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Open Discussion (2021) (8) 2021/01/16 Anonymous Gab’s Dissenter browser is insecure
Deplatforming and Fraud (434) 2021/01/16 Anonymous https://twitter.com/sharylattkisson/status/1350550063718813703 : > Loews Hotels just canceled an upcoming fundraising event for Sen. Josh Hawley. > They will no longer allow the Conservative Senator to rent their facilities.
Alisa Discussion (222) 2021/01/16 Alisa #19607 > To get there, I plan to do both of the following: There are three items in the list that followed that. I should have said "all of the following".
Politics Discussion (407) 2021/01/16 Anonymous #19605 Reminds me of https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/27/21271611/youtube-deletes-comments-critical-china-communist-party-fixed [image]
Max Microblogging (192) 2021/01/16 Andy Dufresne #19600 > There's one other issue I can think of WRT tensegrity furniture (atm at least): deconstruction for transport. They don't look like the easiest structures to (un)assemble. Mb with enough slack on the ropes that sort of solves itself, though?
New Community Website: Features and Tech (145) 2021/01/16 Max #143 > Do we need the 'rename' fork method? I think we do. I am seeing how everything can/will work together more clearly now. There are some cool things like project management that are more intuitive with rename-forks. (e.g. breaking down
New Community Website Project (54) 2021/01/16 Max I have a very basic partial prototype at [https://cff.au.ngrok.io/](https://cff.au.ngrok.io/). Nested replies example: https://cff.au.ngrok.io/6 If you post a reply then you'll get a page like: https://cff.au.ngrok.io/10 -- click on 'to parent'
How to Disable VLC Crash Reporting (7) 2021/01/14 LUKE102010 THIS WORKS 100%
Open Discussion 2 (2019) (544) 2021/01/14 Anonymous #18661 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25778758 : > It's also important to realize that the backup includes your encrypted iMessage messages, and the key required to decrypt them. Meaning that if you have backups enabled, all the "end-to-end"
curi's Microblogging (114) 2021/01/11 curi i want a world where 1) either i can use a platform ~freely (only dealing with small, clearly written limits) OR they warn me in advance about having other rules. 2) there exist options for everything major (social media, online payments, web hosting
Blizzard's Speech Suppression (2) 2021/01/11 Anonymous #18950 In tweets sent today and yesterday, Gab reiterated their view on porn and free speech: Someone [wrote](https://twitter.com/lopp/status/1348667951059234819): > Anyone who knows the history of pornography laws should find such sentiments in
Philosophy Side Quests (10) 2021/01/10 Anonymous https://youtu.be/f8TlTaTHgzo (2020-12-31) Karl Jobst reviews math and simulations to determine whether YouTube speedrunner Dream used a modified version of Minecraft to give himself more luck. At 2.5 million views as of today, this is one of Jobst
Sam Harris vs. Capitalism (50) 2021/01/08 curi #19446 also various forms of environmentalism (e.g. protecting nature, plants, animals, non-renewable resources, or preventing overpopulation)
New Community Website: Marketing (27) 2021/01/08 curi I'm gonna see what this is like: https://www.getdrip.com/forms/985096725/submissions/new Jonathan Stark is sending one email per day for 10 biz days and set up a Slack server. Starts Jan 11. Free. The content is something about systematizing you
Discussion with gigahurt from Less Wrong (89) 2021/01/08 curi Philosophically, rationality is stuff that *is capable of progress* (error correction, improvement). It doesn't get stuck or refuse to listen to criticism or to new ideas. Practically, rationality is *the most effective way of approaching stuff*. T
The CCP Coronavirus (366) 2021/01/08 curi https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/nyregion/nyc-coronavirus-vaccine-delays.html > 66% of New York City’s Vaccine Doses Sit Unused as Virus Numbers Soar > Small numbers of doses have even been thrown out as the city’s mass inoculation campaig
Third Type of Meme: Static Companion Memes (42) 2021/01/06 Max are rational companion memes impossible?
Andy B Harassment Continues (22) 2021/01/04 curi [image]
Learning Updates Thread (33) 2021/01/03 Alisa Dec 2020 Alisa
Open Thread: Objectivism Discussion (146) 2021/01/03 Anonymous [ARI](https://ari.aynrand.org) sux. They promoted [open borders](http://ariwatch.com/ARIonImmigrationIntroduction.htm) and [Joe Biden](http://ariwatch.com/BidenMustWinOrAmericaIsDoomed.htm).
