Oggi è il Giorno della memoria dedicato alle vittime del terrorismo interno e internazionale e delle stragi di tale matrice, istituito nel 2007 e celebrato ogni anno il #9maggio, giorno dell’uccisione di Aldo Moro e di Peppino Impastato.
Oggi è il Giorno della memoria dedicato alle vittime del terrorismo interno e internazionale e delle stragi di tale matrice, istituito nel 2007 e celebrato ogni anno il #9maggio, giorno dell’uccisione di Aldo Moro e di Peppino Impastato.
We’ve certainly seen people take a photo of a part, bring it into CAD, and then scale it until some dimension on the screen is the same as a known dimension of the part. We like what [Scale Addition] shows in the video below. In addition to a picture of the part, he also takes a picture of a vernier caliper gripping the part. Now your scale is built into the picture, and you can edit out the caliper later.
He uses SketchUp, but this would work on any software that can import an image. Given the image with the correct scale, it is usually trivial to sketch over the image or even use an automatic tracing function. You still need some measurements, of course. The part in question has a vertical portion that doesn’t show up in a flat photograph. We’ve had good luck using a flatbed scanner before, and there’s no reason you couldn’t scan a part with a caliper for scale.
This is one case where a digital caliper probably isn’t as handy as an old-school one. But it would be possible to do the same trick with any measurement device. You could even take your picture on a grid of known dimensions. This would also allow you to check that the distances at the top and bottom are the same as the distances on the right and left.
@Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁) Milioni di soggetti, che vanno dagli utenti ai creatori dei prodotti connessi, devono essere consapevoli dell'inclusione di un prodotto nell’ambito di applicazione del regolamento europeo e mettere in atto tutti i presidi previsti dalla normativa, superando il binomio fra Data
@Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁) Nella guerra di Gaza, Israele ha sfruttato strumenti di intelligenza artificiale che destano preoccupazioni etiche per la sorveglianza, l’errata identificazione e danni involontari ai civili. Ecco perché fa discutere il nuovo uso dell'AI in tempo reale da parte di Israele, con l'hub
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo Escalation militare dopo raid indiani in Kashmir: droni, artiglieria e vittime civili lungo la Linea di Controllo. L'articolo India-Pakistan: accuse reciproche di attacchi lungo il confine proviene da pagineesteri.it/2025/05/09/asi…
Indo-Pacifico. Da qualche anno è questa la parola chiave di ogni agenda strategica, il cuore di ogni esercitazione militare rilevante, il baricentro di ogni riflessione geopolitica con ambizione globale. Ma non si tratta solo di un concetto geografico allargato: è lo specchio dell’era multipolare che
La cifra che metterà a disposizione è pari al 99 per cento del suo patrimonio
Gates, che ha 69 anni, ha motivato il cambio di programmi dicendo che il mondo si trova ad affrontare molti problemi urgenti e che lui vuole finanziare, e incoraggiare altri a farlo, nuovi strumenti per cercare di risolverli: «Ci sono troppi problemi urgenti da risolvere perché io trattenga risorse che potrebbero essere usate per aiutare le persone»
Gates ha indicato tre priorità della sua fondazione per il futuro: la mortalità infantile, le malattie infettive, principalmente poliomielite, morbillo e malaria, e iniziative legate all’istruzione
In un’intervista al Financial Times Gates ha esplicitamente attaccato Musk dicendo che «non è una bella immagine quella dell’uomo più ricco del mondo che sta uccidendo i bambini più poveri del mondo», spiegando che lo smantellamento di USAID potrebbe portare a una nuova ondata di morti e che va «ben oltre qualsiasi eliminazione degli sprechi»
L'articolo proviene da #StartMag e viene ricondiviso sulla comunità Lemmy @Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁) Starlink aggira le regole Agcom e conquista San Pietro: disparità di trattamento evidente. La lettera di Luigi Pereira.
