Entry: 2025-04-30 00:41:36.942048+02 How we should write by Dan Lyke comments 1
theHigherGeometer @highergeometer@mathstodon.xyz
People are saying we should write jumble words to mess up the training of AIs; I say we should just write sentences like those of the length Jane Austen would write, that have such non-local structure and nested clauses that, what with the drift of attention and the window of tokens, the LLMs might start to emulate said sentences and then start to drift; one should also throw in even more semicolons (and, why not, nested parentheticals (and even em-dash-separated asides—who doesn't love author commentary—to pad out the length) for the additional context they give)—but of course, also trying to keep in mind the general readability of the flow of ideas: know your audience, after all; for me, I'm happy to just be typing into the void as a release-valve for my thoughts, even if none of you are still reading by this point; I would much rather write—and read!—read something like this than have to and and/or subtract all the additional nonsense words; even better would be Proustian nested clauses and inverted grammar, but that, unlike run-on sentences, does not come so easily, unlike (apparently) to 19th century German journalists (but of course in German one can split the verbs as far apart as one likes).
Or not.
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Entry: 2025-04-18 20:11:39.840938+02 Maybe violence is the answer? by Dan Lyke comments 2
Kelly McBride at NPR: How does NPR cover peaceful protests when the only news is the protest?
"Not Very Compelling": How NPR Dismissed the Largest Protests of 2025
McBride's position essentially argues that mass protests only become newsworthy when they turn violent or disruptive. She writes that “once a protest movement results in conflict or property damage, NPR journalists covering the protests will often note the exception.” This creates a perverse incentive: want coverage? Create conflict.
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Entry: 2025-04-12 18:08:51.08637+02 Acceptance saves lives by Dan Lyke comments 0
Stored for dropping a link in the replies the next time some old high school classmate posts some anti-trans stuff on the social media. (I can't find it right now, which is why I'm saving this off, but it was some bigoted bullshit about about equating acceptance with bad parenting.)
The TGNB youth assigned male at birth with acceptance from at least one adult had 40% lower odds of attempting suicide in the past year compared with TGNB youth who were not accepted (aOR=0.60), and TGNB youth assigned female at birth with acceptance from at least one adult had 29% lower odds of attempting suicide compared with those who were not accepted (aOR=0.71). Acceptance from at least one peer was associated with 46% lower odds of attempting suicide in the past year for TGNB youth assigned male at birth (aOR=0.54) and 27% lower odds of attempting suicide in the past year for TGNB youth assigned female at birth (aOR=0.73).
doi:10.1089/trgh.2021.0079
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Entry: 2025-04-09 18:27:53.256126+02 Border Patrol lying by Dan Lyke comments 0
Nationwide there are roughly four times more Border Patrol than ICE agents. In El Centro, there are five Border Patrol agents whose job it is to produce videos.
Their latest project is a series of fictionalized videos portraying migrants crossing the border as menaces with a bloodlust to commit crimes. Bovino shared the first video on social media with the caption: “Any town. Any neighborhood. Any family. When heartless criminals, sex offenders, and human traffickers illegally enter the United States and get away, they prey on our children, the most vulnerable members of our communities.”
We know, of course, that immigrants, both documented and undocumented, statistically are less likely to engage in criminal activity than citizens.
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Entry: 2025-04-04 17:52:43.539275+02 Breaking News by Dan Lyke comments 0
Columbia Journalism Review: Whale vs Shark:
Independent journalist Ken Klippenstein was just bustin’ with pride over his March 28 story: “New Rubio order (leaked to me) directs the State Department to spy on student visa holders and applicants [on] social media,” he posted on Bluesky and X. He got the buzz that he wanted with thousands of reposts, and presumably a traffic boost to his $100-a-year site.</blockquote
If you had a sense of déjà lu, it’s probably because you’d already read this piece, titled “State Dept. demands ‘enhanced’ social media vetting of student visa applicants,” by Marisa Kabas, another independent journalist. Her story ran a full two days before Klippenstein’s. (And Kabas’s version was more authoritative and better-written.)
