Anatomia di un'Interferenza Multiforme. La Guerra Ibrida della Russia in Europa. L'Europa si trova da anni nel mirino di una complessa e persistente campagna di interferenza orchestrata dalla Russia. Lontana dai campi di battaglia tradizionali, questa "guerra ibrida" si combatte su più fronti, dal ciberspazio alle aule parlamentari, con l'obiettivo strategico di destabilizzare le democrazie..
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16 miliardi di credenziali compromesse provenienti da piattaforme di primo piano come Apple, Facebook, Google, Binance, Coinbase e molte altre.
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16 miliardi di credenziali rubate da Apple, Meta e Google in vendita per 121.000 dollari
Darklab trova 16 mld di credenziali rubate in vendita su Tor Amazon, il marketplace del dark web. Scopri di più sulla violazione e le implicazioni.Redazione RHC (Red Hot Cyber)
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Stefano Sollima porta a Venezia la serie Il Mostro: «I delitti del Mostro di Firenze sono l’espressione più orrenda della violenza di genere. E oggi non è cambiato molto»
https://www.vanityfair.it/article/stefano-sollima-venezia-serie-il-mostro-delitti-mostro-di-firenze-espressione-piu-orrenda-violenza-genere?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Stefano Sollima porta a Venezia la serie Il Mostro: «I delitti del Mostro di Firenze sono l’espressione più orrenda della violenza di genere. E oggi non è cambiato molto»
Otto duplici omicidi, diciassette anni di terrore, nessun colpevole. Con Il Mostro, in arrivo su Netflix dal 22 ottobre e presentato in anteprima a Venezia, Stefano Sollima racconta l’Italia patriarcale dietro i delitti che hanno sconvolto una genera…Stefania Saltalamacchia (Vanity Fair Italia)
US Open, Trump sugli spalti di Flushing Meadows per la finale di domenica
https://www.gazzetta.it/Tennis/atp/slam/us-open/05-09-2025/us-open-donald-trump-sugli-spalti-di-flushing-meadows-per-la-finale-di-domenica.shtml?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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US Open, Trump sugli spalti di Flushing Meadows per la finale di domenica
Il presidente Usa si recherà a New York per un giorno e tornerà a Washington dopo la partitaLa Gazzetta dello Sport
An outstanding 18th Century CE, cabinet of curiosities at Seitenstetten Abbey in Austria, filled with shells, corals, and rare natural wonders. Preserved for future generations in all its sensuous glory...
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Vaccini a scuola: la Florida è pronta a dire addio agli obblighi
Alcuni vaccini richiedono un obbligo soprattutto durante la fase scolastica. In alcuni paesi, tra cui la Florida, questa imposizione potrebbe venire a meno nei prossimi tempi.Daniela Giannace (Lega Nerd)
Angelina Mango torna sul palco con Olly a cantare in duetto "Per due come noi"
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Angelina Mango torna sul palco con Olly a cantare in duetto "Per due come noi"
Angelina Mango torna sul palco e canta. Lo ha fatto a sopresa durante il concerto di Olly all’Ippodromo Snai di Milano. Insieme hanno cantato "…La Stampa
Carnacki vs. the Ghost Pirates! Exploring the connections between William Hope Hodgson's novel 'The Ghost Pirates' and his Carnacki tale 'The Haunted Jarvee'.
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Carnacki vs. the Ghost Pirates
I mentioned in my previous post how William Hope Hodgson would occasionally include details in his novels and short stories that suggested they might take place in the same universe, or utilise a s…Hodgsoniana
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“The current Polish government has a unique opportunity to place the Białowieża Forest under permanent protection…
but the key question is whether the government will seize this opportunity or bow to commercial interests, again…
According to a public opinion poll conducted in January 2024, the vast majority of Poles (89%) support protecting the entire area of the Białowieża Forest.”
