"I like a good story, well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself." - Mark Twain
Thursday, May 1, 2025
Yeehaw! Wait...WTAF?!?
Anybody: Did someone slip meth into the drinking fountains on the three days a year your goofy legislature meets?!? This is the kind of crazy shit I expect from Sacramento. Karma's a bitch.
See, this is the part that surprises me. Why are people surprised by this?
It shows how deluded most people are. Despite what they think they believe, despite what they say outwardly when questioned, despite a whole lot of other reasons, it is their actions, actions like the incredulousness at this news, that belie their true nature.
People think we're voting our way out of this mess. They still don't grok it.
From what I read, the Texas bill is supposed to stop AI from using memes in political ads without a disclaimer. House Bill 366. Here is a link to the story from KVUE ABC. It isn't about using memes in general, or so the link reads.
Two problems with that: 1) What evidence do you have that those were "Californians" who are behind it, rather than gypsy carpetbaggers from somewhere else who just plopped into California last, before moving to Texas? Show all work. 2) So you're admitting that somebody e;se's toothless banjo-playing kinfolk could move to a state and flip it? Tell the class how that isn't exactly what changed California into Califrutopia in the first place. And welcome your toothless banjo-playing kinfolk back home, with open arms. They're all leaving Califrutopia, and returning home, and bringing their illegal alien maids and waiters (and their multi-generational anchor-baby extended families) with them. Cheers.
Cali was changed by unsupervised voting machines- not bubba moving. Loves lots a your stuff, but sometimes you are a very defensive generalizing reactionary dude.
California changed long before there were any machines to be unsupervised. But only having lived here the entire time, and witnessing your toothless banjo-playing kinfolks' predations the entire time, how could I possibly know that? It's okay to embrace the impact of your unwanted cousins and several million illegal aliens. Now everybody's finding out that, thanks to Dopey Joe, you're all Califrutopia now. Enjoy the decline. We tried to warn you. Instead you fell all over yourselves mocking what you did to this state, and congratulating each other that it'd never happen to you, now it's coming back around at you too.
Phelan is one of the Texas "republicans" that embarrasses us. He's anti-2A and apparently anti-1A as well. Your derision of the direction Texas is going is well deserved. I'm considering getting out before the state becomes Illinois.
"Under the bill’s provisions, it would be a Class A misdemeanor—punishable by up to a year in jail—for a candidate, officeholder, or political committee to knowingly distribute a political advertisement using altered or AI-generated images, audio, or video without a clear disclaimer stating the media did not reflect real events. The measure applies to anyone spending more than $100 to promote such content, with enforcement and disclosure guidelines to be defined by the Texas Ethics Commission. Media platforms and service providers are exempt from prosecution. The bill text specifically prohibits “political advertising that includes an image, audio recording, or video recording of an officeholder’s or candidate’s appearance, speech, or conduct that did not occur in reality,” unless accompanied by a disclosure identifying the content as artificially generated.
---The way I saw it, is memes are okay if you identify it as one... as stupid as it may be, because Progs have no sense of humor--
The whole point about the bill is at the core -- prevent someone else from putting your foot in your mouth. This is not much different than the false advertising provisions that the FTC fails to faithfully apply.
AI sound and video production is good enough now that given 10mins of audio of someone you can produce a compromising video using 'their' voice as part of the production.
Surprise, okay you got those pesky Texans. Now form two columns list Cali on the left jogger length rap sheet side and the other 49 states on the right side
The funny thing about the Constitution is that it's not a buffet, where you get to choose which parts you'll uphold. Texas putting this sort of thing forward is now an international embarrassment, and they've leapt there farther and faster than any of the Usual Suspect states. Somebody should tell them tyranny isn't a contest.
"HB 366 requires any political advertising that uses altered images, including generative AI or deepfake videos of a candidate's appearance, speech or conduct, to contain a disclosure stating that the content did not occur in reality."
The law violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments in a way that's visible to Stevie Wonder from Jupiter. It's also completely asinine, and wholly tyrannical. And it actually criminalizes the use of memes.
Anyone - starting with the Texas Legislature - who thinks it's remotely legal or constitutional is quite simply fucked in the head, and too stupid to comment on it intelligently.