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Entry: 2025-03-31 21:24:19.545594+02 China, Japan, South Korea jointly respond to US tariffs by Dan Lyke comments 0
Well, the Trump administration is certainly bringing nations together... China, Japan, South Korea will jointly respond to US tariffs, Chinese state media says
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Entry: 2025-03-24 03:05:21.015209+01 Pentagon blames AI by Dan Lyke comments 0
Trump administration blames removal of Black and Latino veteran content on AI
"We enforced an aggressive timeline for our DOD services and agencies to comb through a vast array of content, while ensuring that our force remains ready and lethal," said Sean Parnell, U.S. Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, when discussing President Donald Trump's administration's efforts to eliminate all content it considers DEI from federal agencies. Parnell admitted that, "Every now and then, because of the realities of AI tools and other software, some important content was incorrectly pulled offline to be reviewed."
Pentagon Says It's Using AI to Delete Pages About History That's Too Woke
Pentagon admits to mistakes in campaign against ‘DEI’ content
Articles and images about Jackie Robinson and the Navajo Code Talkers were removed from Defense Department social media and websites.
And, apparently, Betty White (also).
It's pretty plain here that the "mistake" was "got caught being super hella racist". And it's also plain that AI is being used as a crumple zone here, although AI is gonna be super hella racist because of its training corpus.
Also, reminded of that IBM slide from 1979: "A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision." "AI" is being used as a crumple zone here.
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Entry: 2025-03-21 16:32:31.856912+01 The Verge apologizes by Dan Lyke comments 0
The Verge: We ran the wrong headline about Trump firing the FTC commissioners
What Trump did on Tuesday was wackadoodle beyond belief. It violated Supreme Court precedent from 1935 — Humphrey’s Executor v. US, a case that is literally about the limits of presidential power when it comes to firing FTC commissioners. The White House has good reason to know this, not just because it employs lawyers who have, presumably, taken first-year classes at law school, but also because the acting solicitor-general has said the Justice Department is going to try to overturn Humphrey’s Executor; the current Republican chair of the FTC has also said outright that Humphrey’s Executor is wrong.
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Entry: 2025-03-11 18:02:09.715832+01 AI Search has a citation problem by Dan Lyke comments 0
Columbia Journalism Review: AI Search Has A Citation Problem
Chatbots’ responses to our queries were often confidently wrong
Overall, the chatbots often failed to retrieve the correct articles. Collectively, they provided incorrect answers to more than 60 percent of queries. Across different platforms, the level of inaccuracy varied, with Perplexity answering 37 percent of the queries incorrectly, while Grok 3 had a much higher error rate, answering 94 percent of the queries incorrectly.
TechMeme rounds up coverage, got this from Their Fediverse feed.
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Entry: 2025-03-06 01:20:02.085039+01 On web ads by Dan Lyke comments 0
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal makes an announcement about dropping their ad provider relationship, and it really makes me wonder if there's an opportunity here for an ad aggregator that doesn't suck. Maybe even for vendors that don't suck?
Some promise that ads are going to be of reasonable size, aren't gonna mine crypto... Heck, it might even be possible to do a little vetting on vendors so that, unlike, say, Facebook, or those ad blocks at the bottom of smaller newspaper sites, we don't automatically say "ewww, scammy" and avoid clicking on them at all costs.
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Entry: 2025-03-01 01:04:14.918707+01 Vance embarasses the US by Dan Lyke comments 0
So apparently today Donald Trump and JD Vance showed their whole asses and were owned by Zelenskyy in their attempts to give the rare earth parts of Ukraine to Putin. The response was predictable, Europe realizes they can't trust the US.
All as Pete Hegseth has ordered US Cyber Command to stand down on Russia planning (the entire scope isn't clear) and Peter Navarro denies reports that he's floated kicking Canada from Five Eyes.
BrianKrebs @briankrebs@infosec.exchange
We are so getting cut out of intel sharing agreements by our allies over this. I mean, if they have a brain. Anyone with intel training 101 (that isn't Israel) will conclude that the US cannot be a trusted intel sharing partner anymore.
