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rimu , 15 days ago to World News in "Training future authoritarians": How China promotes its authoritarian capitalism model by teaching government officials in the Global South on how to infringe people's freedom and undermine democracy

The headline had me hoping for things like "Xinjiang - how we incarcerated 1 million people for only $5k pp / year" or "Integrating vassel states - lessons from Hong Kong" or "The Tibet Journey" or "Propaganda for fun and profit Steve Bannon edition".

Nope 😴

rimu , 15 days ago to World News in "Training future authoritarians": How China promotes its authoritarian capitalism model by teaching government officials in the Global South on how to infringe people's freedom and undermine democracy

Yeah, I read the whole thing. It was a good story but I felt that when it came time to "deliver the goods" they fell a bit short. For example, this: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/final-image-global-south.png. That is under the heading "Clearly authoritarian", which seems pretty strong for such a boring sounding course.

I stand by my earlier comment.

rimu , 15 days ago to Trending Communities in Trending Communities for Saturday 15th June 2024

No commits to that repo for 6 months. Oof 😔

rimu , 15 days ago to World News in "Training future authoritarians": How China promotes its authoritarian capitalism model by teaching government officials in the Global South on how to infringe people's freedom and undermine democracy

I wish they were able to find better examples of the courses and the content (not just the summary from marketing materials). The examples they provided were really tame.

in China, law enforcement is designed to protect the state and the Party rather than the people, journalism is prescribed to create national unity rather than act as a check against the system, and the law is intended to protect the regime rather than its citizenry.

Very succinctly put!

In the Constitution of China you'll find a section where it explicitly states that the interests of the group outweigh those of the individual. It's baked into the legal bedrock.

rimu , 19 days ago to Fediverse in New idea. Is this possible? Sub groups!

Yes, it's completely possible.

Kbin has it, which it calls "Collections" - see https://kbin.social/magazines/collections. Anyone can add a collection which can be subscribed to by anyone. It is very flexible and crowd-sources the work of organizing the communities into collections. I like it.

PieFed calls it "Topics" - see https://piefed.social/topics. They are arraigned into a hierarchy and are created by the the instance admin. This could give a better experience to the end user but puts more work onto the instance admins.

rimu , 1 month ago to Ask Lemmy in How does one go about applying to be a mod for a mod-less community?

Yes. The process is the same on kbin.social except the admin has been AWOL for months. So don't expect a response.

rimu , 1 month ago to Ukraine in The Ukranian Navy confirmed the destruction of the Russian "Tsiklon" missile ship, the last cruise missile carrying ship in the Black Sea.

I think so?! Seems to be a trend!

rimu , 1 month ago to Technology in New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC

You can see how using AI to analyze a video (effectively a video, they didn't say how often the screenshots are taken but they'd need to be pretty often for it to work) of their entire work life the whole time they've been at a company takes it to another level tho, right?

rimu , 1 month ago to Technology in New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC

Employers would absolutely love to be able to ask their pet AI "hey tell me who to fire based on their computer usage"...

rimu , 1 month ago to World News in Germany: Trial of far-right coup 'ringleaders' set to begin

This is how it's done. USA, take note.

rimu OP , 1 month ago to Free and Open Source Software in Gender bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men

Really great comments at https://peerj.com/articles/cs-111/reviews/. The reviewers are very nice about it but do point out some big issues towards the end.

rimu OP , 1 month ago to Free and Open Source Software in Gender bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men

Thanks for grabbing the chart.

My Stats 101 alarm bells go off whenever I see a graph that does not start with 0 on the Y axis. It makes the differences look bigger than they are.

The 'outsiders, gendered' which is the headline stat, shows a 1% difference between women and men. When their gender is unknown there is a 3% difference in the other direction (I'm just eyeballing the graph here as they did not provide their underlying data, lol wtf ). So, overall, the sexism effect seems to be about 4%.

That's a bit crap but does not blow my hair back. I was expecting more, considering what we know about gender pay gaps, etc.

rimu OP , 1 month ago to Ukraine in Intense first person view combat footage near Andriivka

Turn on captions.

Around 20 minutes in the scene changes to another part of the battle. It's inside an APC and the soldiers have the door open, wanting to disembark but they're taking too much fire. Soon the APC is hit badly enough that everyone has to get out anyway...

Absolute nightmare.

rimu , 1 month ago to World News in Zelensky: 'Our partners fear that Russia will lose this war'

Yeah although if Russia wins it'd involve "unstable geopolitics" too.

This could be a long war.

rimu , 1 month ago to Ask Lemmy in What is the weirdest flavoured thing you've had?

Durian.

Texture of banana but with a huge seed. Tastes like a strange combination of rotten eggs, whipped cream, vanilla ice cream, diced garlic, onions, cheese, and... caramel?

It's fucked. Never again.