Andy B Harassment and Four Strands (28) 2021/01/02 Anonymous The people currently defending Andy on Twitter (PresidentSunday, KS) aren't providing any evidence or arguments and are willfully ignoring the evidence provided to them, including this thread. They're also lying about Elliot with no evidence or ar
Anne Discussion (71) 2020/12/21 Anne B It took a while to read through the paper and related material, taking notes on things that struck me. Then it also took a while to go back through my notes, decide which things were most important to say, decide what order to say them in, and write t
Collaborative Writing Discussion Thread (18) 2020/12/10 Anne B personalization
Fallible Ideas Learning Plan (20) 2020/12/09 Dolan I made a very primitive web page to publish my Learning plans and reviews. I won't be very active for the next few months because I need to focus on other things. I still want to gradually start integrating FI with the rest of my Life and this is my
Using Commas (9) 2020/12/09 Alisa I [wrote](https://curi.us/2197-politics-discussion/reply/19113?comments=30#19113): > Article from December, 2020, showing how ... There should not be a comma between "December" and "2020", according the [Extended Rules for Using Commas](https://

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Gab’s Dissenter browser is insecure Anonymous Open Discussion (2021) 2021/01/16
https://twitter.com/sharylattkisson/status/1350550063718813703 : > Loews Hotels just canceled an upcoming fundraising event for Sen. Josh Hawley. > They will no longer allow the Conservative Senator to rent their facilities. Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/16
#19607 > To get there, I plan to do both of the following: There are three items in the list that followed that. I should have said "all of the following". Alisa Alisa Discussion 2021/01/16
Fat loss project Alisa Alisa Discussion 2021/01/16
#19605 Reminds me of https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/27/21271611/youtube-deletes-comments-critical-china-communist-party-fixed [image] Anonymous Politics Discussion 2021/01/16
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1350510476568846337 [image] lol they have a lot of convenient bugs curi Politics Discussion 2021/01/16
#19600 > There's one other issue I can think of WRT tensegrity furniture (atm at least): deconstruction for transport. They don't look like the easiest structures to (un)assemble. Mb with enough slack on the ropes that sort of solves itself, though? Andy Dufresne Max Microblogging 2021/01/16
#143 > Do we need the 'rename' fork method? I think we do. I am seeing how everything can/will work together more clearly now. There are some cool things like project management that are more intuitive with rename-forks. (e.g. breaking down Max New Community Website: Features and Tech 2021/01/16
Some videos with information on the Parler Amazon suit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFp5E7akgy8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB06JtDbtvU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkiZKk4_-lA oh my god it's turpentine Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/16
Fox News article: [Parler CEO John Matze, family forced into hiding over death threats, security breaches: court filing](https://www.foxnews.com/media/parler-ceo-john-matze-family-hiding-deaths-threats) (not very much content beyond the headline and t curi Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/16
#19596 > A less permanent stake-like option that would also be suitable indoors would be something like weightlifting dumbells attached to the leg bottoms. Yeah, I was thinking that pairing something like that with a tensegrity table/etc might Max Max Microblogging 2021/01/16
> Postgres has graph traversal functions which were discussed above, and there are other options like turpentine brought up neo4j. I have [a basic impl of WITH RECURSIVE](https://github.com/fi-tools/cf-forum/blob/e0e8763bc2a8b904a578713d7bc3532c513 Max New Community Website: Features and Tech 2021/01/16
#132 > more advanced: i think it'd be good to be able to set a permission that isn't passed to descendants, so you can share something individually without sharing its descendants/subtree. i think this might naturally fall out of an elegant desi Max New Community Website: Features and Tech 2021/01/16
I have a very basic partial prototype at [https://cff.au.ngrok.io/](https://cff.au.ngrok.io/). Nested replies example: https://cff.au.ngrok.io/6 If you post a reply then you'll get a page like: https://cff.au.ngrok.io/10 -- click on 'to parent' Max New Community Website Project 2021/01/16
#19593 Camping furniture (especially camp chairs - Google it if you're not familiar) are commonly implemented with some tensegrity like structures where fabric supplies the tension and hollow rods supply the compression. They're light & easy to m Andy Dufresne Max Microblogging 2021/01/16
#19566 Nice progress! #19594 I noticed you bumping 3 jumps in 4-2 and then not doing the wrong warp. I guess that you could go a bit faster if you didn't do that, but also that it'll probably be easier to get the wrong warp if you've got those 3 bu Max Alisa Discussion 2021/01/16
#19588 Yeah, that's exactly what I meant by tricks. I'm learning to jump backwards, which is a skill required for wrong warps. I'm also practicing doing a specific sequence of backwards jumps on 4-2 that should let me do a wrong warp which saves ab Alisa Alisa Discussion 2021/01/15
