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I mean I mostly agree with the article (except it makes a couple of reaches) but it's a nothing-burger. What else do you want the west to do? What else do they want to do? Ukraine has a shit neighbour and a few nations are cursed with this problem but lefty naivety aside, not much more can be done.

Depends on for whom? The US will probably let this play out on its own. Risking escalation is not worth it. Getting distracted from other superpowers is not worth it. Western Europe does not take proactive steps anymore. Both will hope Ukraine largely holds their own. Russia will be busy rebuilding.

That's what I call a GLOW UP

Thanks for the reminder to not check any of my feeds until I watch it

Past lessons say that you shouldn't get your hopes up. The US doesn't see this as that big of a deal. Attention will soon be turned to China. Russia won't threaten unipolarity in our lifetime, especially after this war that has exposed how weakened they have gotten since old days.

Maybe I'm wrong but the cold hard truth I see is that neither are going to happen anytime soon.

They won't. The west is getting tired of this war and giving endless resources (even though they are low key profiting from it). There are increasing calls to meddle less in foreign affairs like this (+US elections are coming). Unfortunately strategy precedes morality when it comes to geopolitics.

Unfortunately genocides still occur in our world. The only ones that can stop it are more powerful nations. Ukraine decided to side with the west which I believe was the correct move, but it poked the neighbour bear that is Russia. The west could commit more, but they aren't. What happens now?

You're missing a crucial perspective, and that is that of the Russian's. You cannot say what NATO is and isn't without understanding their perspective, and they are deeply threatened by it. This is obvious.

It's more about what Ukraine CAN do, rather than should. It's a really tough situation. And there are clearly an array of interests behind the west's support here. It is more than just about supporting an "ally" country from tyranny. There is no free lunch here.

Putin is mainly worried of how threatening an expansion of NATO and hence western encroachment is to their borders. "Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains."
Further, Russia is utterly incapable of annexing Ukraine

So fascinating how difficult this situation really is for Ukrainians. The Russia side is clear, but the opportunistic US/west is also sinking its claws in. But as you can see, Ukrainians don't care about the latter because it's executed so well. The US is really good at this

Do you have a source showing what has been going on?

Not the bluest blue sky, but what a city!

They absolutely destroying your skoots in the quote reskeets

No one's doing [insert thing here] anymore.

- guy whose 4 drinking buddies don't do [thing] anymore

Can this problem also occur when the pendulum swings to the other side?

I.e. Some speech gets punished and the voices behind them silenced. This means our right is to not "accept" such speech. Does it then become a duty to not expand this to more and more "normal" speech? How do you enforce that?

Love this: "the greater the liberty, the more the duty"

I think the problem of technologists is that they themselves don't understand the magnitude and direction of impact they can generate. And secondly, I don't think they are in the position to wield guardianship over societal understanding and morality. They just happen to work on the tools that do.

One of the things that makes bsky hard to explain to people (and this is similar to the concepts in Beaker Browser):
Centralized social media platforms and web2.0 conditioned people into expecting that clients are wedded to backend data stores.
Protocols/portable formats disappeared, as concepts.

How should a decentralised network like Bluesky tackle the problem of what is acceptable or not to write?

Some things are clearly immoral, e.g. racism.

Others are more blurred, e.g. propaganda, politics.

Further, what type of authority should there be to exert top-down control, if any?

Part of the minority over here!

Bluesky's mission is to be decentralised so I'm not sure how that can really be policed

We all love things that are people think are garbage. When you find things you genuinely enjoy, don't let anyone else make you feel bad about it.

That takes courage, and you won't get anywhere nice without courage.

Is it just me or has Twitter and LinkedIn been absolutely flooded with ChatGPT content since it became widely known?

Definitely, it has White Lotus vibes and touches on some pretty deep societal/cultural themes which is quite underrepresented in media

Just finished watching the show Beef on Netflix, what an ending.

Sometimes we really algorithmically reward the wrong type of content and the reward mechanism ends up becoming synonymously viewed as the right way to get attention/eyeballs/clicks

it's not like instagram, it's like instagram 15 years ago. there's no influencers promoting whatever paid for their sponsored posts, no educational infographics, no hashtags, just the pure joy of sharing art and tiny snapshots of your life

A social media app is usually best before mass adoption is reached. It retains a sense of community, it's more personal, and features are optimised for user experience.
But, a social media app at it's best will inevitably reach mass adoption and lose it's luster.
Is this tension solvable?