Why Age Verification cannot work even for its intended use?

  Blender Dumbass
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Short answer People are stupid. But seriously, even though we have a lot of talk about why Age Verification laws are bad ( for human rights ) and how we can fight against them ( EFF just made a comprehensive guide on the issue ) nobody seems to realize the underlying logical fallacy, or multitudes of them, that even brought us to this point to begin with.


#ageverification #pivacy #age #kids #development #philosophy #law #stupidity #stupid

The Fractal of Consent

  Blender Dumbass
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"Consent" is a word thrown around willy-nilly these days. And yet it feels like people don't really understand it. Some assume one thing while there is a different thing. Some assume another thing, while there is the one thing. And so on and so forth. Consent forms on websites and inside of apps. Sexual Consent. What the fuck is consent? Is it even real?


#fractal #consent #politics #philosophy #freedom

The Paradox of Tolerance is Real, Look at Israel

  Blender Dumbass
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People like to pretend that everything is simple. That every problem has a straight forward, easy solution. That the paradox of tolerance is not real, because you could simply look at it a bit differently and it magically disappears, or something. People claim a soothing claim that all you need to do to make the paradox go away is to think of it as a "social contract". If you are not willing to tolerate, you are not tolerated. But I happened to live in Israel...


#tolerance #paradoxoftolerance #israel #palestine #politics #philosophy

Wait, AI caused the October 7 attack?

  Blender Dumbass
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Everybody inside of Israel was shocked on October 7 2023, because nobody... NOBODY expected something on this scale to happen. Mossad and Shin Bet ( Israeli Intelligence Agencies ) are some of the best in the world. And the military is some of the most advanced. And yet it still happened regardless of all these things. What the hell went wrong? Well the official reason sounds something like "There was an intelligence error". But if you dig a little deeper, you start to realize that it is not as simple as you think. And it might be the first true example of a lot of people losing their lives to skynet.


#israel #gaza #ai #netaniyahu #politics #war

I brought BMX Escape to the Fediverse

  Blender Dumbass
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BMX Escape is a very cool synthwave band that I really enjoy listening to. And as of yesterday they have a Mastodon account, which is partially because of me.


#BMXEscape #Mastodon #Music #Synthwave #FreeSoftware #Fediverse

Examples of films "Corrupting the audience"

  Blender Dumbass
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Quentin Tarantino stated that a quality of a film is measured in how well it corrupts the audience, showing as an example the 1971 Don Siegel film Dirty Harry where the main character ( a cop ) is trying to catch a psychopathic serial killer, which leads him into breaking the rules, because of the nature of the threat. He basically throws the civil liberties out of the window to catch the motherfucker, because otherwise the motherfucker is uncatchable. Which makes the audience for a moment, share that idea, and have a reason all of a sudden to not give basic human rights to bad people. Some people called this movie a "Nazi Propaganda Piece" but it is undeniable, the movie succeeded at corrupting its audience and therefore it is a picture of a great quality.


#quentintarantino #film #theory #movies #cinema

My take on the 17 year old girl suing AI companies for Fake Nudes

  Blender Dumbass
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So a 17 girl is suing an AI tech company for "allowing" people to make nude pictures of her. Do I have a problem with that? Do I think it is copyright mentality? No! Based on the story, she suffers humiliation, because people she knows cannot tell the difference between if the images are fake or not. And the boys that generated those images are trying to pose those images as real.


#AI #defamation #law #privacy #deepfake

Is Christopher Nolan a member of Illuminati?

  Blender Dumbass
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There is a very strange thing about Nolan that other film-makers are struggling to do. For example Tony Scott's films Domino and Spy Game received criticisms for their complex structures. And Domino was both critical and commercial failure, probably because of its complex narrative. Yet somehow Christopher Nolan makes complex movies all the damn time, while also making a lot of money doing so. Even the so called "box office flop" Tenet did actually quite well. And also considering it was literally released during the height of the pandemic, where nobody was going out to see a movie in the theater, this movie is probably the biggest magic trick Nolan ever made. Remember Tenet is probably the most complex film from Nolan.


#ChristopherNolan #Illuminati #ConspiracyTheory #film #movies #cinemastodon

HALO 3C/3C-PS a Spy Device in School's bathrooms

  Blender Dumbass
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The following text is a story I wrote, after listening to a DEFCON Conference talk about HALO 3C devices that are designed to catch smoking and vaping children in schools. The hackers Reynaldo and nyx got access to one such device, took it apart, looked into its hardware and software. And found out that at best it is poorly designed. And at worst it is a literal Mossad bug to listen to kids talk.


#privacy #childsafety #surveillance #politics #hacking #defcon

Humans are all fucking stupid

  Blender Dumbass
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Nobody knows everything. The top scientists don't know everything. The science is incomplete. The Gödel's incompleteness theorems show that even something as basic as math ( which we rely on to understand the rest of the world ) is incomplete. And probably logically dubious as well. We can't know everything.


#humans #stupid #philosophy #development #science #childhood #kids

The Police-Force Paradox

  Blender Dumbass
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In 2011, French writer and director Maïwenn Le Besco went to the police station in Paris in order to try to get some information about how the police works. The research she ended up gathering, ended up portrayed in her 2011 film Polisse about which I already wrote a review. But one thing about this movie suck with me. And if the intention of the film was to shine light on the police-work, this means that to some extend that thing that stuck with me shows a certain, very depressing truth about the world that I don't know how to process quite yet.


#police #paradox #law #freedom #humanrights

Part 2: Developing a Way to do Action Scenes Without Money

  Blender Dumbass
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So a real cinema movie project is being developed, and as explained in my previous article about it I don't have the money to shoot a real chase scene. Instead I gonna use CGI as much as possible, to cut down the costs ( but not my sanity ).


#vfx #cgi #cars #blender3d #blender #b3d #movies #filmmaking

Developing a Way to do Action Scenes Without Money

  Blender Dumbass
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I'm in the middle of developing a movie in which there is a car chase. You know me I can't live without a car chase. But this time I'm trying to make the movie properly. By "infiltrating the movie industry" as some people suggested to call it. Which means ( since I live in Israel ) I need to write something that is possible to do in Israel. Getting $40 million to shoot a first feature film in Israel is not something that I can expect to happen. So instead I need to come up with something else.


#vfx #cgi #cars #blender3d #blender #b3d #movies #filmmaking

Chat Control Violates More Kids than Encrypted CSAM

  Blender Dumbass
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We all know that when politicians tell us to think of the children it is always a bullshit manipulation technique. But I rarely see people actually break down the issue well when it comes to EU's Chat Control.


#privacy #chatcontrol #eu #politics #kids #safety #security

Why are we blind to 99% of Child Abuse?

  Blender Dumbass
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Child Abuse in on my mind right now. I have written a screenplay for a feature film that I'm already in early talks to produce. The bad guy in the movie is a child-rapist / child-killer. His presence alone justifies the anger of the heroes and creates the tension in the film. Yet I don't think I can make a movie that is a shlocky exploitation film. The subject matter is a bit too strong for something that careless.


#abuse #childabuse #politics #freedom #freerangekids #kids #paternalism

The Goodhart's Law of Child Abuse

  Blender Dumbass
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When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.


#goodhartslaw #childabuse #politics #paternalism #ageism #education