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Based Glootie
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Wanna make an app? Dev by day. Shitposter by night. 24/7 anti fascist. This account is for talking about software development, politics, activism, and posting memes. 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇺🇦
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Real impact of Russian bot traffic being taken offline should be interesting to follow over the coming weeks. More Page and post specific analytics will be needed to definitely say the disinformation machine was impacted, but the effect of that many bots going offline will be interesting nonetheless
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I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.
We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
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FUCK GAVIN NEWSOM.
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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For my newsletter, I wrote about Democrats coming out against "trans surgery for kids" (which do not happen) and how the myth took over our politics. www.burnsnotice.com/the-trans-ki...
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New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:
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Oh look it's that thing we said all the data centers were actually for
Anthropic Is building a surveillance system to monitor activists using a “pre-crime” approach that tries to predict incidents before they happen. The extensive monitoring system that the AI company is building is aimed primarily at keeping tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of AI.
Holy fuck I didn't think this project could get more dumb
THE ENTIRE WEBSITE IS VIBE-CODED (aka solely AI coded with no human feedback), IT HAS MULTIPLE SECURITY VULNERABILITIES, THEY PLAN TO TRAIN AI ON POSTS, AND THERES REPORTS OF IT FALSE-FLAGGING POSTS BECAUSE MODERATION IS AI AS WELL. DO NOT USE THIS PLATFORM. bsky.app/profile/cm30...
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This is what the growth of surveillance is going to bring. Not safety from crime, but new, non-criminal acts redefined as criminal so as to give the police an excuse to exercise power. local12.com/news/offbeat...