This shit rubs me the wrong way, dude. Everybody gets rushed into taking pictures with each other at these events and I don’t think that’s justification to smear someone’s reputation by connecting them to Elon Musk.

End of an era.

They did dozens of successful trips to the Titanic, but for some reason people only wanna talk about the time they accidentally cooked and pancaked the CEO

He's English. We're lucky he didn't steal it and stick it in the British Museum.

But I’m here because I can’t get reddit content anymore in the format I want to consume it. I didn’t have an issue with the content of reddit, just the owners.

Welcome to the World of Tomorrow!

Yes, but also no.

At the end of a r/Place event the palette changes, and you can only place white pixels.

So yes, you could use a bot to write it again; but no, in reality you wouldn’t be writing anything.

I'm assuming it's this article.

I was convinced OP had made a typo.

But you can block whatever communities you want. I’ve blocked a lot of different communities that have content I don’t like, and now they’re not in my feed.

Registering to all instances with the same username/password is just asking for trouble. They’re not all equal and some of them will get hacked somehow.

Wat

The losses were spurred by a Wall Street Journal investigation into lead-sheathed cables installed by phone companies across the US many decades ago.

The industry started phasing out lead in the 1950s, but the WSJ said it found evidence of more than 2,000 lead-covered cables and said there "are likely far more throughout the country."

Fan-fucking-tastic. Y’all excited to bail out the telcos again?

I wouldn’t bother writing replies to a bot, but if it makes you feel better.

Idk it seems like a problem that will sort itself out as Lemmy grows, and artificially limiting how many posts from a community can reach the front page seems like a suboptimal solution that’s going to have unintended consequences down the line.

And it's not even a kitchen sink. Couldn't even do that right.

Until the next big social media fuck up, which neither Spez nor Musk can stop themselves from making.

You're just here early, and the platform still needs work. It hasn't even hit 1.0 yet.

I feel like it’s been a long while now since they tried to hide it.

The Republicans are such good hype men for Joe Biden, he might as well pay them.

When Officer William Stewart arrived on the scene of a pro-LGBTQ rally on June 3 in Corbin, Ky., he found a self-identified Ku Klux Klan member menacing rally-goers with a loaded handgun.

“Take your gun off!” Stewart said to 43-year-old KKK member Clayton Segebart, who puts his handgun on the ground.

“He’s got a gun! He’s been trying to f------ shoot someone!” a protester yelled at the officer.

But the dramatic scene, captured in a 15-minute police bodycam video obtained by Raw Story through a Kentucky Open Records Act request, didn't result in any arrests.

Instead, Stewart decided not press charges against Segebart or Kenneth Hutton — a former city employee who arrived on the scene at the same time and also displayed a KKK card — despite protesters showing the officer phone video of the volatile moments immediately preceding the officer’s arrival.

Corbin police seized firearms from two KKK members, emptied the bullets out of the chambers, and then returned the weapons. Video still courtesy Corbin Police Department

The bodycam video shows LGBTQ activists playing a cell phone recording of Segebart waving a KKK card in a protester’s face. He then spews violent and homophobic language and reaches for a handgun he had strapped to his waist.

The police bodycam video later shows Stewart speaking with James Hensley, the 21-year-old LGBTQ supporter who was the target of Segebart’s hate.

“All right, I’m watching the video,” Stewart told Hensley, before putting the onus of pressing charges on Hensley. “You are more than welcome to come down to the police department and fill out a warrant for him.”

Hensley then pointed out to the officer that Segebart had identified himself as a Ku Klux Klan member.

“He comes over here, says he’s talking about all these other murders of trans people and just trying to scare us, man,” Hensley told Stewart. “He’s Billy Badass, and he’s just looking for a way to kill someone, man. It sucks.”

Stewart, who the video depicts as de-escalating the situation as he speaks with numerous people on the scene, then explained to Hensley that if he wanted to pursue charges, he could come down to the police station and “swear out a criminal complaint.” If a judge issued a warrant or criminal summons, Stewart said, Segebart and Hensley would “both have to appear in court together.”

“I just got a lot in my life,” Hensley told Stewart.

Hensley told Raw Story that as a result of a car accident in April, he had to change jobs and now relies on rides from friends and family members to get to work. And he has been taking care of his ailing grandfather. Hensley said he decided that ultimately the hassle of going to court to see that justice is done just wasn’t worth it.

Corbin Police Detective Robbie Hodge told Raw Story that Segebart's conduct toward Hensley meets the criteria for a harassment charge. Under Kentucky law, "a person is guilty of harassment when, with intent to intimidate, harass, annoy, or alarm another person, he or she ... makes an offensively coarse utterance, gesture or display, or addresses abusive language to any person present."

