They started as a piracy site and gained name recognition that way, then went “legit” and started handing out copyright claims like candy.

Yeah federation gets confusing. A user from one instance posts on another instance and you view it through a third instance.

I might be misreading your comment but the user is from .ca and the post is in .world.

Once as a teenager at an MtG event my phone died and I needed to call my parents so I asked a random guy if I could borrow his. Not only did he hand it over, but he told me I might need to step outside to get a better signal. Sometimes people are chill and trusting.

"The Azov Brigade, known for its tenacious but ultimately unsuccessful defense of the Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol early in Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, is regarded as a particularly effective fighting force.

Literally known for losing

If they don’t maybe a browser extension?

Eventually, the generator and the discriminator begin to agree more as they settle into something called Nash equilibrium. This is arguably the central concept in game theory. It represents a kind of balance in a game—the point at which no players can better their personal outcomes by shifting strategies. In rock-paper-scissors, for example, players do best when they choose each of the three options exactly one-third of the time, and they will invariably do worse with any other tactic.

This last sentence is completely wrong, yeah?

heh

Everything I’m seeing is that he "could’ go there and they’re “ready” for him.

I’m pretty sure you have to enroll yourself but are legally required to do so (but it’s been a while since I turned 18)

“cognitive restructuring” is such a dark phrase.

To be honest I don’t think this is a very good metric. It’s a combination of something good (number of people insured) and something bad (debt per insured person).

As an example, if you increased the number of people with insurance, and reduced the debt per uninsured person, you’d expect this to happen.

Not to say that things have actually gotten better, just that we should use more meaningful metrics.

28, but 32 is also good

I can’t actually make it because I’m on mobile, so imagine a perfectly edited version of the “isn’t there someone you forgot to ask?” meme.

I was thinking Electronic Frontier Foundation and was really confused.

“inconvenient” is my biggest problem with it. Just use a single format for every work and add some html classes so I can scrape it easier.

It’s not. Works by various authors have different html formatting that make it very difficult to consistently scrape. Splitting works into several pages makes it impossible to send them to pocket (or FOSS equivalents). It sucks for anything other than reading in their website.

The unpleasant reality is, Russians, like the Chinese, have never, in all their long history, existed without authoritarian rule. Their people are culturally inured to it. They actively seek it. They’re broken, as a society, and only dissolving their society will cure them.

The libs are not ok.

At that point it’s not a re-education camp, it’s just an education camp.

I checked her Wikipedia, looks like she’s an Australian (blurb in China but eventually revoked her citizenship) journalist who reported on Xinjiang in early 2020. It cited this WaPo article, which has a couple bits I thought were pretty important:

“As someone who analyzes propaganda activities for a job I can see it’s clearly a coordinated attack,” she said. “At this point, the Chinese government has made it abundantly clear that if you want to keep talking about Xinjiang, the Chinese state would not treat you nicely.”

The online onslaught against Xu, named in countless headlines as the unexpected “black hand” behind the West’s anti-China campaign, has continued with tacit if not outright support from Chinese state media.

Not relevant but worth a laugh:

Jo Smith Finley, who researches Uyghur identity at Newcastle University in Britain, said the sanctions mean she cannot stay in touch with contacts in China, where she has been traveling for more than three decades.

“My friends in Beijing are some of my oldest and dearest soul mates,” she said, describing adrenaline-filled days after the suppression of pro-democracy protests in Beijing in 1989.

“The thought of no longer being able to sit in Beijing cafes and restaurants with them and set the world to rights is just unthinkable, surreal,” she said.