For a better tomorrow.
- elahon14
- HAL90016
The World is Fucked
"You're being targeted by disinformation networks that are vastly more effective than you realize. And they're making you more hateful and depressed."
https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZ/co…
"TL;DR: You know that Russia and other governments try to manipulate people online. But you almost certainly don't know just how effectively orchestrated influence networks are using social media platforms to make you -- individually-- angry, depressed, and hateful toward each other. Those networks' goal is simple: to cause Americans and other Westerners -- especially young ones -- to give up on social cohesion and to give up on learning the truth, so that Western countries lack the will to stand up to authoritarians and extremists."
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Yes. And I think Western countries have already lost precious time to counter this, are they even doing something against it? Seems like no. Now add AI in the mix : we're fucked big time.
- Facebook has done that for years too, throw China in the mix, defo fun times ahead.PhanLo
- Mr Orwell wrote:
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."Morning_star - Those who think feelings trump truth are a cancer.Morning_star
- Easy fix.. stay the fuck off social media and live life in the real world!dee-dubs
- The only _real_ enemy to the Western world is Islam, China, and Russia. Not dudes in skirts.crazyprick
- The problem is too deep into our society and culture, you and me can stay away, we will both suffer the consequences anywayHAL9001
- This has been going on for at least ten years already. We’re way past the “doing anything” to stop it stage. We need to bring society back from itnb
- The Cambridge Analytica scandal was more than ten years ago, for examplenb
- A young adult graduating from college this year has only ever lived in this reality. They know nothing different. They’re depressed and they don’t know why.nb
- world war 3 and a couple of civil wars in it.... the decades ahead overflowing with morbid spectacle... its coming ... hooraayyneverscared
- who will be to blame ?neverscared
- There's a war going on. A war without bombs or guns. And we're all involved in it, everyday we're under attack.HAL9001
- What's the opposite of a newsflash? Because this is seriously old news. I think the firebomb attack on a Russian botfarm was 12 years ago?garbage
- 4chan used to be a liberal site, and it was overrun by Russian psyops. If you couldn't know this forever ago, you're the duped.garbage
- Bennn, I'm curious, are you getting a lot of anti-Canada Quebec separatist feeds and content? We don't see any of it in Ontario, just wondering_niko
- Russia took 100% credit for Brexit. And the failed Catalonia referendum, wondering where else they're trying to destabilize_niko
- this is a prime example: https://en.wikipedia…_niko
- Fuck Black Lives Mattercrazyprick
- @niko, i see a ton of anti-canada stuff on Reddit everyday. Quebec bashing also. But mostly post about how bad Canada has turned, like this is the worst placeHAL9001
- I read Canada was worse than North Korea today, LOL. But people say shit like that.PhanLo
- lol must have been from Pierre Poilievre_niko
- the planet has to be burned down sooner or later.. so better get on with it now...neverscared
- r/canada is one of the most famously compromised subreddits. This is just.. old news. Russia has entire buildings of troll farms, has had them for years.garbage
- China has the 50 Cent Army. They've had hired internet trolls for 20 years. 50 cents per propaganda comment. Floors and floors of them.garbage
- You can see the effects playout here on QBN. So many communists and nazis advocating for their own enslavement, being racistHayoth
- You would think people that worked in marketing would know how to spot propaganda and understand the tricks used by the media and algosHayoth
- If any of this is breaking news to anybody even a decade ago, you're the sucker they're looking for.garbage
- we are all slaves.... but theres only one spartacus...neverscared
- only the rockets dont care if u are a slave, they just efficiently blow you into gazillion of pieces...neverscared
- Shut up, fagcrazyprick
- Easy bait. You'll note that crazyprick has never answered the age question. He's at the trolling level of fart noises.garbage
- They're playing the long game, they're after our kids.YakuZoku
- I think it's too simplistic to say Russia and China are manipulating everyone. Russia is very active on certain things like the war in Ukraine and pushingyuekit
- conspiracies theories, while CCP bots mostly go around defending China. But they aren't the only ones doing it...American political parties and people promotingyuekit
- specific causes like anti-vax are very active in this too. And a lot of the hate and division just happens organically...it doesn't require a foreign governmentyuekit
- It's not simplistic, they've both been after sculpting a soft power for 20 years. Russia is a little more quiet.garbage
- China is much more brute force on whatever headline is damaging to the CCP.garbage
- But my point was this is the most "DUH" article ever, and that if this is an eye-opener to anybody, they're decades behind the curb.garbage
- Yuri bezmenov was saying it in 1984.ApeRobot
- its gonna be a bombastic bomb exuberance decade ahead... no suprise zuck and thiel are building their luxury bunkers...neverscared
- Garbage, you cunt faggot, you just can't ignore my posts because you're a retarded bitch. Fuck your questions, pussy. Eat a dick with AIDS on the tip.crazyprick
- Aperobot is right. You find the YouTube videos. Hal, you had me at "You're being targeted by..." (didn't need to read the rest)cherub
- I just see your posts because your juvenile insults clog my feed, and it takes a few seconds to trigger you. It's hilarious.garbage
- Bot or child? No idea. Definitely not a man.garbage
- How's your dogcrazyprick
- Still kickin'. How's your crippling loneliness?garbage
- Good, thank you.crazyprick
- OK the stuff about how the top Facebook groups on certain topics seem to be controlled by Russian propagandists was surprising.yuekit
- @yue https://www.technolo…garbage
- That's a good summation of what's been going on for years, and what likely tipped the scales for Trump.garbage
- Yeah that's what I was reading. I think it needs to be studied in more detail though. You can say these troll networks are "reaching" millions of people, but toyuekit
- what extent are they strongly influencing peoples' views as described in the original post?yuekit
- Ramanisky29
- Terribly beautifulOBBTKN
- https://www.youtube.…imbecile
- and the scientist's reaction:
https://tinyurl.com/…_niko - People thought it was end times because the Sun was rising in the west.
