• j_roby@slrpnk.net
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    10 months ago

    The push to write in Biden on the ballot didn’t go completely smoothly. The weekend before New Hampshire’s primary, thousands of voters in the state received robocalls that used deep faked audio of the president in an attempt to dissuade them from turning out.

    Whatever your thoughts on electoral politics are, this shit right here is such a terrifying prospect for the future…

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      No one is taking credit, but we all know which party they’re part of. Where is Roger Stone?

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              Judge Doom wouldn’t put himself, voluntarily, in the dip.

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                Judge Doom is what happens when you bip around in history like a hare-brained child with no regard for multi-universal consequences and the strain it takes on the squishy human psyche. Apparently, the loss of his dearest Clara and their children was enough to make the ol’ Doc snap right to his core.

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        That’s the fucked up part: they’ll be decried as ”lone wolves”, and, as such, no care will be given in investigation nor pursuit. Each and every time. Nor to the aggregate effect of the countless “love wolves” who are never pursued, nor the fascist, terrorist packs they will obviously, inevitably form because they were ignored, alone, fed a diet of Trump and YouTube, and Alex jones, and Xitter…

        But that’s the point.

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      I’m not sure if AI is going to revolutionize anything good, but it’s certainly going to revolutionize election interference.

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        That, misinformation/propaganda, scam calls, etc. Shits gonna get wild real quick here soon, and I don’t think we as a species are remotely prepared for it.

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        It already has. But unfortunately the news is not in the business of reporting the news. It is in the business of advertising and engagement. And sensationalist/bad News drives engagement.

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        Even if it didn’t sound fake, you’d think common sense would preveil. Why would the president robo call you telling them not to vote for them.

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          My favourite quote attributed to Winston Churchill that he never said is:

          The best argument against Democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

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            The average voter went to public school, which is directly manipulated by the entire ruling elite to keep them in power and feed the war machine. Education has very little to do with any of that.

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          … You do realize that a significant part of the nation can’t even read out a sixth grader level right?

          And that doesn’t refer to only how well they read words that refers to their critical thinking and their comprehension of what they have read.

          These are the target audience.