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World News@beehaw.org•US bankrolls fascist Milei regime ahead of Argentine electionsEnglish
0·10 months agoMilei is the guy who gave Elon Musk his novelty chainsaw. Fascism isn’t an ideology in the traditional sense, and when a fascist-adjacent government actually becomes fascist is an exercise in individual discernment. Perhaps fascism is best described as a spectrum, and in that framing, Milei is pretty fascist. WSWS isn’t wrong – calling someone with significant fascist qualities who seeks out fascist allies a ‘fascist’ seems like a reasonable use of language.
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World News@beehaw.org•Tyler Robinson In Custody As Charlie Kirk Shooting Suspect (Live)English
0·10 months agoIts usually called an Individual in Custody Trust Account, and it varies from state to state and there’s a different system for federal crimes.
It seems like this is being prosecuted as a state crime, so you would go through the Utah Department of Corrections, usually with a money order. Follow the guidelines from the UDOC. Pay attention, if the case gets elevated to a federal crime, the procedure will change.
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Technology@beehaw.org•The Butlerian Jihad is NOT a warning against AIEnglish
2·10 months agoThe speed of technological progress tends toward an exponential curve, and Frank Herbert understood and knew this, but wanted to write a serious medieval saga set in the distant future. The Butlerian Jihad was always a plot contrivance to explain why in the thousands of years of intergalactic civilization, human life is still recognizable to us, and still recognizable from their in-story ancestors.
But just because AI was treated as an enemy by fictional fascists, doesn’t mean it was good. Fascists are enemies to other fascists. It’s an ideology that is always seeking enemies, and will either invade outwards or purge inwards - but their enemies don’t need to be ‘good’ or ‘bad,’ they only need to be ‘other.’
It can both be true that a technocratic class using thinking machines would have dominated the human race, and the force that prevented their rule is a theofascist eugenic autocracy. The theme Herbert I think would have appreciated his readers noticing is that there is no real difference between a crushing totalitarian dictatorship under an inhuman technocratic class, and a crushing totalitarian dictatorship under a charismatic leader and a religious cult.
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•Microsoft doesn't understand the FediverseEnglish
3·10 months agoWhat ghouls
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•revealing the fediverse's gifts - Erin KissaneEnglish
2·2 years agoI enjoy her writing too. Her piece on the threat of Facebook entering the Fediverse does a great job of making the case.
Fuck the Heritage Foundation.
Threads.net federation status on major Lemmy instances:
- Awful.systems - Blocked
- Beehaw.org - Blocked
- Blahaj.zone - Blocked
- DBZer0 - Blocked
- Dubvee.org - Blocked
- Eco.br - Blocked
- Feddit.org - Blocked
- Feddit.nl - Blocked
- Feddit.uk - Blocked
- Hexbear.net - Blocked
- JLai.lu - Blocked
- Leminal.space - Blocked
- Lemmy.best - Blocked
- Lemmy.ca - Blocked
- Lemm.ee - Blocked
- Lemmings.world - Blocked
- Lemmyf.uk - Blocked
- Lemmygrad.ml - Blocked
- Lemy.lol - Blocked
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- LemmyNSFW.com - Blocked
- Lemmy.one - Blocked
- Lemmy.zip - Blocked
- Literature.cafe - Blocked
- Mander.xyz - Blocked N
- Pawb.social - Blocked?
- Quokk.au - Blocked
- Reddthat - Blocked
- Sh.Itjust.works - Blocked
- SLRPNK.net - Blocked
- Szmer.info - Blocked
- Tchncs.de - Blocked
- Aggregatet.org - Not Found
- Aussie.zone - Not Found
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are some double standards in society for men ?English
01·2 years agoWow, you’re really reaching there. I’m asking you to stop blaming women for men’s problems. There’s a group of people who aren’t doing that, and if you don’t want to be called a misogynist, follow the example of that group.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are some double standards in society for men ?English
01·2 years agoI think you misunderstood me. I do think men should have an analogous space. I support !mensliberation@lemmy.ca 100%.
If you didn’t misunderstand me, men don’t need a space specifically for comparing their issues negatively against women’s issues. That space is everywhere and anywhere, as evidenced by this discussion occurring in !asklemmy@lemmy.world and collecting overwhelmingly positive upvotes.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are some double standards in society for men ?English
01·2 years agoWe had to shutter !twoxchromosomes@slrpnk.net because of persistent and vocal judgement by a large population of Lemmy users, many from Lemmy.World. So no, talking about issues specific to their gender is definitely not a double standard where men get the short end of the stick.
This is why you get judged. Because you so nakedly put on display how much ignorance and little empathy you have for women’s issues.
!mensliberation@lemmy.ca exists specifically for men who understand their issues in society are intersectional with women’s issues, and that solving them requires uniting to end patriarchy. Any discussion outside of that framing deserves the assumption that it’s a misogynist men’s pity party.
