volkris @volkris@qoto.org
I think the most pressing and fundamental problem of the day is that people lack a practically effective means of sorting out questions of fact in the larger world. We can hardly begin to discuss ways of addressing reality if we can't agree what reality even is, after all.
The institutions that have served this role in the past have dropped the ball, so the next best solution is talking to each other, particularly to those who disagree, to sort out conflicting claims.
Unfortunately, far too many actively oppose this, leaving all opposing claims untested. It's very regressive.
So that's my hobby, striving to understanding the arguments of all sides at least because it's interesting to see how mythologies are formed but also because maybe through that process we can all have our beliefs tested.
But if nothing else, social media platforms like this are chances to vent frustrations that on so many issues both sides are obviously wrong ;)
Joined Dec 2022
@rberger sounds like Vanity Fair is missing that the GOP is largely ignoring this issue.
It's not so much an albatross as it's simply misleading oppositional rhetoric.
@bespacific Right, but that's how the US was supposed to be. Not so much a patchwork, I'd say, but individual communities doing what they think best for their own residence.
It's about not putting all the eggs in one basket.
By distributing this out to the different communities we allow different places to do the right thing even if others don't.
@Hyolobrika Oh I'm just generally in a bad mood.
We live in a stupid world full of stupid people saying stupid things.
We live in a world where facts don't matter, and people have lost faith in institutions like journalism because journalism itself has pretty much earned that.
So welcome to social media where nothing matters, but I might as well just go ahead and yell at the clouds.
@freeschool The core issue is that this platform was designed around instances and not users. Everything happens in the instance. One way to put it is that this is not actually a decentralized platform but rather one that is re-centralized around instances.
It's not that your post goes to everyone, but your post goes to your instance and then your instance broadcasts it to whoever your instance feels like broadcasting it to.
So it's a chain where you can decide how much you can trust each link on the chain.
You send your post to your instance, and hopefully you can trust them. Your instance will send your post to a bunch of other instances, and every single instance that gets the post decides for itself what to do with it.
Does that make sense?
Even if you trust your own instance, that doesn't mean all of the instances of your followers are also so trustworthy.
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Extremely dumb idea that would be hard to make work: A show presents itself as a fairly straightforward detective noir murder serial with 40s/50s vibes.
Something's off, though. The people are eccentric. The local politics isn't quite right. And the geometry of the city seems a bit alien. It's not science fiction (is it?) but technology seems a bit more advanced than the period would allow.
Then in the last scene of the first episode someone loses their temper and flames flair from their hands, char broiling the person we'd assumed was going to be our main character. Clicking their tongue they turn to look out a large window. That's when it hits, we haven't seen any windows or the sky for the last hour. We see them staring out at a neon-lit skyline on the ocean floor.
@dangrsmind never forget that a lot of the people pushing for posters in the classroom are flat out being trolls.
The theory is that people are going to get upset by it.
So don't get upset. Don't play their game. That's what they want, and it encourages them, and they'll do more stuff like it the more response they get.
Just roll your eyes, file the appropriate lawsuits, stop voting for idiots to the representative bodies, and don't give them what they want.
@freeschool when you post followers only it attaches a notation to your content that says followers only, but any recipient is perfectly free to ignore that notation.
So it's really a suggestion, you're suggesting that this post only go to your followers, but any recipient is perfectly free to vacuum that content up into a database or do anything else they want to with the post.
Followers only is only a suggestion, only a notation tacked onto your post. It's up to the recipient, including whatever corporation, to decide whether or not they want to respect it.
@JenniferSlack If you read the opinion they spell out pretty clearly that the founding fathers did have things to say about depriving abusers of that right.
You say the founding fathers had nothing to say, but the opinion spells out that they said a lot!
@kgw The thing is, the Supreme Court is intentionally powerless in the US system. It was by intention that executive powers were kept away from that branch of government, and so the Supreme Court really only has the influence that we ourselves project onto it.
So it's an interesting question, I don't understand how a Supreme Court can be as influential as it is? Well that's because the person asking the question is subscribing to the idea that it is influential.
Otherwise, the Supreme Court can write whatever opinions they want, and they will land like a stone and go nowhere.
Unless people decide to recognize those opinions as influential.
@popcornreel That's not factually what happened, though. Whoever is telling you this is lying to you.
@jmadelman what that quote is missing is that we are free to change the law, we just have to go through the democratic process to do it.
It's not that every gun regulation must involve historians. It's that historians help us understand the history of laws written in history.
We can write new laws and then we won't need historians. They'll be modern laws. But so long as we keep reelecting the same politicians who aren't interested in updating the laws, were left looking to history.
@freeschool but posting followers only does not actually prevent or protect against scraping. The way this platform is designed, it's only a suggestion, that content is still subject to scraping
And people need to realize that when they post here.
@bigheadtales just answering your question.
@EarthOne24@mastodon.social Thomas specifically talked about taking guns away from people who were threatening.
No biggie? Thomas said definite biggie! Thomas called for taking guns away from those people!
@BohemianPeasant That's not what the opinion said though.
@SETSystems@defcon.social @MarcAbrahams
@EarthOne24@mastodon.social Koch foundation funded efforts to promote democracy and get out the vote against Trump.
@MasterMischief but not a change in the rules as claimed.
@marynelson8
@bigheadtales The first two words.
@GottaLaff
For anyone who cares about Elon #Musk , videos like this by Everyday Astronaut are critical to, well, criticize.
Notice how the host prompts Elon. The host puts out these ideas and asks Elon to confirm them.
That's really how the mythology around Musk is built. He's not asking for it, people are projecting it onto him. And so much stuff that people complain about Musk over come down to things that are being projected onto him. And for his sake, he's rich enough to just take it.
And this is a lesson because it can also be applied #Trump.
Rightly or wrongly, these are public figures that are loved and hated based on what is being projected onto them, not their own stuff.
I think it's really important to recognize this phenomenon, and it goes both ways: If you love Musk/Trump you need to realize that what you love might be a projection and not actually part of the person. If you hate them, same thing.
It's academically really interesting. It's practically really sad.
I think the most pressing and fundamental problem of the day is that people lack a practically effective means of sorting out questions of fact in the larger world. We can hardly begin to discuss ways of addressing reality if we can't agree what reality even is, after all.
The institutions that have served this role in the past have dropped the ball, so the next best solution is talking to each other, particularly to those who disagree, to sort out conflicting claims.
Unfortunately, far too many actively oppose this, leaving all opposing claims untested. It's very regressive.
So that's my hobby, striving to understanding the arguments of all sides at least because it's interesting to see how mythologies are formed but also because maybe through that process we can all have our beliefs tested.
But if nothing else, social media platforms like this are chances to vent frustrations that on so many issues both sides are obviously wrong ;)
Joined Dec 2022
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