I'm slowly pivoting my career towards teaching, and it is looking promising. I'd love it if there was such a community, as I have no formal training in teaching and would enjoy observing (and maybe participating in) the discussion.
I think just due to it being hosted in Lemmygrad (or hexbear?) it'll naturally avoid the typical subreddit issues.
I could help co-moderate, but fair warning: I tend to be blunt and low on patience on the internet, and as I said, I'm not particularly experienced.
I kinda figured. It's been the default mobile browser layout for a while, and it's fugly, but I'd gotten used to it. I always use old.reddit on desktop for the lemmy-inspired theme.
I also disagree with the idea that this interview was directed at Chinese people rather than Trumpist folks. Lots of of US reactionaries have a positive opinion of Putin (often for reactionary reasons), but interviewing him as a show of "freedom of speech" gets bonus points for Republicans for "triggering the libs" who think he is the second coming of Hitler. But they'd also platform actual Hitler if given the chance.
But I need to enthusiastically agree that twitch reaction streamers like Hasan are unbearable to me. It might be a generational thing, but they seem like Gen Z's version of late night show hosts: pretend to be intelligent and informative while also only serving to crack dumb jokes.
From the first couple of minutes of the react, I don't see any reason anybody would gain anything from watching this with the extra hour and a half to just watching the original video. Right away gives an impression that he doesn't give the whole political situation neither the thought nor the seriousness it requires, and that he doesn't really understand what's being said. And I say that as somebody who doesn't really study much Russia.
It's longer and worse, and a proletarian's time is their source of life.
A few months ago, the search engine expanded its offering by making available data from OCLC’s proprietary WorldCat database. Anna’s Archive scraped several terabytes of data over the course of a year and published roughly 700 million unique records online, for free.
Scraping data is now "hacking". Every single computer science department will have to close its doors and surrender their research datasets to the police.
Halfway through, I didn't notice any new interesting information. For anybody who has been paying any attention, his positions are the same as always (maybe a bit clearer on the origins of Ukraine), but now being broadcasted to millions of Statesian reactionaries.
I think the content is far less important than the impact this is going to have on the Republicam base's position on the war. We might have a gosh darn "anti-war republican campaign" this year.
But it was very "interesting" to see Putin trying to explain to Tucker Carlson of all people that Nazis are still around and denazification is important.
Live editing if interesting things catch my eye.
Edit 1: at around 1:09:00 Carlson asks him whether is there any truth of him having ambitions to conquer all of the continent. And Putin replies in the clearest way possible, with live translation, in one of the most warched interviews of the year that: no, that'd be dumb, it's just US military propaganda to get more budget.
Again, nothing new for anybody paying attention, but could do a nice agitation video for tiktok/shorts if anybody here is good with that.
The other way around. The reporting sounds like a backhanded migration advertisement for China, to westerners.
From the comments in the video, it seems one of the pictures is some AI generated thing, where one of the persons looks like a minor.
There's a whole discussion on the legality of AI-generated child porn (and even of drawn child porn in general) that I'm not willing to learn much about, but AFAIK it's a bit of a "it's up in the air, the courts decide, depends on the country" situation.
Given their population growth is de-accelerating, all this reporting from Western media feels like some sort of backhanded publicity campaign for attracting migrants. At some point even the cost of moving to China will be lower than the cost of living in Capitalist countries.
I wonder if he'll double down on the "it's just a joke", like
It was just a prank to make y'all think I have child porn on my PC
It was just a prank that I got arrested for having child porn on my PC
It'll be one of the few times I'll thank cops for their good work.
I had to disable my old reddit redirect extension, and then my VPN because apparently reddit blocks those now, because I was curious whether it was a design thing.
Turns out it's still ugly as shit. But regarding politics, it looks more like 4chan to me. I supposed a particle of 4chan was always part of every redditor, but now that a lot of the older power users left and it became a designated content farm, all bets are off.
In a way it kinda makes me hopeful, lots of people used to think that r/worldnews was balanced. I wonder if normal people will look at the libs craving blood in every post and be weirded out by reddit altogether now (rather than just the very obviously reactionary spots like the trump subreddit).
Good to know that the "nice hat" bug wasn't just for me. That and the droves of deleted zombie threads are so annoying after years of depending on Reddit threads for troubleshooting.