Far-right extremists have been organizing online since before the internet – and AI is their next frontier
How can society police the global spread of online far-right extremism while still protecting free speech? That’s a question policymakers and watchdog organizations confronted as early as the 1980s and ’90s – and it hasn’t gone away.Decades before artificial intelligence, Telegram and white nationalist Nick Fuentes’ livestreams, far-right extremists embraced the early days of home computing and the internet. These new technologies offered them a bastion of free speech and a global platform. They could share propaganda, spew hatred, incite violence and gain international followers like never before.
Far-right extremists have been organizing online since before the internet – and AI is their next frontier
Neo-Nazis and other far-right extremists were early adopters of bulletin board systems, pioneering online recruiting and radicalization techniques long before the social media revolution.The Conversation
Still looking for the right community for this meme
I get the vibe "lefty memes" is a misnomer, and an actual progressive like me won't be accepted here, so I've never tried posting anything in here yet - but everywhere else I've posted this so far has hated it, so I'm trying here now.
I made this meme because I noticed parallels in how Republicans and Democrats coordinate to block access to guns and vaccines, violating my rights and putting me and my loved ones in senseless danger.
I'm not quite ready to give up on finding a community where people like this meme. I know it's actually one of my most well-crafted ones yet, no matter what some people say.
Image text (Morpheus meme format, repurposed to represent US uniparty politics, not blindly misused without understanding it as some commenters keep saying)
Red pill:
Let people who pretend to know nothing about vaccines decide who can get what vaccines
Blue pill:
Let people who pretend to know nothing about guns decide who can get what guns
Red pill:
Let the weapon industry dictate gun policy
Blue pill:
Let big pharma dictate vaccine policy
Announcing: Thaura - Your Ethical ChatGPT Alternative
You can use Thaura for everyday tasks like writing emails, doing homework, and researching online. It remembers your conversations, helps you create documents and code, and even searches the web for you. And it works seamlessly with your existing tools through full OpenAI SDK compatibility.
But what really makes Thaura different is what it doesn't do:
- It doesn't collect your data or spy on you
- It doesn't have political bias
- It doesn't water down the truth on sensitive topics
Announcing: Thaura - Your Ethical ChatGPT Alternative
Meet Thaura, your ethical AI companion. A platform that actually respects your values, protects your data, and tells the truth - all without Big Tech strings attached.Afzal (Tech for Palestine)
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Real-time web search via Brave - no tracking, no bubbles, just truth
I wonder if they realize that the owner of Brave is everything they supposedly stand against.
Military grade encryption (aes-256)
I smell bullshit.
...and absolutely no mention of how it was trained. Does it still crawl the entire internet to steal and plunder and train on material obtained without consent?
Scientists Discovered the Human Brain Goes On Its Own Life-Long ‘Eras Tour’
Scientists Discovered the Human Brain Goes On Its Own Life-Long ‘Eras Tour’
A new study highlights five key eras of human brain development, and they don’t align with age quite as one might expect.Darren Orf (Popular Mechanics)
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“A Second West Bank”: Israeli Military Raids Escalate in Occupied Syrian Border Villages
Hoda Matar
Dec 03, 2025
QUNEITRA, SYRIA—In what has become a regular occurrence in southwest Syria, Israeli tanks and troops stormed the Quneitra countryside on Monday, taking up positions in the village of Saida Al-Hanout. As drones flew overhead, Israeli military units set up a temporary checkpoint and searched civilians before eventually withdrawing.Over the past year, Israeli forces have established nine military posts in southern Syria; constructed military installations less than one kilometer from villages; demolished at least 12 buildings in al-Hamidiya; razed over 45 hectares of the Jubata al-Khashab forest; and seized thousands of dunams of agricultural land, cutting off access to farmers’ livelihoods. Local officials told Drop Site News that, in total, Israel has illegally seized between 600 and 800 square kilometers of southern Syrian territory through more than 200 incursions.
“A Second West Bank”: Israeli Military Raids Escalate in Occupied Syrian Border Villages
Israeli forces are entrenching even further in Syria as Benjamin Netanyahu says he wants a demilitarized “buffer zone” stretching to Damascus.Hoda Matar (Drop Site News)
RSF massacres left Sudanese city ‘a slaughterhouse’, satellite images show
RSF massacres left Sudanese city ‘a slaughterhouse’, satellite images show
Up to 150,000 residents of El Fasher are missing since North Darfur capital fell to paramilitary Rapid Support ForcesMark Townsend (The Guardian)
What's your best software?
