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Long term computer programmer, making my own library. American based. Far left politically. Politics centered around promoting use of paper ballots. Follows news about environmental collapse, political corruption in my country, human rights, science and tech.

  • ‘No Kings’ was biggest protest in U.S. history: data analyst

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  • The numbers only count if it’s constantly repeated, otherwise it’s just a sort of a national holiday.

    “Here in the USA, we are so progressive that we actually protest 4 times a year”

  • NYC mayoral candidate Brad Lander handcuffed by ICE

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  • Yes; so one can view this as state propaganda ( officially done by the nation).

    That is hard to work around. But it has limits and the social fabric of the country is changing: both by technology and a rebound of the internal mass migrations of the last few decades.

    A lot will change

  • NYC mayoral candidate Brad Lander handcuffed by ICE

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  • There is always hope. It’s just that there are no daily stats yet.

    I’m not an expert; but after looking at political turmoil in the last few decades I tend to categorize this stage as the “march of the idealists”, lovely bunch of people who would not hurt a fly.

    Not sure if when or how the less kind sort of people come in. Usually, something has to rile up those people. And it’s not done by sympathetic stories or appeals to the heart strings.

  • NYC mayoral candidate Brad Lander handcuffed by ICE

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  • I doubt they would be in much danger. Maybe get an angry letter or egging of their houses.

  • Reddit will help advertisers turn ‘positive’ posts into ads

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  • May the api access rest in peace

  • Netanyahu tells ABC he's not ruling out taking out Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei

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  • Endless war

  • Tim Kaine Moves to Force War Powers Vote to Prevent Trump From Attacking Iran

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  • I’ve seen these come up every few years, and not just about Iran. Don’t seem to do much

  • Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

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  • I bet this is just correlation. Frequent reliance on AI ( and not just using it as a tool for a specific reason)

  • Millions across US turn out for ‘No Kings’ protests against Donald Trump

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  • What is planned after this ?

  • Trump’s Big Bill Would Be More Regressive Than Any Major Law in Decades

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  • lol I remember the patriot act; forgotten battles… I had so many issues with stuff going on at that time and was pretty naive then too. I think one of the things that made me realize how messed up things were, were the amazing reactions to 9-11 and similar. I was just stunned

  • Trump’s Big Bill Would Be More Regressive Than Any Major Law in Decades

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  • Every horrible bill has an optimistic happy sounding name that goes well with baby talk. The happier baby talk it is, the worst it will be.

    One will know the end is near when they pass “funsies time” . Seriously, I’m headed for the hills if I hear that

  • First Hearing In California’s Lawsuit Against Trump’s Deployment Gets Underway

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  • I’m cynical, but isn’t this just going to the Supreme Court to be decided by those 5 assholes based on their reasons?

    And chances are those reasons will be batshit?

    So what we are really watching here the required preliminaries for a ruling that will cripple the country

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    When and why did the US switch to these voting machines that are the subject of ongoing lawsuits and reports of unlawful "updates"?

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  • That is a great question, and one I spent hundreds of hours thinking about. I still don’t really know about the answer.

    I have some fragments.

    I think it is a deep rooted cultural thing we are talking about here. One that is generations old and will continue for generations more. Also America is a huge country and for each thing I mention here , there is some areas not doing that .

    Most Americans who vote, trust the counting of their votes, and the more obscure the vote counting is, the more they trust it. In other words if they are completely baffled by how it works, they will believe in it. And they are told by a father or mother figure that it’s accurate, then they will go along with it, without questions.

    Americans are like Russians in that large segments of their cultural elite don’t understand democracy. But it’s the American flavor. They understand voting, but there it stops. There is no instinct with most voters that participation is only half of democracy , the other part is counting. They distrust simple counting like mail in ballots but fully participate in the most convoluted vote counting with childlike faith and hope.

    Many fundamentally do not understand that counting can be simple and done to the satisfaction of all participants, even if they do not like the results.

    So when one suggests paper ballots counted in front of people, allowing recounts for any reason. It’s challenging faith itself.

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  • I’ve been trying to get people to think about using the British or French ways of counting ballots.

    But I was confused why I made so little progress in the USA.

    I finally decided it was cultural. There was something about Americans I did not understand. After a few more years I realized it was people who were politically active , and the journalists who reported on politics, who had this filter, or taboo about addressing any of this.

    For example, if you talk to disenfranchised blacks in rural east Texas, they readily understand and agree. But if you talk to black progressive activists in Texas, they have the filter. Same for poor white fundamentalists in my area and their conservative representatives.

    So, I think it’s more the price of admission to politics now, than anything else. And those who cannot ignore don’t participate at all

  • Gov. Abbott deploys over 5,000 Texas National Guard troops ahead of planned 'No Kings' protests

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  • American protests tend to die down after a few weeks unless there is constant new irritation applied.

    Continuous mass roundups of people with indefinite detentions, in harsh conditions will probably help keep this protesting active.

    But I don’t see how it can get much worse. The police and federal agencies are pretty much at maximum limits for being evil for them. New people will have to be recruited to do worse.

    And while there will be mass beatings and the occasional death, and tens of thousands of kidnappings. it’s not enough to tip things over to the next stage unless people in the administration try very hard to achieve that. And I think they are too incompetent to succeed making things worse.

    Something unexpected would have to happen first?

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  • Bush the elder laid the groundwork for the current systems while president in the 1990s. People he knew got the first contacts soon after, . And then when they were used in Texas in 1995 the state started to switch from democratic to republican and his son won the governorship. Many southern states switched the first year they were used.

    What distinguishes the American voting experience from other democracies is

    that these systems are closed source and protected by intellectual secrets legally. There is no public knowledge of administers with access keys or any other of the hundreds of details that are addressed in the Baltic states

    there is no curiosity about the above by most politically active people. There used to be loud tech community responses about all this, even conventions. But by ten years ago these were effectively ignored.

    when the republicans claim cheating by this, they only stay in conspiracy mode and never try to use technical help in explaining why these are bad to have.

    the democrats react to the above and fully embrace the voting machines despite having no clue how they work or are monitored, and a new type of bogus technical experts have become accepted to explain how this is all very safe. Again with no talk to most of the hardware or software community

    there is an effort to use paper ballots and were having some success but this was sidelined by the 2020 election denial fallout

  • Just started a community for those who wish to move away from Lemmy

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  • There are a huge number of lemmy users who are genocide deniers and hate many other things , including lemmy.ml and the developers

  • Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash

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  • Apologies, no offense meant.

  • Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash

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  • Aaaaarrgg! This is horrible they stopped AI summaries, which I was hoping would help corrupt a leading institution protecting free thought and transfer of knowledge.

    Sincerely, the Devil, Satan