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- Elon Musk, US oligarch, instructed Grok to post about the fictitious "White Genocide in South Africa" completely unprompted across Twitter. The Ai was forced to talk about the racist fantasy across thousands if not millions of unrelated posts in a ridiculous attempt at spreading racist propaganda.
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- Go read Red Lion and its reasoning for upholding the FD. Virtually none of that reasoning (and maybe none at all) applies to the Internet and social media.
- (Denver Post) - Pilots flying into Denver International Airport on Monday couldn’t communicate with air traffic controllers for about six minutes after multiple radio transmitters failed, according to reporting from Denver7. @denverpost.com www.denverpost.com/2025/05/15/d...
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- The FD didn’t prohibit lies, misinformation, propaganda, etc. Where do you people get that mistaken belief from, anyways?
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- They didn’t say *which* universe’s history, to be fair. 😁
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- Linear time — how does it fucking work?
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- And? That doesn’t make your statement about what the current law of free speech in the US any less blatantly incorrect.
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- Hate speech doesn’t even exist as a legal category in the US. So any threats or incitement is judged under the standard tests (like Brandenburg for incitement) that apply to all speech.
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- It’s exceedingly incorrect, as SCOTUS has said many times, including *unanimously* in 2017.
- We finally have a release date! 17 July. variety.com/2025/tv/news...
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View full threadThat is NOT to say they should be expected to just ignore it and let it slide. Not at all! It’s totally fine to be angry & to fight back against it. And it’s not to say being traumatized is intrinsically wrong/abnormal. It isn’t.
- But teaching/normalizing fragility instead of resilience as the *expected*, typical response is just nuts.)
- No one could ever see how the boundless expansion of “harm” by such indcidents of “trauma” and needing to protect people from that “harm” ten years ago could ever rebound on the people pushing it. No siree. Totally unpredictable. Completely unforeseeable.
- (On a less sarcastic note I never could & still cannot understand whose interest is being services by teaching/normalizing that students, etc. should as a matter of course be expected to be psychologically shattered by anything from being strongly disagreed with to being exposed to offensive things.
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- Thanks. I was wondering about that. I too went to their FB page and it looked pretty damned grifty. (Which isn’t to say I don’t think the administration wouldn’t do exactly that!)
- I studied fascism and I’m still here and fighting after being arrested for protesting, motherfuckers, you’re all a bunch of cowardly shitass punks
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- Did Einstein write “you need to be willing to die fighting fascism” in a book and make bank on that book before turning tail and running? No, he did not.
- Maybe they should have studied *fighting* fascism.
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- What exactly leads you to believe “they could ban it”?
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- Beater! Biter!
- the 90s were a wild time. if i told you how many magazines there were you wouldnt even believe me
- It’s all bookazines now. 😢
- Researchers found that a majority of English majors at two universities in 2015 could not functionally understand passages from Charles Dickens. which does validate my ever-growing concern about how a lot of people who use text-based social media appear to be unable to read
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- You also see that meaning in “the well of the House [of Representatives]”
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- If you look at the income distribution from the late '60s to the late '10s (that's as far as the chart I saw went to) you will indeed see that the middle class is shrinking. And it's shrinking more from people moving UP out of it than down. But that still means further stratification as you say.
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- It really seems like neo-Calvinism. Since I'm doing well I'm perforce one of The Elect.
- Yow!
- he thinks American voters are really dumb
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- Why do you believe they couldn't have existed while it was in place? What do you think the Fairness Doctrine actually did/required?
- On the one hand it seems they had to read the passage a sentence at a time, "translating" each sentence before getting to go to the next. Especially for stuff at the beginning of passage that makes things context-free so not clear to me how fair a test this was. On the other hand, English majors!!
- It is hard for me to overstate how low my opinion--as an educator, as a media studies scholar, and as a citizen--has gotten of legacy news media and most of the people that work within it over the past decade of the Trump era. A near gleeful perversion of what journalism is supposed to do & be.
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- Show us the text of the regulation that “required lies to be called out”.
- I firmly believe the 1970s are a psyop and did not actually happen
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- Be good or the Sea Monkeys will come after you with their X-ray specs.
- “I am a devoted Bluesky leftist who despises fascists and liberals alike and talks about fighting them but what finally leads me to public notice is making death threats over an annoying pundit’s Star Wars opinions” feels a little on the nose, y’all. We need better writers.
