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404mediaco, 9 hours ago to random

Google's own researchers now say AI is a top vector of disinfo, in a paper that severely and obviously undercounts the problem

https://www.404media.co/google-says-ai-now-leading-disinformation-vector-and-is-severely-undercounting-the-problem/

adamconover, 1 hour ago to random

New video essay out now on YouTube! How Google RUINED the Internet

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GossiTheDog, 57 minutes ago to random

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realjuddlegum, 1 hour ago to random

Hello!

I'm hiring a reporter for my newsletter, Popular Information.

If you are a talented reporter looking for a job, please apply.

If you know anyone in that category, please spread the word.

https://popular.info/p/reporter-popular-information

GreatestTrek, 1 hour ago to StarTrek

All good things... must come to an end. The Streaming Syboktacular will be leaving at Midnight on Thursday, 5/30.

Click here to watch before it leaves: https://t.co/bWCcFMpYGQ

#streamingsyboktacular #greatesttrek #startrek #startrekv

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JonBaker, 1 day ago to random

GOOGLE 2004: Don’t be evil

GOOGLE 2024: Don’t be useful

textfiles, 1 day ago to random

A DDOS against the Internet Archive has commenced again, timed for maximum pain for the California staff to deal with. (I don't sleep, but I also can't do anything on the infrastructure here.)

So, we're down until people wake up to deal with the constant DOOS against us because... reasons

mikey, 1 day ago to random

I'm just a man. Standing in front of literally every US bank. Begging them to offer something other than SMS for MFA...

Aikiwomannc, 21 hours ago to random

Not me losing 3 hours and forgetting dinner because I went into a rabbit hole of lock picking videos and now I'm questioning every lock I have.

annaghughes, 1 day ago to random

I hate that little plastic window on spaghetti boxes. I don't need to have a little peek at the noodles I'm not a pervert

GreatestTrek, 1 day ago to Podcasts

On today's #GreatestGen, the Enterprise crew discovers that the magnitude of their boredom is nothing compared to the vastness of space. They hastily scramble to visit a ship that would give Event Horizon a run for its money.

Listen to the full episode at https://gagh.biz/greatestgen
#greatestgen #MaxFun #MaximumFun #Podcasts #FriendsOfDesoto #Fod #StarTrekEnterprise

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CartyBoston, 1 day ago to random

Welp, it's time for me to get serious about where he will deport me to. Naples, I think, my people are from Ischia.

Douche.

virtualbri, 1 day ago to streaming

Something especially funny about watching a mystery about a murder during a TV shoot that gets TV shooting all wrong.

I mean, they’re doing one. Can’t imagine what the crew was thinking during it.

#Mystery #Streaming #Fail

Andy_European, 2 days ago to random

"This is how free speech is actually chilled—vengeful dipshit billionaires"

https://www.commondreams.org/news/elon-musk-media-matters-suit

NickGates, 1 day ago to random

Star Trek: Sean O'Brien

LGS, 2 days ago to random

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/05/dns-glitch-that-threatened-internet-stability-fixed-cause-remains-unclear/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2WPgK7w_udJdBDN11jHlFzvCjLbnkvjn1WpVm5SF_NEt6oolof74Detfk_aem_AbxrJSovPLKMuPav-bK1-2o7fjfI6CtU6ltS_v4zrr4jIU3-yP37SmZuNFumGwF1jUAKieHsO9MSfTi4An_h8qcs #dns #dnssec #t1d

GoodAaron, 2 days ago to random

Thank you to everyone streaming #StarTrekProdigy today, making fanart, and sending kind words.

It warms the depths of our cold, calculating Vulcan hearts!

42402dot7, 2 days ago to random

We interrupt this program for an important message from Hoshi's slug. #GreatestGen

tzimmer_history, 3 days ago to random

Weekend reading: I wrote about the fascism debate

Two essays on the stakes, the scholarship, the key arguments, and the politics of the question of whether or not Trumpism is best understood as fascism that is revealing key fault lines on the Left.

Part I: https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/fascism-in-america

Part II: https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/the-anti-liberal-left-has-a-fascism

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Screenshot of Part II of my “Democracy Americana” newsletter on the fascism debate: “The Anti-Liberal Left Has a Fascism Problem: Prominent leftwing intellectuals are allowing their singular, disdain-driven focus on (neo-) liberalism to completely distort their perspective on the Right”

dangillmor, 3 days ago to random

The cops who tortured a bogus murder "confession" out of a man -- even threatening to kill his dog along the way -- are still employed by the Fontana, Calif., police department. The city's taxpayers paid for the $900,000 lawsuit settlement.

https://www.sbsun.com/2024/05/23/fontana-pays-nearly-900000-for-psychological-torture-inflicted-by-police-to-get-false-confession/

This tells you everything you need to know about police impunity.

dangillmor, 3 days ago to random

Google doesn't seem to realize that its AI "search" isn't just comically wrong on occasion. It's a reputation killer.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/google-ai-im-feeling-depressed-cheese-not-sticking-to-pizza-error-rcna153301

GossiTheDog, 4 days ago to random

"Nobody uses Mastodon"

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kjhealy, 4 days ago to random

The horror twist of course is that it turns out the skeleton is also me

kennwhite, 3 days ago to random

I'm so old I remember when Google said their mission was to organize the world's information.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/google-ai-im-feeling-depressed-cheese-not-sticking-to-pizza-error-rcna153301

pluralistic, 4 days ago to random

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: They brick you because they can; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/24/record-scratch/

#Pluralistic

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The interior of a luxury sedan as seen from the driver's PoV, with the driver's hands on the wheel. Mounted to the vent is a Spotify 'Car Thing' - a $90 tablet designed to stream Spotify music. The image has been altered. The sky behind the driver's windscreen is animated TV static. The album thumbnail on the Car Thing UI has been replaced with a 'code waterfall' effect as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. A skeletal robed figure, clutching a sheaf of documents headed with the Spotify logo, reaches out a bony finger to prod at the Car Thing from the left side of the image.