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[–] blurg@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

(Uhhh, AI in charge of censorship? So no one knows how decisions are made? No one can know with AI. That's just a large mistake. The other ideas have some merit though.)

[–] blurg@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Gotta start somewhere though, gotta start somewhere.

[–] blurg@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Hope, Pray, become Aware < Get Educated and Educate Others < Act with Understanding and Compassion (vote, call or write government officials, get together with others, run for public office)

[–] blurg@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Get a Proton account, you can then sign up for, or disable, various email notifications.

[–] blurg@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Be careful of printers with chipped toner though. Older models still rock.

[–] blurg@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I see it less as “being evil” and more about “being incompetent”.

Maybe, if items are under-priced as often as over-priced.

[–] blurg@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Digging a little -- an article (from 2009) about an interview (2005) that paraphrases the interviewee is a little suspect. Chomsky's take on the interview, in his words: "Even when the words attributed to me have some resemblance to accuracy, I take no responsibility for them, because of the invented contexts in which they appear."

I dunno, that example is at least 3 steps removed (interviewer, editor, article writer) from a source that already speaks plenty clearly and doesn't need much more than to be read honestly.

[–] blurg@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Here's a start: Understanding Power has a PDF of all the sources in the footnotes of the book by the same name. Or, if you're really looking for voluminous elaboration, this purports to be a list of source references, sorted by publisher, with links to the books.

[–] blurg@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

someone who can explain how the world really works.

And that person is?

[–] blurg@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

This looks to be more an endorsement of moderation principles and rules, not determining truth of comments.

For the difficulties in determining what's true, see the kerfuffle about Media Bias Fact Check.

[–] blurg@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

There's certainly a history of Unix and Unix-like forks; which is rather simple compared to the Linux distro forks (go right to the big pic).

[–] blurg@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

There is something to this; however, there are historical examples of rather quick progress. FDR for one (public work projects and infrastructure, financial reforms, regulations, social security, etc.), when old and young, the president, government employees, the whole general public (with some exceptions), held to popular principles of egalitarian fairness against the few unconscionably rich. A time of tasty pills.

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