from Powderhorn@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org on 28 Sep 21:19
https://beehaw.org/post/22407425
Remember how the evil Dems were going to steal elections with AI videos? Instead, it’s time to play Piss Off Your Own Dying Base With Empty Promises (batteries and oxygen not included).
President Donald Trump shared a bizarre AI video to social media in which he’s seen promoting “med beds” — a far-right conspiracy involving a magical bed that can supposedly heal any sickness.
In a post to his Truth Social platform late Saturday night, Trump shared a phony, AI-generated Fox News clip — purportedly from Fox’s My View with Lara Trump — in which he’s seen rolling out this magic technology to hospitals nationwide. (UPDATE: Trump has now deleted the video.)
“Every American will soon receive their own medbed card,” AI Trump said. “With it, you’ll have guaranteed access to our new hospitals led by the top doctors in the nation, equipped with the most advanced technology in the world.”
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@Powderhorn
Shame on FOX for airing this crazy UNTRUTH
I’m not seeing any reports it aired. Just generated and posted by Trump for whatever nefarious reason. I’d buy “This is why it’s OK we’re cutting back on Medicare and Medicaid.” Magic
beansbeds.Now, this said, whoever’s behind the video was pretty brilliant, as they’re able to use the Streisand Effect in their own favour. Even though it wasn’t actually aired at the time, well, now it’s a “news” clip Fox can run over and over under fair use.
@Powderhorn
Jeezus
What better accessory for your Trump Med Bed than a Mike Lindell MyPillow.
All you need for a restful thought-free MAGA night.
I have as much interest in a MyPillow as a Vance MySofa. And for the same reason.
Setting aside Trump, I have no idea why people who can apparently be mostly reasonable about, say, cars subscribe to utterly batshit insane views about diet and health and buy into all kinds of snake oil.
I’m not saying that there’s no magical thinking with cars — “my magical fuel additive” or whatever — but I have seen more utterly insane stuff regarding what someone should eat or how to treat medical conditions than in most other areas.
It’s also not new. You can go back, and find people promoting all kinds of snake oil when it comes to health. Some of my favorites are the utterly crazy stuff that came out when public awareness of radiation was new, and it was being billed as a magic cure for everything.
I get that not everyone is a doctor or a dietician. But you’d think that any time you see someone promoting something as a fix for a wide, unrelated range of conditions, that it should be enough to raise red flags for someone, layman or no.
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Even without the huge ag lobbying boards doing their things, the sheer healthiness of eggs has, I swear, swung back and forth at least four times since the '80s. Like a Miller Lite “tastes great” “less filling” mudfight in the middle of a club.
I think it’s macroscopy vs microscopy.
Food and nutrition and health is all “invisible” to you in a way that a car engine isn’t. To the average person, even hearing cellular functions explained sounds like magic, because it takes SO MUCH knowledge to get to the point where you can truly grok how a specific medicine works in the body.
That also explains why fuel additives are an area where that happens in cars. You can’t see the difference in e.g. AKI ratings in action. You can’t see summer vs winter fuel blend changes. So why isn’t it possible that this additive could do things you can’t see as well?
The dementia is really starting to show…
What next? It’s available at your local Sharper Image?
I had to look up whether they were still around. They were a slightly nerdier SkyMall for when you were on the ground, so I expected not. Apparently they’re now one of those sites where there’s always a coupon and you’d be an idiot to pay full price.
This really puts some perspective on things. He’s clearly a goa’uld.
Kinsey was better, even as a goa’uld
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Free healthcare in america in 2025:
is that what they told him cured the strokes. Lol.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=X5i0JU_NsZU
Can it cure cankles?