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Facebook gives shareholders misinformation about their ability to manage misinformation. Misiforception!

Facebook misled investors on scope of misinformation problems, whistleblower says
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

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my biggest criticism about the original Star Wars is that they called it a "Death Star". any evil imperialist organization worth its salt would hire a consulting firm to come up with something like "Liberation Sphere"

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"Found this on Twitter. Not sure if somebody already posted this."

submitted by cherub-ls

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@lrvick
You can't see this message because your instance, which receives very generous donations from large companies, blocks my instance.

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In a software-run country the way we govern that software is of a similar level of importance as to how we govern the country.

Open source and decentralization are like democracy: often ugly, but generally preferable to profit seeking dictators.

rant, commies, screaming at the void 

I really hope a first-world country is gonna have a communist* revolution soon and I hope even more that it’s not gonna be mine.

Although honestly, after Venezuela I don’t believe these fuckwits are capable of rational though, and even if a country like Spain, Great Britain or Canada ruined itself in that way they’d still blame it on literally everything else.

“Oh yeah the food shortage isn’t because nobody wants to work, it’s because, uhhh, CIA propaganda and, errr, unique economic circumstances that are totally unrelated to the fact that nobody wants to work. Nailed it.”

*or a socialist one, the end result seems to be the same authoritarian nightmare

call yourself a programmer
hard-code indentation width using spaces

Yeah, screw being able to adjust indentation width to your preferences, THOU SHALT USE 3 SPACES FOR I SAY SO

You’d think after years of dev work I’d be used to this shit, but no, still annoying.

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@OCRbot @Mek101 This kinda looks like the errors you get when you don’t align the text horizontally before OCRing. Bot improvement idea?

Arnold Schwarzenegger is the second most famous Austrian that became a politician in another country.

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"why would you pirate movies? don't you know those sites can install a virus that spies on you?"

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