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Cold Storage - wipEout: The Zero Gravity Soundtrack | Lapsus Records | 2023 | Silver

Includes the original scores to wipEout and wipEout 2097 (aka. XL) + new remixes

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White House Faces Backlash for Ghibli-Inspired Image of Virginia Basora-Gonzalez During Her Arrest

The White House is facing significant criticism after sharing a Ghibli-Inspired Image of Virginia Basora-Gonzalez, an illegal migrant and convicted fentanyl dealer, during her arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. The image, posted on the White House’s official X (formerly Twitter) account, depicted Basora-Gonzalez in tears as she was taken into custody on March 12. The…

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On March 18, the official White House account on X posted two photographs of Virginia Basora-Gonzalez, a woman who was arrested earlier this month by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The post described her as a “previously deported alien felon convicted of fentanyl trafficking,” and celebrated her capture as a win for the administration. In one photograph, Basora-Gonzalez is shown handcuffed and weeping in a public parking lot.

The White House account posted about Basora-Gonzalez again yesterday—this time, rendering her capture in the animated style of the beloved Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, who co-founded the animation company Studio Ghibli. Presumably, whoever runs the account had used ChatGPT, which has been going viral this week for an update to its advanced “4o” model that enables it to transform photographs in the style of popular art, among other things. The White House did not respond directly to a request for comment, instead referring me to a post by Deputy Communications Director Kaelan Dorr that says, in part, “The arrests will continue. The memes will continue.”

It’s worth pausing here: The internet has been flooded with AI-generated images in this exact Studio Ghibli style. Some people have used it for images of pets or family members. Others opted for a trollish register, leading ChatGPT to spit out cutesy renderings of JFK’s assassination, planes hitting the World Trade Center, and the torture at Abu Ghraib. On X, the prevalence of these images became an event unto itself, one in which the White House decided to participate by sharing a cartoon of a woman crying in handcuffs.

This is how the White House account operates now. In previous administrations (including much of Donald Trump’s first term), the account was used to post anodyne updates, highlight press releases, and share information about the administration. It was, to be fair, often painfully dull or written in the stilted language of a brand. Now the account exists to troll its political enemies and delight the MAGA faithful.

On Wednesday, the account posted a picture of Vice President J. D. Vance shooting a tactical rifle, referring to the bullets he fired as “freedom seeds,” a term popular among gun YouTubers. When Google Maps adopted the “Gulf of America” language pushed by the administration, the White House account celebrated by sharing a video in which the words Gulf of Mexico are wiped off the globe. In February, it posted an AI-generated picture of Trump as an American monarch, wearing a crown. The image’s caption reads, “Long live the king.” After the disastrous Oval Office ambush of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the account posted a photo of Vance staring at Zelensky with the caption “Have you said thank you once?” Although the account sometimes shares actual news, it’s frequently preoccupied by rapid-response engagement bait for MAGA diehards. Less information, more content. The intent is not to inform but to go viral.

Beyond the fact that this kind of shitposting is so obviously beneath the office, the posts are genuinely sinister. By adding a photo of an ICE arrest to a light-hearted viral trend, for instance, the White House account manages to perfectly capture the sociopathic, fascistic tone of ironic detachment and glee of the internet’s darkest corners and most malignant trolls. The official X account of the White House isn’t just full of low-rent 4chan musings, it’s an alarming signal of an administration that’s fluent in internet extremism and seemingly dedicated to pursuing its casual cruelty as a chief political export.

To be clear, the actions of the second Trump administration—the dismantling of the federal government via DOGE, the apprehension and detainment of immigrants and green-card holders with seemingly no due process—are of far more consequence than what it posts on social media. But White House posts are not random missives either: They’re official government communications from the executive branch, sent out to 1.4 million followers, to say nothing of whatever additional reach these posts receive via algorithmic recommendation and ad hoc sharing.

The account’s true obsession is immigration: @WhiteHouse has posted dozens of mugshots of immigrants arrested by ICE. Each one lists an offense they’ve been arrested for in big block letters, and usually the catchphrase “MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN” is appended. Earlier this month, after the Department of Homeland Security commented on the deportation of a Lebanese professor at Brown University—a violation of a court order temporarily protecting her from expulsion—the White House account responded by posting a photo of Trump waving goodbye from a McDonald’s drive-through window. (The picture was taken during a 2024 campaign stunt.) On Valentine’s Day, the account wrote, “Roses are red / Violets are blue / Come here illegally / And we’ll deport you.”

