Makes me think of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FVsCWKgKEY

Distro wars, like the old vi vs emacs wars (showing my age, I know) is not entirely serious. I never understood sportsball fandom, but it's kind of like that. Debian is my home team; if you use Fedora, you're from out-of-town.

Was Will ever a Trump supporter? Somehow I thought he was smarter than that, but I haven't read an essay of his in decades.

Harris's policies are misguided on a number of issues, but her main commitment is to strengthening the nuts and bolts of our democracy, so we will still have mechanisms available to challenge those policies and get them to change.

Not only is Trump a thousand times worse than Harris on every bad policy she has, his primary commitment is to destroying the mechanisms of democratic participation, so that there will be no way to hold the powerful to account.

I've read many thoughtful articles in TNR; I'm disappointed they would publish this one.

If your point is that Harris's campaign team is full of people looking out for corporate interests, and that reflects poorly on her prospects for taking the side of the people when our interests oppose theirs ... ok. It seems like you got a couple of snippets of evidence supporting that thesis: go, get your ducks in a row, and make a blog post with lots of links laying out the evidence as you see it, and we can consider it.

Making a headline that's clearly deceptive when considered to be a description of the linked article (which is totally what it is; there is no wiggle room on this) is not going to do anything but annoy people and get them to vote down your post, even if the information considered on its own is something we'd want to know. Someone else will post it with a reasonable headline, and we'll vote that one up.

I highly recommend this video to anyone interested in the history of the Haitian debt: https://youtu.be/WpWb3MTV9bg?si=DHz4ZFaFr2Zhidy-

It's easy to make shit up for people who never consider whether something is plausible as long as it suits their preferred narrative.

Trump said during the debate that

• In Democrat-run states, doctors routinely commit infanticide.
• Undocumented immigrants, despite their need to remain constantly vigilant about not revealing their illegal status, come in massive numbers to the US at the insistence of Democrats and succeed in registering to vote, and voting (for Democrats, of course).
• Crime rates are plummeting in every other country in the world, because they all are sending their criminals to the US to commit crimes here.
• Immigrants are kidnapping family pets and eating them.

Do Trump supporters actually take all that at face value? I ... cannot begin to understand how that is possible, but evidently it is.

Oh, sure, whatever corporate overlords are involved have unfettered access, but they're unlikely to analyze that data from a public safety perspective. Unhinged players are addicted to their products and no interest in making anything public that could cut into their profits.

There's nothing quite like not getting laid for fueling a wellspring of easily manipulated misogynist anger

That's why I want someone to summarize a sanitized version for me ... so I have some sort of heads up on the next trend in stochastic terrorism without having to pluck my eyes out.

To me, this is the most interesting bit of the article

They targeted gamers and chatroom users, who they described as the “backbone of the right-wing trends in the US segment of the Internet,” [ ... ]

We can kind of keep tabs on X or Facebook, but what goes down in Discord gamer chats is largely out of sight. I wish someone could drag more of this content out into the light of day where we could all see it.

Here's a reference for those who don't recognize this.

Yeah, it's gotten so bad I eventually ordered a USB cable checker to figure out what any given USB cable is capable of (and to see if the cable has gone flaky, which seems to happen a lot). I haven't received it yet so I don't know if I can recommend this item, but ... gosh darn you sure need something like this.

You're going to make me look that up, aren't you? Here's a good summary of said 'groomer mod' scandal.

This appears to have originated at ifunny.co. So, not likely to be a real classroom exercise.

Not disagreeing with your general point, but music production in Linux is not "stuck on LMMS". Reaper runs natively, and there is plenty more.

The headline is inaccurate; what's being referred to is this part of a statement from NaNoWriMo on the use of AI:

We also want to be clear in our belief that the categorical condemnation of Artificial Intelligence has classist and ableist undertones, and that questions around the use of AI tie to questions around privilege (source)

That's plenty bad enough, no need to embellish it.

It seems to me the term "tech bro" has always had emphasis on the "bro", as in the type of toxic masculinity that made Gamergate blow up. I have always preferred the term "geek" for myself; now doubly so for its gender neutrality.

Although safety is certainly a legitimate issue, I can almost guarantee that car manufacturers will use that as an excuse to kill this form of competition -- yet another way in which capitalism is dooming our species to extinction.

This is an informative chart that definitely contributes to the discussion. Without any clue where it comes from, though, I have no way to gauge its credibility.