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This article is about one study, by CCDH, who did not publish much of anything about their methodology. CCDH's CEO was an anti-Corbynite that fed into the false accusations of antisemitism against the left for having solidarity with Palestinians and CCDH continues to prominently focus on antisemitism and trying to blur the line between antisemitism and antizionism. The faction that he supported is currently in power in Labour and are supporters of Israel during this genocide.

I would not trust them to make good calls on what is an accurate community note vs. not. Community notes are all over the place but on average depict a bazinga liberal position, which is not actually the most accurate one. Having looked at their "study" paper, their first and most promindnt criterion for accuracy was whether community note aligned with fact-checking websites. Fact-checking websites are, to put it bluntly, bullshit, and really just reflect the author's opinion.

For example, one of the things they claim is election misinformation is the claim that voting systems are unreliable. They are saying this is an inaccurate or misleading claim. In the US, it is accurate to say that it's voting systems are unreliable. They are frequently run using voting machines from private companies, black boxes with no real way to verify their results that are actually implemented in most places, and polling stations often only gave 1 or 2, so when they break people are disenfranchised. Every computer security expert audit says you should not trust these systems and should use paper ballots with manual observable recounts. The allegation of misinformation is really about what is perceived to be voter suppression, of people feeling like they shouldn't vote because it won't count anyways. This is not actually misinformation, though: the voting machines are unreliable, that is the actual problem in this situation, not the use of repeating a fact in your favor.

It is salient that at no point do they highlight the naked propaganda for Zionism that has been rampant on social media, including about elections. This was presumably filtered out early on by their selection of what counts as a topic of interest for their analysis.

Finally, the clear purpose of CCDH is to lobby for having more oversight on social media, including large, centralized moderation teams that have historically been cozy with liberal governments.

Lifesavers because they are some sick Os

Really sticking it to those... friendly Russian kernel maintainers. Really doing your part for your individual Two Minutes Hate.

So presumably, as a consistent person that is outrages by invasions and death, you call for the expulsion of all Americans and Usraelis, right?

lmao okay buddy

As a start, follow the 3-2-1 rule:

• At least 3 copies of the data.

• On at least 2 different devices / media.

• At least 1 offsite backup.

I would add one more thing: invest in a process for verifying that your backups are working. Like a test system that is occasionally restored to from backups.

Let's say what you care about most is photos. You will want to store them locally on a computer somewhere (one copy) and offsite somewhere (second copy). So all you need to do is figure out one more local or offsite location for your third copy. Offsite is probably best but is more expensive. I would encrypt the data and then store on the cloud for my main offsite backup. This way your data is private so it doesn't matter that it is stored in someone else's server.

I am personally a fan of Borg backup because you can do incremental backups with a retention policy (like Macs' Time Machine), the archive is deduped, and the archive can be encrypted.

Consider this option:

1. Your data raw on a server/computer in your home.

2. An encrypted, deduped archive on that sane computer.

3. That archive regularly copied to a second device (ideally another medium) and synchronized to a cloud file storage system.

4. A backup restoration test process that takes the backups and shows that they restores important files, the right number, size, etc.

If disaster strikes and all your local copies are toast, this strategy ensures you don't lose important data. Regular restore testing ensures the remote copy is valid. If you have two cloyd copies, you are protected against one of the providers screwing up and removing data without you knowing and fixing it.

You're probably fine so long as it doesn't have moisture!

Is it a "best by" date or a real "expires on" date?

Powders like this only go bad after being exposed to moisture. If properly sealed they will last decades.

OWS was not well-organized. Palestinian solidarity groups are doing better. The key difference is in being able to coherently make informed decisions as a group and then act on them as one.

Every OWS encampment was basically 5-30 orgs all doing their own thing and then fighting about horizontalism and being naive about how the cops and City Hall would treat them. We need to be able to act like 1-3 orgs (even if there are more), politically educate so we can avoid mistakes, and create good structure as early as possible so that expectations are set and time isn't wasted and bad decisions are avoided.

The US left is basically slowly relearning the basics of organizing. Get involved and make it go faster!

Why does it need to be a scripting (by this I assume interpreted) language? For your requirements - particularly lightweight distribution - a precompiled binary seems more appropriate. Maybe look into Go, which is a pretty simple language that can be easily compiled to native binaries.

They made her wear a unique low-cut purple spandex suit for the first half of the series.

The low resolution will blur out all hint of anatomy, don't worry

Wonder what will happen to Firefox if this ruling means Google can't pay them to default to their search engine. That's a large chunk of their funding.