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Hey! Let's take a look at Twitter these days
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fair, but Romulan doesn't have an amusing and somewhat apt homophone.
between that and the Ferengi
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MAGA Is Discovering the Downsides of X
Ohio gubernatorial hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy announced his plans to log off of X, citing its “warped projection of reality.” And Ramaswamy isn’t alone in heading for the digital exits. During a recent appearance on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast, the conservative commentator and former Breitbart editor Raheem Kassam bleakly proclaimed that he was deleting the app from his phone.“X is a post-apocalyptic cesspool of bots, pedophilia and political illiteracy,” Kassam wrote in a text message when asked about his decision. “I deleted it from my phone because it was making me dumber.”
Musk’s efforts to combat bot activity have in turn backfired on conservatives: A new feature rolled out earlier this year displaying the country where an account is based inadvertently revealed that many of the most active pro-Trump and MAGA accounts are based abroad.
Yet conservatives’ gripes with the platform run deeper than its less-than-scholarly level of discourse. Increasingly, some big names on the right are coming to worry that X’s algorithm — which elevates short-form video and audio clips over links to articles or essays — is undermining the right’s political cohesion by promoting the most outlandish and conspiracy-minded members of Trump’s coalition.
“When you take away linking to articles or essays and you reward short video clips, you’re going to move toward a kind of Jerry Springer conspiracy theory podcast slop,” said the conservative activist Christopher Rufo.
“It’s not just random basement incels that are listening to this material,” Rufo said. “It’s creeping up into the actual political world that distorts our perceptions and makes us less effective.”
“With immigration, the true ideologues are still cheering on Stephen Miller, but we see now that the majority of Americans are upset with ICE and think that it’s going too far,” [some liberal] said.
“[The question is] will the right, broadly speaking, adopt the kind of mannerisms and habits of communication that are exemplified in the fever swamp of the internet, and thereby alienate ordinary voters who find that distasteful or just don’t understand it,” said Jonathan Keeperman, the head of the far-right publishing house Passage Press and prolific poster under his online pseudonym “L0m3z.”
All signs suggest that the GOP under Trump is headed in that direction: On X, government agencies and elected Republicans have embraced the patois of the online right, incorporating right-coded memes and far-right internet slang into their day-to-day messaging. But as Keeperman pointed out, these digital easter eggs delight online conservatives and raise the hackles of liberals, but it’s not yet clear that they make a difference with average voters who don’t spend their days parsing government agencies’ posts for coded messages.
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It’s too bad elections are seeming more and more like a thing of the past.
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The Federation is worse than 'woke'. It's post-scarcity, post-capitalist, humanist, utopian 'woke'.
"The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force in our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity". - Jean-Luc Picard
Look at how the Ferengi - a hyper capitalist society where accumulation of wealth was the sole purpose of life - are thought of by members of the Federation:
"They're greedy, misogynistic, untrustworthy little trolls, and I wouldn't turn my back on one of them for a second." - Kira Nerys
The Federation is a society that has no money. Matter replicators are common to the point citizens can have all their material needs met nearly instantly. Energy is essentially free and limitless. Healthcare is universal.
The primary goal is of the Federation is the "pursuit of peace". Its member planets - and by extension their populations - have "sovereign equality".
Members are obliged to work towards "higher standards of living, full employment and fundamental freedoms" through the Economic council. They are also obliged to "fundamentally accept the rights of all intelligent lifeforms regardless of gender, culture, language or religion."
Elon and Hegseth would HATE the Federation.
I'd love it if someone started informing them about 'The Culture' from British author Ian M Bank's, which I consider the other great post-scarcity utopia in recent science fiction. That society (transhumanist, atheist, anarco-socialist, syncretist, non-heteronormative, non-heirarchical) would blow their fuzzy little socks off.
Do you think of the Culture as a utopia? Would you live in it, if you could?
Ian M Banks: Good grief yes, to both! What's not to like?... Well, unless you're actually a fascist or a power junkie or sincerely believe that money rather than happiness is what really matters in life. And even people with those bizarre beliefs are catered for in the Culture, albeit in extreme-immersion VR environments.
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ADL finds Grok is the worst AI chatbot at countering antisemitism
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said in a report released Wednesday that it ran six popular chatbots through several rounds of questioning related to anti-Jewish, anti-Zionist and extremist biases.Grok scored a dismal overall rating of 21 (out of 100) on these tests.
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X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok
The French offices of Elon Musk's X have been raided by the Paris prosecutor's cyber-crime unit, as part of an investigation into suspected offences including unlawful data extraction and complicity in the possession of child pornography.Among potential crimes it said it would investigate were complicity in possession or organised distribution of images of children of a pornographic nature, infringement of people's image rights with sexual deepfakes and fraudulent data extraction by an organised group.
The prosecutor's office also said both Musk and former X chief executive Linda Yaccarino had been summoned to appear at hearings in April.
New UK investigation
Meanwhile, UK authorities have given an update on their investigations into sexual deepfakes created by Grok and shared on X.
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