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Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧

When a lie takes 10 seconds to tell and 30 minutes to refute, in the age of social media we're pretty much doomed.

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if you ever need to commit a crime and are concerned about cameras, be sure to wear skin-colored gloves with extra, strangely long and misshapen fingers. This will prove someone's trying to frame you with obviously AI-generated evidence.

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In fairness to those who favor a supernatural explanation for things, the fact that the Sun is by no definition on fire, and in fact undergoes a process almost as completely unrelated to fire as a physical process can be, and which is many, many orders of magnitude more energetic than fire, and yet not only seems to primitive senses to be made of fire, but also, no matter how closely you look, looks exactly like it's on fire, does kind of suggest that everything was designed by someone who's really messing with us.

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I think there needs to be a global superstar East African nouvelle-folk singer just so we can call her The Enya of Kenya

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I wonder if Russia will use its own convict units to shoot NK soldiers who try to surrender or defect, or if NK will supply their own?

kyivpost.com/post/34893

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David Wahl

It's so weird that there is a group of people that think getting rid of guns won't prevent any murders, but writing "Thou Shalt Not Kill" on the wall of a kindergarten class will.

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Kriszta Satori

V Guardian:
Shutting #Afghan women out of key UN conference to appease #Taliban ‘a betrayal’

Group allegedly demanding Afghan participation in Doha meeting this month be limited to men and that women’s rights be excluded from the agenda

theguardian.com/global-develop

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Carl T. Bergstrom

My God there are some Dunning-Kruger ass motherfuckers on this site.

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This is the most SF thing I've seen in the news yet. It's like something @davidbrin would have come up with in the early 1990s.

interestingengineering.com/inn

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Nonilex

#Stanford’s top #disinformation #research collapses under #RightWing efforts

Stanford #Internet Observatory, which published some of the most influential analysis on the spread of false info on #socialmedia during #elections, has shed most of its staff & may shut down amid #political & #legal attacks that have cast a pall on efforts to study #online #misinformation.

#law #Policy #CyberSecurity #Congress #propaganda
washingtonpost.com/technology/

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Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧

@w7voa "Prominently displayed" on Twitter/X just means you're paying $8/mo and therefore whatever shite you come out with floats to the top.

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Fife4Europe #FBPE

Brexit Silence: The Elephant in the Room
youtube.com/watch?v=5p-0VqreK0

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Now that a 20-year NDA has expired, one of the original producers of The Apprentice exposes every step of how they concealed the real character of Donald Trump and created a new public persona for him -- one that almost certainly made it possible for him to run for President and win. It's every bit as bad as you might imagine.

slate.com/culture/2024/05/dona

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kravietz 🦇

#China #AliExpress stopped processing #Russia rouble and shipping to Russia.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/alibaba-halts-ruble-transactions-and-shipping-services-to-russia-reports-russian-press/ar-BB1nfmnS

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Forrest Brazeal

idk why people say funding OSS is difficult

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, Magus

None of this inevitable and none of it has to stay this way.

Humans designed the "AI"/LLM/GPT systems, trained them, designed their interfaces, and then packaged them into everything they could get their grubby little human appendages on with no fucking opt-out (let alone opt-In) recourse all because those humans got the money-money-money FOMO brainworms and literally could not be arsed to envision a different, better way forward.

None of this inevitable; none of it has to stay this way.

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@timolaine @baldur

Basically the tech equivalent of the guy I see every week across the street with a gasoline-powered leaf-blower doing things like spending the better part of a minute chasing a single leaf into the gutter.

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Fife4Europe #FBPE

BBC Cut Most Of My Comments Criticising Rishi Sunak & Brexit So I’ve Added Them Back In!
youtube.com/watch?v=ETmRTU7IWb

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kravietz 🦇
Soviet actor Georgi Burkov in his memoirs first released in 1998 (found by Maxim Mirovich):

> The Bolsheviks need the atomic bomb to stay in power, i.e. against their own people. It won't be long before they start blackmailing the whole world, so that the whole world begs us, the people, not to make a revolution and to tolerate these ghouls and support them

Very much to the point both then and now.
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Bruce Sterling @bruces

*I blame realistic utopias, in a public lecture with 35 slides

medium.com/@bruces/utopian-rea

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