[Tensegrity Explained - Steve Mould](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0onncd0_0-o) I think there's a big problem with furinture - it's heavy and hard to move. IMO there's a decent business opportunity for anyone who can solve this and mb some other Max Max Microblogging 2021/01/15
#142 I was talking about long term saved data. Caching is a separate issue and is fine. > IDK what the performance characteristics would be like for a traversal of a subtree It sounds like multiple root nodes would be a premature performance opt curi New Community Website: Features and Tech 2021/01/15
>> more advanced: i think it'd be good to be able to set a permission that isn't passed to descendants, so you can share something individually without sharing its descendants/subtree. > Another more advanced idea would be to have permissions for t Max New Community Website: Features and Tech 2021/01/15
> (distance 1 = subforum, distance 2 = topic start, distance 3+ = comment). This will only need to be overridden occasionally and the forum could function initially and be tried out without an override setting. I was thinking about not having an ov Max New Community Website: Features and Tech 2021/01/15
> in general I think things should be inferred, calculated or inherited when possible instead of set. E.g. the best default view for a node can be inferred by its distance to root. I might be a bit sensitive to this b/c of different performance req Max New Community Website: Features and Tech 2021/01/15
#19566 gz on 5:37 run > I was able to get 5m 37s without adding any new tricks to my repertoire. > I'm now setting a new goal: get within 10% of the SMB1 world record. Yeah. Since you didn't add new tricks I was gonna suggest going for a fast curi Alisa Discussion 2021/01/15
#51 the middle tier with private forum can also include chatroom access (including both semi-private and quoting-in-public-allowed rooms). discord, slack or other. curi New Community Website Project 2021/01/15
> It might be worth me mentioning: the migrations file I posted doesn't include the idea of main/detailed/meta/other as nodes under a root node. Is there a benefit to having more than one root node in the post tree? (in other words, making it multi curi New Community Website: Features and Tech 2021/01/15
> #131 set permissions on a node. nodes inherent from their parent unless set otherwise. read and write can be specified separately when desired (one, when unset, inherits from the other). users have some roles, tags or other settings so you can speci Anonymous New Community Website: Features and Tech 2021/01/15
Fixing image: [image] Max New Community Website Project 2021/01/15
#55 How does this look as a starting point? !()[https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1046448/104728758-84803f00-578b-11eb-944a-6cf0af2e1696.png] the tags are denoted like: `value :: type` and blog_c::view means the blog_comment view Max New Community Website Project 2021/01/15
#136 #137 I think I know what you mean by `default_view` after reading http://curi.us/2395-new-community-website-project#55 Max New Community Website: Features and Tech 2021/01/15
#136 It might be worth me mentioning: the migrations file I posted doesn't include the idea of main/detailed/meta/other as nodes under a root node. I want to try an alternate idea, too: doing that high-level organisation via tags. The way you've de Max New Community Website: Features and Tech 2021/01/15
>> if there's private/public stuff - users can implicitly set permissions on nodes via choosing the subforum/category? > yes. i'm thinking some subscription tier gets you access to a Private node (subforum) that you can post under, which not all me Max New Community Website: Features and Tech 2021/01/15
> if there's private/public stuff - users can implicitly set permissions on nodes via choosing the subforum/category? yes. i'm thinking some subscription tier gets you access to a Private node (subforum) that you can post under, which not all membe curi New Community Website: Features and Tech 2021/01/15
Also, I'm enjoying Rails. It's pretty nice to work in, and I think I've made more progress, faster, than I did when learning django. I'll try adding user accounts soon and building out some of the UI elements and backend logic. Max New Community Website: Features and Tech 2021/01/15
#133 In your model in #132 - if there's private/public stuff - users can implicitly set permissions on nodes via choosing the subforum/category? Otherwise sounds good. I have been thinking about how to do stuff using tags and tag-tags. I think ther Max New Community Website: Features and Tech 2021/01/15
THIS WORKS 100% LUKE102010 How to Disable VLC Crash Reporting 2021/01/14
THIS WORKS 100% LUKE102010 How to Disable VLC Crash Reporting 2021/01/14
#132 note: only admins can set permission on nodes. curi New Community Website: Features and Tech 2021/01/14
#131 set permissions on a node. nodes inherent from their parent unless set otherwise. read and write can be specified separately when desired (one, when unset, inherits from the other). users have some roles, tags or other settings so you can specify curi New Community Website: Features and Tech 2021/01/14
