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
Even mainstream Trump loyalists are calling him out on this one.
@wjmaggos Why don't you think Bluesky relays are supposed to be independent?
Seems to me that's the whole point.
@justinas It's complicated because there are both engineering and administrative sides to the question. There's the technology, but there's also enormous human factors.
Technologically, I'd say no, it's not resilient at all to mass bot accounts. In fact, the way the system is structured allows bots to impose serious resource costs on others. That's not a good thing.
In theory it's left to the humans to decide to do things like block instances that host bots, and then the humans running those instances have to figure out ways of keeping bots out if they so desire. The human factors side of the system punts the ball downhill without any solid solution.
I've always been a huge proponent of web of trust solutions to this kind of problem, but that just doesn't exist here.
So in the end I would say no, there is zero resilience against it here.
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@salixsericea Yes! A little more freedom does include freely joining other workers, but that's the entire point, US labor regulations that are executed by agencies like the NLRB push the pendulum to the other side, not so much allowing free joining but instead imposing membership on workers whether they want it or not.
It would be great if US labor regulations did what you described with the free joining. Unfortunately, that's not how they work on the ground.
@salixsericea Well no it's the opposite.
These organizations have been hostile to workers, interfering in our ability to sell our labor, telling us when we can and can't work.
For once the hostility is a little bit mitigated. Just a little bit. But let's appreciate that.
Workers have a little more freedom right now to sell their labor. We shouldn't let that be spun against us.
@fortyseven Yeah but that's pretty much the standard for this administration.
Trump himself is so addled by dementia that he won't know, so the people around him devote their efforts into keeping him from screwing things up, not towards actually making anything look good.
Keep in mind that, as far as I can tell, Trump was so damn stupid that his people showed him what Russia was asking for and for whatever goddamn reason he misunderstood and thought it was an actual deal.
As far as I can tell, Trump screwed up, and he really botched the whole negotiation process. Again. For like the 100th time. His brain has turned to mush, and everyone around him knows it so they try to exclude him as much as possible from everything substantial.
It doesn't seem to have been a peace deal at all, but Trump was too far gone to know what he was looking at.
This really needs to be called out.
Good news! This administration is so incompetent that they don't even know who is going to be on the list, nor could they actually prosecute them successfully.
Seriously the way to counter Trump is not to promote them as some sort of competent evil conspiracy whatever. It's to point out how incompetent they are with everything they do.
Trump's supporters back him because they think he is competent in promoting their causes. He's not. The way to shake his cult following is to hammer down on how much he fails.
TOFU: Trump only fucks up.
@JazzyKindaFella That's a bizarre definition.
No, the common definition of democracy is a governmental system with strong recognition of popular opinions.
It has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of this, and conflating the two really diminish both causes.
Sometimes these major #GOP Influencers just jump the shark of crazy.
#ClayAndBuck:Should parents control their kids' access to social media? Well, we don't ask parents to keep kids from driving, now do we? We don't...
No, that's not what #CitizensUnited did, though there is so much misinformation about the ruling.
In the ruling, unlimited expenditures was part of what was asked for, the SCOTUS refused, putting limits at the core of the ruling it handed down.
These stories of unlimited power handed to corporations are just sensationalized clickbait. They don't reflect what the ruling actually said, often getting it exactly backwards.
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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