Yeah, it’s now my mission to steal his AI girlfriend pet, and then we’ll see whether he truly thinks she’s sentient and can make up her own mind.

That’s how we get these techbros to drop this shit, we start outplaying them for the affections of the “sentient females” they think they are creating.

You can chose to hide posts.

That might be based on a keyword, for example, “Trump”, or based on tages such as NSFW.

You can always chose to see these posts again.

What client are you using?

On Voyager there is a tab at the top to switch between all and “home”. Home is just the subs you subscribe to.

And that’s all cool… But it is weird to take that choice away from users.

Much like here, a quick browse of all introduces me to a wider world with different concerns. It’s how I find stuff.

And I’m pretty sure what you do is possible here… What are you having a problem with?

I found out today that they have removed r/all from the mobile platforms.

The one unifying feed… Heaven for it folk experience consensus media or have a shared experience.

By slicing it all up they can tweak individual algorithms to push more jank than ever. No longer do they have to game the system to get AstroTurfed Ads on the front page.

Actually, didn’t they used to call themselves the “front page of the internet”? How does that work if no one sees the same page?

Real Art of The Deal shit.

Absolute fucking masterclass in statesman-like diplomacy.

Genuinely a moment for all Americans to be proud of. Truly, exceptional.

To answer all your points.

1.) It didn’t.

2.) Didn’t say it wasn’t.

3.) They don’t.

4.) Fuck you you arrogant prick. You are being willfully ignorant and deliberately misinterpreting what I’m saying. And the insults are really unwarranted. Stop. Please just stop. But also, fuck you again.

It seems not everyone can work that out

Here’s the thing. You have twice insinuated I don’t understand the news, or how it works. , it demeans us both.

I feel insulted and you come across as a smug prick.

I was just saying that different papers spin the news differently. There are no papers in the UK that lack bias.

There is no such thing as “just reporting the news”. The very selection of what you report onis the news.

We could get into an academic debate, if you want. We could wheel out Sontag and Marshall McLuhan. We could go over all the basic first year undergraduate lessons in journalistic practice, or we could just drop this and move on.

I suspect you won’t be able to restrain yourself though. You’ll have to point out for a third time that you think some people are incapable of being able to understand things that you, yourself, seem to be the one struggling with.

Yes, you are very smart.

No, they are spinning the news. A headline like that when the report goes into detail how damaging it was is deliberately misleading.

They are focussing on the fact that larger companies seem more resilient. That’s the one positive in the research. The rest is pretty brutal.

That’s like reporting a headline “Child escapes school shooting” and then mentioning the fact that five others died in the body of the text.

They are not “just reporting the news”.

I disagree.

This assumes that progress on one distro doesn’t lead to progress on others.

The author of this article seems to think that choice and alternatives are a bad thing.

I’d like to take the opposite position. The more the merrier. Come on in.

Variety drives open source.

“There are no ways to prevent such attacks except when the user’s VPN runs on Linux or Android.”

So there are ways.

Meanwhile the rich people that are responsible for the majority of climate damage stand in their own private collections completely undisturbed.

Sure this grabs headlines, but momentarily and often preaching to the converted or the disenfranchised.

I’m not saying I have any good answers, and I’m sure we’ll all burn and starve thinking of ways to change the minds of people that have power… But there has to be some way to take the protest to them in ways that actually inconveniences them, as opposed to the people that already broadly support this cause.

And yeah, it grabs headlines, briefly, but look at how the media is complicit with the companies and individuals and governments causing the destruction. If they were really bothered about this sort of protest, the chances are you wouldn’t see it. The fact we are seeing it probably means that they’ve evaluated it to cause more contention among the voters, which works in their favour.

I realise I’m starting to sound like a conspiracy nut. Too many references to shady power and control… But sanctioned protest isn’t protest at all. It’s a sideshow that makes people think they are helpless or that work is being done when it isn’t.

And before the “acshurly this wasn’t sanctioned” reply… No, you’re right, not explicitly, but we still allow people to walk into public buildings without the sort of security you find at airports. I do wonder if that will start changing. I already know a few that won’t let you walk around with bags of any kind, and next up comes a frisk and an interview.