for anyone looking for a more official confirmation from the actual dev: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983#issuecomment-1913362376
It's possible more workarounds will be found, but as of now it's not looking good.
These instances are still working for the moment:
It's funnier without context tbh but here goes
spoiler
The College of Psychologists of Ontario, the professional licensing body that licenses him as a psychologist, took issue with some of his public statements in 2022:
In its Decision, the ICRC expressed its concern that Dr. Peterson’s comments may be “degrading, de-meaning and unprofessional.” The ICRC concluded that some of the language used in Dr. Peterson’s public statements “may be reasonably regarded by members of the profession as disgraceful, dishonourable and/or unprofessional” and posed “moderate risks of harm to the public.” The risks of harm identified by the ICRC in- cluded “undermining public trust in the profession of psychology” and “may also raise questions about Dr. Peterson’s ability to appropriately carry out his responsibilities as a registered psychologist.”
They assigned him some remedial continuing education training on "professionalism in public statements." Not sure why it's coming up again now since the court case about it ended months ago, but I think maybe he decided he's gonna take the course and expose the woke indoctrination of it or something (caving immediately just like he did on the twitter ban lmao)
I knewa few people who would go in the evening and get cheap passes to stay late into the night getting blazed and skiing. I'm not in mountain territory tho, just big cold hills lol
its less rich people doing it here but still very white
So I'm reading early Parenti (The Anti-Communist Impulse)... There are some serious bangers
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But if and when the anti-communist admits there may be positive features in the Soviet system, he then usually reintroduces the "tactical" argument. For instance, Bertram Wolfe dismisses the welfare feature of the Soviet system as an expediency adopted by the totalitarian state in order to maximize its power: a literate, healthy population is, after all, a necessary condition for increased industrialization. Hence, what is considered "welfare" is actually an instrument of "power." One however, might just as easily argue it the other way around. Given the Soviet dream of building the supposedly one true happy, productive, cooperative, and peaceful socialist society, it might be that what is considered "power" is actually an instrument of "welfare." For years, Wolfe and others argued that Soviet leaders pursued power to the constant an deliberate detriment of welfare; now confronted with the fact that the USSR spends proportionately more on health, education, and welfare than do highly industrialized Western nations, they dismiss this as an expediency of power. First the Soviets supposedly used power to neglect welfare; now it seems they use welfare to maintain power.
The communist system is evil either because it shows no concern for the welfare of its citizenry, or because it does show a concern, but only for an imputed evil purpose. There are, then, no set of observable conditions which can put the anti-communist presumption to an empirical test. Indeed, we are not dealing with an empirical proposition. The fact remains that he Soviet government has chosen to give a reasonably high priority to social welfare, and this datum cannot be dismissed if we allow that one way of judging behavior is to observe actual behavior, and one way of judging a system's priorities and policies is to look at its actual priorities and policies.
Ik the main thrust of this is something he restates many times and is well known for, but specifically the line about power being used as an instrument of welfare really resonated with me.
yeah I never tried it I think it was only at their flagship roastery locations, and I don't really go to starbucks regardless, but it was like... In the iced drinks too? so it gets all nasty and congealed? whyyyyyyy
I didn't hate my evoo/espresso but it didn't add much to the flavor. There's a certain drink I've made at home that involved shaking an espresso over ice such that it foams up really nice that could maybe work with a little oil but I think it would still separate too fast
someone found it above, or at least the full clip
https://libreddit.pussthecat.org/r/Sino/comments/mv4rjy/young_persons_views_on_the_american_dream/
I mostly just did cause I thought it was funny because of the strbucks thing, and it did not even make a dent in the constipation lol
when your job isn't a pit of despair sure, maybe you find it fulfilling and want to keep working rather than find other outlets in retirement, but capitalism ensures 99% of jobs won't be like that and so everyone who can retire pretty much does
they literally just triggered all the smuglord buzzwords at once by mentioning smoking, living with family (ew gross multi generational living what are they peasants?), calling their current place a crack house, etc. If they phrased this all differently the replies would be 100x more sympathetic (but still full of liberal smuglordness I'm sure)
image shamelessly stolen from r/dumbphones and mostly unrelated
I feel like we could almost use a comm for this specifically but c/technology will do
Anyone else here have luck with cutting back on smartphone/technology use in general, or feel like they need to try a change in that department? Or even just social media? Chime in below I'd love to chat about it.
