Hard Pass

This is the fucking lore don't you lie to me

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@JeremiahFieldhaven/116654345332213390

Seriously. Not dystopian science fiction or a new novel by an AI version of George Orwell. Actual corporations — what America’s first Supreme Court Justice, John Marshall, in 1819 called “an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law” — are today voting in elections for everything from the mayor and town council to referendums on corporate taxes and limits on corporate behavior.

What could possibly go wrong?

There are, after all, more corporations than people in Delaware. They can now decide who’s going to run the government, what the laws are, and — through their votes to elect humans who’ll take corporate money to do what corporations want (something else that corrupt Republicans on the Supreme Court legalized) — even what regulations companies must follow and what limits there are on their behavior.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47549057

Let's take a look at Targeted Victory, the company that has raped us:

If their bots are Terminators, think of these as their older, T-800 models: https://www.facebook.com/groups/870032844629352 (every single poster on that page, every single one of them, is a Targeted Victory bot. Do you see how every single post has a funny code at the top? This was an older, anti-bot-algorithm-beating scheme. It still runs. Why don't they undo it, and delete all this, now that they have better AI-powered bots, that beat the anti-bot-algos on their own? Because, in their minds, suddenly deleting this, or suddenly stopping the output of these long-running models, would give away the scam more noticeably that leaving it up. "Maybe all these posters are real people who just like typing the same anti-anti-bot-algo-beating codes into the top of all their posts for no reason". I'm serious. )

These, on the other hand, are their new T-1000 models: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqPe8SN0VZ0 (This is a fake AI podcaster, produced by Targeted Victory, and every single viewer/commenter is one of their bots, promoting what I call their "make America racist program", on behalf of their clients. I wonder which clients ordered this?

They also do Spencer the same way: these videos are theirs and all these commenters/viewers are their bots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmy0v8JyEK0

They've also put out fake polling for him: https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/fact-check-fake-emerson-poll-030345660.html

If you join every MAGA group here on facebook, you'll see them hard at work every day. Almost all the commenters, meme posts, and the groups themselves, are theirs.

Their office is in Virginia. They're publicly listed; it's just that no one knows what they do.

This office, and this company, deserves its own dedicated protest force against it (think No Kings/50501 style), and, this practice deserves its own new legislation banning this behavior outright, and requiring all social media companies to have measures in place against it. Furthermore I would have all the current employees, owners, and clients publicly disclosed and prosecuted under new increased-penalty laws, and I would have their servers and client lists confiscated and exposed to the world.

These are the same people that covered up Trump's election theft in 2024 to begin with, by making it look like MAGA was genuniely that popular with Americans, so that everyone was shocked by his win (I remember Harris leading the polls), but no one questioned it (they all said, well, you sure could see what looked like tons of pro-Trump commenters online... a very simple trick, and now a very embarrassing and costly one if exposed).

Get ready to perform mass corrective maneuvers.

Is this like the Civil War? How 'bout the American Revolution?

Nope. This is like the French Revolution. Or the Russian.

Blame it all on Targeted Victory... (they're the biggest of these groups but there's actually several of them in America, and some in Russia, all contributing to the American onslaught in the same manner. They all deserve their own protest/confiscation/prosecution. The other American companies doing this are:

Targeted Victory: 211 N Union St, Suite 200, Alexandria, VA 22314

i360: 2300 Wilson Blvd, Suite 500, Arlington, VA 22201

Axiom Strategies: 1251 NW Briarcliff Blvd, Suite 85, Kansas City, MO 64116

Vici Media Group: 901 Mopac Expressway South, Barton Oaks Plaza One, Suite 300, Austin, TX 78746

Mercury Public Affairs: 707 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 4125, Los Angeles, CA 90017

#MAGA #Trump

borzoigaming on... insta i thk

Pathmanathan contacted at least 145 young victims between March 2014 and his arrest on March 10, 2021, while posing as a teenage boy from New Jersey.

Throughout this sextortion scheme, he demanded victims engage in sexually explicit conduct via video chat and threatened to send recordings to their friends and family if they refused or blocked his accounts.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/65680179

Seriously. Not dystopian science fiction or a new novel by an AI version of George Orwell. Actual corporations — what America’s first Supreme Court Justice, John Marshall, in 1819 called “an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law” — are today voting in elections for everything from the mayor and town council to referendums on corporate taxes and limits on corporate behavior.

What could possibly go wrong?

There are, after all, more corporations than people in Delaware. They can now decide who’s going to run the government, what the laws are, and — through their votes to elect humans who’ll take corporate money to do what corporations want (something else that corrupt Republicans on the Supreme Court legalized) — even what regulations companies must follow and what limits there are on their behavior.

Trump rages in response, saying he now has ‘no interest’ in renovations and will instead work with Congress to oversee ‘failing institution’

A federal judge has blocked Donald Trump from renaming the Kennedy Center the “Trump-Kennedy Center,” nor can the president close it down for repairs.

District Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington, D.C. won’t let the president name the iconic performing arts center after himself, noting that Congress made it “crystal clear” that the building is to be named after former President John F. Kennedy, “and it cannot bear any other formal name or public memorial” based on a “unilateral say-so” from a Trump-appointed board.

“Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it,” Cooper wrote in Friday’s injunction.

Hours later, the president wrote a lengthy screed against the decision and the judge on his Truth Social account, saying it would be “impossible” to keep the institution open while construction is ongoing, and that he now has “no interest” in renovations and will instead be “working with Congress to transfer this failing Institution back to them so they can make a determination as to what to do with it.”