The Donald vs Big Tech

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Although, looking back at some of the G7 2021 photos this morning... maybe it was just an honest mistake??

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Jon Stewart's return to The Daily Show for the electoral campaign:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpBPm0b9deQ

[Mooncat]

They're just handing the White house to Trump.

As much as he appears to be declining, it's still incredibly difficult to unseat an incumbent. Usually they have to be actively harmful, like Trump. Biden may be doddery, but he's not actively turning people against each other. That said, if he wins it will be on the strength of a vote to keep Trump out, rather than vote Biden in.

Interestingly there's a guy in America who has correctly predicted every president for the last 40yrs. His name is Allen Lichtman and he's a professor who's devised this system for predicting the election based on having 13 'keys'. Whoever has the most keys in their favour wins the election. Being the current incumbent is one of the big ones. He is currently predicting a Biden win. Here's the WIKI explaining his system: 13 Keys

EDIT: it appears he got one wrong in the last 40yrs, the 2000 election

[astfgyl]

They're just handing the White house to Trump.

As much as he appears to be declining, it's still incredibly difficult to unseat an incumbent. Usually they have to be actively harmful, like Trump. Biden may be doddery, but he's not actively turning people against each other. That said, if he wins it will be on the strength of a vote to keep Trump out, rather than vote Biden in.

Interestingly there's a guy in America who has correctly predicted every president for the last 40yrs. His name is Allen Lichtman and he's a professor who's devised this system for predicting the election based on having 13 'keys'. Whoever has the most keys in their favour wins the election. Being the current incumbent is one of the big ones. He is currently predicting a Biden win. Here's the WIKI explaining his system: 13 Keys

EDIT: it appears he got one wrong in the last 40yrs, the 2000 election

Surely he could only win against trump and no-one else because he's obviously senile and if he wasn't such a piece of shit I'd feel sorry for him.

I'm genuinely not looking forward to US election time

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EDIT: it appears he got one wrong in the last 40yrs, the 2000 election

That's still a pretty good streak

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AI goes to war:
https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

[astfgyl]

A long read but going through the first few paragraphs I had a couple of thoughts.. (I'll certainly read the second half later because it's fascinating in a horrifying way)

Firstly, if we're hearing about it now it's likely been in use somewhere already and second of all, the Hamas lads really shouldn't have gotten up to that October 7th thing because what the fuck was that supposed to achieve other than exactly what did happen, which was the strongest possible retaliation? Anyway that's all I'll be saying about the whole conflict because it's all just too much to be getting into and hopefully either Hamas will surrender or Israel will be pressured into a ceasefire so that civilians can stop dying but I don't see either happening tbh.

Bringing it back on topic, I wonder would this while thing be playing out any differently were Trump the president? He'll of course say it would, but I seriously doubt that too.

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I won't be getting into details of the war on here, but since this specific tech angle has further reaching implications, I thought I'd share it. No idea if similar tech has been used elsewhere previously; Israel is a cutting edge research hub and AI is developing in ways and at speeds that are making paradigm-shifting novelty almost banal.

Biden is very pro-Israel, manifestly, but Trump and the Republican party are on another level. I recommend again this documentary, Praying For Armageddon, that I posted in the documentaries thread. Al Jazeera have it split into 2 episodes on their YT channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhT7oyDlBIk (both eps are good, but the 2nd one in particular will give some answers to your question).

[astfgyl]

I'll get a look at that soon enough but whatever it says, I feel like Trump will use that war to score points in some way running up to election time. Actually speaking of the whole AI thing in general, I could see that being used in many ways by both parties coming up to the election, to influence things candidates say by scraping social media for opinion or using it to sway things on it. Not that I don't think that's been done already either but I'd imagine AI will really accelerate things there.

Crazy times ahead really. Could probably cross over into the Fucked Thread too with all that

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I recommend clicking on the who funded this video link in the video.

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You mean that Al Jazeera is Qatari or something about the documentary itself (which wasn't made by AJ)?

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Al Jazeera is funded in whole or in part by the Qatari government

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Aye, and fair cop to keep it in mind, as with any state-affiliated media. But like I said, they're just broadcasting this documentary, weren't involved with the making of it last year. It makes sense they picked it up though; it's of obvious interest to an Arabic audience, being about non-negligeable US powers whose core moral will is to literally usher in the flesh and blood Second Coming of Christ, Book of Revelations Armageddon. In the biblical Middle East. I mean, it's a pretty compelling subject: militarized mythology!

[astfgyl]

You'd swear it was for a bet, I was scrolling through twitter yesterday and seeing posts from accounts I don't follow saying trump would have handled the war in Palestine differently as well as some stuff about the biblical prophecies coming to pass there and how Trump is such an important spoke of that particular wheel, and even one saying he is the biblical antichrist. Mad stuff that I shouldn't have clicked into and read because I'm going to have to watch some amount of videos of cats and fails to get the algorithm to ease up on the US election propaganda cleverly disguised as insane Bible related prophecy stuff.

As to the State sponsored media thing, I would have the same level of trust in Al Jazeera or RT as I would in RTE or BBC, ie that I'd just about believe the sports coverage on them and the rest must be considered propaganda. Sometimes when watching stuff from the conflicting state propaganda arms from both perspectives I'd get some loose idea of the actual story or that there's more than one way of looking at things but mostly I give up.

I'll have to find the opinion I came across about the Israeli lads using the ai for targets. I'll edit it in if I do but just to show how polarised things are rather than to make any particular point about the war I won't talk about.

Bit of a tangent here, but I was saying to a lad yesterday that the EU has gotten itself into a bit of a tight spot now, with lauding the US as good guys for funding the war effort in Ukraine but not so much for funding the Israeli efforts in Palestine. Maybe Von der Leyen of the ridiculous blue and yellow outfits should have shut her fucking mouth or the EU have stayed away from the wartime rhetoric when it comes to countries not in the EU and just said they were in support of peace talks altogether? Handicap. Never voting for her again.

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I'll have to find the opinion I came across about the Israeli lads using the ai for targets. I'll edit it in if I do but just to show how polarised things are rather than to make any particular point about the war I won't talk about.

I didn't see anything much about the AI thing. Surely better targeting means less bystander and more terrorist per kilo of explosive? Does anyone remember those bunker buster bombs from the first Gulf War? Jaysus those were amazing. They'd go past anything military to hit a school. Mind of their own. Bastard things could find an orphanage from 1000 km away.