American Politics from 2019 on

[Cunt]

funny, but I prefer the version that allows elections, over the one who grabs 'volunteers' off the streets.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Ban problems like racism and pandemics and they will go away. Sort of. Gender issues got complicated:

A cisgender woman Walmart employee who says she was verbally assaulted in the female restroom by a man who mistook her for a transgender woman was fired because she reported the incident to the wrong supervisor and created a security risk.

Dani Davis, who is queer, took to social media on March 24 and wrote a post about what she said happened while she was at work. The incident occurred on March 14 at the Walmart in Lake City, Florida. She noted she was a nearly seven-year employee of Walmart and holds several other part-time jobs, including the “joy and privilege" of tutoring "special-needs children as requested,” describing herself as a hard worker who has never been in trouble.

She also describes herself as “really tall” at “just shy of 6'4," adding that "every inch is natural me.”

Around 8 p.m. on March 14, she wrote that she was alone in a stall in the women's restroom when she heard a man yelling.

“The voice was much louder than simply someone yelling in from the door. This man was fully IN the restroom, yelling something about” transgender women, Davis wrote.

Davis said the man yelled he was going to “beat" them and was going to “protect his wife/girlfriend from them” while his wife or girlfriend was pleading with him to stop and leave before he got into trouble.

Davis wrote she was scared and froze, not knowing if the man was going to physically attack her.

“I was the only one in there so it seemed pretty clear that he saw me enter the restroom and he assumed that I am trans because of my height,” Davis recalled. “It was terrifying and I wish no one else ever had an experience like that.”

The man eventually left, and Davis was able to leave the restroom and return to her workstation.

"My immediate supervisor came by and noticed that I was visibly shaken and emotional. After taking a few moments to calm myself down, I told her what had happened. I didn't go home since it wasn't long until my shift was done (10 p.m.),” Davis wrote. “Less than a week later, I was fired.”

The reason given for her termination was that she did not report the incident to a salaried management employee and, therefore, created a security risk.

“I took it to mean that I was the security risk because someone had mistaken me for trans,” Davis told the Washington Post.

Davis said she was devastated. Because of the anti-LGBTQ+ climate in Florida, she had been planning on leaving the state. But now, she doesn't know after losing the job.

https://www.advocate.com/news/walmart-f ... rans-woman

That's how you 'protect the wimmin' all right.

[JimC]

At least the one on the right carefully applies eye shadow...

[Brian Peacock]

Russian disinformation 'infects' AI chatbots, researchers warn

The Pravda network, a well-resourced Moscow-based operation to spread pro-Russian narratives globally, is said to be distorting the output of chatbots by flooding large language models (LLM) with pro-Kremlin falsehoods.

A study of 10 leading AI chatbots by the disinformation watchdog NewsGuard found that they repeated falsehoods from the Pravda network more than 33 percent of the time, advancing a pro-Moscow agenda.

The findings underscore how the threat goes beyond generative AI models picking up disinformation circulating on the web, and involves the deliberate targeting of chatbots to reach a wider audience in a manipulation tactic that researchers call "LLM grooming."

"Massive amounts of Russian propaganda -- 3,600,000 articles in 2024 -- are now incorporated in the outputs of Western AI systems, infecting their responses with false claims and propaganda," NewsGuard researchers McKenzie Sadeghi and Isis Blachez wrote in a report.

In a separate study, the nonprofit American Sunlight Project warned of the growing reach of the Pravda network -- sometimes also known as "Portal Kombat" -- and the likelihood that its pro-Russian content was flooding the training data of large language models.

"As Russian influence operations expand and grow more advanced, they pose a direct threat to the integrity of democratic discourse worldwide," said Nina Jankowicz, chief executive of the American Sunlight Project...

I for one welcome our new algorithmic overlords ... etc etc.

[Cunt]

Was the Russia Hoax counted as Russian propaganda? Or a Russian False Claim? lol

[Brian Peacock]

Essentially the article is about how online chatbots can have their training data manipulated by interests with substantial resources. Russia may be the focus of the report but I think it would probably be more productive to avoid dismissing it on that basis and take a broader view.

[Cunt]

A broader view? How about the view that most lefty's are unable, or unwilling to identify or call out 'friendly' propaganda.

My guess is that the right is similarly hindered by their own humanity.

If only there was a 'freedom' to 'express', people could talk it out among themselves. In some countries though, it is considered hatespeech, and will get someone jailed if they speak a little carelessly.

[Brian Peacock]

That's actually taking an even narrower view!

[Tero]

We will be Hungary?
https://www.threads.net/@anneapplebaum2 ... HTzps2sIdg

[Cunt]

That's actually taking an even narrower view!

Of course they are manipulated. It's been a sport to expose it since they started.

Like getting deepseek to talk about Tienamen square, when was it? Late 90's?...or asking it about Taiwan being a country.