But that wouldn't apply in this case, would it?
Generally speaking, it’s not healthy for the electorate or democracy to not have debates. We already enable an absurd level of “celebrity over substance” relative to the average parliamentary democracy.Stein is not going to debate Robinson:
Stein rebuffs Robinson's call for televised debate in governor's race
Republican Mark Robinson called for a debate Tuesday, but Democrat Josh Stein, who is leading in the polls, said would not participate in one.www.wral.com
Agree, however, I also support blocking Robinson from the publicity necessary to potentially land a "gotcha!"
Agree that Stein’s playing it safe and that’s probably the smart move for him. But the Trumpification of politics has really put us on the Idiocracy fast track.
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If the GOP would stop playing with lunatics, we could go back to normalcy....a time when we were terrified if the other party won a race.
That's great for elections in CA.
California governor signs laws to crack down on election deepfakes created by AI
The California governor has signed three landmark bills Tuesday to crack down on political deepfakes ahead of the 2024 election.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed three bills Tuesday to crack down on the use of artificial intelligence to create false images or videos in political ads ahead of the 2024 election.
A new law, set to take effect immediately, makes it illegal to create and publish deepfakes related to elections 120 days before Election Day and 60 days thereafter. It also allows courts to stop distribution of the materials and impose civil penalties.
“Safeguarding the integrity of elections is essential to democracy, and it’s critical that we ensure AI is not deployed to undermine the public’s trust through disinformation -– especially in today’s fraught political climate,” Newsom said in a statement. “These measures will help to combat the harmful use of deepfakes in political ads and other content, one of several areas in which the state is being proactive to foster transparent and trustworthy AI.”
Large social media platforms are also required to remove the deceptive material under a first-in-the-nation law set to be enacted next year. Newsom also signed a bill requiring political campaigns to publicly disclose if they are running ads with materials altered by AI.
Just for all to see, yeah you can't really see how a custom developed item like Super Ignore is going to work without testing it and I guess it's real time testing. Will take what was said here and get er' working better so thanks for letting me know!
That is why I went to regular ignore. Threads behave better with regular ignore.
Super ignore seems to work fine with the exception of a few things that in theory shouldn't happen all that often and somehow are happening too often.
I agree with this entirely. I used to vote split purposely and have voted for Republicans from the local level to the presidency before.
They should have held the story until tomorrow.
