1/ Today the #2024Election kicks off in earnest with #JoeBiden’s re-election bid announcement
There is 560 days to the #PresidentialElection. Much will happen, conditions will change but it as #Biden suggests a continuation of the battle for the soul of America
I’ll use this thread to comment periodically on the election over the next 80 weeks. It’s a long road to #ElectionDay2024, but the stakes couldn’t be higher
2) One of America’s better columnists, #TomFriedman, with some thoughts on #KamalaHarris and how the VP needs to be a more visible presence in the #2024Election.
#USPolitics #Politics #WomenInPolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/opinion/kamala-harris-joe-biden-2024-reelection.html
3) is the #2024Election a contest between morality vs amorality?
#DavidBrooks of the #NYTimes certainly thinks so
#USPolitics #Politics #Elections
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/27/opinion/biden-trump-soul-america-election-2024.html
4) Meanwhile #DonaldTrump is on the campaign trail reinforcing his uber fan base by embracing a convicted #Jan6 agitator. In Donald world these people were patriots and acted in his best interests although he lifted nary a figure to help them as the indictments and convictions started flowing
5) The #Desantis campaign for the presidency now seems dead before its birth.
What is more surprsing, the empty vision of DeSantis or the continued acceptance of #Trump as a presidentail candidate?
#USPolitics #Politics #Election2024
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/03/trump-critics-desantis-gop-primary-00095011
6) Meanwhile the candidate accused of rape in a current civil suit trial plays golf in #Ireland.
While Mr #Trump claims he will return to #NYC to defend himself, he has opted NOT to attend the #JeanCarroll trial. While the geography was different, the usual MO was on full display, made for #NewsMedia assertions without reference to fact or logic
7) #DonaldTrump is not hirable for most jobs. Like many, conservative pundit, Charlie Sykes, is mystified that many Americans consider #Trump to be a plausible candidate for control of the nuclear codes or top secret clearance
#Politics #USPolitics #Election2024
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/05/trump-reelection-2024-assault-allegations/673957
8) The #2023Election will be the first election where #AI generated imagery, audio and video will be deployed.
Donie O'Sullivan recently flagged a #GOP campaign add which used AI generated imagery to stoke fears about fictional dystopian future resulting from a #Biden re-election
This ad was created by the #RNC not some outsourced hacked media shop. A shameful moment for the #Republican Party
#USPolitics #Politics #DeepFake
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/02/politics/ai-election-ads-2024/index.html
For years I've been beating a drum that we should normalize the cryptographic signing of mainstream content, for example politicians signing with their own identities to certify that a quote or video clip is real and accurate.
Not only would that help assure that a quote wasn't taken misleadingly out of context, but in this new age it would help protect against outright deepfakes.
Unfortunately, I've often heard journalists respond that such a norm would interfere with journalistic independence, and lead to people being skeptical of journalists.
I think such responses get it exactly backwards.
In any case, yep, I'm still beating the drum, but sadly I think the ship has sailed and we're now entering the more dangerous waters without that protection in place.
There is no panacea. But at least it would be nice to at least be able to say, senator I am pretty sure this video is real and not a deep fake seeing as it has a signature that matches your personal key.
Was his key hacked? Did he give it to a staffer that abused it to embarrass him? Did a quantum computer simply bypass it? Maybe. But at least it's something other than simply hearing him deny that it really is him in a deep faked video.
A Band-Aid on the festering wound that is humanity is still an improvement :-) Well, that's probably darker than I really would put it myself.
