Are you telling me Johnny Cash didn’t really kill a man in Reno just to watch him die?

The March 13 Reuters ‌special report made public for the first time documents that confirm Banksy is Robin Gunningham. Gunningham has since taken the name David Jones, Reuters determined. Banksy’s lawyer did not confirm or deny the artist’s identity.

Hey it’s a tough world out there. It’s getting harder and harder to identify fake images, which is why I wanted to explain some of the telltale signs that it is real.

I also have a number of friends who are very outspoken in the Iranian-American community. There are a lot of bad actors out there who are trying to discredit their entire movement because Trump happens to be president. Who else are they supposed to appeal to for an international intervention? They just want to rescue their families.

There is an inherent cost to internet freedom from using chromium browsers. It gives Google, which controls the back-end, leverage to redefine how the internet works. It’s not as though they haven’t already done it on multiple occasions.

People will say things like “some websites run better on Chrome” as though that’s a selling point and not a red flag.

I’m not saying no one should use it or develop on it, but you have to be okay with the real cost.

Meanwhile people out here hosting websites on disposable vapes.

Support for the Iranian people against a regime they’ve been trying to get rid of for decades.

If this ever happens to you, it’s important to dispute the charge immediately.

I started fighting it probably 6-8 months ago. At that time, it was outside the window that it could be disputed. Check with your credit card. It usually has to be disputed in 30-60 days. Given that it was purchased well in advance of the show and we waited to see if it would be rescheduled, it was outside the window.

Here’s a great mini-scam inside the big scam:

I buy a ticket as a gift to my wife. Only the ticket holder can use the ticket. So I transfer the ticket (several hundred dollars) to my wife’s account.

The concert is canceled.

They call it “delayed,” although that was over a year ago. I can’t apply for a refund because I am no longer the ticket holder. She cannot apply for a refund because they can only refund it back to the original purchaser. Transfer is locked on delayed shows.

“Robbing them blind” is right.

It’s hard to believe it’s so low. I’d have assumed it was much higher.

Can’t they just pay me in NFTs?

If there is a long US war or occupation, that would surely be a disaster for the Iranian people. But Iran already has many of the core mechanisms of democratic government. It’s not Afghanistan, it’s not even Iraq.

People vote for leadership. There has just been the “revolutionary” guard that operates the shadow government with the real power. The religious fundamentalist government has had the right to choose the candidates, but people really do vote from among those choices.

If the people can succeed in transferring military power to the elected government, then there is a real chance for permanent and stable change. The people are educated, the economy is sophisticated and diverse, and there are functioning institutions.

And to cover up their atrocities. We still don’t know if they killed 10,000 protestors or 36,000.

For the past 2 months, Iran has switched to a North-Korean model of information control.

The internet is still on total government blackout. Voice and video messaging is near impossible. Calling into and out of Iran is near-impossible.

This means that literally every single image, message, video, description, report, etc. that comes out of Iran is either government propaganda or secretly smuggled out at great personal risk. Western media has not yet caught on to the implications of this reality.

Again or still?

Redistricting for me but not for thee

I’m sorry, but you’ve lost the plot. This does not look at ALL like AI upsizing. There is no AI noise, faces are intelligible. Hands have the right number of fingers, and are attached to people. There is no AI noise. The stars are the correct number and in the correct arrangement (see overlay below). People have a range of expressions. The framing is natural.

Additionally, it is published and credited in a major news source with long-established editorial oversight.

No, image is by Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times

Not everything is AI

This kinda seems like a roundabout way of avoiding government /corporate age verification laws? Like it doesn’t require ID verification or biometrics and runs a local api to verify age.

Can someone smarter than me please explain if this is a good thing or not?

Sorry, folks. We live in a country of laws and those can’t just be ignored. There is simply no way to get around the rules.

That’s already full of protestor bodies