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Andrew Davies Nov 19, 2024

Freedom of the Press Nov 19, 2024

“As Congress wraps up its work for the year, the Senate's passage of a shield law for journalists should be a priority,” The Virginian Pilot’s editorial board wrote in November.

https://www.pilotonline.com/2024/11/18/editorial-senate-must-approve-a-federal-shield-law-to-protect-journalism/

Andrew Davies Oct 31, 2024

Are the election polls "too much" in agreement with each other? It seems likely that professional pollsters share methodologies with each other.

Hat tip to @j2bryson
mastodon.social who shared this on Bluesky

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/state-poll-results-show-ties-are-tied-voters-pollsters-rcna177703

A lot of state poll results show ties. So are they tied because of voters — or pollsters?

State polls are showing not just an astonishingly tight 2024 race, but also an improbably tight race, missing some of the randomness inherent in polling that should be generating more varied and less clustered results.

NBC News

Andrew Davies Oct 18, 2024

ваят Oct 17, 2024

#DoD’s Joint Special Operations Command wants the ability to create online user profiles that “appear to be a unique individual that is recognizable as human but does not exist in the real world,” with each featuring “multiple expressions” and “Government Identification quality photos.”

#deepfake #StyleGAN #GAN

https://theintercept.com/2024/10/17/pentagon-ai-deepfake-internet-users/

The Pentagon Wants to Use AI to Create Deepfake Internet Users

The Department of Defense wants technology so it can fabricate online personas that are indistinguishable from real people.

The Intercept

Andrew Davies Oct 15, 2024

Joanna Bryson, blathering Oct 13, 2024

Sitting in an evening seminar with some smart first year policy masters students (from Hertie School, my university), I found out they'd never heard of my main professional social medium of the moment, Blue Sky. Mastodon is my favourite though in terms of interface, so I have transferred my more personal, j2blather identity here from twitter. Here is the full guide to where to find my various "threads" of social media content, updated 30 December 2024. https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2024/10/guidance-to-my-social-media.html

Guidance to my social media communications

artificial and natural intelligence, including politics, policy, ethics and security

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Andrew Davies Oct 11, 2024

@w7voa I had to look up what electors do...

"The winning Presidential candidate's slate of potential electors are appointed as the State's electors—except in Nebraska and Maine, which have proportional distribution of the electors."

https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/electors

So these people will only be appointed as the state's electors if Trump wins, which means they can't legally vote for him if Harris gets more votes. But I am sure they can create a lot of confusion.

About the Electors

What are the qualifications to be an elector? The U.S. Constitution contains very few provisions relating to the qualifications of electors. Article II, section 1, clause 2 provides that no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector. As a historical matter, the 14th Amendment provides that State officials who have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States or given aid and comfort to its enemies are disqualified from serving as electors. This prohibition relates to the post-Civil War era.

National Archives

Andrew Davies Oct 11, 2024

Steve Herman Oct 11, 2024

NOTUS - Nearly a sixth of the people who sat as fake electors in the scheme to overturn the last US presidential election are slated to be electors this time in swing states. https://www.notus.org/trump-2024/fake-electors-2024-state-officials

Trump’s 2020 Fake Electors Are Now 2024 Electors — And State Officials Too

In swing states that didn’t put in accountability measures, Republicans are elevating those who participated in the plot to overturn the 2020 election.

NOTUS

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Andrew Davies Oct 11, 2024

@ExtinctionR This might just be a conspiracy theory but...

Is it possible that the politicians who are pumping up fake stories about weather control are doing it to distract people from blaming the companies that are actually changing the weather?

Just asking questions!

Andrew Davies Oct 11, 2024

Extinction Rebellion Global Oct 11, 2024

Andrew Davies Oct 11, 2024

Laffy Oct 10, 2024

🤦🏻‍♀️ “We'll probably never know for sure, but when #Trump slammed #Detroit while speaking in Detroit, did he (a) not know where he was; (b) not care where he was; or (c) both?” Via @stevebenen #Michigan
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-trashes-detroit-delivering-speech-detroit-rcna174949

Trump trashes Detroit, while delivering a speech in Detroit

“Our whole country will end up being like Detroit" if Kamala Harris is elected, Donald Trump said, perhaps unaware that he was in Detroit at the time.

MSNBC

Andrew Davies Oct 10, 2024

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Patrick Breyer Oct 10, 2024

🇬🇧Dutch Parliament just passed an exemplary resolution on #ChatControl with broad majority +++ "irreconcilable concerns about the proportionality of the European CSAM Regulation" +++ "detection order to be issued on the private communications of all citizens" is unacceptable +++ Government and experts to draft "an alternative European proposal to combat the dissemination of images of online child abuse"
https://berthub.eu/tkconv/document.html?nummer=2024D37580

Motie van het lid Kathmann c.s. over zich uitspreken tegen een detectiebevel op privécommunicatie van burgers en komen tot gezamenlijke uitgangspunten voor het tegengaan van verspreiding van beeldmateriaal van onlinekindermisbruik

JBZ-Raad Motie van het lid Kathmann c.s. over zich uitspreken tegen een detectiebevel op privécommunicatie van burgers en komen tot gezamenlijke uitgangspunten voor het tegengaan van verspreiding van beeldmateriaal van onlinekindermisbruik