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aiefel, 3 hours ago to random

Calling these groups "anti-government" is to still buy into their BS. What they have in mind is just a very different kind of regime, it's not anti-government, far from it. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/24/people-rights-network-oregon-elections

aiefel, 1 day ago to random

Good write-up of the absolute failure of StratComs in Georgia. Not surprisingly the NATO-funded project — that looks as anti-democratic as the Russian influence it was attempting to counter — appears to have been designed in UK.
You don't win by copying them, that just make their case for them.
https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/nato-helped-georgia-counter-russian-trolls-then-the-strategy-backfired/

aiefel, 1 day ago to random

Reporting by @zack on how Modi's regime is "pushing the world’s largest democracy toward an authoritarian future" and targeting its critics at home and abroad... https://www.vox.com/world-politics/24160779/inside-indias-secret-campaign-to-threaten-and-harass-americans

aiefel, 1 day ago to random

Encouraging to see that efforts to hold those in the Assad regime still persist.
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/is-the-assad-regime-finally-facing-some-justice-trial-of-syrian-officials-in-paris/

aiefel, 2 days ago to random

Occasionally I look at Facebook via someone else's account and I see how much it's continued to slide and I can't fathom how people still live like that.

aiefel, 4 days ago to random

Some people just don't have the microplastics it takes to make the hard calls.

I gotta hand it to you, that took a lot of microplastics.

You got a lot of microplastics comin' back around here after what you pulled!

aiefel, 4 days ago to random

Everyone in the next video meeting point your camera slightly at an angle so no one looks like they're breaking the fourth wall.

aiefel, 4 days ago to random

Antony Blinken always looks like he's one of the sales guys at the bottom of the board in Glengarry Glen Ross.

aiefel, 4 days ago to random

Emory University is dealing with AI about as well as the rest of the world, only in reverse. We find companies misusing it and give them a pass. Emory boldly inverts the model...
a) give students a grant to make an AI thing.
b) suspend the students for making it.
c) admit there was no evidence that anyone ever misused it.
https://www.404media.co/university-suspends-students-for-ai-homework-tool-it-paid-them-10-000-to-make/

aiefel, 5 days ago to random

And on the seventh day, The Lord ran package manager updates.

aiefel, 5 days ago to random

Make 'delete' mean something again.

aiefel, 5 days ago to random

"There is a global cost to opposing the International Criminal Court. With U.S. and European support, the court is seeking to prosecute President Vladimir Putin for alleged crimes in Ukraine. The court promotes the global interest in accountability for the worst crimes under international law. Attacks on it only benefit those who, like Mr. Putin, seek to delegitimize its existence." — @davidkaye
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/20/opinion/palestinians-israel-international-criminal-court-justice.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tk0.RuRe.Zj-X3_rEG1nS&smid=url-share

aiefel, 5 days ago to random

Copilot recording an endless series of me pasting text, clicking undo, and then doing paste special > unformatted text.

aiefel, 5 days ago to random

"Recall records everything users do on their PC, including activities in apps, communications in live meetings, and websites visited for research. Despite encryption and local storage, the new feature raises privacy concerns for certain Windows users."

Concerns. You don't fucking say.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/

aiefel, 5 days ago to random

Zoom decided to be worse than 2012 era Skype or something a goal.