Comments on: Open thread 12/2/2025 https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/02/open-thread-12-2-2025/ A blog about political change, among other things Thu, 04 Dec 2025 01:17:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Insufficiently Sensitive https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/02/open-thread-12-2-2025/#comment-2832673 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 01:17:56 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=145837#comment-2832673 Nice views, but the music is irrelevant and dumb.

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/02/open-thread-12-2-2025/#comment-2832609 Wed, 03 Dec 2025 18:25:30 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=145837#comment-2832609 @ mkent – Bummer!
Bookmark the tabs you want to save in a special folder, and you can always get back to them (unless you delete the folder accidentally, which I did onetime).
Then you can close the open ones on your screen.

If it’s really special, bookmark it to the “Bookmarks” or “Favorites” folder and you can access that at the top of your screen just under the URL line.
At least that’s what I can do on most browsers.

]]> By: mkent https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/02/open-thread-12-2-2025/#comment-2832548 Wed, 03 Dec 2025 08:17:04 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=145837#comment-2832548 Hey!! Thanks for posting this again! I saved it on a tab the first time you posted it, but a few weeks ago my iPad decided to close 300 tabs on its own. This video was one of the tabs lost. Now it is found again. Hooray!

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/02/open-thread-12-2-2025/#comment-2832529 Wed, 03 Dec 2025 04:28:17 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=145837#comment-2832529 Re: Victor Davis Hanson

I’m a VDH fan. (Isn’t everyone?) So I watch his YouTubes and the algo delivers more VDH links to me.

Or so some seem, but the source isn’t the Daily Signal or VDH’s own channel. Like this one:

–Mind to Vision, “Most People Have No Idea What Trump Just Did To Ilhan Omar”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxmmzFKuElI

His face looks rubbery, the background isn’t the usual one, the title is clickbaity and the channel name is vague. In some cases, not this one, there are disclosures that AI is somehow involved.

Today I was gratified to discover that VDH is aware:
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Interviewer: Joe, who’s one of the administrators at the Victor Davis Hansen fan club — sent me a link and he says, “Is this Victor?” And he kind of knew it wasn’t, but it was like 90% there, except the background was — and your face, I mean it’s your face — but… and they actually had your microphone with the brand of the extension on it.

VDH: I think they photoshopped the picture and then they just add a script. And I don’t know what the implications are, but there has to be some type of regulation and penalty for that stealing. Yeah, it’s kind of like plagiarism in a way. You’re taking content from somebody else, but it’s worse actually, because you’re taking their voice, their face, their brand, and then you’re inserting into their mouth a script that they don’t approve of and often they don’t agree with.

And you’re doing this for financial gain. So I hope it stops. Yeah. Yeah. Thievery has to be the essence of it.

–“Victor Davis Hanson: The Autopen and the ‘Waxen Effigy’ President”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mgpnFng0YU
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I’m noticing a lot of these. I call them softfakes, not deepfakes. They aren’t perfect and they aren’t libel, but they are wrong.

]]> By: R2L https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/02/open-thread-12-2-2025/#comment-2832516 Wed, 03 Dec 2025 03:49:27 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=145837#comment-2832516 I can understand that it would have been a lot more work to add larger populations of people to the video displays, but perhaps we need to consider that such opulence could not have been supported economically without a much larger population than show here.

Still, a magnificent effort.

]]> By: IrishOtter49 https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/02/open-thread-12-2-2025/#comment-2832498 Wed, 03 Dec 2025 01:48:52 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=145837#comment-2832498 Jimmy –

Concerning the house of the naughty bachelor brothers, until c. the mid-1970s women tourists were barred from entering it. The local tour guides enforced the rule. Even when I first visited the house in the early 1980s with my wife and several other women in our group, the tour guide paused us at the entrance and sternly warned the ladies present to be prepared to be scandalized by what they saw.

]]> By: Sennacherib https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/02/open-thread-12-2-2025/#comment-2832476 Tue, 02 Dec 2025 23:29:46 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=145837#comment-2832476 That’s the same thing as books and PBS, it’s where the upper upper class lived.

]]> By: Jimmy https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/02/open-thread-12-2-2025/#comment-2832473 Tue, 02 Dec 2025 23:14:14 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=145837#comment-2832473 IO49: I may have, but I do remember going to what had been a brothel, complete with murals depicting various “positions.” Apparently the visitors didn’t necessarily speak the local language, but they could point to the picture as a guide to their preference.

]]> By: physicsguy https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/02/open-thread-12-2-2025/#comment-2832469 Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:15:06 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=145837#comment-2832469 If Rome really was that magnificent, it’s truly a shame all of that was not preserved.

]]> By: IrishOtter49 https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/02/open-thread-12-2-2025/#comment-2832462 Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:42:32 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=145837#comment-2832462 Jimmy:

Did you go to the house of the bachelor brothers? Oo-la-la. Naughty boys. But they did know how to party. Did they ever.

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