The ones living near the blast zone had no clue. Terrifying.Ramanisky2 - Everyone knows the Oppenheimer quote now. The better quote was he said "I guess it worked".garbage
- And better quotes by Bainbridge: "A foul and awful display" and "Now we're all sons of bitches".garbage
- Akiramilfhunter
- we gonna c more of that in cities in the coming decade...neverscared
- dzolan3
- These are really .. really niceRamanisky2
- Thank you very much!dzolan
- He’ll yeah man. Nice mood and love the close ups. Is that a 50mm or 85mmHijoDMaite
- Thanks! 23mm on x100v, cropped indzolan
- PhanLo5
- Damn suuuuunPhanLo
- Well, Abe said, “Where you want this killin' done?"
God said, “Out on Highway 61”CyBrainX - God only likes daughters.NBQ00
- I will say that the Binding of Isaac is one of the greatest stories in religious history. Doesn't fit in with the others.garbage
- Story about a man asked to do the absolutely unthinkable, and he spends three days walking to kill his son on a mountain.garbage
- It's actually God playing a mob boss, because he tells Abraham he'd never let it go through, just wanted to know how dedicated he was.garbage
- This is "someone" billions worship.CyBrainX
- Oh it's definitely folk history, but it's folk history that spawned all three Abrahamic religions and wars for generations. Leap of faith.garbage
- Sounds like a real jerk!palimpsest
- Ok Norm, lol.garbage
- ;-)palimpsest
- Krassy16
- This will go down in design historyProjectile
- The drip and that hard cut for the X. And the E. None of this should work, but it fucking sings.garbage
- @projectile it already has.milfhunter
- 2068. They keep awarding these so far out into the futuremisterhow
- https://media.gannet…CyBrainX
- I’ve always loved this.CyBrainX
- @garbage is correct; it's just so much fun and perfectly imperfect.ideaist
- hans_glib6
- Where The Fun ISpalimpsest
- ATMoey_oey
- pornptnbq
- wouldGardener
- Well there you go what else do you need?_niko
- Damnit, @pal, that was going to be my line.Nairn
- I actually want this. Put it in my window, horrify my neighbors.garbage
- hahahaNairn
- the look suggests that the novelty has worn off already.Fax_Benson
- for it, may be. for us? poor thing.Nairn
- "my tits are back here!"YakuZoku
- FLOL Moldy, I was actually drinking when I read that, god damn you.garbage
- lol moldyutopian
- r their tiddies on tha bac?jagara
- Ramanisky25
Signs your getting old?
Spotted a long rogue hair this morning on the left side of my head, thought it was a beard hair, pulled on it and discovered it was one hair growing out of my ear lobe. FUCK!!!!
- Ianbolton7
blog
I've just eaten a hog-roast sausage roll. Fuck me it was delightful. I'll send a photo next time, but for now, use your creative faculties to imagine how great it was.
Hope we've all had great weekends and NBQ stops being such a teary, emotional rollercoaster.
- Thanks Ian; Weekend was great, now comes penance. Even my eyelashes hurt ;)OBBTKN
- https://www.theguard…BuddhaHat
- searched the name and that does look freaking delightfulBuddhaHat
- ^ that's totally the vibe :-)Ianbolton
- Miesfan8
- 1811 Bel Air Road in Los Angeles, CA.
Craig Ellwood. Completed in 1953.Miesfan - Nice...Mies van der Rohe vibes...utopian
- awesome!Krassy
- lurvprophetone
- Check out StreetView. The c*nts that bought it have demolished it or are completely redoing it!microkorg
- can see streetview link here https://www.zillow.c…microkorg
- Looks like they are renovating? Hopefully, that's a beauty. 3.6 seems like a deal for that area.formed
- 1811 Bel Air Road in Los Angeles, CA.