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#Forest #Poland #Europe #EU #Nature #Conservation #Biodiversity #Wildlife
Last chance to save Europe's greatest old-growth forest? (commentary)
The Białowieża Forest is unparalleled in the world. It harbors the best-preserved fragments of lowland deciduous and mixed forests in the European Lowlands, where natural processes, including all stages of forest ecosystem dynamics, unfold undisturbe…Erik Hoffner (Conservation news)
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"Ce 7 septembre, Victoria Gómez Mendez fêtera ses 71 ans derrière les barreaux. Militante du Parti Communiste d’Espagne (Reconstitué) – PCE(r) depuis 1975, elle rejoint en 1995 le Groupe de résistance antifasciste du premier octobre (GRAPO). Durant les années 80, 90 et
恐竜も食べた「超肉食動物」、巨大ワニの骨格を発掘 アルゼンチン - CNN.co.jp - YAYAFA
（ＣＮＮ） 数千万年前、巨大なワニに似た頂点捕食者が、パタゴニア南部の湿潤な淡水氾濫原（はんらんげん）を闊歩（かっぽ）していた。体長は最大３．５メートル、体重は約２５０キロにもなり、捕まるものは何でも食べていた。一部の恐竜もその餌食になった。YAYAFA
Adding a tree to break the glass 😊
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Barella e Tonali le certezze, sorpresa dietro Retegui: le probabili di Italia-Estonia
https://video.gazzetta.it/italia-estonia-probabile-formazione-per-il-debutto-di-gattuso-sorpresa-dietro-retegui/58835765-7baf-4e84-a73a-d2644a071xlk?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Barella e Tonali le certezze, sorpresa dietro Retegui: le probabili di Italia-Estonia
Gennaro Gattuso è pronto per la sua prima panchina alla guida della Nazionale. Questa sera contro l'Estonia il ct propone un 4-2-3-1 con Barella e Tonali in mezzo al campo e unica punta Retegui.La Gazzetta Dello Sport (Gazzetta dello Sport)
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Würde ich mich trauen, auf einem so weit herausragenden Balkon zu sitzen? Ich bin mir nicht sicher.
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Interferenze sul volo di von der Leyen, arrivano chiarimenti da Bruxelles: «Ci sono state e capita spesso, ma non erano mirate contro di lei»
https://www.open.online/2025/09/04/interferenze-volo-von-der-leyen-chiarimenti-bruxelles/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Interferenze sul volo di von der Leyen, arrivano chiarimenti da Bruxelles: «Ci sono state e capita spesso, ma non erano mirate contro di lei»
Bruxelles fornisce chiarimenti sull’incidente aereo di Ursula von der Leyen in Bulgaria: le interferenze Gps non erano mirate a lei, ma il fenomeno cresce sul fianco orientale Ue dall’inizio della guerra in UcrainaAlba Romano (Open)
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Thank goodness. I don't want an end to poverty, famine, war or the washing. What I really need is a robot badminton partner that costs seventy million dollars and can play upto 10 shots.
Scientists taught an AI-powered 'robot dog' how to play badminton against humans — and it's actually really good
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Scientists taught an AI-powered 'robot dog' how to play badminton against humans — and it's actually really good
Scientists have trained the ANYmal quadruped robot to play badminton, and it's good enough to complete in a 10-shot rally with a human opponent.Sophie Berdugo (Live Science)
The FutuRSI project is developing a concept for a German research software institution.
The impulse paper (10.5281/zenodo.17047067) provides an overview of the current state of the German research software ecosystem and aims at promoting the cultural change in the handling of research software.
#FutuRSI #ResearchSoftware #OpenScience
In Kyiv, Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence unveiled new high-speed boats designed for special operations. More cost-effective than Western counterparts, the vessels are capable of reaching speeds of up to 150 km/h and can be equipped with Browning machine guns.
Commenting on the presentation, GUR representative Yevhenii Yerin emphasized: “On the battlefield, there is no such thing as too many weapons or equipment. Every contribution helps us grow stronger.”
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Crise politique : pourquoi la fatigue démocratique nous menace ?
