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1 year agoExpression AdelleChattre
Letters from Inside Hong Kong
By Eunsong Kim
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1 year ago
Yeah, but at least we can easily tell OpenAI are, in fact, bad actors.
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4 years ago
As someone that's been watching /r/all every now and again for an embarrassingly long time, I've been blown away watching /r/The_Donald wagging the Reddit dog for so long. The more the Reddit admins try to bury it, the more obvious it is that they're absentee landlords not quite up to the job. Reddit, like most link aggregators, is a form of usury.
Then again I remember T_D's founder, /u/jcm267, from /r/Politics back in the day. So yeah, I don't have a lot of trouble making all the goose-stepping and sieg-heiling out to be what it is. Persecution fantasies fueling fantasies of persecuting are part and parcel of brownshirt outfits like that. Not everyone has the grace, the tact of a /u/SuperconductiveRabbi.
Angry brigading mobs being what they are, and that moderation team being what they are, I'm not going to second guess Reddit's limits on T_D. Mind you, I've been mistreated by Reddit corporate in my own ways. I'm not blind to their many, many fatal flaws, ruinous choices, and backwards policies. I don't think Reddit admins are uniformly Democrats working to suppress the deplorables, the way some might. I think they're more of an iron law of institutions shop.
Will say though, if your fascist movement depends on a platform like Reddit, it's not really your movement, is it? It's Reddit's. There're still brigadiers here from T_D, but then they don't pull the same antic shit here either. Conversation's better for it. That's what Reddit was supposed to be about. You know, in Aaron Swartz days, R.I.P.
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4 years ago
Reddit admins are arbitrary and capricious. Nobody paying attention to their hypocritical and inconsistent maladministration would defend their methods. Especially in this McCarthyite era, with outfits like the Atlantic Council and the Weekly Standard deciding who's allowed and who ain't.
However, the Magas' deluded persecution fantasies aside, I'm not buying /r/Drama and /r/WatchNiggersDie as victims. Who would is left as an exercise for the reader.
At least until lately, mods worth their salt tend not to have their subs taken away. Agents provocateur brigading in or no. Reddit's just not that picky what grows in their Petri dishes. Honestly giving a shit's not their business model.
Voat exists for a reason.
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4 years agoCurrent Event AdelleChattre
Blurred lines: Trump's UN choice and her coal magnate spouse
The email went out from senior Environmental Protection Agency officials to Kelly Craft, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, responding to questions she had about a funding matter. But the acknowledgment email the EPA got back a few hours later wasn’t from the ambassador. By Ellen Knickmeyer.
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The ‘Forgotten’ US Shootdown of Iranian Airliner Flight 655
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It's not a mystery. In July 3, 1988, the Iran/Iraq War is at its height. The U.S. enters the war, killing Iran Air Flight 655. The war is over within a month. The rest of this melodramatic handwringing is willful ignorance. It's no murkier than the fate of the USS Stark the day the Tower Commission Report on the Iran/Contra scandal was supposed to be published. Or that of the USS Liberty for that matter.
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4 years agoComment AdelleChattre
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
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Newly Released FOIA Documents Shed Light on Border Patrol’s Seemingly Limitless Authority
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How Oxford university shaped Brexit — and Britain’s next prime minister
Simon Kuper returns to the place where Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt began their climb to power.
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4 years agoVideo/Audio AdelleChattre
Red Army Blues
The Waterboys
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US government lawyer: detained children do not need soap and blankets – video
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4 years agoAnalysis AdelleChattre
No, Your Kids' Evil Cellphone Won't Give Them Horns
But if your neck hurts after hours of looking down at it, you might want to lie down on a pillow for a bit. By Kristina Killgrove.
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4 years agoComment AdelleChattre
Let's say you, an actual person knew fully well and genuinely meant to post an article from 2010, /t/jasont. Won't you agree that should be indicated somewhere, for instance in the snap intro?
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How modern life is transforming the human skeleton
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4 years ago
To be clear, though, jumping spiders aren't like other spiders. You know, kind of like Siamese cats aren't like other cats.
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How ‘Smallville’ Actress Allison Mack Became a Women-Branding Cult Leader
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Tory Cuts
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4 years agoReview AdelleChattre
Tory Cuts
Jeremy Hunt had the nerve to call local councils ‘hidden victims of the cuts’, noticing that hospitals have been forced to prolong patient stays at great expense because of the disappearance of community care: ‘that wasn’t a smart move.’ No shit, Sherlock. By Tom Crewe.
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The Unimaginable Reality of American Concentration Camps
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The Unimaginable Reality of American Concentration Camps
The debate over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s use of the term “concentration camp” is not about language or facts. It is about how we perceive history, ourselves, and ourselves in history. By Masha Gessen.
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4 years agoCurrent Event AdelleChattre
Oregon Statehouse Shut Down After Lawmakers Team Up With Right-Wing Militias
While leaving the statehouse before the walkout, one Republican senator implied that police who pursued them should be ready to die: “Send bachelors and come heavily armed.” By Kelly Weill.
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New Alabama Law Permits Church To Hire Its Own Police Force
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Next Contestant, Iran: Meet America’s Permanent War Formula
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Next Contestant, Iran: Meet America’s Permanent War Formula
When it comes to starting wars, we don’t even bother to change the script anymore. By Matt Taibbi.
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