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YouTube is starting to have AI dubbing on by default for non English vids and turning off closed captions totally
November 23, 2025 at 5:02 AM
YouTube is starting to have AI dubbing on by default for non English vids and turning off closed captions totally
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A group of New Yorkers has made an ICE hotline to protect their neighbors from being kidnapped by secret police.
A group of New Yorkers has made an ICE hotline to protect their neighbors from being kidnapped by secret police.
November 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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A group of New Yorkers has made an ICE hotline to protect their neighbors from being kidnapped by secret police.
A group of New Yorkers has made an ICE hotline to protect their neighbors from being kidnapped by secret police.
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Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.
Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash
Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.
futurism.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.
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WE MUST BAN SHORT FORM VIDEO TO HEAL SOCIETY
October 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
WE MUST BAN SHORT FORM VIDEO TO HEAL SOCIETY
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In generated videos like this, the plagiarism really shines through in how much the “people” look like famous Hollywood actors.
Andrew Cuomo’s campaign just posted — and quickly deleted — this AI-generated ad depicting “criminals for Zohran Mamdani.”
Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.
Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.
October 23, 2025 at 2:09 AM
In generated videos like this, the plagiarism really shines through in how much the “people” look like famous Hollywood actors.
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did you know they do this so they don't have to hire disabled people
It is deeply immoral that cashiers in the US are not allowed to sit.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
did you know they do this so they don't have to hire disabled people
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'There are records that crystallise genres, there are albums that carve out new spaces in established scenes, and there are LPs that, over time, end up symbolising the era in which they were created. Records that create a new musical language... Those are rare.'
R.I.P. D’Angelo
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R.I.P. D’Angelo
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October 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
'There are records that crystallise genres, there are albums that carve out new spaces in established scenes, and there are LPs that, over time, end up symbolising the era in which they were created. Records that create a new musical language... Those are rare.'
R.I.P. D’Angelo
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R.I.P. D’Angelo
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D'Angelo- Unreleased Instrumental
YouTube video by Sweetheart504
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October 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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If you haven’t seen it, this footage from @apnews.com is incredibly important.
The intent here seems unmistakable, in two ways: (1) just read the genocide convention, here it **absolutely** is, and (2) this level of infrastructural destruction is, no question, meant as pre-development demolition.
The intent here seems unmistakable, in two ways: (1) just read the genocide convention, here it **absolutely** is, and (2) this level of infrastructural destruction is, no question, meant as pre-development demolition.
October 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
If you haven’t seen it, this footage from @apnews.com is incredibly important.
The intent here seems unmistakable, in two ways: (1) just read the genocide convention, here it **absolutely** is, and (2) this level of infrastructural destruction is, no question, meant as pre-development demolition.
The intent here seems unmistakable, in two ways: (1) just read the genocide convention, here it **absolutely** is, and (2) this level of infrastructural destruction is, no question, meant as pre-development demolition.
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i think this is the best interview with Mark Fell I have ever read. open.substack.com/pub/toneglow...
Tone Glow 193: Mark Fell
An interview with the English producer about taking inspiration from structuralist filmmaking, the limitations of the Western classical tradition, and his new album 'Psychic Resynthesis' (2025)
open.substack.com
October 11, 2025 at 8:07 AM
i think this is the best interview with Mark Fell I have ever read. open.substack.com/pub/toneglow...
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aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.
It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
chicago.suntimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
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damning thread on how the IDF's propaganda arm is scraping 3D assets intended for things like games, films, or architectural purposes and kitbashing together supposed hamas bunkers and iranian nuclear sites. a genocide campaign propped up in part by someone's nephew who got too into blender.
NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites
The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
October 9, 2025 at 2:48 AM
damning thread on how the IDF's propaganda arm is scraping 3D assets intended for things like games, films, or architectural purposes and kitbashing together supposed hamas bunkers and iranian nuclear sites. a genocide campaign propped up in part by someone's nephew who got too into blender.
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With Ai the fascist unreality state can hallucinate false evidence of a crime you never committed.
OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this
October 1, 2025 at 12:42 AM
With Ai the fascist unreality state can hallucinate false evidence of a crime you never committed.
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The biggest AI transition—for now!—is a permission structure for your boss to screw you www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-killed-...
August 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The biggest AI transition—for now!—is a permission structure for your boss to screw you www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-killed-...
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NEW YORK CITY, YOU LISTEN TO ME. IF YOU'RE NEAR A CONVENIENCE STORE RIGHT NOW, ANY TYPE OF 24-HOUR STORE, GO INTO THE STORE RIGHT NOW AND PUT YOUR HAND IN A BAG OF CHIPS FOR NO REASON.
August 22, 2025 at 5:16 AM
NEW YORK CITY, YOU LISTEN TO ME. IF YOU'RE NEAR A CONVENIENCE STORE RIGHT NOW, ANY TYPE OF 24-HOUR STORE, GO INTO THE STORE RIGHT NOW AND PUT YOUR HAND IN A BAG OF CHIPS FOR NO REASON.
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Psychic spies from China try to steal your mind's elation
And little girls from Sweden dream of silver screen quotation
And if you want these kind of dreams it's…
And little girls from Sweden dream of silver screen quotation
And if you want these kind of dreams it's…
August 9, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Psychic spies from China try to steal your mind's elation
And little girls from Sweden dream of silver screen quotation
And if you want these kind of dreams it's…
And little girls from Sweden dream of silver screen quotation
And if you want these kind of dreams it's…
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Here's a recording of my live set in here in Portland from the previous weekend. Enjoy! soundcloud.com/wselman/will...
William Selman Live Porchfest 2025
Solo electronic works on Digitalis, Mysteries of the Deep, Hausu Mountain, Plustapes, etc.
https://www.discogs.com/artist/940138-William-Selman
One-third of Wild Card of Cascadia.
https://www.discogs
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July 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Here's a recording of my live set in here in Portland from the previous weekend. Enjoy! soundcloud.com/wselman/will...
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The 30 seconds of silence / swirling noise at the start is the only good part of most songs.
The 30 seconds of silence / swirling noise at the start of your song is complete waste of everyone's time.
July 25, 2025 at 11:30 AM
The 30 seconds of silence / swirling noise at the start is the only good part of most songs.
July 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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christ that's so unspeakably sad. looks haunted
Abandoned ice cream carts, fruit, and taco stands. Trucks with broken windows left in the middle of the streets. It’s the new reality ICE has brought to our beautiful city. This taco stand appears to have been hit last night, 6/27 in South LA by Florence and Gramercy.
June 29, 2025 at 1:29 AM
christ that's so unspeakably sad. looks haunted
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It’s absolutely insane that if an individual person uses 0.5 seconds of a song to make a completely different song they have to pay royalties forever but these tech scum can just take millions of books to make their garbage robots for free.
🚨BREAKING: Federal judge concludes that using copyrighted works to train generative A.I. is transformative and ultimately a fair use. (Nevertheless, Anthropic can’t beat the lawsuit because it pirated books for another purpose too.) First of kind ruling. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
Bartz
www.documentcloud.org
June 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
It’s absolutely insane that if an individual person uses 0.5 seconds of a song to make a completely different song they have to pay royalties forever but these tech scum can just take millions of books to make their garbage robots for free.
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Amar mayor! Tomar mayor!
From Parkchester to Jackson Heights, Bangladeshi New Yorkers have been showing up for this campaign from day one — and I’m proud to have their support.
From Parkchester to Jackson Heights, Bangladeshi New Yorkers have been showing up for this campaign from day one — and I’m proud to have their support.
June 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Amar mayor! Tomar mayor!
From Parkchester to Jackson Heights, Bangladeshi New Yorkers have been showing up for this campaign from day one — and I’m proud to have their support.
From Parkchester to Jackson Heights, Bangladeshi New Yorkers have been showing up for this campaign from day one — and I’m proud to have their support.
Solo for Wounded CD changed my life.
RIP
RIP
May 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Solo for Wounded CD changed my life.
RIP
RIP