I tested mine using my keyfob (which is what I bought it for). Test, for sure, but there are ones that work. Aluminum foil also works.

Just like a prank bro, don’t worry bro it’s just a prank

You can buy faraday wallets for like $20.

I think I’d prefer to shutter the museum over pretending that you can somehow compromise on what the truth is. The Smithsonian, like many institutions in the last year, folded with little to no resistance.

How much of history do you alter before your museum is a farce? How much truth can you change to lies for the sake of funding before your museum is just a propaganda program for an authoritarian regime?

Then just choose another word and use that.

Why wait? Capitulate today!

Sometimes I like to think these types of things are being implemented by people that expect to revert them if there’s ever a next administration,

Well the thing about that is that is not how history is supposed to fucking work. If history seriously is just whatever politician thinks it was then the whole enterprise is worthless.

Fake fucking museum

The problem though is much bigger than “verifying” an image’s authenticity. 99% of people are not going to go to a website to learn how to do some new thing to verify the authenticity of an image that confirms and validates positions they already hold.

Right, so once you have the technology to verify that a picture or video was captured by an actual camera, you show this seal of authenticity right next to the media itself in the feeds, and make it very easy to do so. Then, people can look at a glance and see it isn’t verified (similar to how you get all kinds of warnings that a website isn’t secured) and while that still doesn’t prevent people from thinking AI genned shit is real, it’ll help all the most willfully ignorant.

I do think the authenticity problem is harder to crack than is assumed here, and I also think that GenAI companies (and their co-conspirators like X and Facebook and friends) are trying to make it hard to tell whether or not something is real on purpose to push the technology or their agenda.

You mean like from our government? Because our government started the misinformation immediately after the news surface.

Completely fucking illegal. Add it to the pile, I guess. 🤷

“We’ll figure out the accountability mechanisms at the appropriate time,” Jeffries told reporters.

Counterpoint: no you fucking won’t

The only one I heard of was this one: https://generalstrikeus.com/ and I think Cory Doctorow was trying to get one planned: https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-11-11-rip-jane-mcalevey-organize-f8ba7e91c5c9. He set his date out pretty far in the future because he knows that it’s difficult to organize one.

I have no idea. I didn’t say I had a friend that was a plumber. I said I had a plumber. This is the states man, people don’t usually get all up in each other’s business like this. We’re a transactional, individualistic, and now fascistic people. But he seems like he’s doing pretty well.

Nothing says peace prize like one taken from a person for invading their country.

It feels hopeless but the real way to stop the train a’rolling is a general strike.

Join us and defend the culture of being fucking thugs that shoot moms in the face.

I don’t want an endless thread about this issue, because I don’t really care anyway. I have a plumber and the dude’s house is worth twice as much as mine.

There’s a large amount of trade work to be done for individual homeowners. That’s my point. Of course you can have slaves clean the factory boilers, and in a cruel and unjust enough society it’s practically guaranteed that you will do so (it’s hazardous work after all, and who better to do hazardous work than someone you deem subhuman?). But the idea of replacing residential plumbers with ICE prisoners is ridiculous. It’s much more likely that productive residential plumbers would become ICE prisoners because of cruel, unjust, and bad governance.