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2 days agoI don’t think there’s an acted movie, but documentaries, TV shows etc. And he has a podcast.
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Reminds me of Daryl Davis.
In 1983, he was playing country western music in a “white” bar in Frederick, Maryland, when a patron came up to him and said it was the first time he had “heard a black man play as well as Jerry Lee Lewis”. Davis explained to the man that “Jerry Lee learned to play from black blues and boogie-woogie piano players and he’s a friend of mine”. The white patron was skeptical and over a drink admitted he was a member of the KKK. The two became friends and eventually the man gave Davis contact information on KKK leaders.
A few years later, Davis decided that he wanted to interview Klan members and write a book on the subject, to answer a “question in my head from the age of 10: ‘Why do you hate me when you know nothing about me?’ That question had never been answered from my youth”.
Davis eventually went on to befriend over twenty members of the KKK, and claims to have been directly responsible for between forty and sixty, and indirectly over two hundred people leaving the Klan.
But don’t worry, folks in the free world, this won’t apply to you! Douyin (Tiktok in China) may restrict what kids see, but Tiktok abroad will still serve up to your tween daughter videos that tell her if she isn’t pretty enough, she might as well kill herself.
Thanks for the details.
Thanks for the info. I’ve heard of it but never tried it.
Does it at least have easy ways for users to filter what they don’t want? E.g. block lists that users can subscribe to.
Ay, there’s the rub.
Even the article’s author chooses to exclude some types of content, like porn.
2·11 days agoThanks so much for the very informative answer! I had heard of some of these things, and it’s great to hear of some more and also some real world experience and comparison.
I’m unfamiliar but interested in this kind of thing, and I’m wondering if anyone here has an idea why some things that seem similar (at least to inexperienced me) have different prices.
E.g. why Mattermost from $2.70/month but Rocket.Chat from $4.00/month?
You’re welcome, let us know how it goes for you.
Not sure what your use case for Copilot is, but if you have sufficiently powerful hardware (preferably with a GPU), you can download and install an LLM of your choice (e.g. a European one like Mixtral) and run it on your own computer.
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I mainly remember him as the guy whose lawsuit crippled hip-hop.
You might want to edit your original post and add the link there, too.
Listening to it now, thanks.
I have a couple of non-US playlists myself:
- Rock’n’Roll for Good Times - ROTW mostly fun classic rock, mainly in English, some in Spanish etc.
- No Yankcent - various genres, sung in English with neither a real nor a fake US accent.
Switzerland, however, seems to be taking a less confrontational approach. The message seems clear: Switzerland has no interest in provoking Washington.
WTF? Simply not taking your regular phone is “confrontational” and a provocation?!?
Yeah, cuz French brie and camembert run down the hills.
GOOD! Dem furners eat our cats!
Straight from Musk’s playbook of business success.
“I’ve let all the Nazis back on Xitter. Wait! Advertisers! Where are you going?!??”
And people should go there ASAP, as pretty soon they’ll probably have to worry about some Belarus-style shenanigans happening as their flight transits US airspace.
I’ve gotta see that movie, sounds great.