The US’ usual propaganda tricks—which worked so well for so many decades—has collapsed in the face of a live streaming Palestinian genocide. People aren’t buying the bullshit anymore. They’re not buying what imperial shills like Masih Alinejad are selling.

Edit to add: War on Gaza: How pro-Israel Iranian Americans are silencing Palestine supporters

The pro-Israel segments of the Iranian-American community include prominent activists such as Masih Alinejad, who said in 2021 that she would “love to visit Israel”. Since the 7 October attacks, she has called on Washington to designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terror group for Tehran’s support of Hamas.

However, several activists who spoke to Middle East Eye said that these individuals are just a small minority of the larger Iranian-American community.

They say the reason that it appears that most Iranians in the diaspora are pro-Israel is because most of the ones who do support Palestine are afraid to speak up.

“The vocal presence of Iranian Zionists online and at rallies might create a misleading perception. In reality, many Iranians are afraid to speak out and do not align with this viewpoint,” said one Iranian activist who spoke to [Middle East Eye] on condition of anonymity.

“The loudness on social media doesn’t accurately represent the broader sentiment.”

I would be offended if PSL or Code Pink weren’t on the list. I am offended that the IWW isn’t.

The more unvarnished US history you learn, the less weird it seems.

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You know I hate to ask
But are ‘friends’ electric?
Only mine’s broke down
And now I’ve no-one to love

The Epstein Class has been in power since the Founding Fathers[1], so I’m not holding my breath.

Bots together strong.

Who remembers DHS threat levels? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeland_Security_Advisory_System

I’d also like to know. Sellers can know when you’re using a popular VPN service or have DeGoogled, but I don’t know how they may use that information. Perhaps they’ll try to punish you into submission by jacking prices to the moon or refusing to serve their website altogether. Reddit and some other sites already block VPNs.

There will never be a silver bullet, because this will be an endless arms race between sellers and savvy consumers.

Yes, of course. But that’s upstream from this research. The data would have existed regardless.

FYI OP, your post to [email protected] was reported by four people so far for changing the article’s title. Their mods will almost definitely delete it. Please save yourself & us the hassle by following the rules of the communities you post to.

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I don’t think this guy has hacked surveillance pricing in ways that are practicably replicable, but his video has piqued my curiosity.

Edit to add: There doesn’t seem to be much in the way of evidence-based, practical advice currently, except to shop in physical stores and to comparison shop. https://www.kqed.org/news/12088157/surveillance-pricing-is-making-life-more-expensive-heres-how-it-works-and-what-you-can-do

If you really want to know, you’d need to get a copy of the paper.

University research on human subjects follow a number of elaborate privacy rules, including those of the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects. Researchers aren’t interested in our individual data; they’re interested in our data in aggregate for statistical analysis.

You are very confused. These kinds of studies have been common since at least the 1940s.

Fediverse graybeards always knew how Bluesky (and Threads) would play out. We know multi-billionaire Jack Dorsey belongs to the big club that you ain’t in.

The source is open, so either put up or shut up.

Presumably it’s cheaper to go around Africa, so that would just be a blockade with extra steps.

ActivityPub federation is very complicated, and I don’t have a full understanding of it myself. I’ve never come across a situation like this one before, where a user on one instance appears to not exist at all from the viewpoint of another instance that’s federated with it.

I do know that, compared to Lemmy, Piefed is buggy, and PyLova, as a soft fork of Piefed, presumably is buggy as well. You might try asking in a Piefed/PyLova support community. Maybe they’ve encountered this before.