Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org
Joined Dec 2022
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The crisis group CK SOS, which helps LGBTQ+ people and their family members who find themselves in mortal danger in the North Caucasus, claims that there are "a growing number of 'rehabilitation centers' in Russia that supposedly treat homosexuality, transgenderism or atheism."
Xgayru
https://www.xgayru.info/news/rainbow/2023/02/07-46783.htm
#humanrights #LGBTQmentalhealth #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #Trans #Queer #Atheism #StopRussiaNow #StopRussiaAgression
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Catholic hospitals are really going all in on 'forcing women to get pregnant against their will.'
#BirthJustice
#ReproJustice
#WomensReproHealth
#Abortion #BirthControl
https://coloradosun.com/2023/01/31/durango-hospital-tubal-ligations/
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@freemo IIRC, obviously your statement is correct at one level. Many studies have shown pretty strongly that there's no causal link between, say, violent video games and real-life violence. But I think the relatively-recent rise in anti-Asian violence (a subject near and dear to my heart) points to a much subtler effect.
My hypothesis is that when X number of isolated people harbor anti-Asian hatred (for example), but all of society is collectively telling them that's wrong, they mumble and grumble and keep their hatred to themselves, but when that same number of people are no longer isolated, but find themselves supported in large numbers by something like a large online community, a prominent political leader, or both, well, clearly the mask comes off, and the violence becomes very real.
This is why people are rightly (IMO) worried about the limits of speech on the internet.
Another example: there have been people angry at the government for decades, but it seems like it took Facebook connecting them and feeding them information they wanted to see about how to act on that hate, plus a prominent political leader spouting related nonsense, for them to travel to Washington DC and try to overthrow the government.
Seeing hateful nonsense isn't going to turn you or me into a hateful person. It isn't going to turn anyone who isn't already hateful into a hateful person. But leaving it available provides a very thin patina of credibility, and since information on the internet is not generally divorced from the people posting it, it also provides a means of social connection when left in place.
One angry hateful person is a person. Angry hateful people online are literally the basis of a violent armed mob.
This is why I'm actually finding myself more and more against an "anything goes" policy online, while still very strongly supporting free speech in person.
If you're willing to stand on a street corner and speak what you believe is true, anybody that is willing to be seen associating with you can do so, and I don't think anybody should interfere. If you want to print a crank newsletter and pass it out, go ahead. In this is freedom!
But it takes nothing, less than nothing, to post nasty stuff online, where it lives side-by-side in the same interface with good information, granting it that very thin patina of credibility I mentioned, and associations are anonymous or hidden until it's too late.
I don't think that's so simple. I think all of this [waves at everything] demonstrates that.
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Former Republican State Senator in Arkansas sentenced for stealing and misappropriating thousands of dollars in state campaign contributions for his own personal use and then filed false federal income tax returns from 2011 to 2014 to conceal his conduct. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-arkansas-state-senator-sentenced-bribery-and-tax-fraud
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NYPD Narcotics Detective Facing 26 Criminal Charges Walks After Prosecutors Withhold Evidence https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/06/nypd-narcotics-detective-facing-26-criminal-charges-walks-after-prosecutors-withhold-evidence/
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A 6-year-old Virginia boy who shot and wounded his first-grade teacher constantly cursed at staff and teachers, tried to whip students with his belt and once choked another teacher “until she couldn’t breathe,” according to a legal notice filed by an attorney for the wounded teacher. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/6-year-old-boy-shot-teacher-allegedly-tried-choke-another-rcna69440
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The suspected Chinese spy balloon that the U.S. shot down over the weekend was 200 feet tall, officials say — or roughly four times the size of the Snoopy balloon at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/downed-chinese-balloon-was-200-feet-tall-us-military-says-rcna69371
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Silicon Valley needs to stop laying off workers and start firing CEOs
Link: https://www.businessinsider.com/fire-blame-ceo-tech-employee-layoffs-google-facebook-salesforce-amazon-2023-2
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34687125
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Even when I'm being paid to wait for it to stop spinning, I hate that fucking beach ball!
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The Fed raised interest rates again. That’s the eighth consecutive hike. They say even more are coming.
This puts workers and consumers on the frontline of fighting inflation.
But corporations largely responsible for driving up prices get away scot-free.
It's outrageous.
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Mike Pence: ‘We’ve got to have a conversation’ about reforming Social Security. Saying that 70% of government spending is on entitlement programs, Pence asserted, “And the truth is we’ve got to have a conversation.”
The vast majority of voter would disagree that a discussion is necessary regarding SS—especially considering that the source of the money is the recipients and their employers. We think the discussion should be about tax rates for the wealthy and corporations.
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WaPo (Opinion): “The 1619 Project” is not divisive or anti-American. It’s about showing Black Americans what we’ve been through and what we’re capable of and honoring those, Black and White, who sacrificed so much so that we could continue our fight against racism. Teaching Black history is about showing us, after all we’ve been through and are still going through, that we are all truly Americans."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/02/05/black-history-good-1619-project/
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The next time a journalist quotes Musk claiming he loves free speech and transparency -- but fails to note that Musk's actions contradict that claim -- should go into PR and stop pretending.
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I'm involved in a project that uses the Twitter and Reddit APIs to help journalists send corrections/updates down the same social media pathways as the original story. With Musk and minions pulling the plug there, we're urgently investigating fediverse/Mastodon possibilities. I wish journalists would do that, too, because we could really help them out with this tool.
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We added more than half a million jobs to our economy in January, exceeding expectations by a long shot.
We’re building an America we can take pride in – one where working families have good-paying jobs and more breathing room.
#BidenBoom
#DarkBrandonRising
#BidensSpeech
#Biden2024
#BidenDelivers
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There was some mystery surrounding this bill, and I was wondering what they would do to make it worse, so here it is: once it passes, DeSantis will be able to hold future WDW Orlando projects hostage if the corporation at large doesn’t demonstrate an appropriate level of fealty and cater to his whims. https://www.wsj.com/articles/florida-lawmakers-move-to-take-over-disneys-special-tax-district-11675717239
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@CRSG @stopgopfox 62% of Baltimore is black, according to Google. I suspect that had something to do with it. The guy is an actual Nazi.
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@TonyStark the press isn't doing the job of informing us that we want and need and then insists that we pay them to continue posting garbage "infotainment". I'm done with it.
