Our News Team @ 11 with host Snot Flickerman
SimpleX is taking a lot of venture capital money which makes it just slightly suspect, imho. Those guys usually want a return of some kind on their investment. I simply don’t trust the motives of technocrats like Jack Dorsey.
The Matrix Foundation, on the other hand, seems a lot more democratic in governance and stewardship of the protocol.
It’s getting dicey, but these things do matter as much as they feel like they don’t because everything feels lawless.
Things only stay lawless if the law fails to be enforced. Trying to get through the courts is at least trying to do that.
The worry is that it’s all going to end up in the hands of the Supreme Court who are just going to hand wins to Trump anyway, making all this work moot.
Scary times. I remember being told I was being alarmist during the Bush years. Being right sucks so hard.
I actually wouldn’t be surprised if Microsoft saying you’ll be able to play Xbox games on the Switch 2, implying that Game Pass is coming to Switch 2, was the thing that finally kicked their asses and gear and made them realize they were being fucking stupid trying to have so much control while Microsoft is out here with even tighter controls and a cheaper model (in a lot of gamers’ eyes at least, those who don’t care about things like longevity of studios or actual ownership of a product as opposed to rental licensing).
Sorry for the run-on sentence I don’t feel like fixing it.
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yeah I always forget the actual name of it I just memorized some of them early on in using Lemmy.
I actually mostly interact with Lemmy via a web interface on the desktop, so I’m unfamiliar with how much support for the more obscure tagging options there is in each app.
It’s rendered in a special way on the web, at least.
The original was 474x767 pixels, I upscaled it to 1000x1618 pixels. You can check the file info on each yourself.
Not directly, this seems to be an option though, to see the “thought” behind it. It’s called “DeepThink.”
Let me be the first to say:
Thanks for nothing, you absolute fucking nincompoop!
You don’t lone wolf this kind of shit, dumbfuck! The only way any of us can stand up to this kind of Imperial control is having such a mass of people behind you that the police are afraid of you.
Trump wants to go down the emergency powers to institute Martial Law. Doing this lone wolf shit is going to give him every opportunity to get it started before a sufficient number of people are protesting in the streets.
Ryan English turned himself in to Capitol Police
Also… It’s just slightly convenient that somehow this guy just chose to turn himself in instead of, I don’t know, turn around and go home since no one knew about the crimes he did commit?
This screams crisis actor more than fucking kids getting shot at school do. And since everything everything everything is projection with the right, it means I have this nagging feeling that that’s what this guy might be.
Nixon also did shit like signed off on the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.
The old fascists still cared about society functioning they just wanted to control it. Trump doesn’t give one fucking hoot how bad things get as long as he gets to be in charge.
I’ll make a counterpoint, honestly, conservative spaces aren’t handling the stopping all federal grants things well.
Lots of fiscal conservatives are suddenly having their stomachs drop realizing that Trump could actually cause a depression doing this kind of dumb shit.
I’m actually beginning to be skeptical of how much of this kind of insane shit they’ll actually put up with, because a lot of conservative people seemingly are actually loudly saying “Wait a minute, this could actually be really bad…”
Even on “flaired user only” threads on reddits /r/conservative there are many responses by obviously not-complete-dipshit conservatives while the rest of them are complaining about brigading in a flaired user thread lol.
I actually began wondering today if he crashes the economy if we’ll end up seeing the conservatives go Gaddafi on Trump.
Propaganda only goes so far if the botton falls out of your economy entirely. If suddenly they all don’t have jobs or hope for a future I don’t think they’re going to sit around and keep praising Trump.
Further evidence from an AP Poll:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/new-poll-recommends-eating-the-billionaires
AP has a new poll out which asked whether people think it’s a good or bad thing that the President “relies on billionaires for advice about government policy.” When I first saw the results of this poll as “good” coming in at “+12” I thought they meant ‘net’ 12% and I thought, ‘eeeesh, the honeymoon phase is more intense than I thought!’ But no, 12%: as in, 12% of the public think it’s a good thing. 60% think it’s not. That’s US adults. The only outliers are Republicans, 20% of whom think this is a good thing. But even that is pretty feeble. To put it simply, these are terrible numbers.
The easiest way to break people from propaganda is to simply let their personal lived reality become to starkly different from the propaganda that they can no longer ignore it in front of their own face. Trump may inadvertently give us that.
The text is so fuckin small…
Blahaj.zone runs on AWS not Cloudflare.
Blahaj.zone is a smaller instance with less than 3000 users.
There is no character limit that I see.
At least on lemmy.blahaj.zone Ada has blocked nsfw instances, I assume she did the same on blahaj.zone. EDIT: I just double checked and for sure a lot of NSFW instances are blocked by blahaj.zone.
Finally, as the instance for transfolk, it has never at any point federated with Threads
Fair enough, sorry to be confusing to you.
Privacy good, corporate privacy invasion bad. Corporate media underreporting of privacy violations bad.
We never had an argument other than you keep positing that people don’t agree with this while they’re busy explaining to you that yes, they actually do, and you keep choosing to ignore that. “Corporate media underreporting of privacy violations bad” is literally what I spent several paragraphs explaining that you took as “yelling” and “disagreement.”
…but keep on arguing with people who actually agree with you and telling yourself they don’t.
or maybe just learn to fucking read.
You’re literally talking to people in a privacy forum hosted outside of corporate social media… and you think people don’t agree with you. We wouldn’t fucking be here if we weren’t already on the same page about such issues.
That’s on you, dude.
I literally explained it pretty clearly.
At this point its clear you want to misunderstand.
Interesting that you took a few paragraphs with a handful of explitives thrown in as “yelling.”
Everyone does it, so it’s not a big deal after all
…and I think that’s you completely misreading what people are saying.
We’re saying that it’s bunk for the corporate media to portray it as this dangerous thing when they refuse to report similarly on US companies doing the same with the same ferocity.
I think most people agree with you, that our privacy protections are fucking abysmal and no company should be being allowed to do this stuff. Hell, that’s like the entire thrust of Ed Zitron’s entire fucking blog: that none of these companies should get away with this.
It’s like when Facebook got fined a paltry sum for being caught lying about their video metrics and literally putting businesses like CollegeHumor out of business because they “pivoted to facebook video” to grab those high metrics… which never materialized because Facebook was ratfucking lying to people. They should have been shut down and put out of business for that, not fined less than they made ripping off people.
People are sick of the companies here getting a pass, and the media gives them a pass. It’s more that you can’t make freaked out headlines like this about TikTok and DeepSeek and not understand that everyone is rolling their fucking eyes because we’re all like “it’s no worse than what US companies already do to us.” That doesn’t mean we like it or are okay with it. It means we’re rolling our eyes are a fucking insipid news media that’s obviously lying to us for the sake of private American companies profit, not because they care about rightfully informing American citizentry about what is happening.
All of us fucking hate it, but what the fuck do you expect us as individuals to do about it? Folks like me have been voting Blue for 25 fucking years with fuck-all to show for it on issues like these. So why’s it our job to explain that we don’t support it, we just think it’s dumb as fuck when a foreign company is doing the same thing and now suddenly that’s evil, but our guys doing it is somehow fine. What we have issue with is the hypocrisy.
On-prem vs. Cloud, basically. On-prem just magically got cheaper.
Further, they’re hosted in Germany, so they must still follow German law and court requests.