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Five@slrpnk.nettoData is Beautiful@lemmy.world•National Map of State and Local Agencies Acting as Immigration Enforcement Agents.English1·2 months agoIt’s a map created by the Immigrant Legal Resource Center and they host an interactive map that you can mouseover. They get their data from ICE, whose website includes a non-interactive map in the form of a PDF. ICE is encouraging people to visit their site and write to their local law enforcement, they’re not going to waste resources tracking every visitor to determine if they’re really part of the target audience for their message.
It shouldn’t need to be said that the link is to ice. The link clearly says “ice dot gov” in the text. This warning sounds overly paranoid.
Five@slrpnk.netto Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.net•Police Department Saves Thousands Of Dollars Each Month Using Electric Vehicles18·3 months agoHow many Teslas are in your fleet currently and which ones?
We have four Tesla Model 3’s and 10 Tesla Model Y’s.
Police riding swastikars, what an unlikely paring.
Five@slrpnk.netOPto News@lemmy.world•Defense fund established by supporters of suspected CEO killer Luigi Mangione tops $100K1·7 months agoProbably January 5th Capitol Riot defendants, unfortunately.
That sounds like a really nice neighborhood to live in.
Congratulations!
We contacted all of the instances where we knew he had bans before granting him membership. In the future I’ll keep you updated on similar controversial choices so you can better protect your community. Greenlighting him may have been a mistake, but we didn’t have sufficient information to gauge the seriousness of his antics. He’s definitely not a bot or a spammer, and wasn’t trying to conceal his identity so we’re giving him the benefit of doubt.
It’s called Tractorbeam Earth because it’s a quarterly publication run as a sweepstakes by Tractor Beverages, Inc.
Tractor Beverages is a corporation in Coeur d’Alene, ID that sells canned beverages through Amazon and Walmart, correct?
Five@slrpnk.netto politics @lemmy.world•Harris accepts CNN debate invitation for October 23, again challenging Trump to another showdownEnglish1·10 months agoCNN is part of the Warner Bros. Discovery advertising portfolio.
MBFC classifies pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel, and anti-genocide bias in reporting as left-biased, but also classifies CNN as Left-Center biased. CNN staff say network’s pro-Israel slant amounts to ‘journalistic malpractice’.
Five@slrpnk.netto World News@lemmy.world•Marxist lawmaker Dissanayake has won Sri Lanka's presidential election as voters reject old political guardEnglish2·10 months agoABC News is a brand of Disney Advertising.
Manufacturing Consent has this to say about Disney news media:
Ben Bagdikian notes that when the first edition of his Media Monopoly was published in 1983, fifty giant firms dominated almost every mass medium; but just seven years later, in 1990, only twenty-three firms occupied the same commanding position.
Since 1990, a wave of massive deals and rapid globalization have left the media industries further centralized in nine transnational conglomerates-Disney, AOL Time Warner, Viacom (owner of CBS), News Corporation, Bertelsmann, General Electric (owner of NBC), Sony, AT&T-Liberty Media, and Vivendi Universal. These giants own all the world’s major film studios, TV networks, and music companies, and a sizable fraction of the most important cable channels, cable systems, magazines, major-market TV stations, and book publishers. The largest, the recently merged AOL Time Warner, has integrated the leading Internet portal into the traditional media system. Another fifteen firms round out the system, meaning that two dozen firms control nearly the entirety of media experienced by most U.S. citizens. Bagdikian concludes that “it is the overwhelming collective power of these firms, with their corporate interlocks and unified cultural and political values, that raises troubling questions about the individual’s role in the American democracy.”
Five@slrpnk.netto politics @lemmy.world•Congressional leaders announce three-month spending deal to avert government shutdownEnglish21·10 months agoManufacturing Consent has this to say about PBS:
Globalization, along with deregulation and national budgetary pressures, has also helped reduce the importance of noncommercial media in country after country. This has been especially important in Europe and Asia, where public broadcasting systems were dominant (in contrast with the United States and Latin America). The financial pressures on public broadcasters has forced them to shrink or emulate the commercial systems in fund~raising and programming, and some have been fully commercialized by policy change or privatization. The global balance of power has shifted decisively toward commercial systems.
