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Sheer Mag - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)


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20:56 min live music video
#music #rock #SheerMag

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La Grande Dame (The Cat Woman) by surrealist Leonora Carrington goes up for auction

Created in 1951, almost a decade on from her relocation to Mexico, the carved wooden sculpture stems from a period of febrile creativity during which Carrington fell in with a clique of artists who shared her fascination with spiritualism and the occult. Standing well over six feet tall, La Grande Dame is a poised, puzzling figure with elongated features and an indecipherable expression spread across its spade-shaped head.
https://news.artnet.com/market/leonora-carrington-la-grande-dame-sothebys-2562149

Bubbles: Shopping Cart Venture - Part 2
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1:17 min video
#lol #video #bubbles #shoppingcart

Brian Ó diaspora
IME student drivers usually drive like an old couple going to church.
LOL, pretty accurate^^


Grammar Popo
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#cartoon by Dave #Whamond

Whuffo diaspora
That's the whole point. If you're busy trying to figure out what they're really saying, you're not taking action against them.

Time water
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#maze
#maze
Whuffo diaspora
Easy to solve.

Exploiting Meta’s Weaknesses, Deceptive Political Ads Thrived on Facebook and Instagram in Run-Up to Election


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In December, the verified Facebook page of Adam Klotz, a Fox News meteorologist, started running strange video ads.

Some featured the distinctive voice of former President Donald Trump promising “$6,400 with your name on it, no payback required” just for clicking the ad and filling out a form.

In other ads with the same offer, President Joe Biden’s well-known cadence assured viewers that “this isn’t a loan with strings attached.”

There was no free cash. The audio was generated by AI. People who clicked were taken to a form asking for their personal information, which was sold to telemarketers who could target them for legitimate offers — or scams.

Klotz’s page ran more than 300 of these ads before ProPublica contacted the weather forecaster in late August. Through a spokesperson, Klotz said that his page had been hacked and he was locked out. “I had no idea that ads were being run until you reached out.”

Klotz’s page had been co-opted by a sprawling ad account network that has operated on Facebook for years, churning out roughly 100,000 misleading election and social issues ads despite Meta’s stated commitment to crack down on harmful content, according to an investigation and analysis by ProPublica and Columbia Journalism School’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism, as well as research by the Tech Transparency Project, a nonpartisan nonprofit that researches large tech platforms. The organizations combined data and shared their analyses. TTP’s report was produced independently of ProPublica and Tow’s investigation and was shared with ProPublica prior to publication.

The network, which uses the name Patriot Democracy on many of its ad accounts, is one of eight deceptive Meta advertising operations identified by ProPublica and Tow. These networks have collectively controlled more than 340 Facebook pages, as well as associated Instagram and Messenger accounts. Most were created by the advertising networks, with some pages masquerading as government entities. Others were verified pages of people with public roles, like Klotz, who had been hacked. The networks have placed more than 160,000 election and social issues ads on these pages in English and Spanish. Meta showed the ads to users nearly 900 million times across Facebook and Instagram.

The ads are only a fraction of the more than $115 billion Meta earns annually in advertising revenue. But at just over $25 million in total lifetime spend, the networks collectively rank as the 11th-largest all-time advertiser on Meta for U.S. elections or social issues ads since the company began sharing data in 2018. The company’s failure to block these scams consistently highlights how one of the world’s largest platforms struggles to protect its users from fraud and deliver on its nearly decadelong promise to prevent deceptive political ads.

Most of these networks are run by lead-generation companies, which gather and sell people’s personal information. People who clicked on some of these ads were unwittingly signed up for monthly credit card charges, among many other schemes. Some, for example, were conned by an unscrupulous insurance agent into changing their Affordable Care Act health plans. While the agent earns a commission, the people who are scammed can lose their health insurance or face unexpected tax bills because of the switch.

The ads run by the networks employ tactics that Meta has banned, including the undisclosed use of deepfake audio and video of national political figures and promoting misleading claims about government programs to bait people into sharing personal information. Thousands of ads illegally displayed copies of state and county seals and the images of governors to trick users. “The State has recently approved that Illinois residents under the age of 89 may now qualify for up to $35,000 of Funeral Expense Insurance to cover any and all end-of-life expenses!” read one deceptive ad featuring a photo of Gov. JB Pritzker and the Illinois state seal.

More than 13,000 ads deployed divisive political rhetoric or false claims to promote unofficial Trump merchandise. ...

Rest if article: https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-instagram-meta-deceptive-political-ads-election
#ProPublica #meta #facebook #political #ads
Whuffo diaspora
Zuckerberg wants the ad money. Monitoring and deleting some of it would hurt his bottom line.

