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2024-05-17 17:40:19

Autochromes are some of the first color photos, dating back to the 1910s and 1920s. Stuart Humphryes brings them back to life.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a3m3p/early-color-photography-stuart-humphryes-aut?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#Photography #StuartHumphryes #History #autochromes

2024-05-17 17:40:19

2024-02-21 16:27:42

Propaganda from popular AI tools “could blend into online information environments on par with…existing foreign covert propaganda campaigns."
https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak38xb/ai-generated-propaganda-is-just-as-persuasive-as-the-real-thing-worrying-study-finds?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#Technews #AI #Propagandă #russia #china #OpenAI #gpt #election #Disinformation

2024-02-08 16:24:52

New research suggests a sudden "revolution" in human history that allowed our species to thrive and spread was a longer and more complex process.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/93kv8v/a-prehistoric-tool-discovery-may-have-just-rewritten-human-history?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#tech-science #History #archaeology #stonetools #jordan

2024-02-07 17:50:49

Carlson's claim that no other Western journalist has tried to interview Putin was instantly debunked by reporters and now, the Kremlin itself.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/epv7kz/tucker-carlson-vladimir-putin-interview-fact-checked-by-kremlin-russia-ukraine?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#Technews #TuckerCarlson #Putin #Interview #russia #VladimirPutin #Ukraine

2024-01-29 18:31:36

For one year, low-income families in Austin, Texas, received $1,000 a month to do whatever they wanted; they spent it on rent and “substantially" improved their situations.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a38nq/austin-gave-poor-families-a-basic-income-it-changed-their-lives?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#UBI #UniversalBasicIncome #AUSTIN #andrewyang #stockton

2024-01-25 18:52:21

Deepfake nudes of the pop star are appearing all over social media. We all saw this coming.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjvajd/taylor-swift-is-living-every-womans-ai-porn-nightmare?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#Technews #taylorswift #AI #deepfake #X #Instagram #Reddit #nude

2024-01-19 16:49:31

In her debut novel, Debbie Urbanski shows us the end of the world as viewed through an advanced AI that’s trying to write a novel about the last living human.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3w4d7/what-a-novel-about-an-ai-documenting-the-last-human-says-about-our-real-dystopia?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#Tech #CYBER #Podcast #AI #climatechange

2024-01-11 20:20:22

Financial firm Viceroy Research says amateur real estate hustlers are now struggling to pay back the loans they took out to buy apartment buildings during the housing boom.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjvmy7/tiktok-real-estate-influencers-and-grifters-are-in-deep-trouble-short-seller-says?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#RealEstate #housing #shortsellers #TikTok #Influencer

2024-01-10 16:02:00

The sudden extinction of giant apes is an "enigma in paleontology," one scientist said, but new research proposes an answer to why they disappeared.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjvmq7/elephant-sized-apes-that-once-roamed-the-land-mysteriously-vanished-now-scientists-have-an-answer?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#tech-science #History #extinct #Apes #china #paleontology #Abstract

2024-01-09 15:23:42

Ken Klippenstein, Steven Monacelli, and Alan MacLeod were all suspended from the platform.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d948x/x-purges-prominent-journalists-leftists-with-no-explanation?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#Tech #Twitter #X #elonmusk #journalism

2023-12-18 10:02:03

The federal report on homelessness shows "that the rent is too high for a growing number of Americans," advocates say.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7bjbx/homelessness-in-us-at-highest-level-since-2008-financial-crisis-federal-report-reveals?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#Technews #homeless #HOUSINGCRISIS #Economy #unhouse #housing

2023-11-14 14:01:54

Cyclists and pedestrians are reporting a rise in distracted driving. The phenomenon is both real and legal in many states.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/epvkd7/more-people-are-watching-videos-on-their-phones-while-driving-often-its-perfectly-legal?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#Moveable #DistractedDriving #cellphones #driving #YouTube #Netflix #TikTok #IIHS

2023-10-11 15:31:48

“Being a simulation is a possible consequence (or conclusion)" of the proposed second law of infodynamics, physicist Melvin Vopson says.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d9k8a/new-law-of-physics-could-mean-we-really-live-in-a-simulation-physicist-proposes?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#Technews #physics #simulation #universe #Science

2023-05-03 14:30:23

Ukraine has denied any connection to the incident and said Russia was planning its own terror attack.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxjdzy/drone-explodes-over-kremlin-russia-alleges-putin-assassination-attempt
#Tech #worldnews #Ukraine #russia #DRONES

2023-04-13 15:01:19

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted galaxies in the early universe that are way more massive than expected. What gives?
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3mxxa/ancient-galaxies-are-a-stress-test-for-established-physics-study-says
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2023-04-11 16:54:54

The leaked documents suggested that a top Kremlin general would sabotage the war while Putin is distracted with cancer treatments.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kxvpb/leaked-pentagon-docs-share-wild-rumor-kremlin-plans-to-throw-putins-war-while-hes-getting-chemo
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2023-04-11 16:54:54

A federal judge ruled against a book ban in Llano, TX. Now, local officials are discussing shutting down the public library system entirely.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg58x8/texas-officials-would-rather-close-library-than-stock-books-they-dont-like
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2023-04-10 14:41:28

"Yes I can understand kids going hungry, but is that really the problem of the school district, is that the problem of the state of North Dakota?"
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d9p78/north-dakota-senate-rejects-free-school-lunches-then-votes-to-increases-its-own-meal-budgets
#[0] #[1] #[2]

2023-03-31 17:56:06

A prominent AI theorist penned an op-ed calling for the end of AI research backed up by airstrikes and the threat of nuclear war.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak3dkj/ai-theorist-says-nuclear-war-preferable-to-developing-advanced-ai
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2023-03-31 17:56:06

2023-03-27 16:56:17

Never heard of the Great Cascadia 9.1 Earthquake of 2001, or the USSR's Blue Plague Incident? That's because they never happened.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7zqdw/people-are-creating-records-of-fake-historical-events-using-ai
#[0] #[1]-generatedimages #[2] #[3] #[4] #[5]

2023-03-22 17:06:16

Open-source intelligence groups say the T-54, a tank built in the 1940s, is being shipped to the front.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxjq7q/russia-appears-to-be-deploying-75-year-old-tanks-to-ukraine
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