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Cake day: March 6th, 2025
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3·1 month agoI’ve gotta see that movie, sounds great.
I don’t think there’s an acted movie, but documentaries, TV shows etc. And he has a podcast.
Reminds me of Daryl Davis.
In 1983, he was playing country western music in a “white” bar in Frederick, Maryland, when a patron came up to him and said it was the first time he had “heard a black man play as well as Jerry Lee Lewis”. Davis explained to the man that “Jerry Lee learned to play from black blues and boogie-woogie piano players and he’s a friend of mine”. The white patron was skeptical and over a drink admitted he was a member of the KKK. The two became friends and eventually the man gave Davis contact information on KKK leaders.
A few years later, Davis decided that he wanted to interview Klan members and write a book on the subject, to answer a “question in my head from the age of 10: ‘Why do you hate me when you know nothing about me?’ That question had never been answered from my youth”.
Davis eventually went on to befriend over twenty members of the KKK, and claims to have been directly responsible for between forty and sixty, and indirectly over two hundred people leaving the Klan.
But don’t worry, folks in the free world, this won’t apply to you! Douyin (Tiktok in China) may restrict what kids see, but Tiktok abroad will still serve up to your tween daughter videos that tell her if she isn’t pretty enough, she might as well kill herself.
Thanks for the details.
Thanks for the info. I’ve heard of it but never tried it.
Does it at least have easy ways for users to filter what they don’t want? E.g. block lists that users can subscribe to.
Ay, there’s the rub.
Even the article’s author chooses to exclude some types of content, like porn.
Switzerland, however, seems to be taking a less confrontational approach. The message seems clear: Switzerland has no interest in provoking Washington.
WTF? Simply not taking your regular phone is “confrontational” and a provocation?!?
Damn! And I just built $500-million-dollar factory bringing jerbs back to America!
Baghdad Barbie: “This isn’t Linda’s fault… it’s Sans Serif’s fault!”
No sure whether to crosspost this to c/NotThe Onion or c/NaziOnion
Used to use Floorp, then Zen, now on Firedragon, a mod of Floorp with many features from Librewolf.
Clearview buys photo-ID-for-porn database in 3… 2… 1…
Their logo is even a variation of the RSS logo.
I remember seeing a doc about Wall of Death motorcycle riders. The bikes they used? Century-old 1910 Indians.
Why? Because when lives depend on it, you want a solution with the absolute fewest possible things that can go wrong. Not the latest fancy thing with all the bells and whistles.
Re bottom left photo, Phan Thi Kim Phuc was burned by napalm dropped by the Republic of Vietnam Air Force.
My proudest achievement! 😁
I used to teach ESL to some banking IT people, COBOL programmers whose skills were still in demand half a century after COBOL came out. Because the banking systems written half century ago still work, and when it comes to handling other people’s money, breakages, mistakes and downtime are absolutely not an option.
If Musk really wanted to run government like a business, he’d do like the banks and leave a working system damn well alone.
Of course, he wants to run government like one of his businesses, into the ground like Twitter or soon Tesla.
PS The only bank they knew of implementing newer tech for handling the money was a brand new one with no existing systems the new tech might break.