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ancianita's JournalWhile we're waiting, Axios: The Deepfake Election -- Can You Trust Your Eyes?
Those of us who use platforms might consider taking Axios' image quiz;
then consider its samples and advice on spotting text mis- and disinformation;
or learn how to run a reverse-image search.
Higgins told Axios via email: The “AI fake of the explosion at the Pentagon is a good example: it's clearly fake if you spend more than 10 seconds examining it, but most people don't spend that long looking at an image … before they reshare it.”
The bottom line
Flashback: Though AI-generated images seem like a whole new threat, they are just the latest in a long history of manipulating visual evidence. We can use familiar tools to verify what we read and see on our screens, from double-checking sources to examining our own biases.
What we’re watching: Fake news and deepfakes are a real concern, but it’s important not to panic and fall victim to the slippery slope of assuming everything you see is fake.
Volland cautions, “What’s more worrisome than an information environment where anything could be fabricated is one in which people refuse to believe anything is real.”
https://www.axios.com/ai-deepfake-trump-biden-election-2024?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top&fbclid=IwAR3qmdQkNU55QHTHun3Ge_SstMpmXZOEg2NW2KDvlTHL-3IopOZkILD4ab8
Jill Winebanks says that we CAN have cameras in the court, and we'll have a trial by November.
Thank you! 
Winebanks says that the national importance of this trial is beyond question.
Joy Reid says that she stands corrected about no-leak AG Merrick Garland, and she, as a past critic, agrees that he showed his brilliance in appointing this now GOAT Special Counsel, Jack Smith.
JACK SMITH'S JAN 6 SPEAKING INDICTMENT DOCUMENT :
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA V. DONALDJ.TRUMP, Defendant.https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/trump-jan-6-indictment-2020-election/1f1c76972b25c802/full.pdf
EXCERPTS (Count One left out because it's too long) :
(Conspiracyto Obstructan OfficialProceeding 18U.S.C.§ 1512(k))
The allegations contained in paragraphs 1 through 4 and 8 through 123 of this
125.
Indictmentare re-alleged and fully incorporated here by reference.
126.
DistrictofColumbia and elsewhere,the Defendant,
From on or about November 14, 2020, through on or about January 7, 2021, in the
DONALDJ.TRUMP,
did knowingly combine, conspire, confederate, and agree with co-conspirators , known and unknowntotheGrandJury,tocorruptly obstructandimpedeanofficialproceeding,thatis,the certification ofthe electoral vote, inviolation of Title 18, UnitedStates Code,Section 1512(c)(2).
(Inviolation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1512(k))
COUNTTHREE
( Obstruction of, and Attempt to Obstruct, an Official Proceeding 18U.S.C.§§ 1512(c)(2), 2)
127.
Indictmentarere-alleged andfully incorporatedherebyreference.
The allegations contained in paragraphs 1 through 4 and 8 through 123 ofthis
Fromon or about November 14, 2020, through on or about January 7, 2021, in the
128.
Districtof Columbia and elsewhere, the Defendant,
DONALD J.TRUMP ,
attemptedto,anddid,corruptly obstructandimpedeanofficialproceeding,thatis,the certification ofthe electoralvote.
(In violation ofTitle 18, United States Code , Sections 1512(c)(2), 2)
COUNTFOUR
( ConspiracyAgainstRights 18U.S.C.§ 241)
129.
Indictmentare re-alleged and fully incorporated here by reference.
The allegations contained in paragraphs 1 through 4 and 8 through 123 of this
130.
DistrictofColumbia and elsewhere, the Defendant,
FromonoraboutNovember14, 2020,throughonor aboutJanuary20, 2021, inthe
DONALD J. TRUMP,
did knowingly combine, conspire, confederate, and agree with co-conspirators , known and unknown tothe Grand Jury, to injure,oppress,threaten, and intimidate one or more persons inthe free exercise and enjoyment of a right and privilege secured to them by the Constitution and laws
ofthe United States that is,the right to vote, and to have one's vote counted.
(violationofTitle 18, UnitedStatesCode, Section241)
Jack Smith is in Prettyman Courthouse. So is the foreperson, going to the Magistrate Judge.
The grand jury has left. The judge asks the foreperson if there is an indictment. He says yes, hands it over. A presiding federal judge is chosen and the indictment is entered on the federal court docket.
