[-] aleph@lemm.ee 75 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Because he is the owner of the very platform that helped to stir up the recent neofascist riots in the UK that led to POC being attacked and terrorized and properties looted and burned. His tweets are seen by millions of people, and greatly contribute towards online extremism and polarization.

[-] aleph@lemm.ee 96 points 3 months ago

“You have your tax dollars being given in grants to things like the Fringe Festival, which is like a sexual festival where they’re doing all this stuff,” DeSantis said during a Thursday press conference, according to the Tampa Bay Times.

Hmm, I wonder what kinds of "sexual stuff" he's referring to.

the Tampa Bay Times reports that the governor’s spokespeople did not respond to questions about specific events he found objectionable.

Oh.

Florida Rep. Anna Eskamani (D), who attended this year’s Orlando Fringe festival, told the Times that she saw nothing “sexual” at the festival.

“It does feature drag queens and other forms of artistic expression that DeSantis has wanted to censor despite courts telling him otherwise!” Eskamani said.

So a man dressing in women's clothes is an inherently sexual act, according to these sexually repressed freaks.

[-] aleph@lemm.ee 92 points 3 months ago

I prefer the original version with the Rupert Murdoch allusion.

[-] aleph@lemm.ee 81 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The whole thing was the strongest argument against American exceptionalism I've ever witnessed.

[-] aleph@lemm.ee 104 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Hi-resolution audio, especially for streaming. The general idea is that listening to digital audio files that have a greater bit depth and sample rate than CD (24-bit/192Khz vs 16-bit/44.1 KHz) translates to better-sounding audio, but in practice that isn't the case.

For a detailed breakdown as to why, there's a great explanation here. But in summary, the format for CDs was so chosen because it covers enough depth and range to cover the full spectrum of human hearing.

So while "hi-res" audio does contain a lot more information (which, incidentally, means it uses up significantly more data/storage space and costs more money), our ears aren't capable of hearing it in the first place. Certain people may try to argue otherwise based on their own subjective experience, but to that I say "the placebo effect is a helluva drug."

[-] aleph@lemm.ee 86 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Why are we giving this odious little twerp the oxygen of publicity?

[-] aleph@lemm.ee 83 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

For those who aren't aware, this bill aims to effectively enshrine into law the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which has been a controversial doctrine since its inception because critics say it unnecessarily curtails freedom of speech.

Hell, even the Zionist Anti-Defamation League say on their website that the IHRA definition is a guideline that should not be codified into law because it could be used to infringe the First Amendment:

ADL does not support the adoption and application of the IHRA Definition in a manner that would create new categories of legally prohibited speech that are subjected to either civil or criminal penalties – something we believe the First Amendment and principles of free speech would prevent.

This bill does very little that existing legislation does not already except have a chilling effect on freedom of speech on university campuses, and the fact that it got such widespread support from both Democrats and Republicans in the House is an absolute farce.

[-] aleph@lemm.ee 74 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I was also banned from worldnews@lemmy.ml and had comments removed for "Re-enforcing neo-liberal cultural hegemony" and "Believes in objectivity in media lmao".

My offense? Saying that a report sourced solely from an eye-witness account via Al-Jazeera regarding another massacre of civilians and aid workers in Gaza needed to be corroborated by further evidence before we regard it as hard fact. The irony is I'm very much pro-Palestinan.

According to the mods, however, that apparently means I have to throw all media literacy out of the window and blindly accept any anti-Israel claims without question.

[-] aleph@lemm.ee 94 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's funny that this article doesn't mention the one company that pretty much single handedly created the need for this legislation in the first place.

[-] aleph@lemm.ee 84 points 6 months ago

And LosslessCut is a ffmpeg frontend, so that checks out.

[-] aleph@lemm.ee 99 points 6 months ago

“I don’t hate these people, man,” Yarbrough said.

Oh, but you do, buddy. You do.

[-] aleph@lemm.ee 81 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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