Yeah, I agree it could be a transformative method. It looks like their kickstarter will probably succeed, but the response hasn’t been super enthusiastic, at least here on Lemmy. I don’t think this technique is a panacea – it’s just one of the avenues that ought to be explored, but my sense is that these kinds of conversations require deliberate and sustained effort, and it seems like most people are not interested in even sitting down to watch an episode. Maybe I’m wrong, but I’m a little less hopeful after trying to promote their kickstarter.

Looks like they didn’t sponsor Omarchy, but they did promote it on their twitter a couple of times: https://x.com/FrameworkPuter/status/1960029405067313546

Omarchy uses Hyprland, so I guess they started by promoting Omarchy and maybe DHH asked them to sponsor Hyprland

If you have the time to watch the episode with a transgender person, I’d be interested to hear how you felt about that.

Well said. I think we have to face the fact we’ve landed in a state where the polarization is split evenly at 50% and so we have no choice but to figure it out, because we’re talking about our own neighbors both within the US and within Canada. I think the situation is less heated in Canada, thankfully, but the last federal election showed that we’re just as equally split here, and we’re probably not trending in the right direction.

I agree the fascists need to be defeated. I think the value in this project is that it would allow people on the other side to see that we’re all on the same team when it comes to the fight against fascism.

social.coop is based in Europe. They fund themselves through Open Collective with a minimum fee of £1/month or £12/year (~$1.30/$16)

I think it’s good that people are moving away from Google and American companies, and I will probably do the same some time soon. However, I don’t think that actually helps with this issue, since thousands of normies will continue to be manipulated by these ads.

I’d recommend CBC Gem and Nebula as a YouTube alternatives, but I’m going to have a hard time getting off YouTube too. I’ll probably switch to reading books and watching Canadian-made movies.

Yeah, I’ve reported these ads to them before. I doubt they’re actually investigating it further than removing an individual ad, if that. A few savvy people moving away from Google devices won’t really put a stop to it either.

Emily has also started posting videos on her channel after coming out as trans: https://www.youtube.com/@emily-young

I think people need to appreciate that Mozilla is probably the only company in the world that will allow you to turn off ads like this, for free.

Hmm, I definitely agree his use of “Russia’s intervention” is worrying. Not sure I know enough to say he’s a Kremlin bootlicker, but I’ll keep reading up on him. Thanks.

I agree with that. I chose the image here, so don’t let that sway you too much. He’s going to release his platform in a few days, so we’ll see what his plans are.

Thanks for pointing that out. I don’t have a good understanding of the Rwandan genocide, so I can’t really speak to it, but of course I don’t care to diminish the suffering of any group of people.

Here’s Engler’s article that seems to be the cause of concern. https://yvesengler.com/2017/09/22/statistics-damn-lies-and-the-truth-about-rwanda-genocide/

From what I can tell, he doesn’t deny the genocide, but he does claim that the narrative around it was manipulated to benefit western powers.

Praise for Dallaire’s role in Rwanda is based on a highly simplistic account of what transpired in 1994. In their haste to promote a Canadian saviour in Africa, left/liberals have confused international understanding of the Rwandan tragedy, which has propped up Kagame’s dictatorship and enabled his violence in the Congo.

When commentators are claiming more Tutsi were killed than lived in the country it’s time to revaluate popular discussion of Rwanda’s tragedy.

It’s a fair criticism, but I think there’s still enough value in a united protest like this one, precisely because it brings people together with common interests. People who might not otherwise cross paths. I was at Toronto’s Palestine Youth Movement protest recently, which had a very specific demand – an arms embargo. But the thing that struck me the most was the diversity of the crowd who showed up. There were groups representing Jews for Palestine, Irish for Palestine, Greenpeace for Palestine, and many more.

So the goals for Draw The Line may be diluted, but I expect the biggest impact will be a demonstration of camaraderie across groups.

I concur with the article. I’ve tried various tools but I keep coming back to text files in vim. Recently I’ve been using a notes/ directory with a bash function to quickly create and edit a named text file for a new topic. That gives me the little bit of organization and separation for isolated tasks, while still having a main notes.txt file for miscellaneous notes and todos. I really like being able to stay in the terminal and using ripgrep for everything.

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https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Americas-AI-Action-Plan.pdf

The steam/itch situation is a bit complicated. I think the organization behind that action has bad motivations, so it’s not the best example for the long term. My guess is that itch will update their NSFW policy to allow for some NSFW content, but not content that depicts truly heinous material.

The reason I would support that type of activism, to an extent, is that it was effective against Musk when he started turning twitter into a hellscape: https://www.freepress.net/sites/default/files/2022-11/stop_toxic_twitter_coalition_open_letter_to_twitter_final.pdf

I pointed to an actual thing that already happened. How is that fear mongering?