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Meta's AI Can Now Deepfake Your Videos and Fill Your Feed With Slop
  • Okay so you put a little dent in my conspiracy. I thank you for that.

    What you said is opened up a new idea to me, perhaps these tech companies are using all this energy to keep the stock price up while the solar panels take the power from them.

  • Meta's AI Can Now Deepfake Your Videos and Fill Your Feed With Slop
  • Tin foil hat time: Are tech companies trying to corner the world energy market?

    We know one company that's buying a nuclear facility, apparently the child that owns twitters corpse is running multiple generators to power his AI.

  • Mark Robinson Says He is Suing CNN
  • Dude's probably gonna file it, then ask for extensions... To drag out to election time, then drop it before there's discovery.

    I don't think the Republicans can choose another candidate, and their going to stand right behind this guy until it gets too weird. (No telling what that is these days)

  • Why didn't the mainstream media warn people about Project 2025?
  • I know this response is way too late, but I remembered the term that mattered. CNN effect. If you look it up you'll see a lot of old articles about what a 24-hour News Network did to basically change the way people absorbed information and how that changed perceptions.

  • Presidential candidate Cornel West loses bid for Pennsylvania ballot
  • This guy is not serious, and should be ignored. He's only on the ballot in 15 states. Among other flaws, like taking money from Harlan Crow.

    By August, the campaign reported being $17,000 in debt. The campaign was aided by Republican-aligned groups, donors, and lawyers, to get on the ballot in several states including Michigan,[56] Georgia,[57] Virginia, Nebraska, Maine, North Carolina,[58] Arizona[59] and Wisconsin.[59][60] Although West stopped actively campaigning, registered Republicans have signed up to be electors for West in swing states.[11] His campaign had only spent $2,400 on signature gathering between January and June of 2024.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornel_West_2024_presidential_campaign

  • The Dangerous Illusion of a Presidential Third Party in 2024
  • I deleted that because it was poorly worded, and not well thought out.

    I'm basically wondering whether a swing state is more likely to have third-party candidates on the ballot. Anecdotally it seems to me the third party candidates are attracted to the swing States.

  • GOP network props up liberal third-party candidates in key states
    abcnews.go.com GOP network props up liberal third-party candidates in key states

    In battleground states, a network of Republican political operatives and lawyers is trying to shape the November's election in favor of former President Donald Trump

    GOP network props up liberal third-party candidates in key states
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    Buy 7 Days to Die at your own risk

    TL:DR

    $45 'stable' release, comes with same unfulfilled promises from 8+ years ago.

    I really enjoyed this game, I have over 1000 hours on steam and have no idea how much I played on ps4. Hell, the reason I built my pc was to play this game (and custom cod zombies). That being said, I would not pay $45 for the current 'stable' release, probably worth it under $10.

    My main beef is $45. Thats how much you charge for a finished game, but this is far from finished. Their own roadmap includes crossplay, weather upgrades, a wardrobe, NPC's, and bandits. This roadmap is 18 months long, if they can deliver all of their promises the game will be 12 years old then. (They will not)

    NPC's and bandits are especially interesting to me, because I bought this game for pc in 2017, not too long after reading this blog post

    https://joelhuenink.tumblr.com/post/144526427828/bandits-weve-got-the-heavy-bandit-armor-done-and

    This is just about how every alpha has gone since then, big youtube and twich promotions, lots of promises, and then, a small, incrimental update.

    Last, but not least, the current game kind of sucks. The hitboxes are better than when they first updated the UNITY engine after a16, but still shit. There is a spot in the zombie's shoulder that if you hit them with an arrow, the game chokes for a couple of frames then they do a cool spin. Each and every poi has invisible barriers (and has since a16) which cause agro, so walk in room, back out, slowly hit with (object). Skill progression is tied behind xp based points, reading rng magazines, and there is a perk that increases your loot, but there are other perks to increase the specific magazine loot.

    Really didn't play much since a17, but I've played a few hours of each alpha since. This 1.0 is no different, but I cannot get over that price.

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    With Studios Attempting To Own Digital Likeness Forever, Lets Have a Look at Posthumous Performances

    SAG-AFTRA has gone on strike for many reasons, but one that stands out to me is an effort to make digital copies of extras and maintain the rights to use them in perpetuity. There are many implications of this, from people losing an opportunity to work, to Ethical implications ex:your likeness is used in a movie/tv show/commercial you would not want to be involved in.

    I wanted to take a look at some of the past examples of entertainers likeness' being used posthumously.

    Fred Astaire Vaccuum Commercial

    Bob Ross Paints the Mountain Dew

    Tupac Coachella Performance

    Prince Posthumous Album

    Whitney Houston Hologram Tour

    Anthony Bourdain Voicover

    Amy Winehouse Hologram Tour

    Paul Walker Furous 7

    Peter Cushing Rogue 1

    Carrie Fisher Rogue 1 Turns out this is incorrect, Fisher passed after filming of Rogue 1. It was Rise of the Skywalker

    There are definitly more examples out there, if you know of any, post them here.

    On a personal note, I find this all to be deeply unethical without specific permission granted by the entertainer.

    Some souces:

    Actors are digitally preserving themselves to continue their careers beyond the grave

    Dead celebrities are being digitally resurrected — and the ethics are murky

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    YSK: No Labels is a political party trying to run a spoiler candidate for President in 2024 that should not be taken seriously.

    WYSK: There funded by dark money PACS, but some good reporting has brought out these names: David Koch, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, Mark Cuban, Harlan Crow, and Michael Bloomberg. Some of there members are most famous for stopping big bills. Joe Leiberman, for example, single handedly stopped the single payer portion of the ACA. Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsen Simena kept the John Lewis voting rights act from passing, and famously kept the senate from repealing the filibuster.

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