Wondering whether AI-generated slop is good for our brains? And hearts and souls? Wonder no more. Jamison Foser says,

"The truth is inaccessible [with our increasing reliance on AI slop]. Everything becomes vibes.

And it is getting worse, because we have created and deployed the most powerful lie machine ever imagined, with virtually no actual guardrails and precious little social stigma applied to its use."

#AI #AISlop #stupidity #vulgarization
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https://www.findinggravity.net/ai-generated-celebrity-slop-is-making-america-dumber/

AI-generated celebrity slop is making America dumber

This is a screenshot-heavy post. It might display better on the web than in your email client. Clicking the headline above should take you there. Mother Jones’ Anna Merlan has an excellent look at the spread of “‘strategic memes against public participation’—images designed to confuse, sow doubt, and chill

Finding Gravity

"To the contrary, America's most powerful institutions and corporations are all but insisting we participate in it.

What a stupid world we are creating."

#AI #AISlop #stupidity #vulgarization
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Anne Applebaum on the Trump regime's memeification of war:

"It's this performance online culture designed for, I don't know, teenage boys and and their grown-up equivalents. But it also has a purpose. It makes people say, you know, this war is unserious. All of this will make people feel disengaged and it may work. I mean, you know, how can you focus on a serious war when you're being told the story of it through comic strips and videos."

#Trump #Iran #war #memes
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3vEW9_a7Uo

The Trump Administration's Treatment of the Iran War is INHUMANE

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As people in the US and Middle East have been mourning their dead,

"The White House had begun posting snuff videos. Footage of actual US missile strikes hitting their targets in Iran are spliced together with scenes from Braveheart and Gladiator and Call of Duty and Mortal Kombat. Explosions that have killed innocent civilians are timed to the crack of a baseball bat or an NFL tackle."

~ Jon Favreau

#Trump #Iran #war #memes #AI #AISlop
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"It shows how online this administration is and how how shaped they are by this, you know, this the performative nature of online communication. It's all about memes and, you know, loud language and vulgarities and how do you shock people and how do you stun people and how do you scare people with with language?:

~ Anne Applebaum

#Trump #Iran #war #memes #AI #AISlop
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"It does seem like a concerted strategy on the part of the government and the administration to put out these videos that not only minimize the seriousness of war, but sort of promote this nihilism. This sort of dehumanization, this like don't worry about what's going on, everything's a game."

~ Jon Favreau

#Trump #Iran #war #memes #AI #AISlop
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"RFK Jr. posted a cringe AI video today depicting himself shirtless wearing jeans in a wresting match beating up a Twinkie. It was produced by HHS."

~ Ron Filipkowski

#Trump #RFKJr #memes #AI #AISlop #HHS
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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weekend-in-politics-bulletin-d83

This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 328.

… As first reported by Meidas and later picked up by many major media outlets, Trump’s PAC sent a fundraising email to donors promising them “private national security briefings” by Trump on the Iran War.

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Too bad it wasn’t a real Twinkie like
Don Jr or Eric