Hi I’m Tim.
I’m AuDHD - officially diagnosed ADHD and self-diagnosed (for now) with ASD. I also suffer from a great deal of Imposter Syndrome.
I’m sure we can count on the social platforms being all over this with the moderating. /s
I wonder how long we have to wait for some super toxic assbackwards “protect conservative free speech” bill to be pushed through to try and keep any future (the current ones outside of the fediverse I think are already not moderating this kind of thing) from being able to ban shitheads like Fuentes.
Love to see it!
It would be great if The Onion could use this site to help grow an information platform to counter the Rights enormous disinformation network. And using satire or jokes can maybe break through the noise of main stream media who always treat the fascists with kid gloves.
I have been Lemmy only since the 3rd party app thing also. I also stopped using Twitter when Musk bought it, and have Mastadon on my to-do list but I’m not sure if I want to spin up my own instance or make an account elsewhere. Other than that I have no other social media accounts and never have.
As for other Fediverse platforms, I’m strongly opposed to the for profit ones, but happy to see all the open source ones.
Like most things, The Dollop (episode 456) did an episode on Scott Walker that was in charge of making this “deal”.
Maybe a long shot, but as someone with ADHD and self diagnosed autism, I would encourage you to look into the possibility. I struggled in school all the way through, constantly told “if only you applied yourself”, the problem was I was already working harder and didn’t realize the system wasn’t designed for my brain. Really the world in general isn’t designed for anyone neurodivergent, but your life still has value, you just need help figuring out how the whole unexplained thing works.
Yep, AI has been shown to create sources (books/websites/etc.) names out of just pieces of the question asked and do it with the confidence that it’s real.
TIL I learned that Chegg was 1) still around 2) did more than sell college textbooks.
It must be sad to see your company value evaporate at the hands of the equivalent of liar-Russian-roulette, where the AI will return an answer to most anything. And it will return that answer with complete confidence, giving no indication if the result is real or completely fabricated.
And the same asshats that voted for him are going to be paying for these tariffs with higher prices and blame Biden. And the companies are going to make record profits and get more tax breaks and government handouts.
They are changing the name to just “Scouts” to reflect this. And is 100% why these assholes have an issue with them now.
On May 7, 2024, BSA announced that the organization will change its name to Scouting America. While the name change will officially go into effect on February 8, 2025, on its 115th anniversary, all are encouraged to use the name immediately.
Edit a word =(
You do have to look at the merch tables with a grain of salt though, as many of them know Trump is in a dementia spiral and losing his marbles. They also know that his rally goers will buy just about anything and are more than happy to pretend for their $$$.
Kinda sad to see Katie Porter at #1 with over $10m while the next closest candidate is just under $3m.
Edit - Having only known her for the charts she makes to school Republicans I had no idea she earned her law degree under Professor Warren (when she was teaching at Harvard), and was later given the position of monitor for a nationwide bank mortgage settlement by Harris when she was AG of CA. Small world.
Trump Loopa
I saw footage of him from his last rally and the contrast of his bright orange face to his tiny bright white hands was alarming.
He has been planting the seeds for this. I’m sure it’s also part of his disinformation campaign should he win, when people start showing video of him and his campaign doing horrible things, like trying to use the National Guard/Military against US citizens for instance.
I would love to see it streamed/televised live in primetime in split screen so you can see them both doing it live so conspiracy theorists would have to really work at coming up with an excuse for Trump. Any other way Trump would afterwards just make up an alternate reality where he “aced” a dementia test.
I know he would still lie afterwards, and try and discredit the test, but people would have access to the video evidence, which is also the reason we have a better chance of him releasing his tax returns.
In his joke, Hinchcliffe, known as Kill Tony, said: “There’s a lot going on. I don’t know if you know this but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico.”
US congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar said she was “disgusted” by the “racist comment”. She said on X that it did not “reflect the GOP values”, referring to the Republican Party, and noted thousands of Puerto Ricans served in the military.
This is exactly the “GOP values”, has she not listened to the hate coming out of the GOP for decades?
US Senator Rick Scott said: “The joke bombed for a reason. It’s not funny and it’s not true.” He added that “Puerto Ricans are amazing people and amazing Americans”.
Weird take when the GOP candidate has been spewing lies [many racist in nature] about anyone he sees not bending the knee.
“This joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign,” spokesperson Danielle Alvarez said in a statement.
Funny how they pick a guy with a history of saying racist stuff as a “joke” and then try to distance Trump and his campaign from it when even Republicans got upset about it.
The same guy that lied about rushing to help people on 9-11? Surely he wouldn’t lie about helping people in the aftermath of a natural disaster? You’d think he was kind of a con man trying to grift himself into some kind of position of power, huh.
It’s rats jumping ship, and pretty telling when Trump’s “brand” is deemed too toxic for even some of the biggest shit heads in his orbit. And that is how the media should be framing it, if they didn’t want a fascist in charge at least.
Yep, this is all about exhausting public resources and damaging the image of public education so that less people question the push towards “private” education making a profit for the grifters, and will allow them to rewrite the rules.
I do not see Twitter, Threads, or BlueSky as any part of the Fediverse since they are all for profit corporations. Fediverse is about being free of the corporate overlords.