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Poland says Russian drone attack was 'no mistake' after Trump comments—Reuters in c/world@lemmy.world

Nepal currently being run via Discord after Gen Z uprising in c/world@lemmy.world

[–] etuomaala@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 months ago

On one hand, fuck social media. The recommender AIs that run it are only supposed to optimise engagement, thus optimising ad revenue. But they are far more powerful than that. They can influence public opinion as a whole. Totally out-of-band from the sovereignty of any nation. It is foolish to think that Google, Youtube, Facebook, Netflix, and Twitter aren't abusing this power. Every responsible nation that wants to defend its sovereignty against recommender AIs must ban social media immediately, along with every other source of such recommendations.

On the other hand, everything else that happened in Nepal. I'm just glad the actual decisions happened on Discord, the least terrible of the platforms. At least Discord doesn't have these sinister recommender AIs.

Israel in talks to resettle Palestinians from Gaza in South Sudan in c/world@lemmy.world

[–] etuomaala@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The moderate Israeli majority are the only ones who can stop this, now that the US has made it perfectly clear which side it's on. It seems, though, that they are content to merely wave a sign around in protest. They want peace, but not enough to actually do anything about it.

Time for a general strike in Israel.

An IDF soldier just exposed that Israel deliberately let October 7 happen in c/world@lemmy.world

[–] etuomaala@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Here is The Dissident's site: https://www.thedissident.news/

I searched it for every variation of "Shitrit", "IDF", and "October 7" I could think of, and turned up nothing. I do not believe the source; I do not believe the Canary. Overall, I'd say this is fake as hell and should be taken down.