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Madi Hime is taking a deep drag on a blue vape in the video, her eyes shut, her face flushed with pleasure. The 16-year-old exhales with her head thrown back, collapsing into laughter that causes smoke to billow out of her mouth. The clip is grainy and shaky – as if shot in low light by someone who had zoomed in on Madi’s face – but it was damning. Madi was a cheerleader with the Victory Vipers, a highly competitive “all-star” squad based in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. The Vipers had a strict code of conduct; being caught partying and vaping could have got her thrown out of the team. And in July 2020, an anonymous person sent the incriminating video directly to Madi’s coaches.

Eight months later, that footage was the subject of a police news conference. “The police reviewed the video and other photographic images and found them to be what we now know to be called deepfakes,” district attorney Matt Weintraub told the assembled journalists at the Bucks County courthouse on 15 March 2021. Someone was deploying cutting-edge technology to tarnish a teenage cheerleader’s reputation.

But a little over a year later, when Spone finally appeared in court to face the charges against her, she was told the cyberharassment element of the case had been dropped. The police were no longer alleging that she had digitally manipulated anything. Someone had been crying deepfake. A story that generated thousands of headlines around the world was based on teenage lies, after all. When the truth finally came out, it was barely reported – but the videos and images were real.

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[-] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 35 points 7 months ago

Jesus, where do you live so I can never go there?

[-] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 38 points 7 months ago

Theres a reason so many astronauts come from here... They want to leave so bad, they fled the planet.

[-] mynachmadarch@kbin.social 8 points 7 months ago

Ah, America. Yeah that tracks. ;)
Your state at least has a great air museum in Dayton to encourage more of those Astronauts.

[-] Baahb@feddit.nl 12 points 7 months ago

No, op is assuming you're American. They mean Ohio specifically.

Actually, I was assuming more people have heard the joke "more astronauts have come from Ohio because they're fleeing the state" more than assuming "this person is American"

But yeah, Ohio. People meme on it being boring and full of cow farms and corn fields for a reason.

Also occasionally our rivers catch on fire and trains get a bit tipsy.

[-] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 4 points 7 months ago

I once had a friend turn down an invitation because he “had friends coming in from Cleveland.” I told him he could just say he didn’t want to go.

[-] mynachmadarch@kbin.social 4 points 7 months ago

But at least your roads aren't so full of pot holes you make Afroman look sober like your neighbour to the north.

It's funny you say that, because I turned a good bit of my right side into what looked like hamburger by flipping my bike on a pothole.

There's a running joke (probably in every state, but I've mostly heard it in relation to Ohio) that the state flower is a traffic cone, and the state tree are the big orange barrels. Brand new roads get ripped up every winter because plows and road salt aren't good for... Well, anything except cars. And they're not even goor for cars long term.

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

Ohio is the SCP state alongside Arkansas.

[-] Baahb@feddit.nl 3 points 7 months ago

No, op is assuming you're American. They mean Ohio specifically.

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