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kbal , to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in Valve confirms your Steam account cannot be transferred to anyone after you die
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That's okay, I plan to be reincarnated.

kbal , to Firefox in Mozilla Corporation Org Changes to Accelerate our Path to the Future
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we’ve been accelerating our ability to execute outstandingly, make faster decisions, and realize our multi-product ambitions.

Next time you wonder why CEOs get paid so much, just think about how rare it must be to find a person with the kind of fortitude it takes to say something like that with a straight face.

kbal , to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in What drew you to the high seas?
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Pitstop 2. I copied that floppy.

kbal , to Not The Onion in Sam Altman Says OpenAI Would Like to Enable Gore and Erotica for "Personal Use"
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If there's anyone whose sexual fetish is exploring previously unseen parts of the uncanny valley, they're in for a hell of a good time in the next few years.

kbal , to Not The Onion in Sam Altman Says OpenAI Would Like to Enable Gore and Erotica for "Personal Use"
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Altman and OpenAI greatly overestimate their ability to control what is done with this technology. The more they tighten their grip, the more open-weights sexbots will slip through their fingers.

kbal , to Not The Onion in Sam Altman Says OpenAI Would Like to Enable Gore and Erotica for "Personal Use"
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Imagine one man having the power to decide such things for all of society. He sure likes to.

kbal , to Technology in "X": Far-right conspiracy theorists have returned in droves after Elon Musk took over the former Twitter, new study says
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I don't know, it just seemed to me they might have had in mind that whoever is trying to "control the narrative" would find competing disinformation campaigns just as unwelcome.

kbal , to Technology in "X": Far-right conspiracy theorists have returned in droves after Elon Musk took over the former Twitter, new study says
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Calling Tiktok "the next target" does not strike me as the ringing endorsement of its noble pursuit of accurate news reporting you seem to be taking it for.

kbal , to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in Youtube Rant from a paying customer
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Is it t-shirts for sale at a little table off to the side somewhere you'll probably never see unless you go looking? Or is there an advertising billboard behind the stage that lights up after every song?

kbal , to Reddit in r/The_Donald helped radicalize users into far-right identities and discourse – Active users on r/The_Donald increasingly used white nationalist vocabularies in their comments within three months.
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Speaking of online extremism, imagine calling someone stupid for wanting to read a scientific paper before forming an opinion about it.

kbal , to Reddit in r/The_Donald helped radicalize users into far-right identities and discourse – Active users on r/The_Donald increasingly used white nationalist vocabularies in their comments within three months.
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That's not really true. Anyway, the "supplementary material" provides a few examples at least. We can only assume that they should be representative and that care was taken in drawing the boundary between that sort of thing and less objectionable but culturally adjacent terms.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240511183257/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/suppl/10.1177/1532673X241240429/suppl_file/sj-pdf-1-apr-10.1177_1532673X241240429.pdf

kbal , to Reddit in r/The_Donald helped radicalize users into far-right identities and discourse – Active users on r/The_Donald increasingly used white nationalist vocabularies in their comments within three months.
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I would've been curious to see what kinds of words got counted as "far-right vocabulary" but it appears that research has recently gone back to being effectively concealed behind paywalls for those of us not in academia.

kbal , to Fediverse in An Interview With Jack Dorsey
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Is there a c/lostlemmites somewhere?

kbal , to Linux in Moving to a Linux distro for dev
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Even if you are going to do a little bleeding edge development Debian stable can be a good solid base to start from.

kbal , to Privacy in Smart meter data: the Government’s at it again
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It was always pretty obvious that "smart meters" would have severe repercussions for privacy, but until it started actually being a problem seemingly everyone dismissed such concerns as being in the same category of far-out conspiracy theory as worrying that they're a health risk due to radiation. Some still do. Humanity has so little common sense when it comes to things involving computers.

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