Just yesterday I had an odd interaction with an .ml user who reposted a straight-up nazi tweet, by a nazi profile, even with their own thread title resembling a frequent nazi dogwhistle. Several non-.ml users, apparently mostly from feddit, pointed out the post looks like it was posted by a nazi. .ml users responded in part by attacking their instance allegiance (calling them "whingy fedditers"). Since I posted enough clear evidence of the Twitter profile being a fascist, OP commendably deleted their thread.
What I saw there is feddit users being met with a hate boner from .ml and their correct suspicions of a tweet that looks antisemitic indeed being antisemitic being ignored and made light of.
That's my personal experience with feddit and its zionism, and consequently I've ended up suspicious of some of Lemmy users' standards regarding this whole matter.
The examples of feddit moderation posted here in OP are almost entirely sanctions against grave personal attacks. I am completely unconvinced that this is proof of the moderators' zionist positions. "Fuck you, you piece of trash" and "fuck you and your whole family" is not "a few hard truths". I'm also unsure if I get the context right, is mrdown a Palestinian? Many of those comments break the most elementary civility standards and verge into murderous fantasies.
Calling for the destruction of Israel must obviously mean you want to kill every last man, woman and child, rather than simply wanting to overthrow Netanyahu’s genocidal fascist regime.
Then say it like that? No, destroying a country is not the same as overthrowing its regime, those are different things. I support the latter with regards to Israel, but would hardly dare say the former.
This post was supposed to convince me feddit's behaviour is problematic. I come away with the opposite impression. So, I vote against the bans.
So OP posted a dozen examples, and you think they're not sufficient by themselves, and instead have to bring up an another screenshot? That's just solidifying my point.
What definition of zionism do you work with?
What is "whataboutism" here anyway? I'm talking about how people perceive and judge feddit users' comments, which has veered into blanket dismissal of their comments even when objectively justified. That's why I brought up the situation.
Edit: No links, screenshots, or modlog info on the subject at hand. For all we know this story about a fascist ml user could be made up to apologize for Feddit. Fuck off dude.
Well fuck you too, asshole, have you considered asking me for the links and screenshots before telling me to fuck off? I didn't post them originally because they weren't crucial to my observations. Aren't my own comments still visible on my profile, couldn't you just check there? There will be nothing in the modlog because the user deleted the thread themselves. But here are the screenshots of my own replies and two replies that I still have in my notifications, as the rest is now unavailable:
The OP posted a screenshot of the fascist antisemitic tweet that was also posted to 4chan's /pol/ with a similar caption, you can see it there in the archive that I linked. The title of the Lemmy thread was "Every time".
You are expected to provide some proof of your claims
Are we on Wikipedia or in the court, perhaps? No, this is just a forum. You only had to ask and I would post the screenshots. It is quite obvious why I didn't post them initially (if the thread was still up I'd have linked it) - they're large and would probably detract from the point, like I'm still arguing with the guy from .ml instead of talking about a somewhat different matter here.
It is clear you don’t have a very full or complete picture of the Feddit situation
I've read the OP text and some of the comments. So you're effectively agreeing that all of this still doesn't provide a very full picture. Apparently I had to interact with Feddit users elsewhere enough to come to your conclusions. But I didn't, so the reasonable thing to do for me for now is to stay by my vote "against", because I can't make conclusions based on things I don't know about.
I said what I saw and how I made my conclusions based on that. I asked you for your definition of zionism, to try to figure out what exactly is the problem with the screenshot you posted and to understand your viewpoint better in general, but you haven't provided it yet. It seems you're expecting me to read minds and/or spontaneously agree with you even while you're insulting me. I can't do that.
If you think Feddit being critical of real antisemitism means they have a point when dismissing anti-Zionists as antisemitic bigots, you will again find very little agreement here.
And that's reasonable, those are two different things indeed, and I hope I haven't conflated them.
you’re saying that we should overlook the actions of the first kind of anti-semite, by claiming that in us doing otherwise would weaken efforts against the second kind of anti-semite
No, i'm not saying that. I described what I saw and what I roughly concluded. What you're ascribing to me is far beyond my current considerations.
