@blogdiva

[hakona@im.alstadheim.no]

@blogdiva Pretty impressive. This kind of agit-prop, I'm here for. Let's just say the MAGA-top-dogs had it coming.

[dnkboston@apobangpo.space]

@blogdiva I hate myself so much for how much I enjoyed that

[migueldeicaza@mastodon.social]

@blogdiva it’s these guys: https://lnk.bio/ExplosiveMediaa

And interview with the team:

The Team Behind the A.I. Lego-Style Videos That Lampoon Trump’s War in Iran

Kyle Chayka writes that Explosive News’ A.I.-generated videos have been shared by Iranian-government accounts and co-opted by No Kings protesters.

The New Yorker (www.newyorker.com)

[hakona@im.alstadheim.no]

@dnkboston OK, let me be the dork asking the question for all dorks: What's "p-hexus" and "e-ron" (or something that sounds like it) ? In my defence English is not my first language. @blogdiva

[hakona@im.alstadheim.no]

@blogdiva Pretty close to the mark too, " 'cause mee-too was on". 20 years earlier, and they might have had an even easier time of running rough-shod over common decency.

[drahardja@sfba.social]

@blogdiva They used AI video generation, not Lego Movie Maker.

[hakona@im.alstadheim.no]

@blogdiva Sad to say that what the track is defending includes even worse treatment for women, in that it is systematic, done in an official capacity by law-enforcement in Iran.

[hakona@im.alstadheim.no]

@blogdiva Or, I don't know, in some ways the hypocrisy of MAGA is somehow worse. <sigh>

[wyatt_h_knott@mstdn.social]

@dnkboston @blogdiva same

[bipolaron@scholar.social]

@blogdiva I am shocked they managed to coax an AI video generator to keep the character designs consistent. Pretty impressive.

[joblakely@mastodon.social]

@blogdiva I think it’s someplace or someone else not from Iran Gov. They would not speak quite that way I don’t think.
Because it’s all AI it’s easy enough to replicate, but it misses the mark of authenticity by crudeness, imo.

[zenheathen@beige.party]

@blogdiva ... *This* is going to be in future history "books". The world has become *weird*.

[zenheathen@beige.party]

@hakona When pronounced correctly (not the American way), Iran is "EE-ron". Similarly, Iraq is "EE-rock". @dnkboston @blogdiva

[hakona@im.alstadheim.no]

Ok, got it. P Hegseth and Iran .

[fds@mastodon.social]

@blogdiva There's quite a few of them and someone is going to have fun with future history books between neither side being the good guys and the memes.

[cr0w@infosec.exchange]

@blogdiva They did. And they did it well.