It was never about “countering dis-, mis-, and mal-information”. It was always about controlling the message, about censorship & propaganda. It was always top-down from the capitalist class and their government mandarins to shape public opinion. I’ve described real media literacy before, which you’ll never get from secondary or undergraduate schooling, nor from corporate media, nor from the new post-Trump/“post-truth” media literacy curricula.

In the fediverse we have some amount of freedom right now, but they’ve become aware of us.

I mean he’s The Flash: blink and you’ll miss him 🤷

The pure (libertarian) socialists’ ideological anticipations remain untainted by existing practice. They do not explain how the manifold functions of a revolutionary society would be organized, how external attack and internal sabotage would be thwarted, how bureaucracy would be avoided, scarce resources allocated, policy differences settled, priorities set, and production and distribution conducted. Instead, they offer vague statements about how the workers themselves will directly own and control the means of production and will arrive at their own solutions through creative struggle. No surprise then that the pure socialists support every revolution except for the ones that succeed.

The famously unnuanced discipline that is dialectical materialism 😂

Bowie was packing in the girl-coming-of-age story. Wild stuff.

The past is a foreign country. France, I think.

Oooh, making a RISC-V SBC that apes the Pi’s layout & pinout is a clever idea.

It looks like it has exactly the same pitfalls as every other proprietary email client.

Not that open source email clients are all much better, because email isn’t very private. Even if you encrypt your messages, a lot of metadata leaks. Most encryption solutions don’t even encrypt the subject line, because it too is stored with the metadata.

I’m a bit put off by them calling this open source. Much of the Raspberry Pi is not open hardware. What are we to call a RISC-V-based version, super-duper-open source?

Don’t blame yourself for systemic societal problems that require systemic societal solutions. You’re playing into their hand when you do that.

• ExxonMobil wants you to feel responsible for climate change so it doesn’t have to
• Big Oil Is Trying to Make Climate Change Your Problem to Solve. Don’t Let Them
• The companies polluting the planet have spent millions to make you think carpooling and recycling will save us

This is not an everyone thing: I for one get no satisfaction from it.

I might pay for quality search if my searches weren’t linked back to my credit card and therefore identity.

Paris Hilton

Such an unfortunate title. No one who knows what they’re talking about would say that LLMs can—or ever will—reason. It’s not a flaw when something can’t do what it wasn’t designed to do.

Every minute of “work” she’s ever done has been completely optional. They’re hobbies.

I wouldn’t trust it in its current state. Maybe things will get cleared up in time, maybe not.

With that said, how necessary is Ventoy, really? How much time & effort is it really saving you?

That’s the old passage to lemmy.world. We don’t go there anymore.

It runs counter to the genocide—“cultural” or otherwise—narrative, and counter to the “Han supremacy” narrative. The Uyghur people and other minority groups were excepted from China’s One-Child policy, and as a result the Uyghur population in Xinjiang has grown in proportion to the Han population. The Uyghur languages and religious* practices are protected and financially supported, not suppressed. People can go to Xinjiang and see for themselves. They can see & hear the languages in use and visit the mosques.

*The CPC is officially atheist, but their general policy on religion is tolerance, and an expectation that religions will eventually wither away on their own.

I guess my main issue with your argument is that I’m not convinced of the reliability of the sources you’ve cited regarding the situation in Xinjiang.

It seems the sources you deem reliable are largely the same sources that Wikipedia, MB/FC, AFM, and the RAND Corporation deem reliable. I have a lot of thoughts about the media and about media literacy.

Despite your criticisms of Wikipedia, I believe the users of the site do a good job of vetting the information that’s there.

They usually do a decent job, less so when reality rubs up against cultural hegemony.

I do think it’s valid to criticize the US broadly, and I likewise think it’s valid to criticize China

Sure, there are no sacred cows.