If you deny all of the context and the intent behind it, sure.
there’s no relation to any dogwhistling
To deny even accidental resemblance of your title with a fascist dogwhistle is flat‐eartherism that I won't waste time arguing against.
All of the feddit.org criticism came from “Israel = Jews and therefore making a generalizing claim about Israelis = antisemitic”.
No, the criticism came from noticing the fascist dogwhistle (even if accidental) in line with the typical fascist format of the tweet. The meaning of the phrase/dogwhistle was problematised by at least one commenter before me, so you're lying on that count.
A screenshot of Twitter, a site owned by a fascist and populated by fascists, of a tweet by a user called, ahem, "ImperiumFirst", posting in greentext format (which admittedly doesn't have to mean much by itself), with OP's own title being "Every time"... Why does this post feel like it's copy-pasted from /pol/? 🤔
On a site whose algorithm likely pushes fascist content it's nothing surprising that two people would come across a popular fascist post.
and I’ve never seen it
I'm not saying you've seen the thread on /pol/ (I found it by searching for the dogwhistle "every single time"), but it's, uh, strange that your post could be replaced with the one from /pol/ and vice versa and they would function the same on both a fascist and on a Marxist-Leninist(?) forum.
I think that the user ImperiumFirst whose banner is this:
and who describes himself as "Political Extremist | America First | Christ is King ✝️", and whose pinned tweet is praising Kanye West for using a swastika, and whose feed is currently filled with Nick Fuentes videos...
...is in fact a fascist and probably a /pol/ user.
Do you follow that guy? Or did the site correctly assume you'd like his tweet?
And yes, the wording, that you're acting is completely neutral, is indeed regularly used by fascists "just noticing" Jewish undermining of the White race, even by the very same profile here:
For a supposed Marxist, you're oddly oblivious to fascist iconography and memes, and uncritical of the content served to you by a fascist-owned website.
Yep. W40k may or may not say something about someone's politics, but the whole combination in the pic is just too much (greentext, "@ImperiumFirst", it's da joos). To dispel any doubt, check his feed: https://xcancel.com/imperiumfirst
A Russian magazine editor claims his publisher demanded he censor a book that mentions homosexuality in animals because it violates the country’s “LGBT propaganda” law. ...
his publisher told him the descriptions of same-sex behavior in a book on animal sexual behavior were against the law
So it wasn't legally or expressedly banned by the govt. But in authoritarian fear-based and legally unpredictable states it's not unusual for people to individually take rules even further than technically necessary, to affirm their adherence to the system and to be safe from even the smallest suspicion or most ridiculous accusation.
Might be worth noting that the publisher (Eksmo-AST) is one of the biggest book publishers in Russia.
Sorry but no. As profoundly unfair and undemocratic the US system is, it's still more democratic than Russia where any serious opposition is literally murdered in broad daylight.
"The votes are for show" – do you mean to say that Trump's victory in 2016, Biden's in 2020 and Trump's again in 2024 were prearranged by the central "powers that be"?
I'm not saying you should read them; and I already provided the reasons for reading them above. You can find those reasons compelling or not.
I never mentioned the reviewer being paid. There's many interesting blogs and Goodreads profiles that are worth following too. My impression is, you're drawing an overly sharp boundary between your style of reading and something you imagine is "professional" reading of those who care about reviews.
So the planet can orbit both stars elliptically, or just one of them - but the latter can be the case only when the other star is a dwarf that can't affect the planet too much.
China has become the first nation to require a change to make it easier to rescue people from car crashes: Car doors must be able to open from either side mechanically, like by lifting a handle. ...
Article is not available without registering. As for the title, "destructive" book scanning means you cut off the binding and put the pages in a scanner which easily flips through them and takes the pictures. If you're not scanning rare old books, this is a perfectly reasonable way to do it, because setting up a scanner for a normal book and manually turning each page to scan it takes a long time (Internet Archive has videos on how they do it, very nice and impressive, and logical since their original mission was scanning old public domain stuff, i.e. published before 1930 or so). If Anthropic will actually legally buy all those thousands upon thousands of books, that will be a pleasant precedent for an AI company.
