[-] spaduf@slrpnk.net 2 points 14 hours ago

Supposed to be traditional.

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It's not uncommon in a lot of industries for more traditional enterprises to refuse to do business with these sorts of companies.

[-] spaduf@slrpnk.net 44 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I honestly have a hard time believing it was ideology and not the good, old fashioned inability of boomers to let go of power.

Edit: Not talking about the Democratic establishment. Speaking specifically about Biden refusing to step down until it was too late.

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You're absolutely right. The problem as I see it is rather that the modern Democratic base have largely failed to integrate feminist and worker-oriented messaging targeting men into their campaigning. Maybe more importantly, they have failed to integrate it into their day-to-day conception of liberation.

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It’s hard to think of a time when the Democratic Party was more bereft of real leaders. As the losing presidential candidate, Kamala Harris is not held in warm regard, and her continuing fundraising efforts have added to the irritation. Joe Biden, who accomplished more than his critics give him credit for, is going out on a low note.

Usually, the chair of the Democratic National Committee is a technocrat and not the face of the party. But this time could be different.

A number of names have been mentioned in the press coverage and in self-promotion, but it’s clear that the two finalists will be Ken Martin, 51, Minnesota party chair, and his neighbor, Ben Wikler, 43, who chairs the Wisconsin state party. Both are excellent party-builders, both are substantive progressives, and both have earned wide respect. The election is set for February 1.

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For weeks following Joe Biden’s disastrous performance, his campaign publicly maintained the illusion that he was still well-positioned to defeat Donald Trump. Privately, they knew otherwise. As Pod Save America co-host Jon Favreau revealed days after the election:

After the debate, the Biden people told us that the polls were fine, and Biden was still the strongest candidate. They were privately telling reporters, at the time, that Kamala Harris couldn’t win. […] Then we find out, when the Biden campaign becomes the Harris campaign, that the Biden campaign’s own internal polling, at the time when they were telling us he was the strongest candidate, showed that Donald Trump was going to win 400 electoral votes.

The implications of this are staggering, and it should be treated as a massive scandal.

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If I can make one recommendation to everybody here, it's plan for the likely scenarios. You should have at least 3 plans for the future based on a best-medium-worst case scenario, because when things start to move quick, having a disaster plan is life saving.

To expand on this, look at Trump's plan and build a best-medium-worst case scenario for each of his major campaign promises, and apply a likely timeline. We have a pretty good idea that the priorities will be: Mass Deportation, Project 2025, and Political Retribution. Think about how likely each of these things is to succeed and what the potential ramifications are. ALWAYS consider the worst case scenario.

Notable events to have explicit plans for: Deadly Force Against Protestors, Calls For Mass Violence, and Purging of the Media. Think about which groups and people around you will be helpful to either survival or resistance. Start building alliances and connections in your local community NOW.

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[-] spaduf@slrpnk.net 166 points 4 months ago

If you think it's news that Meta's new public policy director, Dustin Carmack, is a Project 2025 co-author,

Consider dropping a tip to your preferred news outlet. I've already sent an email to The Verge's tipline and I implore you to do the same.

https://www.theverge.com/c/tech/22579076/how-to-tip-the-verge-email-signal-and-more

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[-] spaduf@slrpnk.net 98 points 6 months ago

Let's be honest. They certainly plan to, but first they're gonna see if saying "Apple Intelligence" a bunch is going to convince people they actually did something innovative.

[-] spaduf@slrpnk.net 92 points 10 months ago

Tell me this is a good thing.

Mozilla has long been the most ethical player in this space (while still producing SOTA ML). All of their datasets/models are open source and usually crowdsourced. Not to mention, their existing work is primarily in improving accessibility.

ALSO, the other half of this story is that Firefox is becoming the primary focus again. Everybody's freaking out about the AI stuff but that's because they're only reading the headlines. The programs they've shut down are things like Hubs (Mozilla's metaverse platform), the VPN, and the sensitive data scrubber (which was using a third party service anyway).

[-] spaduf@slrpnk.net 91 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That's cause this is a 10 year old post and things have not improved since then.

[-] spaduf@slrpnk.net 100 points 10 months ago

This is when the feds should get involved

[-] spaduf@slrpnk.net 233 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Worth noting, the number of people who come here "to escape authoritarian moderators". Nearly all of them were moderated for good reason.

I also don't think the presence of places like hexbear are doing us any favors.

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Potentially relevant information from the other individual this person was arguing with:

Hey, Abigail here. I just want people to know the reason this guy got banned is likely because of a deleted comment not included in that thread. OP called me autistic for not liking politics. THAT kind of behavior is not acceptable on lemmy.blahaj.zone, so I reported the comment and let Ada handle it. Ada tried in good faith to reason with OP but it was clear they just wanted to fight. So yeah, they got banned. Ada’s a fantastic lady who’s been great at keeping the trolls at bay.

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/2319669

Tough to confirm from the modlogs as blahaj.zone appears to be having some intermittent outages.

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