JBPinkle

joined 3 months ago
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Live: Man shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis this morning, police chief says" in c/news@lemmy.world
Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] JBPinkle@bookwyr.me 20 points 2 days ago

stallmanwasright.jpg

Pitch drop experiment (longest one almost 100 years running) in c/wikipedia@lemmy.world
[–] JBPinkle@bookwyr.me 6 points 5 days ago

That's the most interesting wikipedia entry I've read in a good long while.

Controversies about the word niggardly in c/wikipedia@lemmy.world
[–] JBPinkle@bookwyr.me 10 points 6 days ago

I don't have enough confidence that random people in my vicinity at any point in time will know the word to ever, ever use it. The possibility of someone taking it as the n-word it kinda sounds like is just too damn high.

Pentagon expands Grok AI into classified systems despite rising scrutiny outside US in c/technology@beehaw.org
If you could go back in time, what is the one thing you would change about computers or the internet? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] JBPinkle@bookwyr.me 2 points 1 week ago

In the context of changing the course of things early on, I'd make everyone post under their real name in any context. To be clear, I DO NOT support that today. The cat's already out of the bag and pseudonymous communities are the norm now, I don't think we can unscramble that egg.

But if somehow, from day one, you needed to attach your own name to everything posted online, I feel like we'd have ended up with a less toxic internet than we have in many places today.

ICE Shoots Minneapolis Observer in the head in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] JBPinkle@bookwyr.me 1 points 2 weeks ago

You have a setting for your account where you need to enable "adult media" or similar. If that is enabled, then you will be able to click the "Graphic Media" warning and the video will open. If you haven't enabled that then it doesn't give you the option to click to open.

Teen Vogue magazine has been silenced in c/usa@midwest.social
[–] JBPinkle@bookwyr.me 4 points 2 months ago

They have been speaking truth to/about power quite often in recent years, it was only a matter of time before they were gagged. They get a lot of credit for putting out what they did for as long as they did. The completely obliterated my view of what kind of a magazine I'd have expected Teen Vogue to be.