Time to celebrate the new year 2026 with the first Berlin demoScene Meetup in the @cbase with a pile of fresh #demos !
The date: 30.1.26 Starts at 8 p.m.
We want to see you there 😉 !
#demoscene #digitalArt #meetup #berlin
#irl #scene #creativecoding #realtimegraphics #creativecommunity
First up! Our top tip for everyone starting to care about being tracked online is to install a content blocking extension in their browser, and the best choice is uBlock Origin.
Advertisements aren’t just annoying, they are one of the most prevalent attack vectors on the internet. Minimizing the amount of content you are downloading and running makes you much safer, and it speeds up your browsing at the same time! 😄
I don't disagree that they're entitled to move forward in the way described. But it's an interesting choice (especially nowadays) to move further away from democratic choices and not toward them.
And I don't think that the bylaws were the cause, per se, of the election anomalies. An enabler, yes, but those bylaws certainly don't seem to require the disputed process choices that were made in 2025.
I firmly believe #ICE is about Misogyny, 'White Nationalism', and the worst kind of toxic masculinity; and what's happening right now in #Minneapolis are *not* the only exemplars. Prove me wrong!
> ICE Violence Is Fueled by Misogyny and White Nationalism. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/ice-violence-misogyny-renee-good-alex-pretti/
"Bottom line
The point isn’t that AI makes democracy impossible. The point is that democracy becomes brittle when it’s cheap to counterfeit social proof—when it costs little to run a fake crowd and minutes to manufacture “public opinion.”
The mission is straightforward: make large-scale impersonation and coordination harder to run, easier to detect, and less profitable to sustain. If we get that right, the public square does not need a central authority to decide what is true. It needs conditions where authentic human participation is visible—and where engineered consensus collapses the moment it tries to scale.
Key takeaways
The next wave of influence operations may not look like obvious copy-paste bots. It may look like communities: thousands of AI personas with memory, social identities, distinct styles, and coordinated goals.
The most dangerous outcome is not a single viral lie—it is synthetic consensus: the illusion that “everyone is saying this,” which can quietly bend beliefs and norms.
This is already moving from theory to reality. In July 2024, the U.S. DOJ announced it disrupted a Russia-linked AI-enhanced bot operation involving nearly 1,000 accounts impersonating Americans.
Defenses should not hinge on policing content. They should focus on coordination and provenance: detecting statistically unlikely patterns, stress-testing defenses with simulations, strengthening identity/proof signals, and shifting platform incentives."
https://www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/when-ai-can-fake-majorities-democracy
#AI #GenerativeAI #AISwarms #Disinformation #Propaganda #SocialMedia #Democracy
🎉 Happy Data Protection Day! We took today as an opportunity to debunk five common misconceptions about data protection and the GDPR.
Read all about it here:
https://noyb.eu/en/data-protection-day-5-misconceptions-about-data-protection-debunked
Dang Windows is losing the brovelopers at an alarming rate
@mttaggart
I stopped to comment right at the top:
You understand how poor you were when a kid from Romania had a better PC than you when starting the university (it's the same year)... :)
256 MB videocard! I had RAM just twice of that amount!
@stib @shlee @ThermiteBeGiants fun could be had, my day job requires me to organise a conference at RMIT in 2026 for academics interested in DEI in tech education.
@emmadavidson
So it would be RMITRTMI26?
@shlee @ThermiteBeGiants
New discovery: A wooden structure, identified as river bank protection, has been unearthed at the Roman harbor in Cologne.
https://www.stadt-koeln.de/politik-und-verwaltung/presse/mitteilungen/28168/index.html
I don’t think this is depression; it feels more like … I don’t even know the words to describe it
@farah "Despair" and it is terrible. If you can get outside, it truly helps. If you can read a new book you enjoy, it helps. If you watch something funny, it helps. The world is awful, but being ground down isn't an option I am ready to choose yet.
@flancian
Based.
But not Israel.
@light definitely not while the country engages in what a lot of reasonable people and entities consider a genocide
every time I leave the house in my home city my phone goes "exposure to these levels of noise will drive you insane" and I know buddy. this is why we're like this.
Awesome 🐑 talk from @nicole_terc about shaders on Android
#androiddev #agsl #rendereffect @berlindroid @cbase
Hey ICE bros: look up Nuremberg.
RE: https://www.threads.com/@themamattorney/post/DUAjSX7DCpK
I am hearing that RFK Jr.’s minions are going to go after HPV vaccines. I’ve got problems with these people and now you’re going to hear about them, first from a personal perspective and then from a professional one. It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.
@dysfun CPU’s haunted
Embedding Python into an Android app using Chaquopy
https://github.com/mariobodemann/talk-python-on-android by @mariobodemann
#androiddev #python @berlindroid @cbase
@thomasfuchs I'm looking here, but don't see it to order... https://www.etsy.com/shop/LittleTruthsStudio?section_id=32933167
Apparently, Trump is the only God for evangelicals.
Trump is 'destroying America' with his 'stupidity and tyranny': Catholic priest
https://www.alternet.org/trump-destroying-america-tyranny/
#TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #Catholics #RepublicansDidThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
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