Adam Shostack @adamshostack@infosec.exchange
I’m old enough to remember when Ronald Reagan stood in front of the Berlin Wall and said “Mr Gorbachev, how much of east Germany’s minerals are you willing to give us?”
At this point I think we can safely assume there's a moderate chance that the US will leverage access to their cloud companies to bully other countries, or do something that could get them embargoed. Having data in AWS, in gmail, in iCloud is a liability
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Entry: 2025-02-27 18:37:33.623925+01 Alibaba porn generation by Dan Lyke comments 0
If porn is at the root of technological innovation, maybe there is something to this GenAI craze after all? 404 Media: Alibaba Releases Advanced Open Video Model, Immediately Becomes AI Porn Machine
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Entry: 2025-02-12 17:25:53.864505+01 AI chatbots inaccurately "summarize" by Dan Lyke comments 0
Not news to anyone who's been using LLMs to create summaries, but AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds.
In the study, the BBC asked ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini and Perplexity to summarise 100 news stories and rated each answer.
It got journalists who were relevant experts in the subject of the article to rate the quality of answers from the AI assistants.
Deborah Turness - AI Distortion is new threat to trusted information
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Entry: 2025-02-06 23:32:43.824462+01 KleptoCapture shutdown by Dan Lyke comments 0
Hard to view Pam Bondi's shutdown of the USDOJ's Task Force KleptoCapture (PDF) as anything other than a straight-up giveaway to Putin's croniess.
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Entry: 2025-01-31 19:12:44.263148+01 Privacy Settings by Dan Lyke comments 0
In response to Zuckerberg Says 'Everything I Say Leaks' in Leaked Meeting Audio, Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social snarks:
If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.”
The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out
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Entry: 2025-01-19 16:10:03.097491+01 I'm so old I remember when we looked by Dan Lyke comments 0
I'm so old I remember when we looked askance at the Soviet Union and China for heavily controlling media access.
This morning my feed is full of discussions of using shady VPNs to route Internet traffic through other places to bypass state and federal media access controls.
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Entry: 2025-01-16 16:16:01.841322+01 Xiaohongshu by Dan Lyke comments 0
A while back for work I was traveling to Hong Kong, and even into China, and it was always impressive to me how many people there spoke English. I was, for a while, trying to learn enough written Chinese to at least be able to flag down the right cart in a dim sum restaurant (I have eaten way more types of intestine than I ever thought I would), and when people saw me practicing glyphs they'd engage me to practice their English with an American. A few people tried to teach me some Cantonese words, but generally shook their heads sadly at my pronunciation and difficulty hearing some of the sounds.
So I find it very amusing that Americans are learning at least written Chinese, if not Mandarin, because US social media companies decided that the best way to compete with a video platform was to dupe lawmakers into enacting a protectionist ban.
TikTok users flock to Chinese app RedNote as US ban looms
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Entry: 2025-01-10 00:55:02.750316+01 Hugs to my friends with trauma from the by Dan Lyke comments 0
Hugs to my friends with trauma from the Tubbs Fire who are having their social media feeds filled with all of the pictures from the Southern California fires and having flashbacks.
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Entry: 2024-12-24 16:50:03.578635+01 So we watched the Finding Mr by Dan Lyke comments 0
So we watched the "Finding Mr Christmas" movie ("Happy Howlidays"), and they were saddled with an awful script, but I can't help but think of how it might have been with Elijah or Hayden. But, it's media designed for a particular audience and purpose, ya don't look for emotional depth and backstory on the metaphorical pizza delivery guy.
Anyway, can drop the Hallmark+ subscription now, and for those braindead nights where we want something to watch look for things with a more redeeming message.
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Entry: 2024-12-24 07:20:01.967154+01 Oh damn One of the ugliest things to by Dan Lyke comments 0
Oh damn: " One of the ugliest things to point out about American white supremacist culture is that it’s not viewed as rape until the victim is old enough (18+) to give consent." Metafilter user Callisto Prime on media using "underage sex" vs "statutory rape" in talking about the Gaetz report.
https://www.metafilter.com/206...Laws-and-Violates-Ethics#8664934
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Entry: 2024-12-20 19:30:08.523093+01 your actual goddamn policy by Dan Lyke comments 0
Yesterday at lunch I was reminded that, when a local City Council member whom I admire said something about "policies that reflect our values", I quietly observed that the cynical among us might say that they already do. And apparently the room, more than I noticed at the time, went "oh, damn." (and "that's cold", and...)
