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Wired - A Russian-aligned propaganda network notorious for creating deepfake whistleblower videos appears to be behind a coordinated effort to promote wild and baseless claims that Minnesota governor and VP candidate Tim Walz sexually assaulted one of his former students. https://www.wired.com/story/russian-propaganda-unit-storm-1516-false-tim-walz-sexual-abuse-claims/
Russian Propaganda Unit Appears to Be Behind Spread of False Tim Walz Sexual Abuse Claims

The Russian-aligned network Storm-1516 has a long history of posting fake whistleblower videos—including deepfakes—to push Kremlin talking points. Now, they're targeting Tim Walz.

WIRED
“Douglas Hamlin, who was appointed to lead the #NRA this summer in the wake of a long-running corruption scandal at the gun rights group, was involved decades ago in the sadistic killing of a fraternity house cat named BK, according to several local media reports at the time.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/14/nra-doug-hamlin-cat-killing?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
NRA chief involved in gruesome cat killing as college fraternity member

Doug Hamlin pleaded no contest to animal cruelty over 1979 incident in which fraternity cat was tortured and killed

The Guardian
Dear @nytimes @cnn I was told that if your party nominates the oldest person in the race that the only story you can cover is how old they are and how that hurts their campaign. So I’m waiting.

Company upgrades their website.

It's no longer functional to browse products due to fancy JS that breaks on Firefox and locks out accessibility on other browsers.

Email said company that I can no longer browse their products.

They respond to say the techies said it's "probably just my browser".

I never buy another product from said company.

Trying to find a decent tech review on YouTube is like trying to find a pretty rock in a well-used dog park.

Full of shiny, wet, stinky turds.

Biggest Mistake? Why did I buy this? Ultimate! Best! Not what I expected.. The TRUTH Truth truth uth uth uth….

Even MKHB ends things with a “?” …? Skip.

@$#%#$@$!#$%3 Affinity!!!! TWO Artboards, just TWO… and I’m trying to export them as a two-page PDF.

And your stupid export dialog box will not allow for that. “Whole document” or individual pages/artboards… But NOT the document as page-by-page…

I had to Print > Save-As-PDF via MacOS dialog box to get my file made.

Your insistence on doing things your hard-headed way is infuriating and so often just broken.

/not ready for prime time

Affinity Publisher’s Data Merge is for the Birds.

Still not ready for prime time. NO ability to have multiple items/records in a data frame…or it’s just broken.

Data merge give errors saying it can’t field the field, yet in the DM panel…there it is. But merging so multiple records on one page? Like name tags? Nope.

Broken. And the help pages are worthless about scenarios A vs scenario B. Affinity just doesn’t know how people use their software. ARgle bargle.

@siracusa - Sorry to bug you…but which printing service did you use to make your photo book from iPhoto since Apple stopped their own books? (I checked your site and didn’t see any FAQ, hence the Q on Mastodon.) Appreciate your time…
@siracusa - And if you really want to get fancy, you can put more than one shape into that mask shape… so you can have a thin opaque outer line, and a thicker, more transparent line….think on a map and park boundaries.. . ;) Been doing this for decades.
@siracusa - If you need to edit it more, just pull the stroke/color shape out from below the mask shape in the layer panel, edit it, then drop it back on the mask shape to put it back. (Freehand and even Illustrator do this better, but aF Designer tries.)