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Conspirador Norteño
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Data Scientist/Musician/Participant in the General Confusion
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Resist autocracy and research/counter disinformation. I serve the realm.
USA (somewhere in time)conspirator0.substack.comJoined July 2016
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We're rolling out a couple of changes to our web-based tweet schedule plotting tool (makeadverbsgreatagain.org/allegedly), largely due to slowness resulting from increased usage the last few weeks. cc:
@ZellaQuixote
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If you've been reading the analysis threads @ZellaQuixote and I post, you've probably seen the tweet schedule plots we include. Here's a simple web application you can use to make those plots yourself for accounts of your own choosing. makeadverbsgreatagain.org/allegedly
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Astonishingly, five of these six
@TwitterBlue
"verified" accounts still have their blue checkmarks. Allowing accounts with fake faces to be "verified" without even requiring the operators to disclose that the "face" is artificially generated is a blatantly pro-deception stance.
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It's 2023, and accounts with GAN-generated faces continue to receive "verification" checkmarks from Twitter Blue here and there. #BlueCheckShenaniGANs (These accounts were found by searching for common English words in combination with "filter:blue_verified.) cc: @ZellaQuixote
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collage of the profiles of six Twitter Blue verified accounts with GAN-generated faces: @Doctor_Iver, @jonidanna, @Justahappyman, @Kenoisseur, @mikerson_mike, @mira_hurley
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David Gilbert
@daithaigilbert
NEW: Inside a Nazi homeschooling group run by the Lawrences, a couple from Upper Sandusky, OH, and parents of four young children. The group has almost 2,500 member and the founders say its aim is "making sure that children become wonderful Nazis” 1/6
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Inside a US Neo-Nazi Homeschool Network With Thousands of Members
An Ohio couple has been unmasked as leaders of the neo-Nazi “Dissident Homeschool” Telegram channel that distributes lesson plans to 2,400 members.
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Conspirador Norteño
@conspirator0
No,
@Twitter
, I do not want to turn on push notifications. Spamming me with this message every hour isn't going to change my mind, so maybe provide the option to decline permanently?
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steven monacelli
@stevanzetti
After right wing protesters (one of which I recently wrote about) complained about an opt-in sex education program at Fort Worth Independent School District, they've decided to postpone the program—meaning students will not have sex education for a year.
fortworthreport.org
Fort Worth ISD drops sex ed despite $2.6 million purchase of materials in April | Fort Worth Report
Fort Worth ISD will not teach sex education this school year despite spending $2.6 million on curriculum. Why? The district has not adopted a curriculum aligned with the state’s new standards....
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Brooke Binkowski
@brooklynmarie
Next time your friendly neighrborhood border and/or grey zone and/or postconflict and/or counterdisinfo reporter starts freaking the fuck out, listen to them
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Ed Burmila
@edburmila
If your city has some "special" police unit organized like a paramilitary death squad from a US-supported 1980s right-wing dictatorship, you can safely assume it is regularly behaving like a paramilitary death squad.
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@ZellaQuixote
I have not lived life as instinctively or joyously since 2016 when a dark shadow was hoisted to leadership of our nation by anti-USA extremists who lavishly adorn themselves with the USA flag while denigrating it and everything it represents.
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Jeremy, a Dad (but also a Person)
@JeremyWingert79
My hot take is that most of us have not adequately processed the trauma of the pandemic. And our sprawling, unprocessed trauma chews away at our brains in myriad ways that make us anxious about why we can’t seem to live our lives as instinctively or as joyously as we did in 2019.
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Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D
@RVAwonk
This 👆 is a perfect example of the regressive logic of conspiracy theories. Instead of responding to new or contradictory evidence by changing one's mind or considering alternatives, conspiracy theorists just fold the new evidence into an ever-expanding conspiracy theory.
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Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D
@RVAwonk
Conspiracy theories also lead to a dangerous cycle of scapegoating because the regressive logic of conspiratorial thinking can only be maintained by implicating an ever-expanding group of "conspirators" involved in the conspiracy and/or the "cover-up". 3/
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Elad Nehorai
@EladNehorai
They truly think the second richest man in the world, a man who lies constantly, whose former employee had to go into hiding after he called him out, who spreads dangerous bigotry almost daily, who *owns this platform*, is a victim. Tell me it’s not a cult.
Eva Fox Claudius Nero's L... . 3h Just wondering how many influential people have asked your forgiveness for undeservedly saying and doing bad things to you, for lying about you, your family, and companies, for bringing so much harm to you? Q 38 t] 39 ♡ 742 42.5K Mr. Tweet @elonmusk 1h That is rather rare Q 128 t 84 ♡ 1,272 il 43.9K 1
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I don't think platforms should necessarily prohibit the use of GAN-generated faces as profile pics, but if they're going to allow them (especially on verified accounts), the images should be clearly labeled as artificial:
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Suggestion for Twitter, Facebook, and other social media companies: require any account with a GAN-generated face to prominently disclose that the image is artificially generated and does not depict a real person. Remove accounts that don't comply with this policy as inauthentic. twitter.com/conspirator0/s…
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This isn't just my opinion - a recent study found that humans are already more inclined to trust GAN-generated faces than real human faces. Allowing people to bestow legitimacy on fake faces via the blue "verification" checkmark worsens the problem.
pnas.org
AI-synthesized faces are indistinguishable from real faces and more trustworthy | Proceedings of...
Artificial intelligence (AI)–synthesized text, audio, image, and video are being weaponized for the purposes of nonconsensual intimate imagery, fin...
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@conspirator0
Astonishingly, five of these six
@TwitterBlue
"verified" accounts still have their blue checkmarks. Allowing accounts with fake faces to be "verified" without even requiring the operators to disclose that the "face" is artificially generated is a blatantly pro-deception stance.
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@conspirator0
It's 2023, and accounts with GAN-generated faces continue to receive "verification" checkmarks from Twitter Blue here and there. #BlueCheckShenaniGANs (These accounts were found by searching for common English words in combination with "filter:blue_verified.) cc: @ZellaQuixote
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collage of the profiles of six Twitter Blue verified accounts with GAN-generated faces: @Doctor_Iver, @jonidanna, @Justahappyman, @Kenoisseur, @mikerson_mike, @mira_hurley
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Shayan Sardarizadeh
@Shayan86
Twitter chief Elon Musk and two men with hundreds of thousands of followers ranting about a completely made up "report" about Ukraine tweeted by some random account without even bothering to check if the tweet they're reacting to is actually true or not.
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The News Literacy Project
@NewsLitProject
Former librarian
@BrandyZadrozny
with a shout-out to #Librarians in light of how difficult their jobs are now with books being banned: “I’m just so energized & so sad that this is happening & so proud of all of you.” #NewsLitCamp #NewsLiteracyWeek
Screenshot from a NewsLitCamp session on zoom with Brandy Zadrozny from NBC News speaking and three other faces on the screen.
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The News Literacy Project
@NewsLitProject
Screenshot from a NewsLitCamp session on zoom with Amna from PBS NewsHour speaking and four other faces on the screen.
“Fidelity to the facts overrides everything else to me.” - @IAmAmnaNawaz of @NewsHour in discussing her approach to stories. Amna also stresses curiosity - being open to new info - while treating all answers with the same level of skepticism #NewsLitCamp #NewsLiteracyWeek
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