The only ones who win in acquisitions like these are the founders.

I tried reading this article and was so confused by its brevity until I realized that it’s just paywalled lol

This is so cool

You think this issue just fell out of a coconut tree?

PBS had quite a lot of time before the 2024 Trump administration to get this figured out, and they didn’t.

Good rule, but is it even possible to tell who downvoted which posts?

I’ve heard rumors that Axon is pouncing on Flock’s bad PR and wants to take a chunk out of their business. A few towns have already switched from Flock to Axon.

Flock’s tech is more advanced than most other technologies out there, which is why it’s sparked so much concern. If Axon can demonstrate that they’re better, though, localities will go with them instead.

I wonder what sort of good faith arguments one could make in favor of Flock. It’d be one thing if it was effective and worked properly, but it seems like it doesn’t.

One could argue that these cases are rare, but frankly, image recognition technology has improved so much over the past several years that it’s actually hard to understand why Flock tech makes as many mistakes as it does.

I’ve never understood how watermarking text works.

That’s kinda how firings work lowkey

It’s kinda weird that on the left it’s hard to find anti AIPAC people who will condemn Hasan Piker and on the right it’s hard to find anti AIPAC people who will condemn Nick Fuentes.

There’s no way this is your primary language.

That’s blatantly bad faith lol

Interesting. I use “leftists” as synonymous with “progressive” or, perhaps more accurately, “marxist”. So I would never call a Liberal a Leftist, for example.

Interestingly enough, the Tankies as described by you here remind me more of the Neoconservative center and right, I have never associated such types with the left in my mind at all.

What’s the difference between tankies and the far left?

Not really, that’s just something leftists say to lash out because they’re mad that liberals aren’t progressive.

Yep. But I’m not sure what Centrism is, exactly.

In America’s Overton Window, Centrism typically means Classical Liberalism, while eschewing far-left mindsets like Marxism.

People’s first impression tends to color how they view something. Fair or not, the first Mastodon instance you join tends to affect your view of the software, and the Fediverse as a whole.

If people tell you to join a social media website, and you get treated poorly when you join, why would you want to stay on that website’s social network?

Common Mastodon L

Because Mastodon is a predominantly leftist platform, they’ll always be doing stuff like this.

It’s literally up to other people to challenge them. I’ve only followed the EA Sports side of things but their reputation has been slowly tanking over the past 10 to 15 years. There’s a reason that they lost the FIFA license a few years back.