Collaborate Disseminate
An anonymous reader shares a post from Financial Times: The economic and geopolitical conditions of the past year or two have created arguably the most hostile environment in history for incumbent parties and politicians across the developed world. Fro… Continue reading Democrats Join 2024’s Graveyard of Incumbents
Those of us old enough to remember BBS servers or even rainbow banners often go down the nostalgia hole about how the internet was better “back in the day” than …read more Continue reading Supercon 2023: [Cory Doctorow] with an Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet’s Enshittification and Throw It Into Reverse
Could Vice President Harris have used these Bluetooth audio earrings to gain any debate advantage? Not on your life. Continue reading We Staged a Debate to Test the Bluetooth Earrings Kamala Harris Didn’t Wear
An anonymous reader shares a report: It would be perfectly reasonable to expect Amazon’s digital assistant Alexa to decline to state opinions about the 2024 presidential race, but up until recently, that assumption would have been incorrect. When asked… Continue reading ‘Error’ Causes Alexa To Endorse Kamala Harris, Refuse To Discuss Trump
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Washington Post: Artificial intelligence company OpenAI said Friday that an Iranian group had used its ChatGPT chatbot to generate content to be posted on websites and social media (Warning: source is paywal… Continue reading OpenAI Says Iranian Group Used ChatGPT To Try To Influence US Election
While we absolutely support the right of everyone to express their opinions, it seems to us that it’s rarely wise to turn your vehicle into a mobile billboard for your …read more Continue reading AI-Powered Bumper Sticker Provides Context-Sensitive Urban Camouflage
Economist, in an interactive post: In 2024, countries with more than half the world’s population — over four billion people — will send their citizens to the polls. But many elections are not fully free and fair. Some of these will have no meaningful… Continue reading 2024 is the Biggest Election Year in History
We cover all manner of stories here at Hackaday, including awesome hardware hacks, the latest trends and inventions, and in-depth guides to fascinating technologies. We also cover a few news …read more Continue reading The Case For A Technology Aware Lobby Correspondent
A study has found that a high sensitivity to pain may increase the likelihood that someone will be sympathetic to opposing political views, and may even cause a Trump supporter to vote for Biden and a Biden supporter to vote for Trump.Continue ReadingC… Continue reading People with higher pain sensitivity more likely to vote for ‘other side’
Javier Milei, the current front runner for president of Argentina, pledged to eliminate government spending on research and shut down the country’s main science agency, the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), which provides fu… Continue reading Argentina’s Presidential Front Runner Vows To Slash Science Funding