Brian Klaas
@bklaas.bsky.social
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Voice cloning is now trivially easy with open source AI tools that run on a PC, while live avatar videos of real people are easy with proprietary tools & a variety of open source tools are getting there.
Very limited time to adjust legal & financial safeguards to new ways of authenticating people.
Very limited time to adjust legal & financial safeguards to new ways of authenticating people.
June 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Voice cloning is now trivially easy with open source AI tools that run on a PC, while live avatar videos of real people are easy with proprietary tools & a variety of open source tools are getting there.
Very limited time to adjust legal & financial safeguards to new ways of authenticating people.
Very limited time to adjust legal & financial safeguards to new ways of authenticating people.
I did not have #Prince coming back from the dead and being the star witness who locked up the federal case against Diddy on my bingo card.
May 19, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I did not have #Prince coming back from the dead and being the star witness who locked up the federal case against Diddy on my bingo card.
Here we are: a country committing economic suicide to chase the ghosts of an imagined past while promising an impossible future.
April 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Here we are: a country committing economic suicide to chase the ghosts of an imagined past while promising an impossible future.
Do not believe them when they say that cuts have been reversed or funding has been restored.
Firing then bringing employees back at much lower salaries is standard in the oligarch playbook.
Firing then bringing employees back at much lower salaries is standard in the oligarch playbook.
February 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Do not believe them when they say that cuts have been reversed or funding has been restored.
Firing then bringing employees back at much lower salaries is standard in the oligarch playbook.
Firing then bringing employees back at much lower salaries is standard in the oligarch playbook.
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Liberals' political imagination stops at institutions, and those are being smashed. If they can't vote or sue or arrest someone, they think it's all over. They don't believe in direct action, because they allowed the ballot box to alienate them from their real power.
February 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Liberals' political imagination stops at institutions, and those are being smashed. If they can't vote or sue or arrest someone, they think it's all over. They don't believe in direct action, because they allowed the ballot box to alienate them from their real power.
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This is absolutely crucial advice. Read it. Read it again. Repeat it to yourself. Do not allow yourself to be overloaded. OVERLOAD IS A DELIBERATE TACTIC.
February 1, 2025 at 1:30 AM
This is absolutely crucial advice. Read it. Read it again. Repeat it to yourself. Do not allow yourself to be overloaded. OVERLOAD IS A DELIBERATE TACTIC.
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This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance.
Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.
Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
January 22, 2025 at 1:24 AM
This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance.
Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.
Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.
If they want to eradicate your existence, be loud, be visible, and don’t fade away.
The history of ACT UP has many lessons to teach.
The history of ACT UP has many lessons to teach.
January 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
If they want to eradicate your existence, be loud, be visible, and don’t fade away.
The history of ACT UP has many lessons to teach.
The history of ACT UP has many lessons to teach.
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Not everyone can fight Trumpism and Trumpists directly. But remember this: kindness, decency, and fidelity to American values are defiance in the face of Trumpism.
So be kind, decent, and faithful, particularly to the many kinds of people despised and attacked by Trumpists. That’s revolutionary./1
So be kind, decent, and faithful, particularly to the many kinds of people despised and attacked by Trumpists. That’s revolutionary./1
January 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Not everyone can fight Trumpism and Trumpists directly. But remember this: kindness, decency, and fidelity to American values are defiance in the face of Trumpism.
So be kind, decent, and faithful, particularly to the many kinds of people despised and attacked by Trumpists. That’s revolutionary./1
So be kind, decent, and faithful, particularly to the many kinds of people despised and attacked by Trumpists. That’s revolutionary./1
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
slate.com/business/202...
slate.com/business/202...
November 22, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
slate.com/business/202...
slate.com/business/202...
Resist. Every day.
That is all.
That is all.
November 19, 2024 at 5:54 PM
Resist. Every day.
That is all.
That is all.