When AI takes my job...
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#cartoon by #Matt

Welcome to Puerto Rico
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#cartoon by Chris #Britt
Bellarome diaspora
Yep, that looks like it.

Afroman - Because I Got High


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#video #high #lol


3:21 min #music video

WTF did they try to do here
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Bellarome diaspora
It may never work porperly again but, they got it down.
Whuffo diaspora
I suspect it was going to be installed in the back yard and it had to go over the roof to get there. The guys doing the work weren't competent.

There is a future for this kid
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tagesschau mastodon (AP)
Amtsinhaberin Sandu übernimmt Führung bei Stichwahl in Moldau

Bei der Präsidentschaftswahl in der Republik Moldau zeichnet sich eine enge Entscheidung ab. Nachdem zunächst der moskaufreundliche Herausforderer Stoianoglo vorn lag, übernahm Amtsinhaberin Sandu die Führung.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/moldau-stichwahl-ergebnisse-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#Moldau #Wahl

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taz mastodon (AP)
Mit seinem Grundsatzpapier greift Finanzminister Lindner BSW- und AfD-Politik auf. Grüne und SPD sollten sich darauf nicht einlassen. https://taz.de/!6043866

taz mastodon (AP)
300 An­ti­fa­schis­t:in­nen vernetzen sich in Leipzig. Sie wollen nach dem Protesterfolg gegen den AfD-Parteitag in Essen künftig noch aktionsfähiger sein. https://taz.de/!6043956

Trump Simulates ORAL SEX


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10:49 min video
#trump #blowjob #microphone
Art X diaspora
I read that people at his recent rallies have taken to chanting "We are trash!"
It's like we're living in a cartoon at this point.

The Fugs - Nothing


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4:15 min AUDIO ONLY video
#music #beatnik #TheFugs
Whuffo diaspora
An unusual group. Their "Saran Wrap" was very memorable.
Some bands were doing poetry to music back then - some were good, like the Fugs.

ZDF heute (inoffiziell) friendica (via ActivityPub)
In Thüringen ringen BSW, CDU und SPD um eine mögliche Koalition. Nach Kritik der Parteispitze um Sahra Wagenknecht pocht BSW-Landeschefin Katja Wolf auf eigene Entscheidungen.
infinity mastodon (AP)
„Die Kuh vom Eis kriegen...“

Darf der Generalsekretär des #BSW denn so von Santa reden?
#BSW

ZDF heute (inoffiziell) friendica (via ActivityPub)
Mit dem vierten Sieg in Folge haben sich die Frauen des VfL Wolfsburg in der Bundesliga vorläufig an die Spitze gesetzt. Der SC Freiburg hatte beim 3:0 kaum eine Chance.

taz mastodon (AP)
Felix Banaszak will Grünen-Chef werden. Ein Gespräch über das Linkssein, Gemeinsamkeiten mit Robert Habeck und Provokationen von Christian Lindner. https://taz.de/!6043942

ZDF heute (inoffiziell) friendica (via ActivityPub)
Am Mittwoch kommt der Koalitionsausschuss zusammen, davor wollen sich die Spitzen beraten - vor allem über Lindners Wirtschaftspapier, was zuletzt für Zündstoff sorgte.
Aubrieta mastodon (AP)
so setzt man ne Agenda -.-

The Wandering Mind - Sleepwalk (2023)
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#art by Xin #Liu
#art #Liu

The Louvre under Snow (1902)
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#art by Camille #Pissarro

3 x HVID 1:1:1 (1999)
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#art #sculpture by Kirsten #Justesen


We're late across the pond...
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#cartoon by John #Darkow
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#cartoon by Dave #Whamond
Farhad friendica
we are already there, but the "liberals" don't want to see them, because they are not coming for them yet/

A fish named Murray
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#cartoon by Marc #Johns

Farm insults
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#cartoon by #Woodsy

2024 Storming of the White House
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#cartoon by Joep #Bertrams
Farhad friendica
look at Georgia (the country), they are having their Jan 6th with more idiots backing them up.

taz mastodon (AP)
Der globale LGBTQ:-Dachverband hat die israelische NGO Aguda suspendiert. Für queere Jü­din­nen:­Ju­den ist es noch einsamer geworden. https://taz.de/!6043957


The Post that was
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#cartoon by Niels Bo #Bojesen

Freedom of the press
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#cartoon by David #Horsey
Farhad friendica
welcome to the new fascism

Checking misinformation in USA
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#cartoon by #Paresh Nath

I told you someday we'd be in the news
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#cartoon by Randall #Enos

Nothing of the Month Club
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#art by Ray #Johnson

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