AI-Generated Psych-Rock Band The Velvet Sundown Rack Up Hundreds Of Thousands Of Spotify Streams


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The psych-rock “band” has two albums on their Spotify-verified profile: June 5’s Floating On Echoes and June 20’s Dust And Silence. The writing/production/performance credits list only the band’s name. And the bio consists of meaningless adages. “The Velvet Sundown aren’t trying to revive the past,” it reads. “They’re rewriting it. They sound like the memory of a time that never actually happened… but somehow they make it feel real.” An earlier version also included this made-up quote attributed to Billboard: “They sound like the memory of something you never lived, and somehow make it feel real.” Neither the Velvet Sundown nor its four members (“vocalist and mellotron sorcerer Gabe Farrow, guitarist Lennie West, bassist-synth alchemist Milo Rains, and free-spirited percussionist Orion ‘Rio’ Del Mar”) had social media until yesterday (June 27) when they created an Instagram. The pictures of the “band” are very obviously and disturbingly AI-generated.


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Stuggle Session 1 with Nora Barrows-Friedman, Alex Avina, Nina Farnia


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#Palestine #NoraBarrows-Friedman #AlexAvina #NinaFarnia

At least it will be easier to determine what products not to buy if they're telling you they'd rather spend on an advertising budget than doing what they should.

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Vulnerability Advisory: Sudo chroot Elevation of Privilege


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#Exploitation has been verified on:

  • #Ubuntu 24.04.1; Sudo 1.9.15p5, Sudo 1.9.16p2
  • #Fedora 41 Server; Sudo 1.9.15p5


The issue arises from allowing an unprivileged user to invoke #chroot() on a writable, untrusted path under their control. Sudo calls chroot() several times, regardless of whether the user has corresponding #Sudo rule configured.

#linux #bug #exploit #vulnerability #software #commandline #command #root ##privileges #warning #danger #news #terminal #privilege

Almost a riddle.... What's #NoKing, and also not a queen? A classic monarch butterfly.

The Monarch Butterfly has a classic appearance, with the two bright tones of orange and the bold "stained glass" veins.

More #nature #photography in my Flickr album, @ flic.kr/s/aHsjHHQKce

#butterfly #Monarch #Nature #photography #Fenfotos

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The Road to Truth - The Generals Son: A Journey of Awakening in Palestine with Miko Peled


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#MikoPeled #Palestine

Online-Kommunikation mit Behörden ist für Bürger*innen und Unternehmen kompliziert, für Verwaltungen oft teuer und aufwendig.
Verwaltungsdigitalisierung: Arbeitsgruppe empfiehlt Matrix-Protokoll für Behördenkommunikation

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Zuletzt haben die EU und die deutsche Politik wiederholt eine Vorratsdatenspeicherung diskutiert. Dabei hat Deutschland bis heute nicht das E-Evidence-Paket umgesetzt.
Gesetzentwurf: Polizeien sollen einfacher an digitale Beweise kommen

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Aus vielen Tracking-Firmen sticht eine heraus: Utiq. Das Unternehmen arbeitet mit Internetanbietern zusammen. Damit kann Utiq Internetanschlüsse auf eine besondere Art verfolgen.
Utiq: Tracking jetzt auch am Internetanschluss zu Hause

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"Bazı özür dileyenler bize Tanrı'nın tapınmamızı zorlamamak için bizden saklı kaldığını söylerler. Ama Tanrı bizim özgürlüğümüz için kaygılandığından saklanmıyor. Eyüp'ü unutmadık: bu nedenle Tanrı'nın korkaklıktan saklandığını anlıyoruz. Tanrı saklanıyor çünkü saklayacak çok şeyi var. Biz yanan çalılar ya da bir duman sütunu aramıyoruz. Hayır: Tanrı'yı görmek istiyoruz. Tanrı önümüzde durabilir mi; Tanrı acı çeken insanlığın yüzünü görebilir mi - ve yaşayabilir mi? J'accuse." (Evan Fales)

Statt Rechtsradikale zu bekämpfen, biedert die Union sich ihnen an. Das zeigte zuletzt die Vorstellung des neuen Verfassungsschutzberichts. Auch die Einschätzungen des Verfassungsschutzes, wie extreme Rechte Medien nutzen, machen stutzig.
Breakpoint: Keine Rosen für Faschisten

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I have been thinking about this for a while now, but I think it's time to actually pull the trigger. We need a database to document commercials/adverts etc.

Requirements:
- Easily record metadata in a standard format
- API available to query
- User contribution capabilities (well moderated)

Ideally I want to use something off the shelf. MediaWiki seems to check the boxes, but looking for something less complex to general users.

#lostmedia #MediaPreservation

Et acheter une voiture neuve, faire tourner à fond le marché de l’automobile, c’est écolo, n’est-ce pas ? Si j'étais dictateur 😀 je nationaliserais (ou un truc dans le genre) la production automobile et ferait produire des modèles de véhicules costauds, avec base commune, facilement réparables, exemple: Mercedes 240D
#france #macronie #idiocratie

Zohran Mamdani, the self-described "democratic socialist" and presumptive Democratic Party nominee to be mayor of New York City, has been supported by so-called "fact-checkers" and legacy media in denying that he is a Communist — but his oft-repeated past comments strongly contradict his denials. Mamdani is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), but he denies that he is a Communist.

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The GOP provision, which blocks Medicaid funding for clinics that offer abortions, was approved by the Senate Parliamentarian on Monday and will pass with the bill by a simple majority.

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This October, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is projected to hit a once-in-a-generation milestone: 1 trillion web pages archived.

We’ll be commemorating this historic achievement on October 22 with a global celebration. Learn how you can take part ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/07/01/wa…

#Wayback1T #WaybackMachine

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🤣 EU member states have been warned not to expect a stable trade relationship with the US, especially on the issue of EU pharmaceutical exports ahead of next Wednesday's deadline, when a pause on the imposition of US tariffs expires.

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Donald Trump to welcome Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House next Monday, July 7th radiohc.cu/en/noticias/interna…