Le vote de confiance du gouvernement Bayrou lundi prochain sonne comme le paroxysme d’une crise politique qui dure depuis plus d’un an. Ce paroxysme risque-t-il de devenir la goutte de trop ?Guillaume Erner (France Culture)
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El Palacio Gran Vía lanza un taller de arte en la mesa con Beatriz Satrústegui en Granada
La iniciativa une tradición cerámica de Fajalauza, tendencias en decoración y degustación gourmet con vistas a la AlhambraVinetur
So, how do I get on this waiting list? 😊
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TUTTA SCENA CINEMA giovedì 04 settembre 2025 ore 13:45 ospiti: ● il regista Gianni Di Gregorio presenta il suo film COME TI MUOVI, SBAGLI (Ita, 2025)al cinema da venerdì 05 settembre 2025https://tuttascena1.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/gianni-di-gregorio-come-ti…● Marta rivoluzioneanarchica.it/tuttas…
[TuttaScenaCinema] la puntata settimanale ● giovedì 04 settembre 2025 ore 13:45
TUTTA SCENA CINEMAgiovedì 04 settembre 2025 ore 13:45 ospiti: ● il regista Gianni Di Gregorio presenta il suo film COME TI MUOVI, SBAGLI (Ita, 2025)al cinema da venerdì 05 settembre 2025https://tuttascena1.wordpress.Radio Ondarossa (Rivoluzione Anarchica)
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Sagastume, Doñate, Stas, Mallart and Oyarzabal perform de Anchieta and de Cabezón at Santes Creus - Schedule // - www.worldconcerthall.com
Jordi Savall Festival. David Sagastume, countertenor and conductor, Martí Doñate, tenor, Pieter Stas, bass, Oriol Mallart, baritone, and Daniel Oyarzabal, organ perform: Juan DE ANCHIETA: Magnificat III ton/ Ave Sanctissima Maria/ O bon...www.worldconcerthall.com
Un recente libro dedicato alle figure femminili più significative della Resistenza nel Ponente ligure
"Protagoniste. Storie di donne e Resistenza nel Ponente ligure” è un volume appena pubblicato da Fusta Editore, scritto da Daniela Cassini, Gabriella Badano e Sarah Clarke Loiacono allo scopo di recuperare attraverso fonti locali che vanno dall'Istituto Storico della Resistenza (ISRECIM) ad archivi privati, le figure femminili più significative della Resistenza nel Ponente ligure. Lo scopo della ricerca è dichiarato già nel titolo: colmare una lacuna pesante negli studi sulla Resistenza nella provincia di Imperia, dando voce alle storie spesso taciute delle donne che furono protagoniste della lotta di liberazione dal nazifascismo in questa area.
Vengono così raccontate storie personali, come quelle delle sorelle Evelina e Giuliana Cristel, della loro attività resistenziale a Sanremo e della loro deportazione, di Dora Kellner, ebrea tedesca e intellettuale titolare della pensione “Villa Verde” a Sanremo, rifugio per esiliati e intellettuali, delle partigiane Alba Galleano (moglie dello scrittore Guido Seborga, anche lui partigiano) e Lina Meiffret: Sbaglierebbe chi pensasse ad un collage di storie individuali. Il libro ha anche una dimensione collettiva esplorando tra l'altro le vicende dei Gruppi di Difesa della Donna nella Provincia di Imperia. A mettere in luce l'importanza della rete creata da molte donne, tra cui contadine, staffette e commercianti, che fornirono supporto fondamentale alla lotta partigiana.
Questo libro si inserisce in un filone storiografico più ampio che negli ultimi anni ha cercato di recuperare e valorizzare il ruolo cruciale delle donne nella Resistenza italiana. Per troppo tempo, infatti, il contributo femminile alla guerra partigiana è stato marginalizzato o ridotto a funzioni di mero supporto logistico. Tuttavia, studi recenti e testimonianze dirette hanno sempre più evidenziato come le donne abbiano partecipato attivamente, anche come combattenti, staffette, organizzatrici e propagandiste, contribuendo in modo significativo al successo della lotta di liberazione prima e alle battaglie per l'emancipazione femminile nel dopoguerra.
Un libro scritto con molto cura, sensibilità tutta femminile e, perché no, con amore. Che intreccia fotografie, documenti, testimonianze e memorie familiari per ricostruire un mosaico di voci femminili di grande spessore. Un libro che restituisce finalmente dignità e notorietà alle donne del Ponente ligure che hanno lottato per la libertà.
Giorgio Amico, Partigiane, ma prima di tutto donne, Vento largo, 12 luglio 2025
La giovane Adelina Pilastri collaborò con il martire antifascista Ettore Renacci
Un recente libro, Protagoniste. Storie di donne e Resistenza nel Ponente ligure ( Isrecim - Regione Liguria - Fusta Editore, 2025), scritt...adrianobrunoalbertomaini.blogspot.com
Bronze and Earthenware Teapot (1882), manufactured by Rookwood Pottery (United States); Decorated by Clara Chipman Newton (American, 1848 – 1936).
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Slapping people with a wet trout used to be a normal interaction in the early days of the Internet.
