2026-08-18T01:58:07Z https://nostr.now Bas Schouten https://nostr.now/npub1zsrgf699p7ns0u7jf8qh05tlqvtj6pa2mef5p8th7mh7lt9wy28q7vk6lm https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/109/354/606/866/625/377/original/c362e2c021ebe65b.jpg https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/109/354/606/866/625/377/original/c362e2c021ebe65b.jpg https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswlkcphfhsys8ky8gr7wpp6n3y5t08rc08rthltpn3u7025hw5xtczyq2qdp8g5586wpln6fyuza730up3wtg84t09xsyawlmwlmav4c3gu3akz86 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs00qmmm6vlwuchav9gsljx3wp9hapqzdkceys5xqfw375sxwc2mkst7kk0f'>nevent1q…kk0f</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>What? There&#39;s several documented attacks on Ukrainian hospitals.<br/><br/>And also the Ukrainians don&#39;t use civilians as human shields, so there is a difference there.<br/><br/>None of that justifies the degree of destruction in Gaza of course. But the conflict does have a much more complex history and -did- start with the murder by Hamas of over a thousand innocent individuals.<br/><br/>That does -not- justify the brutal murder of 50 000 Palestinians. It -does- make things more complex. 2025-05-05T02:16:06Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspdf3kyu8usecmkjpspr7nqxxewvga20tyaqcd8a8qcmc4es8fkdszyq2qdp8g5586wpln6fyuza730up3wtg84t09xsyawlmwlmav4c3guhjtacu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxmpvdpnfnymnzkshjxharvvazkfxm05ghjd5gqdpd4jea63xmajqukttr4'>nevent1q…ttr4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Do you mean countries in general here or the state of Israel? 2025-05-05T02:05:49Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9dmyq7a3m4ar2qksvqt4nhjhcvq42hd20wrsd308z8jmquxvg6xczyq2qdp8g5586wpln6fyuza730up3wtg84t09xsyawlmwlmav4c3guaaecyn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs89wzkqp0y3yveucvxsfxazk5z43e58qt2jxpldy3zkuze3gqe8hcvv4cqp'>nevent1q…4cqp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m just curious about examples, sorry if that wasn&#39;t clear. In the news media I consume other than the US right most leaders have been pretty critical of Israel&#39;s recent actions. 2025-05-05T02:03:33Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsru080r6sjgkegvrc3fnp226jmy0xpkkdpmhzfa6y2764x4qejglszyq2qdp8g5586wpln6fyuza730up3wtg84t09xsyawlmwlmav4c3gufhkzt0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsru3zrrfprpfmzt9xg6man2xpjmnf2fqwqaxe5xstsmez29trmpcg070y6r'>nevent1q…0y6r</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Where is this praising happening? (Other than the crazy orange clown in the US)<br/><br/>There was praising in the months after the terrorist attack. But in the last year I haven&#39;t seen a lot of praising coming out of the west other than the US.<br/><br/>(Germany is complicated, I&#39;m somewhat sympathetic to their complex relationship with this conflict) 2025-05-05T02:00:07Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs20rhv2ufjjg9lslv022exstgplus2lv3d69wttgwggxs59rv0udgzyq2qdp8g5586wpln6fyuza730up3wtg84t09xsyawlmwlmav4c3guaf8r6t In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsypjhv83du2csmeg4ld2sry0ka75xzals6x4yr06sr20fcngt68asnr95jp'>nevent1q…95jp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>(Also: <a href="https://kyivindependent.com/russian-missile-strike-on-odesa-oblast-hit-ship-with-humanitarian-aid-for-palestine-kyiv-says/">https://kyivindependent.com/russian-missile-strike-on-odesa-oblast-hit-ship-with-humanitarian-aid-for-palestine-kyiv-says/</a> for China it&#39;s a little more complicated, since their apparatus of oppression and genocide is a little more evolved, but <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_China">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_China</a> and work your way from there I guess if you&#39;re particularly interested in how other countries are running their genocides.) 