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The author later speculates on why: > I actually was thinking along the lines of "interesting coincidence" but now I actually believe it is not a coincidence and they really did do this just to prevent people discussing welding Bing and "AI" into the FUCKING KEYBOARD
I Have No Keyboard and I Must Scream ?
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I don't know how it's possible to read Musk's twitter feed and conclude that Twitter is balanced now. The CEO exclusively interacts with and caters to right-wing accounts.
Just don't read his Twitter feed. I never followed the previous owners of Twitter either.
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One of the best decisions he made. Antifa accounts calling for violence and terrorism should never have been tolerated on Twitter.
Andy Ngo is a neo-nazi-friendly liar that claims everyone who criticizes him is antifa, and selectively edits his videos to distort the truth. Twitter threads of Ngo using selective video editing to make it seems like up is down: https://twitter.com/RespectableLaw/status/116496174509978828... General summary: https://www.salon.com/2019/08/28/right-wing-journalist-andy-... Ngo lying about leftist critics being violent…
Does it surprise me that his detractors would claim he is “neo-nazi-friendly”? Not in the slightest. The “anti-fascists” routinely claim the people they brutalize are fascist nazis - it’s a form of projection / deflection.
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This is what lack of competition in a given niche makes even possible. They can afford many explicitly anti user patterns because for a bunch of usages, they have no real alternative. When I can no longer use old.reddit I will stop giving them the little usage time I still spend there.
> When I can no longer use old.reddit I will stop giving them the little usage time I still spend there. This is definitely just a matter of time, they're slowly moving there by killing off things like `i.`. They'll lose a bunch of "us", but overall it's probably not going to affect their bottom line. Some specific high-quality discussion subreddits dying out means nothing if there are dozens of multi-million user su…
they've been insufferable for a long time, and on mobile I've completely given up on them
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yep well, as far as I'm concerned they're all crap including SwiftKey esp. when compared with using a properly set-up computer phones aren't great for input, and perhaps won't be in the foreseeable future, but using proprietary closed keyboards with no roughly-equivalent alternatives just compounds the problem every time I want to type something substantial, in any language, I wait until I have access to a computer;…
Good reliable text to speak on mobile is quite seemless and pleasant. For instance to "type" messages or thoughts as you're biking. I used a proprietary offline one from Vivo and it was great (unfortunately the keyboard had other issues) I'm not a native speaker but Microsoft's pinyin on windows and Google's pinyin input system on Linux both give much better results than the few open source alternatives I've tried ..…
it works well enough for me on my computer, and i simply avoid phones for input - anything "phone" is factory-lobotomised and nothing else should really be expected, and even if the software were to suddenly be best effort, you'd still have to overcome very taxing interface limitations
this has the disadvantage of making you even less at home in other devices but hey, my reality is what when this happens I wouldn't have been any better off regardless
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Amplifying right wing extremists is an improvement?
Has he? Is there evidence of this? I believe when the former head it safety left he said they were removing far more stuff than before. For example, I heard there were some child porn hashtags that got wiped out. I haven’t seen any more right wing extremists.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/28/musk-tw...
That's on top of Twitter previously finding that right Wong voices were already amplified far more than those on the left, which was during the peak of the right wing complaints of being silenced
https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2021/rml-polit...
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Has he? Is there evidence of this? I believe when the former head it safety left he said they were removing far more stuff than before. For example, I heard there were some child porn hashtags that got wiped out. I haven’t seen any more right wing extremists.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-twitter-force-fed-e... https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/28/musk-tw... That's on top of Twitter previously finding that right Wong voices were already amplified far more than those on the left, which was during the peak of the right wing complaints of being silenced https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2021/rml-polit...
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No, support for a war is anything that prolongs the war, no matter which side you're arming. You're essentially saying "it's not support for the war if I'm (perceiving I am) making sure my team wins". I'm not faulting you for that, it's the most common position, but it is support for war.
If you want to define exercise of the right of collective self-defense against aggression as “support for war”, fine, you can have your own private language. But now explain why that, in the face of actual aggression and genocide, is a bad thing compared to the alternative?
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It's a huge difference. It's the difference between negligent homicide and murder. Both legal and moral thinking distinguishes between these two concepts. It's fine to note that they are both bad and both mean culpability and liability, but pretending they are literally the same thing is the worst kind of rhetorical device.
They had been warned by locals in both Burma and Sri Lanka for many months that violent rhetoric was spreading like wildfire through users in those countries, and did nothing about it -- seldom even responding to the people pleading for them to do something. When Sri Lanka pulled the plug on Facebook as violence was starting to erupt, Facebook did then reach out...to ask why their Sri Lankan traffic had dropped off.…
1. Facebook wanted or didn't care at all that a genocide was going to happen and happened
2. Facebook cared to a reasonable extent but due to an american centric setup isn't prepared to censor posts in certain areas of the world
Bad? Yes, evil? No big difference
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No, support for a war is anything that prolongs the war, no matter which side you're arming. You're essentially saying "it's not support for the war if I'm (perceiving I am) making sure my team wins". I'm not faulting you for that, it's the most common position, but it is support for war.
If you want to define exercise of the right of collective self-defense against aggression as “support for war”, fine, you can have your own private language. But now explain why that, in the face of actual aggression and genocide, is a bad thing compared to the alternative?
In this case there's a more important point, though, that a broad understanding that war will not be allowed to change the status quo will decrease the number of wars. Building and maintaining that understanding has the expense (sometimes) of making individual wars longer, but when it is (at worst) unclear which of those effects dominates it is unreasonable to label picking one side of that trade as unequivocal "support for war".