I hope that wasn't too subtle a description of anyone who thinks it could pass constitutional muster in a million years, even with a SCOTUS composed entirely of actual certified cretins (and we're already about 4/9ths there).
That any two, let alone a voting majority, of any state's legislators would draft and/or sign on to it points towards no other answers than habitual intoxication, heavy narcotic abuse, and lifelong fetal alcohol syndrome, coupled with profound mental retardation. But it goes a long way towards explaining how Dubbya ever got into public office.
And it surpasses - pole vaults, actually - the brazenness of the idiots in Califrutopia's legislative shenanigans by a country mile. Texans should walk tall, knowing they've set a new bar for official stupidity and tyranny.
If I had the time and inclination, I'd find a picture of them collectively, and photoshop the heads of jackasses onto their bodies, with a disclaimer noting that the picture was completely factual, tell them to go fuck themselves sideways with a rusty chainsaw, and dare them to do fuck-all about it. Daily.
Anybody who elected that group of shit-for-brains assholes to public office should contemplate either tar-and-feathering them publicly, or else dropping their trousers, bending over and grabbing their ankles, after painting a yellow stripe up their backsides.
Sam Houston spinning in his grave could power the city of Dallas for the next hundred years about now.
You're free to disagree. Just parse the meaning of that vague phrase "shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech" for the class.
Political cartoons going back only as far as...oh, wait, before this country was even a country...caricatured politicians. Now suddenly Texas thinks it's okay to force people print a disclaimer just because of AI? Now tell me why it's okay to ban semi-automatic weapons because they didn't exist in 1789. I'll wait over here.
I say again, fuck that idea sideways up the ass with a rusty chainsaw, and the horse's asses it rode into the legislature on.
Texas should be flying its flag at half mast until every idiot who signed onto it has been driven from office, ideally with torches and pitchforks in close pursuit, until they reach the state line or the Mexican border. And then go after their families. If they can't do that little, just change the state star to a red one, and put a hammer and sickle on it too, just so folks who visit know what they're getting themselves in for.
This is the sort of move one expects to hear of from (formerly great) Britistan, and a large part of the reason we killed all King George III could send to change that behavior hereabouts.
The law itself should be charged as treason, and made a hanging offense.
Salt of the earth good ole' boys to international embarrassment in one move. Well-played.
Aesop, give me 10mins of audio of you speaking. I will make a slasher video of you as the main character and forward it to the CA State AG. Not intended as a threat, just to make the point. While you rot in county, how do you intend to defend against the evidence? Its swatting by other means.
No, it's not. It simply proves that any video or audio needs careful forensic analysis before it's accepted at face value. And you don't get to abridge the Constitution on the grounds that the state is too lazy or stupid to tell the difference between real and fake.
Nota bene the only people they want protected by this naked abrogation of the First Amendment are politicians. Some pigs always think they're more equal than the other animals.
I keep hearing THAT word again and again: The Constitution? People still don't get it, that document has been dead and pissed on for decades now and still people on the right seem to think it matters while they cling to their Repubtard party to protect them??? WTF, Wake up and see the country for what it is becoming for once in your miserable lives!!!
BTW, for the folks who watched the Civil War movie, DO YOU NOW understand why it was the Texas AND California alliance now? Do you get why the president character was a Trump like figure with the way the media showed him acting and the way they treated him?
You are exactly the problem, and you're preaching anarchy as the solution. If the Constitution is dead to you, then who gives a fuck what you think ought to happen? If it's nothing, you have nothing to squawk about, and no leg to stand on in being upset other than your own discontent and butthurt. You've removed the only objection you have to whatever happens, and chainsawed the legs off any disagreement you could raise. Well-played. So start your revolution with an Army Of One, or quit shilling for others to do it. Either live up to your own message, or else unscrew your tinfoil hat a couple of sizes, and stuff it.
Or maybe rethink your clever move for a good long time until something else suggests itself.
See, this is the part that surprises me.
ReplyDeleteWhy are people surprised by this?
It shows how deluded most people are. Despite what they think they believe, despite what they say outwardly when questioned, despite a whole lot of other reasons, it is their actions, actions like the incredulousness at this news, that belie their true nature.
People think we're voting our way out of this mess.
They still don't grok it.
