geekwithsoul @ geekwithsoul @lemm.ee

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So they’re reporting on the platform and don’t bother linking to it? Man, journalism just continues to fall further and further from usefulness.

For anyone interested: https://democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/

It’s not a question of “should” - an opinion piece is rhetoric, not reporting. You can fact check some of it sometimes but functionally can’t hold it to the same standards as a regular news article. I agree that this can sometimes lead to “alternative facts” and disingenuous arguments, but the only other option is to forbid the publication of them which is obviously an infringement of first amendment rights. It’s messy, and it can lead to people being misinformed, but it’s what we’re stuck with.

I had a Reddit account I opened in July 2009 that was fairly active and I deleted all my posts and comments when I left - mainly because I felt I couldn’t trust the company that ran it to be good stewards of the content and decided they weren’t entitled to it. All the stuff that’s happened in the last year has just reinforced that conclusion.

Reddit makes money off the content everyone contributes (as well as the hard work of so many unpaid folks doing moderation) and that’s not a model I choose to support. Some of the conversations I was involved in had really help information on a number of topics, and while I’m sad that information isn’t still available to others, I think the overall good is better served by not supporting a site so at odds with my beliefs.

Editorializing article titles for fun and profit - an r2o standard

[Deese] also helped to shepherd key pieces of economic legislation through Congress, bills like the Inflation Reduction Act and the CHIPS Act that are core pieces of Biden's legacy in the White House.

He started out as an economic policy analyst at the progressive think tank Center for American Progress.

Deese also played a key role in negotiating the Paris climate agreement under Obama, positioning him as a climate-focused economic advisor that aligned well with the Biden agenda.

I mean, obviously a bad guy there /s

No problem. Specifically came to my attention about a week ago on this post where the bot reported on an opinion piece as if it was straight news.

BTW, I actually do appreciate the bot and think it’s doing about as well as it can given the technical limitations of the platform.

One problem I’ve noticed is that the bot doesn’t differentiate between news articles and opinion pieces. One of the most egregious examples is the NYT. Opinion pieces aren’t held to the same journalistic standards as news articles and shouldn’t be judged for bias and accuracy in the same way as news content.

I believe most major news organizations include the word “Opinion” in titles and URLs, so perhaps that could be something keyed off of to have the bot label these appropriately. I don’t expect you to judge the bias and accuracy of each opinion writer, but simply labeling them as “Opinion pieces are not required to meet accepted journalistic standards and bias is expected.” would go a long way.

I have +1.5k hours across all the Fallout games, and in general love Tim Cain’s games, and so no surprise I liked Outer Worlds. It’s smaller in scope than some people wanted, but considering the size of the team that developed it, it’s got a lot packed into it. Writing is top notch, gun play is fun, only real knock against it was that it was too easy.

Final boss fight of Portal 2 - one of my favorite and most satisfying gaming moments.

Actually if you see my other comment, there have been several articles written about it. Tldr; Secret Service can request no more outdoor events but they can’t “deny” the campaign the ability to hold them, and the campaign has vowed to continue to do them.

The reason I asked for a source is that claim runs counter to statements by the Trump campaign:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-says-he-will-continue-outdoor-rallies-with-increased-secret-service-protection/

https://www.foxnews.com/us/trump-vows-more-outdoor-rallies-says-secret-service-substantially-step-up-after-admitting-failures

In addition, technically the Secret Service can’t really stop him. The relationship between ex-Presidents and candidates and their protection details and actual Presidents is much different.

The Secret Service can request no outdoor events (which they’ve done) but they can’t make the decision.

Source on that?

Wait, have we established the outer parameters of a “Mel Spectrum”?!

“…The Economist reported 462,000 and 728,000 Russian soldiers were out of action by mid-June”

https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-army-lost-70k-soldiers-ukraine-war-uk-defense-ministry/

Now that’s both killed and wounded, and based on analysis of leaked docs from US DoD. How much is any of it true? Probably will know in 50 years or so, but whatever the exact number is, it’s likely more than they’ve lost in all military actions combined since WWII.

Reminds me of Mel Brooks’ reaction to criticism of The Producers from fellow Jews.

“I didn’t think I was sinful in any way,” he says. “I thought it was making a point: You get up on a soapbox and you argue with a Nazi, you’re going to lose. But if you can ridicule him and make people laugh, then you win. It’s as simple as that.”

In the grand scheme of things, this doesn’t matter but it does demonstrate what an amateur hour his campaign is. So enjoy it for that reason if nothing else.

Yeah, it’s funny - it was setup before the president and vp ran on the same ticket and before the advent of political parties. It was anticipating an issue that ended up never really being a problem because the system and political environment changed so drastically

https://www.history.com/news/can-the-president-and-vice-president-be-from-the-same-state

And nothing I said implies otherwise. My point is that I would be far more impressed if she actually put in the work rather than just grandstanding. But you do you.

I don’t disagree with any of that, but again that context wasn’t obvious in your original post.

Also, those anti-democratic tendencies are inherent in all large organizations. And yes, it takes constant pressure to limit it, but that pressure needs to have a laser-like focus to be effective - otherwise bureaucracy and inertia win. That said, I’ve been involved in politics for almost 40 years, and the cliquish, insular, shambling monstrosity of the DNC is a mess - but it’s still actually better run and more open than any nationwide Democratic or GOP political committee in this country’s history. I mean the bar is on the floor in that regards, but progress and success are possible if done smartly.