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  • Ender’s Game was prescient text, regardless of Orson Scott Card’s personal beliefs.

    Locke and Demosthenes are now armies of manipulative bots (but often real humans), shaping political discourse throughout the world. The Internet gave mind control powers to people with money, ambition, or both. We saw it with the Bernie Sanders and Trump movements in 2016 on Reddit, all too clearly for those who lived through an era where bullshit detection was a critical skill.

    I was once fairly defeatist on this subject: the bad guys won, got Trump elected, and kicked off a new era of 80s conservatism that demonized progressive values like environmental conservation, freedom of choice in a number of matters, and equality.

    But now, I’m starting to see young people stand up to their boomer relatives at Thanksgiving and bring facts and logic to social media discussions. And I have regained some hope that we will once again find a way to make the progressive “line go up“. Our society seems to swing like a pendulum between the right and left, over decades, and it feels like the Trump era was a swing too violent for most of us. It’s time to swing back.

  • Clickbaity or genius? 'BF cheated on you' QR codes pop up across UK
  • These click bait statements hackers use are so effective. Women especially are targeted by the “we hacked your computer and have scandalous pictures and videos of your private time last night!” I can’t wait for the people responsible for this shit to be behind bars.

  • Hackers Using Supershell Malware To Attack Linux SSH Servers
  • Am I missing it? There’s seemingly no write up on what the vulnerability actually is, they’re essentially just saying that some poorly managed SSH servers get hacked and then the attackers do stuff.

    Edit: oops, reread it. Well, this isn’t really a huge surprise. Just terribly simple root credentials and remote root login enabled.

  • When will NFL teams learn? You can’t rush a rookie QB onto the field
  • With Caleb you can tell it’s just adjusting to the speed of opposing DBs. He will have to figure out that they’re all the best of the best, and some of the right throws in college are the wrong ones now.

  • Earthship / off grid building

    Looking for recommendations for books about off grid living, and ideally, earthship biotecture.

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