Arizona is #3 for job creation since 2019-2024 - I suspect the CHIPS act investments might turn us dark blue on this map in future years.

It’s a good time to be an Arizonan, IMO.

Interesting, I posted the text of the bill earlier in another thread, seemed somewhat reasonable, I must’ve missed the problematic bit.

I’m running a Steam OS like experience on my Lenovo Legion Go. Not quite a steam deck, but very similar.

You should be able to use the heroic launcher. And you should be able to install it as a flat pack or a snap. That will make your GOG games as easy to download and install as a steam game. If I recall correctly, it even automatically adds entries for steam.

I regularly play Bomb Rush Cyberfunk on this device using the GOG edition.

There’s a lot of HUGE differences between Tucson and Vancouver, CA. Many of them cultural, even more logistical.

I was looking for rentals in Tucson not too long ago and Casitas are a great choice, and the short-term housing market basically popped, so they aren’t competing like they once were. It seemed like Tucson was popular when everyone and their aunt was working remote and folks felt like they could move. I think were on the other side of that now with many businesses declaring Return To Office forcing many to return to wherever their employer is located.

As a result, I’m seeing a lot of short term only rentals back on the market entirely.

And that’s before getting into the culture of Tucson and how Casitas have a long, storied history here. There are certain areas of town where almost every home has a Casita, and they aren’t where the short term rentals are - quite the opposite actually. Living in Downtown Tucson in a charming Casita still has to deal with living downtown.

The other big factor is population density, and it’s a HUGE factor.

Downtown Tucson is rocking about 2,449.8/sq mi (2,251.44/sq mi for our metro) while Vancouver (the city, not the metro) is an astounding 14,892/sq mi.

There’s just a LOT more space to put ADU’s/Casitas than there would be in Vancouver, and coupled with an existing culture that utilizes Casitas for long term housing, I think it’ll turn out differently. We’ll just have to wait and see.

The text of the bill seems reasonable and prudent. It amends A.R.S 13-2006 with:

4. USING A COMPUTER GENERATED VOICE RECORDING, IMAGE OR VIDEO OF ANOTHER PERSON WITH INTENT TO DEFRAUD OTHER PERSONS OR WITH INTENT TO HARASS OTHER PERSONS. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBSECTION, “HARASS” HAS THE SAME MEANING PRESCRIBED IN SECTION 13-2921. B. Criminal impersonation UNDER SUBSECTION A, PARAGRAPH 4 OF THIS SECTION IS A CLASS 5 FELONY. CRIMINAL IMPERSONATION UNDER SUBSECTION A, PARAGRAPH 1, 2 OR 3 OF THIS SECTION is a class 6 felony.

as well as adding a new A.R.S 13-3508

13-3508. Unlawful dissemination of deep fake recordings or images depicting intimate parts or sexual acts; classification; definitions A. IT IS UNLAWFUL TO INTENTIONALLY DISSEMINATE A DEEP FAKE RECORDING OR IMAGE IF ALL OF THE FOLLOWING APPLY:

