davel

davel, 2 days ago

I watched münecat’s new 3.333 hour video essay this weekend: I Debunked Evolutionary Psychology

davel, 2 days ago

My understanding is that most Saudi citizens have it quite good, being bribed by superprofits and using non-citizen residents as practically slave labor.

davel, 8 days ago

xi-button logout amerikkka

davel, 8 days ago

Why make points that are devastating to your case, gov’na? sit-back-and-enjoy

davel, 9 days ago

all they know is jerrymander’s, call they donors, campaign, be bipartisan, eat hot chip & lie

davel, 15 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie#Modern_Internet_uses is the new https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_theory is the new https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Bolshevism, all antisemitic.

davel, 16 days ago

• Atlantic Council
  • Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web
    • Report: Scaling Trust on the Web
      • Annex 5: Collective Security in a Federated World (PDF)

Many discussions about social media governance and trust and safety are focused on a small number of centralized, corporate-owned platforms that currently dominate the social media landscape: Meta’s Facebook and Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, and a handful of others. The emergence and growth in popularity of federated social media services, like Mastodon and Bluesky, introduces new opportunities, but also significant new risks and complications. This annex offers an assessment of the trust and safety (T&S) capabilities of federated platforms—with a particular focus on their ability to address collective security risks like coordinated manipulation and disinformation.

Centralized and decentralized platforms share a common set of threats from motivated malicious users—and require a common set of investments to ensure trustworthy, user-focused outcomes. Emergent distributed and federated social media platforms offer the promise of alternative governance structures that empower consumers and can help rebuild social media on a foundation of trust. Their decentralized nature enables users to act as hosts or moderators of their own instances, increasing user agency and ownership, and platform interoperability ensures users can engage freely with a wide array of product alternatives without having to sacrifice their content or networks. Unfortunately, they also have many of the same propensities for harmful misuse by malign actors as mainstream platforms, while possessing few, if any, of the hard-won detection and moderation capabilities necessary to stop them. More troublingly, substantial technological, governance, and financial obstacles hinder efforts to develop these necessary functions.

As consumers explore alternatives to mainstream social media platforms, malign actors will migrate along with them—a form of cross-platform regulatory arbitrage that seeks to find and exploit weak links in our collective information ecosystem. Further research and capability building are necessary to avoid the further proliferation of these threats.

davel, 19 days ago

blue-check State-affiliated media

davel, 20 days ago

im-doing-my-part I’m doing my posting!

davel, 21 days ago

This bad centrist can fit so many fucking holes in it.

davel, 24 days ago

Reform & Revolution DSA

It was Reform , and the answer was revolution, you fucking donkeys.

https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/695598a2-7c93-44a2-9990-8110b1a1fd1e.png

davel, 25 days ago

kelly Antifa super-duper soldiers

davel, 27 days ago

I might have. Bourgeios revolution for slave owning settlers ain’t all that.

davel, 1 month ago

en.wikipedia.org/…/Columbine_High_School_massacre

The Columbine massacre was the deadliest mass shooting at a K-12 school in U.S. history, until it was surpassed by the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in December 2012, and later the Uvalde school shooting in May 2022

jesus-christ

davel, 1 month ago

The original NYT article is purtier.

• nytimes.com/…/cia-ukraine-intelligence-russia-war…
• Original: archive.today/…/cia-ukraine-intelligence-russia-w…
• Updated: archive.today/…/cia-ukraine-intelligence-russia-w…

davel, 1 month ago

This sounds completely unhinged, and I’m struggling to understand why/how Reuters published this uncritical piece that just seems to be a press release.

davel, 1 month ago

Is it too late for him to run as the 99.5% Hitler spoiler candidate?

davel, 1 month ago

$1488 OFF

jesus-christ

davel, 1 month ago

He’s not especially bright nor informed, but he’s also a nepo baby of oligarchy and has been a constituent of the military-intelligence-industrial complex for decades. It’s hard to tell what he’s saying that he actually believes vs what he’s saying to propagandize, and I don’t bother trying to differentiate the two.

davel, 1 month ago

What were all the previously-dead doing up until then, waiting in purgatory for Jesus to hurry up and die already?

davel, 1 month ago

Yup. Though sometimes they do the opposite and waive away any historical context or complexity because actually it’s simple, stupid.

Please don’t adopt their framing of this concentration camp genocide as a “war”.

davel, 2 months ago

Unfortunately he’s probably doing it because he’s actually anti-semitic

Who knows what propagandists actually believe. They’re actors playing a characters to influence public opinion and make money.

davel, 2 months ago

Radical recuperator.

This neoliberal prankster is thus the epitome of a radical recuperator. He cultivates and markets the appearance of radicality in order to recuperate potentially radical elements in society, particularly young people and students, within the pro-imperialist anti-communist fold. This is precisely why he is the most famous ‘Marxist’ in the capitalist world, festooned by the likes of a journal linked to the engine of U.S. imperialism. His mantra is nothing but an opportunistic perversion of the closing lines of The Communist Manifesto: “Cultural consumers of the pro-Western world unite—and buy my next book, or movie, or crossover product, or whatever, and so on, and so on!”