"Our Politics Have Reached Their Limit"

In Montana, diesel was $3/gallon 6 weeks ago. This station has stopped advertising their prices. Trump's war in the Middle East has started an inflation spike that will last months if not years, however long the war lasts. Of course, local Republicans have nothing to say about it. They'd rather elect fascists to enforce autocracy and austerity.

Source: https://take-note.com/note-takers/marshall--mayer/notes/our-politics-have-reached-their-limit/view

#authenticphoto #fascist #gasprices #IranWar #localelection #politics #Trump

I'm testing a service to repost my content from here to my account on Bluesky (to see why, see my profile at
https://bsky.app/profile/authenticphoto.bsky.social). IOW, I don't post there, unless it's posted here first and then cross posted.

#AuthenticPhoto

The Guardian notices something: "‘They feel true’: political deepfakes are growing in influence – even if people know they aren’t real"

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/28/military-deepfakes-ai-propaganda-money

And Fred Ritchin wonders, "What happens when AI generates its own AI?"

https://fredritchin.substack.com/p/ai-without-us

It feels as though it's all about to go off the rails.

#authenticphoto

"The first casualty of War is Truth." Asking a chatbot if a photo is real is asking for trouble.

#authenticphoto

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/17/atrocity-ai-slop-verify-facts-iran-minab-graves?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

C2PA was not even mentioned in this article, probably because no one trusts Adobe (the force behind the labeling standard). After all, they stand to make money either way the standard is used.

#authenticphoto #C2PA

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj0d6el50ppo?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub