Blog writer with vague complaint and no solutions stumbles across popular headline - more at 11.
The issue at play is the big corporate companies, that pretended to be public services, had their venture capital dry up and felt pressure to become profitable. The subsequent monetization and censorship within those systems had significant impact on the quality of content, but outside of those systems the internet has continued to flourish. I suggest the author get off of Reddit/Meta/TwitX, use a better search engine than Google, and start checking out the Fediverse.
Remember kids, the big social media companies will always want you to think that they are the entirety of the internet. But the internet is not a network of machines. It's a network of human minds, and no organization will ever be able to contain the raw chaos that is the collective force of human imagination.
Kudos to the judge, especially his specific reasoning regarding Mexico:
In an order that will not take effect for two weeks, Tigar wrote “the rule … cannot remain in place”, in part because it improperly presumes people who enter the country between legal border crossings are ineligible for asylum.
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The administration had argued that protection systems in other countries that migrants travel through have improved. But Tigar said it was not feasible for some migrants to seek protection in a transit country and noted the violence that many face in Mexico in particular.
He also wrote that the rule was illegal because it presumes that people are ineligible for asylum if they enter the country between legal border crossings. But, Tigar wrote, Congress expressly said that should not affect whether someone is eligible for asylum.
I'm not really seeing a viable appeal here from the Justice Department. IMHO, they should just take the loss and let the ruling stand. This isn't a political winner for Biden, and has the potential to backfire on his administration.
Let's start a sewing club together, so we can SEW YOUR DAMN MOUTH SHUT
Lmao. Great to see the IP looking so good, and the gameplay looks really fun. Armored Core remains my favorite mech IP - it hits that sweet spot between Mechwarrior and Robotech style mechs, merging the heavy impact feel of the former with the speed and grace of the latter, and the mech crafting has been best in class since the PS2 days. Can't wait to see multiplayer in action.
This is a pretty awesome tool - thanks for sharing!
Suggestion - for users, the prompt entry could be a lot clearer - took me a bit to figure out the proper syntax to enter the tags. If you can streamline the parameter entry here into either multi-select drop down menus or split the artist and tag inputs into two separate entry fields so that users don't have to code "tag" or "artist" into the prompt, I think you're going to see a lot more interest.
Nah, not intimidated. More that I ran a sizeable forum in the past and I know what what a pain in the ass this kind of content can be to deal with. That's why I was asking about automated tools to deal with it. The forum I ran got targeted by a bunch of Turkish hackers, and their one of their attack techniques involved a wave of spambot accounts trying to post crap content. I wasn't intimidated (fought them for about two years straight), but by the end of it I was exhausted to the point where it just wasn't worth it anymore. An automated CSAM filter would have made a huge difference, but this was over a decade ago and those tools weren't around.
I'm honestly not sure if this satire. As a vocal support of trans rights, both your video campaign and cover made me recoil. Not only is this playing perfectly into the TERF handbook by advocating violence to children, if this does get published, it's something the alt-right will gleefully point to as a "trans effort to corrupt the children."
Looking at the small sampling of content you provide here, how can you think this portrays either anarchism or trans folks in a positive light? I'm almost 90% this is an effort to troll both movements.
I mean c'mon - A is Anarchism, B is for Bomb - really? For fuck's sake, that cliche was old in the 90s.
This isn't a new policy. They're just reiterating the official US stance. Nothing has changed. This isn't a betrayal or really anything newsworthy, it's just your standard geopolitical cya.
Totally - I've seen chromebooks that run fine, and it's good to know that not all school districts are buying garbage machines. I was only speaking to my experience with my son's, which was a Google branded chromebook - he got it roughly four years ago.
I think the issue was that the ones Google offered at a bulk discount to schools were the low-end models that didn't have any memory upgrades, and there was a bunch of school-specific bloatware on it that compounded the issue. Multitasking flat out killed them, which made it difficult for my son to do anything with more than one window open. It even had issues with multiple browser tabs. I think he would have done better with a pen and paper and his library card than trying to use that thing for his schoolwork.