2025-05-04T18:42:41Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsypjhv83du2csmeg4ld2sry0ka75xzals6x4yr06sr20fcngt68aszyq2qdp8g5586wpln6fyuza730up3wtg84t09xsyawlmwlmav4c3gul8rmpk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyyk5dqfpangem6dw394eeu6nw8pnc8d83kustwug5hwg4sxa36qct92plk'>nevent1q…2plk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The West has been giving political cover to China over Taiwan for years. And to Russia for years before the 2014 invasion finally made an end to that.<br/><br/>The West has also provided weapons to countless regimes committing atrocities across the world. And still is.<br/><br/>Sure, Gaza is a recent, egregious example, but it&#39;s certainly not the first time we&#39;ve turned a blind eye to suffering because of political and financial interests I would say. 2025-05-04T18:40:37Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxv5aa42fafan6kd63rnpdvj32gvyqmhn09624vhyf8me2c74tctczyq2qdp8g5586wpln6fyuza730up3wtg84t09xsyawlmwlmav4c3guusdyva In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstyum3ylwzh5vvl2eu5n2j3z5x9smef2r7duuuzxxs030r4uv8xsgnzpn6s'>nevent1q…pn6s</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>As far as I can tell we&#39;re happily sending billions to China encouraging the continued exploitation and genocide of minorities there in order to have cheap stuff. And European countries continue to buy Russian gas and fund the genocide they&#39;re running. 2025-05-04T17:44:33Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfjrjs4n76zlv3k25pq8q0k954wq0qzqsh8j0dfcscpfmnjzjckmczyq2qdp8g5586wpln6fyuza730up3wtg84t09xsyawlmwlmav4c3guya6c2h In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9uve0657a8qsdmskj25vlvyxv93ne60cwczvvk3mff6gzdmqexjcu7wzu0'>nevent1q…wzu0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Those countries have essentially done all of those things.... 2025-05-04T16:57:56Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0r04ga5tq743ygf5cwdt43q75gfdjk539lzqwjuce9j0jjxzq3tgzyq2qdp8g5586wpln6fyuza730up3wtg84t09xsyawlmwlmav4c3gu58u6ks In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw83rcazfe5rlvp4wrnluhx82m3u52j4vkuahvyx3qzx0gm2dvqpq7s4fpf'>nevent1q…4fpf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>There seem to be two reasonable options to me:<br/><br/>1. These people are individual outliers committing or deeply encouraging violence against others, in which case law enforcement and courts are the way to deal with them.<br/><br/>2. Justice and the rule of law have broken down completely and it is time for civil war. The sides of the conflict identify, and engage in open conflict.<br/><br/>Lynchings by judgement of individual citizens don&#39;t seem like a viable (or effective) path in any situation. 2025-04-23T01:04:38Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsw83rcazfe5rlvp4wrnluhx82m3u52j4vkuahvyx3qzx0gm2dvqpqzyq2qdp8g5586wpln6fyuza730up3wtg84t09xsyawlmwlmav4c3guywz79g In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspjje5e43we6fq63g5ud25dt7ste583gn0st3kjqq7krnf7d8ne9qavpq20'>nevent1q…pq20</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I had to dig into both the &#34;Rise Above&#34; movement and this &#34;Ryan Sanchez&#34; movement a bit. As far as I can tell, they self identify as ethnonationalists but not as national socialists. That identification seems to be external.<br/><br/>The Rise Above movement itself does on the surface appear like it promotes violence to some extent. I don&#39;t know enough of the details to know if it is in violation of laws.<br/><br/>Seems far more subtle than this post implies. 2025-04-23T00:53:09Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxgrv5jwdh55gxssefeq9xv3kpmzsmeduwe99dlp03qrhz98hrfuqzyq2qdp8g5586wpln6fyuza730up3wtg84t09xsyawlmwlmav4c3gunr4hyc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsycxkvpd9rrf4hsy56mglyknw3yzxf8rxdup5fk27xzkf780rajtq0u6r0t'>nevent1q…6r0t</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Who are these people self identifying as National Socialists.. I&#39;d imagine it&#39;s a pretty small group. Never met one personally and my experience with them has been limited to American History X and the Blues Brothers.