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15 votes
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‘OK boomer’ marks the end of friendly generational relations
38 votes -
UK Parliament approves snap general election on Dec. 12
18 votes -
Atlantic Council has published an update to their 2016 Global Risks 2035 report, analyzing geopolitical and technological trends and their potential impacts on the future
7 votes -
Yang vs. Warren: Who has the better tax plan?
14 votes -
Andrew Yang was groomed for a high-paying job at an elite law firm. He lasted five months.
9 votes -
House Will Vote To Formalize Impeachment Procedures In Ongoing Inquiry
9 votes -
Why a social credit system is so scary
13 votes -
How a social network could save democracy from deadlock
4 votes -
Family of teen who died from Ecstacy support legalisation
8 votes -
The global protest wave, explained
8 votes -
How a social network could save democracy from deadlock
13 votes -
Barack Obama’s eulogy for Elijah Cummings
6 votes -
The Wall Streeters who actually like Elizabeth Warren
6 votes -
Denmark approves stripping IS fighters of citizenship – bill was fast-tracked amid concerns imprisoned IS fighters may escape during a Turkish offensive
8 votes -
What Andrew Yang means
11 votes -
Trump is using his Ukraine playbook against the senate
7 votes -
House overwhelmingly approves contentious new copyright bill
19 votes -
You can't rehabilitate George W. Bush
19 votes -
The invented Chinese names of the 2019 federal election — ranked
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What does it take to build the world's best pension systems? Ask the Netherlands and Denmark
6 votes -
Canada election: Justin Trudeau's Liberals win but lose majority
19 votes -
US envoy testifies that release of Ukraine aid was contingent on public declaration to investigate Bidens, 2016 election
18 votes -
Andrew Yang's plan to tackle climate change
10 votes -
Andrew Yang at the CNN Climate Crisis Town Hall
2 votes -
In Norilsk, Russia's most isolated major city, the arrival of high-speed internet gave residents a new window onto the world
9 votes -
This sure looks like Mitt Romney’s secret Twitter account—Meet “Pierre Delecto”
18 votes -
A new high-powered super PAC is going to spend millions to back Andrew Yang
17 votes -
Hillary Clinton accuses Tulsi Gabbard of being Russian asset
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US President Donald Trump’s legal immunity has a countdown clock
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The Political Orphanage - Why Republicans and Democrats Think Differently - Featuring: Dr. Matt Grossmann
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FATF – Iceland could land on a gray list of countries which have failed to take sufficient measures to combat money laundering and the financing of acts of terrorism
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Do Nazis deserve electricity?
I'm reading about the latest Gitlab shakeup, about (not?) filtering customers on moral grounds. Yesterday, it was Github's decision to continue to support ICE. There's Twitter's decision to allow...
I'm reading about the latest Gitlab shakeup, about (not?) filtering customers on moral grounds. Yesterday, it was Github's decision to continue to support ICE. There's Twitter's decision to allow politicians to (somewhat?) violate its own rules about threats and harrassment. Blizzard banned a star video game player for speaking out about the Hong Kong protests.
I'm on Mastodon, and while it's faded from the headlines a bit, the Gab-war still rages there, with the Tusky-v-Fediverse debate over apps blocking domains, and instances blocking other instances over their support for yet other instances.
Yada.
I'm thinking a lot these days about the "slippery slope". Mastodon, Twitter, Facebook, Github/lab, etc ... these are all business(-like) entities, privately controlled, which are nonetheless approaching the status of public infrastructure ... at least, sort of.
PG&E intentionally shut off power to millions of Californians last week, to prevent hypothetical fires. You see where I'm going with this.
When/As smart capabilities for power grid, ISP, etc emerge, do racists, white supremacists, get Internet? Electricity? Hospital/Ambulance service? Where is that line?
Is reverse discrimination appropriate? "We don't rent to racists..."?
Not sure what I'm expecting here. Just starting the thread, see where it goes.
ETA: A really interesting, thoughtful 2-minute excerpt from a Rogan podcast
Edit #2: The Hacker News thread that prompted me to start this thread.
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Muddy America: Color balancing the election map
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'Meltdown': Trump-Pelosi feud intensifies after Dem walkout
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US President Donald Trump wrote Turkish President Erdoğan a letter warning him not to be "a tough guy" or "a fool" as his forces launched their attack on northern Syria
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Democratic Debate #4 - October 15 2019
This debate will start at 8pm EST. From CNN's website: It will air exclusively on CNN, CNN International and CNN en Español, and will stream on CNN.com's homepage and NYTimes.com's homepage. The...
This debate will start at 8pm EST. From CNN's website:
It will air exclusively on CNN, CNN International and CNN en Español, and will stream on CNN.com's homepage and NYTimes.com's homepage. The debate will also stream live on the following Facebook Pages: CNN, CNN International, CNN Politics, CNN Replay, AC360 and Erin Burnett OutFront.
In addition, the debate will be available across mobile devices via CNN's and New York Times' apps for iOS and Android, via CNNgo apps for Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire, Chromecast and Android TV, SiriusXM Channels 116, 454 and 795, the Westwood One Radio Network and National Public Radio. You can also ask Amazon's Alexa to play the debate, and the voice-controlled assistant will play the audio of the debate.
19 votes -
Rep. Pressley announces new caucus on mass transit
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What teaching ethics in Appalachia taught me about bridging America’s partisan divide
23 votes -
China is usually strategic and savvy. Why does it seem so upset about a tweet, an app, and a gamer in a mask in the absence of any real threat?
13 votes -
Trump ambushed parents of teenage crash victim, family spokesman says
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Elizabeth Warren faced sexism, split with a husband and found her voice teaching law in Houston
5 votes -
What can the UK learn from Norway's EU border? Its border, with EU member state Sweden, is over a thousand miles long
4 votes -
Finland said that demands for a EU budget worth 1% of the bloc's combined GDP as well as the EU Commission's proposal for 1.11% were both unrealistic
6 votes -
Vietnam bans Dreamworks' "Abominable" over South China Sea map showing Chinese claim to the region
9 votes -
We Found a “Staggering” 281 Lobbyists Who’ve Worked in the Trump Administration
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Set to rights – Iceland's new Gender Autonomy Act
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Denmark will fast-track legislation to strip foreign fighters of Danish citizenship
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Facebook should ban campaign ads. End the lies.
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Land without bread: The Green New Deal forsakes America’s countryside
9 votes