Gift link giving everybody access. You can edit this into the original post.

Or, in this case, not being batty enough.

They did just act; a bunch of Republican activists got outed as Russian tools in the process.

Just one smallish outlet where the founders were Russian agents and the staff had a very flimsy pretext about who was paying them

People with access to healthcare can hang on while deteriorating well beyond where he is over the course of many years.

Yeah, it’s blindingly obvious who “US Political Party A” is if you pay the slightest bit of attention.

The shop has, per its proprietor, since gone out of business due to the internet.

When the Republicans control the judicial system, “illegal” only applies to Democrats.

The reward was killing the plan. You can find another job. You can’t replace unspoiled land.

He wants to cut them all down and give the timber to his buddies to resell at a huge markup now that there aren’t any forests let.

A combination of thinning and prescribed burns definitely does better at reducing fire intensity

It doesn’t look like a commercial clear-cut operation though.

Context for those who might need it

I think they’re more trying to explain why it resonates with so many people.

4.2 is tiny; other platforms are getting hundreds of thousands per day.

It’s small enough that the Mastodon use stats show it as noise.

I’ve seen the follow-around thing a couple times. Rare because we’re small. Become big, and it becomes a bigger problem

People can follow from a Mastodon instance and drop troll comments on all your posts

What it has going for it is a nuclear block; when you block somebody, their trollish response no longer shows up in the feed of your followers, and your post no longer shows up in feed of their followers. This basically kills trolling as as sport.

The fact that on Mastodon & Lemmy “block” means “I can’t see their posts, but they can still summon followers to harass” makes them much less attractive as a platform.

Yes — also non-native speakers of a language tend to follow similar word choice patterns as LLMs, which creates a whole set of false positives on detection.

“filter out” is an arms race, and watermarking has very real limitations when it comes to textual content.

It doesn’t take people on the internet saying it though; just an association with people saying something and the name, which happens to people who write news articles about something.