People abroad don't understand the level of interference Meta & bots had in these elections. 5 days before the election a far-right politician posted a fake news video that got 157 MILLION views on Instagram in 24hs. For reference, GTA 6's reveal trailer got 90 million views on YouTube in 24hs.

Tom Pepinsky@tompepinsky.com · 17h ago

I will not forget that Zuckerberg and Facebook shut down the accounts of the most popular presidential candidate in one of the largest democracies in the world, and he was elected anyway

Not only an incredible talent, but a rare talent who also thought it was funny to just voice random memes every once in a while

Ken Plume@kenplume.bsky.social · 14h ago

Unbelievable loss. An amazing talent, and just a really, really good person. www.instagram.com/p/De8RFy4pyov/

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

Now fucking arrest Mark Zuckerberg

And the lesson is that, despite his flaws, he had a committed focus on improving the lives of ordinary working people in tangible ways, he was uncompromising in opposition to fascists, and when he lost the first round he used it to motivate his supporters to throw everything at the second round.

And again, it's worth noting that this happened despite Lula being an incredibly flawed candidate. His son and some of his key political allies are embroiled in genuine corruption scandals. He's 80 years old. Crime is incredibly high. But he's won despite those flaws. There's a lesson in that.

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

FROM SERBIA TO BRAZIL AND EVERY DISCO I GET IN MY HEART IS PUMPING FOR LOVE

Sagittarius: People come into your life for a reason, a season or a vendetta.

And much of Oxford Street is going car-free from tomorrow! I don't even live in London anymore but I'm genuinely excited about this. If it works well, it could be one of Khan's big legacies. People have been talking about doing this for literal decades, and now it's happening.

G🅰️reth@gbentl.bsky.social · 2d ago

London has probably now got the cleanest air out of any equivalent sized cities in the world thanks to Ulez, electric cars and buses.

If you recognize this don't forget to take your pills today

It's honestly insane just how much smart TVs have been outed as being full spy boxes in our homes recording everything we say, watch, and do. Yet, no AG's have launched investigations or sought to end this practice. If you own a smart TV, disconnect it from the internet. Do not connect it.

just a few more years and i will be recruiting for my 19th century village within a walled off compound in the woods

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · yesterday

Someone reverse engineered their Samsung TV using codex. They found that Samsung TVs were using always on mics, network mapping, and all kinds of Spyware that would collect data and sell it to data brokers. A day later, their openai account was banned and frontier labs cracked down on doing this.

It’s incredible the things you don’t realize are sacred until you can no longer rely on them

Having intelligence, we must not act in ignorance. Having choice, we must not act without responsibility.

One down, four to go. What an absolute fucking banger of a movie The Thing is. Lots of great little details I’d missed before that seeing it on the big screen revealed

Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Jimbiddybimbim@jimbiddybimb.im · 4d ago

Starts at 11.30 pm with THE THING, runs through THE SHINING, THE EXORCIST, NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, and THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE before kicking us out into the Sunday sunshine at 9am. Fantastic

Heading out to the movie marathon, and as it’s the first showing I absolutely had to wear my excellent @ericafails.bsky.social THE THING shirt

With alt text bc hell yeah. (Source link in the original thread)

TAHK0@tahk0.bsky.social · 3d ago

Guillermo Del Toro dropping another one liner that’s exactly how I feel about AI slop, the “punishment” is built in

equip this to stunlock BBC editors

it would suck to be on an amazing adventure in a strange and magical kingdom with a talking lion and then one day you're like, Oh what the fuck this is all just christianity

I just saw a bit of Sesame Street localised for the Australian market. "One, ha ha ha. Two! Two! ha ha ha" "Christ, who's this cunt?"

I think my ability to distinguish between "I am feeling weirdly anxious and low today" and "I am just a person having a totally normal reaction to being alive during the 2020s" might have completely vanished.

One worrying thing that comes up in this podcast is that US firms are lobbying to weaken GDPR to allow more of the data of EU citizens to be used for training genAI. GDPR is one of those rare things; an EU regulation that people can name, and which is valued by the huge majority its citizens.

For Tech’s Sake@fortechssakepod.bsky.social · 3d ago

The Irish government's International AI Summit was a heavy-handed pitch for the AI industry, and we weren't buying it. Get our full review of the summit and satellite events that were much more meaty in our latest episode. ▶️ S5E22: I know what you did last summit pod.fo/e/6e2b0e

We have CANCER VACCINES. Fucking CANCER VACCINES. We have AIDS TREATMENTS. AIDS IS NO LONGER A DEATH SENTENCE. IN MY LIIFETIME. FUCK.

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app · 3d ago

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

news presenters (they’re not journalists lmao) can go offscript without repercussion, and now entertainment programmes will just airbrush out anything they want. how can anybody trust the BBC? what hasn’t been noticed, and what will people not notice in the future?

where does “airbrushing out people’s identities before broadcast” fit on the Lemkin Institute chart? this is doing my head in, that the BBC are so thoroughly compromised OR so scared of a reaction that they preemptively made edits. (it’s both and it’s no longer limited to news/current affairs)

BBC editing out pride flags and protect the dolls while insisting on poppies really really laying bare its a state propaganda mouthpiece innit

If the rightwing have hijacked the term 'woke' to mean anything vaguely compassionate or progressive, we should co-opt the term 'rightwing' to mean anything perverted, cruel or violent. "I saw in the news that my old maths teacher was rightwinging a load of his pupils and now he's on a register".

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Fond memories

Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Jimbiddybimbim@jimbiddybimb.im · 2d ago

If Garrus Mass Effect has a million haters, then I am one of them. If he has ten haters, then I am one of them. If he has only one hater then that is me. If he has no haters, then that means I am no longer on earth. If the world is for Garrus Mass Effect, then I am against the world