Exploring the intersection of generative #AI, right-wing extremism, and digital fascism. Media scholar Roland Meyer discusses AI-generated visual culture and "slopaganda" and the darker side of the tech ecosystem. #GenerativeAI #DigitalFascism #RightWingExtremism #aiEthics
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https://www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/the-sunday-interview-synthetic-hate-how-ai-fuels-the-far-right

The article examines how exposure to extremist recruitment in video games relates to attitudes and aggression, and how this varies for far-right and far-left messaging. It reports that recruitment attempts are not widespread and that far-right exposure is linked to increased hostile sexism and aggression, while far-left effects depend on preexisting left-wing authoritarian traits.

The piece is of interest to psychology readers because it highlights how environmental factors in digital spaces interact with individual traits to shape social attitudes and behaviors, offering insight into prejudice, aggression, and the psychology of extremism.

Article Title: Video games aren’t major engines for extremist radicalization, new research suggests

Link to PsyPost Article: https://nolinkpreview.com/www.psypost.org/video-games-arent-major-engines-for-extremist-radicalization-new-research-suggests/

#video-games #extremism #radicalization #authoritarianism #hostilesexism #aggression #digitalculture #gamingpsychology #leftwingextremism #rightwingextremism

“It’s far too optimistic to conclude that Trumpism is dying. But its principal tenets and mythologies appear to be getting badly discredited, putting the whole project in considerable jeopardy … shrinking MAGA down to its molten core. Yet there’s a whole universe of American voters outside of it—and in a truly startling revelation, it turns out that they matter too.”

#Politics #USPolitics #Trumpism #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace #TrumpismCollapsing #RightWingExtremism

https://newrepublic.com/article/210855/even-fox-news-admits-it-trump-presidency-free-fall

♬ I said beautiful people / they've got a ‘rubber politician’ in their travel bag / beautiful people / they've got a price upon their head / I said beautiful people / have got some friends who just flew in from WA, yeah ♬

#mondegreen / #OzMusic / #AustralianCrawl / #Olygarchs / #RWE / #RightWingExtremism / #extremism <https://youtu.be/FWw_Q2-7gRU>

DOJ announces its latest criminal target. It’s a nonprofit group that tracks right-wing extremists

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/trump-doj-splc-criminal-probe

Interviewer: "Are you afraid?"

Klaatu (caring-promoting alien):
"I am fearful ... when I see people substituting fear for reason".

The Day The Earth Stood Still, 1951
(Made during the Cold War era).

Wise movie dialogue indeed ... certainly topical now when fear is being used to divide populations so they can be exploited more by billionaires etc.

#movie #quote #scifi #politics #rightwingextremism #bigotry

Rage Against the Air Fryer, perhaps.

#memes #humour #RightWingExtremism #music #USPolitics #politics