Si è concluso il Consiglio supremo di Difesa, convocato dal presidente della Repubblica, Sergio Mattarella la scorsa settimana. Il massimo organo costituzionale responsabile per la sicurezza nazionale si è riunito per esaminare i più recenti sviluppi sullo scacchiere
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo Distrutte 9 case, 6 grotte abitate, 10 cisterne d'acqua, 4 stalle, una cabina elettrica, l'impianto solare e il centro comunitario. Restano in piedi solo 3 strutture e la scuola L'articolo MASAFER YATTA. Le ruspe israeliane
Nuvole, sogni e antenne. freezonemagazine.com/articoli/… Il potere della musica. Potere della musica, potere della parola ritmata dalla musica. Potere demonico, maieutico, che può essere, allo stesso tempo, violento e consolatorio, spaventoso e accogliente. Nella musica, i contrasti sembrano talvolta ricomporsi e la verità, le nostra verità, offrirsi in un breve lampo di illuminazione: si accende, e subito, non appena l’eco […] L'articolo Nuvole, sogni Il
The 1970s saw a veritable goldrush to corner the home computer market, with Tandy’s Z80-powered TRS-80 probably one of the most (in)famous entries. Designed from the ground up to be as cheap as possible, the original (Model I) TRS-80 cut all corners management could get away with. The story of the TRS-80 Model I is the subject of a recent video by the [Little Car] YouTube channel.
Having the TRS-80 sold as an assembled computer was not a given, as kits were rather common back then, especially since Tandy’s Radio Shack stores had their roots in selling radio kits and the like, not computer systems. Ultimately the system was built around the lower-end 1.78 MHz Z80 MPU with the rudimentary Level I BASIC (later updated to Level II), though with a memory layout that made running the likes of CP/M impossible. The Model II would be sold later as a dedicated business machine, with the Model III being the actual upgrade to the Model I. You could also absolutely access online services like those of Compuserve on your TRS-80.
While it was appreciated that the TRS-80 (lovingly called the ‘Trash-80’ by some) had a real keyboard instead of a cheap membrane keyboard, the rest of the Model I hardware had plenty of issues, and new FCC regulations meant that the Model III was required as the Model I produced enough EMI to drown out nearby radios. Despite this, the Model I put Tandy on the map of home computers, opened the world of computing to many children and adults, with subsequent Tandy TRS-80 computers being released until 1991 with the Model 4.
Ne sentivamo il bisogno, vero? Mi chiedo perché non esista una big tech che investa seriamente su Linux, che come in questo caso avrebbe potuto essere un'alternativa già pronta (e soprattutto appetibile) a Windows.
Già! Se le aziende statunitensi sono ben lontane da un paradigma più etico, figuriamoci poi una big tech cinese quanto può avere a cuore la democrazia!
Tecnologia, geopolitica e società si intrecciano sempre di più. Questa settimana parliamo della supremazia della Cina, dei problemi di Tesla, e poi NVIDIA e DOGE. La NL è uscita eccezionalmente oggi, e non perderla
Although [Vitor Fróis] is explaining linear regression because it relates to machine learning, the post and, indeed, the topic have wide applications in many things that we do with electronics and computers. It is one way to use independent variables to predict dependent variables, and, in its simplest form, it is based on nothing more than a straight line.
You might remember from school that a straight line can be described by: y=mx+b. Here, m is the slope of the line and b is the y-intercept. Another way to think about it is that m is how fast the line goes up (or down, if m is negative), and b is where the line “starts” at x=0.
[Vitor] starts out with a great example: home prices (the dependent variable) and area (the independent variable). As you would guess, bigger houses tend to sell for more than smaller houses. But it isn’t an exact formula, because there are a lot of reasons a house might sell for more or less. If you plot it, you don’t get a nice line; you get a cloud of points that sort of group around some imaginary line.
There are mathematical ways to figure out what line you should imagine, but you can often eyeball it, too. The real trick is evaluating the quality of that imaginary line.