Anyway, there's a polarizing figure on the nerd social media that has a long rant this morning on culture and kindness and this pull-quote is repeated here, for emphasis.
Soatok Dreamsoaker: The Better Daemons Of Our Profession
The in-practice consequences of any policy is your actual goddamn policy.
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Entry: 2024-12-17 17:49:05.242436+01 Serving the machine by Dan Lyke comments 0
I think these two things are related:
David Gerard @davidgerard@circumstances.run
Microsoft refuses pull request to put documentation in readable table form because LLMs are bad at parsing tables https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/WSL/pull/2021
Edit: Same sentiment with more text at Pivot To AI.
Jef Poskanzer :batman: @jef@mastodon.social
Which is worse, newspaper websites or restaurant websites?
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Entry: 2024-12-05 17:12:04.91014+01 Anthem screwing anesthesia patients by Dan Lyke comments 0
Not United Healthcare, but... make sure your state's Insurance Commissioner is paying attention: Big Insurer Sets Time Limits On Anesthesia Coverage During Surgeries — A surprise medical bill could be waiting for you when you wake up in the recovery room.
The new policy published last month by Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield means patients will not know whether they’re going to be stuck with the massive bill until they wake up from surgery. The policy change will affect more than eight million people covered by Anthem’s commercial and Medicaid insurance plans in Connecticut, New York, and Missouri.
Edit: Anthem backtracks in Connecticut.
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Entry: 2024-12-05 17:03:37.982631+01 United Healthcare links of the moment by Dan Lyke comments 0
Apropos of ... uhh ...
How did we end up with Change Healthcare as the linchpin of the entire American prescription system? Well, first Unitedhealthcare became the largest health insurer in America by buying all its competitors in a series of mergers that comatose antitrust regulators failed to block. Then it combined all those other companies' IT systems into a cosmic-scale dog's breakfast that barely ran. Then it bought Change and used its monopoly power to ensure that every Rx ran through Change's servers, which were part of that asbestos-filled, termite-infested, crack-foundationed, sag-joisted teardown. Then, it got hacked.
So when a California regulator cited United for its algorithm-driven practice in 2018, its corrective plan applied only to market plans based in California.
When Massachusetts’ attorney general forced it to restrict the system in 2020 for one of the largest health plans there, the prosecutor’s power ended at the state line.
And when New York’s attorney general teamed up with the U.S. Department of Labor on one of the most expansive investigations in history of an insurer’s efforts to limit mental health care coverage — one in which they scored a landmark, multimillion-dollar victory against United — none of it made an ounce of difference to the millions whose plans fell outside their purview.
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Entry: 2024-12-04 21:15:02.859751+01 My Mastodon feed right now is about 13 by Dan Lyke comments 0
My Mastodon feed right now is about 1/3 people talking about various healthcare struggles (like stretching drugs that have hit healthcare plan limits through the year, other struggles with coverage), 1/3 shitposting, and 1/3 discussion of the United Healthcare CEO assassination.
Can't help but think the first and last there are linked.
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Entry: 2024-11-10 01:15:02.737859+01 Dear social media websites Reloading by Dan Lyke comments 2
Dear social media websites: Reloading your shit and blowing away my in-progress comment is not a feature.
And I wouldn't even be on Nextdoor except that the nEXTdoORTION business model of amplifying hate and rage unless you "volunteer" to moderate and fact-check makes it a necessity.
