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The problem is not the “echo chamber” phenomenon. It is the fact that reactionary information sources disseminate falsehoods about the…
Also I love the chicken fat on this one (and that the text of the chicken fat is big enough…
I don't think of myself as complaining about conservative echo chambers so much as I think political echo chamber like…
But in the current political moment, conservatives are complaining a lot about liberal “echo chambers,” which makes this the right…
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Category Archives: Site and Admin Stuff
Alas, A Moderation Policy
OUR APPROACH TO MODERATION ONE We have few hard-and-fast rules that people aren’t allowed to violate; we just have a goal for the discussions we’d like to have, and we’d like people to move us towards that goal rather than … Continue reading
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Server Upgrade Complete!
There’s still some work to be done restoring “Alas,” but all the posts and functionality seem to have been restored. Hopefully “Alas” is no longer incredibly slow-loading! Let me know if you spot any bugs.
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Alas is back!
Damn, that totally sucked! So what happened? There was a catastrophic hostile attack on our host, Reality Check Network. And it took this long for the data to be recovered and restored to our new host’s servers. Apologies for the … Continue reading
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Upgrading "Alas"
I’ve decided to upgrade “Alas” to the current version of WordPress. (Much more secure that way). Unfortunately, doing so has inevitably broken lots of stuff and it’ll take me a while to fix said stuff. Like, er, the recent comments … Continue reading
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"Alas Debate Annex" now open for business
The “Alas Debate Annex” is now open for business. This will be a parallel blog, for the moment moderated by me, which will have looser rules on who can comment, and what comments are allowed, than the main “Alas” blog. … Continue reading
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Linkspam: Unpacking the invisible knapsack Straight privilege edition
So apparently this month is LGBT Pride Month. I therefore snagged this from ontd political which gives the info that it was first put together by students of Earlham College and the poster added the links. Do I have to mention the part where ‘phobic assholes of any kind will be summarily deleted and banned? […]
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Linkspam: Unpacking the invisible knapsack Straight privilege edition
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EARTH DAY!!!
Earth Day at the Climate Justice Frontier
There are no shortage of ideas today for how global capitalism can be marshaled to slow down global warming. Never mind that we’re in this mess in the first place largely due to the take-no-prisoners industrialization that today’s wealthier nations built their fortunes upon. And many of the world’s […]
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Sometimes the world does not suck: Part Two
Before we get to the good parts however: A Signal Fire via jonquil: Do not trust Clitoraid, the charity being promoted by Betty Dobson that offers surgery to FGM victims
see also RESPECT Find out what it means to me!
I WOULD NOT OBJECT TO OTHER ORGANIZATIONS ADDRESSING THE NEEDS OF WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN […]
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Sometimes the world does not suck
I tend to write posts when I am pissed. Now this is great motivation, but unrelenting gloom and doom tends to leave me ridiculously depressed, and pessimistic about the fate of the world. So this is a post for good news, my readers. Because sometimes the world does not suck!
The first same-sex wedding […]
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Linkmistress has posts that she doesn’t want to lose so she is unleashing them on the world
The Texas Tribune is tracking the catastrophic “only conservative white people matter in American History textbooks clusterfuck” that will soon be unleashed on the unsuspecting American child population here
In their January meeting, State Board of Education members came armed with more amendments to the state social studies curriculum than they could vote on — a process […]
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Major Trump donors who complained of immigrant ‘invasion’ used Mexican workers illegally https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/20/uline-mexican-workers-trump