@maskedscheduler It's quite funny she bothers to do this nonsense. No thinking human could possibly believe Cohen would just decide to pay Stormy Daniels.
@evan BTW: I feel strongly that the campus protests aren't the cause of bad polling for the Dems, but rather that both are an effect of the dismay that most young people have for a bipartisan consensus they consider unfair on many issues, foreign and domestic.
I do think it’s helpful for people to see that elite American universities are fundamentally not progressive institutions. Despite the massive amounts of money they invest in supporting low-income students (and they do!), the purpose of aid programs was always to embellish their social credentials, not some serious attempt at improving society. So when those efforts conflict with the agenda of key donors, they are immediately forgotten. This sucks but it’s useful to understand the reality.
@evan It’s interesting that you associate the keffiyeh with the intifadeh. As an international symbol, it emerged in association with Arafat, at a time when the PLO — more through its more radical/revolutionary subgroups— were pursuing airplane highjacking and other ‘notorious’ terror acts as a way of bringing attention to their cause. I don’t think you’re wrong, of course, but probably for older people, the early PLO is the stronger connection.
@AAKL@HilliTech Which is 100% understandable, but a) the data is already public and guzzle-able, and b) why would META need our minuscule amount of data, compared to what they already more conveniently own from their own users?
@AAKL By minuscule, I meant the data within the Fediverse (which is currently and for the foreseeable future, tiny), as compared to the data they own already in Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApps, etc.
@AAKL As to why META is interested, I think the main reason is they believe that open protocols are the future of social, because the most important users will prefer them. (That's also how I feel, and I don't consider that view altruistic, just logical.)