To do that, you need an error measure. If you didn’t know better, you’d probably think expressing the error in terms of absolute value would be best. You know, “this is 10 off” or whatever. But, as [Vitor] explains, the standard way to do this is with a squared error term R2. Why? Read the post and find out.
For electronics, linear regression has many applications, including interpreting sensor data. You might also use it to generalize a batch of unknown components, for example. Think of a batch of transistors with different Beta values at different frequencies. A linear regression will help you predict the Beta and the error term will tell you if it is worth using the prediction or not. Or, maybe you just want to make the perfect cup of coffee.
Independent ATProto infrastructure has been rapidly expanding recently, experiments with games on ATProto, and Graze offers developer grants.
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Independent Infrastructure news
Over the last week, the effort towards decentralisation and running independent pieces of ATProto infrastructure has sped up significantly. There are now multiple relays that are publicly accessible. Other people also have made alternate AppViews that are Bluesky-compatible. Combined, this makes it now possible to fully use Bluesky without using any infrastructure owned by Bluesky PBC, and the first people have done so. To do so means using a separate PDS, relay, AppView and client.
Some of the updates regarding relays:
Blacksky has built their own relay, using their own custom implementation. This relay is publicly accessible, meaning that other people can use this relay instead of the relay that Bluesky PBC uses.
A writeup on how to set up your own relay by Bluesky engineer Bryan Newbold, for some 34 USD/month.
Making relays cheaper has been due to the Sync 1.1 update, Bluesky PBC goes into more detail in a blog post what this entails.
And the updates regarding clients and AppViews:
Two clients now support the ability for users to set their own AppView, Deer and TOKIMEKI.
AppViewLite is another AppView for Bluesky that has been around for a while, that focuses on being cheap to run. It also heavily optimises for network data storage, with creator Alnkq running AppViewLite that contains full network data on a cheap 10 year old machine. So far, AppViewLite only worked with a custom frontend. An update this week now make it possible to use AppViewLite in combination with other clients.
Some further thoughts:
The way ATProto works, is that it takes the software that runs a social network and splits it up into separate components, with each of those components being able to be run independently. This has made self-hosting any component possible since the beginning of the network opening up. But to tak advantage of this, and get to a state of full independence, it means running multiple pieces of software. This has created a bit of a catch-22 in the ecosystem: you could run your own relay, but without another independent AppView to take advantage of this, it is not super useful. You could run your own (focused on the Bluesky lexicon) AppView, but without a client that allows you to set your own AppView it is not particularly useful either. What happened now in the last weeks is that all these individual pieces are starting to come together. With Deer allowing you to set your own custom AppView, there is now a use to actually run your own AppView. Which in turn also gives more purpose to running your own relay.
For building features in a Bluesky client that Bluesky itself does not have, a different AppView is needed. Now that these are starting to become available, there is new space to experiment with clients that have features that Bluesky does not have. Deer has already started going in this direction by allowing people to set any account as a trusted verifier, for example.
There has been skepticism around Bluesky PBC’s claims regarding decentralisation, especially from people within the ActivityPub community. Part of this distrust has come from people applying a mental framework of how ActivityPub works to how ATProto works. In this framework, Bluesky being decentralised would mean that there are other software platforms that are interoperable with the Bluesky lexicon. I’ll be writing more about those different mental frameworks, and how that relates to decentralisation later. But for now these developments strengthen the claims of Bluesky PBC around decentralisation and building a network that is ‘billionaire-proof’.
In Other News
at://2048 is the game of 2048, integrated with ATProto. 2048 is a sliding tile puzzle game where players combine numbered tiles to reach the 2048 tile, that has gotten popularity years ago and has been reimplemented a number of times. What makes the at://2048 version stand out is that the scores of the game are stored on your ATProto PDS. This creates new features and challenges: it gives the game a more social element, with features like leaderboards. It also creates a new challenge, of how to verify that a score on someone’s PDS is actually legit. at://2048 is experimenting with verified badges to authenticate if a score is legit. Integrating games with ATProto is one of the areas that is under-explored, and this reimplementation of 2048 is worth watching to get a sense of how the integration of games with ATProto will further develop.