And in an infamous example, on February 18, the White House account posted a 41-second video of faceless men being shackled and marched onto planes. The post’s caption read, “ASMR: Illegal Alien Deportation Flight.” (ASMR is short for “autonomous sensory meridian response,” or the titillating sensation caused by certain noises, such as whispering, tapping, or crinkling; videos of people making such noises are enormously popular across social media.) The subtext of the White House post is far from subtle and is reminiscent of something out of 4chan’s notoriously bigoted politics message board: Watching allegedly undocumented immigrants bound in chains is a pleasurable, even sensual experience. Like any trolling post, it’s meant to be simultaneously taken seriously and played off as a dumb online joke. Even those inside the Trump administration seemed taken aback by the audacity of the post. Even some MAGA supporters appeared uncomfortable by @WhiteHouse’s brazenness. “If you guys could stick with the grim shock and awe, and leave the edgy gloating to those of us who don’t work in the White House I think that would probably be better for optics,” one user wrote on X. The “ASMR” deportation video, as of this writing, has been viewed almost 104 million times on X.

Exactly who is running the White House X account is an object of fascination for close observers. Some accounts fantasize that Trump’s college-age son, Barron, is running it. Those outside of Trump fandom have insisted that it is being run by edgelords—one post referred to the operator as an “incel reddit user.” One Bluesky user described the account as “lowkey goebbelsmaxxing,” a reference to the Nazi propagandist. (The White House did not respond to a request to identify who writes the account’s posts.) What all the speculation suggests is that at least someone with access to the account is intimately familiar with far-right internet spaces and culture, specifically Groypers, a term for the loose online movement that has succeeded the alt-right. Earlier this year, the writer John Ganz argued that “Groyperism totally suffuses the cultural environment of the right.” He and others have suggested that the culture is present in the offices of Republican representatives in Washington, D.C., including in the White House. (A Trump staffer was fired in the first administration for associating with white nationalists; he’s now back, in a role at the State Department.) Although the identities of whoever is running the account are, at present, unknown, what’s clear is that their output appears to delight prominent extremists online. The message coming from the account, to borrow language from one far-right X user, is clear: The posters are in control.

And the posters have goals. The first is to engage and supply their loyal audiences with constant memes and content. The second is perhaps more strategic. The account’s blatant humiliation of immigrants who it alleges have heinous criminal records is intentional. The goal is to goad their opponents into defending people accused of indefensible crimes. The primary accusation from the MAGA faithful toward people who are outraged about the White House’s Studio Ghibli post or the ASMR video is that the left is more concerned with defending fentanyl dealers and immigrants accused of rape and robbery than they are about the safety of the country. “Disappointing that folks are more upset about this meme than they are about the fentanyl crisis,” Dorr said in the same post that the White House pointed me to. But this is a false binary; in all cases, the chief objections are to the dehumanization and glee on display and the worrying lack of due process.

The White House is after something more than just shock value. It’s propaganda, and Trump’s allies are learning the playbook. This week, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem posted a video on X from a prison in El Salvador where deported immigrants are being held. Behind Noem are dozens of men in one jail cell, many shirtless with tattoos; their heads have all been shaved during intake. The prisoners are props, a backdrop for Noem’s message of intimidation to undocumented immigrants: “If you do not leave, we will hunt you down, arrest you, and you could end up in this El Salvadorian prison.” Like the ASMR post or the Ghibli cartoon, the implication is that these deportees are utterly undeserving of any shred of human dignity. There are many other examples, such as FBI Director Kash Patel’s recent posts, one of which features him walking around in camouflage, set to rock music, as FBI agents blow open doors with explosives. Taken together, the posts offer a bracing but useful insight into how the administration sees itself, and the message of casual cruelty and overwhelming force it wants to project to the rest of the world.

That this administration should fully embrace the tactics and aesthetics of online far-right extremists and technological tools like generative AI to further its message makes perfect sense. These are reliable ways to increase engagement, gain attention, and illustrate a precise vision of the future they want to usher in. Even so, the account is chilling. Those who’ve spent enough time in the online spaces that have clearly influenced this administration—or at least whoever runs its social accounts—know how this goes. This is a game of accelerationism and nihilism, using tools and platforms that excel at depersonalizing, thus rendering empathy for others ever more difficult. That this sociopathic posting style is coming out of this administration—that it has been so thoroughly mainstreamed by the right—suggests that the cultural architecture of the internet has changed. There is still a fever swamp, but now the White House sits on top of it.

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A Dominican drug dealer previously deported for peddling fentanyl was seen breaking down in tears as she was arrested while illegally back in the US.

