"Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realize his wishes. Now that he can realize them, he must either change them or perish." […]
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I guess one difference between Jim Crow then and Jim Crow now is that we have cool graphics to show how it's done.
you love to see it
Meta's entire budget is $200 billion a year in ads. Journalism was a byproduct of the local advertising markets that Facebook replaced; now you just get slop and viral conspiracy theorists.
Here they violated a basic election transparency […]
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RE: https://mas.to/@TechConnectify/116766633397568723
"There's something so human about taking something great and ruining a little so you can have more of it." --"as Michael said?"
Who is Michael?
I cannot for the life of me comprehend how so many liberal hawks imagine they have any grounds let alone means to stop Iran's perfectly legal and perfectly real ballistic missile program. Like they're going to reach any agreement of any kind under the long shadow of American perfidy without Iran […]
One second the accusation is that the Davids "neglect of the role of crop attributes in mediating development" the next "they concede that only cereal farming and storage made bureaucratic empires possible."
Like minds are welcome to agree to agree in the form of a disagreement, I suppose, but […]
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/116772379588130447
"more than 42 percent of apps available for download via the webOS operating system on LG smart TVs include SDKs that turn one’s television into an always-on residential proxy node"
This review of Graeber & Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything accuses them of attacking strawman arguments but the strawperson on page 252 is Jared Diamond (that is the page they quote his explicit argument that farming didn't expand faster because it couldn't) […]
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“There's no amount of press coverage that could ever fully document the scale of the ripple effect of trauma that this has on the city of Minneapolis,” one resident told HRW. “And when these cameras go away, we’re still going to be here grieving and traumatized.” Calls to local suicide hotlines […]
