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My Mother is starting a master's in education, her homework was to make a presentation about Marx in education.
My Dad, whose engineering degree made him the go-to homework tutor in our family, knows nothing about Marx or the humanities.
Then I come to the rescue with my opinionated toots. My radicalization finally paid off.
I just explained Marxism to my parents and weirdly it made them proud I know about this stuff.
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@kaniini in what way?
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similarly, "policeman" and "policewoman" are unnecessarily gendered -- just say "pig," or "willing tool of the fascist police state"
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the terms "landlord" and "landlady" enforce the gender binary. to be more inclusive, you should use gender-neutral terms instead. like "leech," or "parasitic scum." or "human dartboard"
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@liaizon Honestly I have lost hope for software freedom, because were using it not to protect everyone.
It has always struck me as strange that ideas that seem very lefty like software as an abuse of power and privacy as a human right would be used in a right wing context. Free software is being used to platform bigots and protect their privacy, these freedoms and rights are ment for everyone, but currently they are being used by a few racists to take away the right of others.
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Reading about the RMS drama. Does really seem like they shouldn’t be in any position of power. They seem completely tone deaf as to the implications of their words.
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The most effective way to maintain a healthy relationship with your code is through the strategic doctrine of mutually assured destruction.
@MutoShack@functional.cafe I feel like vanilla Markdown makes for great readme files, but when github users rely on images, embeds and HTML to get their point across it sort of becomes against markdown's goals.
It only looks pretty until the user looks at it.
@amolith@masto.nixnet.xyz and the day after
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Wired, 1993: Rebels with a Cause - Your Privacy. "On the cover were Eric Hughes, Tim May, John Gilmore, holding up an American flag, faces hidden behind white mask, their PGP fingerprints written on the foreheads. Gilmore even sporting an newly-founded EFF T-shirt. (from Thomas Rid, CS Monitor)"
Wired, 2019: YOU'RE IN PRIVATE MODE. To continue using a private window, sign in or subscribe. The title of the article being denied reads "It's Time to Switch to a Privacy Browser. Ad trackers are out of control".
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I think most fediverse apps would be better suited as frontend clients (or mobile apps) which can all connect to the same backend server (probably with some backend plugins or microservices to handle things like video compression).
One advantage would be having one federated identity where I can post toots, articles, photos, videos, events, educational resources, git merge requests, etc, etc, rather than having dozens of disparate identities and contact lists.
One advantage would be having one federated identity where I can post toots, articles, photos, videos, events, educational resources, git merge requests, etc, etc, rather than having dozens of disparate identities and contact lists.
Pewds response implied that the media was to blame, ignoring the efforts of 4Chan to twist his videos into alt right propaganda.
If pew was a better man he would call his reactioary fans on their bullshit, but sadly his alt light viewers outnumber the others, he's not brave enough to sacrifice, to leave the bad apples behind and instead blames the media - ironically this still plays into 4chans game, since they also hate the media for being leftwing Jews.
Pews response
https://twitter.com/pewdiepie/status/1171761588879142913?s=20
If pewds is alt right / light or not does not matter, because 4chaners have allready encoded their messages to the overall media landscape.
Now that phill reported on the news crediting pool the YouTube algorithm will start recommending reactionary videos to viewers it the most subscribed channel.
If the pewdiepie community still seems non problematic watch this vid:
In the past, several people criticized pewds for being racist, pew fans say this is nonsense, so then the pew critics explained they ment that pew normalizes a problematic ideology while not being racist himself, the pewd community denied normalizing bigotry.
Now that pew is donating money to an organization that opposes racism, the pew community goes insane.
And the only mention of this controversy I could find in the fediverse is from Alex Jones, taking sides against the ADL.
4chans operation seems to have succeeded, the "alternative" media has allready boosted their ideology.
Most notably Phillip DeFranco, who fell for the anti free speech narrative while not reporting on the efforts of 4Chan to boost this perspective. He even pointed to Tim Pool, a reactionary news channel with ties to more alt right channels.
Phill d source https://invidio.us/watch?v=Gb1kkxYNC3s
Tim connected to the alt right source (takes side with Sargon)
https://invidio.us/watch?v=31PmSTY7bnM
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