Bluesky differs from other social networks in one significant way, namely that users blocking each other is public information. This creates new dynamics, from people being able to see who have blocked them, to leaderboards of the most blocked accounts on the network. A new paper, ‘Self-moderation in the decentralized era: decoding blocking behavior on Bluesky‘, takes advantages of data on blocks being public to study user behaviour. Some of their findings: “users who receive a high number of blocks exhibit distinctive behavioral traits that set them apart from the general user population. These patterns are not necessarily linked to toxicity or misinformation, indicating that block-worthy behavior is more nuanced and complex than traditional moderation markers might suggest. Second, these distinctive traits can be effectively encoded and leveraged by machine learning models, suggesting the feasibility of early-warning or flagging systems able to assist moderation teams by surfacing potentially problematic users even before issues escalate.”
Custom feed builder Graze is giving out 5 grants of 1k USD for other projects in the ATProto ecosystem. Explaining why the startup is giving out grants, Graze says: “First, we want to help accelerate growth in the ATProto / Bluesky ecosystem. Projects that help *others* are vital. Second, we want to empower communities to sustain themselves. Third, we want to help give people & orgs direct access to their audiences. Broadly, those are *our* goals as an org.”
Bluesky in the media
Time Magazine talks with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber and COO Rose Wang after they both got recognised as rising leaders in the Asian Pacific Community by Gold House. On monetisation, Graber says “she’s considering subscription models or monetizing Bluesky’s marketplaces of custom tools, but no concrete plans have been set in motion.”
Wired published an article on how digital archivists are racing to save Black History while the Trump administration is trying to erase it. Wired talks with Blacksky’s Rudy Fraser, who describes “Blacksky as a living archive. Currently its database holds 17 million posts from Black users over the last two years”.
The two developers behind Git collaboration platform Tangled, the brothers Anirudh and Akshay Oppiliappan, gave an interview on the devtools.fm podcast about Tangled. The platform also got various feature updates this week, and customisable profiles.
WhiteBreeze is a self-hostable frontend for WhiteWind, allowing people to build their own blog on ATProto.
ATProto Migrator is a tool to migrate your ATProto account to a different PDS. It does so via a web application, without people having to touch the Command Line Interface (CLI). This makes account migration more accessible, as other tools until now (such as goat by Bluesky engineer Bryan Newbold) require people to use the CLI.
Flashes is a Bluesky client focused on images, and they are experimenting with some new ways to deal with the limitations that come from using Bluesky’s data. A Bluesky post can contain a maximum of 4 images and 300 characters. Flashes has upgraded that limit to 900 characters and 12 images. It works by actually creating 3 separate Bluesky posts in a thread, and displaying this as a single post in the Flashes app.
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Un recente studio sulle modalità di comunicare informazioni sul cambiamento climatico, mostra come rendere più incisivo il messaggio: con visualizzazioni binarie dei dati invece che tramite dati continui.
Binary climate data visuals amplify perceived impact of climate change Grace Liu, Jake C. Snell, …Rachit Dubey Nature Human Behaviour (2025)
Le visualizzazioni binarie dei dati climatici amplificano l'impatto percepito del cambiamento climatico
Per gran parte della popolazione mondiale, il cambiamento climatico appare come un lento e graduale cambiamento del tempo quotidiano. Questo porta molti a percepire i suoi impatti come minori e a generare apatia (l'effetto "rana bollita"). Come possiamo trasmettere l'urgenza della crisi quando i suoi impatti appaiono così sottili?
Attraverso una serie di esperimenti cognitivi su larga scala (N = 799), abbiamo scoperto che presentare alle persone dati climatici binari (ad esempio, le immagini sulle differenze nelle date del congelamento dei laghi) aumenta significativamente l'impatto percepito del cambiamento climatico rispetto a fornire dei dati continui (ad esempio, la temperatura media). ...i dati binari aumentano l'impatto percepito, creando una "illusione" di cambiamenti improvvisi. ... Questi risultati, replicati in modo robusto in più esperimenti, forniscono una base cognitiva per l'effetto "rana bollita" e offrono un approccio basato sulla psicologia ai politici e agli educatori per migliorare la comunicazione sui cambiamenti climatici, mantenendo l'accuratezza scientifica.