1. THE PERSON THAT INTENTIONALLY CREATES AND DISSEMINATES THE DEEP FAKE RECORDING OR IMAGE KNOWS OR REASONABLY SHOULD KNOW THAT THE DEPICTED INDIVIDUAL DOES NOT CONSENT TO THE DISSEMINATION.
2. THE DEEP FAKE RECORDING OR IMAGE REALISTICALLY DEPICTS ANY OF THE FOLLOWING: (a) THE INTIMATE PARTS OF ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL THAT ARE PRESENTED AS THE INTIMATE PARTS OF THE DEPICTED INDIVIDUAL. (b) INTIMATE PARTS THAT ARE GENERATED BY SYNTHETIC MEDIA AND THAT ARE PRESENTED AS THE INTIMATE PARTS OF THE DEPICTED INDIVIDUAL. © THE DEPICTED INDIVIDUAL ENGAGING IN A SEXUAL ACT.
3. THE DEPICTED INDIVIDUAL IS IDENTIFIABLE IN ONE OF THE FOLLOWING WAYS: (a) FROM THE DEEP FAKE RECORDING OR IMAGE ITSELF. (b) BY THE DEPICTED INDIVIDUAL. © FROM THE PERSONAL INFORMATION THAT IS DISPLAYED IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEEP FAKE RECORDING OR IMAGE. B. A VIOLATION OF THIS SECTION IS A CLASS 6 FELONY, EXCEPT THAT IT IS A CLASS 4 FELONY IF ANY OF THE FOLLOWING APPLIES:
4. THE DEPICTED PERSON SUFFERS ANY FINANCIAL LOSS DUE TO THE DISSEMINATION OF THE DEEP FAKE RECORDING OR IMAGE.
5. THE PERSON DISSEMINATES THE DEEP FAKE RECORDING OR IMAGE WITH THE INTENT TO PROFIT FROM THE DISSEMINATION.
6. THE PERSON MAINTAINS AN INTERNET WEBSITE, ONLINE SERVICE, ONLINE APPLICATION OR MOBILE APPLICATION TO DISSEMINATE THE DEEP FAKE RECORDING OR IMAGE.
7. THE PERSON POSTS THE DEEP FAKE RECORDING OR IMAGE ON AN INTERNET WEBSITE.
8. THE PERSON DISSEMINATES THE DEEP FAKE RECORDING OR IMAGE WITH INTENT TO HARASS THE DEPICTED PERSON.
9. THE PERSON OBTAINS THE DEEP FAKE RECORDING OR IMAGE BY COMMITTING A THEFT, A CRIMINAL TRESPASS OR COMPUTER TAMPERING OR UNAUTHORIZED COMPUTER ACCESS.
10. THE PERSON HAS PREVIOUSLY BEEN CONVICTED OF A VIOLATION OF THIS SECTION. C. AN INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SERVICE IS NOT LIABLE FOR A VIOLATION OF THIS SECTION FOR CONTENT THAT IS CREATED OR DEVELOPED BY ANOTHER PERSON OR S.B. 1336

• 2 - ENTITY, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, AND THAT IS PROVIDED THROUGH THE INTERNET OR ANY OTHER INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SERVICE. D. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION:

1. “DEEP FAKE RECORDING OR IMAGE” MEANS ANY VIDEO RECORDING, MOTION PICTURE FILM, SOUND RECORDING, ELECTRONIC IMAGE OR PHOTOGRAPH OR ANY TECHNOLOGICAL REPRESENTATION OF SPEECH OR CONDUCT SUBSTANTIALLY DERIVATIVE THEREOF AND THAT BOTH: (a) APPEARS TO AUTHENTICALLY DEPICT ANY SPEECH OR CONDUCT OF AN INDIVIDUAL WHO DID NOT IN FACT ENGAGE IN THE SPEECH OR CONDUCT. (b) THE PRODUCTION OF WHICH WAS SUBSTANTIALLY DEPENDENT ON TECHNICAL MEANS RATHER THAN THE ABILITY OF ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL TO PHYSICALLY OR VERBALLY IMPERSONATE THE INDIVIDUAL.
2. “DEPICTED INDIVIDUAL” MEANS AN INDIVIDUAL IN A DEEP FAKE RECORDING OR IMAGE WHO APPEARS TO BE ENGAGING IN SPEECH OR CONDUCT THAT THE INDIVIDUAL DID NOT ENGAGE IN.
3. “DISSEMINATION” MEANS DISTRIBUTION TO ONE OR MORE PERSONS, OTHER THAN THE PERSON DEPICTED IN THE DEEP FAKE RECORDING OR IMAGE OR PUBLICATION BY ANY PUBLICLY AVAILABLE MEDIUM.
4. “HARASS” MEANS AN ACT THAT WOULD CAUSE A SUBSTANTIAL ADVERSE EFFECT ON THE SAFETY, SECURITY OR PRIVACY OF A REASONABLE PERSON.
5. “INTIMATE PARTS” MEANS THE GENITALS, PUBIC AREA OR ANUS OF AN INDIVIDUAL, OR IF THE INDIVIDUAL IS FEMALE, A PARTIALLY OR FULLY EXPOSED NIPPLE.
6. “PERSONAL INFORMATION” MEANS ANY IDENTIFIER THAT PERMITS COMMUNICATION OR IN-PERSON CONTACT WITH A PERSON, INCLUDING ANY OF THE FOLLOWING: (a) A PERSON’S FIRST AND LAST NAMES, FIRST INITIAL AND LAST NAME, FIRST NAME AND LAST INITIAL OR NICKNAME. (b) A PERSON’S HOME, SCHOOL OR WORK ADDRESS. © A PERSON’S TELEPHONE NUMBER, EMAIL ADDRESS OR SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNT INFORMATION. (d) A PERSON’S GEOLOCATION DATA.
7. “SEXUAL ACT” MEANS EITHER SEXUAL CONTACT OR SEXUAL PENETRATION.
8. “SEXUAL CONTACT” MEANS THE INTENTIONAL TOUCHING OF INTIMATE PARTS OR INTENTIONAL TOUCHING WITH SEMINAL FLUID OR SPERM ONTO ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL’S BODY.
9. “SEXUAL PENETRATION” MEANS EITHER OF THE FOLLOWING ACTS: (a) SEXUAL INTERCOURSE, CUNNILINGUS, FELLATIO OR ANAL INTERCOURSE. (b) ANY INTRUSION, HOWEVER SLIGHT, INTO THE GENITAL OR ANAL OPENING OF AN INDIVIDUAL BY ANOTHER’S BODY PART OR AN OBJECT USED BY ANOTHER FOR THIS PURPOSE.
10. “SOCIAL MEDIA” MEANS ANY ELECTRONIC MEDIUM, INCLUDING AN INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SERVICE, TELEPHONE NETWORK OR DATA NETWORK, THAT ALLOWS USERS TO CREATE, SHARE AND VIEW USER-GENERATED CONTENT.

