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
Y'all are spinning some nutty conspiracy theories here, and the problem is that buying into this nonsense serves to disempower voters who might otherwise work to fix things.
Why should I bother voting for a better official if you're telling me it's all a big bribery scheme anyway?
@Drip_Drip it's the job of the SCOTUS to consider such cases.
And it's already pretty common in the US for public dollars to directly fund religious schools, so it's not that this could lead to that. That already happens.
This is more about the opposite, the extent to which states can discriminate AGAINST religious schools by denying them funding they'd otherwise be entitled to.
So this is more about allowing public dollars to be withheld from them.
@Thad court rulings regarding private gun ownership were made on the basis of such passed law...
@JizzelEtBass you beg the question here.
You say VA violated federal law, but the whole point is a dispute over whether the federal law actually applied to this case. VA says it doesn't, and that's why there's a dispute in court.
NVRA absolutely DOES allow changes 90 days before the election. It explicitly says so, right there in the statute.
Someone's misinforming you.
As for SCOTUS being captured by DJT, that case would be easier to make if it hadn't ruled against him pretty often.
Again, the story you've been told doesn't really match the facts.
@stanleyHootzz @cmconseils
This has nothing to do with SCOTUS: if Trump's actions were actually illegal then the Court is happy to see them prosecuted and/or challenged in court.
@Nonilex well right.
So many feel that Biden went too far with his prosecutions of people, overcharging and generally abusing laws that didn't really fit the allegations, threatening peoples' civil rights in the process.
It's only right to follow up with investigations to figure out some of how the previous administration was using or abusing its power.
@europesays The narrative that I've always heard isn't concerned with the treatment being common, but just that it exists at all.
So I guess far from refuting the narrative, this study would really confirm it.
@gyptazy unfortunately a whole lot of people aren't aware that the content they post here is subject to scraping.
A lot of people have been told the exact opposite, that this is a platform that will protect privacy. That is false, but unfortunately it's a message going around.
@BeAware@social.beaware.live
@gyptazy unfortunately a whole lot of people aren't aware that the content they post here is subject to scraping.
A lot of people have been told the exact opposite, that this is a platform that will protect privacy. That is false, but unfortunately it's a message going around.
@BeAware@social.beaware.live
@BeAware@social.beaware.live really the message needs to be that there is no expectation of privacy at all on this platform. It's just not how it's set up.
So don't be here at all if you expect privacy. Any content you put on here is subject to being broadcast publicly.
Yeah, it's not that unusual for different agencies to kind of reach into each other for different reasons. As long as it's all being managed from the top, with turf between agencies being organized, it's not something to be too worried about.
OPM can reach out, though if they really are bypassing management at the other agency that could cause problems later on when they try to actually get something done.
@ArrowbearMoore a lot of this article either misrepresents what the Court actually did or simply complains that the Court applied the law instead of what the author would have personally preferred.
And then presents it all very dramatically as if it was all up to Roberts, as if it was all up to his personal whims.
It makes for clickbait, but it's really a work of fiction.
The Mastodon docs about how it interacts with ActivityPub can often be a good start for referencing AP in general, and this is one of those cases.
Here's how Mastodon handles DMs:
> direct: Mentions-only statuses have actors in to or cc, all of which are Mentioned in tag
It's not simply that the protocols are technically different. They two projects work in fundamentally different ways with #BlueSky being more decentralized to its core than #ActivityPub.
ActivityPub is really centralized around instances. It's a system of instances trading content.
BlueSky is a decentralized down to users.
The BlueSky people were, reasonably, dissatisfied with the instance focus of ActivityPub. They wanted to put users at the center of the system, to respond to concerns about how administration of existing social media platforms caused problems.
There are technical concerns too, but the point is, they're not merely incompatible protocols. The platforms have fundamentally different philosophies about how to progress social media.
It's an ax I grind that people on this platform don't realize how little privacy they have, don't realize that Fediverse/ActivityPub has no solid controls for limiting who sees what content.
People post to limited audiences without realizing that it's only a suggestion, that the posts are still being broadcast publicly.
What in the world?
How is that Putin's playbook? Seems he's taken to... different strategies over his time.
None of that is kleptocracy.
He's not forcing anyone to participate. If people want to throw away their money, it's their money to choose to throw away.
No, you didn't watch Donald Trump supporting an insurrection.
There cannot have been an insurrection given that 1, Trump was still in office, and 2, they marched on the wrong branch of government.
People were lied to about what they were watching, as they didn't understand their civics enough to know that's not what that was.
@Yoshi oh, no, that would be better than what we have.
The Congress has way TOO MUCH spine, as we elected representatives who are all too eager to stand and fight for the cameras.
SCOTUS properly ruled based on what was in front of them, they're not corrupt, it's just that what we put in front of them is awful. See, again, the congresspeople that we elect.
The US government is honest. It's just that it's honestly reflecting a population that's pretty awful.
@FantasticalEconomics resist?
Things like this are how it should have been done from the beginning!
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
