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Comment Behold US Fascism - China and Russia already won (Score 0) 148

This entire generation is lost on the House Un-American Activities Committee under Truman and the era of McCarthyism. This is no different except the medium has changed, and they can't tell human from machine, foreign or domestic. So, all content is now potentially unamerican if it's declared, without any proof, russian, chinese or some other adversarial information. Can you imagine what will happen if we don't unilaterally address the danger that the first amendment and free speech poses? Dangerous russian and chinese thought might show up elsewhere, too! That russian/chinese influence might just pop out of the app store into bookshelves at your local library or bookstore, or somehow make it into newspapers! Better get burning those, too!

Anything can be attributed to be foreign content and banned on those grounds. Hunter Biden's laptop story, authenticated now by the FBI to be true, was declared at the time to be russian disinformation/malinformation and thus censored from the voter being aware of a corruption scandal involving the then-VP Biden. THAT in and of itself is election manipulation.

I wonder how quickly e-mail will be considered too dangerous. Does the content contain some sort of information? Maybe delivering and quarantining the message that helpless American exposed will be justified. Why not? It's already been done on social media, let's go straight for the protocols that enable it to still spread.

Comment Re:Fuck censorship (Score 1) 53

It's a little ironic that the OG system Slashdot is now polluted by users who have been trained on derivatives (Digg, Reddit) and fester in a culture that they know that points means visbility. Reddit's entire culture is trained on collective voting means visibility, and enough downvotes mean suppression. Forget the role of a moderator, it's about having the power stick for 15 whole points to express it. It's still better than Reddit, I'd be quarantined/shadowbanned for making a quip like that.

Comment Fuck censorship (Score 3, Insightful) 53

As we've all expected, algorithms covertly and now overtly are being shaped to form our opinions and limit access to information.
Information must be free. Any suggestion of misinformation is only an advocacy of censorship.

As if google's search results/algorithms are more representative of the truth than an LLM prompted to spit out search summaries under it's own secret proprietary criteria...

And people are still upset about a little J6 rally, and now they don't even have to hide what they did leading up to 2020, they're getting the public to accept and defend taking away their right to freedom of speech and categorical bans of whatever the government or their "fact checkers" to be disinformation/misinformation, or... my favorite, malinformation - information that's true but inconvenient.

Comment Re:And that is why you wire security cameras... (Score 1) 174

by detritus. (#64238658) Attached to: Wi-Fi Jamming To Knock Out Cameras Suspected In Nine Minnesota Burglaries

There's beauty in having local SD cards in these puppies, if nothing else, they should have options to buffer there while offline. Would be nice if there was some standard to re-stream or push missed video back to a DVR while connectivity was blocked. To my knowledge there isn't one but I could be wrong.

Comment 2.4% goes to video games. (Score 1) 106

by detritus. (#64211088) Attached to: Over 2 Percent of the US's Electricity Generation Now Goes To Bitcoin

Over 2.4% of our energy goes to video games: https://link.springer.com/arti...

You won't see propaganda attacking video games' energy consumption, not when video games can greatly influence content narratives and stories to train a whole generation to think and vote a certain way.

People who are obsessed with how computers are used only bellow cryptocurrency mining are typically censors and authoritarians.

Comment China is worried about being humiliated? (Score 1) 74

I'm sorry, but fuck China's feelings about anger and humiliation over a weather balloon. The Wuhan Lab is the elephant in the room, and they haven't faced any consequences for it. Why? Well, because our government would be angry and humiliated too, because they were also involved. Angry and humiliated governments conquer, eliminate or imprison those who make them feel that way.

Submission + - US Senate Approves NDAA'S backdoor Surveillance on American Citizens

Submitted by Maestro 785
Maestro 785 writes: In an eleventh-hour push to secure funding before the year's end, the Senate passed a $886 billion defense spending proposal on Wednesday, backed by President Joe Biden. The bill, which includes provisions for Ukraine, annual pay increases for military personnel, and the reauthorization of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), has sparked significant controversy due to concerns over warrantless surveillance of American citizens.

