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A deep fake is a picture or video of someone doing or saying something they didn’t. In the old days pictures and video were considered “proof”, it was easy to tell if they had been altered, as with the laughable removal of out-of-favour leaders from Soviet pictures.

With the advent of useful “AI’ making deepfakes has become easy, and it is destroying one of the ways we know the truth. In addition it is putting people into positions they never took, having them say things they did not say and so forth. The common general use is for pornography, but putting words into someone’s mouth is potentially just as bad.

The law will need to be changed to deal with this.

A new Senate report calls out the FBI for lying to Congress about its social media monitoring, pointing out the FBI’s hiring of ZeroFox.

The post FBI Hired Social Media Surveillance Firm That Labeled Black Lives Matter Organizers “Threat Actors” appeared first on The Intercept.

The Least Expensive Thing on the Registry: You are cheap, sure, but they wouldn’t put the gift on the registry if they didn’t want it, right? Enjoy the picture frame, newlyweds! At the $200-per-plate reception, you’ll be telling the “drinks are on me!” joke at the open bar all night.

The Second Least Expensive Thing on the Registry: Someone already bought the cheapest item.

Le Creuset Dutch Oven: You hope they will buy this for you when you get married. Or at least whatever advanced model is on the market by the time you get married. Someday.

High-End Thank You Notes: Hint-hint.

The Knife Block with Seven Japanese Steel Blades: You grossly overestimated how much this couple likes to cook.

Sur La Table Flatware: You fully expect to be invited over for a dinner party after they get back from their honeymoon.

Κάθε 5η Ιουλίου, από το 2016 μέχρι και χτες, τα κανάλια της διαπλοκής εξαπολύουν μπαράζ μαύρης προπαγάνδας εναντίον του ΟΧΙ που τόσο τους είχε στοιχίσει. Κάθε 5η Ιουλίου τα κανάλια της διαπλοκής προσπαθούν φιλότιμα να με πλήξουν (εν τη απουσία μου, βέβαια). Δεν είναι προσωπικό το θέμα. Απλά, έτυχε να ήμουν ο ΥπΟικ που τίμησα […]

The post Το βράδυ της 5ης Ιουλίου 2015 όπως το έζησα appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.

by Daniel Wortel-London

The economy of the USA, like that of any other nation, depends on natural resources—minerals, timber, fossil fuels, land, and a host of other renewable and nonrenewable assets. It couldn’t function without these resources any more than you or I could survive without air. So you’d think that determining whether our country’s demand for natural resources exceeds the environment’s supply would be of the greatest importance to politicians.

The post Who Tallies the Resources? appeared first on Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy.

An aged Native-American chieftain was visiting New York City for the first time in 1906. He was curious about the city and the city was curious about him. A magazine reporter asked the chief what most surprised him in his travels around town. “Little children working,” the visitor replied.  Child labor might have shocked that outsider, but it was all too commonplace then across urban, industrial America (and on farms where it had been customary for centuries). In more recent times, however, it’s become a far rarer sight. Law and custom, most of us assume, drove it to near extinction. And our reaction to seeing it reappear might resemble that chief’s — shock, disbelief.  But we better get used to it, since child labor... Read more

Republicans’ anti-abortion playbook shows they’re ready to fight the legal challenges — all the way to the Supreme Court.

The post Judges Keep Ruling That Anti-Trans Health Care Bans Make Shitty Law. The GOP Isn’t Giving Up. appeared first on The Intercept.

“You won’t feel anything.”
It won’t hurt per se, but it will feel like the nurse is dragging a bone-dry tampon out of your vagina over and over again.

“This might be a little warm.”
This will feel like the time you accidentally burned your hand on the stove, but only for a few seconds.

“This might be a little cold.”
This will feel like you’ve contracted instantaneous frostbite, but for more than a few seconds.

“There may be some discomfort.”
It’s going to hurt more than the worst period you’ve ever had.

“You might feel a slight pinch.”
You’ll think the nurse thrust a hot knife into your cervix, and then twisted it.

“You may experience some cramping.”
You are actually going through labor.

“Most women experience 2-3 out of a pain scale of 10.”
This procedure is a 10/10 on the pain scale. We’d say 11/10, but the scale doesn’t go that high.

Over a year has passed since the RMT union began industrial action on the railways. In that time, we’ve had three prime ministers, four chancellors and three transport secretaries. One constant, however, has been the determination of the government to force through damaging cuts. The closure of 1000 ticket offices announced yesterday is the latest […]

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