Minnesota activist releases arrest video after manipulated White House version

Post by CamperBob2 » Sat, Jan 24, 2026, 1:52 AM UTC

idibiks wrote: post #33

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Your phrasing of the reality of democracy and voting is basically a less-polite version of where political science has been on the topic for 80ish years. The first half or so of that they spent trying to figure out some way that the stupidity and ignorance naturally balances out into… something that’s not scary. Law of averages, wisdom-of-the-crowd sorts of stuff. They eventually (more or less) gave up, finding all t…

Post by cmxch » Sat, Jan 24, 2026, 2:00 AM UTC

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Thank you, this is fantastic to know! I think we have to normalize requiring this or similar standards for news, it will go a long way. Ideally we would have a similar attestation from most people's cameras (on their smartphones) but that's a much harder problem to also support with 3p camera apps.

More like I won't trust anything that doesn't come from a press photographer.

Post by salawat » Sat, Jan 24, 2026, 2:10 AM UTC

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I remember reading an article about how terrible AI could be in the hands of a regime like China's. What a time to be alive, I guess.

all this time we were “fighting China” and now we got China… except nothing gets done :)

Post by kibbul4 » Sat, Jan 24, 2026, 2:32 AM UTC

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I don't think they'd ever answer. They'd probably block you on X if you asked. Why do you think that is?

Post by idibiks » Sat, Jan 24, 2026, 2:43 AM UTC

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Your phrasing of the reality of democracy and voting is basically a less-polite version of where political science has been on the topic for 80ish years. The first half or so of that they spent trying to figure out some way that the stupidity and ignorance naturally balances out into… something that’s not scary. Law of averages, wisdom-of-the-crowd sorts of stuff. They eventually (more or less) gave up, finding all t…

It’s, in fact, very scary and it’s astounding it works at all. It no longer does. Social media was the tipping point. Religion wasn't enough to break democracy, newspapers weren't enough, radio wasn't enough, TV was almost enough... but now, with social media as the proverbial last straw, the bug is fully exploited, completely unfixable, and likely fatal.