most Americans enjoy the benefits that come from being an economic, military, and diplomatic heavyweight
The threat to American citizens is that they are steered away from their own interests and the interest of furthering democracy throughout the world because they see a curated feed that excludes information critical of China and amplifies information that promotes China as a country of harmony, peace, and prosperity.
And in some cases, the trends amplified on Chinese social media apps directly fuel American political division.
The “fucking corpos” are manufacturing in Mexico, Vietnam, and China. They don’t get the tax break.
The “guy I know who owns a machine shop” and “the car factory in Indiana with 10,000 union jobs that chooses to stay” are the intended recipients.
Let’s punish Biden anyway by voting for Jill Stein! Then, when President Trump gives Netanyahu the go ahead to “finish the job”, we will know we voted our conscience!
You still claim ignorance of the difference between “viable” and “spoiler” in the US election system?
Could be a crypto key, or a randomly distributed 64-bit database row ID, or a memory offset in a stack dump of a 64 bit program
And then JSON doesn’t restrict numbers to any range or precision; and at least when I deal with JSON values, I feel the need to represent them as a BigDecimal or similar arbitrary precision type to ensure I am not losing information.
That’s because the nearest representable float to 0.99999999999999 is 1.0 - not because Python is handling rationals correctly.
This is a float imprecision issue that just happens to work out in this case.
It’s worth wondering why, if Python is OK with “/“ producing a result of a different type than its arguments, don’t they implement a ratio type. e.g. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node18.html#SECTION00612000000000000000
JavaScript is truly a bizarre language - we don’t need to go as far as arbitrary-precision decimal, it does not even feature integers.
I have to wonder why it ever makes the cut as a backend language.
I wasn’t aware that the US built a pipeline in Afghanistan, can you give more details?
That would not be a good play if it results in the person who will get more of their family members killed gaining office.
I think it’s kind of presumptuous to assume that every Muslim has family in Gaza, as well.
When people say you twist words, this is what they mean.
“Murder” and “Violence” have well accepted meanings - redefining them to mean “anything that doesn’t line up with fringe-left communist ideals” is a propaganda tactic.
ad·vo·cate
v. publicly recommend or support
And, it is literally not. Assessing it as “not genocide” is saying they aren’t ok with genocide.
It does appeal to both sadists and masochists, though.
> Pro-Russia social media accounts amplifying stories about divisive political topics such as immigration and campus protests over the war in Gaza.
> Influence operations linked to Russia take aim at a disparate range of targets and subjects around the world. But their hallmarks are consistent: attempting to erode support for Ukraine, discrediting democratic institutions and officials, seizing on existing political divides and harnessing new artificial intelligence tools.
> "They're often producing narratives that feel like they're throwing spaghetti at a wall," said Andy Carvin, managing editor at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, which tracks online information operations. "If they can get more people on the internet arguing with each other or trusting each other less, then in some ways their job is done."
The effort includes artificial intelligence, fake social media accounts and a spike in state-sponsored Russian propaganda.
The effort includes artificial intelligence, fake social media accounts and a spike in state-sponsored Russian propaganda.
By Dan De Luce
Russia is seeking to exploit America’s divisive debate over Israel’s offensive in Gaza through overt and covert propaganda, with the aim of aggravating political tensions in the U.S. and tarnishing Washington’s global image, according to two sources familiar with U.S. intelligence on the matter.
In its ongoing information war against the United States, Russia has shifted its focus in recent months to the Israel-Hamas conflict, seeking to inflame existing divisions in the West and to portray Washington as fueling the violence, the sources said.
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A favorite theme of Russian information operations is to paint America as a failing democratic state, according to U.S. officials and researchers.
At an event last week in Washington, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said Russia works to denigrate America’s standing in the world, to undermine democratic institutions and processes and to exploit social, political and economic divisions “in our culture and in our society.”
Which ones have you tried, which ones did you stop using, and which ones are the best of the bunch?
I am using Memmy and it’s not quite there - difficult touch targets, poor infinite scroll implementation, and crashy search are the big issues.
EDIT: I installed Voyager, it’s working great! Thanks for the suggestions!