Un recente articolo su Nature cambiamento climatico esplora le diseguaglianze di emissione di gas serra derivati dai più ricchi
I gruppi ad alto reddito contribuiscono in modo sproporzionato agli estremi climatici in tutto il mondo
High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide Sarah Schöngart, Zebedee Nicholls, …Carl-Friedrich Schleussner Nature Climate Change (2025)
www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02325-x
L'ingiustizia climatica persiste e i meno responsabili spesso sopportano i maggiori impatti, sia tra i paesi che tra i singoli all'interno dei paesi. Qui mostriamo come le emissioni da gas serra, attribuibili ai consumi e agli investimenti dei gruppi di popolazione più ricchi, hanno influenzato in modo sproporzionato gli attuali cambiamenti climatici. Colleghiamo la disuguaglianza delle emissioni nel periodo 1990-2020 a estremi climatici regionali... due terzi cioè 66% del riscaldamento sono attribuibili al 10% più ricco nella popolazione (ben un quinto, cioè il 20%, è attribuibile all' 1% più ricco), il che significa che la responsabilità dei contributi individuali è 6,5 volte quella dei contributi pro capite medi (addirittura è di 20 volte per i più ricchi).
Quantificare il collegamento tra le disparità di ricchezza e gli impatti climatici può aiutare nel discorso sull'equità e la giustizia climatica.
👆🏻La toccano piano ma leggendo, ben tra le righe del testo dell' articolo, suggeriscono una tassazione globale internazionale, allineata ai consumi e alla finanza transfrontaliera. 🤯 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
1) Questo link poliverso.org/community che ti mostra i contenuti prodotti dagli utenti del solo server Poliverso 2) Questo link poliverso.org/community/global che ti mostra i contenuti prodotti dagli utenti di server diversi da Poliverso3) Questo link poliverso.org/network dove vedrai gli aggiornamenti dei tuoi contatti; e se anche non hai ancora contatti (e quindi non vedrai nulla nella pagina principale), puoi dare un'occhiata ai link a sinistra, dove troverai un filtro sui contenuti, in base alla tua lingua, gli ultimi contenuti pubblicati oppure tag come #Art #Socialmedia e #USA. 4) Questo link poliverso.org/calendar che ti mostra gli eventi federati condivisi da persone del tuo server o dai contatti dei tuoi contatti
I dieci comandamenti di Friendica. Cosa fare con l’account che abbiamo aperto su Poliverso?
Ecco una sorta di decalogo su Friendica. Ci sono molti link che possono appesantire la lettura, ma speriamo che vi piaccia e soprattutto ci auguriamo che lo troviate utile!
@Signor Amministratore ⁂ grazie mille! Il tuo messaggio ed il tuo link rispondono già ad alcune domande che mi stavo ponendo, poi con calma mi rileggo tutto bene e cerco di imparare un po' alla volta 😊
Prevost: la scheda redatta dalle persone sopravvissute ad abusi
Ecco la pagina che la rete delle persone sopravvissute ad abusi nella chiesa cattolica, in sigla SNAP, dedicava prima dell'elezione a Prevost . Se clicchiamo sul bottone rosso "Read Vos Estis report", ecco il carteggio della SNAP inviato in vaticano, perchè anche a Prevost fosse applicata la legge istituita da Bergoglio sugli abusi. Si legge di un caso di abusatore con 13 vittime conclamate non protette nell'Illinois, e di sentenze della giustizia civile peruviana che scrivono nero su bianco dell'inazione della diocesi guidata da Prevost nel contrastare altri casi di abusi su almeno tre persone. Peccato che lo stesso Bergoglio prenda un infrattore della legge da lui istituita, e lo metta - con potere crescente - in un ruolo chiave per la nomina di vescovi. "Tutto apposto". - -
As provincial of the Augustinians, Prevost allowed Father James Ray, a priest then accused of abusing minors whose ministry had been restricted since 1991, to reside at the Augustinians' St. John Stone Friary in Chicago in 2000, despite its proximity to a Catholic elementary school. When Prevost was Bishop of Chiclayo, three victims reported to civil authorities in 2022 after there was no movement on their canonical case filed through the diocese. Victims have since claimed Prevost failed to open an investigation, sent inadequate information to Rome, and that the diocese allowed the priest to continue saying mass.
