Meanwhile: #TruthSocial

Trump loses $532-million after his guilty verdict causes Trump Media stock to plummet

Trump Media shares tumbled by "as much as 15%," according to CNBC. Or rather, 18.3%, according to The New York Times, who reported that the crash erased "hundreds of millions of dollars from the company's market value"

https://archive.ph/F64by

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The list and map you see here will be continuously updated throughout 2024. In the map, you’ll be able to see each country where we’ve identified a use of generative AI in its elections, and how many times.

Handy resource that might help some catch *it* before sharing *it*

The WIRED AI Elections Project

#Politics 🗺️

More than 60 countries are holding elections in 2024. Throughout the year, WIRED will be tracking every instance of AI’s use in and around those campaigns.

https://www.wired.com/story/generative-ai-global-elections/

Problems that have long plagued tech platforms—like mis- and disinformation, scams, and hateful content—are likely to be amplified

Take care in the big bad AI generated interwebs of FAKE

This photo of Donald Trump with Black voters is completely fake. It’s just one of many examples of how AI is being used in 2024 elections around the 🌎

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Naked arrest

More shoes than screens says a lot 😆

Operation "endgame" - According to a statement from the European police agency Europol, between May 27 and May 29, 2024 authorities arrested four suspects (one in Armenia and three in Ukraine), and disrupted or took down more than 100 Internet servers in Bulgaria, Canada, Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Romania, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, United States and Ukraine

https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/largest-ever-operation-against-botnets-hits-dropper-malware-ecosystem

#Cybercrime #CoSoSec

The US and Europe have separately announced major takedowns of cybercrime networks that defrauded people of billions.

https://databreaches.net/2024/05/31/operation-endgame-hits-malware-delivery-platforms/

The Tories, or any UK government, can no longer deny the need for urgent drug reform

https://counter.social/@ecksmc/112351890315812473

The number of people who died due to drug misuse in Scotland last year fell by 279 to the lowest level for five years.

However, Scotland continues to have the worst drug death rate in the UK and the rest of Europe

how does the SNP intend to tackle Scotland's drugs crisis?

The SNP's National Mission plan emphasizes taking an evidence-based, harm reduction focused public health approach to drugs, expanding treatment options, and involving frontline services and those with lived experience - while still supporting efforts to cut drug supply

National mission drug death plans(PDF file)

https://share.counter.social/s/56426e

while independence remains the SNP's core goal, their manifesto is also expected to contain significant domestic policy pledges around health, cost-of-living, social security and the environment in an effort to appeal to a wider range of voters beyond just the independence issue

-- perplexity AI with sources linked

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/What-are-SNP-lh1QjA1SSBejAQyu7V4tlw

And in Scotland

the consensus from multiple pollsters is that the SNP is likely to lose a considerable number of their Scottish seats to Labour in the upcoming election. The SNP's focus on Scottish independence seems to be weighing them down as voters prioritize other issues like the economy and cost of living crisis.

Their new leadership under Swinney is also a bit of an unknown quantity in terms of its ability to motivate voters.

Meanwhile:

BBC has disclosed a data breach impacting over 25,000 current and former employees, but the incident did not involve ransomware.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mypension/news/240528

The files include some Pension Scheme members’ personal information including details such as names, National Insurance numbers, dates of birth and home addresses

“For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition … succumbs to an invader—the barbarians enter Rome.”

“Definitely an issue,”

Dangerous group of powerful people right there

Military contractor Erik Prince started a private WhatsApp group for his close associates that includes a menagerie of right-wing government officials, intelligence operatives, arms traffickers, and journalists. We got their messages

https://newrepublic.com/article/182008/erik-prince-secret-global-group-chat-off-leash

The Future of American Democracy: “It’s Trump or Revolution!”

The Times article

https://archive.ph/Gloof

I'm a bigger prick than cacti be

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Even His own kids aren't safe in that track pmsl

I will hit an 8yr old in the face with a participation trophy

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Yup I agree

He is back muthafuckas

Eminem official track

Houdini

#CoSoMusic

https://youtu.be/22tVWwmTie8

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More coffee vicar

@Beerdini sounds like you should try Tiny11Builder - Tiny11Builder is a third-party script that can take a Windows installation ISO, which you can get from Microsoft, no clutter.

https://counter.social/@ecksmc/112333875885916544

using this tool and you'll have a truly clean installation: You will not be prompted to create a Microsoft account, or even to sign in using one, and there will be no Microsoft services other than what you need in order to use the operating system

https://github.com/ntdevlabs/tiny11builder