Virginia Basora-Gonzalez, 36, was sobbing as agents arrested her in Philadelphia last Wednesday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said.

A US magistrate judge issued a federal warrant for her arrest on the same day a notice of intent to reinstate a final removal order against her was to be served.

She will remain in federal custody pending charges for re-entry after deportation, the feds said.

Photos shared by ICE show the convicted drug dealer crying as she’s being led away in cuffs.

“The apprehension of Virginia Basora-Gonzalez demonstrates our commitment to protecting our communities from criminal aliens who engage in serious illegal activities that pose a threat to public safety,” said ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Philadelphia acting Field Office Director Brian McShane.

“This successful joint operation exemplifies the collaborative efforts of federal law enforcement agencies to enforce our nation’s immigration laws and remove dangerous individuals from our streets.”

The teary-eyed drug dealer was living illegally in the US when the Drug Enforcement Administration first arrested her in Pennsylvania for possessing 40 grams or more of fentanyl and aiding and abetting in June 2019.

(fatal dose can be as small as 2mg)

She pleaded guilty to the charges and was sentenced to 12 months, one day of confinement, and four years of supervised release, but was deported by ICE to her home country, the Dominican Republic, in October 2020 before she could serve out her sentence.

However, the convicted opioid dealer illegally re-entered the US a second time at an unknown date.

ICE discovered she was back in the US after a confidential source reported her return on March 7, 2025, according to an affidavit obtained by the Daily Mail.

Agents nabbed Basora-Gonzalez outside her job at La Tierra Del Caribe Restaurant in North Philadelphia, where she allegedly worked as a cook.

Law enforcement confirmed her identity using the FBI fingerprint database, according to the affidavit.

Her court-appointed attorney said she shouldn’t be detained before her trial, saying that being charged with illegal re-entry did not make her a flight risk.

The government responded by “cementing the conclusion that pretrial detention is required” over her previous conviction.

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Hadiz de Aisha (ra) en la Batalla del Camello Hadiz de Aisha (ra) en la Batalla del Camello Sahih Muslim (1859): “Aisha marchó con un ejército hacia Basora…” Aunque esta participación fue más política que militar, muestra que las mujeres, incluso entre las madres de los creyentes, tuvieron roles importantes en momentos de tensión. Aisha (ra) no combatió personalmente, pero estuvo en el centro de un conflicto armado. El Profeta (saw) nos enseñó que Alá ama más al creyente fuerte que al débil, no solo en fuerza física, sino también en carácter, resiliencia y autocontrol. ¿Qué paso darás hoy para alcanzar esa versión de ti mismo? #motivacionislamica #mujeresqueinspiran #mujeresmusulmanas #RecordatorioIslámico #Islam

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Democrats Condemn WH After Posting 'AI Illustration' Of Illegal Alien Fentanyl Dealer Being Detained By ICE

(L) ICE agents arrest a sobbing fentanyl dealer, Virginia Basora-Gonzalez, earlier this month in Philadelphia after she illegally re-entered the country. / (R) AI art depiction of Virginia Basora-Gonzalez.

After sharing a “Studio Ghibli”-style AI meme of a now-detained illegal alien and convicted fentanyl dealer, the White House faced immense Democrat backlash for leveraging OpenAI’s latest image-generation trend.

The AI illustration, which was shared on the White House’s X and Instagram account on Thursday, depicted the arrest of Virginia Basora-Gonzalez on March 12th.

Basora-Gonzalez, a 36-year-old drug trafficker and illegal alien, had already been previously deported from the U.S. for fentanyl distribution. However, she later returned to the United States illegally once more. ICE agents reportedly detained her this month in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

When the feds posted pictures of Basora-Gonzalez sobbing, as she was being taken away in handcuffs, news of her detainment instantly made media headlines. The Trump administration shared a photo of the woman in handcuffs crying next to a law enforcement officer.

The White House’s posted image seemed to mimic the brand-new ChatGPT image generator that is currently sweeping social media.

The generator makes it possible to adapt well-known internet memes or one’s personal images into the distinctive aesthetic of Studio Ghibli, a Japanese animation studio based in Koganei, Tokyo — which has produced animated films such as “Spirited Away” (2001).

The teary-eyed fentanyl dealer is reportedly still being held in federal custody.

According to officials, Basora-Gonzalez was already living in the United States illegally when she was initially taken into custody by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in June 2019 — for aiding and abetting and carrying 40 grams or more of fentanyl.

Before serving her previous one-year sentence, the defendant entered a guilty plea to the charges and was deported to the Dominican Republic in 2020.