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your sayEnglish
61·2 years agoI support opening up vote logs to moderators in their own communities. Voting records add useful context to the nature of the exchanges happening, eg. if two people are having a back and forth, but neither is downvoting the other, it contextualizes the disagreement as less hostile.
I don’t think it’s a good idea to give every new user the burden of using that information responsibly. A minority would use it to retaliate, stalk, and harass, and there would be too many of them to reasonably hold them accountable.
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•Lemmy.World's !News sides with Mark Zuckerberg in Censoring PalestiniansEnglish
32·2 years agoRegardless of who it was targeted at, I’ve definitely experienced my share of similar accusations. Lemmy.world culture seems to favor low effort ‘bad faith’ accusations, and I wish that weren’t the case.
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•Lemmy.World's !News sides with Mark Zuckerberg in Censoring PalestiniansEnglish
1014·2 years agoAsk a socialist what’s wrong with Lemmy.world, they’ll give you a myriad of issues. Ask a capitalist what’s wrong with Lemmy.ml, they’ll describe Lemmy.world.
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•Lemmy.World's !News sides with Mark Zuckerberg in Censoring PalestiniansEnglish
26·2 years agoA appreciate your work demonstrating The Cradle’s support for the Russian state. It’s the first time I can remember seeing The Cradle posted on here, and in between being subscribed to these communities and my contributions to LemmyWorldDefenseHQ, I have not seen The Cradle spam as a reported or observed problem.
I’ve read the article, and I find it valuable. I’m alarmed that the Lemmy World !politics and !news mods have failed to demonstrate the pressing need for the ham-fisted gatekeeping and censorship regime they’ve implemented.
Lemmy.World is the largest instance, and !politics and !news are flagship communities. I would like to see the Fediverse overtake corporate forums, and learning to approach the spectrum of journalistic credibility with nuance is an essential feature of a better version of social media.
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•Lemmy.World's !News sides with Mark Zuckerberg in Censoring PalestiniansEnglish
26·2 years agodeleted by creator
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•Lemmy.World's !News sides with Mark Zuckerberg in Censoring PalestiniansEnglish
910·2 years agoMaybe read the article and make those determinations for yourself?
I can’t for the life of me understand why this particular article is so threatening to LW !news mods. It provides valuable insight into how Facebook’s community guidelines are experienced by journalists outside of the political mainstream and has useful lessons for why and how we might do things differently in the Fediverse.
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•Lemmy.World's !News sides with Mark Zuckerberg in Censoring PalestiniansEnglish
37·2 years agoOh, so if he sincerely believes in genocide, it’s fine.
Regardless of our conflict, we can agree that Pepe Escobar is a shithead.
There’s an old joke that goes:
Two people, a Hexbear and a Solarpunk were arguing. One said,
“On my server I can reply to an admin and say “I don’t like how you’re running things on this instance!”
“I can do that too!”
“Really?”
"Yes! I can reply to an admin and say, “I don’t like how the SLRPNK admins are running things on their instance!”
My concern is that the criteria you are using to justify banning The Cradle would also ban most United States media as well. I value the principle of a free press, and what you’re proposing is inconsistent with those values. It’s easy to call for the ban of information that disagrees with us, but unless we develop a more nuanced approach to combating propaganda, we risk replicating the values of the authoritarian systems we oppose.
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•Lemmy.World's !News sides with Mark Zuckerberg in Censoring PalestiniansEnglish
311·2 years agoIf you’d like to see it discussed elsewhere, you’re welcome to cross-post it.
This is part of culture clash between old social media culture and Fediverse norms. If moderators choose to censor this discussion as well, it’s only going to get bigger.


























Correction – SLRPNK.net’s admins are all anarchists, but the server is not ‘for’ anarchists. Limiting our membership to anarchists for one means we would have to precisely define what an anarchist is, and then enforce that definition on our membership. In spaces where someone can be ejected for not being anarchist, this leads to attempts by people to censor others by trying to narrow the definition so the people they argue with fall on the wrong side of the line.
We’re looking for people who believe in the value of scientific consensus. We’re building a community that wants society to change to better meet the challenges of resource scarcity, ecological collapse, and increasing authoritarian influence in politics. We celebrate good faith discussion, and discourage trolling and bad rhetoric. We don’t tolerate hate speech and spamming. We believe a diverse set of ideas and approaches are more likely to solve complex problems than adhering to a strict party line. As anarchists and adminstrators, we approach revolution through prefiguration, believe that means and ends are inseparable, and want our server to reflect the society of the future we’d like to live in – one where diversity of thought is foundational in finding creative answers, and people with varying goals and ideals are able to work together to solve shared problems.