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Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Aatube@thriv.social 2 points 5 hours ago

No, you do not need real time chat, you need searchable, permanent presence

why not both? Discourse is really nice but it's a forum, not IRC or Matrix

Discord to Require ID or Face Scan Next Month for Full Access in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Aatube@thriv.social 1 points 10 hours ago

I disagree, but we'll see what they do with it

Discord to Require ID or Face Scan Next Month for Full Access in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Aatube@thriv.social -2 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500005292701-How-to-Access-an-Age-Restricted-Server-FAQ clarifies that Discord would only do that for servers that otherwise violate the Community Guidelines's provisions on adult content, whose only mention of which I quoted above.

Discord to Require ID or Face Scan Next Month for Full Access in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Aatube@thriv.social 0 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

Server owners must apply an age-restricted label to any channels that contain sexually explicit content involving adults or content involving adults that is shared solely for the purposes of sexual gratification.

nothing else needs to be age-restricted, and age restriction of topics you mentioned would be big news for discord. pluralkit's home is discord and has great influence there, and the lgbtq+ community definitely has a larger presence than the plural community

Discord to Require ID or Face Scan Next Month for Full Access in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Aatube@thriv.social 5 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (7 children)

only changes for the unverified:

  • Channels, servers, and commands set to age-restricted will be inaccessible
  • DM requests deemed "sensitive" will be inaccessible
  • "Sensitive content" will be blurred
  • Won't be able to become a speaker in "stage" channels, a special type where a few videoconferencers have a meeting where anyone else can watch and type but not videoconference; verified watchers can be invited to speak
  • DMs from unfamiliar users will be routed to a separate "warning"

nothing else

I think this is business as usual...

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“The Nation” Nominates Minneapolis for the Nobel Peace Prize (www.thenation.com)
 

The following nomination statement, which is addressed to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, the five-member body that is charged by the Parliament of Norway with selecting the recipient of the Peace Prize, has been prepared for submission on Friday.

Freshmen create website mapping ICE incidents in c/usa@midwest.social
[–] Aatube@thriv.social 1 points 1 week ago

None of these are the same thing. ICE List is a wiki, all the others are crowdsourced reports. This one is:

icemap aggregates both unstructured and structured data from a multitude of public online sources, then distills these data into useful news streams and figures. Currently, this vizualization pulls statistics and articles from ICE newsroom reports, TRAC immigration data, as well as a myriad of local and national news sources.

There's no problem with decentralization if the data used is all the same. In fact, it provides for a credible exit.

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Freshmen create website mapping ICE incidents (www.ricethresher.org)
 

“Masked men from ICE showed up one April morning, and it all stopped. The kids couldn’t leave their homes. Our weekly classes stopped,” said Vu, a Sid Richardson College freshman. “Week after week, I would hear word of another family who left without a word. We made [the map] a few weeks later.” The website, icemap.dev, tracks ICE-related news incidents in individual counties, as well as immigrant detention facilities with documented health and security inspection failures.

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NY students would study Jan. 6 Capitol attack under pending [state] bill (gothamist.com)
 

If passed, the bill would require lessons to take place at some point in children’s schooling after age 8.

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The Pardon That Represents the New Era of Corruption (www.nytimes.com)
 

Rather than be critical or perhaps stay silent, the House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, welcomed the pardon and engaged in shameful pandering, apparently to maintain Mr. Cuellar’s party loyalty. Most disturbingly, Mr. Jeffries did so by attacking the legitimacy of the criminal case against Mr. Cuellar, publicly dismissing the indictment against him as “very thin.”

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Private Equity Finds a New Source of Profit: Volunteer Fire Departments (www.nytimes.com)
 

Rural departments have long relied on cheap software solutions to keep their operations running. But fire chiefs report sharp price increases as investors have entered the market.

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Woman behind Slender Man stabbing fled facility ‘because of me’, friend says (www.theguardian.com)
 

A companion of Slender Man stabber Morgan Geyser who temporarily escaped from her Wisconsin group home says Geyser fled the facility out of fear that the two would no longer be able to visit each other.

For fleeing a group home in Madison where she was placed in March, the 23-year-old reportedly faces being returned to a psychiatric institution where she was sentenced after pleading guilty to repeatedly stabbing a middle school classmate in 2014 to delight the digital horror character Slender Man. The 43-year-old Mecca, meanwhile, is facing charges related to her and Geyser having been found sleeping on a sidewalk in Posen, Illinois.