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jsterSCon “Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with diverse viewpoints”

You have GOP party members actively supporting a coup. And intend to do so again.

Worse than the 1960s.

jsterSCon Wildfire in the Western United States: Past, Present, and Future

Great information and so nicely presented. Reading through it i had to stop and wonder, why aren't more articles written with this type of interactive data to back up the author's points.

jsterSCon The 'Dead-Internet Theory'

well you're definitely a bot

jsterSCon The 'Dead-Internet Theory'

Everyone on the internet is a bot. Especially you.

jsterSCon An Illustrated Guide to Post-Orwellian Censorship

It may have been a hackneyed attempt to point out real issues, but to call it propaganda... by who? Who is running the big 'maybe all these social networks are kinda bad, or at least we should be aware of what they are doing' scheme?

jsterSCon I'm reading the FT and WSJ from 100 years ago each week leading to 1929

You say that like it's a bad thing?

jsterSCon Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

>The honeyed words of social justice are more important than great, well executed products, apparently.

I like how all the other comments are pointing out that the forces behind an acquisition are never good for 'focused products' and then there's this comment that shows us the truth, it's those damn kids and their social justice that ruins the products.

jsterSCon Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate

you think a US Federal institution would attack a major US Company and cause suffering to a large swarths of the population, just cause?

jsterSCon The TikTok War

I highly recommend anyone that has this initial reaction to what these companies are benefiting from their surveillance models check out

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Surveillance_Capita...

Which does an excellent job helping to stimulate thought of just what the power and purpose of these types of apps as well other structures (alphabet) are able to do...

jsterSCon Why did Facebook acquire Mapillary?

There's something about divide and conquer in there, i'm sure of it.

jsterSCon Brave’s browser has been autocompleting websites with referral codes

I've seen a couple of comments in this direction across sites and would like to take a moment to point out that while advertisements are certainly annoying and a hassle, the root of the problem comes with the mining of behavior data that is then transformed into profile packages sold for advertising (and whatever other) purposes.

So, even if a browser is blocking ads, or changing the way ads are interacted with, the more important worry (imo) is whether the browser (or its features) are successful in blocking the behavior profile being built by aggregators such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc.