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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Reddit 100% was censoring and shadow banning any kbin or lemmy mentions.

    I wouldn’t even be surprised if reddit actively promoted or even creates negative comments. There was a precedent of people abandoning Digg so they were clearly very aware and afraid.

    At the end of the day it’s impossible to tell with these incredibly opaque networks. It’s even hard to confirm comment visibility as Reddit employs data fudging and shadow banning.

    Just another reminder that nothing any closed source social media says should be trusted, ever.



  • Yeah but almost every American I meet here traveling in SEA or Europe is a perfectly reasonable person.

    Dunno I just am in such disbelief that my world experience doesn’t match reality at all. I even consider myself pretty well traveled with 20 years of experience traveling around the globe though admittedly I’ve never been to the USA yet and I fear I might not get to see Yellowstone or Big Sur ever at this point or do I even want to?

    Kinda sucks to be a fan of US now ngl.


  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldUS Democracy
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    • political institutions should promotoe individual rights and social equality
    • critqued organized religion
    • the government should serve the people
    • wrote the famous line “These are the times that try men’s souls” during civil war
    • people have the inherit right to reform and/or dismantle oppresive goverments
    • all individuals possess inalienable rights (human rights basically)

    That’s what I gather from his wiki and some chatgpt queries. Never heard of him before (not an american) but honestly — I’m a big fan now.


  • US is system is so bad. The constant pandering to “founding fathers” as if it’s even possible to have strong enough vision that it would last 200+ years and refusal to innovate past the ridiculous two party system is just sad tbh.

    Yet nothing will change because you can’t change these things without a revolution apparently.
















  • That AI safety is much more important than AI hurting copyright or artists.

    I say this because the “AI sucks haha” and “AI just steals” retoric is very harmful to AI safety movement as people just don’t believe AGI or even close-to-AGI will be capable enough to harm our society.

    Currently many estimate that there’s 1-20% chance that AGI could end our civilization. So fuck the copyright and fuck the artists when we’re looking at ods like this we need to start preparing now even if it’s 10 years away.

    But alas, nobody can’t think further out than the length of their nose and honestly I’m just hoping we’re lucky enough to be in that 80% because clearly we’re not going to do anything about it.