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La futura Metro D di Roma riapre il dibattito sulla mobilità urbana. Dalla linea C arrivano lezioni chiare: evitare lo spezzatino in troppe tratte, affidare un unico appalto, rafforzare Roma Metropolitane e puntare su stazioni e piazze di qualità.
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Metro D: le best e le worst practices da ereditare dalla linea C
Un commento per comprendere come fare la quarta metropolitana di Roma , alla luce della recente esperienza della metro C. Listen...Andrea (Blogger)
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"Depuis lundi, des blocages et barrages se sont multipliés dans plusieurs villes martiniquaises pour dénoncer la vie chère et la profitation dans cette colonie française. Dans la nuit de mardi 2 au mercredi 3 septembre, cinq gendarmes ont été légèrement blessés par des tirs de
'Terwijl Dilan Yeşilgöz haar populistenpet verruilt voor haar ministershoed en de politieke erven van Pieter Omtzigt elkaar de tent uitvechten, onderzoekt het kabinet of we vrouwen moeten bewapenen met pepperspray en vraagt Hendrik zich na het lezen van de partijprogramma's af wie er nog opkomt voor onze burgerrechten.'
#RadioVrijNederland Welke partijen komen nog op voor onze burgerrechten?
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Welke partijen komen nog op voor onze burgerrechten?
Radio Vrij Nederland · EpisodeWelke partijen komen nog op voor onze burgerrechten? (Spotify)
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Very excited to see Prof Chris Knight has made it to the offices of #Yale UP to submit his final draft of 'The Revolutionary Origins of Language' due out next year. It's a fantastic collaboration with Jerome Lewis.
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Kathryn Bigelow torna con A House of Dynamite, un thriller geopolitico che mette sotto la lente la crescente minaccia nucleare. Quanto siamo davvero preparati? #nucleare
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A House of Dynamite, Recensione: il thriller Netflix che ti farà chiedere non "se", ma "quando"
A House of Dynamite è il nuovo thriller geopolitico, presentato a Venezia 82 e diretto da Kathryn Bigelow, che riflette sulla minaccia del nucleare.Martina Bellantuono (HyNerd)
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FTC fines toy manufacturer for allowing Chinese third-party to collect kids' data
The complaint alleges that the toy manufacturer Apitor published a privacy policy saying that it complied with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule, but in reality violated the law by collecting the location data from children without parent…Suzanne Smalley (The Record)
AI Generated 'Boring History' Videos Are Flooding YouTube and Drowning Out Real History 404media.co/ai-generated-borin…
AI Generated 'Boring History' Videos Are Flooding YouTube and Drowning Out Real History
As I do most nights, I was listening to YouTube videos to fall asleep the other night. Sometime around 3 a.m., I woke up because the video YouTube was autoplaying started going “FEEEEEEEE.” The video was called “Boring History for Sleep | How Medieval PEASANTS Survived the Coldest Nights and more.” It is two hours long, has 2.3 million views, and, an hour and 15 minutes into the video, the AI-generated voice glitched.“In the end, Anne Boleyn won a kind of immortality. Not through her survival, but through her indelible impact on history. FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE,” the narrator says in a fake British accent. “By the early 1770s, the American colonies simmered like a pot left too long over a roaring fire,” it continued.
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The next night, when I went to pick a new video to fall asleep to, my YouTube homepage was full of videos from Sleepless Historian and several similar-sounding channels like Boring History Bites, History Before Sleep, The Snoozetorian, Historian Sleepy, and Dreamoria. Lots of these videos nominally check the boxes for what I want from something to fall asleep to. Almost all of them are more than three hours long, and they are about things I don’t know much about. Some video titles include “Unusual Medieval Cures for Common Illnesses,” “The Entire History of the American Frontier,” “What It Was Like to Visit a BR0THEL in Pompeii,” and “What GETTING WASTED Was Like in Medieval Times.” One of the channels has even been livestreaming this "history" 24/7 for weeks.
