psychothumbs @ psychothumbs @lemmy.world

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It seems like Kisin's real point that he's not willing to come out and say is that he thinks western human nature is fundamentally and permanently different from the nature of non-westerners. Basically "look at these Hamas barbarians, this proves all my racial prejudices right!"

The word libertarian was used to mean something more leftist before that term was claimed by the modern America right wing libertarian movement, but that movement was never anything but a catspaw for right wing oligarchs.

This is so bizarre, why repeatedly go after him for what was obviously just an awful accident?

I was on Mastodon starting soon after Musk bought twitter, and bluesky few the last few months. Mastodon is a lot more similar to lemmy in terms of being part of the fediverse, while bluesky sort of claims to be going for a federated thing of its own but so far is pretty much just a centralized server like twitter so far. Perhaps because of that, I find bluesky a lot more engaging and more similar to pre-Musk twitter. A lot of the choices the Mastodon creators implemented were deliberately reducing virality and "one big chatroom" feel that I at least liked about twitter. I wasn't looking for those changes, just a microblogging social network not owned by fascists.

So basically if you want something like lemmy go with Mastodon, if you want something old twitter go with bluesky.

I'll forever be in mourning that Signal shot themselves in the foot and stopped functioning as an SMS app replacement

Wow it may get rid of those annoying alerts too? Win-win!

Yeah it's definitely not a twitter only problem, the internet is getting so puritanical these days. Both Apple as you mention and payment processors using their influence inappropriately bear a lot of the blame.

Fingers crossed Republican isolationism spreads from their opposition to one of America's few unambiguously morally justified foreign interventions in Ukraine to opposing the usual run of bloodthirsty imperialist interventions too. Not holding my breath though, their principle is "always support what does more harm" not isolationism

Haha I don't think Musk is happy about articles describing how bad a job he's doing.

It turned out to have no basis in reality - the person telling the story turned out to be the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the US or something like that.

I need something in between this and a Kindle. I don't want to build my own electronics, I just want to buy them from somewhere without sketchy ulterior motives for how they'll use their control over my device.

It came out yesterday. You are probably looking at the date on the screenshot of an article that it starts with rather than the date of this article at the top.

It's a reference to a pretty good song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2HH7J-Sx80

Yeah the only problem with bluesky is that it still has such strict limits on who can join, and even who can see the content. Can't exactly make it your online home for announcements and such if most people can't see them there even if they wanted to.

You have some beef with them? They're mostly pretty good if a bit centrist for my taste, basically a bunch of professors commenting on the issues of the day.

Oh wow they said they gave it careful consideration? Case closed must be the right move. How did I miss that??

I assumed the piracy sub would be a safe space for this sort of thing

I do not approve of this kind of itchy trigger finger to defederate. Hopefully this decision is reversed in time like the piracy one was.

Meaning what? It's an opinion piece referencing Gottheimer's words as quoted by Politico, I don't think there's any questionable facts in here.

The key to understanding it is they're pro-war, and in Ukraine pro-war means supporting the Russian invasion.