+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@qoto.org

“The evil was not in the bread and circuses, per se, but in the willingness of the people to sell their rights as free men for full bellies and the excitement of the games which would serve to distract them from the other human hungers which bread and circuses can never appease.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

Truth or fiction. What magical timing for Xi.

NA listeners do NOT get the wrong answer to this question.

Ok Fedi
Choose my next book

@Hyolobrika @bonifartius @Awoo its possible to lie with the truth. its done all the time

one example is taking footage from an arrest and selectively cutting it to look like someone is being thrown from a car and slammed on the ground, and then cutting the audio track out so you can't hear everyone talking.

it becomes B-roll that looks like cops just bodyslammed an innocent person for no reason.

(the footage might actually be the perp asking to be let out of the car.)

😮The bet of the governement is clearly:

1/ that the courageous people striking at tremendous personal cost, and otherwise blocking infrastructure will get exhausted

2/ that brutal repression will contribute to that objective, to terrorize dissent and discourage support

3/ that lapdogging-media will open a "new sequence" of spin on "the horrible anti-democratic violence of people burning stuff and blocking the country" to erode support from general population.

16/17

❓A friend of mine just asked me "what is a 49-3?" and despite International press covering quite in depth the ongoing political crisis in France, it made me feel like adding here my personal take on it, in case you were wondering.

(Long thread. As always: check your sources and correct me if I am wrong ;)) )

#FR #France #FRPol #Retraites #RerformeDesRetraites #Pensions #Protests #EN

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@bonifartius @Awoo @Hyolobrika i don't really think they needed deepfakes for any of this. they've been talking about it for a while now. it's just been going through testing phases around the world to see if they could get enough consent decrees to pull it off.

india's aadhar is a big beta test of widespread biometrics, britain and EU's web filters in through "but muh kids," in the USA they've had the worst time of it because our culture is in direct opposition to being controlled that way so they've had to spend a long time breaching firewalls explicitly erected to stop that exact kind of control, but they got it now with the whole big tech - homeland security fascism bit.

@Hyolobrika @bonifartius @Awoo "identity" is largely a government spook.

Guys... I'm scared.
1678756292531103.webm

I like having the id in the name, mostly because I intend to write a script to go through and see how many videos I have that haven’t been deleted/censored/removed forever. I use something similar:

#!/bin/fish function yt yt-dlp -f bestvideo+bestaudio --write-sub --write-auto-sub --sub-format srt/best --sub-lang en --embed-subs -o "/media/storage/streaming/youtube/%(uploader)s/%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s" $argv[1] end

~/.config/yt-dlp/config

--no-mtime
-o ./%(title)s.%(ext)s
-f "bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best"

This gets rid of the id crap from the name, doesn't set the file time to the past, and automatically prefers best video and audio.

the left has gone insane

My gov is so cucked that I now need to solve a google captcha to read laws.

Forests are crucial for human health & livelihoods, but deforestation is linked to more than 30% of new diseases since 1960. On #IntlForestDay let's recognize the importance of
sustainable forest governance to protect our health & the environment #GLA #forests

@histoire >shows you alone on a forest lot
>in reality the trailer park for these would look like bubble wrap