<br/><br/>But I&#39;m guessing you have someone in mind? 2025-04-23T00:34:54Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsg7paxrzcpztj33txda38d5atxt639kf3q45wegu2tvczaz2hnv9qzyq2qdp8g5586wpln6fyuza730up3wtg84t09xsyawlmwlmav4c3gufzl47y If anyone needed more evidence that every social media platform, regardless of algorithms or population bias is deeply toxic, I present to you the (currently) number 1 post on Mastodon:<br/><br/><a href="https://mastodon.social/@anolandria/114383894847524116">https://mastodon.social/@anolandria/114383894847524116</a> 2025-04-23T00:27:30Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsx9xkxp48752vw63r9w3rsy03vevel33x0uepxwgdh2ut5u99mw9qzyq2qdp8g5586wpln6fyuza730up3wtg84t09xsyawlmwlmav4c3guhzzusx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdcajwcpfulm4hwkng4de7lc9tu6299g89hmx2j7ccdkhr25xruzc2awurn'>nevent1q…wurn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I don&#39;t know where this citation is from? But I don&#39;t think I qualify as a public figure, as I understand that idiom in English. 2025-01-11T23:41:49Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstl9nkn5q83wwafzysp8lmy6kc3jxs0ans8xvndpltp7vwkjctnsszyq2qdp8g5586wpln6fyuza730up3wtg84t09xsyawlmwlmav4c3guau2vzg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw65ke8xjzwzawhwg24ua5gjru5fv2w2z6ydemph4uzu74c6rrlqsx32z0f'>nevent1q…2z0f</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Meh. I feel if replies are not well reasoned, there&#39;s a good chance I won&#39;t feel like putting in the effort to reply. Even though I care about reasoned debate, I don&#39;t think there&#39;s a lot or value in it if the other side doesn&#39;t listen or can&#39;t argue their position 🙂. 2025-01-11T23:16:40Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2wmfra89rmqe74dw5ahk0yu4psu9kp5wh96qtugkqu54z63kkftszyq2qdp8g5586wpln6fyuza730up3wtg84t09xsyawlmwlmav4c3gud4uffh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstv9xpq9wkhsfan5gadhuxm04gklrhwdy0mp3lk3jacpvsm6vytzqmz3xvf'>nevent1q…3xvf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I feel one well reasoned reply deserves another. Debate and disagreement are at the core of a healthy democracy. 🙂 2025-01-11T22:51:05Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqyxtcvdacem2y6kyjevfkwyn4n35waxmv835j5dx7e22lzvvwf3gzyq2qdp8g5586wpln6fyuza730up3wtg84t09xsyawlmwlmav4c3gu89sl7a In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswzmakerpyexk02a3r5nekszgnt5xrg9j2r8p6mmfwvp037f4kghg23wpd6'>nevent1q…wpd6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m not sure about other jurisdictions, here in the Netherlands you would be allowed to film someone in such a setting, but you would not be allowed to publish the images without permission. Anyway.<br/><br/>I would personally argue that public URLs are a public place. Not a private place. A reasonable expectation can exist on your conversations in signal, login-only forums, etc. Not, I would argue, for what you publish publically on social media. 2025-01-11T22:14:58Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9qlv54rh4cq9xldac7x9m4mkg64tf44vmtqhe4aessu67aftvecqzyq2qdp8g5586wpln6fyuza730up3wtg84t09xsyawlmwlmav4c3gudlsgdd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgw5mm96tsa2g69977wyxu98jes8l90zhz3drc3fzp20grqxp72tcgvd88u'>nevent1q…d88u</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I would say it&#39;s more the very concept of social media itself that makes that possible. A channel through which anyone can spread any lie they want to a bunch of idiots. Who can meanwhile lock themselves into bubbles surviving on falsehood after falsehood.