Looking for the best software stacks on my new Linux setups one for HTPC (running Kodi on Fedora KDE Plasma) I'm more focused on data security to store keys, passwords, and software outside of the mainstream software like FreeTube (freetubeapp.io/)
Where I can save the content I want for later/offline to store underground music stuff. Exploring all the software out there has been fun.
What software setups are you guys running?
Open Source Reviews - Curated by GitHub Users
Evidence-based reviews and comparisons focusing on privacy and security.opensourcereviews.github.io
Why condoms in China are about to get more expensive
ABC News
ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Iris Zhao (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Blog post: The Linux kernel is just a program
The Linux kernel is just a program
Most books and courses introduce Linux through shell commands, leaving the kernel as a mysterious black box doing magic behind the scenes.serversfor.dev
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The code of the program: should also suggest which file to edit, e.g potato.go. It might be obviously to anybody working with Go but for others it's not.
so the specific image adds nothing (since being arrested anywhere for anything usually ends up with being in a cell), and could just be any image depicting anyone in a cell?
perhaps it was foolish of me to think there was a joke here.
Whats your preferred method of keeping track of websites ?
Do you have a ton of bookmarks like me?
I find normal people just Google everything and click the top result. They've never even bookmarked a page.
But for those of us who love the human internet (not corpo-net, as id refer to web 3.0 being), html pages and webrings, theyre often not even searchable any more because of enshittification of search engines.
Are there other ways besides bookmarks ?
Chinese Hospital Ship Visits Jamaica as US Gunboats Ply Caribbean
Chinese Hospital Ship Visits Jamaica as US Gunboats Ply Caribbean
A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission targeted at Venezuela.Jim Wyss (Bloomberg)
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in reply to viral.vegabond • • •I wish you were right.
I can't think of a way to repurpose the meme with a more fitting format, but if you could, I believe you'd get similar responses. I think it's basically just Democrats hating being called out for violating my rights because they support gun control and, on the other hand, they prefer blaming Republicans for blocking me from accessing vaccines.
Not about the meme's format, but the message itself, sadly.
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in reply to whoever loves Digit 🇵🇸🇺🇸🏴☠️ • • •I think those seem like two separate and unrelated issues. Separate each of them into their own argument and they would probably make a little more sense, and fit the format better.
Example 1 (vaccine argument):
red pill (lie) = people who are telling you they know everything about vaccines and they should be the ones who decide who gets what
blue pill (truth) = big pharma is the real perpetrator, influencing policy makers and controlling who gets the vaccines (etc.)
Example 2 (gun control argument):
red pill (lie) = people who know nothing about guns are trying to decide who can have them
blue pill (truth) = the weapon industry is actually the ones dictating gun policy
Adjust the wording to fit whatever it is you are trying to say, and separate the issues into truth versus lie instead of red (republican) versus blue (democrat).
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in reply to viral.vegabond • • •But that wouldn't show how the parties mirror each other from the view of a neutral third party just trying to survive.
The point is to make Republicans think about how they look the same as Democrats when they join in on blocking me from getting guns, and vice versa for Democrats because they join in on blocking me from getting vaccines. They both complain about the other side lying and replacing experts with fools in important positions, but they both go along with it when the money says, leaving people like me far from restoring our rights.
The message would be totally lost if they were separated
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in reply to Figlizard • • •Ok so called "leftist," now you've finished your transformation into an anti vaxxer?
I'm so tired of Democrats just being Republicans in disguise
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in reply to fullsquare • • •fullsquare
in reply to whoever loves Digit 🇵🇸🇺🇸🏴☠️ • • •if you have to tell people that you're enlightened, you ain't
also why have you picked vaccines in particular. maybe you wanted to express something else more clearly? there's no money in vaccines to such degree that western pharma companies don't want to research them, and bulk of (non-mRNA) vaccines are made in Serum Institute of India, they make this stuff for half of the world if not more. this thing is cheeaap, and because it's a preventive one and done you can take it on your own terms, you're not under time pressure to get it so you can shop around to get it cheaply. you can't nickel and dime people on vaccines
now if you do want to nickel and dime a patient, you'd need something that they're gonna need forever and jack up prices or just keep them high from day one, like with antiretrovirals or what purdue pharma did or like with daraprim. and then there's entirely another very american problem of insurance leech layer. taking a very charitable look at it maybe you want to say a thing about availability of american healthcare in general, less charitably, and mor
... show moreif you have to tell people that you're enlightened, you ain't
also why have you picked vaccines in particular. maybe you wanted to express something else more clearly? there's no money in vaccines to such degree that western pharma companies don't want to research them, and bulk of (non-mRNA) vaccines are made in Serum Institute of India, they make this stuff for half of the world if not more. this thing is cheeaap, and because it's a preventive one and done you can take it on your own terms, you're not under time pressure to get it so you can shop around to get it cheaply. you can't nickel and dime people on vaccines
now if you do want to nickel and dime a patient, you'd need something that they're gonna need forever and jack up prices or just keep them high from day one, like with antiretrovirals or what purdue pharma did or like with daraprim. and then there's entirely another very american problem of insurance leech layer. taking a very charitable look at it maybe you want to say a thing about availability of american healthcare in general, less charitably, and more likely, you sound like a libertarian antivaxxer
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in reply to fullsquare • • •Incorrect.
