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scathach, 9 days ago to random

Oooh Trump is a convicted felon now?! That means he can't be president right? Hopefully the red team seethes really hard, this should be fun to watch :comfypopcorn:

shrimp, 9 days ago to random

solidsanek, 9 days ago to random

I ask this every few months now I think but there's still no equivalent to the Firefox tab containers in Chromium, right?

sun, 9 days ago to random

@alex I want to make a userscript like "Dissenter" that uses Nostr as its substrate. I checked the NIPs to see if there was any event type that was suitable for this but didn't find a perfect match. Would it be acceptable to create a new Event type for "comment on URI" that is just an additional field on short text events, or just like ram the URI into a tag field and use as-is?

18+ gabriel, 9 days ago to random

This article has a pretty blatant admission that "russian bots spreading misinfo" was always a lie. But it was an effective lie to normalize the escalation of online censorship.

In the second study published Thursday, a multi-university group reached the rather shocking conclusion that 2,107 registered U.S. voters accounted for spreading 80% of the “fake news” (which term they adopt) during the 2020 election.

Yet these were no state-sponsored plants or bot farms. “Supersharers’ massive volume did not seem automated but was rather generated through manual and persistent retweeting,” the researchers wrote. (Co-author Nir Grinberg clarified to me that “we cannot be 100% sure that supersharers are not sock puppets, but from using state-of-the-art bot detection tools, analyzing temporal patterns and app use they do not seem automated.”)

The way it argues that free speech shouldn't exist at all is staggering, but it gets even better.> They compared the supersharers to two other sets of users: a random sampling and the heaviest sharers of non-fake political news. They found that these fake newsmongers tend to fit a particular demographic: older, women, white and overwhelmingly Republican.

Supersharers were only 60% female compared with the panel’s even split, and significantly but not wildly more likely to be white compared with the already largely white group at large. But they skewed way older (58 on average versus 41 all-inclusive), and some 65% Republican, compared with about 28% in the Twitter population then.
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As Baribi-Bartov et al. darkly conclude, “These findings highlight a vulnerability of social media for democracy, where a small group of people distort the political reality for many.

So they're basically admitting that the full weight of state and corporate propaganda can't compete with middle aged women exercising their free speech. The author is clearly not opposed to a small group of people having influence, he's just mad it's not his paymasters.

sun, 10 days ago to random

sun, 10 days ago to random

the hognose snake when it perceives danger, pretends to die dramatically

tk, 10 days ago to random

sun, 10 days ago to random

LLMs consume less power than it takes to manufacture a fursuit

why, 10 days ago to random

how to take a screenshot linux

ageha, 10 days ago to random

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sun, 10 days ago to random

bitch you don't even know the OSI model

strypey, 10 days ago to random

Seems Biden is stuck between Iraq and a hard place. While some are calling him "genocide joe" for his handling of the campus occupations...

"I Morton Klein, as an American Jew, as a child of Holocaust survivors, have become frightened at the Biden-Lipstadt administration legitimizing antisemitism and Israel-bashing and making it extremely difficult for Jewish groups to fight [the BDS movement] on campus as antisemitic and antisemitic members of Congress as antisemites."

https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/06/01/biden-touts-cair-splc-antisemitism-push-muddies-waters-israel-hours-major-jewish-holiday/

nosleep, 10 days ago to random

would you frot with me in the frotdog 🥺

sun, 12 days ago to random

You have problems, I have problems too. I also think this dumpster fire of a country is going to collapse soon. But unlike you I don't have youth or health anymore, so I am mega-fucked when it happens, unlike you.

adiz, 13 days ago to random

Tfw no thicc light-brown latina socal girl travel-avoidant kid-friendly school-teacher Fediverse-user gf

volpeon, 11 months ago to random

By federating with is-a.wyvern.rip, you agree to pat the dragon ​:drgn_up_cute:​