Does anyone have thoughts on how to do permissions on threads/subforums? e.g. we might want a subforum like 'only subscribers can post & reply but publicly readable'. I have some early ideas but want to develop them a bit before posting. The main thin Max New Community Website: Features and Tech 2021/01/14
nodes will have various properties, e.g. probably a list of tags. i think they should have a default_view property or something to accomplish a similar goal. some way to tell the system to display like a forum index, a blog post with replies, a blo curi New Community Website Project 2021/01/14
there are two types of forks: 1. rename topic 2. move topic moving involves linking to and/or quoting from a node, but giving your post a different parent, e.g. the Main node. renaming involves setting a title on your post. it'll be a lot curi New Community Website Project 2021/01/14
problem with 'forking' threads? Max New Community Website Project 2021/01/14
an idea for the site name: criticism.gift FYI i bought that domain just now and am willing to donate it if we want to use the domain. Max New Community Website Project 2021/01/14
easy/quick way to practice learning and achieving goals Max Max Microblogging 2021/01/14
SMB1: 2nd mission accomplished Alisa Alisa Discussion 2021/01/14
Tim Pool getting cancelled by Facebook: [Facebook Has RESTRICTED My Page Effectively Shutting it Down, The Purge Is Real And Will Get WORSE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_diG_7jQPMU) curi Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/14
Peter Navarro has released [volume 3](https://navarroreport.com/#342e5f15-d44c-436a-bb58-9051a9397783) ([pdf](https://web.archive.org/web/20210114175850/https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/be36dc6d-0df4-4c20-addf-fca72be46150/The%20Navarro%20Report%20Vol Anonymous Politics Discussion 2021/01/14
#18661 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25778758 : > It's also important to realize that the backup includes your encrypted iMessage messages, and the key required to decrypt them. Meaning that if you have backups enabled, all the "end-to-end" Anonymous Open Discussion 2 (2019) 2021/01/14
microblogging is really good -- or, at least, it's really good for me Max Max Microblogging 2021/01/14
I think we should support rich attachments, including video and supporting features like an html5 video player. we can restrict upload of large files to subscribers or certain user groups as an anti-dos measure. Max New Community Website: Features and Tech 2021/01/13
#19550 i did manage to avoid doing any substantial/long work, but didn't manage to get to sleep before 5am anyway. Max Max Microblogging 2021/01/13
#124 I agree with this. Sounds like a much better way to do things. Max New Community Website: Features and Tech 2021/01/13
#126 https://guides.rubyonrails.org/caching_with_rails.html curi New Community Website: Features and Tech 2021/01/13
caching in new comm forum Max New Community Website: Features and Tech 2021/01/13
advanced feature ideas (not for v1): - leave browser open and page will auto-update with replies, so you can have a conversation at the speed of IMs - auto link titling. so i can put in a youtube link or blog/article link, and it'll find the tit curi New Community Website: Features and Tech 2021/01/13
I think /main/p/123 can just be /p/123 I'm doubtful about user sections. My initial thought was your own blog is just a site search that filters for only your own posts with a nesting limit (or with an article/comment distinction). Your user profil curi New Community Website: Features and Tech 2021/01/13
Andrew Torba, [Gab’s Response To The ADL and CNN](https://news.gab.com/2021/01/13/gabs-response-to-the-adl-and-cnn/), news.gab.com (January 13, 2021): > So now the ADL is lobbying the US government to remove us from the internet. We will never be Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/13
Former MLB pitcher and current BlazeTV commentator Curt Schilling [tweets](https://twitter.com/gehrig38/status/1349209399877922819): > We will be just fine, but wanted to let Americans know that @AIGinsurance canceled our insurance due to my "Socia Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/13
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1349211568391729153 [image] Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/13
I'm really excited at the moment and feel like I'm having a lot of ideas. I want to work on something substantial but it's midnight. I also want to write down my ideas (this being one of them). I think writing down my ideas is good, and working on Max Max Microblogging 2021/01/13
idea for URLs in cf-forum: - use posix paths, start at `/` (aka 'root') - have few, well known, etc top level categories; e.g. `/main`, `/meta`, `/other`, `/detailed` (mb `/technical` but that implies like tech/code type stuff and isn't what I'm t Max New Community Website: Features and Tech 2021/01/13
integrating TOC w/ software dev Max Max Microblogging 2021/01/13
#19545 it only gets worse the more i watch Max Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/13
I wrote: a [crit of UEG's *The Fall of a Society*](https://curi.us/2243-deplatforming-and-fraud#19544) and a mini essay: [YouTube and Twitter are anti 'western values'](https://curi.us/2243-deplatforming-and-fraud#19545). Max Max Microblogging 2021/01/13
