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AI will likely be similar to Asimov's robot series, but just a bit grittier.

• Useful almost-human thing we don't know if it's a person or not
• Ubiquitous and relatively harmless
• Winds up killing millions if we put it in charge.

Better. That actually supports the assertion that Russia does engage in left-targeted disinformation (in Canada, on Twitter.)

It also supports the original point you dismissed as "wrong" -- of the 90 "most influential" accounts, only 9 were subjectively identified as "Canadian far left".

Maybe you should spend more time reading the actual articles, and not just their headlines?

True enough. But even a tyrannical government at least has a presumable intent of working for the betterment of its country. (Albeit through wrongheaded and small-minded means )

A.foreijgn power, especially a historical adversary and bad actor, is instead presumably working to harm or diminish us.

You presented it as proof that Russia is supporting misinformation on the left. To be that, it has to both include all three parts of the claim -- that there is disinformation on the left, that Russia is covertly supporting disinformation, and that some of the disinformation on the left was supported by Russia.

If your wife sleeps around, and I engage in casual sex, it does not necessarily follow that I slept with your wife.

A common suspicion in America is that Vladimir Putin believes that Trump as POTUS is good for Russia, and that Putin interferes with US politics with a specific goal of helping Trump.

If you have some reporting that directly links Russia to left-wing disinformation I'd love to read it. But the BBC article I read after following your link didn't have any such link.

Your article doesn't seem to mention Russia once.

Rumors and smears are part of free speech. To the extent that right-wing trolls and their audience are actual voters, it's essentially just a coarse form of ordinary political speech.

The extent to which a foreign government acting coverly is either creating or artificially boosting such content is scandalous.

25 is the age that some dude studying brains stopped looking, since it gets really hard to find study participants who are 7 years past freshmen in a university who's longest tract is a 4 year undergraduate followed by a 3 year graduate.

Tech folk seem to not realize that "this image could have been faked!" has been a problem since the very first photographs.

Every step in evidence collection literally served to put someone's name on it, so those people can go before a jury and say "yeah, that's the stick i used to get the video from their security system"

They're rarely called,.AFAIK, mostly because "that video must be faked" needs some corroborating evidence to be plausible. And for that matter, so does "this video shows him robbing my store!"

Ah, to be young and childless and have sufficient privilege where staying awake for a day and a half doesn't mess you up for the whole week

Follow up thought after dinner: AGP is also auto-misandry and a strong example of toxic masculinity.

For those not familiar with the term, it's the idea that all trans men are only trans men because they think themselves sexually appealing as women. Which is fairly strongly disproven by "cis women feel that way, too", but also exposes a wretched opinion about cis men.

We're SUPPOSED to think that we're sexually attractive. If we want to get laid that means we need to find someone who finds us attractive, and that's damn hard when we can't even think of ourselves as sexy.

Remember that mapping programs only give "travel time", not "total trip time." that 19 hour drive from NY to FL is 19 hours in the car, on the highway. Realistically, that's a 2-3 day trip.

FL to NV is, likewise, 37 hours on the highway. So, same as your office job for a week, but instead of working you're just driving in a car.

"Unsettled science" is putting it far to charitably. From the second paragraph of that wikipedia article:

Scientific criticisms commonly made against Blanchard's research include that the typology is unfalsifiable because Blanchard and other supporters regularly dismiss or ignore data that challenges the theory

You could keep reading that Wikipedia article down to its sections on "Transfeminist critique", "Transgender men", and "Societal impact." I also recommend reading what Julia Serano wrote on the topic. (Which I find it to be a strong case that AGP is just bad science.) https://juliaserano.medium.com/making-sense-of-autogynephilia-debates-73d9051e88d3

Or, to be brief: AGP is transphobic because it reduces transgenderism to a sexual fetish. There are non-transgender cross-dressers and transgender men and women who are asexual or demisexual, not to mention thousands of definitely-transgender children who haven't had a sexual thought in their lives.

That sounds like someone took the transphobic AGP theory and made up a cisgender equivalent.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanchard%27s_transsexualism_typology

At least one interoperable PDS has come online, and the network later folks seem entirely aware of the single point of failure that their "firehouse" model suffers from. More importantly, their entire value proposition isnt "were not Twitter", but rather "if we become evil you should be able to pack up and go elsewhere."

It's fashionable on Lemmy to bash Bsky, but the difference really is comparable to the old GNU Hurd project vs Linux. The two most successful FOSS systems ever (Linux and git) took a sucess-first, share-later model while an opinionated actor in charge. I dont mean to argue that this is philosophically better or appropriate for all projects, just that there's precedent for FOSS starting less open than it eventually becomes.

Maybe drop a platform owned by a modern-day facist who keeps using your tweets to train his attempt and cyberdyne?

Mastodon and BlueSky are right there.

If the Pope was in charge health care would be single-payer, abortion would be emergency-only, and both gay marriage and capital punishment would be illegal.

I wish I had the faith in human competency that conspiracy theorists demonstrate, but I think the truth is that humans are far stupider than that.

Character age is a slippery, weird thing that's best to avoid if at all possible.

Take this summer's Superman as a great counter-example. If it's set in 2025, and the opening crawl is to be trusted, Clark came to earth in 1995 and started superheroing in 2022. He would have been in preschool when 9/11 happened, in high school for the Sandy Hook massacre, and presumably studying in the fortress of solitude during COVID lockdowns....All of which would have distracted from the story.

In contrast, look at Peter Parker and the Fantastic Four. How much older than Sue is Reed? What year of high school did Spider Man get bit? Heck who's older -- Sue, Johnny, or Peter? None of these are answered in the MCU or consistently in comics, and nobody cares. (And let's not even contemplate the X-Men or Batman and his Robins...)

So, yeah, a 21 year old superhero dating 30-somethings is fine. But you don't really need to do more than establish that your character is at least 18/21 to lampshade away any squick from your readers.

TL;DR : Yeah, the age is fine. But you can skip mentioning it at all as a genre staple and nobody will care.

Your use of the past tense makes me think you come from a glorious alternate reality where stupid people didn't literally break western civilization.

In the continutiy I live in, the folk who fall for spoon bending and ESP suppression theories moved on to anti-vacince denialism, hero-worship of a 1980s punchline, and have successfully taken over the USA's department of health by way of a halfwit who just claimed autism is caused by Tylenol.

YES.

If you're an American, our entire history of immigration legislation is racism bundled on racism following in the tradition of racism. Were it not for chattel slavery and our betrayal of the native tribes our racist immigration laws would be the most shameful part of our history.

And if you're not American, your own country's immigration laws are almost certainly based on either racism or "nationalism", with the latter mostly being a holdover from when "French" and "English" were considered different races.

Unlawful emmigration to a country should be, at worst, a bureaucratic fine and probation. Anything more is simply bigotry in a polite suit.

Thor: The Dark World was so profoundly meh that the best part about it was the Agents of Shield tie-in episode.

Ragnarok was camp and fun, which was an amazing spectacle and set a bar that "Love and Thunder" didn't live up to.

While you're largely right, it is worth noting that each translation is a distinct work under copyright law, and any translation made after 1929 may be still protected.

And that ignores really young religions, and the copyright status of high-authority extant religions such as Iranian Islam, Mormon and Roman Catholic Christianity, Ron Hubbard's Scientology or state-atheist communism.

(Whether or not Hubbard, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao count as "religious leaders" is a distinction without a difference in discussion of the copyright status of their works.)