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Zygfryd Czaban assessed that the government's media advisers had pressured him to present the whole matter in a grotesque manner. According to him, this was supposed to make the man become a meme and be associated with random people that the author spoke of contemptuously, rather than with the government. https://t.co/n88Qlf05QD #media #groteska #memes (translated)

The book industry opposes the unauthorized use of its works for training artificial intelligence and is considering criminal measures against responsible AI managers, as Rainer Dresen from Penguin Random House explained at the Frankfurt Book Fair. #Urheberrecht #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Buchbranche (translated)

Juanca argued that there was less than a year left until the general elections and that the politician mentioned was widely losing in the polls. According to what he wrote, the invasion of Ceuta worsened his situation and led him to try to divert attention. He claimed that he used a homeless woman for this purpose, among the 25,000 people who, as he indicated, were evicted each year, and that he managed to change the focus, mobilize people, and obtain a campaign topic. He added that he then called for elections and that, when Maricarmen stopped being useful to him and could become an obstacle, he got rid of her. Juanca closed the message with an expression of applause. #Política #Elecciones #España (translated)

Violet asked why, in her opinion, the SPD, Left Party, and Greens have been able to trivialize National Socialism for 24 hours without consequences, while an ordinary retiree would be reported for incitement to hatred after posting a picture of Karl Lauterbach with a waving arm. #NSVerharmlosung #Volksverhetzung #Politik (translated)

The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck by David Spiegelhalter From the UK’s ‘statistical national treasure’, a clever and data-driven guide to how we can live with risk and uncertainty Life is uncertain. We are all the result of an unforeseen and unforeseeable sequence of small occurrences. But what underlies this fragile chain of events? Is it random or just complex? And what role does luck play in our lives? David Spiegelhalter has spent his career crunching data in order to help understand uncertainty and assess the chances of what might happen. In The Art of Uncertainty, he gives readers a window onto how we can all do this better. Uncertainty, he argues, is a relationship between the observer and an object in the outside world. He shows us how we can express it numerically, and then update our beliefs about the future in the face of constantly changing experience. In crystal-clear prose, he takes us through the principles of probability, a field that informs everything from annuities to pandemics and climate change, while also examining the limitations of statistical modelling and arguing we need to have the humility to admit our ignorance. Drawing on a wide range of real-world examples, this is an essential guide to navigating uncertainty in a world that makes it inevitable.

Veronika suggested that the left should launch young candidates with no prior experience, arguing that preparation, proposals, and projects would not be necessary to win elections. She proposed recruiting leftist influencers to run in the upcoming elections for parties and mentioned a possible joint candidacy with Jenny Prioli. #Esquerda #Eleições #Juventude (translated)

SUJA wrote that the broadcast of Peereira with Ibai, Auronplay, and almost half of the Spanish national team playing Among Us gathered 320K viewers, but argued that people had short memories. In his opinion, that result did not surpass the achievement of reaching 70K viewers during some random FNCS qualifiers, while Peereira and two kids he had taken to an apartment that SUJA described as shady lost all the early matches against three Egyptian players whom he described as very bad. He added that there were records of different types. #AmongUs #FNCS #Gaming (translated)

Čestmír Strakatý wrote that he was seriously wondering who would entrust their children to randomly state-subsidized nannies and whether the costs would be reimbursed only if the parents knew the nannies. He did not consider the "center" a solution; in his opinion, especially small children should sleep in the evening, and not be watched over in a foreign environment. #děti #hlídání #péče (translated)

Mickpl wrote that Airbnb was to be regulated, and housing communities and local governments were to receive decision-making powers. He linked this to the activity of random accounts on X, publishing images of proboscis monkeys, and stated that this is what democracy is about. #demokracja #airbnb #wspólnoty (translated)

București | Proiecția documentarului „În primul rând, să nu faci rău”, la Apollo 111 Cinema, și vernisajul expoziției „Sat. Migrație. Intervenție. Film”, la Random House https://litera9.com/bucuresti-proiectia-documentarului-in-primul-rand-sa-nu-faci-rau-la-apollo-111-cinema-si-vernisajul-expozitiei-sat-migratie-interventie-film-la-random-hous/

The Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki translated by Jesse Kirkwood Translated from the Japanese bestseller, this charming and magical novel, inspired by the myth of cats returning favors to those who care for them, reminds us that it’s never too late to follow our stars. In Japan cats are a symbol of good luck. As the myth goes, if you are kind to them, they’ll one day return the favor. And if you are kind to the right cat, you might just find yourself invited to a mysterious coffee shop under a glittering Kyoto moon. This particular coffee shop is like no other. It has no fixed location, no fixed hours, and seemingly appears at random to adrift young people at crucial junctions in their lives. It’s also run by talking cats. While customers at the Full Moon Coffee Shop partake in cakes, coffees, and teas, the cats also consult them on their star charts, offer cryptic wisdom, and let them know where their lives have veered off course—because every person who visits the shop has been feeling more than a little lost. And for a down-on-her-luck screenwriter, a romantically stuck movie director, a hopeful hairstylist, and a technologically challenged website designer, the feline guides will set them back on their fated paths. After all, there is a reason the shop appeared to each of them…

No están creando ninguna medida para crear vivienda y estan impulsando el alquiler indefinido que, evidentemente, ningún casero random querrá darle a un chaval de 20 años. Resultado: el casero random venderá a cualquier gran tenedor que gestione 400 alquileres. #Vivienda #Alquiler #Juventud

Podsumowując: 1. Stream z wejścia na Śnieżkę został odpalony o 12 (mimo, że xn chciał wejść już o 10); 2. Przez godzinę Olek walczył ze streamem, żeby go odpowiednio ustawić, mimo że wczoraj na dc zapewniał, że nigdy nie był tak dobrze przygotowany do IRL i wszystko działa. Jednocześnie Olek przyznał, że nie wziął ze sobą kurtki, portfela, a także że zamiast 7,5kg karmy w plecaku są 3kg; 3. Na ratunek musieli ruszyć rodzice Renaty, którzy przyjechali do mieszkania w Pile, próbując go naprawić (podobno rodzice Renaty nawet nie mają komputera u siebie w domu, ale teściu to złota rączka); 4. W międzyczasie zaczęli wchodzić na Śnieżkę z samym streamem xn'a.; 5. Panowie przeszli 500 metrów robiąc w tym czasie 4 przerwy na odpoczynek.; 6. Cały czas rwało neta więc przestali wchodzić wyżej, czekając na ratunek teściów.; 7. Teściów było słychać na streamie, ale Olek szybko pokierował ich jak wyciszyć transmisje xdd.; 8. Olek czekał na neta, a xn zaczął sam wchodzić wyżej.; 9. Decyzja o zejściu ze śnieżki; 10. Teściowie ostatecznie się poddali więc Olek musiał odpalić streama "w normalnym trybie".; 11. Kolejna godzina siedzenia przy wejściu na trasę.; 12. Olek włączyl strima bez tego programu co mu przełącza na BRB na komputerze.; 13. Xn wymyślił karę zastępczą - stream z powrotu do hotelu na piechotę (około 23 km).; 14. Po 2,5km i 15 przerwach zrobionych w 1,5h olek powiedzial, ze dalej nie idzie bo skonczyl sie chodnik, a on sie boi iść samym poboczem, ponieważ droga prowadzi przez las i zakręty. Dla 32 latka, było to skrajnie niebezpieczne i ryzykowne.; 15. Zawrócili z trasy, poszli na autbous i pojechali w przeciwną stronę niż mieli bo olek sie nie zapytał kierowcy gdzie jedzie. Ogólnie wyszło na tym streamie że olek nie ma hajperfokusu w obsługiwaniu google maps. 16. Wrócili do miejsca startowego z którego zamówili taksówkę za 200zł (mimo, że uber pokazywał im 100 zł za dojazd w to samo miejsce). Taksówka podwiozła ich do miejsca gdzie jest około 5km do hotelu. 17. Idą na piechotę przed siebie co chwilę robiąc sobie przerwy. Jest ich łącznie już 38. 18. Oluś to najlepszy organizator na świecie i absolutna sigma. @RandomBruce #Śnieżka #streaming #IRL

