Gabriel S.C. 🏳️‍🌈🇫🇷🇧🇷

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Boulderer, economist-in-training, and avid reader of fantasy and sci-fi. Living in the Netherlands.
@[email protected] everyone needs to recognize the Supreme Court is illegitimate

Alabama and Ohio want to set a precedent that you can ignore Supreme Court rulings?

Awesome. I’m all for it

Let’s start by:

Giving back our reproductive rights
Prosecuting anyone who discriminates against the LGBTQIA+ community
Allowing student debt forgiveness
Continuing affirmative action
Give the Navajo nation water rights
Give back the EPA’s power to do its job

Three Body Problem (Netflix)

https://lemmy.world/post/296611

Three Body Problem (Netflix) - Lemmy.world

https://youtu.be/5lj99Uz1d50 [https://youtu.be/5lj99Uz1d50] The Three Body Problem trailer for the new Netflix adaptation is out. I must say I am very skeptical of this one. This being one of my favorite books I have my doubts that they will do it justice. I’m sure it will be visually interesting and everything, but that’s not really the point. Especially not for book 1. I recently watched both the Tencent live adaptation as well as the animated adaptation of The Dark Forest and sometimes I feel like these books were better left on paper. The live show wasn’t bad or anything it just has a different feel to it on screen that’s hard to understand. Warning: please refrain from posting book spoilers in this thread. General discussion is fine.

Nazisme et extrême droite : le décryptage du traducteur d'Hitler ➤ https://www.blast-info.fr/emissions/2023/nazisme-et-extreme-droite-le-decryptage-du-traducteur-dhitler-KivFo6RARGOuurJpAsxnlA • A l’heure où les syndicats de police veulent « éradiquer les nuisibles », où des milices ouvertement nazies défilent dans les rues de Chambéry, Lyon, Angers, Paris aux cris de « Bleu blanc rouge, la France aux Français », où le « Grand remplacement » est devenu quasiment une religion médiatique sur certaines chaines de télé, où un milliardaire catho… #extrême_droite #nazisme
Nazisme et extrême droite : le décryptage du traducteur d'Hitler

A l’heure où les syndicats de police veulent « éradiquer les nuisibles », où des milices ouvertement nazies défilent dans les rues de Chambéry, Lyon, Angers, Paris aux cris de « Bleu blanc rouge, la France aux Français », où le « Grand remplacement » est…

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The data in the study shows that the absolute rate of hate speech has doubled since Musk's policy changes.

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-analysis-speech-significantly-twitter.html

Analysis finds hate speech has significantly increased on Twitter

Computer scientist Keith Burghardt at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI), a research institute of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, has been studying social media for five years, and specifically studying online hate for the last year.

Phys.org

After some years, rescuers arrived at the deserted island to find the man had set up farms, shelter, and modern amenities. He had even cobbled together a server out of fragments of wreckage and was self-hosting two single-user fediverse instances on VMs running Alpine Linux.

"But what is the second one for?" the rescuers asked. "Are you running glitch-soc, or trying out Calckey, or what?"

"Oh," said the man proudly, "that is the instance I refuse to federate with."

Greg Abbott is a racist psycho. He is a shame to me, my country, and humanity. Any system that allows such a person to be an "authority" is corrupt.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/18/texas-troopers-inhumane-migrants-greg-abbott-border-initiative

Texas trooper says they were told to push children into Rio Grande and deny migrants water

Trooper employed by Greg Abbott’s initiative expressed concern over ‘inhumane’ actions, in email reviewed by the Guardian

The Guardian
If you espouse monstrous ideas, and I call you a monster, that is not a refutation of your ideas, it is a refutation of you as a person, which is a separate issue from the ideas themselves, which I can probably also prove are false in addition to being monstrous -- but that assumes that monstrous ideas deserve to be debated, rather than merely discarded without further consideration.

The challenge faced by science in the United States isn’t that scientists are awkward and bad at communication. It’s that we’re beset by propaganda and mass media channels funded by corrupt billionaires to sow confusion.

We need big, generously funded communications channels dedicated to verifiable reality. Scientists who are slightly better at talking isn’t going to cut it.