cheaper = ecologically friendlier? NOPE

Why 3D print them? Isn’t that more ecologically wasteful than just getting any of the mass-produced ones? They aren’t exactly hard to come by. Fuck your wasteful printing.

skill issue, failed parenting, & cash grab

If you publish there, you are supporting right wing propaganda.

Not how taking a cut of subscription revenue works. If you publish right wing propaganda, then maybe you have a point.

Yes, and that’s exactly why the article is important.

Explaining to us how subscriptions work like we’re idiots is important? Or was that common knowledge a revelation for you?

I can’t read URLs.

That trauma adds up for everyone

if they bitchass

Why would i want to watch someone die?

You guys wanna go see a dead body?

As I understand it, the character was reappropriated from an oh exploitable publicly funded game Pathways (play it) designed to inform students about part of a public counterterrorism program for voluntarily deradicalizing extremists without legal consequences for opting-out. The player plays a new college student, Charlie, who runs into scenarios. First scenario: on a sketchy social media website their new friends use, a video is shared, and the player is offered choices:

• download the video
• ask about the video
• tell a trusted adult

If the player chooses to download

Charlie downloaded the video and shared it with different people online.

Charlie felt relieved and happy that people were liking the video and also sharing it.

Deep down, Charlie wasn’t sure if this was the right thing to do, as some of the ideas in the video were extreme and violent.

It’s important to remember that downloading or streaming certain content can lead to a terrorist offence conviction.

Apparently, download implies more than that, the game bundles unnecessary actions together, & merely downloading/viewing content has legal risks. The other choices aren’t much better: an extremist tells Charlie people who care about their country will download & share the video or an adult explains extremism, so Charlie simply doesn’t download it. Charlie can’t just view the video to judge it: great message for self-reliance & developing the criticism to participate competently in democracy.

I’m guessing the other scenarios play out similarly. At some point, Charlie is courted by Amelia, a nationalist teenager with purple hair who Charlie can refer to the deradicalization program.

I can see why derision of this game took off & the alt-right embraced Amelia as their meme: trolling potential like that is irresistible to pass up.

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Do commenters know they can copy text instead of break web accessibility?

From the article

The partnership, announced in October 2025, integrates Ring’s Community Requests feature directly into Flock’s law-enforcement platforms, FlockOS and Flock Nova, allowing police departments to request Ring camera footage through Ring’s Neighbors app.

Ring Community Requests feature

Community Requests

What is Community Requests?

Community Requests is a privacy-protected service that enables public safety agencies to put out public requests for help and efficiently and securely collect and manage digital evidence. Public safety agencies can post a request in the Neighbors feed asking community members within a specific area to share Ring video footage or information that may help their investigation. Videos customers choose to share in response to Community Requests go directly to Axon Evidence, a secure evidence management system where they can be verified for authenticity and integrity. This also creates a complete audit trail of how and when public safety agencies collect information.

Participation is always voluntary, and public safety agencies can only see what you choose to share.

The owner chooses what to share in response to a request. Just like IRL when the police knock on an owner’s door to request information.

https://hrnews1.substack.com/p/ring-cameras-join-flock-and-amazon?r=1t17zr

Did OP know the form to create/edit posts has a field named URL?

Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday

I totally misread that & thought what a beast.

Nah, people are the worst & judging them is fair. Plus, the mod is overstepping: “Be excellent to each other!” means each other in the discussion, and the subject of contempt is clearly not here with us.

We don’t owe humanity reservation from our contempt just because someone did something massively stupid to themselves. And we don’t need to accept the premise that the power of “big, evil megacorp” somehow relieves an individual of the duty to exercise critical thought. They had all the time & power to make a decision & chose poorly: this failure is entirely theirs & we have every reason to scorn them for it. Everyone is entitled to their opinion.

He was 19. Cut this victim blaming bullshit.

No, fuck not holding dumbfucks responsible for being dumb as fuck.

Nothing bad ever came from this.

Except everything bad that came from it? That’s some serious selective attention.

I truly believe things would not have gotten nearly as insane as they are had Google not decided to ban him.

Popular culture became complacent by over-relying on censorship instead of openly educating, criticizing, and discrediting idiots as was effectively done before with deference to free speech values.

What about censoring neo Nazis?

ineffective, disastrous, & still no bueno. better to educate & discredit their weak reasoning.

limits on hate speech

which is bullshit: not being merely offended is not a fundamental liberty, no imminent risk of damage to an interest a person has a basic right to results from merely expressing an opinion.

such laws are readily abused

• German repression of political expression: live police suppressing pro-Palestinian protests as anti-semitic, raids & arrests over calling a politician pimmel, internet patrols penalizing vitriol, insults, & satirical images of politicians showing fake quotes
• UK repression of political expression: designate Palestine Action as a terrorist organization, arrest pro-Palestinian protesters, arrest someone over a social media post backing Palestine Action

& ineffective at preventing the ideas & ideologies they oppose from taking root & gaining power. the advocates of repressive policies are only mildly inconvenienced or continue undeterred underground. the German AfD isn’t struggling. far-right parties like Reform UK keep going. so, they fail to keep anyone in check while also undermining basic freedoms.

ability to justify truth & correctness is far more important than attempting to coerce conformity to correctness through dogma, taboo, & censorship. weak ability to justify makes people incompetent defenders & weak believers of correctness. individuals hone justifications & acquire competence to deliberate effectively through practice of vigorous & open deliberation with adversarial positions. censorship, even of incorrect belief, robs both those whose speech is suppressed and their audience of open deliberation they need to justify their beliefs and actions competently & effectively.

only cowards fear words.

there’s no such thing as “governmental overreach” in a well working system that is FOR the people and BY the people

Nope: two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner.

Coercive power can be turned against the individual democratically. A system that gives government the power necessary to protect individual liberty but also denies it authority to abuse liberties is necessary.

civil disobedience, not by corporatist overreach

“corporatist overreach” can be civil disobedience & legal challenges.