James Ledbetter points out that in the United States, under incessant right-wing political pressure and financial stringency, “the 90s have seen a tidal wave of commercialism overtake public broadcasting,” with public broadcasters" rushing as fast as they can to merge their services with those offered by commercial networks." And in the process of what Ledbetter calls the “mailing” of public broadcasting, its already modest differences from the commercial networks have almost disappeared. Most important, in their programming “they share either the avoidance or the defanging of contemporary political controversy, the kind that would bring trouble from powerful patrons.”
Five@slrpnk.netto Solarpunk@slrpnk.net•Map of 2000+ lemmy communities -- slrpnk.net is pretty diverseEnglish1·10 months agoYeah, not a lot of discussion in the community :/
Five@slrpnk.netto Solarpunk@slrpnk.net•Map of 2000+ lemmy communities -- slrpnk.net is pretty diverseEnglish1·10 months agoI can’t find !abc – I guess it overlaps with another community like !abolition so you can’t mouse-over it.
From what I could understand, it sounds like a really good introduction to the genre and the movement. I was surprised all of the reference books were in English - I would have expected an article for German-speaking audiences to be familiar with more German contributions to the genre.
Five@slrpnk.netto Solarpunk@slrpnk.net•The Upstream Cause of the Youth Mental Health Crisis is the Loss of CommunityEnglish4·11 months agoyou really only disagree with how (and whether) it was applied in this instance.
That’s correct - I’m not arguing for a blanket ban on invective, just its widespread and inappropriate use. Persuasive argument has better long-term results than peer pressure.
Peer pressure through abuse is exclusionary - you may get compliance, but more often you simply turn people away from your group or cause. This creates the group phenonmenon of ‘evaporative cooling’ where more moderate members of a group leave and the group becomes smaller and more insular, which harms the group’s ability to interact with the outside world.
The argument you’re responding to sounds very similar to Bakunin’s “In the matter of boots, I refer to the authority of the bootmaker” distinction between types of authority. Your disagreement with them also seems semantic rather than substantive. I don’t want to get into the weeds of your argument, only to point out that it appears to be a minor disagreement between people with similar values.
We exclude fascists, but I don’t want to encourage a particular anarchist orthodoxy, or even an anarchist orthodoxy on this instance. We’re openly welcoming to liberals here. Good ideas can come from anywhere, and the problems we face are large enough that we need large coalitions to fight them. Practicing disagreement without dissolution means both our ideas become more potent and our movements grow larger.
Five@slrpnk.netto Solarpunk@slrpnk.net•The Upstream Cause of the Youth Mental Health Crisis is the Loss of CommunityEnglish1·11 months agoI was recently reading Emma Goldman’s account of her travels in post-revolutionary Russia. Something that stood out to me was her experience at a meeting where Bolsheviks dominated, and a non-Bolshevik asked for the floor.
Immediately pandemonium broke loose. Yells of “Traitor!” “Kolchak!” “Counter-Revolutionist!” came from all parts of the audience and even from the platform. It looked to me like an unworthy proceeding for a revolutionary assembly.
I think your intuitions about peer pressure are invariably true - it is a powerful tool for social and political change. But it is a very poor tool for ensuring that the achieved goals are worthy. I often wish civil debate between neutral people had a much bigger part in progress than was the case.
I don’t expect you to engage in good faith debates with transphobes or politely protest oil companies, but @solo is neither of those things. If you consider their post and comment history, I think you’ll find you have a lot more in common with them than you might expect. One of our goals here is to grow great things through cooperation, but each act of verbal abuse adds to the toxicity of the soil. When it comes to cooperation, often it is less important that people agree with you than it is that they like you and trust you - and being able to disagree with someone without unfriending them is a powerful skill to develop.
Five@slrpnk.netOPto Ukraine@sopuli.xyz•For Max: Maxim Butkevich's unit arrived in Severodonetsk 10 days after the crimes plead guilty to took placeEnglish1·1 year agoHow would you fix the title?
In the first pilot project 2024, the funding is only available to students of the Technische Hochschule Augsburg in the MSc program
Five@slrpnk.netOPto Ukraine@sopuli.xyz•Trump threatens to cut US aid to Ukraine quickly if reelectedEnglish13·1 year agoRemoved by mod
El Faro hosts the interview with English subtitles.