culpritus [any]

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Cake day: October 20th, 2020

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  • This seemed like the inevitable next step in digital media recording devices as generative tools get more advanced.

    The neat part here is that the algorithm survives retouching of the photo, so you can still do typical things like cleaning up contrast, color balance, etc., without destroying the authenticity of the image.

    This is an interesting feature. Hopefully it is not a potential attack surface for spoofing.

    The verification aspect seems like a potential privacy disaster, but as long as there are extensive user controls it hopefully won’t be unavoidable.

    I could see this being an optional feature you set before the act of recording. The lack of ‘verified’ media might represent a form of digital divide over time though, especially in the legal sphere.





  • GOOD POST!

    The “population problem” narrative is just baby steps towards eco-fascism when the real problem is the devouring of resources by advanced capitalist systems. The USA consumes at 5x the per capita rate as the rest of the world for instance. This is often framed as a problem with regard to the development of the global south, which is just incredibly racist. “The lifestyle of USA is unsustainable if everyone else tries to do it too!” There’s a complete lack of self-awareness that feeds into the construction of an Us-vs-Them perspective. This is just another iteration of the same “white man’s burden” fascist fantasy.











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    https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/the-odessa-trade-union-massacre-ten-years-later/

    The videos and photos showed Ukrainian riot police standing by doing nothing to stop or prevent the violence. The Ukrainian police said they could do nothing because they were “unarmed.”

    As the building burned, some of the pro-Kiev activists said on Twitter that “Colorado beetles are being roasted up in Odessa,” using a derogatory term for the St. George’s ribbons worn by many of the anti-Kiev government demonstrators.

    “The aim is to completely clear Odessa of pro-Russians,” said Dmitry Rogovsky, another Right Sector activist whose hand was injured during the fighting.

    In the mostly Russian regions of eastern Ukraine, a violent war ensued between the Kiev government and separatists. By the end of 2021, it had taken over 15,000 lives. Commanders from openly neo-Nazi and fascist groups like the Azov Battalion were integrated to become brigades of the official Ukrainian Armed Forces and given free rein in the Donbass.