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Union Busting in Buffalo Continues — But Restaurant Workers Are Fighting Back (truthout.org)

submitted 2 months ago by Five@slrpnk.net to c/unions@lemmy.ml

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Dead Zones Are Growing, but With Government Action, Hope Isn’t Lost (sentientmedia.org)

submitted 2 months ago by Five@slrpnk.net to c/environment@beehaw.org

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I Spent 24 Hours with Just Stop Oil (www.youtube.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Five@slrpnk.net to c/climate@slrpnk.net

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The Beautiful Dead (vimeo.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Five@slrpnk.net to c/documentaries@lemmy.world

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"While not for the squeamish, this series of three short films by Melissa Hogenboom and Pierangelo Pirak is pretty much essential for anyone not daunted by the sight of corpses and the reality of death. An exquisitely shot blend of wry re-enactment, vox-pop and gentle documentary, this compact trilogy takes us to Palermo to find out about Sicily's religious and cultural traditions of mummification, from the Middle Ages until the early 20th century. If this is the kind of eccentric cultural mini doc BBC Reel is hoping to specialise in, it should be applauded” by Andrew Male for The Times

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good cyberpunk: Hypnospace Outlaw (www.hypnospace.net)

submitted 2 months ago by Five@slrpnk.net to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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cross-posted from: https://awful.systems/post/252151

Hypnospace Outlaw is that funny meme game with the pizza dance. it’s also a leftist parody of the California Ideology and some of the factors that led to the bursting of the dot com bubble. crucially, it’s also a whole lot of fun to play — it’s a very good point and click mystery adventure that takes place on a faithfully rendered and authentic-feeling version of a networked computer in the 90s, crafted by someone who absolutely knew what they were doing with the time period and aesthetic.

above all, it’s one of the better cyberpunk games I’ve played, though I can’t really explain why without spoiling the ending. Hypnospace Outlaw can be finished fairly quickly, so I encourage anyone who hasn’t to give it a play or at least watch a playthrough from a non-annoying YouTuber. ending spoilers follow:

Hypnospace Outlaw ending spoilers
it goes without saying that sleeptime computing in Hypnospace is a limited and janky but still revolutionary brain-computer interface, and in effect what you’re doing during the whole game is a precursor to netrunning. in fact, Hypnospace in general is a perfect prelude to a Gibsonian cyberpunk dystopia.

as demonstrated in the last chapter of the game, sleeptime computing tech is fatal when pushed beyond its limits, as Merchantsoft demonstrated like only a short-sighted and greedy startup in 1999 could. Dylan even spends 20 solid years blaming a hacker for the lives he took fucking with tech he barely understood. the tech behind sleeptime computing is most likely outlawed after 1999, or its use is at least heavily stigmatized.

at the same time, the promise behind Hypnospace remains alluring as fuck. in the last chapter of the game, you join up with a nostalgic effort to archive all of Hypnospace from the cache memory in your repaired moderator headband. the allure goes beyond nostalgia though: with the 90s ideas stripped away, even a janky BCI is incredibly useful. you can imagine high-frequency traders, drone pilots, and similar assholes being particularly interested in the illegal tech that replaces sleep with the ability to very efficiently do their jobs 24/7. cyberdeck tech being strictly regulated and only available to high-level corpos and obsessed hackers is a key component of classic cyberpunk.

and hey, while we’re on the topic of the worst people in the world adopting illegal tech, did you finish the (excellent) M1NX and Leaky Piping side plots? cause if you did, you’ll know that sleeptime computing doesn’t actually let you sleep — it severely limits the amount of time you spend in REM sleep, but users don’t realize that because they’re still physically resting. so those high-frequency traders, drone pilots, and other assholes who’ve adopted habitual sleeptime computing use are also slowly going insane from a lack of REM sleep, and chances are they don’t know it because all the evidence was released right before the Mindcrash

in short, these are all the precursor chemicals you need for a cyberpunk future.

the game’s author, Jay Tholen, is currently in progress on its sequel, Dreamsettler. I can’t wait for more good cyberpunk.

Israel: Palestinian Healthcare Workers Tortured in c/news@lemmy.world

[–] Five@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Hey everybody! The concept of human rights is a left-wing concept, but science that doesn't apply to human rights is apolitical.