TL;DR - It’s pretty deeply tied to the intent to distribute or defraud. Given the language that only one person needs the dissemination it could conceivably be interpreted to apply to personally generated images, but that might be a stretch. IMO, it would be most prudently applied to a mechanism to distribute beyond the creator of the deepfake itself. Policing deepfakes that people produce for their own exclusive consumption would be incredibly difficult to enforce.

EDIT - good lord formatting this in a sane way was difficult…

I’m not entirely sure attacking spectators as cowards builds the movement here. This is an article that I really feel exemplifies the fallacy of believing that a movement’s visibility is equal to its power. There is some good stuff in here though!

Personally, I think that effective organizing is largely invisible. It is agonizing. And it requires a ton of patience. It looks like creating community organizations, businesses (or cooperatives), and making sure people’s needs are met locally. This slow process builds power. By making more people comfortable on relying on you and your organizations, you grow your power.

A protest by contrast is mobilizing, it spends power. Sure, it is a show of force that expresses the will of a people in a very direct matter. But it often doesn’t expand movements in the way that you would think. I’m going to have to say it, the moderates do have a point. Progressives are terrible at building power. Because they just lack the patience to do the slow organizing and community building required. This is further exacerbated as a college student movement. Many of which, will only spend 4 to 6 years here in Tucson and never return.

There’s a certain privilege that college students hold. And I say that as someone who couldn’t afford to go to college. It is important to acknowledge that privilege when engaging with the broader community. It’s mostly apparent in knowledge. College students are going to see, realize, and be inspired by things that just will not be available in the broader community. Things that require years of knowledge building that the broader community often lacks.

In conclusion, I think that this article would benefit from a different title. There are other really good parts of this to emphasize that would be more inclusive to the community you are in.

At the end of the day, I care about growing progressive power. And I completely disagree with the most visible methods because they are counterproductive. Often trading visibility, impact, and notoriety for sustainability, momentum, and solidarity.

Want to grow power? Make it so that there is a portion of the community that looks up to you after you’ve taken care of them. Then when you ask them kindly to attend a protest, they know that you have their back as much as they have yours.

Huh, now that’s a classic I never thought would get a remaster/re-release! I played this a ton when I was a little kid in the 90s on my Sega Genesis.

Though I’ll probably stick to purchasing on Steam. I’m steering clear of Nintendo where possible.

For me, the quality of the Audio makes all the difference. Plain Old Telephone (POTs) is utter garbage and I miss so much to my audio processing issues. The VoLTE and Wifi calling quality is often far and away better and I can better understand the subtleties of whats being communicated.

This is precisely where that law applies! Thanks for the excellent example.

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That’s an… interesting defense.

Under Arizona law, a person can be shielded from prosecution if they establish three elements: an otherwise illegal action or refusal to act is motivated by a religious belief; that belief is sincerely held, and the government’s actions substantially burdens their exercise of their religious beliefs.

Points 1 and 2 - I can grant both of those without a second thought.

Point 3 - eehhhhhhh, I’m not too sure. I can understand the argument, but I’m really not convinced that their exercise of religious beliefs were at risk.

