It’s hard to imagine the full effect of America’s modern self-sustaining fascist disinformation ecosystem. It’s an alternate reality that follows the same patterns as cult brainwashing, with the same cognitive effects and resistance to deprogramming. North Korea and Russia have a version of this but modern first-world algorithmic feeds and astroturfing / bots multiply the impact and resilience against real information by a thousand times. The people captured by it don’t know it’s there, even when it wraps them as tightly as a straight jacket.

So: I think the majority of conservatives in the US at least believe ICE is only targeting criminals, and the typically just the worst ones. They don’t even see stories like this unless they’re strong enough to break that propaganda bubble. And when they do, that fascist media treats it as an honest mistake and that the victims are overreacting.

I mean, you (if you’re American) and me. Taxpayers (via the BBB that Trump and his accomplices in congress) have given the DHS/ICE so much money, I doubt Noem would blink at spending tens of millions of our dollars on a PR stunt.

I mean, it’s all in the summary. The agents won’t even be forced to use them. As if this meaningless gesture couldn’t be more hollow and performative.

This is why all copy protection should be Dial-a-Pirate-based.

Yup, but also remember: “tedious” = “relaxed pace”.

We make things less tedious to get more efficiency out of our time. But the asymptote of the efficiency curve is living death.

Hmm, that’s both impressive and disappointing. I’d think for a 65" you’d need to be super close to tell. I assume it’s Samsung’s HDR10 (or +) standard since they refuse to put Dolby Vision on their sets.

You have an 8k screen? Honestly the first person I’ve seen in the wild. How big is it and can you see the resolution difference?

And being a dork isn’t even the problem. I’m a big dork. I like video games and computer nerd stuff. The problem is that incel culture overlaps heavily with nerd culture. Dorks with poor social skills think that it empowers them while it actually just exacerbates and reinforces their insecurities, and stops their emotional development.

His concept of “cool” never got past that 4chan edgelord phase, and he doesn’t even realize how pathetically embarrassing it is.

I’m confused and probably stupid, but…should the guy not be crawling 100 meters versus 1 km (1,000 meters)? What part of my brain has damage from being dropped as a child?

Not sure if police were on hand to arrest or not, but it looks like he was arrested:

The Office of Rep. Omar issued the following statement after the incident:

“During her town hall, an agitator tried to attack the Congresswoman by spraying an unknown substance with a syringe. Security and the Minneapolis Police Department quickly apprehended the individual. He is now in custody. The Congresswoman is okay. She continued with her town hall because she doesn’t let bullies win.”

I guess Trump made this specific accusation because he saw the headlines about him making at least $1.4 billion in his first year back in office, and felt he needed to poison the well.

I know the DOJ has no credibility anymore, but god, imagine a world where they did their job and investigated the $400 million jet, the hundreds of millions of untraceable crypto and meme coins he’s started that foreign actors could use anonymously in violation of FECA and Constitutional emoluments restrictions, the “Board of Peace” donation fund controlled by Trump personally…

Ehhh…The thing about the cycle of violence is it’s a circle. I’d feel better seeing her get just punishment for treason and aiding and abetting murder that lasts the rest of her life with no escape.

Not just circulated. DHS posted the photo on their Twitter in a post claiming the victim was a violent assailant and claiming the weapon in the picture was theirs.

It’s kind of amazing how Trump perfectly represents every type of narcissism, and there doesn’t even seem to be other dimensions to his personality except narcissism:

So yeah, this is what a narcissistic sociopath is. Some of us knew this before 2015 and so none of this is surprising. It’s just so so exhausting.

It’s like that point in a movie where you figured it how it ends and just want it to be over already, but it’s not over, and it’s your life, and also the movie might decide to kill you or kidnap you.

I think this is going to hit like in other industries like programming, and disproportionately affect new artists, artists that are themselves still learning what they like.

Some “tech forward” artists will try to not fight the wave, start using AI, and their drawing skills will never develop, leaving them dependent on it with a ceiling to what they can produce.

Other artists will be blocked and they can never jump from the high-school doodle to one-shot to series steps because the quality curve will become a 90° wall.

Other artists like Inio Asano or similarly innovative newcomers who are just legitimate geniuses will break through, because AI can’t come close to having so innovative or compelling authorial or artistic voice.

Buddy, I mean you no injury as I said, but what exactly are you trying to do here?

I stated that the article was behind a paywall to disclaim, and it was to be honest. If you look at my comment history, you’ll see I’m not like a Reddit karma farmer, just posting superficial headline hot takes. I tried to access the article, saw enough to comment, you responded rudely, so I did what you didn’t - I reflected and thought, sure, better to see all of it, and tracked down the archive link (it’s easy to include that in your post, but sure, I can look it up).

But no, after reading the article, I stand by my comments for the reasons I already gave.

I don’t know who hurt you or why you’re so aggressive, but you’re being very belligerent, and you’re digging in deeper making even more personal attacks. I mean this genuinely: what’s your problem? Really don’t get it.

My commentary wasn’t meant to be an insult to you, but it sounds like you’re taking it personally? My statement wasn’t an “admission” it was a disclaimer.

The comments I made continue to apply, because that is the characterization in those paragraphs. The fact that the article gives more context doesn’t obviate the propaganda effect of the framing characterizations.

That said, the same issue appears in the full article:

• The federal judges of eastern Virginia didn’t “question” the legitimacy of her role (4th ¶), they ruled it was illegitimate.

• Alina Habba didn’t “resign” ((8th ¶) as both characterized here and in the WSJ’s linked prior reporting), she was likewise an invalid appointment.

• The story also ends with a takeaway quote from Bondi making her look reasonable and sad about the departure, rather than leaving with the truth as found by the courts. That end quote has no value except to both-sides/normalize Bondi and the DOJ’s contemptuous and unconstitutional conduct.

The article is paywalled but even in the short summary the WSJ is misreporting in favor of the Trump administration.

Halligan was not serving and did not step down because her 120-day appointment expired, and she ceased to be a US Attorney but kept impersonating one anyway. Then Bondi tried to create a “special counsel” role that did the US Attorney’s job but skirted the time limit. The court rejected this and ordered Halligan to stop acting like a US Attorney, so she stopped instead of being held in contempt.

Halligan couldn’t step down. She was already down. The court didn’t “question her appointment.” They judged she was not properly appointed. This performative action didn’t “cap a fraught tenure” because her appointment was already nullified by the court.

Not surprising with a Murdoch rag, but I hate subtle propaganda like this.

Is this how AI gets initial funding to start to take over the world independent of any owners? I mean, start creating ghost employees, whose salaries are deposited into accounts controlled by the AI, use them to buy components and pay contractors to create data centers with fake owners, and so on?

Thanks, I’ll look into those. I have a Wyze system without cloud features, but I’m sure privacy isn’t perfect.