The NDAA allocates funding for various Pentagon objectives, such as training and equipment. It received bipartisan approval in the Senate, with a majority vote of 87-13. This marks the 61st consecutive year that Congress has moved forward with the crucial defense budget measure.

Amidst mounting global security challenges, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer emphasized the significance of passing the NDAA. He underscored the need to confront Russia, stand firm against the Chinese Communist Party, and ensure that America's defense capabilities remain cutting-edge.
Read more here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/p...

Submission + - AI Cameras Took Over One Small American Town. Now They're Everywhere (404media.co)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: This is a demonstration of Fusus, an AI-powered system that is rapidly springing up across small town America and major cities alike. Fusus’ product not only funnels live feeds from usually siloed cameras into one central location, but also adds the ability to scan for people wearing certain clothes, carrying a particular bag, or look for a certain vehicle.

404 Media has obtained a cache of internal emails, presentations, memos, photos, and more which provide insight into how Fusus teams up with police departments to sell its surveillance technology. All around the country, city councils are debating whether they want to have a system that qualitatively changes what surveillance cameras mean for a town’s residents and public agencies. While many have adopted Fusus, others have pushed back, and refused to have the hardware and software installed in their neighborhoods.

Submission + - SPAM: Israeli's Tesla saved him. Hamas shot for the engine then chased him at 110mph 2

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: This Israeli's Tesla saved him. Hamas tried to shoot the engine but when they saw it was electric they hopped in their trucks ... the Tesla outran them at 110mph ON FLAT TIRES all the way to the ER

An Israeli man, only identified by the initial "C" found himself surrounded by Hamas on the day of the invasion on his way to report to the city's emergency squad.

The Hamas fighters started immediately firing upon the man in his Tesla Model 3, aiming at the back and the front of the car. However, since the Tesla is an electric vehicle with no front engine, they were unable to disable the car with the shots.

"They did not realize that it was an electric vehicle, so they shot at the front, hoping to hit the engine that was not there, and at the back, trying to set the fuel tank on fire that the car doesn't have. They shot my tires. I stepped on the gas and they started chasing me," C. said.

C. was chased by the jihadists and reached speeds of over 110 miles per hour. This is while the Tesla had a flat tire.

C. credited the Tesla's all-wheel drive mode for keeping him on the road. He was able to outrun the truck that was chasing him and made it to the hospital to receive treatment for the gunshot wounds he sustained.
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Submission + - 'Verified' OSINT Accounts Are Destroying the Israel-Palestine Information Ecosys (404media.co)

Submitted by samleecole
samleecole writes: Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, many people across the world were first introduced to the term “OSINT,” which stands for open source intelligence. The practice of using photographs posted to social media, free-to-access satellite images, and other readily available sources of information to confirm where, how, and when important world events took place has existed for many years, but has been popularized during the biggest conflicts as more people signed up to social networks, which allowed anyone with an internet connection to participate in or consume it.

OSINT’s appeal is obvious. Rather than relying on government sources and narratives, and with new access to information on the internet, outside organizations or experts could attempt to confirm or deny those claims for themselves. And OSINT is a useful way to try and verify claims; it's accessible to anyone, though experienced groups often use more sophisticated techniques than others.

But what the current war in Israel and Gaza has made clear in recent days is that there are many verified, popular accounts on X (formerly Twitter) that use the OSINT term to give legitimacy to shoddy work that only creates more confusion. What exists now is a profit and engagement driven ecosystem of non-experts who in some cases may be spreading videos for the clout and cash, rather than to inform readers about what is actually true. One respected OSINT expert, known as Obretix, told 404 Media that Twitter now is “self promoting aggregators, posting thousands of tweets to get some revenue share from Elon.”

And everyone stands to lose when the quality of information on Twitter makes it harder for ordinary readers, or even some experts, to understand what is true and what is not. Pawe Wójcik, who has been an analyst on Twitter for years with a particular focus on terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda and the Islamic State, told 404 Media in an online chat that “there has always been misinformation and fakes, however for people who have been observing wars on this platform for over a decade, today's problem is unprecedented.”

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