SNAP filed a complaint against Prevost under the pope’s 2023 decree Vos estis lux mundi on March 25, 2025
Vos estis lux mundi, Pope Francis’ 2023 decree, allows any bishop, cardinal, or religious superior to be reported and investigated for abuse or cover-up. These complaints, submitted to the Vatican, are not verdicts of guilt. They are evidence-based calls for investigation—each meeting the church’s own standard of “serious indications” that a violation occurred. In civil terms, this is equivalent to probable cause or reasonable grounds to investigate.
Every filing draws from a solid foundation of survivor and eyewitness testimony, public records and church statements, independent investigations by media and legal experts, official church documents and canonical proceedings, testimony, depositions, and court-ordered documents from criminal and civil cases.
L’Europa non può più permettersi di restare indietro nella difesa come settore strategico-industriale. È questo il messaggio lanciato dal presidente del Consiglio europeo António Costa, che ha visitato lo stabilimento di Leonardo a Campi
Per due giorni Roma si fa capitale globale del dominio aerospaziale. Ha avuto inizio oggi, presso la Nuvola all’Eur, l’Aerospace Power Conference 2025. Giunta alla sua seconda edizione, la conferenza ha riunito nella Capitale ospiti istituzionali,
A hacker compromised TeleMessage, a company that provides Signal chat archiving services to the Trump administration. TeleMessage has now hidden a video on YouTube that explained its Signal service.#News
This has become the Slop Presidency, and AI-generated images are the perfect artistic medium for the Trump presidency. They're impulsively created, grotesque, and low-effort. Trumpworld’s fascination with slop is the logical next step for a President that, in his first term, regularly retweeted random memes created by his army of supporters on Discord or The Donald, a subreddit that ultimately became a Reddit-clone website after it was banned. AI allows his team to create media that would never exist otherwise, a particularly useful tool for a President and administration that has a hostile relationship with reality.
Trump’s original fascination with AI slop began last summer, after he said legal Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio were “eating the cats…they’re eating the pets” in his debate with Kamala Harris. The internet’s AI slop factories began spinning up images of Trump as cat-and-dog savior. Since then, Trump and the administration have occasionally shared or reposted AI slop. In his first week in office, Trump shared an AI-generated “GM” car image that was promoting $TRUMP coin. “What a beautiful car. Congrats to GM!,” he posted. playlist.megaphone.fm?p=TBIEA2… At the end of February, Trump shared a video on his Truth Social account that imagined a world where Gaza was turned into a Trump Casino.
But this weekend, Trump began sharing AI slop on a level we’ve not seen before.
Trump’s AI-tinged weekend began on Friday night with a photo-realistic picture of himself as the Pope on his Truth Social account. The White House reposted a screenshot of the image on X, which pissed off the Catholic Church. “This is deeply offensive to Catholics especially during this sacred time that we are still mourning the death of Pope Francis and praying for the guidance of the Holy Spirit for the election of our new Pope. He owes an apology,” Thomas Paprocki, an American Bishop in Illinois, said on X.
During a press conference on Monday, Trump dismissed the accusation that the Trump Pope was offensive and then said he didn’t post it. “The Catholics loved it. I had nothing to do with it,” Trump said. “Somebody made up a picture of me dressed like the Pope and they put it out on the internet,” Trump said. “That’s not me that did it, I have no idea where it came from. Maybe it was AI. But I know nothing about it. I just saw it last evening.”