I'm avoiding work rn and thinking about smartphone use. I had an android phone for many years and I think it was a really negative force in my life. Sure there's lots of times it's useful as a one-off but overall I don't think it was actually good to have on me all the time. I think the overarching issue with a lot of modern tech is that it reduces or tries to eliminate intentionality on the part of the user, and make the user experience completely frictionless. But some of that "friction" is important, intentionality is important, without it we are just mindless consumers at the beck and call of marketers and big tech companies. Music apps don't need to decide what you listen to and in what order, being able to get a mix based on a song or artist is one thing, but the tiktok-ified endless autoplay of songs with no user input is... not good. especially when you grow up with that you lose so much.
Or social media I think we all know is a toxic time suck and honestly just a mindless addiction for many, even this place can take on that role, I know it does sometimes for me, it's easier to scroll than face whatever stressful thought or situation is at hand... and fine, maybe that urge to distraction isn't going away, but on reflection I find scrolling to be the least-soothing way of scratching that itch... So it would be better if it wasn't quite so frictionless, to help break the feedback loop.
Push notifications (for things other than messaging) are another insidious way that such behavioral patterns are fostered. For the computer nerds, I think of it as like an interrupt for my attention, it breaks the flow of what I'm doing and demands I look at it, and frankly 80% of push notifications just don't deserve that level of priority. But because exerting any control or intentionality over those notifications is made to be extra effort in the name of UX streamlining, most people just have these annoying interrupts conditioning their brain at the whims of whoever controls the apps.
In such a tech dependent world, user control over software is way more critical than it's ever been, and for all their annoyingness and often mediocre or bad takes on other topics, free software people have been hammering on that for years and building alternatives. All that to say: I've been using a linux phone (pinephone pro) as my only phone for the better part of 6 months now and it's been a breath of fresh air. I'm reading again for the first time in years, I'm building a music collection that I actually own, I'm starting to cut the tether to big tech spyware platforms, but I'm not disconnected from the world.
The point is: it's not a dumbphone, it just has some extra friction in places, and that has enabled me to be a lot more intentional about my use. It's slower, and the battery life is worse, and lots of other tradeoffs, but in practical terms mostly what that has led to is me being more intentional about my consumption. I can always just go on a computer and browse to my heart's content, or put videos on the TV all night, but the device that's with me all the time is optimized for the things I care about, not for spying on me and robbing me of my attention and sanity.
(and fwiw linux phones aren't really non-nerd ready yet unless your requirements are pretty basic, but I could see the next gen of them being much closer to linux-on-the-PC levels of easy. It's getting better every month)
But the lower tech alternative is what you are seeing more and more on places like r/dumbphones (and I have adopted pieces of this as well): purpose built devices. Instead of one device that does everything (including a bunch of stuff you don't even want it to and don't get any agency over as an end user), people are rediscovering the utility of having different tools for different tasks:
Now none of this is to say you should carry all this stuff and more all the time. But it's something you can be intentional about and tailor to your needs!
Maybe you're a theory-head without a rigid schedule: skip the games, camera, watch, headphones, etc and just carry an ereader, a notebook and a dumbphone
Or you're more of a direct action andy, you can leave the dumbphone (the only one that can be used to track you still) at home, or skip it entirely, or get a device with killswitches! Much harder to do if you limit yourself to the Apple/Android dichotomy
So yeah, point is you can pick what things you actually care about and bring those, when appropriate, and use them when you want to rather than doing, like, everything everywhere all at once with your smartphone. Yes you can tweak your smartphone to avoid many of these issues, and maybe that's good enough for you, (I encourage it, just give it serious thought, be intentional about what you really want to allow), but some are just unavoidable, and much like you are not immune to propaganda, none of us are immune to the baked in effects of marketers, big tech addiction-mongers. The simplest way to step away from the all-encompassing absorption machines in our pockets is to not have one, and to consider their replacements carefully, even if other paths are workable.
I'm pretty sure 
originally got me thinking about "friction" in this context, and this has all been marinating and steering my choices ever since, culminating with this linux phone that I can customize to my heart's content and does not have any of the built in addictive/harmful/spying apps that all my android phones always did. Oh and I can repair it rather than it becoming useless, physically and software-wise, in just a few short years.
I'm still a tech dweeb, I just want it to enhance people's lives and liberate them not make them worse and more dependent.
Incredible that
managed to both kill off legitimate users who didn't want to be spied on, and cause an explosion of bot accounts, the very thing he's been complaining about the whole time. ik ik he doesn't care about the absurdity or hypocrisy but it is pretty funny
Need to bring back truetwit (anyone else remember truetwit lmao?)