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This dovetails nicely into postmodernism and why so many people hate it. There’s almost a Baptists and bootleggers phenomenon with a lot of postmodern art, where the left hates it for being nakedly, unabashedly capitalist - in some cases selling anti capitalism for profit - and the right hates it because of course they do.
There’s a fun podcast by left leaning folks on it!
I've always loved an aspect all art shares in that it acts as a mirror which reflects pieces of the observer. A narrow point of view is reflected right back in their face in the guise of a urinal, and it's evoking feelings. It's doing its job.
All one has to say is that "this means something". That's how any Rorschach test is presented.
Surprised they like any music newer than Wagner.
Surprised they like any music newer than Wagner.
Mixolyde wrote:Surprised they like any music newer than Wagner.
Jesus Christ. I'm a firm believer that there needs to be a path back from hate groups / far-right bullsh*t, because otherwise there's no incentive for any of that crowd not to just keep doubling down.
But this isn't "oh, he made an off-color joke about identifying as an attack helicopter on Twitter years ago." And if there is to be a path back from as deep in the bullsh*t as that dude apparently got, it needs to involve more than, "yeah that was Past Me, Present Me doesn't like to talk about it."
Instagram and Facebook remove posts offering abortion pills
Facebook and Instagram have begun promptly removing posts that offer abortion pills to women who may not be able to access them following a Supreme Court decision that stripped away constitutional protections for the procedure.
Such social media posts ostensibly aimed to help women living in states where preexisting laws banning abortion suddenly snapped into effect on Friday. That’s when the high court overruled Roe v. Wade, its 1973 decision that declared access to abortion a constitutional right.
Memes and status updates explaining how women could legally obtain abortion pills in the mail exploded across social platforms. Some even offered to mail the prescriptions to women living in states that now ban the procedure.
Almost immediately, Facebook and Instagram began removing some of these posts, just as millions across the U.S. were searching for clarity around abortion access. General mentions of abortion pills, as well as posts mentioning specific versions such as mifepristone and misoprostol, suddenly spiked Friday morning across Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and TV broadcasts, according to an analysis by the media intelligence firm Zignal Labs.
By Sunday, Zignal had counted more than 250,000 such mentions.
The AP obtained a screenshot on Friday of one Instagram post from a woman who offered to purchase or forward abortion pills through the mail, minutes after the court ruled to overturn the constitutional right to an abortion.
“DM me if you want to order abortion pills, but want them sent to my address instead of yours,” the post on Instagram read.
Instagram took it down within moments. Vice Media first reported on Monday that Meta, the parent of both Facebook and Instagram, was taking down posts about abortion pills.
On Monday, an AP reporter tested how the company would respond to a similar post on Facebook, writing: “If you send me your address, I will mail you abortion pills.”
The post was removed within one minute.
The Facebook account was immediately put on a “warning” status for the post, which Facebook said violated its standards on “guns, animals and other regulated goods.”
Yet, when the AP reporter made the same exact post but swapped out the words “abortion pills” for “a gun,” the post remained untouched. A post with the same exact offer to mail “weed” was also left up and not considered a violation.
Marijuana is illegal under federal law and it is illegal to send it through the mail.
Abortion pills, however, can legally be obtained through the mail after an online consultation from prescribers who have undergone certification and training.
In an email, a Meta spokesperson pointed to company policies that prohibit the sale of certain items, including guns, alcohol, drugs and pharmaceuticals. The company did not explain the apparent discrepancies in its enforcement of that policy.
Mixolyde wrote:Surprised they like any music newer than Wagner.
all that she wants, is an aryan state
j*ws gone tomorrow
Ekberg has expressed "regret" about his supposedly-past neo-Nazi days, but still tries to deny the songs on the Uffe Was a Nazi album actually belonged to Commit Suicide, though there's no other music out there attributable to Commit Suicide (note: there's a couple 2000s metal bands with the same name, who are obviously unrelated to the Ekberg project).
But this isn't "oh, he made an off-color joke about identifying as an attack helicopter on Twitter years ago." And if there is to be a path back from as deep in the bullsh*t as that dude apparently got, it needs to involve more than, "yeah that was Past Me, Present Me doesn't like to talk about it."
Yeah, when you've associated yourself with heinous stuff like that, any redemption story needs to involve actions, not simply words.
f*cking Facebook of course.
That's funny, but I think people would prefer if it never came up in a search.
Mods can kill it if they like. I got mocking that band out of my system.
https://www.androidpolice.com/ad-com...
A Google-backed ad company called Glance is looking to launch in the US, and it brings media content, news, and casual games to Android lock screens.The service has taken it upon itself to monetize the lock screen, pushing news and ad feeds right into people’s faces before they even unlock their phones. It's a subsidiary of Indian advertising behemoth InMobi, focusing on mobile-first ads.
BRILLIANT!
As disturbing as that is, Vice also likes to write stories about mountains that end up being molehills. To put in context, 30,000 views wouldn’t even make it to your fyp (“for you page,” TikTok’s version of a newsfeed) unless you’d already engaged with similar content.
LefTok is pretty good at getting these animals booted, as TikTok wields a ban hammer with such aggression it would make your racist uncle on Facebook sh*t his pants. In fact, TikTok’s ban hammer is actually a significant issue, as - true to form - TikTok fascists find a lot of success stifling content they dislike compared to creating their own.
I hope Twitter is just being savvy to get Musk to offer billions more to back out. Who wants Musk to own Twitter?
I hope Twitter is just being savvy to get Musk to offer billions more to back out. Who wants Musk to own Twitter?
The people who would receive their cut of the $44 Billion dollars.
I don’t really think that want him to buy twitter, but I definitely think they’re confident that they can negotiate for more than the $1 billion break-fee that’s in the contract he signed. He has clearly regretted starting this procedure since shortly after he signed the contract, they’re just trying to take advantage of the fact that he’s an idiot.
Well, if you've followed some of the news recently, you'll be quite surprised to find out that Elon Musk knows how to pull out.
Couldn’t resist the dunk on the IRL Homelander I mean Iron Man.
He's not Tony Stark. He's not Bruce Wayne. If anything, he's trying to be this guy:
Cory Doctorow wrote a short story a while ago about a group of tech-bro libertarians who build an over-engineered bunker out in the desert when society starts to collapse. They discover a neighboring town that’s thriving because everyone pulled together to rebuild, but end alienating themselves after trying to bully the town into giving them food & medicine because they basically only stocked MRE’s and the area their bunker is in is too rocky to grow anything. Then they all die horribly of disease because the bunker they designed empties their sewage just a little too close to their water reservoir.
Elon would be one of those guys.
jdzappa wrote:Couldn’t resist the dunk on the IRL Homelander I mean Iron Man.
I'd laugh but Popular Mechanics literally called him real-life Tony Stark.
The magazine owned by the Hearst (as in William Randolph) Corporation simps for a sh*tty oligarch?
Ya don't say.
Who wants Musk to own Twitter?
Republicans who think Elon will bring back Trump while banning all the liberals.
He's not Tony Stark. He's not Bruce Wayne. If anything, he's trying to be this guy:
"Four stones, four tweets. ZERO STONES, ZERO TWEETS!"
Well, if you've followed some of the news recently, you'll be quite surprised to find out that Elon Musk knows how to pull out.
I kept seeing that phrasing yesterday both as jokes and as headlines and I keep thinking to myself that we collectively as a society are all 12 years old.
So how high will the settlement be?
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