www.pravda.com.ua Zelenskyy in Bucha: Russia made hatred its ideology to initiate such acts of aggression – video
Ukrainian President paid tribute to the memory of Ukrainians killed during the Russian occupation of the Bucha hromada
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1968 book "War and Peace in the Global Village" by Canadian Professor Marshall McLuhan - #WWWOpera #FinWakeIndraNet
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Back to the Future year 1985 : “We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy"
“We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares.
But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell's dark vision, there was another - slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one
newrepublic.com The High Cost of the GOP’s Reckless Decision to Withhold Aid to Ukraine
The Republican Party is full of “sycophantic cowards who would gladly watch Ukrainians get killed if it meant Trump had a higher chance of winning reelection,” according to one American veteran training Ukrainian soldiers.
People didn’t purge their comments to remove this information from the public, but they purged it from reddit making money off limiting the access to this information.
Reddit was always making money off their content. The tragedy is that the common knowledge is destroyed. They didn't bother to copy it to a public place, they just nuked information and context. The loss is for newcomers on any topics. The result is the same old questions being asked over and over, which all social media sites (including Lemmy thrive on FRESH content).
I think people who single out hate and dehumanization and violence in one spot have tunnel vision. Hate and violence is all bad. Hate is incredibly popular in drawing a crowd, but overall it is better to criticize all hate like Martin Luther King Jr. did. MLKJr would emphasize not just hate from white to blacks in USA, but all hate in the human brain in general. Too many people want to use hate as an organization tool, weaponize gangs of hate over something or another, and I'm sick of all the crossfire. With social media, it's everywhere.
Free and open information, like Wikipedia, used to be an ideal. I have used Reddit since 2008 or earlier because it got on search engines and shared information consistently on precise topics. Twitter used to also be this way, but now mostly only puts paid subscribers on search engines.
If you are to organize information around topics, such as a Commodore 64 community, and the protocol openly allows copies to be made via federation, I encourage people to have the attitude that information be treated like Wikipedia content. It sucks now that so much information from 10 years ago has been just entirely lost now that so many deliberately purged their Reddit comments, etc. Tragedy of the commons. And it drags down the entire planet that people squirrel away discussions on topics that are generally public. It's like now everyone wants to monetize even their discussions on Commodore 64 or automotive repair / have behind absolute control or paywalls /etc.
While I agree with what you are saying, I think audiences crave the falsehoods strongly, regardless of how the sausage is made. And I know that the technology itself may be regulated for normal consumers, while 'professionals' will use their wealth to get another set of technology that does it better. Much like in the USA prostitution is generally illegal, but filing sex for pornography media is legal. There really are not very many preaching to level the playing fields on media production hardware. And if you look at the energy requirements and cost of a high-end GPU just as run-time, you can start to get the sense of how a $15,000 camera is going to be able to do post-production that a consumer smartphone won't have.
James Joyce has entered the chat
Anybody else feel like Lemmy is like 60% Russian trolls lately?
China and Russia both
if I need a Chrome based browser
I don't think Chromium has "gone bad"? They make a WIndows and macOS build too, not just Linux: https://chromium.woolyss.com/download/en/
It isn't funny. It's exactly how Trump got into so much society power in the first place! "Mock mock mockery" behavior!
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/12/31/bbcs_adam_curtis_on_the_contradictory_vaudeville_of_post-modern_politics.html
On The "Contradictory Vaudeville" Of Post-Modern Politics
What this film is going to suggest is that that defeatist response has become a central part of a new system of political control. And to understand how this is happening, you have to look to Russia...
NOTHING stops this, because people keep mocking back. And it isn't just one single individual, Donald Trump, but multiple families (Rupert Murdoch, etc) and millions of people who believe QAnon / "Q" without there being any person, just a constant barrage of leadership icons mocking truth, mocking sincerity, mocking the Constitution, it is a media cult of ignorance! NOTHING STOPS IT! 10 years and 10 months of this!