All political movements are accompanied by artists who translate the politics into pictures, writing, and music. Adolf Ziegler captured the Nazi ideal in paintings. Stalin’s Soviet Union churned out mass produced and striking propaganda posters that wanted citizens about how to live. The MAGA movement’s artistic aesthetic is AI slop and Donald Trump is its king. It is not concerned with convincing anyone or using art to inform people about its movement. It seeks only to upset people who aren’t on board and excite the faithful because it upsets people.
Not content to just aggravate Catholics, the Trump administration then used AI to offend adherents of another of America’s major religions: Star Wars fans. On May the 4th, the official White House X account posted an AI-generated image of a muscle bound Trump wielding a red light saber and flanked by two bald eagles.
“Happy May the 4th to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting so hard to to [sic] bring Sith Lords, Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, & well known MS-13 Gang Members, back into our Galaxy. You’re not the Rebellion—you’re the Empire,” it said in the post. “May the 4th be with you.” As the replies pointed out, red light sabers are typically used by villains. This was just one of a series of Star Wars related AI-generated cringe that went out from official Trump admin accounts over the weekend. DOD Rapid Response on X (an account that publishes propaganda on behalf of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth) posted a five minute video that contained a Star Wars intro style scroll of Trump’s “accomplishments” before treating viewers to a pic of Trump and Hegseth as Jedi. The account for the U.S. Army’s Pacific Command sent out an “AI-enhanced” image of soldiers doing a training exercise. Both of the soldiers’s weapons were replaced with lightsabers. Trump and the people who created AI-image generators do not respect artists. There is no style that either will not exploit or sully. OpenAI reduced Hayao Miyazaki's life’s work to a gross meme, and the White House played along. For years the Lofi Girl has sat in windows on screens across the planet while people studied, read, and worked. Over the weekend the White House YouTube channel ran “Lo-Fi MAGA Video to Relax/ Study To” while an animated President Trump sat at a desk, mimicking the Lofi Girl.
Maybe you don’t like Star Wars, are unmoved by Studio Ghibli films, or have never chilled to lofi beats. It doesn’t matter, the message is clear: if you love something Trump will pervert it. Nothing will be untouched. Sacred objects and beloved art exist only to be desecrated. AI has made that as easy as pushing a button.
AI generated slop content is part of a brute force attack on the algorithms that control reality and the Trump administration’s constant use of AI art reflects its own brute force attack on American democracy. It’s not just that its aesthetics are useful for Trump, its entire mode of being is useful for how his administration has governed so far, by brute forcing the Presidency with a slew of executive orders, budget cuts, attacks on institutions, and sloppily executed deportations. The strategy is to overwhelm the American bureaucracy and the legal system, and to exhaust his enemies with an endless stream of bullshit; by the time we shake out what’s legal and what’s not, much of the damage has already been done.
One of the wonderful things about making art is the process. A lot happens between conception and execution. An idea pops into an artist's head and it changes dramatically while they attempt to render that idea into reality. That doesn’t happen with AI-generated images. There is no creation process, there is only instant gratification. Whatever impulsive and grotesque thought pops into the mind of the creator can immediately be realized.
And so every revenge fantasy Trump and his followers ever wanted can be made real at a moment’s notice. On March 27, the White House X account posted a Ghibli-style AI image of a crying woman being arrested by ICE.
Here is a real woman who has been accused of a crime, her image appropriated by the state and rendered into a cartoon. America has total power over this woman. Arrested for drug trafficking, her image has been plastered all over the internet. She’ll be deported. Not content with total control over her body and future, the administration has made her into a caricature and invited its followers to mock her online.
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo Secondo l'agenzia Reuters, gli Emirati avrebbero aperto un canale di comunicazione tra Damasco e Tel Aviv. Per alcuni potrebbe sfociare nella normalizzazione tra i due Paesi L'articolo SIRIA.pagineesteri.it/2025/05/08/med…
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