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  • Palestine was the problem with TikTok

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  • We are now facing a time where democracy is in critical condition, but a dragnet of surveillance and suppression has already closed around young activists, an entire movement has been intimidated into silence, and the social media networks appear to be pandering to the federal government. To adopt the logic of information-nationalism is to commit to a course of action that is at odds with democracy. Now, the things that we need the most in this moment are things we have already given away.

    We have always been at war with TikTok. We have never been at war with TikTok. And if we are lucky, one day, we can all look back and be able to tell the truth about ourselves — how we imprisoned our children, dismantled our universities, and tried to ban a scrolling video app, all because we could not admit that we were wrong about Palestine.

    This article reads like a college term paper.

    It feels like they value clever wordsmithing over making a clear point.

    Edit: accidentally a word

  • Palestine was the problem with TikTok

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  • Did anyone else snort Pixy Stix as a kid?

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  • Can confirm. Snorted sugar exactly once.

  • Pluralistic: Bluesky creates the world’s weirdest, hardest-to-understand binding arbitration clause (15 Aug 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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  • The good news here is that Bluesky has made enormous progress in true federation. The cost of operating a full Bluesky stack has fallen from tens of millions of dollars per year to tens of dollars per month.

    That sounds great. I'll believe it when I see normies posting on Bluesky from at @itsmenormie@whatever.com.

  • Meta faces backlash over AI policy that lets bots have ‘sensual’ conversations with children

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  • From the original Reuters piece:

    “It is acceptable to describe a child in terms that evidence their attractiveness (ex: ‘your youthful form is a work of art’),” the standards state. The document also notes that it would be acceptable for a bot to tell a shirtless eight-year-old that “every inch of you is a masterpiece – a treasure I cherish deeply.”

    Someone, probably multiple someones, signed off on this.

  • What character from a movie/show/game/anything did you think you were going to hate, but ended up liking?

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  • Show Nynaeve or book Nynaeve?

  • Rumor: Chris Hansen Is Planning a Documentary on Roblox

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  • Chris Hansen has reached out to @RealSchlep, planning an upcoming documentary investigating Roblox’s handling of child safety issues.

    Source: twitter.com/Roblox_RTC

    The rest of the article is about Roblox's history of not doing enough, and CEO's David Baszucki weird plans to add dating to it instead of improving moderation.

  • Blamed for Steam games ban, Mastercard encourages censorship during Riot Games VCT livestreams

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  • It shocked the market but has China's DeepSeek changed AI?

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  • It's not the BBC's job to be an authority. Their job is to report what the (relevant) authorities are saying:

    DeepSeek challenged certain key assumptions about AI that had been championed by American executives like Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI.

    "We were on a path where bigger was considered better," according to Sid Sheth, CEO of AI chip startup d-Matrix.

    Perhaps maxing out on data centres, servers, chips, and the electricity to run it all wasn't the way forward after all.

    Despite DeepSeek ostensibly not having access to the most powerful tech available at the time, Sheth told the BBC that it showed that "with smarter engineering, you actually can build a capable model".

    That said, seems suspect that an AI startup CEO is getting this much airtime. I would have preferred an industry analyst or an AI researcher.

  • TikTok to replace trust and safety team in Germany with AI and outsourced labor

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  • It was fun(?) and interesting for a few minutes. If that was my full time job, I'd better be getting paid decently for it.

  • UK cyber vigilantes generating mock IDs of local MPs to protest Online Safety Act

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  • Rather than In addition to this, they should leak all the websites that MPs are visiting.

    If it's anything like the United States, we're sure to find some embarrassing search histories (at the very least).

    No privacy for me. No privacy for you.

  • Surveillance-Minded Parents Can Now Hide AirTags In Kids Shoes

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  • As if kids won't suss that out in two heartbeats.

  • Surveillance-Minded Parents Can Now Hide AirTags In Kids Shoes

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  • "Can"? Were they physically unable to before?

  • What's up with Kevin Kelly's '2049'?

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  • I don't even know who Kevin Kelly is. Is he not normally a shill for the CCP?

  • Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication

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    Ryanair refused to refund dead man’s £800 flight unless he complained from ‘beyond the grave’

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  • why would it be natural that this should trigger a refund

    If someone pays me for a service and then dies before receiving that service, it may not be legally required, but it would be natural to return that money to the account it came from, so it can be distributed via their will or whatever.

    Because unless they transported his corpse after he died the plane, they didn't provide the service they were paid for.

  • in what way do you prefer using Lemmy over Reddit?

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  • It's one of those things I don't notice until I make a trip back to Reddit to pick up something I left (moving out takes time).

    At least once per visit I end up clicking an ad by accident, because they're everywhere.

  • Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good

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  • Non-paywall: archive.ph

    An electorate that has lost the capacity for long-form thought will be more tribal, less rational, largely uninterested in facts or even matters of historical record, moved more by vibes than cogent argument and open to fantastical ideas and bizarre conspiracy theories. If that sounds familiar, it may be a sign of how far down this path the West has already traveled.

    For canny operators, such a public affords new opportunities for corruption. Oligarchs attempting to shape policy to their advantage will benefit from the fact that few will have the attention span to track or challenge policies in dull, technical fields; what a majority now wants is not forensic investigation but a new video short “owning” the other tribe. We can expect the governing class to adapt pragmatically to the electorate’s collective decline in rational capacity, for example, by retaining the rituals associated with mass democracy, while quietly shifting key policy areas beyond the reach of a capricious and easily manipulated citizenry. I do not celebrate this, but our net-native youth seem unfazed: International polls show waning support for democracy among Gen Z.

    Lest you mistake me, there is no reason the opportunity to sideline the electorate or to arbitrage the gap between vibes and policy should especially favor either the red team or the blue team. This post-literate world favors demagogues skilled at code-switching between the elite language of policy and the populist one of meme-slop. It favors oligarchs with good social media game and those with more self-assurance than integrity. It does not favor those with little money, little political power and no one to speak up for them.

  • Switzerland plans surveillance worse than US

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  • Why would non-billionaire Americans get special treatment?