Honestly sanctions agains companies like these that can be weaponized politically sounds very reasonable.

They are national security threat in the true meaning of the word.

What happened to freedom of speech Elon?

This article is quite old but I guess relevant depunking misleading image posted recently by Musk on twitter/x.

https://nypost.com/2025/02/17/us-news/elon-musk-cries-fraud-on-20-million-in-social-security-database-over-age-100/

X-odus has ring to it. It might just catch on.

In Finnish language there are no gender specific pronouns only gender neutral one hän/hänen.

They/them still sounds weird to use even if I know it can be used to refer single person. When talking or writing fast I’ll still often accidentally default to using he/him even for females which I then have to correct.

Paranoia should hit even harder if you decide to surround yourself with smart killer robots.

“If It’s Smart, It’s Vulnerable”
— Mikko Hyppönen

Structural violence is s great term that should get more use in cases like this.

I hope we’ll get some data on how much more money and effort is spend on this compared to cases where the target is just some regular nobody.

expect more of them to move to gated communities, entrenched beyond even higher walls, protected by people with even bigger guns.

Protecting oneself from gunmen by surrounding oneself with gunmen with bigger guns sounds great until you think about it a bit more.

Thats when paranoia hits.

It’s easy to expect perfection from your opponents while crying about whataboutism when someone points out their side has done the same.

I see Lemmy and other fediverse platforms as pioneers for desentralized web which is still in its early stages. There are still problems to be solved and likely bunch of things that should be streamlined before bringing in the masses but there’s a lot of potential in desentralization even beyond social media.

Honestly it’s probably better this way as Fediverse is likely ill prepared to host all these people. There’s likely still a lot work to be done to make instances more efficient, scaleable, sustainable and easier to moderate.

No need to get rude, the point is that:

If you want group of people to be supportive for your cause then there are better ways than:

• Try to blame them for things these people have nothing to do with, like actions of people more than century a go.
• Convey them as villains in bullshit “us vs them” narrative.
• Tell them to check their privilege while they may be just as well be living in poverty or otherwise be struggling.
• Attacking them for not being woke enough.
• etc

I personally hate the modern day identity politics and it’s polarising narrative and this goes for both the left and the right or “woke” and “anti-woke” sides. This leads to radicalization of some and alienation of more moderate individuals from both sides of the spectrum. I also think that exclusion, scapegoating and vilification can lead to people and their supporters accepting their newly given role as a villain and start campaigning against what they where initially for.

If you apply strong constant pressure for years even steel will bend and concrete crumble.

I am sure that conveying these white men (and women) as oppressive, entitled villains in these articles or opinion pieces will help calm that anger and win them over. /s

Well I have to agree that he did have controversial takes on those issues.
Albeit many of which probably resonate well with average American voters.

Haven’t paid much attention to Sam Harris for years, last time was probably around 2017 when some grouped him in to the “Intellectual dark web”. Based on this episode it seem that unlike Jordan Petterson, Harris has somewhat managed to avoid getting radicalized by his audience and/or haters. But it could be that he’s just really good acting calm and reasonable.

Care to give any examples on these white washed centrists talking points that you’re most critical of?

Since this is transcript of podcast episode here’s few links for that one.

Making Sense: Episode 391 - The Reckoning

• samharris.org
• Spotify
• Youtube

Well since they were/are hosting Mastodon instance they do seem to have some interest in the fediverse. They do also have official plugins.

Personally I feel something like this could be the next step for social link aggregation and discussion platforms. Being able to share and discuss on about videos and articles without having to register to dozens or more pages while also having some control over the people you interract with through instances, subscribed communities etc.

Source media would also be unable to control what can or cannot be discussed. Many youtube videos and news articles for example may block all comments. It would be up to community on how to moderate discussion.

Lemmy support would be much more fitting for Mozilla. They could add plugin or lemmy integration to their browser that could show discussions from subscribed communities matching the current url.

Effectively acting as a “comment section” but for any page. One would only need lemmy account to comment on youtube videos, news articles, blogs etc.

Well JD Vance did say gun violence is just "Fact of Life” that we just “Have to Get Over” so surely the republicans understand this.