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vividspecter

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  • Youtube varies from genuinely good content, to generic filler, to complete and utter trash, and there is much of the latter two because it's not curated by anyone (other than by algorithms).

    Try "We Own This City" from David Simon, if you want a documentary on the police that isn't propaganda.

  • RFK Jr. may be about to demolish preventive health panel, health groups fear

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  • It's at least partly eugenics, which is a common undercurrent in the anti-vaccine movement. Remove healthcare altogether and only the "strongest" will survive.

  • What old technology are you surprised is still in use today?

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  • I'm almost at the point where all of my connections are IPv6, but still hampered by my mobile provider (ironically, since IPv6 was generally adopted earlier on mobile in many countries).

  • Using ZRAM on a laptop with 8 GB RAM. Worth it or waste of CPU?

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  • I go even further and set the proportion to 100%, since ZSTD compresses so well (and the % is based on uncompressed usage).

    There are theoretically some cases where zram can be harmful, but in general I find it works reliably.

  • Trump asks Supreme Court to remove 3 Democrats on the Consumer Product Safety Commission

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  • And asbestos, which Trump has publicly claimed is not dangerous.

  • RFK Jr.’s health department calls Nature “junk science,” cancels subscriptions

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  • Clean living in his view just means focusing on "natural" things. Which means swimming and drinking shit water is safe, but anything "artificial" is dangerous. So he's certainly not going to care about pathogens in the food supply, because he doesn't believe they are dangerous.

  • 'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup

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  • I thought it was clear from context I was talking about X.

  • 'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup

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  • Most of those are lesser evils compared to X, and that's probably the best you can hope for. And Bluesky is the obvious alternative lesser evil choice if you want a like for like replacement and aren't open to Mastodon.

  • 'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup

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  • If you're technically inclined, self-host navidrome or jellyfin.

    If you just want music and don't care about the streaming part, bandcamp (although it does have some basic streaming I believe.

    If you want streaming and aren't technically inclined, Tidal.

  • 'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup

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  • I get where you're coming from, but it's not like there aren't multiple obvious alternatives (and not just on the fediverse). And someone being clued in enough to boycott Spotify should have no trouble finding those alternatives. Additionally, the platform being owned by an outright Nazi should give even the most out of touch people pause.

    But agreed that people could stand to be a bit more tactful about it and not immediately go on the attack.

  • 'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup

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  • Not to mention giving 100s of millions of dollars to fund Joe Rogan and his extreme right-wing propaganda.

  • Zohran Mamdani appears to pull ahead of Andrew Cuomo, according to new poll

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  • I’ve just never personally voted using RCV on a ballot that requires you to rank that many candidates for a valid ballot. That seems unnecessary.

    Several implementations of it in Australia are full preferential, and require ranking all candidates (and there's a kind of hybrid optional implementation in the federal senate where there is a minimum but you can rank as many as you want). The NYC one is still optional preferential actually, which is in my view a bad system because people get tricked into "just voting 1" and their vote consequently has less power to influence the result.