"Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning?"
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joined 1 year ago
It's actually a 4 week delay according to sidebar (unless that's outdated info)
America died with a whimper!
Do you get royalties every time you say this or something? You've had an account for ~3 days and you've already used variations of that phrase at least 8 times. I'm not attacking the sentiment, it just feels forced and isn't a particularly witty comment worthy of that much repetition.
There was a TED talk by Zeynep Tufekci in 2017 ("We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads") -- (YouTube*: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFTWM7HV2UI) that briefly talks about this:
(*I'm aware of the irony in linking there)
So in 2016, I attended rallies of then-candidate Donald Trump to study as a scholar the movement supporting him. I study social movements, so I was studying it, too. And then I wanted to write something about one of his rallies, so I watched it a few times on YouTube. YouTube started recommending to me and autoplaying to me white supremacist videos in increasing order of extremism. If I watched one, it served up one even more extreme and autoplayed that one, too. If you watch Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders content, YouTube recommends and autoplays conspiracy left, and it goes downhill from there.
Well, you might be thinking, this is politics, but it's not. This isn't about politics. This is just the algorithm figuring out human behavior. I once watched a video about vegetarianism on YouTube and YouTube recommended and autoplayed a video about being vegan. It's like you're never hardcore enough for YouTube.
So what's going on? Now, YouTube's algorithm is proprietary, but here's what I think is going on. The algorithm has figured out that if you can entice people into thinking that you can show them something more hardcore, they're more likely to stay on the site watching video after video going down that rabbit hole while Google serves them ads.
These days it might also be about politics, but the motivation to capture attention to serve ads is still the priority.
I use OSMC for all the RPis connected to TVs in the house and have no major complaints from a daily-driver standpoint. Can't speak to your specific use case requirements, but is just flashing an extra SD Card and testing it out of the question?
Not to further shit on their good intentions, but this really pisses me off too:
We have listed some tips for anyone who wants to start a hotline, neighborhood watch, or cash-assistance program in our organizing playbook.
But if you actually intend on viewing that "organizing playbook" they have a mandatory form asking for:
- First and last name
- Mobile phone number
- Opt-in for email and/or phone updates
And requiring:
- Email address
- Zip code
- Latino YES/NO?
For someone interested in wanting to help, but not wanting to be consolidated into another helpful list of combatants or targets a subpoena away, this seems needlessly restrictive.
"Never use the word 'always', and always avoid the word 'never'." (https://youtu.be/5NagVDLvtUo?t=311 [~5:11])
I doubt he was the origin of the aphorism but I first heard it from him. It's so much nicer to listen to and learn from people that are clearly knowledgeable in their areas of expertise, but don't try to present themselves as all-knowing and infallible.
I haven't watched nearly all of his content but I never (heh) found his speech patterns to be stilted or awkward like he would frequently warn about either.
There is a moral imperative to disregard the law when the law does not deliver justice.
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