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AngularAloe@beehaw.orgOPto
Politics@beehaw.org•The Middle East Deal That Biden’s Considering Is a Bad Idea
1·2 years agoSadly some service people have already died for Saudi Arabia in the Khobar Towers bombing (1996). The presence of American soldiers in Saudi Arabia was also the impetus behind the 9/11 bombings.
A foreign policy cynic could say that this deal changes little, because the U.S. already helps SA willingly, for example, we now help them bomb Yemen because we want to, rather than because we’re legally obligated to. But I find the idea that someone would want to codify this insane, and am surprised it isn’t bigger news.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Meta Just Proved People Hate Chronological Feeds
73·2 years ago“Spend less time once on” is different than “hate”. I hated FB’s feed so much that I was reluctant to get on in the first place, a metric completely different from how long I would spend once I DID open it.
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Technology@beehaw.org•mastodon.art defederating calckey firefish social. Cites behavior of lead project dev
9·2 years agoarticle was fine, mastodon.art’s mod didn’t like the person who originally posted it
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Technology@beehaw.org•joinfirefish.org is a bit messy and compliacted
2·2 years agoI’m using calckey.world and it was a bit crunchy at first but is working well now. The userbase at this point is small compared to the mastodon servers we’re used to seeing.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Elon Musk says Twitter logo to change, birds to be gradually abandonedEnglish
8·2 years agoEarly on, he was selling some of his Tesla stock, thus depressing its value, in order to fund twitter. So I don’t believe the theory that he bought it specifically to tank it. Though he may eventually claim “I meant to do that”.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Elon Musk says Twitter logo to change, birds to be gradually abandonedEnglish
49·2 years agoThis seems like an admission that twitter is dead.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Openai hiring alignment researchers to create an automated alignment researcher
1·2 years agoThis is just more marketing on OpenAI’s part, to push the idea that they are close to creating something “smarter” than humans.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Meta's upcoming AcitivityPub-enabled app Threads will only come with an "import from Mastodon" option. The new network won't federate on day one.English
1·2 years agoI’m confused by this - there are various things Meta might want from the Fediverse (free content, more data, more people to serve ads to), but new users can’t be one of them. No one from Mastodon is likeky to migrate to Meta’s platform; the people who want to use Meta are already there.
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Politics@beehaw.org•Kyrsten Sinema Moves to Slash Pilot Training After Taking Airline CashEnglish
1·2 years agoI think you’re misunderstanding the meaning of the statement if you think safely regulations are written for union job security.
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World News@beehaw.org•‘A sense of betrayal’: liberal dismay as Muslim-led US city bans Pride flags
1·3 years agoWhile I’m with you partly (I don’t think rights should be removeable to majority rule), I’m not sure how much effective democracy we actually have, as I don’t see much of a straight line between the power of individuals to vote and the ability to gain policies that people actually want.
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Politics@beehaw.org•Do you trust FiveThirtyEight without Nate Silver?
3·3 years agoMy trust in him dropped after being exposed to his activity on twitter. It seemed like he had a habit of trying to apply his knowledge to things he didn’t understand or where he was missing the point. I’m no longer on twitter and can’t remember specific examples, so it may have been more that that format did not work for him.
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Gaming@beehaw.org•What are some of your LEAST favorite game mechanics?English
2·3 years agoI found the procedurally-produced planets in No Man’s Sky to be stunningly beautiful. Then I would walk around on them and the similar-but-not-quite look of every part of the landscape would slowly drive me INSANE.
AngularAloe@beehaw.orgto
Gaming@beehaw.org•What are some of your LEAST favorite game mechanics?English
2·3 years agoCombo attacks - I’m not coordinated to hit the buttons in order fast enough. I tried Black Desert when it was free and this was the dealbreaker for me, though it wasn’t the only thing that bugged me about the game.
Has therebeen any successful implementation of a DAO?
This podcast about the Spice DAO is educational/entertaining:
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World News@beehaw.org•Poland erects wall on Belarusian border to stop uncontrolled migration
1·3 years agoNope, absolutely disagree. People were being used as pawns and pushed towards the border by Belarus, where they were freezing and Poland would not let humanitarian aid or journalists reach them. Neither country’s government gave a shit about the value of human life.
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World News@beehaw.org•Poland erects wall on Belarusian border to stop uncontrolled migration
1·3 years agoWhen there were people freezing near the border, that was on Poland as well.





I have a pixel 5a and haven’t had that problem, currently using Fennec (firefox fork).