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View full threadI keep this bookmarked. h/t @muskratjohn.bsky.social www.dorktower.com/2001/03/15/c...
- Cue up Jonathan Edwards's classic tract.
- Just FYI because evidently Fox or OAN or whatever is pushing the lie that America accepted the Statue of Liberty and that’s equivalent to the plane. Congress VOTED to approve receiving the statue. So congress should vote on the jet
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- Except for narrow, long-established cases like defamation or fraud (which has a specific legal meaning) it means exactly that.
- I will never understand why The Mouse didn't tell both JJ and Rian "look, here's the thruline and some basic facts about the characters. STICK TO THEM, MFers!" instead of enabling that idiotic slapfight between Rian and JJ.
- Or just have one director do all three.
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- Not necessarily. I know it’s in article of faith in many circles that landlords care about $ and nothing else, but small landlords often care quite a bit about tenant “quality” and I could easily see a LL preferring 75yo over 25yo (probably quieter, etc.) and so *not* going as hard on rents.
- Lots of people talking about this, but, uh... not enough people are talking about his willingness to talk without a lawyer present.
- “The reason they’re doing [this] is to try to create an environment of fear, to try to get people like myself... to shut the fuck up,” Piker said on a stream recounting the details of the incident. www.usermag.co/p/hasan-pike...
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- Beat me to it! That was such an insane (and inane) thread.
- Screw your favorite book, which was the first that upset you? A Wrinkle in Time was mine. The possessed baby scared the everloving shit out of me. My babysitter had to call my mom to come home early because I was hysterical.
- It’s not a full-length book, but Andersen’s “The Little March Girl”. Yikes!
- The many, many people who said in their own ways — from ordinary concerned liberals to wild post-structuralists — that television was an evil technology that, whatever its benefits, would also radically distort reality for commercial profit and derange society were completely and inarguably correct.
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- The *sponsor* of the show employed the dude. You're seriously claiming there was no influence being leveraged there? So if a Tesla employee appeared as a news anchor, and no ads were run during his time on the air, you'd be all "hey, that's cool, no ads so it was obviously fair and unbiased!"
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View full threadThe emergency declaration didn't lapse until the spring of *2023*. I'm not saying this was all wrong! (I think some things were fine and other things while fine initially went on too long). But it's unquestionable that he did a lot of memorable covid "stuff" across years.
- So that coupled with the much shorter amount of time Trump was dealing with covid makes it easier for people to feel -- and propagandists to manipulate people to feel -- that various things that actually happened under Trump happened under Biden. /end
- I think there's a lot of truth in this thread. Certainly the compression of perceived time and "blurring" make it easier to misattribute some covid stuff that happened during the Trump administration to Biden.
- But I also think a big piece is that for all the bad/dump covid-related stuff Trump did, he was only here for 10 months of covid. Biden was there for *years* of covid and he certainly did many memorable things -- eviction moratorium, imposing vaccine & mask mandates in places he could control, etc.
- It’s fascinating how all the big social media companies decided over the last decade that they weren’t going to let users effectively *search* for things anymore.
- Hell, even the SEARCH ENGINES decided over the last decade they weren't gonna let users effectively search for things anymore. So I wouldn't expect the SM companies to do any better. And yeah, it all totally sucks.
- the strangest common idea on the left is that you can make more money by buying real estate and leaving it empty than by renting it out
- But but but “they can write it off on their taxes” dontcha know. 🙄🙄
- guess we'll be taking a trip to canada this fall to get boosted
- as @beyerstein.bsky.social’s quote here notes, “be nice to antivaxxers” has not worked.
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- Brainworm Boy himself actually seems to be a true believer even if the other ones aren't and he gets the final say (unless Trump were to step in).
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- I'm quite sure newspapers have been ad-supported since probably about 2 months after the first newspaper in the history of the world published its first issue. If not sooner.
- Wowwowwowwowwowwow..............wow!
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- The SCOTUS justice who coined the "fire in a theater" thing coined it in order to use it as a metaphor to justify upholding the conviction of an anti-war activist who was handing out dodge-the-draft pamphlets. So that's what you're defending when you wax rhapsodically about "fire in a theater".
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- Oh, I fully expect the Brainworm Crew won’t approve it at all, especially for under 18. So it won’t even be able to be given in the US.
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- Canada. If the FDA doesn’t approve it it can’t be administered in the US.
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- The US not approving it to be administered in the US doesn’t prevent US companies from producing to be shipped to and administered elsewhere.
