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Facebook was used as a political propaganda device years before this kerfuffle, with FB's approval, but they and the press didn't mind until it had an outcome they didn't like. Rea…

Because not everyone wants to outsource their software needs to computers they don't control?

Any time you find yourself a nice loophole that allows you to justify any effort, no matter how harsh, against a group, you're not fighting fascism, you are fascism. You don't sacr…

If only there was some sort of mechanism to decouple the content from the design. Some sort of "sheet" of styles, that different users could choose according to their own preferenc…

The fact that playing content in the background is a $12 / month feature is a fucking travesty. Phones are toys for suckers.

Exactly. They spend all this effort on a font that Joe Average can't tell apart from Arial or Helvetica, and which only a typographer would think is a "distinct typeface" with uniq…

Yep. For an ideology that seems extremely concerned about how words like "chairman" or "craftsmanship" are perpetuating harmful gender biases, feminists sure never seem to notice t…

More nuanced take: men are finally acting like women have told them to act for decades: talk about your feelings, open up, be in touch with your inner self... not realizing that on…

You're right. Just look at all those men telling us they don't feel safe because of what someone wrote, that the work place needs to be more welcoming to them, that being told they…

"Centuries of privilege" is the kind of idiocy only a sheltered American suburbanite could come up with. A century ago millions of young white men were too busy dying in trenches a…

People keep trying to make it so you can build complex sites and applications without coding, and in the end, what you end up with is far more complicated, fragile and inflexible t…

This is what millions in enterprise funding gets you. A decade+ of sunk cost fallacy.

Alternative explanation: if they actually go after Facebook all the previous shady shit US politicians have done would also come into question. So they'll stick to emotive appeals …

Man, where to begin. The presumption of bad faith is both a lack of imagination and a lack of information. The person cannot imagine how a reasonable person might believe something…

Mozilla is like a modern American university. There is a parasitic growth attached that is only concerned with funneling more resources to itself in the form of bureaucrats and int…

Democracy is in danger because publishers, large and small, lack the discipline and expertise to produce objective, quality reporting, and give a voice to people with something int…

Your Honour, the courtroom is a crucible. In it we burn away irrelevancies until we are left with a pure product, the truth for all time. Now, sooner or later, this man or others l…

There is a noticeable gap in all this chatter about toxic masculinity. We're told that it's adolescent and immature male behavior, the worst of a roomful of teenage boys. Ok. So le…

>dire state of hate speech and vitriol Yes, things are now so good for the average person that you can create mass hysteria over mean words. Not a satanic child murdering panic, no…

Oh lovely. I've been trying to figure out how to address this in the context of GPU shaders and here comes the perfect paper!

I find it eery that a documentary that isn't telling people what to feel or think or do is criticized for being incomprehensible and boring. Maybe we're already far more doomed tha…

Not really. The octahedron defines the positions you pre-render the impostors from. The actual rendering uses a flat plane (like a regular billboard) but with a parallax shader and…

I'm not OP, but... The fact that it is not consistently connected to other instances of political campaigns previously is a big one. The narrative is that the West is radicalizing …

I have the exact opposite experience. If you find yourself annotating your variables and methods with extra adjectives and nouns, your code isn't simple enough. Those explanations …

People are made to feel personally affected because the sin has been lain on team Trump, who has become a symbol of the end of democracy and a return to fascism. Even if Trump is m…