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Entry: 2024-11-07 21:04:37.755789+01 What went wrong by Dan Lyke comments 0
Qasim Rashid — What Went Wrong in the Democratic Party? Lots of good stuff here, about how the Democrats have lost their social media game, how Biden promised to be a one term President and then reneged, but also:
The Democratic Party’s obsession with courting Republican voters by moving to the center is an abject failure of a strategy. In 2020 the Biden Administration actively courted Republicans. Only 6% of registered Republicans flipped party lines and voted for him. In 2024, Kamala Harris actively courted Republicans, promising to appoint a Republican to her cabinet, inviting former Republican members of Congress Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger to speak at the DNC, and even proudly accepting the endorsement of former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney—a man credibly accused of war crimes by Amnesty International. As a result, a whopping 5% of registered Republicans flipped party lines and voted for her, while 4% of Democrats flipped party lines and voted for Trump. All that for a net 1% gain, while losing young people nearly 30% to Trump. A truly failed strategy.
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Entry: 2024-11-06 18:26:43.425118+01 Ate, slayed and served by Dan Lyke comments 0
Ate, slayed and served: How LGBTQ+ social media pioneers new language
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Entry: 2024-11-05 22:55:01.923162+01 More on all the helicopter by Dan Lyke comments 0
More on all the helicopter traffic: https://www.petaluma360.com/ar...news/police-petaluma-man-marina/
"Unconfirmed police scanner reports and witness accounts on social media said the man was complaining about Tuesday’s election."
The article says "in the river", others listening to scanner suggest he's stolen a kayak.
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Entry: 2024-11-05 16:24:48.319441+01 Election Results by Dan Lyke comments 0
Some years ago I spent the evening at the studio of a local public broadcaster mashing reload on various websites to try to give the on air folks something to talk about on election night. This evening we'll be attending an election night gathering, and I already have the California Secretary of State election results site in a tab on my phone, but there's no way we're gonna know the results before we run out of steam.
So just watch this, and you've got all the news coverage you need until tomorrow: The Onion: Election Touchscreen Map Takes Deeper Look Inside Key Swing Voter (YouTube)
And, because I won't be able to actually keep from horse-race coverage, Time and the AP: See a Map of the 2024 Presidential Race Results
Sonoma County election results (from the County Clerk's office page on the elections)
California Secretary of State election results
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Entry: 2024-10-16 00:02:54.929255+02 Muah uh oh by Dan Lyke comments 0
Reminder that when you hook up with a computer, you're hooking up with every computer that that computer might ever hook up with... AI girlfriend site breached, user fantasies stolen:
A hacker has stolen a massive database of users’ interactions with their sexual partner chatbots, according to 404 Media.
The breached service, Muah.ai, describes itself as a platform that lets people engage in AI-powered companion NSFW chat, exchange photos, and even have voice chats.
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Entry: 2024-10-10 16:28:44.473559+02 Reporting Non-Consensual Intimate Medi by Dan Lyke comments 0
Reporting Non-Consensual Intimate Media: An Audit Study of Deepfakes
Abstract: Non-consensual intimate media (NCIM) inflicts significant harm. Currently, victim-survivors can use two mechanisms to report NCIM—as a non-consensual nudity violation or as copyright in- fringement. We conducted an audit study of takedown speed of NCIM reported to X (formerly Twitter) of both mechanisms. We uploaded 50 AI-generated nude images and reported half under X’s “non-consensual nudity” reporting mechanism and half under its “copyright infringement” mechanism. The copyright condition resulted in successful image removal within 25 hours for all images (100% removal rate), while non-consensual nudity reports resulted in no image removal for over three weeks (0% removal rate). We stress the need for targeted legislation to regulate NCIM removal online. We also discuss ethical considerations for auditing NCIM on social platforms.
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Entry: 2024-09-29 22:00:02.46597+02 That realization that it's the people by Dan Lyke comments 0
That realization that it's the people who've made social media unpleasant, especially local social media, who are loudest about their determination to guide the future of a city...
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Entry: 2024-09-29 20:15:02.605232+02 Listening to Kirk Hamilton of Strong by Dan Lyke comments 0
Listening to Kirk Hamilton, of Strong Songs, talking with Dave Hamilton (no relation) on Gig Gab, and they're talking about media fads.
I think we can draw a line from Facebook faking video engagement numbers through VR/AR to the LLM bubble.
(Aside: identifying "Wendy" in Springsteen's "Born To Run" with Peter Pan is cool...)
