  • Exactly. They're trying to scare us off. A little courage now may spare us the need for really scary things later.

  • GrapheneOS is finally ready to break free from Pixels and it may never look back

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  • Do you have a reference on graphene being affected by the app signing? I tried to find an answer earlier, and came up with nothing.

  • The highlighted division and factions of Lemmy.

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  • It would be interesting to learn something about the demographics on Lemmy.

    I usually liken the bad vibes on Lemmy to being stuck with a bunch of cynical teenagers. Nothing is ever good enough, nothing good can happen. They know this with absolute certainty.

    I am also probably older than average here.

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  • How did it never occur to me to ask where bee's wax comes from?

  • New York AG Letitia James indicted for alleged fraud following pressure from Trump

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  • Looking forward to more vindictive prosecution findings.