We're now in the Justice Zone. In it, Jack Smith will run the greatest most important trial in U.S. history.
Cory Doctorow: Let the Platforms Burn -- The Opposite of Good Fires is Wildfires.
Centuries ago, European settlers dispossessed the state’s First Nations of their ancestral lands and banned “cultural burning,” declaring war on both indigenous people and fire. This was the start of a long period of firelessness, during which time ever-more-heroic measures have been deployed to keep fire at bay.
This is a vicious cycle: massive fire suppression efforts creates the illusion that people can safely live at the wildland–urban interface. Taken in by this illusion, more people move to this combustible zone. The presence of these people in the danger zone militates for more extreme fire-suppression, which makes the illusion all the more tempting. Yielding to temptation, more people move to the fire zone.
But the opposite of controlled burns isn’t no burns, it’s out-of-control burns: wildfires.
Fires that erase whole towns. Fires that burn unchecked. Anything that can’t go on forever will eventually stop. Fire debt mounts. When the interest payments get too high to bear, we go into chaotic default.
California needs to burn. It needs an orderly bankruptcy. It needs to revive the controlled “good fire” that kept the land safe and healthy and allowed humans and forests to peacefully co-exist.
The alternative to letting California burn in an orderly, controlled fashion is for California to burn anyway. It’s wildfire. It’s tragedy and destruction.
Social media needs to burn....
https://doctorow.medium.com/let-the-platforms-burn-6fb3e6c0d980
More climate driven conflicts
Water and food are going to be the bottom line drivers of migration, organized insurgency, coups and land wars. If they aren't already.
Is it true that home routers can dragnet-record & send data to their owner from all our devices?
1.
Since Spectrum forced me to self-install a new modem, router, and all the changing of the devices' identifications that go with it, I've run across that claim. Did Spectrum tell me? Hell no, I should have read the TOS, right? And now I'm supposed to feel like a doofus over this.
I've deleted my FB app from my iPhone, and all other unnecessary apps. Nightly, I put the phone in airplane mode, shut down its wifi, cellular and bluetooth, then do a hard shut down. And no, I refused to use the Spectrum app to install the equipment.
Apps these days are evil. Stay away from voice service like Siri and Alexa; when they talk, don't think they don't also listen.
Corporations for profit and for years, have stealthily
a) drawn our data while offering us free devices and cheap monthly fees, and
b) outrun our government leaders.
Because even when our leaders want to stand up for Internet users' rights, they don't fucking know HOW because they think like consumers of products instead of knowing they and we are the product.
2.
Not for nothing, it won't be just the usual NSA and other operatives who'll be skulking around DEF CON ten days from now.
A couple of skulking rethugs from TX will be there, too, at their corporate owners' behest.
Not to mention other government officials and military people.
Finally, Biden and Harris are paying attention to getting help from the city of 35,000 that has been DEF CON for 30 fucking years.
FINALLY, Mayorkas from DHS is going to speak and do Q & A.
Finally Mark Warner from the Senate's Cybersecurity Caucus & Intelligence Committee will be attending.
There are a few TBA's on the schedule, so who knows, maybe even Biden might make a surprise appearance to praise Austin Carson's AI Red Team of hundreds. Because presidents recognize important infrastructure.
The point is, how much longer are we going to have to exist in what's become a fascist iron dome of surveillance?
I'm no big fish, but it's still the 'right to privacy' principle of the thing.
3.
It's been ten years since ...
a) Laura Poitras went to Hong Kong and helped Snowden tell his situation. She has received numerous awards for her work, including the 2015 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Citizenfour, about Edward Snowden, ...
She won the 2013 George Polk Award for national security reporting related to the NSA disclosures. The NSA reporting by Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, and Barton Gellman contributed to the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service awarded jointly to The Guardian and The Washington Post.
b) Sarah Harrison was a WikiLeaks section editor.
She worked with the WikiLeaks' legal defense and has been described as Julian Assange's closest adviser. Harrison accompanied National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden on a high-profile flight from Hong Kong to Moscow while he was sought by the United States government.
Both these journalists have laid out to millions the 1st, 4th, 5th, 9th & 13th Amendment problems that the coder world has been battling state & corporate abuse of on the nets for 30 ... years. Nothing's changed. Yet.
What Sarah Harrison says here is years old and woke: the neural network must be of, by, and for The People. Not the robots. We need to get woke AF. Good thing Joe and Kamala agree.
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