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if I only used the fediverse for social media, would likely be weaker in defending my own since their arguments would be “new” to me

That is a very important point: even if you find a rationale irrational, you may still have to interact with it and without knowing that it exists, you are highly unlikely to be able to counter its illogic.

When one side starts calling lies, “alternative facts,” there really is no point in debating it. As the logician says, out of a contradiction anything follows.

But you really need to know the alternative facts or you’ll lose every debate in which you can’t pinpoint where they are wrong.

It starts feeling like Trump vibe-coded his Presidency. Stuff happens because it sounds good in the LLM’s mind, but of course it has no idea of the knock-on effects and all hell breaks loose.

After this is all over, we’ll have to add up the corruption and graft and see what percentage of GDP that is. There are kids barely born that will have to pay back this insanity.

Ah, so the short story is this would have flown under the radar if it hadn’t been for a person that was accused of murder that needed dirt on the arresting officer.

What do you know, an accused murderer is today’s hero.

I think the big question is what kind of IG user are your contacts. If they are on the platform to look at what the Kardashians are up to, or the big influencers, then lack of monetization on Pixelfed means your contacts will miss the content from IG.

If it’s people that exchange pictures and don’t care what famous people do, then maybe switch to Pixelfed and continue posting a reduced amount to IG, with the information that most of your posts are on Pixelfed. And maybe, once in a while you could post a screenshot of your Pixelfed feed on IG, so that people can see the quality of other people’s content.

From the post body:

The court’s ruling focused on the parents’ claim that their rights under the free exercise clause of the Constitution’s First Amendment were violated. The court also said they have valid parental rights claims under the Constitution’s 14th Amendment.

So, yes, it is a religious issue. And I would have totally bought a framing that says the law infringes on the teachers’ rights or those of staff to notify the parents. I don’t know why they would frame it as the parents’ right. I suppose it’s because they couldn’t find school personnel willing to go to court over this.

I totally get your point, and you are right. But the court went out of its way to frame is as the parents’ right based on exercise of religion, which seems bonkers to me.

I suppose the post body might be wrong, too.

I agree, and they have more or less always been that way. If you wanted to shrink the reach of religion, you brought a case about the rights of Muslims or Native Americans. If you wanted to expand it, you brought a case about Catholicism.

I think what changed is that they were more roundabout about it and they tried to find some reasoning that got them where they wanted but not for the reasons they wanted. Sort of like the decision to let the baker discriminate, which was formally decided on the grounds that the State of Colorado discriminated against his religiosity.

See, that’s what makes SCOTUS’s argument so insidious. If the right to be notified is religious in nature, then the conflict with the child that doesn’t want to tell the parents also is religious in nature. In particular, the child asserts the freedom to be free from the parents’ religion.

If the decision were based on the free speech rights of the school, or on concern for the well-being of the child, I could have understood. But basing it on the religious rights of the parents is in direct contradiction with the fact that the child clearly doesn’t want their parents to know, which means the child is aware the parents would disapprove for religious reasons, which means the child does not share that particular religious belief.

The court’s ruling focused on the parents’ claim that their rights under the free exercise clause of the Constitution’s First Amendment were violated. The court also said they have valid parental rights claims under the Constitution’s 14th Amendment.

That is very troubling. I could have understood a First Amendment justification for the school and the staff, although they have to live with restrictions on what they say all the time.

Basing this on the parents’ free exercise clause means that the parents have a religious right to know the details of their children’s lives, which implies they have a right to force their religion on their children.

That is a monstrous claim, as children have a right to their own religion and exercise thereof under the First Amendment, too.

Nearly half say they would be more likely to support continued military action if it led to a government in Iran that is friendly to the U.S. or puts an end to the Iranian nuclear program.

The downside risks are also evident: 54% say they would be less likely to support U.S. military action if it leads to U.S. casualties. Many also indicate their support would decline if U.S. actions led to a broader conflict in the Middle East.

“If this goes well, I will have always been behind it. If it goes poorly, I was always against.”

It goes both ways. If the artist has to do 30% of the work, what about collages? Do we have to count the square millimeters of each cut and paste item to ensure they are above the threshold?

It’s fun to bash the Stupid CEO Founder because (s)he thinks AI will cut down work and bla bla. Fact is, I was shocked when I read in the article that Block employed 10,000 people. I don’t know how many of them are developers, but considering the job cuts were blamed on too many engineers, I assume a lot.

Even at 6,000 people, the company is still chunky for its offering. They seem to have just hired everyone with a pulse after COVID, held on to them because they didn’t want to be the only ones that reduced headcount, and are now hitting the brakes.

Sadly, Dorsey is right: the Big Ugly Bill’s tax provisions incentivize companies to lay off as many people as possible, since they can keep the profits mostly tax free. They also know the Midterms situation is shaky for them, and while the Democrats won’t have the numbers to change tax law against a certain presidential veto, they also won’t pass more tax cuts for the super-wealthy.

Add to that that with Syria, the last external threat to Israel is gone. It’s like Israeli politicians and the military still think Israel is the David threatened by a Goliath, when they have become the Goliath and their actions against civilians now look what a superior force does to a helpless victim.

Johnston has his heart in the right place, but DPD is not exactly “stand up to fascism” material themselves.

I swear I thought it was someone talking about Trump

Asked for comment, a DHS spokesperson said Noem was simply relaying the claims of an air marshal. “What ‘fabrication’ of the story of the cannibal?” the spokesperson said. “She was told that story on a deportation flight by one of the air marshals.”

That explains why the administration wants Greenland. Noem was told on good authority by her grandpa that Santa lives at the North Pole, and now she wants all the presents! It’s a fact, she was told a story!

I do, but only in the sense that I never buy or wear any clothing with a brand name displayed on it.

I can’t even begin to imagine what it must feel like to start college, to take on tens of thousands of dollars of debt, and not to have the faintest idea if there is actually going to be a job at the end of all that work. At least, where I live college is almost free.

I mean, the idea that all white-collar jobs could be automated is obviously stupid. But even if just 50% could be made redundant by increased productivity, or 20%, that would generate enormous downward pressure on wages and salaries and turn this kind of job into college-degree burger flipping, economically.

The world went through the very similar blue-collar job destruction in the 80s and 90s. Back then, Conservatives decided this was all a Very Good Thing, and Neoliberals shrugged. The made vast swaths of industrial areas suddenly derelict and impoverished. It’s hard to believe that Detroit was once one of the wealthiest cities in America.

We must tax companies that use AI to reduce workforce to offset cost benefits. Society will have to deal with the suddenly impoverished accountants and lawyers and needs extra revenue.

The worst part of this AI revolution is that it affects most directly those that have the least experience, as it’s easier to replace an entrant with software. Yet another way young people are screwed, yet another way society absolutely needs to step in to make sure the next generation has a fighting chance.