Harassment is a misdemeanor, and Hodge said for police to make an arrest on a misdemeanor charge — with only a few exceptions such as domestic violence and driving under the influence — the victim must sign a criminal complaint.

As shown in the police bodycam video, the police separately considered whether to charge Segebart for pulling a firearm, which took place after the altercation with Hensley. As Segebart and Hensley argued, an unidentified man came on the scene and told Segebart to leave. In response, Segebart pulled his gun and waved it in the man’s direction.

The police also opted to not charge Segebart with “wanton endangerment” in relation to his actions toward the unidentified man. Kentucky statutes define “wanton endangerment” as “wantonly” engaging “in conduct which creates a substantial danger of physical injury to another person.” The offense is a Class D felony “under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life.”

The bodycam video shows Stewart and an unidentified officer conferring. Stewart can be heard telling the other officer that Segebart and another man “come up, basically called them ‘f-----s,’ and then they’re getting in a heated argument.

“He pulls his weapon,” Stewart continued. “He doesn’t raise it at them, but he pulls it.”

“Did he have a reason to pull it?” the other officer asked.

“No,” Stewart responded.

“Well, why did he say he pulled it?” the other officer asked.

The video then shows Stewart walking over to Segebart and asking him. Segebart told the officer that the unidentified man “was approaching to me really fast, and I didn’t know if he was going to swing on me or not.”

Rather than “hit him and actually really escalate it, all I did was pull [the gun] out and step back,” Segebart said.

The unidentified man left the scene, and the police were unable to interview him.

Despite not charging Segebart, Stewart told Hensley: “I get it. You should never pull a weapon unless you absolutely have to. That’s not how we’re trained. That’s our last resource, and that should be his.”

When the police arrived on the scene, the body-cam video shows them seizing firearms from Segebart and Hutton. The police removed bullets from the chambers of the guns.

But within 14 minutes of arriving, they returned the weapons to the men and told them to leave, according to the video. They also told the LGBTQ supporters to leave the park after determining that they did not have a permit.

“I’m gonna give y’all’s firearms back, all right?” Stewart told Segebart and Hutton. “I’m gonna walk ’em up there with you, OK? Just — just leave, OK? They’re leaving, too. I’m making ’em leave, so you guys gotta leave, too. OK?”

This is why I never run. It’s just not safe.

It was never intended to build upon the original sorting mechanism, it was intended to be a super upvote that granted the receiver elevated privileges. It used to get you into an exclusive subreddit, turn off the ads, and give you discounts at stores across the internet. But then people memed on it and the admin decided to indulge the memes.

You’re missing Voyager and Lemmios.

Not really? Every country is spying on every other country. It’s just a big failure on our end.

Yeah, but I also want to get rid of Facebook. Like I don't think every nation is entitled to their own toxic hell site.

Just wanna remind folks that when Steve Huffman founded reddit it was just him and a couple friends with dozens of alt accounts. The first decade of Reddit’s life it was just ripping content from Digg and 4chan to rehost.

Lemmy will grow, and probably in a very similar way.

Can’t. I’m addicted to the algorithms. Music discovery guided by AI is too much fun. If I was only using streaming services to listen to music I already know or the new albums from artists I already like them I’d be with you, but now I’m hooked on finding new stuff.

Gfycat is shutting down, sadly. There’s no money to be had in hosting pictures and videos for other sites that are viewed without ads. We already saw the Imgur clamp down a month or so ago. If these instances can’t self host the content it’s all going to have an invisible expiration date.

These riots are about a cop murdering an unarmed black teenager, not pension reforms.

How safe is it to log in to a lemmy instance through this? Seems like it could easily be used for phishing.

https://lemmy.world/c/cyberpunk2077

I think they already have.

This very much feels to me like the beginning of a Civ game, where we're all fresh nations with different starting conditions that are exploring our territories and building up armies....

The first schism is gonna be fairly dramatic, I'll bet.

There are no safe and sane riots. This is how rioting goes. I don’t take part in riots, but I understand that it is the language of the unheard (much in the same way that war is “diplomacy by other means,” rioting is what happens when protests don’t work).

Text based social media will never work. I don’t want to hear your thoughts, I just want to see you dance.

Funny, “Space Karen” is a really common name for Elon.

I figure you’d audit it by examining the results, and if bias isn’t detectable in the results then I’d argue that’s at the very least still better than the human-based systems we’ve been relying on up til now.

The first decade of Reddit’s life it was just pulling content from 4chan and Digg. I would not be surprised to see the fediverse operate similarly.

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You’re just driving up traffic and engagement on reddit, at a time when Huffman desperately needs to convince advertisers that reddit still has a lot of traffic. It’s saving the company financially.

So yeah, not a great protest.

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