The_Icarian

The_Icarian, 2 months ago to random

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Yep. Search is dead. soon everyone will have to pay for crappy and unreliable as AI spreads misinformation and lies.

I tried the new Google. Its answers are worse.
Google’s AI-‘supercharged’ Search Generative Experience, or SGE, sometimes makes up facts, misinterprets questions and picks low-quality sources — even after nearly 11 months of public testing.
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https://wapo.st/3POb6be

The_Icarian, 2 months ago to random

MAMMA MIA! Actor Sara Poyzer Reveals BBC Voiceover Role Was Replaced With AI
Sara Poyzer, a stage and screen actor who is best known for performing in Mamma Mia! in the UK for many years, has taken to social media to share a story she's calling "sobering."

Poyzer was recently cast as a voice actor in an unnamed BBC show, but was later told, via email, that she will no longer be needed as her voiceover role was replaced with AI.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/MAMMA-MIA-Actor-Sara-Poyzer-Reveals-BBC-Voiceover-Role-Was-Replaced-With-AI-20240328

The_Icarian, 2 months ago to random

No one really knows how many people die in the U.S. after encounters with police that didn’t involve a firearm.

The federal government is supposed to track these fatalities, but efforts have repeatedly failed.

A team of reporters led by The Associated Press set out to investigate and documented more than 1,000 deaths from 2012 through 2021.
https://apnews.com/projects/investigation-police-use-of-force/visual-story/

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skykiss, 2 months ago to random

"Truth social" Scam Phantom Stock:

• Social media platform is like phantom stocks. They appear substantial, but their value is elusive.

2. How Phantom Stock Works:

• Phantom shares mimic real stock value.

3. Pump & Dump Scheme: A fraudulent practice where individuals artificially inflate the price of a stock (or in this case, social media company) to attract unsuspecting or criminal/dark money investors who “pump” stock prices, the inflated worth is illusory.

4. Money Laundering: Trump concealing the origins of illicitly obtained funds by passing them through a complex sequence of banking transfers or commercial transactions.

Truth Social is a failed social media platform, that will merge with a publicly traded SHELL company. Financial Performance: Since its 2021 launch, Truth Social generated sales of less than $5 million. However, Trump’s supporters rallied to boost shares in the shell company, Digital World Acquisition Corp. Its a money laundering scheme.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/22/business/trump-truth-social-dwac-shares/index.html

The_Icarian, 2 months ago to random

Banks driving increase in global meat and dairy production, report finds

Financiers providing billion-dollar support for industrial livestock companies to expand leading to unsustainable rise in production
Yet prices are sky high in the grocery store.
The invisible hand of the marketplace must be busy taking bribes.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/18/banks-driving-increase-in-global-meat-and-dairy-production-report-finds

The_Icarian, 2 months ago to random

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The Big Q&A With Matthew Sheffield
In our Big Q&A, former right-wing online activist Matthew Sheffield breaks down the authoritarian roots of Trump's MAGA movement and explains why you can't reason with his most die-hard fans.
https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/big-questions-matthew-sheffield-trump

The_Icarian, 3 months ago to random

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The Saudi & Putin Scheme for Screwing Biden's Election Hopes

So, get ready: it’s coming this fall. And unless the administration acts quickly, there will be nothing they can do about it.

Gas at $6 a gallon could easily throw the election to Trump…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-saudi-and-putin-scheme-for-screwing-1e4

OGjester, 3 months ago to random

Railroads enjoying that sweet, sweet deregulation.

https://www.mcall.com/2024/03/02/norfolk-southern-train-derailment-lehigh-river-lower-saucon-photos/

The_Icarian, 3 months ago to random

The_Icarian, 3 months ago to random

Abortion Bans and Bible Groups
This story will give you hope...
https://jesspiper.substack.com/p/abortion-bans-and-bible-groups

Jess Piper:
We can’t win Missouri if we avoid rural parts of the state. Missouri is 1/3 rural…33% of the state is outstate.

I’m here and so are thousands of my friends. If state-level organizers will remember us, we can bring sanity back to the entire state.

Dirt Road Democrats are here.

The_Icarian, 3 months ago to random

How artists are fighting generative AI

An interview with Karla Ortiz on how AI image generators are upending the careers of artists

https://disconnect.blog/how-artists-are-fighting-generative-ai/?ref=disconnect-newsletter

The_Icarian, 4 months ago to random

Ex-Trump aide Peter Navarro ordered to prison despite contempt appeal

Former White House trade adviser sentenced to four months for contempt of Congress’s January 6 investigation but is appealing
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/08/peter-navarro-prison-sentence-contempt-congress

The_Icarian, 4 months ago to random

Secretive US rightwing group Alec designs law to give big business ‘complete immunity for bad acts’

Group wrote model legislation to restrict lawsuits under public nuisance laws used to hold opioid makers and others to account
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/05/public-nuisance-laws-business-opioids

The_Icarian, 4 months ago to random

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"I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries – the realists of a larger reality."

—Ursula K. Le Guin