geekwithsoul

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

This just happened to me as well. Deleted all my stuff about a year ago and even happened to check last week and it was still gone. Saw this and went back to check again just now, and it had all been undeleted.

Update: just realized it’s not everything, just everything more than 5 years old

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Hell, Putin can’t even rescue his own soldiers in Kursk.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Wow, an RFK Jr apologist!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Since he went all in on antivax and conspiracy stuff, Dems have known he’s a weird/crazy dude. Which is a damn shame, as pre-brain worms, he was a kick-ass environmental lawyer. Dude is clearly not all there and hasn’t been for decades.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 days ago (2 children)

So they’re reporting on the platform and don’t bother linking to it? Man, journalism just continues to fall further and further from usefulness.

For anyone interested: https://democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

It’s not a question of “should” - an opinion piece is rhetoric, not reporting. You can fact check some of it sometimes but functionally can’t hold it to the same standards as a regular news article. I agree that this can sometimes lead to “alternative facts” and disingenuous arguments, but the only other option is to forbid the publication of them which is obviously an infringement of first amendment rights. It’s messy, and it can lead to people being misinformed, but it’s what we’re stuck with.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

I had a Reddit account I opened in July 2009 that was fairly active and I deleted all my posts and comments when I left - mainly because I felt I couldn’t trust the company that ran it to be good stewards of the content and decided they weren’t entitled to it. All the stuff that’s happened in the last year has just reinforced that conclusion.

Reddit makes money off the content everyone contributes (as well as the hard work of so many unpaid folks doing moderation) and that’s not a model I choose to support. Some of the conversations I was involved in had really help information on a number of topics, and while I’m sad that information isn’t still available to others, I think the overall good is better served by not supporting a site so at odds with my beliefs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Editorializing article titles for fun and profit - an r2o standard

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

[Deese] also helped to shepherd key pieces of economic legislation through Congress, bills like the Inflation Reduction Act and the CHIPS Act that are core pieces of Biden's legacy in the White House.

He started out as an economic policy analyst at the progressive think tank Center for American Progress.

Deese also played a key role in negotiating the Paris climate agreement under Obama, positioning him as a climate-focused economic advisor that aligned well with the Biden agenda.

I mean, obviously a bad guy there /s

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

No problem. Specifically came to my attention about a week ago on this post where the bot reported on an opinion piece as if it was straight news.

BTW, I actually do appreciate the bot and think it’s doing about as well as it can given the technical limitations of the platform.

 
[–] [email protected] 73 points 5 days ago (7 children)

One problem I’ve noticed is that the bot doesn’t differentiate between news articles and opinion pieces. One of the most egregious examples is the NYT. Opinion pieces aren’t held to the same journalistic standards as news articles and shouldn’t be judged for bias and accuracy in the same way as news content.

I believe most major news organizations include the word “Opinion” in titles and URLs, so perhaps that could be something keyed off of to have the bot label these appropriately. I don’t expect you to judge the bias and accuracy of each opinion writer, but simply labeling them as “Opinion pieces are not required to meet accepted journalistic standards and bias is expected.” would go a long way.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

So you had a blow to the head then? Probably should get that looked at.

 

Robert Reich articulated something that has been bouncing around my head since 2016

 

”This helps take away votes from Joe Biden,” the activist told one person at the rally, according to a video posted to X (formerly Twitter) by a Washington Post reporter. “We’re helping the Trump team who’s trying to get him on there,” added a woman by his side.

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