From what I read, the Texas bill is supposed to stop AI from using memes in political ads without a disclaimer. House Bill 366. Here is a link to the story from KVUE ABC. It isn't about using memes in general, or so the link reads.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.kvue.com/article/news/politics/texas-legislature/texas-house-bill-disclosure-ai-images-deepfakes-political-advertisements/269-49978463-e073-42bf-995a-f3980d4bb587
As you yourself have proven - when Californians emigrate… they smuggle their stupidity in with them when they take up residence in other states.
ReplyDeleteTwo problems with that:
Delete1) What evidence do you have that those were "Californians" who are behind it, rather than gypsy carpetbaggers from somewhere else who just plopped into California last, before moving to Texas? Show all work.
2) So you're admitting that somebody e;se's toothless banjo-playing kinfolk could move to a state and flip it? Tell the class how that isn't exactly what changed California into Califrutopia in the first place.
And welcome your toothless banjo-playing kinfolk back home, with open arms. They're all leaving Califrutopia, and returning home, and bringing their illegal alien maids and waiters (and their multi-generational anchor-baby extended families) with them. Cheers.
Cali was changed by unsupervised voting machines- not bubba moving.
DeleteLoves lots a your stuff, but sometimes you are a very defensive generalizing reactionary dude.
California changed long before there were any machines to be unsupervised.
DeleteBut only having lived here the entire time, and witnessing your toothless banjo-playing kinfolks' predations the entire time, how could I possibly know that?
It's okay to embrace the impact of your unwanted cousins and several million illegal aliens. Now everybody's finding out that, thanks to Dopey Joe, you're all Califrutopia now.
Enjoy the decline. We tried to warn you. Instead you fell all over yourselves mocking what you did to this state, and congratulating each other that it'd never happen to you, now it's coming back around at you too.
Criminalize memes? WTF? I guess the First Amendment hasn't been brought to their attention.
ReplyDeletePhelan is one of the Texas "republicans" that embarrasses us. He's anti-2A and apparently anti-1A as well. Your derision of the direction Texas is going is well deserved. I'm considering getting out before the state becomes Illinois.
ReplyDeleteYeah. Get a group together and it all runs off t he rails. Kind of like that are called the uniparty of late.
ReplyDelete"Under the bill’s provisions, it would be a Class A misdemeanor—punishable by up to a year in jail—for a candidate, officeholder, or political committee to knowingly distribute a political advertisement using altered or AI-generated images, audio, or video without a clear disclaimer stating the media did not reflect real events. The measure applies to anyone spending more than $100 to promote such content, with enforcement and disclosure guidelines to be defined by the Texas Ethics Commission. Media platforms and service providers are exempt from prosecution.
ReplyDeleteThe bill text specifically prohibits “political advertising that includes an image, audio recording, or video recording of an officeholder’s or candidate’s appearance, speech, or conduct that did not occur in reality,” unless accompanied by a disclosure identifying the content as artificially generated.
---The way I saw it, is memes are okay if you identify it as one... as stupid as it may be, because Progs have no sense of humor--
https://yournews.com/.../texas-house-approves-bill-to.../
The whole point about the bill is at the core -- prevent someone else from putting your foot in your mouth. This is not much different than the false advertising provisions that the FTC fails to faithfully apply.
DeleteAI sound and video production is good enough now that given 10mins of audio of someone you can produce a compromising video using 'their' voice as part of the production.
Surprise, okay you got those pesky Texans. Now form two columns list Cali on the left jogger length rap sheet side and the other 49 states on the right side
ReplyDeleteThe funny thing about the Constitution is that it's not a buffet, where you get to choose which parts you'll uphold.
DeleteTexas putting this sort of thing forward is now an international embarrassment, and they've leapt there farther and faster than any of the Usual Suspect states.
Somebody should tell them tyranny isn't a contest.
Actually, No.
ReplyDelete"HB 366 requires any political advertising that uses altered images, including generative AI or deepfake videos of a candidate's appearance, speech or conduct, to contain a disclosure stating that the content did not occur in reality."
You are starting to twist reality like Ms Misfit.
Actually, no.
DeleteThe law violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments in a way that's visible to Stevie Wonder from Jupiter. It's also completely asinine, and wholly tyrannical.