You then spent the rest of the comment building up to calling me an antivaxxer, while you block my access to vaccines.
I'm glad I skimmed your comment instead of reading it, but still, what a waste of time
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RE: your question about deleting a thread.
I can't even see that thread, and as that was done by someone who has an account capable of making that thread-removal happen, likely as a mod or admin, I'mma say its their perogative.
My facebook wall and posts are mine - there's plenty of shit comments I've had to delete for various reasons, and if you have a problem with it, I would suggest not using facebook. Same goes for comments on Youtube vids. I'm unaware of any reason Mastodon should, or you would expect them to, handle comments on blog-posts or whatever any differently.
Ownership and curration of one's space and blocking are inherrent in the idea of voluntary federation/de-federation. I can't delete replies to my posts on Lemmy in general, but that's because they aren't made to a community that I own or moderate, or the same for an instance with admins.
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in reply to MachineFab812 • • •The thread you can't see anymore was the thread you had replied to me in at the time.
Not exactly. You can be banned if you say "fuck Zuck" a lot and tell the truth too much for the authorities to allow. Happened to me years ago. It also really shows you how worthless most social connections are, because most people (at least in my generation / region I grew up) don't even care about social connections enough to keep them going through a facebook ban.
I don't get what you're saying. Are you suggesting there should be no warning label to let readers of a thread know a person being replied to can't reply back, just because other platforms don't have one? What's the point of piefed if it's just going to do whatever existing platforms do and not solve problems?
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in reply to whoever loves Digit 🇵🇸🇺🇸🏴☠️ • • •I didn't say anything about labelling, but facebook does have it in place. Its not just that they can't reply back; They can't even see their own comment or the OP any-more, let alone your reply.
EDIH: I agree with you that labelling is best and getting notified about something you can't reply to is stupid, but beyond that, I'm in favor of thinking of communities more as private spaces. Whether its right or not, mods, admins, blog authors or peertube videographers can treat those threads as if our comments are un-wanted trespassers and they have no obligation to explain their reasoning.
There's no point in getting worked-up about it. 99 times in a hundred, its not hard to anticipate how what we want to say will be recieved in a given space.
We aren't prisoners, so we are also free to choose to take our comments elsewhere, or start our own instances or communities to host them. That said, if you anticipate moderating the replies to what you have to say to be too much work, well, that's often how the mods in other places are looking at it.
Its often not just
... show moreI didn't say anything about labelling, but facebook does have it in place. Its not just that they can't reply back; They can't even see their own comment or the OP any-more, let alone your reply.
EDIH: I agree with you that labelling is best and getting notified about something you can't reply to is stupid, but beyond that, I'm in favor of thinking of communities more as private spaces. Whether its right or not, mods, admins, blog authors or peertube videographers can treat those threads as if our comments are un-wanted trespassers and they have no obligation to explain their reasoning.
There's no point in getting worked-up about it. 99 times in a hundred, its not hard to anticipate how what we want to say will be recieved in a given space.
We aren't prisoners, so we are also free to choose to take our comments elsewhere, or start our own instances or communities to host them. That said, if you anticipate moderating the replies to what you have to say to be too much work, well, that's often how the mods in other places are looking at it.
Its often not just "letting you say what you want", but also, likely putting more effort into moderating the replies on your comment than yourself will have to. Work and effort you mostly won't see or acknowlege.
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in reply to whoever loves Digit 🇵🇸🇺🇸🏴☠️ • • •lmao you sound like a dork
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in reply to _cryptagion [he/him] • • •Dork, communist, terrorist, conservative, "enlightened centrist"
There are many titles for my kind in a world where people just use words at random with no meaning
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in reply to whoever loves Digit 🇵🇸🇺🇸🏴☠️ • • •tbh this kinda signals that you see politics through the framework of individual rights, not systems of class or domination.
broadly speaking, do you think the problem is bad politicians or the state and capital as systems?
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