volkris @volkris@social.cleverlibre.org
Since I guess everything is political these days, I'll identify as extremely liberal but without a home in US politics.
Mainly, there's so much misinformation out there that people in society have trouble even organizing into coherent political groupings. So I'd rather not talk about politics but instead focus on information and education. Nothing else matters until the bedrock of fact is buttressed.
So: Old man yells at clouds is a famous joke from The Simpsons, and it probably fairly describes what we do when venting on social media.
Joined Dec 2022
Sarah Hoyt writing on Instapundit is clutching at her pearls that a foreigner was brought in to teach "ENGLISH literature and writing to AMERICAN students" [sic].
If only there was some clue in there that someone outside of the country might have something to contribute on the topic...
volkris
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#BrianKilmeade ―
How many black people have to stand next to #Trump before people stop calling him racist?
Then:
Look, Evander Holyfield stood next to him the other day!
[goes on to tell a story about Holyfield making bad choices]
#USPolitics
BBC is reporting that their own "cyber correspondent" is so unaware of his area of reporting that he didn't know PHP existed?
What's next, BBC saying their sports correspondent didn't know football had field markings?
Wow.
The president has dementia and says whatever comes into his broken brain.
A party to save? He barely knows it exists. He has only to keep saying things that get him applause from whoever happens to be around him.
No reason to look any deeper than that.
The problem is that Trump matches every good thing with something even worse.
It's like someone asking for credit for lowering salt in their diet as they're in the process of sawing off their foot.
If Trump would stop doing the awful stuff then we'd have time and space to talk more about the good things.
@byteseu sundowning.
Where I think you go wrong is that Neo-Nazism has something approach a coherent philosophy, world view, and/or strategy.
Trump doesn't seem to be at the level of any of that, as he just vomits into the microphone.
Normalizing his Neo-Nazism is giving him too much credit. This is just normalizing WWE style shit talking without anything behind it.
@CameronDev you say the moderation burden is hidden from us, and I'd say this is a context where we shouldn't just brush past that.
That the moderation burden on #Fediverse is hidden from users is itself a problem that deserves addressing! It's a sword of two edges, burdening admins while disempowering users.
@rkunnema brings up cryptographic methods to address fundamental problems related to moderation, identity, which brings a chance to reevaluate the whole pattern of moderation centralized on instance moderators.
So OK, we're concerned about the censorship potential of EUID, but there are similar issues with, well, our burdening of instance admins.
Perhaps a well-designed EUID-type scheme could actually be a step forward from what we have now.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5334/text
Forget the judicial branch internal processes, how about this link from current events where Congress actively empowered Trump to waive Russian sanctions?
Again, this is up to Congress, not the courts. They can impeach the guy, but instead they actively empower him.
That can't be said for mere opinions that SCOTUS operates on.
That sort of story is a leap, and probably a counterproductive one, building Trump up into the effective administrator he and his supporters want him to be.
Frankly, that kind of talk got him reelected.
Instead just go with Occam's Razor: simply, the guy has no idea what he's doing so he keeps losing, failing his voters, stumbling into struggles international and domestic.
He's a convicted felon not as part of some grand master plan but because he's honestly just an incompetent loser.
The DoJ losses in court are because he's simply a loser.
I suspect they're using the investigation as an opportunity to bash DC government and extend federal control over day to day operations there.
We'll see how appropriate it is in the end.
You'd do better to aim at web of trust type solutions where folks verify each other without a central authority. They're still cryptographic, just without the downsides.
But no, that censorship is detectable doesn't make it much better.
What, we're supposed to be happy that our concerns are proven after the fact?
First the generations forget how to use it. Then the generations forget why to use it.
It's one of those stories that captures something more general, a natural evolution.
More importantly, what's NOT happening.
Have the people we elected to Congress impeached Trump and removed him from office? No.
That's the way forward, and it has absolutely nothing to do with the Supreme Court. This SCOTUS fingerpointing is irrelevant distraction. It makes for good drama and clickbait, but it's up to a different branch of government to remove the guy.
@xs4me2 in the US design of government, SCOTUS can't cover the president. That's not how the system works.
The president is held accountable by the folks we elect to Congress. SCOTUS has little to do with that interaction.
If we elect people who will impeach the president, then they'll do so regardless of what SCOTUS thinks about it. If they won't, then again, they won't regardless of what SCOTUS thinks.
Too often politicians refuse to hold Trump accountable but try to shift blame to SCOTUS for their own failures. We need to soundly tell them no.
But what's the goal?
If the goal is to cut off payments to Russia so it can't fund its war, then any getting through fails the goal.
If the goal is to manage a foreign policy then we need to see the policy against the current trade flows regardless of what was occurring in a previous foreign policy.
This alone doesn't answer much.
@mhjohnson
The thing is, we have cryptographic techniques that can mathematically, and nearly instantly, prove the integrity of a vote count. We just don't apply them.
We don't need to regress to printing and scanning poll tapes any more than we need to go back to 8 track cassettes.
Let's move forward to state of the art, provably secure computer systems instead of the glitzy stuff we deploy today that disappoints after lowbidding contracts.
@mhjohnson This article gets so much wrong from its fundamental assertions through its misrepresentations of things it's quoting. At that point, why believe its conclusions?
It starts with excerpts like this: "Hammack’s specific concern that too many businesses have pricing power, which is leading to excessive wage growth. She’s known as a monetary ‘hawk,’ which means her view is that the Fed needs to hike rates, and ultimately throw the economy into a recession so wages stop growing."
No, that's not how that works, that's not how any of that works.
volkris
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Since I guess everything is political these days, I'll identify as extremely liberal but without a home in US politics.
Mainly, there's so much misinformation out there that people in society have trouble even organizing into coherent political groupings. So I'd rather not talk about politics but instead focus on information and education. Nothing else matters until the bedrock of fact is buttressed.
So: Old man yells at clouds is a famous joke from The Simpsons, and it probably fairly describes what we do when venting on social media.
Joined Dec 2022