YouTube and Twitter are anti 'western values' Max Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/13
crit of UEG's *The Fall of a Society* Max Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/13
Upper Echelon Gamers videos: [The Fall of a Society](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn5E2AnBW9Y) [You Have Been Convicted of WrongThink](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0b3Wai7KTs) curi Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/12
Tim Pool video: [Attempts To Censor Conservatives FAILED, Deplatforming Failed, The Underground Network Is Growing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0_bqqTMrsc) curi Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/12
Some headlines from the left's recent advocacy of riots and violence: https://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/1348973421057732610 curi Politics Discussion 2021/01/12
#19527 I was planning to link that thread, including this pic of targeted industries: > payment processors are 'just private companies'. from 2011 to 2015, they were pressured by the DoJ (via banks) to deplatform the (legal, if sometimes distastefu curi Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/12
Twitter [thread](https://threader.app/thread/1348293705179017222) explaining how the government influences banks to deplatform *legal* businesses: > If you want to see how the state actually controls private firms, read the FDIC circular. the strat Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/12
Pricing Thoughts curi New Community Website Project 2021/01/12
A detailed discussion of Parler's attempt to sue AWS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFp5E7akgy8 oh my god it's turpentine Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/12
OK, similar ideas. But I think it's better to start with generic features and try to make them simple, elegant, powerful, and then try using and iterating them a while. Then only add more specific/parochial stuff if really needed. I think that means s curi New Community Website: Features and Tech 2021/01/12
#120 yup. I see a 'fork' button being a shortcut to like 'reply as new topic' mb with some pre-filled stuff. I think 'fork' might be a bad term and isn't clear enough. The design I have in mind let's a post be both a reply and act like a 'top level' p Max New Community Website: Features and Tech 2021/01/12
#119 You don't need a special forking feature like that if you have, generically, every node display a list of every other node that links to it (probably normally excluding any descendants that are displayed on the page currently, so basically links curi New Community Website: Features and Tech 2021/01/12
#117 > I want to be wary of special cases. Can a general concept of forking threads ... be used for this or whatever else? Yes, I think so. I think forking threads is a good feature (like adding "was:" to a subject on FI), and we can signal this Max New Community Website: Features and Tech 2021/01/12
#117 Something like a label on a post saying it is a paths forward post might work without being too burdensome. oh my god it's turpentine New Community Website: Features and Tech 2021/01/11
#116 I want to be wary of special cases. Can a general concept of forking threads (or more generally creating a new node with some references to nodes that already exist) be used for this or whatever else? curi New Community Website: Features and Tech 2021/01/11
@curi, what do you think about adding paths forward as an explicit thing to the new site? Like a user can click a button named something like 'declare impasse' to fork the discussion off into a new (linked) topic, and an explicit msg is then shown in Max New Community Website: Features and Tech 2021/01/11
#19527 Deplatforming sex workers coerces them into more dangerous situations. More from the thread: [image] curi Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/11
https://twitter.com/hacks4pancakes/status/1348854087366926337 > I know I am not the first one to say this, but there are a lot of very well credentialed people in tech worrying what would happen if internet giants collectively de-platformed a group curi Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/11
i want a world where 1) either i can use a platform ~freely (only dealing with small, clearly written limits) OR they warn me in advance about having other rules. 2) there exist options for everything major (social media, online payments, web hosting curi curi's Microblogging 2021/01/11
An [album](https://imgur.com/a/9Wn2GXt) of Big Tech megacorp monopolies pledging their commitment to "free speech, free expression, and an open Internet." (Via [/r/kotakuinaction](https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/kucia2/censorship_an_a Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/11
#19523 NYT reporter David Enrich (not an author of the above article) [tweeted](https://twitter.com/davidenrich/status/1348786071342096388): > I asked other banks where Trump has checking/savings or brokerage accounts – including @jpmorgan and @C Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/11
#19522 Signature Bank too (same article): > Susan Turkell, a spokeswoman for the bank, said Signature had decided that it “will not do business in the future with any members of Congress who voted to disregard the Electoral College.” Ms. Turkel Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/11
