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jwz wrote:

Video text remover.

Is there a Mac app similar to Hitpaw Watermark Remover that is... not that? I bought it, and it's *adequate* but has some annoyances so I would like to try *anything* else.

Only use case I care about is: scrub thru video; select a series of rectangles and start/end times; run ffmpeg with a series of "delogo" filters.

Auto-detection or anything "AI" is an explicit non-goal.

Web search for this topic has been utterly poisoned by grifters.
https://jwz.org/b/ykyK

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
iode@mastodon.online ("iodé") wrote:

The next time someone says "Privacy doesn't matter to me, I've got nothing to hide", show them this video.

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• video: 96d151671c6c651c.mp4

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Okay, BUT, what if this time, instead of building this city on rock and roll, we built it on mid-density housing and mixed-use zoning?

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
spellingmistakescostlives@mastodon.ie ("Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives") wrote:

After much research and development I have made an offline version of ChatGPT.

Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.

Order here: https://www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/product-page/chatgpt-magic-8-ball-offline-version

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ("ikt") wrote:

Sweden to cut development aid to five countries, divert money to Ukraine

https://aussie.zone/post/27356169

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:

Adolf Trump removes holidays celebrating Blacks from free entrance to
national parks, but makes his own birthday free entrance

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
charleskeener.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Charles Keener") wrote:

The report also criticized Hegseth’s use of a personal cellphone to conduct official business. Hegseth himself refused to cooperate with the investigation, refusing to hand over his phone or sit for an interview.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bolts@journa.host ("BoltsMag.org") wrote:

This fall, Hawaii's supreme court rejected an argument that recording interrogations is burdensome for police: “If children can record everyday events with ease, law enforcement cannot claim hardship to record perhaps its most consequential investigative act.”
https://boltsmag.org/hawaii-supreme-court-police-interrogations/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
morebento@aus.social ("ben moretti") wrote:

This band is exceptional. They put on an annual performance of Zappa’s music and do it brilliantly. Well worth a trip to Adelaide for the fringe featival

Läther play the music of Frank Zappa
The Gov - The Venue (Hindmarsh, SA)
Sunday, 15 March 2026 6:00 pm

https://tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/56481bf5-dd31-4d21-90a2-f60a35cc507b

#music #adelaide #arts

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

interesting … I had not known that the PRC was 2nd, and I was surprised the EU was that populated

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/04e9a2a7-e9cf-4d97-9b71-8f04f298cc5c#1

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
FediTips@social.growyourown.services ("Fedi.Tips 🎄") wrote:

YouTube is now using AI to alter people's videos without permission. (There are threads about this at https://mastodon.content.town/@operationpuppet/115640694705318541 & https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/115598837629003478 etc)

This is really disturbing and dangerous. It's more insidious than censorship because viewers cannot tell a video has been altered.

If you post to YouTube, I'd strongly recommend you start ALSO posting to PeerTube, either on your own server or a public server. There's a complete guide here:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-publish-videos-and-audio-on-peertube

#PeerTube #YouTube

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

A communist plumber named Lefty Lucy

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
kkarhan@infosec.space ("Kevin Karhan :verified:") wrote:

@fromjason people.in #Germany hate #Cyberfascism and #Enshittification!

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Anecdotally on mastodon, and based on very rudimentary analytics from Tinylytics, Germany 🇩🇪 seems the most receptive to fighting back on #AIdoomerism.

What's going on over there in Deutschland? Why are y'all ahead of the curb?

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
joyousjoyness ("Joy") wrote:

✨ A Sprinkle of JoyousJoyness ✨

Didn't know they moved like that...

Have a JoyousJoyfulJoyness day!

#happy #anemone #funny #cute #joyousjoyness #repost

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• video: 94d9b4d1cda622ee.mp4

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
whitequark ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

hey remember this slide

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

"Have you accepted AI yet". My take on a recent thread here. Nothing particularly new there, but I needed a place to aggregate all the links I cared about on the topic :-)

https://softwaremaniacs.org/blog/2025/12/05/have-you-accepted-ai-yet/en/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

I'm starting to think that AI is causing a sort of mass hysteria, where people too close to the technology and people who are too far from any frame of reference for the technology, are under some weird hypnosis caused by a very realistic mimicking of human sentience. A Stochastic Parrot, if you will.

Damn man, @timnitGebru sure did warn us. I would've never guessed it would be like this.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

The Cottingley Fairies was a hoax in the early 1900's where two cousins "photoshopped" fairies into photographs of themselves.

Photography was new enough that something like this had never happened before.

The Fairies were so convincing that it fooled the author of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, and he wrote an essay arguing fairies were real.

And this is what I think is happening with Bernie Sanders and AI right now.

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/sir-arthur-and-the-fairies/

#democrats

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

#KingTides sea level rise party

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• video: 29c83498ec2b9757.mp4

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Bernie Sander's Labor Committee asked CHATGPT how many jobs CHATGPT will take from humans. They asked a chatbot to *predict* the future, then published it.

Jesus lord we're fucked.

https://www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/10.6.2025-The-Big-Tech-Oligarchs-War-Against-Workers.pdf

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Bernie Sanders Falls for Mathy-Maths and Doomer Gloom • Buttondown:

"As Alex put it: “They do this bullshit analysis, but then the people that they quote approvingly are certified enemies of the working class. Why are you taking these people at their word, when you shouldn’t?”" https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/bernie-sanders-falls-for-mathy-maths/

jwz wrote:

Los Campesinos on streaming:

"It being Streaming Stat Season, I thought now would be a good time to offer a detailed breakdown of how much money we make from our music being streamed." There are many reasons, unrelated to artist reimbursement, why...
https://jwz.org/b/ykyI

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
schuler ("Marcus Schuler") wrote:

OpenAI's advertising pivot reveals an uncomfortable truth: the LLM industry needs 3 billion paying subscribers just to break even—10x Netflix's total after two decades. With only 5% of 800 million users paying, ads aren't innovation. They're a lifeline.

#AIBusiness #OpenAI

https://www.implicator.ai/openai-ads-2026-chatgpts-revenue-lifeline-or-investor-trap/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

A crane in the evening.

📷️️️️ Canon AE-1
🎞️ Ilford HP5+ @ 800
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/2.0, yellow filter
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BlackAndWhite #MonochromePhotography

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

New project, trying to do more stuff away from YouTube.
https://chriswere.wales/voicenotes

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Big tech, and just mega corporations in general, from streaming to healthcare, are a more consequential and longterm threat than Donald Trump.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

FIFA inaugurates the peace bribe

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6854845/2025/12/05/fifa-peace-prize-trump-infantino/?source=athletic%5Fuser%5Fshared%5Farticle%5Fcopylink&smid=url-share-ta

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
downey@floss.social ("Michael Downey 🧢") wrote:

@fromjason

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/bernie-sanders-falls-for-mathy-maths/

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

This is so on-brand for FIFA, Gianni Infantino could tattoo 'corrupt clown' on his forehead (believe me, there's plenty of space) and it would still be subtler messaging.