Donald Trump Is Galactically Angry at Nikki Haley for the Funniest Reason: The former president is suddenly very much opposed to anyone who fails to accept an election loss
Tori Otten
January 24, 2024
Donald Trump celebrated winning the New Hampshire primary in his signature style: a series of deluded ravings. But connoisseurs of the former president’s rants were treated to an unexpected dollop of irony last night, as Trump came out against the losers of elections laying claim to victory.
Trump was the victor Tuesday night, winning the Granite State’s Republican primary with 54.5 percent of the vote. Nikki Haley came second, but her 43.2 percent support was far higher than anyone initially expected—a fact she celebrated as she promised supporters she would keep pushing.
Haley’s resilience immediately infuriated Trump, who turned his victory speech into a Haley roast. “I find in life, you can’t let people get away with bullshit,” he said, flanked by the nightmare blunt rotation of Vivek Ramaswamy, Tim Scott, and Eric Trump.
“And when I watched her in the fancy dress—that probably wasn’t so fancy—come up, I said, ‘What’s she doing? We won.’ And sh
Bad Dog seems to have a YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/@BadDogDC but they aren't off to a good start. All the songs they uploaded are marked as YouTube Kids which means you can't even playlist them.
Twitter / X is the drug, tiny little bits of LSD drug. www.LazyWake.com for video by media expert Marshall McLuhan.
Rumors, happenings, and innovations in the technology sphere. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.
This fits with the "Rumors" of technology company of this community.
X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists With No Explanation (Elon Musk, Twitter)
www.vice.com X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists With No Explanation
Ken Klippenstein, Steven Monacelli, and Alan MacLeod were all suspended from the platform.
By Carl Sagan; January 9, 1994 - 30 years ago today - WITH SCIENCE ON OUR SIDE
IBM, Lions Gate, Apple, EU... https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-x-antisemitism-twitter-ads-83e68f03e9bf1d261c1a8c55066c4e59
"Je ne vois pas dans la religion le mystère de l'Incarnation mais le mystère de l'Ordre Social. La religion rattache au ciel une idée d'égalité qui empêche le riche d'être massacré par le pauvre." (Napoléon Bonaparte / 1769-1821 / au Conseil d'Etat, le 4 mars 1806)
Chicago Obama Foundation's Democracy Forum. Obama: Israel-Hamas war forcing 'moral reckoning on all of us' I 1 hour full speech from November 3, 2023 (many economic, social media, A.I. topics)
Biden warns the US is at an 'inflection point in history' | ABCNL
You obviously are so well versed on /c/Politics that you don't even know what Cambridge Analytica did to the population? Steve Bannon?
When presented with a citations, mocking is a typical symptom of the problem. Low-effort one-line junk responses to a total article.
It's odd how many people think Fox News language behavior isn't a concern.
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/09/fox-news-trump-language-stelter-hoax/616309/
People so strung out on memes they chase any free sample feed, inclusive of Lemmy.
We are in an Information War and I don't see enough peer to peer friendships being made between The People of China and everyday people in USA, South America, Africa, North America, Europe, Australia, etc.
I don't see China people on GitHub and YouTube like I did 5 years ago. Maybe the real war is power over technology and all of humanity isn't winning. Isn't that another way to interpret Climate Change, an education mistake on a global scale? Advertising and marketing defeating science teachers? The love for the singe-passenger automobile 9 to 5 commute job - exceeding the reality of global climate physics?
