Put the blame where it belongs: the past week has been especially horrendous and frightening for those who know they’ll be first in line for the cattle cars.
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Also known as a nudify app, Clothoff has resisted attempts to unmask and confront its operators. Last August, the app was among those that San Francisco’s city attorney, David Chiu, sued in hopes of forcing a shutdown. But recently, a whistleblower—who had “access to internal company information” as a former Clothoff employee—told the investigative outlet Der Spiegel that the app’s operators “seem unimpressed by the lawsuit” and instead of worrying about shutting down have “bought up an entire network of nudify apps.”
My face reading this:
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And along those same lines,
While many of the viral AI videos we’ve seen are harmless fun, the model’s pixel-perfect output can also be used for nefarious purposes. On TikTok, which may or may not be banned in the coming months, users have noticed a surplus of racist AI videos, courtesy of Google’s Veo 3.
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Climate denialism.
I really think it was deliberate sabotage in the name of climate denialism, personally. And people definitely are willing to kill to protect their industries and economies. Whole wars even. What’s a few hundred thousand US nobodies dying per year from being in the wrong place compared to the short term gains from shutting down the sources of unfavorable data?
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Oh, definitely. Or even more petty, revenge for Sharpiegate (when T**** drew lines on a NOAA hurricane path map and everyone pointed out that it was illegal).
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And it seems like people are falling for it too. People just don’t want to believe they depended on the government and that the government functioned.
“The US gov is the thing keeping many of us alive”
“NO! Jews are controlling the weather to put Muslims in power!”
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True… lots of people don’t have a clue what government does that we rarely think about. like, so much stuff just… works, because of laws passed in the past that gives the government some power or authority to do a thing for our collective benefit.
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Now, area residents being interviewed are upset the press is “politicizing the disaster” in TX by questioning the forecast or initial response. I just heard, “These things happen. There’s no way to know how bad it can get in advance. Finger-pointing isn’t helpful.”
Yet they couldn’t stop making up stories that the govt wasn’t helping them after Helene remnants hit NC.
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Of course! After Helene, it was the bad government, which clearly couldn’t possibly do anything right. Now, it’s the good government, which couldn’t possibly do anything wrong.
Bleh.
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Two legs better.
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Except Kerr County could have spent money on a warning system. Travis and Burnett had some fatalities too, but they also have warning systems that started sending out alerts for flooding hours before the water started to rise and continually updated those.
The flooding was worse in Kerr but I don’t think that totally accounts for why there are 68 fatalities there (so far) and only 4 for Travis and 3 for Burnett.
https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/map-where-have-flash-flooding-fatalities-been-confirmed-in-texas/
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