In the daytime, when I was not groggy and half asleep, it quickly became obvious to me that all of these videos are AI generated, and that they are part of a sophisticated and growing AI slop content ecosystem that is flooding YouTube, is drowning out human-made content created by real anthropologists and historians who spend weeks or months researching, fact-checking, scripting, recording, and editing their videos, and are quite literally rewriting history with surface-level, automated drek that the YouTube algorithm delivers to people. YouTube has said it will demonetize or otherwise crack down on “mass produced” videos, but it is not clear whether that has had any sort of impact on the proliferation of AI-generated videos on the platform, and none of the people I spoke to for this article have noticed any change.“It’s completely shocking to me,” Pete Kelly, who runs the popular History Time YouTube channel, told me in a phone interview. “It used to be enough to spend your entire life researching, writing, narrating, editing, doing all these things to make a video, but now someone can come along and they can do the same thing in a day instead of it taking six months, and the videos are not accurate. The visuals they use are completely inaccurate often. And I’m fearful because this is everywhere.”
“I absolutely hate it, primarily the fact that they’re historically inaccurate,” Kelly added. “So it worries me because it’s just the same things being regurgitated over and over again. When I’m researching something, I go straight to the academic journals and books and places that are offline, basically. But these AI videos are just sort of repeating things that are on the internet and just because it’s on the internet doesn’t mean it’s accurate. You end up with a very simplified version of the past, and we need to be looking at the past and it needs to be nuanced and we need to be aware of where the evidence or an argument comes from.”
Kelly has been making history videos on YouTube since 2017 and has amassed 1.2 million YouTube subscribers because of the incredibly in-depth research he does for his feature-length videos. He said for an average long-form video, he will read 20 books, lots of journal articles, and will often travel to archaeological sites. It’s impossible to say for sure, but he has considered the possibility that some of these AI videos are modeled on his videos, and that the AI tools being used to create them could have been trained on his work. The soothing British accent used in many of the AI-generated videos I’ve seen is similar to Kelly’s actual voice. “A lot of AI basically scraped YouTube in order to develop all of the ways people make videos now,” he said. “So I mean, maybe it scraped my voice.”
He said that he has begun to get comments accusing his videos of being AI-generated, and his channel now says “no AI is used in this channel.” He has also set up a separate channel where he speaks directly to camera rather than narrating over other footage.
“People listen to the third-person, disembodied narration voice and assume that it’s AI now, and that’s disheartening,” he said. “I get quite a lot of comments from people thinking that I’m AI, so I’m like, if you think I’m AI I’m going to have to just put myself in the videos a little more. Pretty much everyone I know is doing something as a result of this AI situation, which is crazy in itself. We’ve all had to react. The thing I’m doing is I’m appearing more in videos. I’m speaking to the camera because I think people are going to be more interested in an actual human voice.”
Kelly said the number of views he gets on an average video has plateaued or dropped alongside the rise of AI-generated content that competes with his, which is something I heard from other creators, too. As a viewer, I have noticed that I now have to wade through tons of AI-generated spam in order to find high-quality videos.
“I have seen, and my fellow history creators—there’s quite a few of us, we all talk to each other—we’ve all seen quite a noticeable drop in views that seems to coincide exactly with this swarm of AI-generated, three-hour, four-hour videos where they’re making videos about the exact same things we make videos about, and for the average person, I don’t think they really care that much whether it’s AI or not,” he said.
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Kelly has started putting himself in his videos to show he's a real personA few months ago, in our Behind the Blog segment, I wrote about a YouTube channel called Ancient Americas, run by an amateur anthropologist named Pete. In that blog, I worried about whether AI slop creators would try to emulate creators like Pete, who clearly take great pride in researching and filming their videos. Ancient Americas releases about one 45-minute video per month about indigenous cultures from the Western Hemisphere. Each of his videos features a substantive bibliography and works cited document, which explains the books, scientific papers, documentaries, museums, and experts he sources his research from. Every image and visual he uses is credited with both where it came from and what license he’s using. Through his videos, I have learned an incredible amount about cultures I didn’t know existed, like the Wari, the Zapotecs, the Calusa, and many more. Pete told me in an email that he has noticed the AI history video trend on YouTube as well, but “I can’t say much about how accurate these videos are as a whole because I tend to steer clear of them. Life is far too short for AI.”
“Of the few I've watched, I would say that the information tends to be vague and surface level and the generated AI images of indigenous history that they show range from uncanny to cringe. Not surprisingly, I'm not a fan of such content but thankfully, these videos don't seem to get many views,” he said. “The average YouTube viewer is much more discerning than they get credit for. Most of them see the slop for what it is. On the other hand, will that always be the case? That remains to be seen. AI is only going to get better. Ultimately, whether creators like me sink or swim is up to the viewing public and the YouTube algorithm.”
