floofloof

joined 2 years ago
 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/55309025

This past year, official social media accounts from the Department of Homeland Security, the White House, and other government agencies have adopted a distinct voice online. The posts look like memes, utilizing dramatic AI-generated art, general patriotic slogans, and cinematic language about “defending the homeland” and shaping America’s future.

But if you look closer, a pattern emerges.

Many of these phrases, images, and attached media aren’t just regular social media content. They repurpose language, symbolism, and cultural references with direct connections to neo-Nazi and white supremacist movements. It’s content that experts say is instantly recognizable to those who are in the white supremacist know, but can be largely invisible to everyone else.

There has been not one, but two posts from our government institutions that reuse a phrase ripped straight from William Gayley Simpson’s book Which Way Western Man?. It was published and promoted by the National Alliance—considered one of the “best organized” neo-Nazi groups in the United States. The book is antisemitic, racist, and explicitly states that Adolf Hitler was right.

 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/55303045

Analysis by Channel 4 News has identified emails within the latest Epstein files that suggest that the mountain of information released by the US Department of Justice could amount to just a fraction of the total – potentially just 2% of the information that the FBI retrieved from Epstein’s homes.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (4 children)

Is Kagi really that much different? I used their free trial for a while and the results seemed similar to what I'm used to on Duck Duck Go, so I just went back to that. Maybe I should try it again.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 16 points 13 hours ago

Well, one day he will be.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

But think about the benefits of making sure those 30 people were violently kidnapped and deported from the USA at great expense and with great suffering! Can't you feel your life improving? (Note: this only works if you're one of those Americans who feels better when they see someone else feeling worse.)

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 13 points 14 hours ago (6 children)

Could this be turned into a business opportunity for someone to start a search engine prioritizing real websites that don't sound like AI? It could carry some advertising or charge for a no-ads version. People would use it. What are the main obstacles that stop anyone doing this? Is it just this scale of the modern internet or the expense of training a model to downrank anything that smells like AI? Or is it that all the people who might provide initial funding are all-in on AI slop?

 

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/60207520

Air Transat is cancelling its last two flights into Florida as of this spring, suspending all of its business into the United States.

 

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/60207520

Air Transat is cancelling its last two flights into Florida as of this spring, suspending all of its business into the United States.

 

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/60207520

Air Transat is cancelling its last two flights into Florida as of this spring, suspending all of its business into the United States.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 35 points 18 hours ago

Noem, dubbed “Ice Barbie” for her love of cosplaying in uniform roles...

It's also because she's made of plastic.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 3 points 18 hours ago

While Trump officials moved to sully their reputations, Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist who in 2022 dined with President Trump at Mar-a-Lago, characterized the pair as betraying their whiteness by standing up for immigrants of color. “We are outnumbered by nonwhites,” he said on his livestreaming show. “And you feel bad about this race traitor? That’s what they are. You feel bad about this lesbian poet and Alex Pretti, the male nurse? You feel sorry for these race traitors that laid down their life in defense of this scheme?”

Each time you think you know how disgusting these Nazis are, they prove themselves more disgusting still. And stupider.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

No one's going to be "fine" with the amount of catastrophic climate change we're storing up. This will be the collapse of civilisation as we know it, and the USA is actively making it worse because tens of millions of gullible and ignorant people have been recruited into a fascist cult by a handful of deceitful billionaire sociopaths. And it's not just the collapse of human society but also the loss of so much other life that will never be replaced in the lifetime of the Earth.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 9 points 19 hours ago

I think Doge got rid of the good public servants.

 
 

cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/technology@lemmy.world/t/3445655

Users are walking away from ChatGPT and calling it a political statement

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 15 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

He'll never do it. Starmer is the kind of centre-right coward who would rather deliver the country to fascism than do anything for the workers that might offend the wealthy.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

While we could do without Roblox and Discord, the bigger picture is that the internet is becoming a surveillance panopticon.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A little drone with a laser?

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