• Clay_pidgin
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    1 day ago

    The bluesky OP links to a generator for “fake” ballot images - this is a test script. I generated thousands of “fake” background check applications once for a work project to test how much load the system could accommodate and if any number of likely data entry errors would break it. It’s a normal practice.

    The suggestion that a student working on a voting-related project is suspicious ipso facto is silly. Your professors require you to pick an interesting topic to work on, and voter fraud or election fraud have been in the news.

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      13 hours ago

      It wasn’t at his professors request. It was at Elon Musk’s, who sponsored the “hackathon”.

      It’s one thing to do on your own and another to do for a billionaire as a presumptive job interview.