I’m not sure I understand how deepfake porn is supposed to be ruining lives here. From the article it seems like the issue is not any concern that it would be mistaken for real, but instead just people having a very horrified reaction to seeing that sort of depiction of themselves? Mostly it seems like the deepfake aspect is sort of a trivial distraction to the real issue on display there of gangs of men targeting random women for online harassment. If there was no such thing as deepfakes other sexually explicit or disturbing images could sub in easily enough.

Maybe the new deepfake ban will be useful as a way of going after these harassment gangs that previously didn’t face legal consequences? But it’s sort of an inexact tool for that job, given that there are presumably lots of deepfake images out there not used for harassment, and that’s it’s easy enough for harassers to switch away from deepfakes if using them becomes a major legal vulnerability.

Ordinary Mexicans

If I were the Iranian leadership I’d want to develop a nuclear arsenal yesterday. It’s the only way to really deter Israeli or American aggression. As an American myself I’d appreciate the resulting reduction in the likelihood of our going to war against Iran.

The potential consequences

I don’t think they should have barred Machado from running, but I also don’t think the US should sanction them over it. American meddling never improves this sort of situation, especially when in the form of hurting a country’s economy.

This is in very poor taste as a comment on an article about the US increasing sanctions that really will make Venezuelans go hungry.

Kbin is still a thing? Or I guess not…

Sure, why would election coverage not be news?

Take the hint Xi, she’s just not into you.

Nice. All corporate mergers are anti-consumer and anti-worker.

The word libertarian was used to mean something more leftist before that term was claimed by the modern America right wing libertarian movement, but that movement was never anything but a catspaw for right wing oligarchs.

War is hell, but few wars have ever been more justified than this one.

Good luck to the Palestinian freedom fighters! Apartheid must end!

I like it, seems like a good way to get to critical mass on the small subs here. Can’t really offer any help, but good luck and thanks!

Vaping isn’t bad for you, nor is nicotine really, so what’s the big deal?

Hmm that is too bad. For some reason the fact that I am the one making the demand seems to short circuit that oppositional feeling for me.

When I want to make sure I do something I create an event in google calendar for when I want to do it. So the act of deciding to do the thing doesn’t have to be linked to the pain of actually doing it. Then when that time comes and I get the event reminder I can’t be like “I’ll do it some other time” because this is the very specific time I decided to do it, and if not now when? Not foolproof, I blow through a reminder event or push it back to another time once in a while, but it helps.

Yeah you are spot on, the big problem with Mastodon is that they have all these ideas about how to be better than twitter that actually just break what people are looking for from the twitter experience.

I don’t think Israel should disenfranchise the Palestinians in the occupied territories and deny Palestinians abroad the right to return in order to maintain a Jewish majority if that’s what you mean. Is that a problem for you? I see this is your first post but your bio says “people who don’t look like me don’t deserve rights” so I’d guess we do have some issues.

I agree large instances have a bigger voice proportional to their larger size, but I don’t think that’s really an issue as long as there are plenty of instance options and no single one is so powerful it can force the system to conform to it rather than conforming itself to the system.