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"A Billion Nazis at the Table" - The Fediverse model proves contextual moderation by real humans is both easy and affordable. The presence of Nazis on corporate social media implies at least a tacit a

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  • They could go set up email lists on Google Groups and nobody will ever know.

    • "A Billion Nazis at the Table" - The Fediverse model proves contextual moderation by real humans is both easy and affordable. The presence of Nazis on corporate social media implies at least a tacit a

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  • questionable pictures

    We need to keep distinguishing "actual, real-life child-abuse material" from "weird/icky porn". Fediverse services have been used to distribute both, but they represent really different classes of problem.

    Real-life CSAM is illegal to possess. If someone posts it on an instance you own, you have a legal problem. It is an actual real-life threat to your freedom and the freedom of your other users.

    Weird/icky porn is not typically illegal, but it's something many people don't want to support or be associated with. Instance owners have a right to say "I don't want my instance used to host weird/icky porn." Other instance owners can say "I quite like the porn that you find weird/icky, please post it over here!"

    Real-life CSAM is not just extremely weird/icky porn. It is a whole different level of problem, because it is a live threat to anyone who gets it on their computer.

    • "A Billion Nazis at the Table" - The Fediverse model proves contextual moderation by real humans is both easy and affordable. The presence of Nazis on corporate social media implies at least a tacit a

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  • Twitter has always encouraged gawking at horrible behavior, and its culture has norms like "ratio" which promote "bad examples" so that they can be publicly shamed.

    Let's not be like Twitter.

    • "A Billion Nazis at the Table" - The Fediverse model proves contextual moderation by real humans is both easy and affordable. The presence of Nazis on corporate social media implies at least a tacit a

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  • By definition, some are early adopters and some are late adopters.

    Sociologists even have a term "moral entrepreneur" which means a person or group that leads the adoption of a new moral norm in society.

    • "A Billion Nazis at the Table" - The Fediverse model proves contextual moderation by real humans is both easy and affordable. The presence of Nazis on corporate social media implies at least a tacit a

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  • Most advertisers don't really want their ads to be shown alongside Nazi content. One thing users can do is to send the advertisers' PR contacts a screenshot of their ad beside someone calling for racial holy war. "Hey, I'm not buying your beans any more because you advertise on Nazi shit" is a pretty clear message.

    • "A Billion Nazis at the Table" - The Fediverse model proves contextual moderation by real humans is both easy and affordable. The presence of Nazis on corporate social media implies at least a tacit a

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  • email spam is the original spam

    While it's true that there was occasional commercial misuse of email in the ARPANET days (when commercial use was against the rules of the military-funded research network), it wasn't called "spam" then.

    Until the mid-1990s, "spamming" typically meant sending repetitious messages rather than inappropriate commercial messages. It wasn't about what you said, but about how many times you said it. The transition from one meaning to the other mostly happened on Usenet, as commercial abusers took advantage of typically-lax moderation policies to repeatedly post unsolicited advertisements. Major commercial email spam was a branch off of Usenet spam operations.

    • 1985: "spamming" on MUDs meant sending junk messages to disrupt a roleplaying session, originally from a player doing this with the text of the Monty Python "Spam" sketch.
    • 1991: When a Usenet modbot had a bug that caused it to repeatedly post the same message, a Usenet admin who was also a MUD player referred to this as "spamming" Usenet. The term caught on to mean "excessive multiple posting", regardless of content; most early Usenet spams were religious proselytization or political kookery.
    • 1994: Lawyers Canter & Siegel post the first major commercial Usenet spam. They go on to write a book promoting Usenet and email spamming as a business tactic. At this point, "spamming" starts to be used to refer to inappropriate commercial posting, regardless of volume.

    • Nikki Haley walks back her demand that social media ban anonymous posters after facing GOP backlash

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  • "Shit, if everyone knows that I play girl characters online, they'll think I'm a trans."

    • Israeli minister calls for voluntary emigration of Gazans

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  • Move Gaza Palestinians to the West Bank, West Bank illegal settlers to Gaza, Hamas to Jahannum, and Netanyahu to prison.

    • Speaker Johnson: Separation of church, state ‘a misnomer’

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  • Yup. And Pennsylvania was founded at a safe enough distance from Massachusetts that the Puritans wouldn't come down and try to hang the Quakers.

    • Speaker Johnson: Separation of church, state ‘a misnomer’

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  • The expression "separation of church and state" in American politics is from Jefferson's response to the Danbury Baptist Association (of Connecticut), in which he reassured them that the First Amendment meant that other larger religious groups would not be permitted to use the power of the federal government to oppress Baptists.

    Religious persecution had been a live issue in New England, where the Congregationalist Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony had earlier expelled Baptists, Quakers, and other religious nonconformists from the colony.

    You can read the full text of the Danbury Baptists' letter to Jefferson, and Jefferson's response, here on Wikipedia.

    To summarize greatly, the Baptists say "We believe in religious liberty, but we've seen persecution before; and we worry that the federal government will be used to impose someone else's religious views on us. We want a government that only punishes people for harming others, and can't be pressured into imposing religious laws."

    And Jefferson says "Yes, that's why we put this First Amendment thing in; to build a wall of separation between church and state."

    • If you could switch lives with any fictional character, who would it be?

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  • A life with quite a lot of long & varied sex with his mom, his daughters (multiple; and both genetic and adopted), his sex-swapped clone, a couple of computers, ...

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  • Top. It may be relevant that used Macs for years, and never used Windows.

    • Trump's Truth Social Has Lost $73M Since Launch, New Filing Shows: The company that TMTG is planned to merge with, DWAC, broke out the surprising results in a securities filing Monday.

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  • The company is probably a money laundering operation to begin with, channeling funds from Russian backers to American traitors.

    • ‘Carrot knife’ trend among teens in S. Korea sparks concerns over potential violent behaviour

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  • It's a ... plastic fidget toy shaped like a cartoon switchblade?

    • As a beginner, how should I go about learning difficult concepts?

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  • Difficult concepts are made of simple parts. Find the parts. Find ways to play with them.

    Example: TCP/IP performance is complicated, but you can look at specific parts of it like packet latency, retransmission behavior, and the various timeouts. Eventually you understand the "gears" of the system well enough that it's obvious that if the minimum retransmission timeout is 100msec, that a single packet loss means your whole transaction cannot possibly have <100msec latency.

    • Tesla will sue you for $50,000 if you try to resell your Cybertruck in the first year

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  • It's not cool enough to be S.T.U.N. Runner. It's more along the lines of Atari's 1980 vector hit, Battlezone, which was later edited into a training sim for the US Army's Bradley Fighting Vehicle.

    • Tesla will sue you for $50,000 if you try to resell your Cybertruck in the first year

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  • If I recall correctly, Ferrari being assholes is why Lamborghini isn't just a tractor brand.

    • Tesla will sue you for $50,000 if you try to resell your Cybertruck in the first year

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  • In that case, it's a patented product that happens to reproduce itself as part of its normal operation.

    In this case, it's just shitty business behavior.

    (To be clear, no, living organisms should not be patentable. But it'd be fucking hilarious if patented genes went feral.)

    • It is interesting to see what ads play during certain content…

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  • If it's anti-LGBT stuff, that may be because major ad systems e.g. Google/YouTube don't treat LGBT as a demographic but rather a topic of interest ... and the far right are interested.

    • It is interesting to see what ads play during certain content…

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  • I recall noticing back when "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" was on the air, that there were one hell of a lot of ads for contact lenses during that show.