That's right, according to Dave M. Van Zandt, the political spectrum of left and right means stuff American Democrats care about vs stuff American Republicans care about. He's placed organizations like HRW, that lobbies for the human rights of people tortured and imprisoned by authoritarian regimes as 'center-left', and HRC, a non-partisan group that lobbies for the human rights of LGBTQ people as 'left'.

Meanwhile, organizations like NOAA which Republicans want to defund due to their well documented war on science, Dave M. Van Zandt does not place on the political spectrum. The impartiality of science is only important when it doesn't apply to the scientific consensus that LGBTQ people are human and that all humans should have rights.

Soliciting Feedback for Improvements to the Media Bias Fact Checker Bot in c/news@lemmy.world

[–] Five@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not just any bot spam - the most downvoted spam in Lemmy history. It is now more unpopular than the most popular Lemmy account is popular.

Democrats express no urgency, offer no clear plan, on the climate crisis at DNC in c/climate@slrpnk.net

[–] Five@slrpnk.net -3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I wish you wouldn't try to derail the conversation.

Merely being better than Trump was 4 years ago is not going to stop climate change. This criticism of Biden and Harris needs to be amplified, not sidetracked.

Democrats express no urgency, offer no clear plan, on the climate crisis at DNC in c/climate@slrpnk.net

[–] Five@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

We will take immediate action to reverse the Trump Administration’s dangerous and destructive rollbacks of critical climate and environmental protections. We will rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement

Biden rejoined the Paris Agreement in early 2021. Have they not updated their climate platform in 3 years?

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Democrats express no urgency, offer no clear plan, on the climate crisis at DNC (therealnews.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Five@slrpnk.net to c/climate@slrpnk.net

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What are some double standards in society for men ? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

[–] Five@slrpnk.net -1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Wow, you're really reaching there. I'm asking you to stop blaming women for men's problems. There's a group of people who aren't doing that, and if you don't want to be called a misogynist, follow the example of that group.

What are some double standards in society for men ? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

[–] Five@slrpnk.net -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

I think you misunderstood me. I do think men should have an analogous space. I support !mensliberation@lemmy.ca 100%.

If you didn't misunderstand me, men don't need a space specifically for comparing their issues negatively against women's issues. That space is everywhere and anywhere, as evidenced by this discussion occurring in !asklemmy@lemmy.world and collecting overwhelmingly positive upvotes.

What are some double standards in society for men ? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

[–] Five@slrpnk.net -2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

We had to shutter !twoxchromosomes@slrpnk.net because of persistent and vocal judgement by a large population of Lemmy users, many from Lemmy.World. So no, talking about issues specific to their gender is definitely not a double standard where men get the short end of the stick.

This is why you get judged. Because you so nakedly put on display how much ignorance and little empathy you have for women's issues.

!mensliberation@lemmy.ca exists specifically for men who understand their issues in society are intersectional with women's issues, and that solving them requires uniting to end patriarchy. Any discussion outside of that framing deserves the assumption that it's a misogynist men's pity party.

Soliciting Feedback for Improvements to the Media Bias Fact Checker Bot in c/news@lemmy.world

[–] Five@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

This is not a case of copy/pasting the same comment in multiple threads. Please look closer at the comments and the reports. One comment is repeated once, but that is due to it being topical to MBFC's take on the BBC, and both articles were from the BBC.

Also, I'm alarmed you consider contextualization of MBFC in comments that reply to the Bot as 'off-topic.' The Bot created the topic of MBFC's credibility by linking to it as an authoritative source. If a comment about the credibility of the BBC in reply to an article published by the BBC is on-topic, then a comment about the credibility of MBFC as a reply to a review published by MBFC is also on-topic.

Soliciting Feedback for Improvements to the Media Bias Fact Checker Bot in c/news@lemmy.world

[–] Five@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

I appreciate you reading and responding to my concern instead of censoring me like your fellow mod in !news and !world:

More than half of these occurred in a community you moderate. Do you approve of this use of the term 'spamming' to silence criticism?

Exposing a free API for anyone to use is not typical trade practice for respectable fact-checking operations. You may be able to get free access as a non-profit organization, and that may be worth persuing. On the other hand, there's a fundamental problem in the disconnect between the goals of real fact-checking websites and the kind of bot you are trying to create.