Because rich Republicans also own the media.

Yeah it really makes Mastodon unusable as the "one big forum" that twitter was and bluesky is trying to be.

I mean, Mastodon is a joke if that's what you're asking

Bluesky is just a lot better. I have no particular commitment to the ActivityPub protocol.

Sadly Mozilla is not immune to following the dumb fads that run through Silicon Valley, but Firefox is still clearly the best browser option.

I'm not sure I understand how deepfake porn is supposed to be ruining lives here. From the article it seems like the issue is not any concern that it would be mistaken for real, but instead just people having a very horrified reaction to seeing that sort of depiction of themselves? Mostly it seems like the deepfake aspect is sort of a trivial distraction to the real issue on display there of gangs of men targeting random women for online harassment. If there was no such thing as deepfakes other sexually explicit or disturbing images could sub in easily enough.

Maybe the new deepfake ban will be useful as a way of going after these harassment gangs that previously didn't face legal consequences? But it's sort of an inexact tool for that job, given that there are presumably lots of deepfake images out there not used for harassment, and that's it's easy enough for harassers to switch away from deepfakes if using them becomes a major legal vulnerability.

If someone is using it as a platform to get their message out to people obviously they'll care if they're banned from it. Can't just say that someone bad having the power to issue those bans means they don't matter.

How can any line that is on the surface of a sphere be straight rather than a curve?

I think you got it and effectively answered it, thanks.

How do you work the office only having space for 20% of employees? Makes a lot of sense but would be annoying to hot desk. My office only has us in two days a week but has not cut down on the number of desks at all, giving up the potential savings.

And that's why Jamie Foxx is cooler than Will Smith

Reason is consistently libertarian, so they're pro-billionaire but anti-cop.

I assume this won't swing many people's votes, but it is a nice insight into what's going on behind the scenes with Vance as he publicly claims to be this big anti-elitist populist

Yeah I'd say it's equivalent to any other inappropriate joke a kid might tell - a moment for a conversation but not anything too serious.

This was impersonation on the level of "hey look at me, I'm funkless_eck, I'm a pedophile! dur dur dur" not some attempt to make it seem like those teachers were actually pedophiles.

I mean everyone gets that it was in fact a joke right? What are we talking about here? People are trying to make it sound like the kids were harassing these teachers or trying to trick people into thinking they were pedophiles as opposed to passing around dumb memes about them between each other.

I'd say it's a lot more like the lunch table, or even like a table at a restaurant off-campus. These kids were not directing these jokes at anyone but each other, but were in a semi-public place where they could be overheard. It's basically equivalent to a teacher walking by a table full of students making jokes about their teachers by pedophiles and getting them in trouble after overhearing.

Again, how is it harassment if it's just jokes these kids are passing around between each other that are only discoverable by snooping in them?

Yeah I'm not really seeing the harassment angle when you have to track these kids down on TikTok to see the videos.

So kids are joking around with each other online and the school is monitoring their accounts and punishing them for mean jokes about teachers? Leave these kids alone