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Zedstrian

@ Zedstrian @sopuli.xyz

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  • How Rogue Officers Turned a Nationwide Camera Network Into a Tool for Stalking

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  • They didn't need to 'turn it' into anything; it was designed from the get go to be a nationwide tool for stalking and mass surveillance.

  • Threadiverse Major Defederations Graph

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  • Agreement with differing ideas isn't necessary, but willingness to tolerate difference is necessary if the Threadiverse is to grow beyond 40,000 MAU.

    Given that we're already at a disadvantage due to the network effect, as long as new users aren't racist, homophobic, transphobic, fascist, or otherwise exclusionary, they shouldn't be pushed out for having differing political beliefs to the group norm. Instances need not enforce rigid orthodoxy to a broad set of beliefs to avoid becoming a Nazi bar.

    Beyond politics, many potential users would rather see non-political content in any case, something that is largely lacking compared to the broad availability of content on Reddit. Many users are unfortunately not willing to switch over without a greater proportion of such communities active here from the get-go. Even if such users join for different reasons than existing users, a greater MAU count would help reverse the user count hemorrhaging than has gradually occurred since the initial mass exodus from Reddit in 2023.

  • Flock camera leads to wrongful arrest in Redmond

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  • Hopefully the guy will be compensated for the wrongful arrest.

    That said, the TikTok style of using word-by-word highlighted subtitles makes content seem like it's produced for toddlers.

  • Large scale terror thwarted

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  • That means 200 officers taken off the capital's streets, where they could have been tackling the crimes that matter most to Londoners.

    Don't waste law enforcement resources dismantling civil rights then.

  • St Pete "Flock Blocker" continues his protest

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  • and likely even the MAC addresses emitted by many of those vaccinated.

    I'm against spying on device identifiers, but vaccinated individuals do not 'emit' MAC addresses.

  • How Rogue Officers Turned a Nationwide Camera Network Into a Tool for Stalking

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  • The problem with many of the articles that discuss how the system is being 'misused' act as if the mass surveillance involved is otherwise entirely acceptable, so long as it's used for its intended purpose.

  • A City With a Plan : Cincinnati wants to take in people fleeing climate disasters

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  • Ohio has become largely Republican; why should people flee to a state led by those fueling those disasters in the first place?

  • Growth of the Fediverse (20260802)

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  • Expanding my spreadsheet to include sixty instances with at least 50 MAU is making graphing their defederations in a sensible way complicated, but it's good to know that the Piefed numbers are largely fixed now; perhaps the Fediverse Observer dev should also filter out mbin.level5.dev to avoid the duplication issue for Mbin.

  • Trump says Greenland will be under US control by the time he leaves office - AOL

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  • Ultimately I think the Threadiverse would be well-served with user growth, even beyond a privacy-focused niche, but there should always be a baseline of quality to acceptable news sources, something that news portals obscure.

  • Trump says Greenland will be under US control by the time he leaves office - AOL

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  • People probably use news portals like AOL for the convenience of finding articles from a variety of sources, but doing so also makes it harder for people to determine the source of that information or block content from certain outlets.

  • Trump says Greenland will be under US control by the time he leaves office - AOL

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  • ‘There are a lot of little s..ts in classrooms’: Henry unveils ACT’s school discipline plan

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  • When a reporter suggested Finland’s education success involved more than economic growth alone, ACT leader David Seymour interjected: “You’re making a big assumption there. You shouldn’t let that creep into your reporting.”

    No, they're just not reporting from a libertarian perspective.

  • ICE agents accused of racial profiling and using racist slurs in explosive court filing

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  • Is it an 'explosive' filing if it's obvious that the kind of people signing up to be ICE agents are racists?

  • Trump just lost his battle to force a university to release its “list of Jews”

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  • Polls have repeatedly demonstrated that around a third of Americans support Trump's policy positions on nearly everything; here's a graph with multiple issues listed to demonstrate (source):

  • Trump just lost his battle to force a university to release its “list of Jews”

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  • A third of the U.S. thinks that anyone to the left of the most conservative Democrat is a communist, while many centrists normalize fascism on a regular basis.

  • After court order, Michigan to stop enforcing ban on conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ youth

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  • Michigan agreed to stop enforcing a ban on “conversion therapy” for LGBTQ+ children under a federal court order.

    U.S. District Court Judge Jane Beckering ruled on July 30 that a Michigan law banning mental health professionals from engaging in talk therapy violates the constitutional right to free speech.

    Torture is not free speech.

  • Florida’s MAGA Attorney Threatens to Defund Catholic Schools Over Vaccine Mandate

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  • “Having no legitimate religious reason to refuse granting religious exemptions to the taking of abortion-derived vaccines, Catholic schools in Florida should comply with Florida law.”

    The dishonesty of conflating stem cell research with vaccine research aside, assholes like this want countless people to die of preventable diseases in the name of not benefitting from a handful of abortions that would still be occurring.

  • All LLMs are liberal and left. Yes, even Grok, half the time.

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  • The truth is 'liberal and left'.

  • Threadiverse Major Defederations Graph

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  • I realized that afterwards as people replied; in reviewing all instances with at least 50 MAU, I found that while Hexbear is the main user of the whitelist system, lemmynsfw now also uses it for exclusive federation with fedinsfw.

    Lemmy.sinistraverso.org has it enabled, but doesn't have any instances on the list, so it doesn't seem to do anything in its case.

  • Fedilytics @piefed.zip
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    Threadiverse Major Defederations Graph

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Threadiverse Major Defederations Graph

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    The Button Season 4

    thebutton.social
  • The Button @lemmy.zip
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    Suggestions

  • Lost Media @lemmy.world
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    Early Punch-Out prototype surfaces, ROM shared online

    nintendoeverything.com /early-punch-out-prototype-surfaces-rom-shared-online/
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Religious spam by lem.cochrun.xyz accounts

  • Gaming @beehaw.org
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    Early Punch-Out prototype surfaces, ROM shared online

    nintendoeverything.com /early-punch-out-prototype-surfaces-rom-shared-online/
  • Gaming @lemmy.world
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    Early Punch-Out prototype surfaces, ROM shared online

    nintendoeverything.com /early-punch-out-prototype-surfaces-rom-shared-online/
  • webgames @lemmy.zip
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    Chain Reaction

    maku.fun /chain-reaction