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Written by Dragon-sided D on 2025-01-11 at 15:22

In his book How #Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (2018), Jason Stanley defined fascism thusly:

Cult of the leader who promises national restoration in the face of humiliation brought on by supposed communists, Marxists and minorities and immigrants who are supposedly posing a threat to the character and the history of a nation ... The leader proposes that only he can solve it and all of his political opponents are enemies or traitors.

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Written by Dragon-sided D on 2025-01-10 at 18:33

As a member of the reality-based community, I am continually appalled at the faith-based community.

I strongly oppose any mission "to renew a consensus of America as a nation under God"

Keep your childish delusions personal; don't force them on us adults.

[#]Trump #TrumpCabinet #FFRF #freedom #religion

https://ffrf.quorum.us/campaign/105348/

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Written by Dragon-sided D on 2025-01-05 at 15:12

This article throws me into moral dilemma. What was my responsibility in this? What are the root causes?

What can we do now to address them?

If you have any ideas at all, I'd love to hear them

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/us/politics/january-6-capitol-riot-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.m04.TDAy.igPUaWEKa9Nd&smid=url-share

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Written by Dragon-sided D on 2025-01-03 at 18:18

I just realized that if you are willing to mix Greek and Latin in the same word, "PanAma" means something like "Universal love"

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Written by Dragon-sided D on 2024-12-10 at 20:35

I think this is actually pretty cool. Instant #SQL prompt in a toy #oracle #db in your browser with simple example HR tables all set up.

Except it's Oracle23 #ai with VectorDB enabled, along with native automatic JSON-to-table mapping, and #BigData stuff like in-memory and multi-level sharding/partitioning.Rather fun, actually

[#]cloud #dev

https://livesql.oracle.com/next/

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Written by Dragon-sided D on 2024-11-23 at 15:30

If you live in the #USA and do not think that AIDS is caused by "lifestyle choices", take a moment to register this with your Senators.

[#]rfkjr

https://www.safecommunitiescoalition.org/rfk

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Written by Dragon-sided D on 2024-11-17 at 14:23

I've been running #tor and #monero nodes for years, since even before the first #Trump administration.

Now #TulsiGabbard may be Director of National Intelligence.

Time to build that #Qubes PC.

[#]privacy #USA

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Written by Dragon-sided D on 2024-11-13 at 18:54

These people will be at the helm for 4 years. #joerogan is a #disinformation superspreader.

Thank you as always Dr. Wilson for being a Voice of Reason for the masses. Thank you for this timely, entertaining, and scary AF video.

[#]maga #rfkjr #health #vaccines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_UkQDqy7Ts

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Written by Dragon-sided D on 2024-11-03 at 05:06

You make a #Public post on #socialmedia

What is your opinion on someone using your post to train an #ai ?

I'd love to learn your reasons; please post them below. I am trying to understand humans, you see.

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Written by Dragon-sided D on 2024-10-21 at 20:57

In honor of world #encryption day, I updated my #Tor node.

Each one of these connections through Snowflake is a person whose government, ISP, and even VPN (if any) have no idea that they are using Tor, and so no way to enact #censorship of any kind.

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Written by Dragon-sided D on 2024-10-17 at 05:10

I had trepidations about this for the first few minutes but once she got on the offensive OH MY GAWD KAMALA TOTALLY PW0NED FOX'S BAIER

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6363352689112

[#]harris #fox #pw0nage

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Written by Dragon-sided D on 2024-10-14 at 18:06

[P]rediction markets could potentially be used as so-called “decision markets” to prioritize replication of some studies, such as those with the lowest likelihood of replication. This would generate salient and informative signals about reproducibility, and help optimizing the allocation of resources into replication.

[#]economics #science #reproducibility

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Written by Dragon-sided D on 2024-10-14 at 18:01

I've recently been reading about science-centric prediction markets. It turns out there are are at least two (legal, afaict) sites where one can bet on scientific outcomes (eg, "Meissner effect confirmed near room temperature this year?")

The sites -- Kalshi and Polymarket -- focus more on tech predictions than scientific claims, though.

I would love to see a market established for people to wager on paper reproducibility, as described in the article below.

https://econcs.seas.harvard.edu/files/econcs/files/pnas-2015-dreber-15343-7.pdf

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Written by Dragon-sided D on 2024-10-09 at 16:00

In case you have not yet done so:

https://www.paypal.com/myaccount/privacy/settings/recommendations

Click the switch OFF

[#]paypal #surveillance #Privacy #PeterTheilAlreadyHasEnoughOfYourMoneyAndData

(Note, people in CA, NV, VT, and Europe: your government already took care of this for you)

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Written by Dragon-sided D on 2024-10-01 at 22:31

THE NEW YARD SIGNS ARE HERE!

THE NEW YARD SIGNS ARE HERE!!

[#]Harris #walz #democracy #dadjokes

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Written by Dragon-sided D on 2024-09-30 at 19:20

My area of expertise is not in #disinformation / influence campaigns, but my day job involves #InfoSec and has some adjacency.

In addition, as a politically-active person who values #democracy and understands the importance of informed #voters , I find this analyst's real-time tracking of such campaigns to be absolutely fascinating

https://ryanmcbeth.substack.com/p/watch-an-infodomwar-attack-play-out

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Written by Dragon-sided D on 2024-09-30 at 10:33

Just discovered this wonderful and useful site. Share it. Pass it along to someone you know who needs it!

https://www.wearenotspecial.org/

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Written by Dragon-sided D on 2024-09-24 at 16:08

@georgetakei Hey George! I'm looking forward to seeing you, Will Wheaton, Levar Burton, Lynda Carter, and Mark Hamill tonight @8PM ET! 🥳

[#]geeks and #nerds for #harris

https://www.youtube.com/live/Is876dF_-Ds

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Written by Dragon-sided D on 2024-09-18 at 18:35

Shopping for political yard signs. I will only have tactful inclusive messages on my yard.

But I have to give the #Harris team credit, their merch has some seriously glorious shade to throw

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Written by Dragon-sided D on 2024-09-18 at 17:02

"By applying molecular networking, we can map out the relationships between known and unknown PFAS."

Roughly 54% of those classes seen had never been described before. Notably, 10 of the unreported classes were made of single compounds, which are particularly hard to trace using traditional methods.

[#]AI #pfas

https://www.aaas.org/news/machine-learning-approach-uncovers-unreported-pfas-industrial-wastewater

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