How AI deepfakes polluted elections in 2024
The most visible use of AI in many countries was to create memes and content whose artificial origins weren't disguised. They were often openly shared by politicians and their supporters.
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Happy winter solstice.
Here's four on medium format from summer solstice.
#Photography #FilmPhotography #Film #MediumFormat #BelieveInFilm #Kodak #Scotland #Solstice #Landscape
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They finally printed the Jason Aaron-written "Uncle Scrooge and the Infinity Dime" (M USID 1-1P) here. (I say finally, six months is pretty good.)
It's a cool idea, a riff on, like, Scrooge as Thanos? But at a loaded 30 pages (with three chapter title pages) it gets nowhere near the space it needs to breathe, and ends up feeling like a sketch of a story more than anything.
Elon Musk is an egregious example of the dangers posed by obscenely wealthy men who court fascism because it promises to enhance their wealth and give them unchecked power over others.
But behind him lies a whole corporate structure, particularly in the world of broligarchy, which now has frightening ability (and determination) to break democracy.
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It's not just Musk. It's a whole set of super-rich men (for the most part, albeit with cheerleading wealthy women) who have inordinate power now to break democracy – and appear determined to do just that.
And it's just these economic elites. It's also the large number of Americans whose information base is so limited that they cannot see the danger these elites pose — to those very citizens enabling them.
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The deeply embedded cultural belief, which is absolutely wrong-headed, that super-rich men are superior, more intelligent, more productive is a big part of the problem here. Until it's challenged and corrected, we'll continue seeing many of us voting for pseudo-working class champions who are the very opposite of champions of working people.
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And, of course, the Supreme Court which, in its current iteration, exists primarily to serve the needs and interests of super-rich men as they seek to control (and rob) the rest of us is another huge part of the problem here.
As are so-called "people of faith" who bless and promote the rapacity of out-of-control capitalism….
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As a person of faith, supposedly following the example of Jesus Christ, I can't figure out how anyone else could call themselves a Christian and behave as they do, grovelling before the rich. Quite a bit of what Christ supposedly said condemned the rich.
Not only are these grovelers the opposite of the champions of working people, they're the opposite of who we are told to be - as Christians.
Good to see Americans comfortable with their class system
You are what you allow
So just like other animals. Follow your leader. Don’t get out of line
What are they doing that your not
It's not because they're rich, it's because they're psychopaths.
We must stop psychopaths getting rich.
Getting an expert opinion on my thesis’s Mastodon section.
You can tell he’s taking it very seriously!
#plushtodon #plushie #university
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Episode "No #Google October"
Use 🔍 searx.org/ 🔍 instead of #Google
✔️ Interesting #SelfHosted #️⃣hashtag #️⃣ ✔️
The show and host accounts are here by the way as it wasn't all as clear as it could be searching:
Show acc @selfhst
Hosts acc @shollyethan
Yesterday I was awarded a plaque celebrating my 25 year service with God's Pantry Food Bank.
(Technically it is now 25.46 years)
It has been a blessing and honour to serve with the #FoodBank in assisting our neighbours obtain needed food.
It remains the only job that I have truly loved, but absolutely wish did not exist.
godspantry.org/
The #XMPP Newsletter for November 2024 is out!
Read about the latest XMPP universe updates and the latest updates on our #standards!
xmpp.org/2024/12/the-xmpp-news…
Enjoy reading! 📰 ☕
#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc
#opensource #decentralization
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Côté récursif, il a la capacité à interroger les serveurs plus haut dans l’arborescence lorsqu’il n’a pas la réponse. J’ai bon ? Merci d’avance!
Par contre, il ne connait rien aux URL (le DNS existait bien avant le Web !) Il ne travaille qu'avec des noms de domaine. Et, de toute façon, dire que « le DNS sert à trouver les adresses IP » est une grossière simplification.
(Si tu as le temps va faire un tour à Gand, c'est tout près en train, c'est une ville que j'aime d'amour)
*shakes fist*
Gand, c'est l'endroit où j'avais peur d'être piéton dans une ville de cyclistes (j'étais dans le centre ville : presque pas de trottoirs, et je me faisais sonner par tous les vélos parce que moi, pauvre visiteur de la semaine, j'étais sur le chemin, même en rasant les murs).
C'est aussi une super jolie ville. :)
A cette période, vu le monde, je pense que les piétons gagnent.
Mais oui, je sais pas si tu as vu l'immense parking à vélos dans le centre, c'est impressionnant
@Kahte
Secondo i media tedeschi, pare che il medico saudita arrestato per l'attentato di ieri al mercato di natale di #magdeburgo non fosse un islamista ma un sostenitore dell'AFD.
EDIT: pure i secondo i media italiani bin.disroot.org/?074c06cbb2147…
La synthèse de l’activité annuelle concernant Flus, l’état de ses finances, les pistes pour 2025 et mon ressenti des 5 années à travailler dessus ?
C’est tout dans cet article récapitulatif : flus.fr/carnet/bilan-2024.html
Et donc oui, Flus a 5 ans ! 🎂
"Help me, Open Source, you're my only hope!" 🤖
Embodied's $800 kids' robot Moxie was facing certain doom, but the company is now working to liberate it through open-source. From bricked to freed - that's what I call a plot twist! Community-powered robot resurrection FTW.
Alex Daily!
in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Jason Aaron being American means some of this also feels actively old-school -- here in Europe we've kinda moved on from Bear Mountain, Donald's anger issues, those kinds of things. There's also a real air of the DuckTales to it all.
The reunion with Goldie in "King of the Klondike" (I TL 3479-5, Gervasio/Zanchi) in the same pocket did far more for me.
(Wild to get straight up an Alex Ross cover on a Donald Duck pocket, though.)
Alex Daily!
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