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[–] confluence@lemmy.world 55 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

As doctors continue to flee the state

[–] confluence@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Jimmy Swaggart Ministries

[–] confluence@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The cellular-bananular phone changed my life. I still sing it to this day

[–] confluence@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is one of the reasons I practice atheopaganism. It's psychologically helpful for me to be tuned to the natural, annual cycle. It gives a rhythm to life that's separate from the more artificial, civil-labor thing. It also inspires gratitude for some of the little complexities of nature I wouldn't otherwise notice.

[–] confluence@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

The OG Wallace and Gromit three-movie VHS box set was my jam as a kid

[–] confluence@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Sapolsky is an incredible behavioral biologist. You can watch a whole course of his Stanford lectures for free on YouTube.

[–] confluence@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

It says publishing overall is up, but I'm happy to hear of retractions going up with it. I like the idea it proposes about "bug" bounties. That would drive even more retractions

[–] confluence@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Studies are retracted all the time. It's a good thing.

[–] confluence@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why shouldn't the idea of Solarpunk operate as a subset of Solarpunk, in the form of an interface between Solarpunk and the Fediverse?

[–] confluence@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well LLMs are about to get a lot less reasonable.

[–] confluence@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I worked as a pastor and professor for a global, evangelical television ministry/college. They knowingly conceal scholarship on the Bible and punish their pastors for asking any questions that undermine their most closely held traditions (including anti-evolution, mental illness is supernatural, etc.). They tell their US viewers that they can't call themselves Christians if they don't vote Republican, while still enjoying tax-exempt status. They use pseudohistorians to inspire Christian Nationalism over their network, and are one of the largest propaganda networks for the Religious Right. A U.S. Capitol police commander told me his men were fighting people who were wearing the network's brand.

 

We really shouldn't take this Meta thing lightly.

They could offer the slickest interface and keep people locked to their friends. That interface can use protocols that make it difficult/impossible for non-Threads instances to play ball (ooh this cool new feature is only available through the Threads app; Oh, mybasement.world.ml.xyz can't read that content). There are many ways to Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish, we've seen Meta do it before (e.g. XMPP), and I'm sure we haven't even thought of some ways Threads could EEE.

I think defederation from Meta's instances is probably our only option to protect what we have.

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