millie @ millie @beehaw.org

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Maybe!

I hadn't realized that Noam Chomsky was a shit-heel. Bummer.

Loved reading this!

The solution here with the greatest reach may honestly be to just make a simple html website and post your content to other federated services that have wider user bases. Like, yeah, someone might be able to follow your posts through write-as, but I feel like cross posting to Lemmy and Mastodon will probably get more eyes on your work.

Also, from my thinking, blogs are needless and were largely a step on the way to web 2.0's service based model. If you simply have something to say and want to get it out there, you don't really necessarily need a complex system with a database to do it.

Bring back personal pages.

They just really want to be the stars of their own Bastille Day.

Systematically killing people based on their income by denying them essentials like health care, shelter, and legal protection from financial predation sounds like warfare to me. Especially when you couple it with a complete double standard on what constitutes protection from physical violence.

I feel like we're on that part of the roller coaster when you're juuuuust getting over the peak of the big hill and you feel that initial momentum. Gravity will kick in eventually. History doesn't lie.

One of these things is not like the others.

It would be nice if they'd list, separately, how many of these are shootings that actually happened during school hours with students or faculty involved rather than just like, unrelated adults shooting one another in a school zone at night. Both are bad, certainly, but it's kind of undercutting the issue to pretend one is the other when reporting the statistics. Whether that substantially pads the statistics or not, it would be good to know.

I needed that. <3

Call me when the college football fields extend all the way across the country.

You know what seems like a really good idea when we're trying to reduce carbon emissions? A bunch of new satellite networks. We could get, like, one of the least trustworthy people on Earth to launch thousands of the things and then get everyone else to launch their own because he can't be trusted. Literally just blot out the sun with them. No biggie.

There is a world of difference between being excluded from spaces where you're marginalized (such as society on the whole) and creating spaces where you aren't marginalized. Does that make sense?

I think you just do what you can and recognize that there are things you can't do. That doesn't mean that you pretend it isn't happening, but you acknowledge that you can't be a perfect preserver of all life in every single second. You can try to avoid harming things while knowing that you won't always succeed, and while understanding that sometimes you need to act even when it does cause harm, and just try to minimize it. You're probably going to crush a lot of microscopic stuff, you may even crush quite a few small insects from time to time, but you can keep something of an eye out and not do it intentionally without a good reason.

The best you can do is exercise the empathy that you're able to, try to encourage others to do the same, and let go of the parts you can't really control. You can think of it like hygiene on an outward level. Take a shower, wash your hands, brush your teeth, change your clothes, but are you going to throw your shoes away every time they touch dirt? Are you going to wash your hands every time you touch a surface? Take dozens of showers per day every time you sweat the tiniest bit? Wash your clothes again and again before even wearing them because the air itself isn't perfectly sterile? Hopefully not.

Do your best, but exercise moderation.

Cool, another paywall.

I miss the old Internet.

I mean, there is. DMCA essentially protects content hosts from copyright claims. When they get a DMCA notice, they remove the material and inform the user whose material is removed. If they want to contest it, they can submit a counter notice denying the claim and basically saying "take me to court then", with their contact info so a suit can be filed. At this point, if nothing is filed in a two week period, the host is free to consider the initial takedown notice void.

Sending a takedown notice under DMCA that's knowingly false is perjury, which would presumably come up at the court hearing.

Honestly? Good.

I don't really see this as a free speech issue. TikTok isn't being banned because of the kind of speech that's on there, it's being banned because it's a predatory app created as a means of soft power by a hostile foreign nation. Does that mean we should also shut down Twitter? Yeah. Probably.

This isn't some newspaper with dissenting opinions, is a foreign intelligence operation that simultaneously interferes with the normal operation of our democracy, puts our citizens in danger, massively inflates narcissism, and collects our user data to hand to a country that literally is actively spying on us.

Frankly, I'd be okay with tossing any similar social media with obfuscated engagement algorithms anyway. Make YouTube and Facebook bring all that shit above board while we're at it. All this is is corporate regulation, and I fully support it. Fuck TikTok.

It's good to hear that soon the NHS will be capable of launching cyber attacks again.

It astounds me that people legitimately assume that the other animals on this planet don't feel pain. It seems incredibly obvious to me that they would, or that we should at least be assuming they would.