Russia’s influence operation arrives ahead of the US midterms With weeks remaining before America's November midterm elections, a familiar type of content has begun appearing online. Videos resembling reports from CNN, the BBC and The New York Times accuse candidates of corruption, antisemitism and misconduct. Hollywood actors appear to denounce Democrats. Other clips claim that warnings about Russian interference are themselves a Democratic disinformation campaign. The reports are fabricated. Graphika, which tracks online influence operations, says it has identified a coordinated campaign targeting candidates in competitive US Senate races. It assesses with high confidence that the material was produced by Operation Overload, also known as Matryoshka – a long-running Russia-aligned influence operation previously active against elections and political debates in Europe and the United States. The activity coincides with a broader warning from American intelligence officials. Classified assessments reported by The New York Times conclude that the Kremlin has authorised another digital influence campaign ahead of the 2026 midterms, aimed primarily at exploiting existing divisions and undermining confidence in American democracy. There is an important distinction. US officials have not reported evidence that Russia is attempting to manipulate voting machines or alter the counting of votes. The operation is about influencing the information environment surrounding the election. Fake scandals for competitive Senate races Graphika traced a concentrated wave of activity between 10 and 14 September. Likely inauthentic or repurposed accounts distributed videos accusing Democratic politicians of corruption, antisemitism and other misconduct. The targets included Senator Jon Ossoff in Georgia, Representative Chris Pappas in New Hampshire and Texas state representative James Talarico, as well as Senate candidates Sherrod Brown in Ohio, Roy Cooper in North Carolina, Mary Peltola in Alaska, Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, Joshua Turek in Iowa and Troy Jackson in Maine. The selection was not random. These were politicians involved in Senate contests where the result could matter to control of the chamber. The campaign did not rely on a single political narrative. Instead, it attached different accusations to different candidates – corruption, social issues, antisemitism or personal misconduct – while maintaining a consistent production and distribution model. That model is characteristic of Matryoshka: create apparently independent pieces of evidence, disguise them as journalism and distribute them through networks of disposable accounts. Hollywood celebrities who never said what the videos claimed One of the campaign's more distinctive techniques involved genuine footage of American actors. Videos featuring celebrities including Sarah Jessica Parker and Julia Roberts were altered with captions and other material to suggest they were promoting the slogan #AllDemocratsAreCriminals. The technique continued in subsequent material. Fact-checkers identified fabricated New York Times-branded videos using footage of Alyssa Milano, Sean Astin, Rachael Harris, Leonardo DiCaprio, Eric Braeden, Annie Potts and Patrick Fabian. Some of the original footage came from Cameo, where actors record personalised video messages. Their authentic images were retained while fabricated audio, captions or surrounding material changed the meaning entirely. Lead Stories compared several of the clips with the originals and found that the supposed political statements did not appear in the genuine recordings. Eric Braeden's representative separately confirmed that the claim he had joined the anti-Democratic campaign was false. The advantage of the technique is straightforward. Generative AI does not need to create a convincing celebrity from nothing. The operator can begin with authentic footage of a recognisable person and manipulate only the elements necessary to manufacture a political statement. Stealing the authority of real newsrooms Celebrity impersonation was only one layer. The operation repeatedly borrowed the visual identity of established media organisations. Graphika identified material impersonating or falsely citing the BBC, CNN and Politico, alongside references to France's VIGINUM foreign-interference agency and journalist Brandy Zadrozny. Other material reproduced New York Times-style branding. Some fabricated reports made an unusual claim: that Democrats themselves were organising disinformation or “false-flag operations” and then blaming Russia. This creates a defensive layer around the influence operation. Instead of merely distributing false political allegations, the campaign also attempts to discredit future reporting about the manipulation itself. If successful, evidence exposing foreign interference can be reframed as part of the conspiracy. Graphika says it assesses with high confidence that Operation Overload produced these videos. The technique is well established. Earlier investigations by CheckFirst and Reset Tech documented hundreds of falsified pieces of content produced by Operation Overload, often impersonating journalists, institutions and major media brands. AI-generated or manipulated material has increasingly become part of that production system. What US intelligence says Russia is trying to achieve The broader strategic picture comes from American intelligence assessments reported on 18 September. According to US officials familiar with classified findings, the Kremlin has authorised a covert digital influence campaign aimed at Americans during the 2026 election season. Its apparent objective is to seed or