Thanks for the comment - I wasn't aware of a cloudflare controversy in play, and went through your links and the associated wikipedia page. It's interesting to me, as someone who previously ran a public forum, to see them struggle with the same issues surrounding hate speech I did on a larger scale.
I agree with your thoughts on a centralized service having that much power, although Cloudfare does have a number of competitors, so I'm not quite seeing the risk here, save for the fact that Cloudfare appears to be the only one offering CSAM filtering (will have to dig in further to confirm). The ActivityPub blocking for particular instances is concerning, but I don't see a source on that - do you have more detail?
However, I disagree with your statement on handling non-solicited content - from personal experience, I can confidently state that there are some things that get submitted that you just shouldn't subject another human too, even if it's only to determine whether or not it should be deleted. CSAM falls under this category in my book. Having a system in place that keeps you and your moderators from having to deal with it is invaluable to a small instance owner.
The Bail Bond system is unconstitutional by its very nature and should be revoked.
While the couple did initially evade arrest, which is why their bail reduction requests have been denied, the length of time behind bars has left them without a home and without jobs, effectively destroying what was left of their lives after their son's actions. Even if proven innocent, the cost for them is so extreme as to be a de-facto punishment for arrest dealt out by the judicial system.
While I have no sympathy for them if they did provide the weapon to their son, I can still recognize the injustice being done to them. Sadly, it's a common one - our jails are full of people awaiting trial for far longer than what could be considered "quick or speedy". It's one of the reasons many public defenders suggest pleading guilty to poorer clients regardless of the case - they'll actually get out faster if they don't have to wait for a jury trial.
My pleasure and I completely agree - there's not a single minority population that doesn't suffer under one or more of these riders, and the full out assault on environmental protections is sickening given the climate devastation we're experiencing.
The other thing that came to me while I pulled this out was that the Republican party hasn't published a policy platform update since 2016.
This list of riders details what their unpublished policy is pretty thoroughly, and it's clear why they won't make it public.
These things are such junk - even when new they were so slow and bloated that they couldn't load my kid's schoolwork half the time. I had to make sure he had an alternate laptop for use so he wouldn't fall behind. I felt really bad for the school district, it was clear they were being ripped off, and that most of the machines were going to be in a landfill within 3 years time.
And of course, it's a political stunt to please Edrogan:
The Kurdish refugee journalist Vedat Yeler has called the eviction and destruction of the Lavrio camp a “NATO gift to [Turkish autocrat Recep Tayyip] Erdoğan.” The eviction took place only a few days before the summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on July 11 in Vilnius, Lithuania, where both Greece and Turkey were to be present. The two NATO members have wrangled over the Cyprus conflict and territorial disputes in the Aegean Sea for many decades. In mutual populist slander, Turkish politicians have been accusing Greece of harboring “terrorists” in the Lavrio camp and pressuring the Greek state to close it down for years. However, since the re-election of both Erdoğan’s Sunni-nationalist regime in Turkey and Mitsotakis’ New Democracy government in Greece in May and June, 2023, respectively, there has been a shift in bilateral relations between the two countries. During a visit in Cyprus a few days before the eviction, the Greek Foreign Minister expressed a commitment to improve relations with Turkey. The attack on Kurdish political refugees in Greece can be understood as an attempt to showcase these efforts before the NATO summit.
Greece should be ashamed of itself - evicting innocent families at gunpoint to appease a foreign autocrat. I'm not familiar with EU law, but I'm hoping someone in the comments has an analysis and legal case for the Lavrio residents - given that the camp was established community for over 50 years, there has to be some legal recourse they can use to push back.
Blog writer with vague complaint and no solutions stumbles across popular headline - more at 11.
The issue at play is the big corporate companies, that pretended to be public services, had their venture capital dry up and felt pressure to become profitable. The subsequent monetization and censorship within those systems had significant impact on the quality of content, but outside of those systems the internet has continued to flourish. I suggest the author get off of Reddit/Meta/TwitX, use a better search engine than Google, and start checking out the Fediverse.
Remember kids, the big social media companies will always want you to think that they are the entirety of the internet. But the internet is not a network of machines. It's a network of human minds, and no organization will ever be able to contain the raw chaos that is the collective force of human imagination.