These people suffer from a severe lack of imagination. Raised to pursue success along a solitary economic metric, they ignore all arts and sciences extraneous to that pursuit. They treat the world outside their interests like a children’s game they’re not really into. Their wealth insulates them from friction so effectively there’s no incentive or pressure for them to develop an imagination, or diversify their knowledge to the point where an imagination might emerge on its own.

That’s the startling thing about these tech guys: they are utterly oblivious to life outside of their extremely narrow little domain, and they occupy that domain largely because they never had the imagination or curiosity to look past it. The Silicon Valley milieu they grew up in told them that success consisted in this one thing, and they just swallowed the story and dedicated their lives to it without ever pausing to question, investigate or think for themselves. They buy into ideologies without ever exploring alternatives. They condemn the humanities with no understanding of them, and no interest in learning. They constantly attempt to solve philosophical, existential or cultural problems with technology, because they don’t even notice that they’re not engineering problems. These are dull people, the sort who’d stockpile art as an investment and status symbol without ever looking at it for more than a few seconds. They’re rich financially but in other ways everyone can see how impoverished they are except them.

Of course. It’s just crazy that this “antifascism is bad” line gets any traction at all, and that the media don’t call it out.

All the tech CEOs are playing this game, even in the established companies. When was the last time Satya Nadella or Sundar Pichai spoke non-bullshit?

US culture conflates money with all kinds of things: intelligence, importance, respectability, work ethic, maturity, creativity, “good genes”, even godliness. Many people just can’t see the very clear truth that to be super-rich you usually just need to be a lucky asshole.

“As of this time, there’s no evidence of foul play,” Peeler said, adding that the Bolivar County Coroner’s Office retrieved Reed’s body for further examination. Deputy Coroner Murray Roark, who assisted in the medical review, stated there were no signs of broken limbs and suggested the case pointed toward self-harm, though the investigation remains active.

Kind of comes over like “We can tell this isn’t a lynching because we always break the victim’s legs.”

I bought a new phone for Graphene OS right before Google started threatening to sabotage it. I hope the project stays healthy because it’s by far the best option we have for a relatively private and secure phone OS, especially on decent hardware.

They can go after the admins of individual instances. These are not usually people with a whole lot of money for legal defense. They may even go after the hosting providers, who will prefer to shut down the instances rather than pay penalties. Lots of countries are working on this kind of law at the same time, so it may become a legal hazard to run a Lemmy instance anywhere.

For a while that might be nice, but if “age” verification (actually ID verification) as a legal requirement catches on, Lemmy’s days may be numbered.

Well if they had done that they could say they had done that. But the more likely hypothesis given who we’re dealing with here is that it’s bullshit and there was no letter.

I remember when antifascist was a good thing to be. Like all the time from the 1930s to the 2010s.

I guess I’m just touchy given that the whole tenor of their media communications these days seems designed to forge an association in the public’s mind between violent crime and trans people.

Keystone Kash.

It it just me or is there a rather important “Kash Patel says” missing from the headline?

And this right-wing policy of finding someone trans to mention in every report of a shooting, no matter how tangential or irrelevant their transness may be, just so the public can make a good solid mental association between trans people and dangerous violence, is absolutely disgusting.

“The roommate was a romantic partner, a male transitioning to female,” Cox said. “I can say that he has been incredibly cooperative, this partner has been very cooperative, had no idea that this was happening.”

I think that would he she, you misgendering motherfucker.

They said anti-Nazi things though.

Ah, but the mistake is to think when they say “My body my choice” it implies a universal principle. The fascist mindset doesn’t work like that. While we would generalize “My body my choice” to “Each person’s body their own choice”, a fascist generalizes it to “Each person’s body my choice.”

I like the bit where they wheel in the equivalent amount of data in stacks of punch cards, and the hard drive takes up more space.

(Not fair I know because they didn’t show the punch card reader, but the bits on these platters must be ridiculously large.)

RAID0 doesn’t give you any protection or redundancy, just speed.

It’s saying that RFK Jr.'s panel is restricting access to vaccines based on unverified reports from the public of injuries that they interpreted as being due to the vaccines. These reports are untrustworthy because they have not been confirmed to been due to the vaccines - in fact they haven’t been confirmed to have happened at all. But RFK Jr. does not seem to understand or want to understand the difference between a scientific study and random people’s anecdotes, or how to prove or disprove a causal connection scientifically rather than going on an irrational hunch. If he and other antivaxers understood this they would have abandoned their whole campaign long ago.

Nazis don’t really believe in free speech, silly. Not even American Nazis.