Pete is correct in that a lot of the AI-generated videos don’t have a lot of views, but that’s quickly changing. Sleepless Historian has 614,000 subscribers, posts a multi-hour video every single day, and has published three videos that have more than a million views. I found several other AI-generated history channels that have more than 100,000 subscribers. Many of them are reposting the same videos that Sleepless Historian publishes, but many of them are clearly generating their own content.
Every night before I go to sleep, I open YouTube and I see multiple AI-generated history videos being served to me, and some YouTube commenters have noticed that they are increasingly being fed AI-generated history videos. People on Reddit have noticed that the comments under these videos are a mix of what appear to be real people saying they are grateful for the content and a mix of bots posting fake sob stories. For example, a recent Sleepless Historian video has comments from “History-Snooze,” “The_HumbleHistory” “RealSleepyHistorianOfficial,” “SleeplessOrren,” “SleepyHistory-n9k,” “Drizzle and Dreamy History of the Past,” “TheSleepyNavigator-d6b5c,” “Historyforsleepy168,” and a handful of other channels that post the exact same type of content (and often repost the exact same videos).
In one video, an account called Sleepymore (which posts AI-generated history videos) posted “It’s 1 a.m. in Kyiv. I’m a Ukrainian soldier on night watch. Tonight is quiet—no sirens, just silence. I just wanted to say: your videos make me feel a little less alone, a little less afraid. Thank you.” An account called SleeplessHistorian2 responded to say “great comment.” Both of these accounts do nothing but post AI-generated history videos and spam comments on other AI-generated history videos. The email address associated with Sleepless Historian” did not respond to a request for comment from 404 Media.
The French Whisperer, a human ASMRtist who makes very high quality science and history videos that I have been falling asleep to for years, told me that he has also noticed that he’s competing with AI-generated videos, and that the videos are “hard to miss.”“It is always hard to precisely determine what factors make a YouTube channel grow or shrink, but mine has seen its number of views drop dramatically in the past 6-12 months (like -60%) and for the first time in years I barely get discovered at all by new viewers,” he said. “I used to gain maybe 100-200 subscribers per day until 2024, now it is flat. I think only my older viewers still come to my videos, but for others my channel is now hidden under a pile of AI slop that all people who are into history/science + sleep or relaxation content see in their search results.”
“I noticed this trend of slop content in my niche starting around 2 years ago,” he said. “Viewers warned me that there were channels that were either AI-assisted (like a real person reading AI scripts), or traditional slop (a real person paraphrasing wikipedia or existing articles), basically replicating the kind of content I make, but publishing 1 or 2 hours of content per day. Then it became full AI a few months ago, it went from a handful of channels to dozens (maybe hundreds? I have no idea), and since then this type of content has flooded YouTube.”
Another channel I sometimes listen to has purposefully disabled the captions on their videos to make it harder for AI bots to steal from: “Captions have unfortunately been disabled due to AI bots copying (plagiarizing) my scripts,” a notice on YouTube reads.
All of this is annoying and threatening on a few different levels. To some extent, when I’m looking for something to fall asleep to, the actual content sometimes feels like it doesn’t matter. But I’ve noticed that, over time, as I fall asleep listening to history podcasts, I do retain a lot of what I learn, and if I hear something interesting as I’m dozing off, I will often go research that thing more when I’m awake and alert. I personally would prefer to listen to videos made by real people who know what they are talking about, and are benefiting from my consumption of their work. There is also the somewhat dystopian fact that, because of these videos, there are millions of people being unwittingly lulled to sleep by robots.
Historians who have studied the AI summaries of historical events have found that they “flatten” history: “Prose expression is not some barrier to the communication of historical knowledge, to be cleared by any means, but rather an integral aspect of that communication,” Mack Penner, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History at the University of Calgary, argued last year. “Outsourcing the finding, the synthesizing, and the communicating to AI is to cede just about the whole craft to the machines.”
As YouTube and other platforms are spammed with endless AI-generated videos, they threaten not just to drown out the types of high-quality videos that The French Whisperer, Ancient Americas, and other historians, anthropologists, and well-meaning humans are making. They also threaten to literally rewrite history—or people’s understanding of it—with all of the biases imbued into AI by its training material and, increasingly, by the willful manipulation of the companies that own these tools.
