It is a blogging site, but it’s also notable for being in favor of free-speech absolutism, to the point of allowing Nazis on the platform. From Wikipedia:

In January 2022, the Center for Countering Digital Hate accused Substack of allowing content that could be dangerous to public health. The Center estimated that the company earned $2.5 million per year from the top five anti-vaccine authors alone. The three founders responded via blog post affirming their commitment to minimal censorship.

Substack faced further criticism in November 2023 for allowing its platform to be used by white nationalists, Nazis, and antisemites. In an open letter, more than 100 Substack creators threatened to leave the platform and implored Substack’s leadership to stop giving bigotry a platform. In response, Substack CEO Hamish McKenzie said the company would continue to allow the publication of extremist views because attempting to censor them would make the problem worse. Creators like Casey Newton, Molly White, and Ryan Broderick left the platform as a result.

Doesn’t really matter if they say it’s praise or not. The reality is that it’s free press, and hardly could be said to be negative. It benefits them.

???

I have a suspicion that you once heard someone say something similar to what I’ve said here, and that they followed it with something hateful towards you, obscenely stupid, something you disagree with intensely, or some combination of those. Now is a good time to remind you that I’m not them.

If it makes you feel any better, try to remember that Henry Kissinger is dead.

telesur

So, there’s some important context on this outlet that I think should be posted:

Telesur (stylized as teleSUR) is a Latin American terrestrial and satellite news television network headquartered in Caracas, Venezuela, and sponsored by the governments of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua.

— Wikipedia

I distrust the U.S. – especially the current admin – plenty. Election interference would be neither surprising or new. But considering how this is a biased source at best, I don’t think it’s very trustworthy either. I’m open to the possibility, but I’m not taking it from this site.

Edit: After some light digging, here’s some other reading options:

2025 Honduras National Elections: Allegations of fraud and external interference (Wikipedia)

Hondurans vote in election shadowed by Trump aid threats (BBC) — Archive of an older version of the article. Current version here.

FUD

What is this, a crypto forum? You make it sound like they’re trying to single-handedly tear down GrapheneOS or something.

As time goes ever onward, I find myself increasingly in the position of using Firefox solely because it isn’t Chromium, rather than because of any inherent good quality.

Which is not to say that Firefox isn’t still at least fine as a browser. But this is what Mozilla is now, and if there’s anything the leaders of that organization are doing, it is that they are committing corporate suicide because none of those idiots know their foot from their mouth. Firefox can’t stay decent with money-men at the helm.

I swear, getting a business major should be considered self-harm.

You seem to be under the impression that AI is a good tool for finding undiscovered security bugs. It’s not. It’s a crapshoot that requires a ton of extra effort to verify. Using it to find bugs wastes time and has a high risk of side-effects, given that AI has no understanding and thus cannot know if an issue is important, if fixing it has unwanted implications, or if there even is one at all. And if you’re going to try to solve that with human supervision, then you may as well just have the human do the review to begin with and leave the AI out of it.

Better suggestion: Stop using AI to do any of this shit. Security research and vulnerability patching should not be reliant upon de facto black-box random number generators.

Posting to note that the article has since been updated and Mark Bray has successfully exited the country safely.

So what I’m hearing is that someone needs a head of lettuce ready once the next one’s in, huh?

(theyre why people say “unalive” - because they fucking censor “dead”)

Any source for that? I was always under the impression Tiktok was the original cause of this. Not that I have any love for Youtube, of course.

Yeah, I’d like to know what they plan to do if Trump ignores the lawsuit and/or the outcome of it. Which he almost certainly will.

I’ve used Shotcut and Kdenlive. The former felt pretty limited, but okay enough. Kdenlive felt a lot more developed while still working perfectly well. I should note though that I don’t edit very much at all, so I’ve little knowledge on how either program works for anything that isn’t a simple, short one-off thing.

I’m not ragging on this particular post - this one’s obviously important - but I’ll be honest, I really wish I could spend less time hearing about what Trump is doing and more time hearing about what’s being done about it.

Getting constant doom-o-grams about the current administration’s latest horror-show is particularly exhausting when you almost never hear about people working to fix it, and frankly I doubt I’m alone in that. It’s pretty counterproductive for us to be spending so much time fixating on what the fascists are doing. Helps them a lot more than us.

I just wish this site had a healthier evil-to-good-news mix, you know? Prevents doomerism.

If you want to not forget as a personal principle, it’d be easier for you to note the ones who aren’t rolling back their support. It’ll be a smaller list.

But doing this to show people that it’s not sincere is probably unnecessary at this point. Pinkwashing has been going on for over a decade by now at minimum. If you’re dealing with “convince people corporations shouldn’t be taken at their word regarding queer rights” as a goal and existing history/arguments don’t suffice, you’re probably dealing with someone who’s either one of the lucky 10,000 or someone who isn’t willing to be convinced at all.

Probably the same way as they do all the others: Not at all whatsoever. The only thing of value in this is that it’s spreading awareness of this guy’s transphobia.

Speaking of, I found this comment over on another Lemmy site if anyone wants the context for the image this petition is using, and unfortunately said context doesn’t shine positively on Nutomic.

Well that’s a non-sequitur if I’ve ever seen one.

The fundamental issue is and has always been that automation is being used to replace people, when it should be used to free up their time. Productivity increases could’ve meant shorter work weeks. But that didn’t generate as much money for the shareholders, so it didn’t get pursued. And now we’ve got LLMs and generative AI, which could’ve been a (admittedly rather shitty and niche) tool, but for the same reasons as before, companies would rather throw people under the bus instead.

Artists aren’t telling you that people washing dishes don’t matter. They’re telling you they might be getting fired just like those dishwashers were. If you care about either, I suggest standing up for the artists here. And once that’s done, they can stand up for everyone else right back. I think you’ll find they’d be happy to return the favor.

Seconding this, but worth noting that I’ve heard several times (and I vaguely recall witnessing examples) of the Guardian being pretty transphobic. Not too surprising with them being UK-based and all, but still a sad exception to their general reliability.

Like I said, social media. “It happened” in the kind of environment where people tend to get kinda deranged about politics.

For sure, most references to the phrase these days will get you leftists complaining about it, justifiably and otherwise. I checked and got the same results. But it was still a thing. I can’t tell you how much because I don’t have the time or energy to investigate that, but it wasn’t just leftists being sarcastic. It was real.