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Curious, Are there earlier examples of negligence, prior to the episode of "weapons of mass destruction"? When did the decline really start?
cf Noam Chomsky: Manufacturing Consent ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent_(film) )
Ehh, I don't like current state of the Internet In last months I've started wondering why do I even pay my internet bills 60% of the reason I still do it is that I need internet for my job the rest is HN, two or three subreddits, music and some video games, wiki/google/maps and the fact that I still need to learn a lot in order to advance in career. It's insanely hard to avoid that main stream media content (celebrit…
Internet is just a big IP network. I use it to talk to certain servers like email, my vps, or my personal home server. The other servers I talk to I dont own so I spend as little time sending them requests as possible. If you stop sending strange servers requests for unwanted data you'll feel much better :-)
As someone who grew up while the Internet was just getting off the ground (mid 30s), I remember the absolute joy of exploring the net, and for the most part, it could feed me as much interesting content as I could stand. I felt this reverence for it, like I did for great libraries.
It’s not really possible to use the Internet that way any more, and that sucks. Yes, it’s still a gigantic library, but the ability to explore unbounded is no more, at least if you want to avoid the problematic parts.
And this is where the grieving part comes in. Your advice to use the net more carefully/intentionally is good, but is also a stark contrast to the way things were. It makes me sad.
Ironic that this is from the New York Times, which has (in)famously had several years of poor or biased reporting.
The NYT reporting seems pretty reliable to me. Could you give a few notable examples at least to support that claim?
This is so messed up. If you’re reading this and are in this ‘business’, or associated with it/supporting it, please, for the sake of yourself, your families, humanity and the planet we live on, get out if you have any choice! It’s been bad enough with state actors, lobbyists etc etc. for years anyhow - don’t make it worse for the sake of a quick buck!
I don’t know how to break this to you… but you’re about 80 years late.
People would be less susceptible to disinformation if they could actually trust mainstream sources like the NYT.
Ironic that this is from the New York Times, which has (in)famously had several years of poor or biased reporting.
Curious, Are there earlier examples of negligence, prior to the episode of "weapons of mass destruction"? When did the decline really start?
Searching for anything relating to NYT and Ukraine obviously gives a lot of more recent results but I found this Huffington Post article[1] that I think has enough background to point you in the right direction if you’re curious to learn more. And I think this[2] is the journalist’s wikipedia article.
Edit: It was Stalin he had a very friendly relationship with, not Lenin.
[1]https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5a15c588e4b0f401dfa7ecce
This is so messed up. If you’re reading this and are in this ‘business’, or associated with it/supporting it, please, for the sake of yourself, your families, humanity and the planet we live on, get out if you have any choice! It’s been bad enough with state actors, lobbyists etc etc. for years anyhow - don’t make it worse for the sake of a quick buck!
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/25/world/europe/disinformati...