All of the creators I spoke to said that, ultimately, they think the quality of their videos is going to win out, and that people will hopefully continue to seek out their videos, whether that’s on YouTube or elsewhere. They each have Patreons, and The French Whisperer said that he has purposefully “diversified away from YouTube” because of forced ads, settings that distort the sound of softly spoken videos, and the 30 percent cut YouTube takes from its membership program. But Kelly said he believes that it has become much harder to break into this world, because "when I started, I was just competing against other humans. I don't really know how you can compete against computers."
The French Whisperer still posts his videos on YouTube, but said that it is increasingly not a reliable platform for him: “I concluded some time ago that I would better vote with my feet and disengage from YouTube, which I could afford to do because by chance my content is very audio oriented. I bet everything I could on podcasts and music apps like Spotify and Apple, on Patreon, and on various apps I sell licenses to,” he said. “I have launched different podcasts derived from my original channel, and even begun to transform my YouTube channel into a podcast show—you probably noticed that I promote these other outlets at the beginning of almost every single video. As a result of my growth elsewhere and the drop on YouTube, the bulk of my audience (like 80-90%) is now on other sites than YouTube, and these ones have not been contaminated by AI slop so far. In a nutshell, I already had reasons to treat YouTube as a secondary platform before, and the fact that it became trashier with the AI content is just one more.”
“An entire niche can be threatened overnight by AI, or YouTube's policies, or your access to monetization, and this only reinforces my belief that this is not a reasonable career choice. Unless you have millions of followers and can look at it as an athlete would—earn as much as you can, pay your taxes, and live on your investments for the rest of your life when your career inevitably ends.”
Pete from Ancient Americas, meanwhile, said he’s just going to keep making videos and hope for the best.
“It does me no good to fret and obsess over something I have no control over. AI may be polluting the river but I still have to swim in it or sink. Second, I have a lot of faith in what I do and I love doing it,” he said. “At the moment, I don't think AI can create a video the way that I can. I take the research very seriously and try to get as much information as possible. I try to include details that the viewer would have a very difficult time finding on their own; things that are beyond the Wikipedia article or a cursory Google search. I also use ancient artifacts and artworks from a culture to show the viewer how the culture expressed itself and I believe that this is VERY important when you want your audience to connect with ancient people. I've never seen AI do this. It's always a slideshow of crappy AI images. The only thing I can do in an AI world is to keep the ship sailing forward.”
Kelly, who runs History Time, says he sees it as a real problem. “It’s worrying to me just for humanity,” he said. “Not to get too high brow, but it’s not good for the state of knowledge in the world. It makes me worry for the future.”
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#Τεμπη: Γιατί απαγόρευσαν στους συγγενείς των θυμάτων να οργανώσουν συγκέντρωση; (vid) - Jacobin Greece
«Η κυβέρνηση απέρριψε το αίτημα που είχε υποβάλλει προκειμένου ο Σύλλογος Συγγενών Θυμάτων των Τεμπών να πραγματοποιήσει συγκέντρωση στη Θεσσαλονίκη, την ημέρα εγκαινίων της ΔΕΘ στο Βελίδειο από τον πρωθυπουργό Κυριάκο Μητσοτάκη.Χρήστος Αβραμίδης (Jacobin Greece)
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My house burned to the ground in the 12/30/2021 Marshall Fire and Wind Event.
I moved into the (mostly complete) new house on June 25, 2024.
I'm very proud of it: the house was shortlisted for the Colorado Green Building Guilds' Annual award, but was beaten by a much more elaborate public building.
Dated to the mid- to late 2nd Millennium BC (1500–1000 BC) based on weapon typology, this star is linked to Eurasian steppe cultures and shows influences from local Assyrian and Urartian art in Eastern Anatolia.
Associated with the Kingdom of Hubushkia, it likely belonged to nomadic warrior-shepherd groups and was preserved as part of monumental tomb remains.
The piece is now housed in the Van Museum.
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O sigui, COM A TOTHOM! Qui punyetes llegeix un llibre que no li agrada (que no sigui al cole)? També cal aprendre a filtrar i triar què es llegeix, que no és en cap cas 100% assegurança de res, però és important.
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considering some US american software companies flat out claim their software has no bugs (because of liability laws), it might be that honest commercial software development is de facto impossible.
because once it is established that the software has no bugs, there can be no incriminating evidence: no bug reports, no bug trackers, no quality assurance.
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