<br/><br/>This is a bad idea. Look at a random day of things trending on Mastodon and how much of it is factually wrong.<br/><br/>That&#39;s probably a bigger risk than privacy (but people should do better) 2025-01-08T12:28:11Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsydnaq5m753qwcq4mfclmvn39a067y4stafumnzg77ks4hnhyfnjqzyq2qdp8g5586wpln6fyuza730up3wtg84t09xsyawlmwlmav4c3gupe27xn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfj0ungflkldja7rnl5kn08depdgvhwandq0qsytdsdcatk3j9x4g9yywdg'>nevent1q…ywdg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I.e. if you&#39;re putting a piece of information out in public exposed by a specific, unrestricted, URL, that information itself is now &#39;public&#39;, and indexing that data feels mostly like a convenience thing. Respecting the robots file is courtesy at that point mostly I would say.<br/><br/>I feel the problem is people don&#39;t understand the concept of privacy anymore and aren&#39;t willing to put any effort into preserving it in the first place. 2025-01-08T08:27:08Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfj0ungflkldja7rnl5kn08depdgvhwandq0qsytdsdcatk3j9x4gzyq2qdp8g5586wpln6fyuza730up3wtg84t09xsyawlmwlmav4c3guhgnl2c In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsggjxf5uvf6ddw0ezlwn40fv8qmuzu5vl758c7rgrghgcy6l9uqjgx9j63y'>nevent1q…j63y</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>If you want content to be private you would put it behind a login or some other kind of access control right? And if a service would then start digging that out and putting it in the public domain that should probably be a crime.<br/><br/>If you&#39;re putting up signs in your yard I&#39;m not sure the service recording yard signs and indexing them is doing anything wrong. The service breaking into your home and indexing your letters is. 2025-01-08T08:24:23Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgce6z3keqr4u6hxjkh6yp387s3c4nlwkkj0le0exfwjzvqaltc2qzyq2qdp8g5586wpln6fyuza730up3wtg84t09xsyawlmwlmav4c3gu5l2v7y In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw7zgqt9qhc67pztfvaxr6ct0j4cwwxadtvczt0f3een5e2n663zq9awxtt'>nevent1q…wxtt</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>(search result summarization and interpretation is hardly new with LLMs, they&#39;re just better at it than older algorithms) 2025-01-08T08:11:45Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsw7zgqt9qhc67pztfvaxr6ct0j4cwwxadtvczt0f3een5e2n663zqzyq2qdp8g5586wpln6fyuza730up3wtg84t09xsyawlmwlmav4c3guee0zk7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswyn7fnm3xanrefz593g9f5wxqy45hha7heed2wxsl4jkn2g9hzds5mfzrm'>nevent1q…fzrm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It&#39;s Bing that doesn&#39;t give a damn right (or Google, DDG, whatever)? They&#39;re indexing the hyperlinks. And the information is then just public.<br/><br/>Sure an LLM can do the same search a human can already do just given more time. It&#39;s not exposing novel information not otherwise on the public web afaict. 2025-01-08T08:10:44Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsq8uq8f4genx88mukxh5xyqa2nhwjg0ezec5jetczc8rkp8qc0lqszyq2qdp8g5586wpln6fyuza730up3wtg84t09xsyawlmwlmav4c3gufsymra In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspfgkppynwd7yk7nrfcv0ctc37c6nqp7j8glrzgupdfrzj852jx3qleyz43'>nevent1q…yz43</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>That&#39;s what I want it to do when I&#39;m asking it a question right? Do the search for me (guessing it&#39;s using Bing because of the more accessible API), and summarize the results. LLMs are relatively good at such a task. 2025-01-08T08:07:33Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsym3fjdcdt65dnv8228dp7mfqa6ydk2k7epew44lf3fzx68vltejqzyq2qdp8g5586wpln6fyuza730up3wtg84t09xsyawlmwlmav4c3gujca33v In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq2flzxvsl0lw9rsec04m53a9qql9pprl2625v7kf2n7nvnaqlzmqd3u70a'>nevent1q…u70a</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Isn&#39;t this just an LLM interpretation of a search query?