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OpenAI pauses Sora video generations of Martin Luther King Jr. | TechCrunch OpenAI is pausing AI video generations of Martin Luther King at the request of the late civil rights activists' estate.

If only OpenAI could have foreseen the entirely predictable hazards of irresponsibly releasing this tech. I guess the estate of every dead person will have to individually request a special dispensation to no longer have disgusting videos made by OpenAI’s tools.

Everyone in academia should read this story. I don't know Mark personally but I know his work (wishing him and his family safe passage out of the US)! 👇

Opinion | How to Save the American Experiment

This is great, but we need to consider the cognitive impact of a media environment that can shift the very perception of reality on a dime.

How Trump Is Using the Justice Department to Target His Enemies President Trump has long spoken of seeking vengeance against his political enemies. Here’s a list of whom he is targeting.

First, a fight against Justice. Next, a fight against Knowledge.

Fully agreed, but also sometimes there is a conspiracy, and it is stupid

Reposting myself, how silly of me.

Google's AI output connecting hyperstition, a process by which fiction becomes real, and AI, arguably, the most effective present moment, means of creating reality out of fiction. The definition given: "hyperstition, a term coined by philosopher nick land describes a fictional idea that, through its own existence, and widespread belief causes itself to become a reality."

This image describes how ai shapes reality, specifically listing self fulfilling prophecies, economic and cultural drivers, and AI-generated narratives. These concepts, fictions at time point 0, can become real through belief and uh, the influence of economic, social, and cultural investment. At a future time point n, the fiction of time point 0, may become real.

This last pain indicates another element of the reality-making process, positive feedback loops. In a positive feedback loop, AI "becomes more powerful" and " generate and spread these narratives more effectively creating an even stronger feedback. Loop, where fiction becomes reality and the machine itself becomes a key of come opponent, making these narratives manifest."

I've always enjoyed meta humor (long before #facebook changed its name to #meta and made itself a meta joke). This is why I find it funny to include a #Google #AI definition of #hyperstition, and a description of how AI generates self-fulfilling prophecies.

Note, my alt-text adds context.

YouTube video by theory underground Intro to Nick Land LECTURE 1 - Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Bataille, Deleuze & Guattari etc.

I'm going to keep throwing around terms like #accelerationism and #hyperstition, so I we'll also include this in depth introduction to nick land.

For anyone who is already familiar, I apologize for many reasons. youtu.be/Hhlsj0UiwXo

Effective accelerationism - Wikipedia

I mean, that is just one in a set of possibilities.

Anyway, here is e/acc, Silicon Valley's #Accelerationist ideology.

Effective accelerationism - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effecti...

Since #Meta and #Facebook actively promote conspiracy theory content, i wonder if I should indulge my own inner conspiracy detector.

Silicon Valley #accelerationism has embraced #hyperstition, and is actively shaping bespoke realities by algorithm to fracture democratic consensus.

How did I do?

The weirdest thing on #Facebook Reels is the regular rotation of anti-Semitic tropes. The protocols are regularly paraphrased and blood libel content appears consistently.

This is on top of regular QAnon and celebrity Illuminati #ConspiracyTheory content.

I don't think Meta is truly safe for anyone at this point.

I still monitor and document its content.

If I shared what I see on Facebook Reels, for instance, it would rightfully be removed. The content is mostly fearmongering, racist pseudohistory, derealization fodder, and targeted hate speech.

It seems that Meta's AI moderation model was built for self-preservation at all costs. As a result, it identified opportunity to target and quell any human dissent that may jeopardize its position.

#Facebook accounts being disabled for unclear reasons. No can reach facebook for comment or explanations. Share if you know.

Or SHARE if your account has been suspended or disabled.

#cdnpoli #SocialMedia #Business #Markets #Finance #Bluesky #Meta #Instagram #Sales

The portrayal in this case, is I believe a "design fiction"
Intended to create a reality that fits the portrayal.

See: The lore of hyperstition share.google/BBO4u5Oz1OXQ...

Make Yourself Human Again

The push for AI makes sense when you understand that it is a subsidiary of the cult of Accelerationism. The father of Accelerationism, Nick Land, regards capitalism and AI as being one and the same - and that humanity must be sacrificed in its name.

Weird how this comes on the same day new Epstein evidence is released by House Oversight.

I am honored!

I'll say it a million times before this is all over (if this is all ever over): our most important audience is each other.

Goodbye, for now, Ol' Silver Bean.

#SSSI #SSSP

Text, inviting potential informants, reads: "Have you been. Visited by the spirit of a loved one? Tell your story. Visit postdeath.contact." QR links to the same URL.

I will add a few more images from #SSSI2025 soon, but I wanted to post this invitation for participation for a study of folks with experiences with spirits. Please share or contact through QR or URL, if interested.

Patriot front sticker featuring URL, a masked man playing drums with blue text on white background. Text reads: FOR A NEW AMERICAN NATION STATE.

Is there any documentation to confirm ICE and patriot front using the same graphic design
team or style?

For additional reference, this image it is on a stop sign on a U.S. university campus in 2024.

AI isn't some magic elixir. It's just a faster-acting version of the same poison we've long been fed.

It is still jarring that government organizations like NSF and DOJ now equate racism with including markers of class in application processes

My dad (never dx'd), used to complain about this all the time! I thought it never happened to me, but I habitually countered this with intense hypervigilance (I do not recommend). So, nowadays, I need occasional breaks from external audio-visual stimuli.

Mind-Blowing Discovery: Peacocks Have Lasers In Their Tails Sharks with frickin' lasers are tired news.

🦃
Optical cavities
Resonating nanostructures
Light amplification
Biological laser
Pew pew pew !
Paon warfare

www.sciencealert.com/mind-blowing...

Technically satire, but after decades of masking so tightly it felt like my skin, o n l y to crack wide open or completely drop THAT persona "on stage" in costume on Halloween, or as a character in theatre, with a script and an actual director! I think that explains a few things.

This is what is happening right now.

News article headline

In 2023, we found that TikTok was enabling a toxic trade by turning a blind eye to influencers who promote the sale of potentially deadly steroids & steroid-like drugs.

Our research in @fastcompany.com ⤵️
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