And it actually criminalizes the use of memes.
Anyone - starting with the Texas Legislature - who thinks it's remotely legal or constitutional is quite simply fucked in the head, and too stupid to comment on it intelligently.
I hope that wasn't too subtle a description of anyone who thinks it could pass constitutional muster in a million years, even with a SCOTUS composed entirely of actual certified cretins (and we're already about 4/9ths there).
That any two, let alone a voting majority, of any state's legislators would draft and/or sign on to it points towards no other answers than habitual intoxication, heavy narcotic abuse, and lifelong fetal alcohol syndrome, coupled with profound mental retardation. But it goes a long way towards explaining how Dubbya ever got into public office.
And it surpasses - pole vaults, actually - the brazenness of the idiots in Califrutopia's legislative shenanigans by a country mile.
Texans should walk tall, knowing they've set a new bar for official stupidity and tyranny.
If I had the time and inclination, I'd find a picture of them collectively, and photoshop the heads of jackasses onto their bodies, with a disclaimer noting that the picture was completely factual, tell them to go fuck themselves sideways with a rusty chainsaw, and dare them to do fuck-all about it.
Daily.
Anybody who elected that group of shit-for-brains assholes to public office should contemplate either tar-and-feathering them publicly, or else dropping their trousers, bending over and grabbing their ankles, after painting a yellow stripe up their backsides.
Sam Houston spinning in his grave could power the city of Dallas for the next hundred years about now.
You're free to disagree. Just parse the meaning of that vague phrase "shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech" for the class.
Political cartoons going back only as far as...oh, wait, before this country was even a country...caricatured politicians. Now suddenly Texas thinks it's okay to force people print a disclaimer just because of AI? Now tell me why it's okay to ban semi-automatic weapons because they didn't exist in 1789. I'll wait over here.
I say again, fuck that idea sideways up the ass with a rusty chainsaw, and the horse's asses it rode into the legislature on.
Texas should be flying its flag at half mast until every idiot who signed onto it has been driven from office, ideally with torches and pitchforks in close pursuit, until they reach the state line or the Mexican border. And then go after their families. If they can't do that little, just change the state star to a red one, and put a hammer and sickle on it too, just so folks who visit know what they're getting themselves in for.
This is the sort of move one expects to hear of from (formerly great) Britistan, and a large part of the reason we killed all King George III could send to change that behavior hereabouts.
The law itself should be charged as treason, and made a hanging offense.
Salt of the earth good ole' boys to international embarrassment in one move. Well-played.
Aesop, give me 10mins of audio of you speaking. I will make a slasher video of you as the main character and forward it to the CA State AG. Not intended as a threat, just to make the point. While you rot in county, how do you intend to defend against the evidence? Its swatting by other means.
DeleteNo, it's not.
DeleteIt simply proves that any video or audio needs careful forensic analysis before it's accepted at face value. And you don't get to abridge the Constitution on the grounds that the state is too lazy or stupid to tell the difference between real and fake.
Nota bene the only people they want protected by this naked abrogation of the First Amendment are politicians.
Some pigs always think they're more equal than the other animals.
I keep hearing THAT word again and again: The Constitution? People still don't get it, that document has been dead and pissed on for decades now and still people on the right seem to think it matters while they cling to their Repubtard party to protect them??? WTF, Wake up and see the country for what it is becoming for once in your miserable lives!!!
ReplyDeleteBTW, for the folks who watched the Civil War movie, DO YOU NOW understand why it was the Texas AND California alliance now? Do you get why the president character was a Trump like figure with the way the media showed him acting and the way they treated him?
You are exactly the problem, and you're preaching anarchy as the solution.
DeleteIf the Constitution is dead to you, then who gives a fuck what you think ought to happen? If it's nothing, you have nothing to squawk about, and no leg to stand on in being upset other than your own discontent and butthurt. You've removed the only objection you have to whatever happens, and chainsawed the legs off any disagreement you could raise. Well-played.
So start your revolution with an Army Of One, or quit shilling for others to do it. Either live up to your own message, or else unscrew your tinfoil hat a couple of sizes, and stuff it.
Or maybe rethink your clever move for a good long time until something else suggests itself.
Come and take it.
ReplyDelete