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Entry: 2024-09-20 19:08:05.51425+02 NBC on Musk amplifying Tenet Media by Dan Lyke comments 0
NBC catching on to what Kevin Beaumont saw: How Elon Musk amplified content from a suspected Russian election interference plot. NBC's spin is interesting:
Musk, apparently unaware of the company’s Russia funding source, engaged with content from Tenet Media and its creators at least 60 times.
Given that the dude is clearly deeply engaged with foreign interests on many fronts, I think Mike Spooner's observation that "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice" applies.
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Entry: 2024-09-18 18:45:02.013407+02 lot of folks are dunking on Mozilla for by Dan Lyke comments 0
A lot of folks are dunking on Mozilla for dropping its Fediverse instance, including me, but I think it really speaks to how difficult it is to run a social media node that isn't awful.
As I see the NextDOortion awfulness play out, and Facebook trying to cram content that isn't my friends down my throat, it's a reminder that social connection is hard to make profitable, and most vendors are horrendously exploitive to make it a business...
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Entry: 2024-09-15 18:56:55.426353+02 Griling Cats by Dan Lyke comments 6
What's most amazing about this story isn't that someone posted something horribly racist on a local Facebook group, I mean, that's what Nextdoor and local Facebook groups *do*. It's the layers of racism that led this to be amplified to the national level. I'm kind of fringe in how much I believe racism permeates the world around me, indeed, even in my own beliefs which I try to examine and adjust, but... Dayumn.
'It just exploded': Springfield woman claims she never meant to spark false rumors about Haitians
Meanwhile, yeah, there's a blurry video of someone grilling stuff (hard to tell fromthe video, could be chicken) that's allegedly from Dayton floating around, JD Vance shares social media post about immigrants cooking pets in Dayton, city refutes it, Ohio police dispute new allegations immigrants are eating pets in Dayton
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Entry: 2024-09-05 21:00:11.509176+02 Big ol' Russian misinfo campaign by Dan Lyke comments 0
If you've noticed an uptick in franticness about "deep state" from your Russian apologist acquaintances....
US Department of Justice: Two RT Employees Indicted for Covertly Funding and Directing U.S. Company that Published Thousands of Videos in Furtherance of Russian Interests. In addition to being involved in the editorial direction,
Between in or about October 2023 and in or about August 2024, RT sent wire transfers to U.S. Company-1 totaling approximately $9.7 million, which represented nearly 90% of U.S. Company-1’s bank deposits from all sources combined.
Though the US DOJ didn't name the company in question, it's widely reported to be Tenet Media (Wired, Mother Jones).
Kevin Beaumont @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social points out an Elon Musk trait.
US DOJ: Justice Department Disrupts Covert Russian Government-Sponsored Foreign Malign Influence Operation Targeting Audiences in the United States and Elsewhere. From the affidavit.
The cybersquatted domains used by Doppelganger generally are not indexed by search engines. A visit to the standalone domain, such as www.washingtonpost[.]pm, reveals a blank page or an error page. Rather, as its primary method of distribution, Doppelganger created fraudulent social media personas impersonating U.S. citizens to post article-specific extended hyperlinks to the cybersquatted domains on those social media platforms.
The actual domain names start on p70 of the affidavit...
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Entry: 2024-08-15 04:11:34.067981+02 Jayson Gillham performances canceled over Gaza remarks by Dan Lyke comments 0
Oh, look, we've found cancel culture: Pianist's Melbourne show cancelled over Gaza remarks
Jayson Gillham premiered Witness at a show at the MSO on Sunday. The piece was penned by another composer as a tribute to the Palestinian press.
The British-Australian was scheduled to perform again on Thursday, but the MSO has said it is reworking the programme after Gillham introduced the piece by saying Israel had killed more than 100 journalists.
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Entry: 2024-08-10 00:25:10.10271+02 X C&D by Dan Lyke comments 0
Giggle: McSweeney's: X Sends a Cease and Desist Letter to a Former User by Randal Cooper
(Just so I can find this in the future: the social media disaster formerly known as Twitter)
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