NYT [says](https://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/business/trump-brand-capitol-mob.html) Deutsch Bank is banning Trump: > Deutsche Bank, which has been Mr. Trump’s primary lender for two decades, has decided not to do business with Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/11
https://twitter.com/lawenforcetoday/status/1348788062516555778 : > FB has just blocked Law Enforcement Today - with it's nearly 900,000 members - from posting. All admins blocked from posting to any page and group they are associated with. This i Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/11
https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1348810983486095360 > The wild duality of the Internet economy, which has more addressable niches than conceivable and where platforms have powers we would have thought unlikely for governments. > (That sounds curi curi's Microblogging 2021/01/11
Sleeping Giants is [going after](https://twitter.com/slpng_giants/status/1348791904343789568) the credit card companies that allow their cardholders to buy stuff from Epik: > Epik, which now will host Parler and all of the death threats against cop Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/11
Facebook now removing posts with the phrase "stop the steasl" Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/11
The makers of the pro-life film [Gosnell](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3722234/) have been permanently banned from Twitter. Partial transcript of their [video](https://twitter.com/realJacobAirey/status/1348759136389926912): > The day has come. We k Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/11
The discussion forum ar15.com has been banned by GoDaddy, their domain name registrar. Their members analyzed in detail many pieces of video evidence of the incidents involving Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, WI last year. https://twitter.com/AR15COM/ Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/11
#19513 A crowd of left-wing activists has gathered in front of Powell’s Books in Portland, OR to demand that they “stop selling Andy NGO’s book” . ([video](https://twitter.com/mrandyngo/status/1348757722142023682)) Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/11
[Salesforce ‘Takes Action’ to Prevent RNC Emails From Inciting Violence](https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkdmdv/salesforce-takes-action-to-prevent-rnc-emails-from-inciting-violence), *Vice* (2021-01-11): > The Donald Trump campaign has not used Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/11
#19494 Caving to pressure from left-wing activists, Portland-based Powell’s Books has agreed to not carry Andy Ngo’s new book *Unmasked* in their physical store, though they will still sell it online. https://twitter.com/powells/status/13487152 Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/11
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=405676577355023 Canary Mission exposing both left and right wing anti-semites. curi Politics Discussion 2021/01/11
#19497 More knives out for the free-speech platforms protected by Cloudflare. Sleeping Giants’ anti-free-speech activism has been effective in the past. Sleeping Giants [tweeted](https://twitter.com/slpng_giants/status/1348719101141684224): Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/11
Today, Tim Pool shared a thought about Trump’s remaining supporters. @Cernovich [wrote](https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1348468585581092866): > My take on Trump is that you let him leave ignobly. Don't make him a martyr. Keep him on a lea Anonymous Politics Discussion 2021/01/11
#18950 In tweets sent today and yesterday, Gab reiterated their view on porn and free speech: Someone [wrote](https://twitter.com/lopp/status/1348667951059234819): > Anyone who knows the history of pornography laws should find such sentiments in Anonymous Blizzard's Speech Suppression 2021/01/11
John Ziegler, [Trump’s Ban from Social Media is Further Evidence America is Destined to Split Up](https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/trumps-ban-from-social-media-is-further-evidence-america-is-destined-to-split-up/), *Mediaite* (Jan 11th, 2021, 11:28 Anonymous Politics Discussion 2021/01/11
#19505 CORRECTION: the article was posted on 2021-01-11, not 2020-01-11. Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/11
[Prosecutors weigh ‘heavy hammer’ — felony murder — for rioters in Capitol officer’s death](https://wtop.com/dc/2021/01/prosecutors-weigh-heavy-hammer-felony-murder-for-rioters-in-capitol-officers-death/), *wtopnews* (2021-01-11): > While Anonymous Politics Discussion 2021/01/11
[Talk-radio owner orders conservative hosts to temper election fraud rhetoric](https://archive.is/fiudQ), *Washington Post* (2020-01-11): > Cumulus Media, which employs some of the most popular right-leaning talk-radio hosts in the United States, h Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/11
#19500 https://twitter.com/gbinsf/status/1348334087711297539 : > FYI, here’s the Acceptable Use Policy & contact info for Hurricane Electric, Gab’s hosting provider, for when you find messages that advocate violence or harass others > http://h Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/11