I’d think it would be far easier to work with an intent angle here. Especially since, as the article notes, the area in question could be reasonably mistaken for public property.

It’s not to say I don’t think the charges should be dropped - I think they should. I’m just not convinced the defense chose a winning argument.

I normally would, but my wife has the same problem and she’s done that 3 times in the last 6 months. In fact, her problem became MUCH worse because the “clean slate” was far more impressionable. She’d search up beauty routines, only to find that Youtube thinks she now wants to see “popping” videos, even though she’s now searching for dinner recipes.

So yeah, I saw her experience and decided “no thanks”.

To be fair, MOST of YouTube I watched can be found on Nebula and Floatplane, both of which will likely not have this issue since it’s not a user-content platform. Not to mention, the creators likely make more from those platforms anyways.

YouTube is basically unavoidable though, so now I just view everything through a piped instance if I absolutely need something that can only be found there.

I used to subscribe to YouTube premium as of just a few days ago. Even without the ads. There was something very seriously wrong with the suggestion algorithm.

I was getting cartel violence videos, and dead animal videos. Never watched one before in my life. Yet. YouTube seems to think that I should want to watch this crock of shit. This started coming up about 6 months ago. Until now I’ve been reporting each video as they come up. But that doesn’t seem to help at all.

At this point I think YouTube is a danger to society - if it’s recommending cartel violence videos to me unsolicited, what are they suggesting to my nieces?

I have completely nuked it from my life. Almost all of the YouTubers I like are on Nebula or Floatplane so it doesn’t feel like I’m missing much.

It’s just my client. Boost for Reddit doesn’t appear to show it correctly. It’s the opposite though. It just shows the text. Spoiling it for me.

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Yeah, we suspect my sister is either Borderline or NPD. This is exactly the post she might make equating acceptance for neurodivergent personalities with her own traits that actively hurts others.

And it’s to the point that many posters fell for it. I saw this thread much earlier and just couldn’t view this as a good-faith statement to even start from - so I didn’t engage.

Kinda wish the rest of the fediverse didn’t engage with it - I certainly don’t view it as an “important conversation” it’s laughably manufactured and in bad faith. I have a sense that Beehaw’s admin response artificially inflated the importance of this as well.

Quick question, who in the heck is benefiting from this discussion? To me it looks like the trolls are getting the most out of it.

I have personal experience with these “churches” after my time in Portland. They were far and away worse than the homeless. They will harass and abuse you on the street ESPECIALLY if you dare express cynicism towards their spiel.

They will follow you, and verbally abuse you unless you bee-line straight for a police station too.

Why these charlatans are able to masquerade as a religion I’ll never know…

yeah…

They asked for easy, or newbie friendly - and didn’t particularly mention privacy concerns.

Other than that, if they don’t have a port 80/433 ingress from their ISP there are scarce simple solutions that don’t require another server that also needs management, either by them or a corporate entity.

back when i was on a DOCSIS modem, i noticed concurrent downloads would disrupt uploads and vice versa. i think this may depend on the type of connection OP has.

I used to work at a cable company, that was either a problem that people with low SNR had. Either from external factors (tree branch on a cable line) or in-home ones (bad splitter). A modem will ramp up it’s gain in order to offset this (to a point), and in so doing, create a lot more interference between channels. OR they were hitting their ingress rate limit (which is quite agressive on residential plans because DDOS’es). It’s surprisingly easy to hit your ingress rate limit for modern http/https webservers hosting complex web apps. Lots of concurrent connections open up to try to download all the resources when you go to any website in a modern browser and while it’s not a TON of data, the short period of time causes the traffic to easily hit the PPS/BPS rate limit that ISPs employ.

But yeah, it all depends on the ISP.

I’d argue that the cloudflared daemon is even easier to use than a static wire guard or openvpn tunnel. It’s basically set and forget. The downside is that you must use cloudflare. This may, or may not be a big deal depending on OPs needs.

I moved from a place with symmetrical gigabit to “gigabit cable” with 30mbps upload, it definitely wasn’t good enough for my small family. Photos are quite large these days - not to mention videos. Though it likely has a lot more to do with the bandwidth shaping my ISP does than the 30mbps rate.

Also agree that it’s not perfect, but very likely the most newbie friendly solution at the moment. Especially from a deployment scenario vs going piecemeal.

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