<br/><br/>I.e. a, presumably Bing, search was done and the results were fed into an existing model.<br/><br/>That seems like a perfectly reasonable thing if your server allows public indexing by search engines. (At least DDG and Bing both have this information in their search results for me.)<br/><br/>Am I missing something? 2025-01-08T08:06:09Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrf86juq60zzd7fqpgyrsedqp8a3xuknnjrfu2cv4u2ajslwgqtwczyq2qdp8g5586wpln6fyuza730up3wtg84t09xsyawlmwlmav4c3guu9t35p Democracy was a fun idea. And we had some fun with it.<br/><br/>Sadly it turns out not much can withstand the combination of the internet and human stupidity.<br/><br/>#uspol 2024-11-06T06:59:35Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrnekr0l7qkzrdkwg4gwjzw2m59cfgnptgvenxmmwf5rjknf0zwjszyq2qdp8g5586wpln6fyuza730up3wtg84t09xsyawlmwlmav4c3gu02fx0r In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstrqrsmllsgmrvgreankg4ervnwryqhl7z8z7dw0a5q0dnlh8gdxqdh5m35'>nevent1q…5m35</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>No they didn&#39;t really try to win them. All they said is &#39;look at this bad, terrible man whose the alternative!&#39;<br/><br/>While they should have been saying: &#39;listen, I know some of the people on the left can be a little nutty, but at least they do it out of love instead of out of spite. And don&#39;t worry, we aren&#39;t doing any of the extreme things they want! Look at our policy record!&#39; 2024-11-06T05:49:58Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsd764rqjp6l5qkr0cax4m5tsv5uh0rzkty4ac63vzgncs7u8j0whszyq2qdp8g5586wpln6fyuza730up3wtg84t09xsyawlmwlmav4c3guxlenxc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspg8h7qlvquzzvnj93tm50rzuylry26a06d5ftyf0v4qcuvcq9rlsaaqvg7'>nevent1q…qvg7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>(for the record, I also think she didn&#39;t turn out as many democrats as she might have. But the reality is turning those out would have been really hard, and grabbing some of the middle as well as alleviating some of the fears of the radical right, thereby depressing their turnout, would have been an easier strategy) 2024-11-06T05:40:54Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspg8h7qlvquzzvnj93tm50rzuylry26a06d5ftyf0v4qcuvcq9rlszyq2qdp8g5586wpln6fyuza730up3wtg84t09xsyawlmwlmav4c3gul5lxce In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst5055vltz2ttpwuw0hfd6st33r03cla2rps802a5d8aravhxd23q22xlqx'>nevent1q…xlqx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I think the reality is almost the -exact- opposite of what you&#39;re saying.<br/><br/>I think by far the most effective line of attack the Republicans used was the whole &#39;woke mind virus&#39; thing, and that Harris failed to actively distance herself from.<br/><br/>And for reasons beyond my comprehension, people around the middle fear the extremes on the left more than fascism.<br/><br/>(And people are dumbasses who don&#39;t understand the economy but that can&#39;t be helped) 2024-11-06T05:38:31Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsyee6vyjegs7pwz36l3m54pc5mskvm0yq3h9cxjmrvhdvp4asxjwszyq2qdp8g5586wpln6fyuza730up3wtg84t09xsyawlmwlmav4c3gu0nc2pq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsr7szgj4s6ylx07mw2a7f3f95a8t38y9zrt2q89xr4rezh7g69p6qpa4ksk'>nevent1q…4ksk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I do not know a single Republican that perceived Harris as catering to them. And the ones I know were voting for her despite that.<br/><br/>Her loss compared to Biden seems to be almost entirely driven by underperforming among Hispanics/people of color.<br/><br/>It looked in some exit polls like among white people the gender gap actually shrunk a tiny bit but that might be sampling error or just bias of one or two polls. 2024-11-06T05:14:12Z