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  • Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’

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  • They're referencing what the second protester (Vaniya Agrawal) mentioned in her email:

    Know that Microsoft’s human rights statement prohibits retaliation against anyone who raises a human rights-related concern: Human rights statement | Microsoft CSR

    The Microsoft Global Human Rights Statement has a "Foundational principles" section that says:

    Our commitment to human rights defenders: Our commitment to respecting and advancing human rights includes respect and support for the work of human rights defenders around the world. Human rights defenders are people who, individually or with others, engage in activities and advocacy that contribute to the protection of human rights and the rule of law, good governance, tolerance, and diversity and inclusion. Human rights defenders face persistent physical, social, economic, and psychological threats. Microsoft does not tolerate threats, intimidation, retaliation, physical, legal or cyber-attacks against human rights defenders. This commitment extends to all human rights defenders, including those working on issues related to Microsoft and those exercising their rights of freedom of expression, association, and peaceful assembly, including to challenge or protest aspects of our own business.

    Microsoft is clearly declining to fulfill its commitment as it is written in its statement.

  • Why Elon Musk and JD Vance Are Obsessed With You Having More Babies

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  • Apparently a right-wing deacon said this

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  • Trump dismisses Signal security failure as ‘the only glitch in two months’

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  • I found the headline misleading because the phrase Signal security failure (with no quotes) could be incorrectly interpreted as Signal's security failure instead of what it actually is, the Trump administration's security failure. It's not Signal's fault that the Trump administration is incompetent, and the headline writer should have been more careful to make this clear.

  • How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To

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  • The difference between Wikipedia and Facebook is that Wikipedia content is under a Creative Commons license which allows the entire encyclopedia to be forked and the underlying software (MediaWiki) is free and open source. The entire Wikipedia database is continuously mirrored to servers in countries outside of the US, so Wikipedia can be resurrected in any other country if the situation you describe happens. In contrast, any Facebook content would be lost due to adverse government action.

    Asking people to stop using Wikipedia is like asking people to stop using Linux because the Linux Kernel Organization is based in the US (California), despite Windows and macOS also being US-based. There's no comparable non-US alternative to either Wikipedia or Linux, and the projects can be forked to different countries by their contributors without any action from the projects' managing organizations. If you boycott Wikipedia, you also play into the hands of Elon Musk and other agitators who are attacking Wikipedia in an effort to redirect the public to right-wing US media sources.

    Finally, part of my point was that Britannica is not an improvement over Wikipedia, because Britannica is also US-based. This is the reason I mentioned that Wikipedia editors are mostly from outside the US.

  • How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To

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  • Trump freezes $175M of UPenn funds over trans women

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  • Trans women are women. The poster made a transphobic comment by falsely referring to trans women as "men", which obviously disparages trans women.

  • Why did Donald Trump simulate oral sex with his microphone at Milwaukee rally?

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  • The context is that Trump has had a long history of making sexual comments such as "grab them by the pussy" and comments on the size of Arnold Palmer's penis.

    The other part of the context is that your entire Lemmy comment history is full of Trump apologia. You are the only person in this comment chain who is trying to explain away Trump's obvious sexual innuendo as something else, when the video is right there for everyone to see. And a user named "damnedfurry" accusing someone else of being a "pornsick coomer" for calling out Trump reeks of projection.

    You must be mistaking Lemmy for Truth Social, because nobody on Lemmy is buying your garbage.

  • Why did Donald Trump simulate oral sex with his microphone at Milwaukee rally?

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  • Go ahead and explain in your own words what you think Trump is doing in this video.

  • A 14-year-old took home $10,000 for his award-winning investigation into train derailments. Here's what he found.

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  • The extension supports over 500 sites and needs to modify the page to show the paywalled content, so the permission list includes over 500 domains. There's no good alternative to these permissions. You can inspect the source code to verify that the extension's behavior is legitimate.

  • A 14-year-old took home $10,000 for his award-winning investigation into train derailments. Here's what he found.

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  • Why did Donald Trump simulate oral sex with his microphone at Milwaukee rally?

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  • Imagine looking at this and desperately sanewashing Trump to pretend that he's not simulating oral sex with his mic at his pathetic rally.

  • Why did Donald Trump simulate oral sex with his microphone at Milwaukee rally?

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  • Any questions?

  • Federal court rules ballots cannot be counted after election day in Mississippi

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    Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this.

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  • When you link a Wikipedia article, you can expect others to read it and call you out on it when it doesn't say what you claim it says. Wikipedia is very consistent with labelling fascism as far-right.

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    Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this.

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  • Your quote from the article describes the Third Position, not fascism in general. It does not say that fascism in general is neither left nor right. No need to get mad because you misread a Wikipedia article.

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    Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this.

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  • Since you linked to another Wikipedia article, you should know that Wikipedia defines fascism as far-right:

    Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.

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    Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this.

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  • Most people use "left" to refer to anti-capitalism, be it Socialism, Communism, Syndicalism, Anarchism, etc, and not to refer to Capitalism but with large safety nets.

    Yikes, your Overton window is completely unbalanced if you think that "most people" exclude liberal progressives from the "left". Look at any mainstream news channel or read any mainstream news website, and you'll see that most people have a much more inclusive definition of left-wing politics, which encompasses center-left politics.

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    JD Vance thinks monarchists have some good ideas

    www.theverge.com /2024/10/16/24266512/jd-vance-curtis-yarvin-influence-rage-project-2025