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Some more information about ngo-monitor: > NGO Monitor is a right-wing organization based in Jerusalem that reports on international NGO (non-governmental organisation) activity from a pro-Israel perspective. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGO_Monitor
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Here's are some references for you. Children and doctors: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/09/opinion/gaza-... Press: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/1-year-of-gaza-genocide/1-year-of-g... All of these are easy to discover with a simple Google search. I encourage you to break out of the bubble you appear to be in.
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I'm referring to Israel's invasion of Palestine, which in this specific instance started on October 9, 2023 or so, and resulted in the total destruction of Gaza, and the direct killing of 60,000, and the indirect killing of possibly 300,000. This is the invasion that had more bombs dropped on Gazan civilians than were dropped in the entire Afghanistan war. And one in which Israeli snipers repeatedly shot and killed c…
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How would Palestine be able to afford bots?
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And yes yes, i know what you want to reply: "but whatabout hamas". Do it :)
Two comments downplaying the grossness of the conduct of executives and one reply trying to discredit another whistleblower saying similar things. For me, that's a worrying level of apathy towards and / or normalisation of what should be totally unacceptable behaviour. This is the kind of attitude that gets Trump a second term even after his first.
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The Myanmar stuff we already knew about. It's bad. It seems negligent, but not like Zuckerburg wants to drown babies Most people set the bar higher than 'does he want to drown babies' .
I had an opportunity to talk about racism with a racist. He said that he was not racist because he didn’t want to kill people of color. He is the kind of person, who doesn’t go into a restaurant if there are non whites in it, even in the safest neighbourhood. Since then, I’m not sure at all about that. There are definitely a lot of racists, who don’t consider themselves as such. I’m not sure that they are not the maj…
So if a person has a bias against Armenians (just to pick a random group), she is likely to think "I know I'm fair, so if I don't like many Armenians, it must be because most Armenians are unlikable".
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What about the allegations that Facebook is suppressing informating regarding the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestine? Is that an eye roll as well in your book or is it newsworthy?
It‘s good that they are preventing the spread of fake news and anti-Israel hate content. Pro Palestine propaganda is already incredibly pervasive and annoying anywhere you look online. There can be a news article about Dubai chocolate and Palestine brainwashed bots will comment „…ok but what about PALESTINE?“
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Americans are one of the most, if not the most, propagandized populations on the planet, and the worst part is a large cohort of them fully believe they aren’t.
Social media has democratized propaganda. Political messages often come from ostensibly small, independent outlets now - outlets whose incentives are no better than those of governments. A show might be hosted by a couple teenagers in hoodies, but if the hosts are audience-captured, or supported by powerful interests, or just hold strong, irrational views, it's still just bad propaganda.
I find this sentence very wrong since the corporations or algorithms are not really under democratic controll.
You even continue to implicate that small creators are blown out of (democratic) proportion.
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Social media has democratized propaganda. Political messages often come from ostensibly small, independent outlets now - outlets whose incentives are no better than those of governments. A show might be hosted by a couple teenagers in hoodies, but if the hosts are audience-captured, or supported by powerful interests, or just hold strong, irrational views, it's still just bad propaganda.
>Social media has democratized propaganda. I find this sentence very wrong since the corporations or algorithms are not really under democratic controll. You even continue to implicate that small creators are blown out of (democratic) proportion.
the corporations or algorithms are not really under democratic control
Re: small creators. There are many creators who seem small - like Joe Rogan - but actually operate on a scale that places intense pressures on them. People tend to give more trust to 'influencers' than they should because they seem relatable.
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I think React and GraphQL are pretty impressive in terms of how shitty they've made the developer experience at so many companies. GraphQL especially seems to attract the kind of people who love to misuse technologies built for massive orgs in companies with fewer than 100 employees.
> GraphQL especially seems to attract the kind of people who love to misuse technologies built for massive orgs in companies with fewer than 100 employees. This is almost exactly how I feel about Kubernetes