I gotta reread Vinge’s Rainbows End

Wait. You’re advocating for collective punishment for Americans resisting Trump?

Recognizing bias is indeed important. But every source has some bias. Refusing to engage with biased sources will rule out everything. If you think it doesn’t rule out something, you’ve found your own bias! Good, it’s powerful to know your own bias.

Neutrality is in fact its own bias. Not everything need or should be neutral.

So, check the source. Eff? OK you know or can readily discover they are going to have a bias toward protecting individuals online. Read the piece knowing that and you can get valuable information from it.

If you like, you can reference the information with attribution, Eg “the Eff says…” to avoid taking on their own bias as your own.

As a reader, you can’t rely on headlines to be a replacement for reading the article. Headlines tend to be shorter than the corresponding article and require a level of summarization to be effective.

Unconventional choice, as it is 3D, but Supraland. Fantastic world to explore, so satisfying getting new powers and reaching areas.

Your referring to faithless electors and, no, it’s blatant misinformation to claim that swung any recent election.

It’s no coincidence the escalation occurred right as his feud with Elon Musk was growing.

I enjoyed that book. Really apropos reading in these times, an interest examination of “post truth” ideas.

And that “certain level” is very low. The media narrative is trying to make it seem much higher than it is. They largely omit the speeches, the chanting, the dancing, and the standing around. They minimize the extraordinarily violent response.

You’ve been led to believe this by a media narrative. The protests are not violent. The policing is violent, but the protests are not.

I read the article, but nothing can convince me the discord execs aren’t purely thinking of how ways to further enshittify.

It applies. The Microsoft requirements are different than the standard requirements. Stricter in some ways, but more lenient in others.

It’s like Infinite Jest, just an alternate timeline.

He’s not saying this because he has influence with Microsoft directly. He’s doing it because he’s Brian Eno and he will be heard, and because of the respect he’s earned amongst his peers, he will be heard by people with even louder voices. So Microsoft and other companies and consumers will hear. Hopefully with enough acts like this, companies are shamed enough that it affects their bottom lines enough that they stop supporting genocide.

Nice work. Took until about now for me to be able to upvote and post. Solid for a small org like beehaw!

I have a lifetime nebula. I’m probably about 2/3 of the way to it being positive value, but it’s such a good service that I don’t mind.

I really wish dropout had a lifetime option.

This is a big hit to gaming. Polygon was a reliable source and employed a lot of knowledgeable and passionate writers and creators. It had its critics because it didn’t cater to gamergate, but for most of us that was a good thing.

Valnet has blown up many sites before to make unreliable content farms. They practically invented the business.

I hope the laid off writers at Polygon are able to make something like 404media.

I’m confident leadership whipped the votes hard on this one, probably as a futile show of unity. That’s where the blame lies.

It would indeed be nice to see a few democrats resisting attacks on the constitution and such but in the house a small number of voices cannot block legislation like in the senate.

I would also like to hear an explanation from AOC just to understand the politics of not acting as the singular democratic “no” vote here. But I’m not going to hold her to task given the obvious failure of leadership.

I am not really in the know about Shapiro’s position on the ongoing genocide. Previously, I thought the campaign against him smelled off.

I’d like to take this article at face value, but given the publication’s track record of indirectly supporting genocide through false equivalence and whataboutism, I can’t. Unfortunately for Josh Shapiro such a defense will inevitably have the opposite effect, though I doubt he asked the Atlantic to run this piece.

I switched back to VLC a while ago after trying others. Not fancy, but it tends to just work.