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Ireland moves to ban Israeli imports, as university severs ties with Israel

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  • I hope you're right, but my cynicism has doubts.

    • What is the recommended way to watch the Star Wars series?

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  • Completely agree except you forgot Rogue One.

    Also, the Han Solo movie was OK.

    Prequels were bad, sequels were worse. Mandalorian was good but ended meh. Ahsoka looks promising.

    • An open source Peer-to-peer serverless decentralized social media protocol built on IPFS

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  • I was there for the early days of Voat, which was an earlier version of a Reddit clone. Those first few months were nice, but it quickly devolved into a hate-filled N*zi safe haven.

    Fediverse has an early version of a bot problem, which is ubiquitous in all social media these days (thanks to state actors and also corpos that want you to think/feel a certain way). idk how the fediverse is handling the bot problem, but for now it seems to be less noticeable here than other places.

    If the platform is truly "free speech" without any moderation, then it will quickly devolve into worse than 4chan.

    Voat is gone now, which is a good thing, but if you have an programming background you can use an LLM to study the way it self-destructed by looking at the archive.org snippets. See how it quickly became theDonald but worse.

    That is what will happen to this un-moderated decentralized social media protocol.

    • What's something that's seen as Obsolete, but isn't?

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  • Pencils. The ones where you need a pencil sharpener to sharpen them every so often. Mechanical pencils just aren't the same.

    • Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this?

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  • You are absolutely correct. The unfortunate fact is that propaganda works. Even if you know it is propaganda, it still works.

    A bit like a placebo in that regard.

    • What apps would you love to have open-source alternatives for?

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  • I would really like an open-source alternative to Facebook. The connection idea with friends via a social network platform I like, the bots and ads and force fed (propaganda) news I really don't like.

    Plus, an open source Facebook would really hurt Zuck and that's also a win.

    • The Devil they Knew: Chemical Documents Analysis of Industry Influence on PFAS Science

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  • Thank you for the article OP.

    While this doesn't surprise me, I can't help but wonder how many other parallel situations there are where an industry of many separate entities distort, hide and otherwise lie to the public to maintain the publicly harmful gravy train.