Matt BlazeDoes the Navy still have that "Mission Accomplished" banner in storage somewhere? If it worked for Bush in 2003, it should do wonders for Trump.
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evacideSometimes I get a really good quote in.
“Pointing out that AI is prone to giving ICE bad information is missing the entire point of ICE,” EFF’s Eva Galperin told Rolling Stone. “They don’t care if the information they have is good.”
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/ice-ai-mistakes-1235507183/
BrittaOn Wikipedia I started running into and removing citations to paid reputation-booster websites posing as business magazines (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#CEOWorld_Magazine), which has led to a darker thing: finding and removing citations to blackmail and disinformation websites posing as news websites (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#Potential_deceptive_news_websites). This is a remarkable story from 2020 about the “Chicago Morning Star”, which looks like an American local news site but isn’t (and is still online): https://archive.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/how-a-fake-site-leaked-real-documents-in-major-ukrainian-court-case.html
Mathew Ingram
Steve BellovinFrom a new book, "New York's Secret Subway"—a pneumatic tube under Broadway—there is this marvelous description of Broadway in 1870: "covered, as it always was with stinking piles of garbage that mixed with mud and animal excrement to create a foul bouillabaisse that residents called 'Corporation Pudding'." They knew where to put the blame! Maybe, instead of speaking of AI slop, we should speak of corporation droppings.
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Meredith WhittakerWe're so relieved to see Germany reaffirm its opposition to the dangerous Chat Control proposal--the one that would mandate mass scanning of communications.
Germany's long been a solid champion of privacy, and the news that it was considering backing mass surveillance was alarming. 1/
Denise WheelerTrump won't release the Epstein files.
Won't release Charlie Kirk's autopsy.
Won't release any info on the 1800 people who vanished from Alligator Alcatraz.
But he keeps releasing Republican criminals from prison.
That's the real story behind the Santos commutation.
The media knows it.