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I don't know if it applies to this or not, but Reddit top posts absolutely love Newsweek, which is a garbage clickbait, pump and dump articles as fast as possible, and now seeing this, it wouldn't surprise me if there's something going on.
Actually, most of those articles are posted by newsweek's official reddit account.
Not really, I've already blocked the newsweek reddit account and there's plenty of other accounts posting newsweek all the time, it's very sus.
If I had a time machine, I would try to find a way to stop Reagan rather than Hitler.
I think other time travelers will cover Hitler, so I think we should diversify our efforts in stopping other evil bastards around the world.
What if Hitler turned out the way he did because he was traumatized by all the time travelers who tried to kill him when he was a little boy?
Call me crazy, but I think some of the biggest fucking bastards in human history simply needed someone to listen to them and help them learn how to self-regulate their emotions as children.
They're all so consistently bitter and unhappy narcissists, and they drive away their loved ones because they have no idea how to listen and introspect. They also always try to lure others in with money because that's what the only things they personally care about.
When someone criticizes my behavior, I legitimate think about it and I ask them what I could do differently that would make them happier to be around me, and I take that shit seriously even if it hurts to hear.
Sometimes it's completely bogus, but if it matters to them, it matters to me, and that's all that matters.
Fundamentally I think anger, hate and evil deeds are driven by fear and past wounds. But saying such things on social media can get you accused of condoning evil, "giving nazis a pass," or whatever. People aren't willing to think about what you're saying until they decide if you're wearing a white hat not a black hat.
I mean, I have zero fucking empathy for Trump or Elon because they are fucking nazis and there needs to be extremely severe punitive measures taken against them because that is the only consequence wealthy narcissists understand.
I understand why they are that way, it does not mean they just get a pass for it.
Feels like a stupid use of this community
Most of us don't even read the articles.
(yes, you, scrolling by right now, did you read it? I didn't think so.)
I agree. In fact, it's possible that oxygen molecules in our lungs right now were once breathed by Hitler. The exact same air that kept him alive, enabling genocide, is literally keeping us alive! We must boycott ourselves for moral purity!
Good luck finding media now owned by some evil corporation or state.
404media is pretty solid, for what it's worth.
Agreed. 404Media has been extremely good at covering anything from random niche communities to major data leaks. The only thing stopping me from becoming a paying member of their work is the (in my opinion, high) $100/yr price tag.
I'd also recommend following independent journalists like Ken Klippenstein. He does good work, and frequently releases documents that the rest of the media refuses to publish more than snippets of.
Ars Technica has always been very upfront about it whenever they cover news related to reddit. It's certainly not ideal, but Ars Technica remains a very good website for tech news
Ars Technica is generally excellent in my experience, one of the better tech news websites.
what are some other good ones?
TechDirt for stuff that has more to do with the legal side, rather than technical news
TheRegister for general computer news with a dash of bri'ish sarcasm
Yup, as long as the current staff (by and large) are still at the helm of the Ars orbiting HQ, I'll continue to go there. I've lost too many other good tech news sites in the last decade, I can't lose another one.
The rest of Conde Nast is hot garbage.
While I sort of agree. I’m just gonna say, you ain’t gonna find anything mainstream western media that doesn’t have major ties to unethical corpos unless you basically force yourself to only use AP and the Guardian (and even then, pretty sure they still have dodgy ties, just it’s not as visible since no direct “ownership”.)
404media.co is pretty (really) good.
Propublica is an excellent nonprofit investigative journalism organization. They have a strong track record of holding powerful companies accountable and achieving real world results/consequences. They often partner with local news organizations to help give them good content and there's never a paywall either.
Yes propublica is amazing. But I wouldn’t necessarily call them mainstream. They are mainstream amongst journalists, nerds, and leftists. But not really apart from that.
no ethical consumption under capitalism...
Sadge, Ars Technica 😢
Isn't it funny how theres always a company that nobody has ever heard of behind every big brand that everybody knows about?Containerised liability assigned to nonexistent entities.
Conde Nast was a big name in the magazine publishing business for decades.
This is how the USA works now. Not just unethical companies and monopolies but super monopolies and upright evil companies. If you ever want to make yourself mad Google EssilorLuxottica, it is the largest eyeglass manufacturer, sunglass manufacturer, eyeglass retailer ... and believe it or not it also owns Eyemed eye insurance. It's not the biggest eye insurance company ... yet.
Vertical integration that leads to self dealing like this should be considered anti competitive and illegal.
Unfortunately in US healthcare it’s the norm.
Containerised liability assigned to nonexistent entities.
That is how corporations avoid antitrust lawsuits. They know what they're doing.
This had pretty wide awareness during the reddit api Crack down and even before that when Chinese tencent bought a stake in reddit. A lot of the reddit users from that time are aware. I would argue tencent is much much worse than Conde nast
They are in turn owned by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications, even larger than Conde Nast.
It's a holding company that owns conde nasty and the local paper, on Staten Island. It's not a conspiracy. It's a wealthy conservative publishing company.
Why tho? What do you have against employees whose company is owned by another company whose parent company owns some other company whose executives did something you didn't like? Your imaginary social justice mechanics really doesn't make any fucking sense.
Interesting fact: when lowtax was forced to sell somethingawful to one of his moderators that got bitcoin rich for 400k he revealed during the negotiations that conde nast attempted to buy somethingawful for 13 million dollars around 2006 or so. He turned them down because he “was still having fun with the site”
After the sale was completed the mod looked into it a bit more and realized in that same timeframe conde nast ended up purchasing a majority stake in reddit for a very similar amount
Imagine how different the internet would be if “the front page of the internet” was a hacked up vbulletin site from 2003 filled with 40 year old IT dorks and run by a guy that was so afraid of paying child support that he literally killed himself
Conde Nast didn't make Reddit the front page of the Internet, the community did
When I hear "Conde Nast" I think about that scandal with the Bon Appetit Youtube channel and how they were discriminating against their non-white chefs.
https://www.thewrap.com/bon-appetit-adam-rapoport-brownface/