FIRST LOOK: New video from the “Ontario Place for All!” citizens action group…

Update Newsletter:
https://mailchi.mp/e18b385352a5/abetterideavideo?e=3b9106b64f

This #DougFord smoke filled back-room political f*ckery (selling off Canadian public park land to build an EU Mega-Spa 🤬) needs to stop – NOW.

If you live anywhere in or around the #Toronto / #GTA – please boost 🙏 ❤️

#OntarioPlace
#Ontario
#Canada
#TOpoli
#ONpoli
#CANpoli
#Democracy

(60 seconds)

noodling alternate titles...
#Elmo

It is sooooo hard to find good help these days…

“More Mar-a-Lago witnesses dump Trump-funded lawyer: court filing”

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-documents-scandal-witnesses-lawyer/

#DOJ
#Jan6
#Jan6th
#Legal
#Law
#Justice
#Democracy

Yup...

"Focus on the Stakes, Not the Odds" ( 👈 @jayrosen_nyu ) https://kottke.org/23/08/focus-on-the-stakes-not-the-odds

#USPoli
#USMedia
#Media
#Attention
#Democracy

I've got a bone to pick here:

• every cat I know is *convinced* EVERY DAY is "International Cat Day"

• IMHO: it's #InternationalDogDay every Goddamn day!

#Caturday
#DogsOfMastodon

🐾🐾 🐾🐾

Fox didn't pay a penny of the $800m civil settlement fine to Dominion Voting Systems – its insurance company did (and they could probably do it 2 more times).

• make no mistake: it's "business as usual" at Fox

• #GOP/right-wing on a trajectory to ensue
#FreeSpeech = #RightToLie
(courtesy #SCOTUS Citizens United) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC

"Fox refuses to apologize for fabricated story about dead Marine whose sole source was a far-right Florida congressman" https://boingboing.net/2023/08/26/fox-news-refuses-to-apologize-for-fabricated-story-about-dead-marine-whose-sole-source-was-a-florida-congressman.html @jeffjarvis

“I weigh 215 lbs - ASK ME HOW!”
#CoolHandPuke

h/t @BodyofBreen

• #GenerativeAI remains a pipe dream

• the evil it's unleashed is 100% real

“Revealed: The Authors Whose Pirated Books Are Powering Generative AI”
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/08/books3-ai-meta-llama-pirated-books/675063/

1. Is there a better #SiliconValley #BigTech initiative to “flood the zone with shit” (at scale) than this?

2. How is this different than weaponizing intellectual stolen goods? 🧐

#ArtificialIntelligence
#OpenAI
#ChatGPT
#AIEthics
#EthicalAI
#Copyright
#Law #Legal
#Publishing
#AIBlitzkrieg
#OligarchBlitzkrieg
#Amazon

In space... no one hears a sad trombone

“Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into Moon” - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66562629

#Russia
#Putin
#Space
#Moon
#Russian
#Roscosmos
#Luna25

Don’t Tread on his Tactical Cowardice…

"A Jan. 6 defendant scheduled to be sentenced on Friday is now missing”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/jan-6-defendant-scheduled-sentenced-friday-now-missing-rcna100677

#Jan6
#Jan6th
#GOP
#USpoli

The #SiliconValley #BigTech #innovation here?

– private platform ownership that enables & paves way for ‘algorithmically accelerated’ hateful, fascist and life threatening #FreeSpeech (whether you like it or not)

Perfectly “on brand” for ‘X’ marks the #TechnoFascist spot – globally.

Last nights *Ontario Place for All* event featured an awesome roster of speakers, a great live audience and 900 virtual attendees.
Recording here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh3DNEqEqAU

If you care about the future of critical public spaces
• Ontario Place
• Ontario Science Centre
*please* ask your local politicians and other influencers to endorse this orgs better idea for all plan
https://ontarioplaceforall.com
Take Action:
https://ontarioplaceforall.com/takeaction/
🙏 ❤️
#Toronto
#Ontario
#Canada
#GTA
#ONpoli
#TOPoli
#OntarioPlace

• #ElonMusk+#MBS privately own the raw fuel source (every #Twitter keystroke ever)

• Saudi's now building their private #AI refineries

Who's an idiot for paying $44B to purchase private (unregulated) #Twitter open pit #PersonalData mine now? 🧐 This was 🥜's for an autistic billionaire + a sovereign immune trillionaire

“Saudi Arabia & UAE Race To Buy #Nvidia Chips To Power #AI Ambitions”
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/23/08/15/1619242/saudi-arabia-and-uae-race-to-buy-nvidia-chips-to-power-ai-ambitions

#BigTech
#Surveillance
#BigData
#Privacy
#AIBlitzkrieg
#NatSec
#USpoli
#Democracy

@davew
Audio Commentary clip from Director Jonathan Demme

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Making_Sense

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Demme

#TalkingHeads
#Film #Cinema

@davew Gargantuan BINGO! dude

If you haven’t yet (and you can find it), highly recommend listening to the audio commentary track for the film ‘Stop Making Sense’. It's awesome.

https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/Stop-Making-Sense-on-Blu-ray-Disc.shtml

#TalkingHeads
#Film #Cinema

#Elmo #FreeSpeech this…

“#Twitter Blue accounts fuel Ukraine War misinformation" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66113460

He didn’t buy it to fix it
He bought it to wield it
This is how.

#PhonyStark
#ElonMusk
#SiliconValley
#BigTech
#TechnoFascism
#Media
#Privacy
#Surveillance
#Attention
#UkraineRussiaWar
#UkraineWar
#USpoli #NatSec
#Democracy

I'm going with the Zen Master and the little boy on this one…

"What to know about Threads"
- Mastodon Blog
Eugen Rochko
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/

cc: @hotdogsladies

#Film
#Cinema
#CharlieWilsonsWar

#BigTech has a commercial right to human #attention – amirite?

“#YouTube test threatens to block viewers if they continue using ad blockers” | Engadget
https://www.engadget.com/youtube-test-threatens-to-block-viewers-if-they-continue-using-ad-blockers-053117556.html

F*ck Alphabet.

#SiliconValley
#Surveillance
#surveillanceCapitalism
#Privacy
#DigitalGildedAge

#ArtificialIntelligence (technology that was ‘injected into’ *not* ‘adopted by’ citizens) is a savage & lawless land – the perfect set of conditions for Lawyers & VC’s:

WaPo: “ChatGPT maker OpenAI faces class action lawsuit over data to train AI"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/28/openai-chatgpt-lawsuit-class-action/

#SiliconValley
#AI #ML #BigData
#BigTech #VC
#PersonalData
#OpenAI
#ChatGPT
#AIBlitzkreieg
#OligarchBlitzkrieg
#PeterThiel
#SamAltman
#ElonMusk
#TechnoFascism
#Surveillance
#SurveillanceCapitalism
#Privacy #Law
#Democracy

Really enjoyed this episode
"Chatter: Hacker Movies with Scott Shapiro”
from LawfareMedia.Org
June 29 ⋅ 1:12:47
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/chatter-hacker-movies-with-scott-shapiro

Host: @shaneharris
Guest: @scottjshapiro

Scott, I came across the BluRay Audio Commentary track for “War Games” (’83)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames
last year and it's hela-awesome.

Less enlightening but ditto for “Sneakers" (’92)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakers_(1992_film)

@benjaminwittes
@klonick
@DavidPriess
@GenevieveDFR

🎥

#Film #Cinema
#Cybersecurity
#Hackers
#Technology