Yeah it's state controlled media, why would you (especially an anarchist) expect it to ever go against any core state narratives?
I don't expect it to but that doesn't mean I can't criticise its tendencies when the opportunity arises.
Readit NewsWoohDang commented on NPR suspends veteran editor as it grapples with his public criticism npr.org/2024/04/16/124496... · Posted by u/RickJWagner
>… concerns that coverage is frequently presented through an ideological or idealistic prism that can alienate listeners.
Speaking as a lifelong NPR listener who recently had to cut them off because of ideological exhaustion: yep!
As a long time NPR listener who cut them off in 2020 because of a change in my worldview, I do think NPR misses facts because of ideological bias but I take this position from a far Left stance. I broadly label myself as an Anarcho-communist and think that NPR, and other more liberal or progressive sources, largely serve the biases of existing institutional structures - that both conservatives and liberals belong to - rather than challenge them with journalistic integrity founded in expansive coverage of factual narratives. The tendency in NPR's coverage of the Palestinian genocide, the ongoing COVID pandemic, and the climate and ecological emergency are demonstrative of their systemic bias.
WoohDang commented on What are the best sources for US and global statistics? · Posted by u/WoohDang
Wolfram Alpha is pretty good for random factual queries. It will even do computation, so you can ask for the number of dietary calories in a cubic lightyear of cream cheese. https://www.wolframalpha.com/
If you are looking more for proven statistics that get suppressed for political reasons, then the now-defunct hatefact site is what you want. It featured over 700 awkward facts, with citations. Archive as one big page: http://archive.is/LRe05 Archive with 1 page per category: http://hatefacts.subvert.pw/hub.html
thanks so much
WoohDang commented on Preparing Our Partners for iOS 14 facebook.com/business/new... · Posted by u/danielamitay
This is a perfect example of the tradeoffs between openness and privacy.
If you give dangerous tools to users, you will have a few cool things and lots of tech-illiterate users screwed over.
Privacy advocates often preach solutions like the fediverse, without understanding that the fediverse is a privacy disaster for the tech illiterate. Cambridge Analytica wouldn't even be preventable on Mastodon, and it would have far worse consequences. Nevermind admins snooping on messages of their users, for i.e. romantic or financial reasons and poor people having to pay for their own services instead of seeing ads.
Yes, Facebook is horrible, but all currently known cures are worse than the disease.
what's your opinion of Scuttlebutt and if poor, do you see any progress towards alternatives on the horizon?