It’s actually already there.
Ending US wars is like universal healthcare. Sadly, this is one of those things where the mainstream public consensus is overwhelmingly on our side.
Which is really scary. This isn’t a challenge of shifting the Overton window. It’s one of figuring out how to translate the will of the people into government action in what is supposed to be a democracy. 'Cause we already won public opinion, and it turns out that’s not where the sticking point is.
I’m glad I’m not in Maine. Before Fetterman this would be easier to rationalize away.
I hope Platner can reassure folks and then serve honorably, because let’s be real: despite a lack of known tattoos, I don’t think Susan Collins or Janet Mills are actually less extreme. As you’ve pointed out, support for lawless colonial attrocities is the mainstream, bipartisan consensus.
This debate we’re having, imo, is really over whether the person he is today is a morally coherent champion of humanistic values or if there is no such candidate in this race. Which is kind of a bummer.
Respectfully: your point is unclear, but it feels like you’ve lost the plot.
Maybe reread the thread and see if you’re saying what you mean to be saying?
Do you have more info?
Can you share a source?
I’m glad to see cross platform releasing. Eventually, I’d like consoles to all just be open platforms.
Good for you, and thanks for doing all that! I won’t prescribe a specific strategy, but for what it’s worth: as soon as I read the news about this today, I went and donated $10.
I already liked him, but I don’t just throw $10 at everyone I like. But I saw this and immediately wanted his campaign to see strong fundraising this week and get the message that they don’t need to worry about this kind of thing.
Well maybe I’m wrong then. FWIW, you sound confident and credible to me.
I do agree that it seems obvious that this was sent to CNN by Janet Mills rather than discovered in house. I was just saying that I think this kind of research is easy enough for CNN to do that they could, but I agree that based on the timing of Mills’ entrance into the race and the fact that I just don’t really expect places like CNN to be that proactive that, yeah, this was absolutely sent to them in an email that probably looked like: “Subject: Anonymous bombshell tip! ; From: PR@ millsforsenate. com”
I’m curious how it works out. Attacking a guy running as an outsider in Maine for being pro-worker, pro-gun, and fed up with the system kind of sounds like they’re misreading the electorate. Like… don’t threaten Mainers with a good time, you know?
Really? You think so? I could be wrong, but that doesn’t seem at all the case to me.
First, I think a lot of this is just skill. You dig around in the stuff that’s publicly known, find usernames and links to old bios, and then start searching for those usernames on every social media site to see if a unique handle appears on OkCupid, PornHub, etc.
Second, on the resource side, there are tons of data brokers that have a ton of info on all of us. You don’t think CNN has $50 to drop on a file filled with tracking data on a senate candidate? I think even broke local newsrooms have access to license plate reader data and leaked medical records and a ton of super personal info. I don’t think they tend to use it, because a lot of them are understaffed and it’s less cost-effective than just writing up local police blotters and whatever appears on Nextdoor. But I don’t think it’s hard to get this stuff at all.
In the article I saw, it said that the account had identifying information, and the posts were deleted but archived.
My interpretation is that the campaign of Janet Mills – his primary rival – found all of this during opposition research and then sent it to CNN.
It’s kind of depressing to watch so many people just embrace this kind of naked smearing of someone.
I don’t know Hasan’s work. I know Vaush, and I think he frankly sucks. In either case, I’d rather people just say, ‘Fuck that guy, I don’t like him as a person’ rather than diving into this practice of labeling everyone you don’t like as a pedo or some other flavor of sick abusive pervert. It’s gross.
I know.
We don’t get to pick our parents.
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This fuckin’ timeline
Huh. That looks kinda interesting. It’s not a game I’m likely to buy, but I’m fascinated by the design of this. Thumbs up.
I love LA.
Yeah, anyone looking for more info should check out Luckey’s blog:
https://palmerluckey.com/if-you-die-in-the-game-you-die-in-real-life/
The guy is a little nuts. This military tech bullshit is no surprise.
I want to second this, and go further with a hot take: I liked Graber’s answers a lot.
I think skepticism of her and the entire artifice of VC and big tech is totally warranted. But a lot of people in this section seem to basically say, ‘no matter what she says I don’t trust her and I’m certain that BlueSky will be another bad actor.’ And I think that’s an overly simplistic take.
It’s true that there are no trustworthy CEOs. You shouldn’t trust Graber. It will always be a mistake to pin hopes of good management of a platform on the magnanimity of any business leader. However if we want to see a new era of decentralization but are honest about the fact that most users are more likely to join big, corporate-styled platforms (in the short term, at least) then the ideal platform is one that attempts to build their business model around portability.
It’s totally true that BlueSky isn’t there yet. But they’re basically building a set of escape hatches for users. Cory Doctorow talks a lot about how restricting users from leaving a platform is a key requirement to enshitify. So if BlueSky uses a protocol that at least has the potential for this, they’re creating an incentive structure that really does serve a purpose. They may later on try to reverse course. But at least for now, they’re doing the thing that gives users and the third party developers the best chance of escape if things go bad. And that is exactly what I want to see from a big tech platform.
I thought it was built on activity pub.
I’m gonna go over to my Mastodon account and try to reply to you. One sec.
Overall, I like the options today a lot better than what we had 10 or even 5 years ago.
I am glad that both Mastodon and Blue Sky exist. I would like both to be successful.
I haven’t watched this video, but I just want to say that the use of the term “Clanker” is really stupid, imo.
AI agents aren’t sentient (yet, at least). They are a tool or puppet of people who are doing this shit. Yelling at an LLM is as dumb as getting into a fight with a ventriloquist dummy after the ventriloquist made fun of you.