They’re basically fancy ways of saying “non white”.

There’s a use case for making that distinction but it’s a lot narrower than expecting people to self-identify in those terms.

Which, within that use case (e.g talking about wide and systemic oppression by white-led cultures) I guess that could be like the argument some people from certain countries have made that “Third World” is useful term because it does retain the history of its useage, whereas when it’s exchanged for terms like LDCs>Global South>LICs>etc that sort of obscures the historical material conditions and relational aspects which inform the present. Or something.

Thanks, those were both really good articles!

Seems “BAME” is being rejected mostly for qualities it shares with the term “PoC”.

Pretty sure the UK term was BAME, but US culture is pretty pervasive.

Noooo not the alpacas!! They deserve better.

For real tho I’m not looking forward to pandemic 2.0.

Thanks, have updated my link.

Link for kbin/mbin

Banks says the ringing in her ears did not completely disappear, but now it’s barely noticeable on most days.

“It’s kind of like if I lived near a waterfall and the waterfall was constantly going,” she says. Over time, the waterfall sound fades out of consciousness.

Bound to be, science history has many of these figures.

What a fascinating guy! He really was ahead of the curve. A pity his contemporaries repressed him so much.

Sounds like a dogwhistle to nazis about their “replacement theory” nonsense.

I think it’s more that they don’t want their own country to aid in a genocide. Even if the genocide could still happen without you, that’s no reason to give up and support it.

That said,

• As a political ally the US protects Israel from being attacked by its neighbours

• it would also block any intervention by the UN

• Since Oct 7 the US has done over 200 arms deals with Israel and has provided at least 1,800 of the numerous 2,000 pound bombs they are hitting Gaza with (for reference the US only dropped one 2,000 pound bomb on Islamic State in its entire conflict with it)

• The US has also shared military intelligence/surveillance data with Israel, which is using AI to target Palestinians

Your topic’s a false premise. First of all it’s totally valid to criticize someone for something that couldn’t apply in the current situation, because what’s being criticized is the decisions and attitudes that their actions reveal.

Meta’s refusal to moderate a website they control after multiple warnings that it was being used to incite genocide speaks to their institutional values, accountability, and culture.

By contrast, plenty of instance owners have shown responsibility, accountability, and good faith about admins moderating the instances they control.

try to be accurate and concise.

Lol that’s condescending, and it’s also a bit offputting. I come here to bloviate thank you very much. :)

The thing is though, I’m not part of the wider conversation about facebook above. You glommed onto a very simple, very specific point I made to someone else about the human impact of social media incitements to genocide.

What Meta did to the ICC isn’t even related to my above link (which is about the Tigray genocide, not the Myanmar genocide). But it’s well-documented, and I’m not interested in rehashing it here.

@VirtualOdour the point of me sharing that article was just to try to put a human dimension on genocide for that callous person above.

Meta have been implicated in at least two genocides now and openly obstructed the International Criminal Court in their investigation of one of them. I think people are only pointing that out to show how evil Meta are.

But if you want to know what specifically they will do to ActivityPub, the other article I shared has more direct relevance: How to kill a decentralized network.

It’s a really inappropriate comparison tho.

There’s also some great irony in the fact that they’re talking about genocide while advocating for using the nuclear option to block Facebook despite the massive number of innocent casualties it’ll cause.

Sir/Madame, not being able to see some online content is nothing at all like having your family members murdered in real life.

Read A Death Sentence For My Father sometime and you will see.

TIL Lemmy doesn’t allow you to follow people. Wtf.

I think this article, How to kill a decentralized network, gives one of the best explanations, because it uses a real world example of how it has happened in the past.

@Ghostalmedia

we’re not going to see them here. We can’t. That hasn’t been built.

It has been partially built insofar as Kbin and Mbin can see Mastodon posts here and Mastodon interacts with us. Wouldn’t surprise me if Lemmy eventually gets some of that functionality too.

If Meta starts to EEE ActivityPub that will affect all of us.

@qjkxbmwvz I think the main fear is Embrace Extend Extinguish.

It’s not about interacting with Threadworms, it’s about sleepwalking into a situation where Meta is changing the very nature of ActivityPub itself.

Yes, they got away with it. It remained legal for another 4 years, but the investigative journalism reached so many people that the public eventually won some laws:

The Board of Health exonerated the distillers, but public outcry led to the passage of the first food safety laws in the form of milk regulations in 1862.