- Ramanisky24
Stand-up Comedy
Full Set
- Came here to post this ram :) This had me in stitches...Wordsworth
- In Germany in 1932, a confused but well-meaning young man tried to come up with a solution to a problem everyone had.Wordsworth
- Haha ... yup
I do love me some David Cross.Ramanisky2
- neverscared4
Science Of The Day
Never-Repeating Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information
Two researchers have proved that Penrose tilings, famous patterns that never repeat, are mathematically equivalent to a kind of quantum error correction.
- that's so damn cool, just beautiful. I've been fascinated by Penrose tilings, this useful application of it is groundbreaking and potentially world-altering._niko
- mg3312
blog
I'm kind of losing my mind at the awesomeness of Chat GPT and the ability to generate code with it. I've used it for code before, but this weekend wanted to work on an audio player for my music site. I can't tell you how many times I've looked for nice, minimal HTML5 audio players that were easy to customize, free, and MINIMAL. Let me repeat MINIMAL.
Go look for Wordpress plugins for audio and it's so hard to find a minimal one. So many are multi-song playlist styles, cost $, are difficult to customize, or can only have visual pieces removed through CSS.
I got a paid GPT account last week which opened up the floodgates of all the different GPTs that are available. Thought I'd see of one called "Code" could get me what I want. I've used free ChatGPT to create code before, but tried this one out. I'm sure they're all generally the same, but Code has a really nice conversational explanation of what it's generating.
Anyhow... long story short, in about an hour yesterday I asked for the following, in order:
1. Create code for an html 5 audio player that uses font awesome icons and consists of a play/pause button, a back button to the left, and a forward button to the right. I should be able to use multiple audio files.
2. can you add a horizontal progress bar below the play buttons that can be styled with css?
3. Add a numeric indicator that displays the number of the track being played before a forward slash, and after the forward slash, displays the total number of tracks in the player.
4. update this code to change the pause button back to play button when a track is over.
5. (Lastly, today) update the code above to let me pull audio files from a Wordpress advanced custom fields repeater. (the original code required adding urls into the javascript, which I didn't want to mess with on a regular basis.
And here it is: www.theagelesssea.com
Just a couple sample tracks there now as I'm testing it out, but I'm so happy to be putting more time into this project.
- Great work. Really love the music. ChatGPT or AI couldn't make something as lovely as thatIanbolton
- Thank you Ian!mg33
- Nice. Please give us more.Longcopylover
- ^ Thank you! Hoping to finish a 7-8 song album this year. Laid off recently so it's nice to have time to focus on it more.mg33
- that's pretty damn awesome mg33... cool use of chatgpt, and excellent music to boot :)exador1
- I've been trying to think of a way to combine chatgpt and figma... i know lots of others are in this space as well, but it just seems like an interesting space.exador1
- Next thing is ask ChatGPT how to fix SSL.zaq
- exador1, I've been thinking of Figma plugin ideas lately as well.mg33
- took'r jurbss!BabySnakes
- Krassy2
- AI?utopian
- Mies chair?Miesfan
- the face looks very AI ishpango
- Justin Bieber?Ramanisky2
- @Ram exactly my thoughtsskinny_puppy
- Christopher Walken?Krassy
- Scarlettojagara
- CyBrainX2
Punches For:
The coworkers of mine who have to say Good morning on Teams everyday. It sounds like a silly complaint but every time I hear that ping, I think I have to do something. There are 27 of us in the group. If you turn off the alerts on your phone, I think you can relate.
- I had Teams on my phone for a month. Couldn't configure alerts per group, and had one group who did this as well as tagging @everyone.kingsteven
- Turned out I was the only one who was having the issue because 'Why do you have Teams on your phone, Teams is shit on phones'...kingsteven
- I didn't mean this was annoying me on the phone, just that unnecessary phone alerts are annoying.CyBrainX
- You can mute alerts on groups but they do share things I need to see in that group too, so I'm stuck with them.CyBrainX
- i use it every day for work. it's definitely got social media etiquette issues. if you tag @everyone on discord or chat in public channels someones going tokingsteven
- tell you to STFU. on Teams with colleagues thats gonna be a tribunal...kingsteven
- I use Teams on phone so I can turn on the meeting while still in bed and just listen to the meeting. I don't use it with notifications. My computers....ShenanigansTV
- will make a specific beep when someone makes a post I need to pay attention to. So I just lay in bliss until I hear a beep.ShenanigansTV
- ^ That should help but many of the people I need to hear from sometimes are the offenders that also annoy me with "Good morning", reaction gifs and emojis.CyBrainX