#19449 Example of a left-winger comparing a social media network with a #1A-based moderation policy to Al Qaeda. https://twitter.com/quinnypig/status/1348127975892402176 : > https://twitter.com/rchrdbyd/status/1348127437406826496 : >> Imagin Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/11
#19500 @bad_packets [says](https://twitter.com/bad_packets/status/1348402842785128448) on Twitter that Gab lacks a robust internet connection. > [Gab’s] One /24 that's single-homed through @henet ain't gonna cut it sadly. https://bgpview.io/asn/4 Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/11
There is a Twitter account called [@gab_takes](https://twitter.com/gab_takes) that shares screenshots of Gab posts that they find objectionable or funny: [Example](https://twitter.com/gab_takes/status/1348161809644015625): > Guns of Gab has a new b Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/11
People are now trying to get Gab kicked off of their ISP. Gab connects to the internet entirely through [Hurricane Electric](he.net), a backbone ISP. One hour ago, someone who works for Amazon AWS (according to his [Twitter bio](https://twitter.com Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/11
#19480 Sleeping Giants is now [asking](https://twitter.com/slpng_giants/status/1348418198417199106) Stripe (on Twitter) to cut off fundraising platform GiveSendGo: > Still no word from @stripe on why they’re processing payments for GiveSendGo, th Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/11
RIP Parler? Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/10
[Twitter thread by Sleeping Giants](https://twitter.com/slpng_giants/status/1348315091725295617) trying to get [Cloudflare](http://www.cloudflare.com) to stop providing DDOS protection to "all of these extremist sites". > We aren’t talking enough Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/10
[Twitter thread](https://twitter.com/RealOGAnonymous/status/1348149394978320391) requesting (apparently successfully, in some cases) a bunch of companies to cut ties with Parler. > Now that @Amazon is kicking them to the curb, what do you think abo Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/10
#19494 Correction: the line beginning with "@Powells" should have been a continuation of the first quoted line: > Antifa are threatening to picket Portland bookstore @Powells if they don’t ban my book about antifa. Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/10
Attempted deplatforming of Andy Ngo's new book by Antifa Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/10
Amy Peikoff is the Chief Policy Officer for Parler. https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/parler-down-amazon-web-services-ban (2021-01-10): > “We are clearly being singled out,” Chief Policy Officer Amy Peikoff told “Fox & Friends Weekend Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/10
Some of the most classical liberal/Objectivist/libertarian comments I've ever seen from patio11. Discussing politicians *using guns* to prevent administering coronavirus vaccines. patio11 insists in some detail that bringing up guns is appropriate and curi curi's Microblogging 2021/01/10
#19487 I have little sympathy for Parler. They were founded in August 2018, and I don’t remember them standing up for Gab when Gab was deplatformed after the Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting in late October 2018. Rather than following the lead of organ Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/10
Currently: 399 posts in [Politics Discussion](http://curi.us/2197-politics-discussion) 389 posts in [Deplatforming and Fraud Discussion](http://curi.us/2243-deplatforming-and-fraud) Both topics are highly active lately. Read or join in! curi Open Discussion (2021) 2021/01/10
#19488 I don't recall any prominent Democrats – or anyone at all – being cancelled for that... curi Politics Discussion 2021/01/10
From just a few months ago: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/secret-service-took-trump-to-underground-bunker-amid-george-floyd-protests > Secret Service agents wounded outside White House, car bombs feared; official says Trump was taken to bunke Anonymous Politics Discussion 2021/01/10
https://deadline.com/2021/01/parler-ceo-says-service-dropped-by-every-vendor-and-could-end-the-company-1234670607/ > Parler CEO Says Service Dropped By “Every Vendor” And Could End His Business ... > “They all work together to make sure curi Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/10
#114 You're right. I thought there were like native DBs that used graphql. I misread 'graph db' in #111. Note: it does look like there's a small number of like 'native' graphql DBs, but nothing with the maturity of postgres. here's a [saas example Max New Community Website: Features and Tech 2021/01/10
https://twitter.com/rmconservative/status/1348434358630289410 : > The Left brilliantly institutionalizes violence to such a point that it is no longer news when they act violently every single day, which enables them to get away with it. Anonymous Politics Discussion 2021/01/10
https://youtu.be/f8TlTaTHgzo (2020-12-31) Karl Jobst reviews math and simulations to determine whether YouTube speedrunner Dream used a modified version of Minecraft to give himself more luck. At 2.5 million views as of today, this is one of Jobst Anonymous Philosophy Side Quests 2021/01/10
#19482 Some Twitter replies claim real factual details are slightly different but overall impression is about right. I have not researched. curi Politics Discussion 2021/01/10
