He may have simply been in shock, it’s not unusual for someone to be in denial at first when they learn something like this about someone they looked up to.

It may even be healthy to be initially skeptical, makes you less easy to manipulate with slander.

Sooner or later you have to face the facts, at least when they’re proven and well-established, but it can take time to process that information

What did trump himself say a couple months ago when someone he didn’t like died?

Who was it, Robert Mueller? Oh, yes. Here it is.

Trump reacted to Mueller’s passing in a March 21 post on Truth Social that said: "Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead.

Yeah, he’ll get no sympathy. Christ himself will shed tears of joy while telling all those Iranian schoolgirls who are with him that “Everything is alright now, the bad man is gone.”

Day of judgement, god is calliiiiiiing…

As the war machine keeps crawliiiiiiing…

Begging mercies for their siiiiiiins…

Satan laughing spreads his wiiiiiiings…

The decoy container could be literally anything. Sure good steganography would be hidden in something that looks real, like a jpeg or a music file, because it gives it a reason for existing at a glance. That’s not to say it couldn’t be a blank plaintext file, it just might arouse more suspicions and be subjected to more scrutiny

Every civilization ever has been self-centered, so honestly I’m not that torn up about it. Europe is more globally/internationally-focused than most of the world.

Why do you think it hosts the UN headquarters, ICC headquarters, and so many other IGO headquarters? It’s the only multi-national federation that I know of and is part of the largest and most widespread defense pact in the world.

Clearly people want to live there, otherwise they’d be migrating to BRICS nations and Northern Africa. So it must be doing something right.

What’s wrong with a civilization being self-centered? Especially when most of the critique it’s received regarding previous centuries was that it was too expansionist?

I didn’t realize Europe was its own galaxy

That’s why I don’t engage with that stuff. I understand shitposting, but not everyone can tell the difference. Especially if a bot is scraping to train a model or build a profile on users.

This is why the /s is important. It should always be explicitly clear when a post is satire, if being taken seriously could be harmful.

That’s why I hate it when people say “chill, it’s just a shitpost, it’s not that deep.” Like, this is how disinformation spreads…

Yeah, this doesn’t excuse anything, but as a millennial growing up there was this whole trend of “dark humor” and “anti-jokes.” Basically the more fucked up and wrong something was, the funnier it was supposed to be.

That doesn’t make it okay, but we were just stupid teenagers. You could say we shoulda known better, but at the time that was just the trend. Like skibidi toilet and other brianrot today. Everyone knew it wasn’t serious, that no one could actually mean those jokes.

At least, we thought we did. It seems as we grew up, we diverged into two main groups. Those who realized how those “jokes” could actually be harmful and grew out of it, and those who started taking the jokes more and more seriously until they started meaning it and it became part of their personalities.

I think that’s a huge source of disconnect with Gen Z. I don’t think they ever had a concept of dark humor. By the time they reached that age, the trend was more towards acceptance and inclusion, social awareness and non-harmful language. The old “sticks and stones” no longer applied.

So to early Gen Z, late Millennials probably looked like sociopaths. Especially since we were already on social media, and some of that immature bullshit is indelibly marked on the internet.

And you can’t just tell them “it was just a joke, we didn’t mean it, it wasn’t serious” because that’s such an alien concept to them.

Did they really think people would be okay with being automatically opted in for a feature that would allow other people to generate AI content of them (without notifying said person, at that)?

My mom did that shit and I’m still pissed off. I didn’t give her permission to feed my family to the AI machine to produce uncanny valley pictures of us

What’s permissible in every relationship is different and I understand why that could be a real violation of trust. Of course, in general and barring some narrow exceptions, none of us have the authority to tell others what they may do with images of us.

Why does this read like slop generated to defend corporate violation of personal rights?

no ur slop

you say “corporate violation of personal rights” i say “basic journalism” agree to disagree

I dunno, you tell me 🙄 we’re literally talking about a built-in deepfake feature and you’re defending it by calling it basic journalism instead of corporate violation of personal rights.

How is that the same as calling deepfakes “basic journalism”? How is it different?

Crossing international boarders typically requires going through federal agencies. And when you add extradition to the mix, you probably need to coordinate through the Department of State as well

My class consciousness when the oligarch is a hottie

If that were true then the rich would be poor and the poor would be rich…

They probably already have a metaverse server inhabited by little avatars of everyone they’ve ever profiled, who must all bow down before AI zuckerberg

How does it feel knowing your soul is trapped in a Meta server?

Someday your body will return to dust, and your soul will still be languishing without any legs in their knock-off Second Life.

Sorry, bro.

Producing deepfakes is “basic journalism” to you?

That would require the cooperation of federal agencies. I don’t think he would have been able to do that even if he decided to. At the very least, he would need to get them through passport control…

Of course it was RyanAir…

That sucks

Or y’alls, which could mean either your or you’re depending.

“Y’alls dog got out again,” or

“Y’alls really tryin mah patience”

If there’s a threshold needed for a “yes” vote then it’s functionally the same, even without counting as one. I’m just saying that threshold shouldn’t go down just because someone is on vacation.