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#OpenAI finds its #tech being used for #propaganda & #US 2024 #ElectionInterference
#ChatGPT maker OpenAI found #Russia, #China, #Iran & #Israel groups using its #technology to #influence global political discourse, highlighting concerns #generative #ArtificialIntelligence is making it easier for state actors to run covert #propaganda campaigns as the presidential election nears.
#ForeignDisinformationCampaigns #disinformation #generativeAI
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/30/openai-disinfo-influence-operations-china-russia/
Echoes of 1962, the Berlin crisis and a world teetering on war
There is the potential for worldwide conflict within the next three years as China, Russia, Iran and North Korea are likely preparing for major confrontation.Brad Glosserman (The Japan Times)
Live your life so when you die unexpectedly, the proletariat arent ecstatic.
"Iranian people celebrate the helicopter crash of president Raisi." (In Saqqez)
Iran’s president and foreign minister died yesterday in a helicopter crash, leaving the country without two of its most influential politicians at a moment of regional and domestic disorder.
#Iran will now need to hold presidential elections within 50 days. Will the country’s ruling conservatives quickly move to repress political expression and manipulate elections?
We have more from an expert on Iran’s #politics:
https://theconversation.com/iran-crash-president-raisis-death-leaves-tehran-mourning-loss-of-regime-loyalist-230385 #News #WorldNews #breakingnews
Iran crash: President Raisi’s death leaves Tehran mourning loss of regime loyalist
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei announced a five day period of mourning following the discovery of wreckage on hillside.The Conversation
Iranian media has confirmed the death of #Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi.
May 19, 2024 helicopter crash involving Iranian president
A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi crashed while he was visiting a northern region in the country Sunday, according to the Iranian state news agency IRNA.Antoinette Radford, Dakin Andone, Michelle Shen, Steve Almasy, Matt Meyer and Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN)
The Vice President of Iran, Muhammad Mokhber, becomes the president of Iran.
He will take office until the elections.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Iran
A helicopter carrying President #EbrahimRaisi of #Iran & his foreign minister crashed on Sunday in the country’s mountainous northwest, acc/to state media, deepening the turmoil that has gripped the nation on both the international & domestic fronts in recent months.
#Raisi, 63, was traveling from Iran’s border w/ Azerbaijan to inaugurate a joint dam project.
#geopolitics #MiddleEast
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/19/world/middleeast/iran-president-helicopter-crash.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
...definitely become a better place w/o him...
...If he'd deceased a year ago, the #Irianian funding of #Hamas had dried up afterwards, then maybe the Oct 7 massacre and the #WarInGaza atrocities would never have happened.
However, "history is never written in conditional clauses," as one of my history teachers used to say.
Alas.
Then, such a "tribute" would not have been necessary:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112463501127332480
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@VOANewsIs such a dance performance near a war zone with 30+k dead appropriate?
What's your opinion?
Via #voanews
▶️ While sounds of the Israel-Hamas war echo nearby, an Israeli dance group, joined by American artist and influencer Montana Tucker, performed Friday in southern Israel, in tribute to Oct. 7 Hamas attack victims.
https://youtu.be/4wx697duw40?si=rRb6YzGzxyYEVDyG
Israeli dancers perform in memory of Nova victims, as sounds of Israel-Hamas war echo | VOA News
While sounds of the Israel-Hamas war echo nearby, an Israeli dance group, joined by American artist and influencer Montana Tucker, performed Friday in southe...YouTube
...next two weeks, it is probably "confirmed."
The #RevolutionaryGuards and others now need to make a lot of preparations for a likely insurgency...before the news before Raisi's death could be admitted.
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Don't count you chicken before they're hatched.
(4min old, when I copied this)
"State TV:
*Injury or death of helicopter passengers can’t be confirmed*
Iranian state television added that the crash was due to adverse weather conditions."
I wouldn't believe authoritarian state TV, but the same is true for Telegram, if I don't know the source.
We'll see. I he doesn't appear in the media in the...
The Jordanian monarchy supports the establishment of a #PalestinianState. While some right-wing politicians in #Israel have envisaged #Jordan becoming an alternative Palestinian state, #KingAbdullah has repeatedly warned that there is no such thing as a "Jordan option."
Jordan foils arms plot as kingdom caught in #Iran-Israel shadow war
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/jordan-foils-arms-plot-as-kingdom-caught-in-iran-israel-shadow-war-801218
Jordan thwarts suspected Iranian plot to smuggle weapons into country
The weapons were sent by Iranian-backed militias in Syria to a cell of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan that has links to the military wing of the Palestinian terror group Hamas.By REUTERS (The Jerusalem Post)
