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Here's a comment on that vids comment section that spoke to me, by KnightOfPaint:
Oliver did a video on white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, I meant climate change...well sorta the same thing:
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I was interviewed for Marketplace today about running your own social network site! You can catch me on NPR stations today or just listen/read here:
https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/diy-build-your-own-social-media-site-guide/
@Hamishcampbell honesty I don't even know what that is lol
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If you consider yourself a rational person, and people are telling you you're hurting them, someone else, or the community, then please. Interrogate your motivations.
It is so amazingly easy to draw a chain of implications that ends with something like "they deserve it" or "they're weird" or "they hurt me first." But you not only need to ask why, but you need to ask why in the many different ways. Don't just ask "why do they deserve it?" that's a loaded question. Ask "why should I punish them if they do?"
@ahanon This! Exactly this!
Crypto is cool & all but in my eye replacing human trust with a CPU lottery is not what we need on our increasingly divided times.
@wiley@todon.nl nah
the community reaction reflects this, look at this reddit post about the video: https://redd.it/ct5by5
"He's not knowledgeable enough, he's not enough privacy minded & he's not using the right software" are common responses on the thread.
I feel like this video perfectly encapsulates the privacy community's idea of "lowercase p privacy". That users are individually responsable for their privacy & the only way to do something about privacy is to choose the right product or software.
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IBM Open Sourced their Power CPU architecture!!!!!!!!
https://hn.svelte.dev/item/20748711
Awsome video: Liberal Mom Forces Son to be Transgender? - A Response to Eazy Ali
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvjHn6QEgh4
@Hamishcampbell Just finished watching it. Yeah, I think you're right, it's an important topic, but this is not the right lens.
@kiwix hey, I just found out about kiwix and it sounds super cool.
I'm giving it a try on the f-droid store, but it looks like it's not showing any content.
Help :p
Although #trunk has been a godsend to find cool people:
I'm new to this whole mastodon thing, so far it's super fun - although I must admit it feels somewhat lonely in here.
@alex_esc_blog_posts Works for good, yaaay!
On his newest vid he went on and on with the reactionary "games don't cause violence" meme, when in fact pewdipie is missing the whole point.
A medium in itself doesn't create violence, but a medium gained and tailored by alt right extremists do. It's people like him that perpetuate violence, racism, homophobia etc, not the games; its the people playing the game of normalization.
I haven't watched #pewdiepie since the Christchurch mosque shootings, the shitpost had gone way to far. I refused to give my attention to a creator who wouldn't try to make things right.
Now that I watched his latest video w/ Dr phill I can't see why I ever watched pewds videos.
They aren't funny.
Leaving @write_as behind, not because I think their service is bad, but because I'm in too deep into GitHub Pages.
I'm moving my federated feed to @alex_esc_blog_posts
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