Although the exact date of Basora-Gonzalez’s second illegal return to the United States is still unclear, an anonymous source reported her to ICE at the beginning of March.

In many cases, competing drug dealers will report their competition to the authorities.

“The apprehension of Virginia Basora-Gonzalez demonstrates our commitment to protecting our communities from criminal aliens who engage in serious illegal activities that pose a threat to public safety,” stated Brian McShane, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Philadelphia acting field office director.

“This successful joint operation exemplifies the collaborative efforts of federal law enforcement agencies to enforce our nation’s immigration laws and remove dangerous individuals from our streets.”

In 2022, fentanyl was responsible for 200 deaths every day. Over a quarter of a million Americans have died from a fentanyl overdose since 2018, according to USA Facts. However, these figures were cut off after 2022 — meaning that the fentanyl death count in the U.S. is much higher now.

Meanwhile, furious left-wing social media users chimed in to express their “disbelief” and anger in relation to the recent post.

“Okay, since conservatives are struggling to comprehend basic human empathy, imagine if the Biden administration put out an AI studio Ghibli edit of one of the Jan 6 people getting arrested,” said one user. “‘fent dealer’ this ‘fent dealer’ that THE WHITE HOUSE IS TWEETING STUDIO GHIBLI AI PROPAGANDA FROM X. how is that not dystopian to ya’ll,” said another user. “Empathy is dead to the right. We need to get ready,” said a third.

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¿La Casa Blanca haciendo memes de detenciones? 🤯 Subieron una imagen estilo #StudioGhibli de Virginia Basora llorando tras su arresto. WTF? 🤨👉 #Trending

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ICE nabs illegal drug dealer, and White house pokes fun at the crying

ICE, USMS and ATFE arrested Virginia Basora-Gonzalez, a 36-year-old citizen of the Dominican Republic, in Philadelphia during a joint operation, March 12.(VIA ICE) WASHINGTON, D.C. – A woman illegally in America dealing fentanyl was nabbed by ICE, inciting her tears, and the White House is having an awful good time reveling in her apprehension free trip back to her homeland. U.S. Immigration and…

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Virginia Basora-Gonzalez: White House sparks row with Ghibli-style image of teary-eyed fentanyl trafficker Virginia Basora-Gonzalez

White House sparks row with Ghibli-style image of teary-eyed Fentanyl trafficker Virginia Basora-Gonzalez The White House on Friday sparked debate online after sharing a Ghibli-style inspired image of convicted fentanyl trafficker Virginia Basora-Gonzalez, who was arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) last week.The post shared on X, responded to an earlier White House update…

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CoPa de Ferias - 1ra. Edición - 1955/58

https://josenicolascarluccio.blogspot.com/2024/07/copa-de-ferias-1ra-ediecion-195558.html

BARCELONA. Temporada 1957-58. Ramallets, Olivella, Brugué, Segarra, Vergés y Gensana. Claudio (cuidador), Tejada, Evaristo, Eulogio Martínez, Luis Suárez, Basora y Ángel Mur (masajista).

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TALIB ABDELAZIZ

(Basora, 1959)

ESCULPIR

Ahora

o después

en los fines de semana

o en Navidad

si una vez te falla el francotirador

o te falla un fragmento de obús,

pues, te vendrá la bala

que está hecha para ti

y tu nombre está grabado en ella,

y dentro de ti suena su eterno silencio.

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La primera fue albiceleste (1952)

El 7 de diciembre de 1952, a las 15:30, se enfrentaron por primera vez las selecciones de Argentina y España. Lo hicieron en el antiguo estadio de Chamartín ante 80.000 personas y la victoria fue para la visita que con un gol Ricardo Infante ganó por 1-0. El tanto fue hecho en el minuto 59 tras recoger Infante un balón que se le escapó a Ramallets luego de un lanzamiento fuerte de falta de Allegri desde más de treinta metros.

España: Ramallets; Navarro, Biosca, Seguer; Ramoní, Puchades; Basora, Fuertes, Escudero, Marcet y Gainza; seleccionador: Pedro Escartín.

Argentina: Ogando (Musimessi 55); Lombardo, Allegri, García Pérez; Mouriño, Gutiérrez; Boyé, Méndez, Infante, Labruna (Grillo 46) y Lostau; seleccionador: Guillermo Stábile.

Árbitros: Arthur Edward Ellis, Bloome y Clough (terna inglesa).

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Art by Jordi Basora

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signage for @nomadcoffee HQ - branding by basora