Although I very much doubt that random uncritically gathered textual material can "teach their AI tool how to write well". They're still pushing for more and more training data, even though it's clear actual advancement will have to happen (if it can happen) through more refined usage of / training on the data.
teens and twentysomethings today are of a very different demographic and have markedly different media consumption habits compared to Wikipedia’s forebears. Gen Z and Gen Alpha readers are accustomed to TikTok, YouTube, and mobile-first visual media. Their impatience for Wikipedia’s impenetrable walls of text, as any parent ...
Fighting over Simple Article Summaries is just the latest fumble by the leadership, a sizable commitment of resources that’s tossed in the dump almost as soon as its off the press.
It wasn't off the press, it was announced and in the works but still not close to shipping. Maybe Wikimedia could've talked about this great innovative project with the actual Wikipedia community before investing so much money into it.
International language support is… meh (one area where AI would be a huge benefit, as LLMs really shine in this field).
What would international language support entail? Translating articles into other languages?
Saw this earlier, what do you guys think of this? ...
Kim Dotcom Open letter to Hollywood: I won. 90% of Mega’s traffic is piracy, legal piracy. There is nothing you can do about it. 360 million users. Twice the size of Megaupload. I founded it. I gave it encryption on the fly and I made it in a way that New Zealand would protect it. After nearly 15 years my journey in NZ is coming to an end. Next stop Virginia. But you don’t want me there because I will drag you into Court, expose your bribery and make you look stupid. You can have it the easy way and I show you how to make billions with piracy traffic. I can even show you how to survive AI. You have no clue. Or have it the hard way and I will humiliate you. I can do that. Your Jewish clown in New Zealand cannot deliver any income for you. What is he good for? Deliver me? Your biggest problem? You should have made me your friend like I offered when I founded Mega. Here is your last chance to make a deal with me. I have the capacity to forgive and make the next 15 years lucrative for us or I can continue to fight and make the next 15 years painful for you. I have already won. You can be smart or you can be stubborn. Your choice. Let's have a happy ending? Yours, Kim
Dotcom is now effectively Musk's hanger-on of a somewhat insane type. He posts a lot of megalomaniac and incoherent right-wing stuff (and I mean incoherent even by right-wing standards), as seen here. He hasn't had anything to do with MEGA for many years, he's been in a sort of exile in New Zealand, and frankly he seems as if he's isolated and mentally deteriorating.
Apparently it's legal and acceptable to demand, through a court, enough money to destroy the world economy.
Seriously, if I were the judge I'd throw out the lawsuit until they come up with a remotely realistic number. As it is, it makes the whole lawsuit look like a joke.
gen-z-culture-is on Tumblr, "According To A Survey, Gen Z Is More Likely To Recognise Sonic The Hedgehog Than Shakespeare". justlgbtthings replies "well yeah how is shakespeare gonna recognize a blue hedgehog when he's dead". They then reply to themself "i have misunderstood the post".
Great question, let's dig into this! Federico Fellini's 8½ is a sequel to his previous hit film Se7en, and its protagonists are a group of eight friends. One of the friends becomes a father, and his baby counts as the "½" in the title. The group gets into various crazy adventures, such as being a failed film director, fantasising about hot women, having mommy issues, and hating religion. The overall message may be summarised as: friendship is magic.
Do you have any further questions on French New Wave films?
feddit.org's Zionist bar problem: community ban(s) vote
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Russian journal banned from writing on same-sex animal behavior without expressing disgust for it ( www.lgbtqnation.com )
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Medieval manuscript-style HoMM
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Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers ( www.xda-developers.com )
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The Literary Ecosystem Is Dying ( www.theatlantic.com )
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Sorry buddy, you just ain't it anymore.
Why are Tatooine planets rare? Blame general relativity. ( news.berkeley.edu )
Who are the Russians named in the latest Epstein files? Vladimir Putin, for one. ( meduza.io )
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China bans hidden car door handles, which can trap people after crashes ( www.npr.org )
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Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis? ( spectrum.ieee.org )
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MEGA file-sharing site open letter to Hollywood from founder Kim Dotcom
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Spotify and Major Music Labels Sue Anna’s Archive for $13 Trillion ( hackread.com )
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Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professors Say ( www.hollywoodreporter.com )
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