Like they say in The Orville - Dolly Parton was a hero! she basically turned out to be a great teacher, like Mr. Rogers on the true problems of childhood. 9 to 5 was kind of like showing children what your divorced single mother was having to go through. Not to say that fit the relationships in the film itself, but the office environment of white collar world. The technology of the Office Workplace and the era of typewriters as business machines. EDIT: It's a real War: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6Do6VWUxyg
I don't agree, other than the dogwhstle use of the phrase problem that is ongoing. But back to my point: there are reasons Cambridge Analytica and Surkov style meme warfare from the IRA go for this topic, because there WAS a transcendence in The Bible, there factually was The Enlightenment
People think we are living in Holocaust Denial... no, what Fox News, Alex Jones, and Trump present is described by Neil Postman... Enlightenment Denial is what killed good in the USA. www.Romans1132.com -James Joyce unraveled all these media mind games back when Edward Bernays was doing his thing!
Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
Wake me up when September ends
Like my fathers come to pass
Seven years has gone so fast
Wake me up when September ends
Here comes the rain again
Falling from the stars
Drenched in my pain again
Becoming who we are
As my memory rests
But never forgets what I lost
Wake me up when September ends
www.reuters.com US House passes bipartisan bill to avoid government shutdown
Time remains short to avoid the federal government's fourth partial shutdown in a decade, which will begin at 12:01 a.m. ET on Sunday unless the Democratic-majority Senate passes the bill and President Joe Biden signs it into law in time.
Latest information is often of the highest quality on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qaraqosh_wedding_fire
114 deaths reported so far.
apnews.com US allows Israeli citizens to travel to US visa-free as Israel joins a select group of countries
The Biden administration has admitted Israel into a select group of countries whose citizens are allowed to travel to the United States without getting a visa in advance.
Around 100 people killed, 150 injured in a fire at a wedding hall in Iraq
www.nbcnews.com Around 100 people killed in a fire at a wedding hall in Iraq
The blaze was seemingly caused by fireworks set off to celebrate at the event in Nineveh province, a predominantly Christian area just outside of the city of Mosul.
www.theguardian.com US surgeons are killing themselves at an alarming rate. One decided to speak out
The grueling profession has long kept silent about mental distress. After losing a friend, Carrie Cunningham began telling her own story
apnews.com As mental health worsens among Afghanistan's women, the UN is asked to declare 'gender apartheid'
The U.N.’s most powerful body is being asked to support governments seeking to legally declare the crackdown by Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on women and girls “gender apartheid."
China is flooding Taiwan with disinformation: With elections looming, China wants Taiwanese voters to think America is their greatest threat
www.economist.com China is flooding Taiwan with disinformation
With elections looming, China wants Taiwanese voters to think America is their greatest threat
newrepublic.com Trump Goes Full Deranged, Suggests Charging People He Doesn’t Like With Treason
This is not a joke. Donald Trump is stating very plainly what he would do if reelected.
Hollywood Writers reach tentative deal with studios to end strike after nearly 150 days
www.cnbc.com Writers reach tentative deal with studios to end strike after nearly 150 days
Talks between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers resumed last week after months of starts and stops.
www.businessinsider.com Rudy Giuliani 'may have been compromised' by the Kremlin, and FBI leaders didn't care, alleges special agent Johnathan Buma
Much of what we knew about Giuliani, Hunter Biden, Burisma, and the FBI is wrong, according to a new interview with FBI whistleblower Johnathan Buma.
theguardian.com US book bans and attempted bans rise as efforts extend to public libraries
American Library Association notes efforts to ban titles have spread beyond school libraries to those open to general public
Elon Musk’s Tweet Criticizing Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Sparks Outrage
www.kyivpost.com Musk’s Tweet Criticizing Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Sparks Outrage
Elon Musk, who faces a Senate probe for his role in hindering a 2022 Ukrainian attack on Crimea, seems to share David Sacks’ view against US support for Ukraine’s counteroffensive.
Family of bullied teen who died after student punched him reaches historic $27 million settlement, lawyers say. "Diego Stolz's family"
www.nbcnews.com Family of bullied teen who died after student punched him reaches historic $27M settlement
Diego Stolz's family said they made several complaints that he was being bullied. Their attorneys say it is the largest school bullying settlement in U.S. history.
