[-] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 7 hours ago

Yes, people select articles and propagate/disseminate them by choosing to post them. They often select based on their motive.

I wouldn’t expect that to be a controversial fact. There is some active editorial intent involved in choosing articles to post.

[-] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 16 hours ago

interesting pivot

[-] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com -3 points 17 hours ago

you know Bernie lost the primary right?

[-] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Unfounded concerns, because receiving more than one absentee ballot for a voter doesn’t result in duplicate counts.

because the ballots have identical barcodes, if two ballots are submitted, only the first one scanned will be counted, Brogan said.

Also, once the ballot is scanned, the voter is marked in the poll book as having submitted an absentee ballot. That is another safeguard against the voter submitting a second ballot, the clerk’s office said.

Not surprised to see this FUD being promoted by OP. Of course, he didn’t write the article 🙄

[-] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 day ago

SPY returns an average 12%

[-] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 127 points 2 days ago
  1. pay off high interest debt

  2. top off your emergency fund so you don’t run into expensive short-on-money situations

  3. take care of deferred maintenance on your car or house that might turn into an expensive repair

  4. If you have an employer sponsored 401k, increase the contribution amount to get 10k more tax free into it before the end of the year and use the $10k cash in hand for expenses.

  5. Open a roth IRA and contribute the maximum amount you can (which may vary based on your income)

VT, VTI, and SPY are good broad-market funds with good historical growth.

[-] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

most Americans enjoy the benefits that come from being an economic, military, and diplomatic heavyweight

[-] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 4 days ago

The threat to American citizens is that they are steered away from their own interests and the interest of furthering democracy throughout the world because they see a curated feed that excludes information critical of China and amplifies information that promotes China as a country of harmony, peace, and prosperity.

And in some cases, the trends amplified on Chinese social media apps directly fuel American political division.

[-] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 4 days ago

Truly nuanced.

[-] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 4 days ago

The “fucking corpos” are manufacturing in Mexico, Vietnam, and China. They don’t get the tax break.

The “guy I know who owns a machine shop” and “the car factory in Indiana with 10,000 union jobs that chooses to stay” are the intended recipients.

[-] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Let’s punish Biden anyway by voting for Jill Stein! Then, when President Trump gives Netanyahu the go ahead to “finish the job”, we will know we voted our conscience!

[-] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

You still claim ignorance of the difference between “viable” and “spoiler” in the US election system?

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Pro-Russia social media accounts amplifying stories about divisive political topics such as immigration and campus protests over the war in Gaza.

Influence operations linked to Russia take aim at a disparate range of targets and subjects around the world. But their hallmarks are consistent: attempting to erode support for Ukraine, discrediting democratic institutions and officials, seizing on existing political divides and harnessing new artificial intelligence tools.

"They're often producing narratives that feel like they're throwing spaghetti at a wall," said Andy Carvin, managing editor at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, which tracks online information operations. "If they can get more people on the internet arguing with each other or trusting each other less, then in some ways their job is done."

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The effort includes artificial intelligence, fake social media accounts and a spike in state-sponsored Russian propaganda.

By Dan De Luce

Russia is seeking to exploit America’s divisive debate over Israel’s offensive in Gaza through overt and covert propaganda, with the aim of aggravating political tensions in the U.S. and tarnishing Washington’s global image, according to two sources familiar with U.S. intelligence on the matter.

In its ongoing information war against the United States, Russia has shifted its focus in recent months to the Israel-Hamas conflict, seeking to inflame existing divisions in the West and to portray Washington as fueling the violence, the sources said.

A favorite theme of Russian information operations is to paint America as a failing democratic state, according to U.S. officials and researchers.

At an event last week in Washington, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said Russia works to denigrate America’s standing in the world, to undermine democratic institutions and processes and to exploit social, political and economic divisions “in our culture and in our society.”

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Which ones have you tried, which ones did you stop using, and which ones are the best of the bunch?

I am using Memmy and it’s not quite there - difficult touch targets, poor infinite scroll implementation, and crashy search are the big issues.

EDIT: I installed Voyager, it’s working great! Thanks for the suggestions!

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