https://twitter.com/Yoder_Esqq/status/1348084508789239810 [image] curi Politics Discussion 2021/01/10
#19480 I recently contacted Patrick Collison (Stripe CEO) and patio11 (works at Stripe) re deplatforming risk if FI uses Stripe. They both used ~"we bank Trump" as a talking point. I thought that was a bad talking point for various reasons (banking th curi Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/10
[Stripe Stops Processing Payments for Trump Campaign Website](https://archive.is/lW5DT), *WSJ* (2021-01-10): > Stripe Inc. will no longer process payments for President Trump’s campaign website following last week’s riot at the Capitol, accordi Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/10
#112 A graph db is a database that represents data in the form of graphs rather than tables: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_database Graphql isn't a database: https://graphql.org/faq/#is-graphql-a-database-language-like-sql oh my god it's turpentine New Community Website: Features and Tech 2021/01/10
Open source forum project in Rails: https://github.com/discourse/discourse might have useful stuff. gnu 2 license. i think that means if we use their code we have to make our code open source? idk details. curi New Community Website: Features and Tech 2021/01/10
#5 there's a problem here but the world has much larger problems. this is a symptom not a root cause. it's not a limiting factor or breakpoint. it's OK to consider/analyze for practice, if you think that's best, and also to connect to it causes. but e curi Open Discussion (2021) 2021/01/10
#111 I have only used django a bit, but some of the stuff you quoted sounds right to me. there was a bunch of frustrating django stuff, and it doesn't feel very pythonic. There was lots of magic stuff where I ended up thinking something like 'okay, th Max New Community Website: Features and Tech 2021/01/10
am I wrong to be annoyed by this pronoun thing? Max Open Discussion (2021) 2021/01/10
https://twitter.com/_evelynrae/status/1348157046768586754 : > The dismissal of objectivity and debate is the language of the oppressor. Good quote. Anonymous Politics Discussion 2021/01/09
Paramilitary types at the storming of the Capitol Anonymous Politics Discussion 2021/01/09
We track the race of company employees for affirmative action but not the race of people committing crimes (and their victims). Anonymous Politics Discussion 2021/01/09
My Mother Told Me Anonymous Open Discussion (2021) 2021/01/09
[image] https://twitter.com/AndrewFeinberg/status/1347922394497884167?s=20 Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/09
[image] https://twitter.com/DaveLeeFT/status/1347724201331814401?s=20 Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/09
[image] https://twitter.com/ggreisman/status/1348101933093978114?s=21 Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/09
#19449 [Amazon Is Booting Parler Off Of Its Web Hosting Service](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/amazon-parler-aws), *Buzzfeed* (January 9, 2021, at 9:07 p.m. ET): > Amazon's suspension of Parler's account means that unless it c Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/09
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/09/apple-removes-parler-from-app-store-in-wake-of-us-capitol-riot.html : > Apple removes Parler from App Store in wake of U.S. Capitol riot Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/09
https://twitter.com/barnes_law/status/1348007865684959232 : > Twitter should face a large class action claim from stockholders for their lies to the marketplace about censorship intentions. Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/09
#19463 Wow that's really dirty and seems really exploitable Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/09
#19460 https://twitter.com/brandonstraka/status/1348026448460861440 : > Leftists have engaged in a coordinated attack on my email. They signed up then mass reported me for spam. My email service is now shut down. My Facebook is shut down. > You’ Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/09
#19407 https://twitter.com/chicksonright/status/1347910987022823427?s=21 : > Pretty chilling what @BrandonStraka just said on FNC. It's not just that his page was pulled from FB. It's that every page admin/employee/contractor/associate of his pag Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/09
https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ Awesome service that lets you read newsletters via RSS/Atom. It gives you a custom email address with which you sign up for the newsletter, and it also gives you a customized Atom URL to put into your feed reader to Anonymous Open Discussion (2021) 2021/01/09
https://twitter.com/brandonstraka/status/1348036019095007232?s=21 > My email service has been cancelled by mail chimp and constant contact. Is anybody aware of a conservative run mass email service? Brandon Straka is the founder of the #WalkAway Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/09
https://twitter.com/aka_realdirty/status/1347957967619022848?s=21 : > Delta airline landed a plane to remove these people because they was having a private conversation about supporting President Trump. I haven’t verified the info in the tweet Anonymous Deplatforming and Fraud 2021/01/09