Well now it can use AI while it sends your ostensible Tor queries over the clearnet , and sells your demographic data despite promising not to do that

Buck Frave

Indeed! I just went from pessimistic (prolly just signal jammers) to OMFG the situation on the ground is about to change

Charlie would have been very proud

privacy nightmare

If lots of random civilians are wearing them and training them on ICE/police/fascism then the privacy nightmare might run both ways. There are a lot fewer masked enforcers than civilians. And a lot more stochastic violence in the air.

Piefed is more like Slide or one of the other alternative Reddit clients

More privacy, cleaner Python code anyone can help improve, less weird rightwing science denialism

Wait maybe he ever had a roommate whose friend’s second cousin was trans

That’s a pretty obvious antifa emergency worthy of sending in the troops… right?

8647

“Guilty”

Yes, this. I certainly didn’t come up with the phrase, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetic_warfare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth-generation_warfare https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2013&context=jss

Listen. This is important. We are in WWIII

I hope democracy and rule-of-law overcome religious autocracy. It’s touch-and-go.

I hear you and will make a terrible confession – I used to be a hardcore libertarian and very opposed to “speech police”

I still am 100% opposed to enforcing speech. Don’t give someone a fine for saying the N-word, just treat that person as you would anyone who is vulgar or objectionable.

But I do see value in cultural shifts that bend in the direction of greater inclusivity and tolerance. I am with you in that I will absolutely not go along with ones I don’t see as authentic or valuable (eg “Latinx”, or for example I am a heteronormal male who presents as male. I don’t bother adding “he/him” under the photo in my work profile)

ummm note that wars today are memetic more than kinetic

I am absolutely right now engaged in memetic warfare. I give material support to groups like AAAS , FFRF , etc

I realize it’s kinda annoyingly P.C./woke

But yeah, I also have taken to referencing “allowlists” and “denylists” instead of “whitelists” and “blacklists”. And “worker nodes/manager nodes” instead of “build slave”/“master node”

they’ve also become a target for far right propaganda

Of course that’s the calculus. Stay and fight the disinformed where I am, or go to a more well-defended location?

It’s easy to forget that record numbers of US citizens have gone from proudly having belief with no evidence in a Sky Daddy, to not having any affiliation with anti-reason traditions

From only 8% back in 1980, up to 2024 where 25+% are now at least ostensibly members of the reality-based community

https://i.imgur.com/6evK4q2.png

As a kid and young adult, I used to say “American” to mean “Citizen of the USA”

Then I started working with multinational companies and a big chunk of my team was in Mexico and other parts of central/south America.

I’m happy for another word for “USA citizen”, tell me what to use

USAian here. Honest question. What is a good pluralistic tolerant democratic country with very low percentage of credulous adults who have a Sky Daddy?

TIA

“What’s the difference between Oracle and the Boy Scouts?”

“The Boy Scouts are led by adults”

You’re lucky

I got banned with no warning or even indication what post was offensive (I was not being anything-phobic or inciting violence)

But that was lemmy.ml so I should have known

I for one look forward to taking my LUKS encrypted PinePhone thru US customs

Just have to pick the Lock Screen image. Right now I’m leaning towards Fountainhead Charlie

And smart and educated

We hire most of our top engineers from Mexico these days. Comparable to Indian talent, but in the Americas timezones and way way harder working than the overpriced talent in the USA

In a few months CalyxOS should be up again. Personally I m waiting for that