amplify domestic divisions and weaken confidence in the political process. Some officials described the principal aim as creating disorder rather than helping a single political party. The publicly identified Matryoshka material examined so far, however, has targeted Democratic candidates. Those two findings should not be treated as contradictory. An operation can exploit partisan divisions while serving the broader objective of making the electoral system appear corrupt, chaotic or illegitimate. US officials also reportedly assess the current Russian campaign as less extensive or coordinated than some previous election operations. Moscow is considered less focused on congressional elections than presidential contests and remains heavily occupied by its war against Ukraine. Russia has denied previous US accusations of election interference. An operation with limited reach – so far There is another reason for caution: producing large quantities of disinformation is not the same as successfully influencing voters. Matryoshka has repeatedly demonstrated an ability to manufacture content at industrial speed, but much of its material receives little genuine engagement. Researchers monitoring the network have previously warned against confusing automated distribution and platform view counts with authentic audience penetration. There are exceptions. A fabricated New York Times-style video featuring Jamie Lee Curtis had accumulated nearly 200,000 views on X by the end of 17 September, according to reporting by The New York Times. Other pieces attracted considerably less attention. There is currently no public evidence demonstrating that the campaign has changed voting intentions or will affect election results. What the September activity demonstrates is something narrower but important: a Russia-aligned influence infrastructure previously used against European elections has now turned significant attention towards the American midterms. The basic method has changed little – impersonate trusted media, manufacture scandals and use networks of inauthentic accounts to distribute them. What has changed is the production technology. Authentic celebrity footage, synthetic voices, manipulated video and rapidly generated fake journalism allow the same operation to produce more tailored material for more candidates at lower cost. The objective does not require Americans to believe every fabrication. Creating uncertainty over which videos, news reports and public statements are authentic can itself degrade trust in the information environment surrounding an election. Sources - Graphika — Russia-Aligned Influence Operation Targets US Midterm Candidates, German State Elections https://www.graphika.com/insights/russia-aligned-influence-operation-targets-us-midterm-candidates-german-state-elections - The New York Times — Russia Aims to Inject Chaos Into Elections, U.S. Intelligence Finds https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/us/politics/russia-election-disinformation-us-intelligence.html - Kathimerini / The New York Times — Russia Aims to Inject Chaos Into Elections https://www.ekathimerini.com/nytimes/1315792/russia-aims-to-inject-chaos-into-elections-us-intelligence-finds/ - CheckFirst — Operation Overload: An AI-fuelled escalation of the Kremlin-linked propaganda effort https://checkfirst.network/operation-overload-an-ai-fuelled-escalation-of-the-kremlin-linked-propaganda-effort/ - CheckFirst — Operation Overload targeting the US election https://checkfirst.network/operation-overload-a-growing-disinformation-threat-now-targeting-the-u-s-presidential-election/ - Lead Stories — Fake NYT videos: Alyssa Milano, Rachael Harris and Sean Astin https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2026/09/fact-check-fake-new-york-times-videos-of-alyssa-milano-rachael-harris-sean-astin-falsely-claim-they-support-all-democrats-are-criminals.html - Lead Stories — Fake NYT videos: Leonardo DiCaprio, Eric Braeden and other celebrities https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2026/09/fact-check-fake-new-york-times-videos-of-leonardo-dicaprio-eric-braeden-other-celebs-falsely-claim-they-support-all-democrats-are-criminals.html - Brennan Center for Justice — AI Is Changing Foreign Election Influence https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/ai-changing-foreign-election-influence - ODNI — previous US intelligence assessment of foreign election information operations https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/NICM-Declassified-Foreign-Threats-to-US-Elections-After-Voting-Ends-in-2024.pdf - FBI / ODNI / CISA — previous joint assessment of Russian election influence operations https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/joint-odni-fbi-and-cisa-statement-110424 #DISINFORMED #Episode9 #Russia #UnitedStates #USMidterms #Midterms2026 #USElections #ElectionInterference #ForeignInterference #RussianInfluence #RussianDisinformation #OperationOverload #Matryoshka #Disinformation #InformationWarfare #InfluenceOperations #FIMI #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #AIPropaganda #Deepfakes #SyntheticMedia #MediaImpersonation #FakeMedia #FakeNews #PoliticalDisinformation #CelebrityDeepfakes #SocialMediaManipulation #DigitalInfluence #ElectionSecurity #CognitiveWarfare #Graphika #OSINT #Democracy #WRLD

NA PODSTAWIE JAKICH DOWODÓW NAUKOWYCH WPROWADZONO DZIECIOM DIETĘ PLANETARNĄ? Praktycznie nie ma dużych, ukończonych randomizowanych prób klinicznych potwierdzających długoterminowe korzystne efekty kliniczne (twarde punkty końcowe takie jak zdarzenia sercowo-naczyniowe, cukrzyca, śmiertelność) diety planetarnej Cała rozmowa: https://t.co/U0eLqRNgpL #dieta #zdrowie #nauka