UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]

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Cake day: July 29th, 2020

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  • They have shown restraint, yes. As zionists like to say, “Israel could’ve killed everyone in Gaza already if they wanted to”. They haven’t done that because they try to maintain some sense of plausible deniability towards Western audiences. They can kill Palestinian journalists because nobody in the West has ever heard of them and they have scary, Arabic names. Norm Finkelstein has said that Israel always ramps up the brutality when Western media is distracted by some other story. Israel cares a great deal about what the media says, otherwise they wouldn’t invite influencers on propaganda trips and wouldn’t put so much pressure on media outlets to fire everyone who even slightly criticizes them.

    I get that calling this “restraint” might sound ridiculous, but that is the only reason they have ever led any aid trucks into the Gaza strip or why they even bother with their evacuation notices instead of just exterminating everyone right away. They still try to maintain plausible deniability.








  • It doesn’t even do that joker-dancing OpenAI is bleeding money and none of the other big tech corporations investing into AI are seeing any returns either. The only people making money off of this are the hardware providers like Nvidia. Generative AI is just not very useful for anything that requires any minimum standard of quality, the only thing it’s good for is generating unimaginable amounts of useless slop.

    GenAI is a big tech hailmary like the blockchain and the metaverse before it. Google, Microsoft and Meta desperately need there to be another growth market, they need the line to go up but all the current business models have been exhausted. They are betting on GenAI being the next growth market, the next big thing, they are merely hoping that it will make line go up in the foreseeable future.





  • I don’t think you or I for that matter can appreciate the difference in education on the subject between Finkelstein and Destiny. Finkelstein didn’t just read every book on the subject multiple times, he wrote a whole number of them. He is one of the premier scholars on the subject in the entire world. Does that mean he is infallible and can’t be questioned by someone? No, but there is a certain audacity in believing that you are in any position to debate this man after you educated yourself by reading wikipedia articles for a few days in advance, wikipedia articles which are probably in no small part based on Finkelstein’s own work.



  • This is the classic right-wing fake solution to a problem. Child sex crimes don’t happen because abusers aren’t deterred by a life sentence, but because they think (or in many cases know) they’ll get away with it.

    “When they harm our children, we will no longer tolerate it.”

    Of course, when they harm our children. So freaking transparent. The problem has to come from the outgroup, the barbaric migrants hiding in the bushes at night toremoved our blonde, blue-eyed white women. The international child trafficking rings nabbing your kids off the sidewalk on their way home from school.

    But then when your 15-year-old daughter says that her uncle put his hand on her butt while you all posed for the family photo and it made her uncomfortable, she’s just overreacting and he totally didn’t mean it like that. Your buddy who everyone in your friend group jokes about that he “likes 'em young”? That’s just Dave, the old horndog, great to have a beer with but don’t let him near your daughter, ahahaha!

    Child sex crimes are overwhelmingly perpetrated by people who have been given authority over their victims. Parents, teachers, cops. But conservatives are worthless worms who will always show more solidarity to people with any kind of authority than with those lower in the hierarchy. Child sex crimes happen because conservatives let them happen. The call is coming from inside the house.

    This is meaningless gesturing for a crowd who want nothing more than legal murder, and pedophiles are the people most considered “deserving” of cruelty in our society. It’s gonna get some people needlessly killed and I’m willing to bet money that it’s gonna reduce child sex crimes by exactly 0%. I fucking hate conservatives.





  • Somewhat related:

    The other day I was at a party and the only other guy who was a leftist was, like me, from a bourgeois family. At one point we argued with an AfD (German far-right party) voter who was a car mechanic.

    We were like “Look my guy here is gonna inherit >2M€ worth of property just for being a failson and no matter how hard you work your actually productive job, neither you or your children will ever get the same financial security, don’t you think this is unfair?” and the chud was like “No, actually this is fair and good.”

    What do you even say to these people?


  • We see this more generally with AI art becoming synonymous with fascist art and with conspiracies it’s enabling everyone to become a shittier Alex Jones.

    I think what LLMs and fascists have in common is that they fundamentally do not care about truth or reality. QAnon was so appealing to a lot of people because it had answers for everything. Insane answers, but answers nonetheless. LLMs also have an answer for everything, and more than that, if you ask it enough times with just the right phrasing, it will give you exactly the answer you want. Because again, ChatGPT doesn’t know or care about what is actually true, it is a probabilistic algorithm, a glorified autocomplete.

    Fascists do not care if 2 LLM answers to the same question directly contradict each other, just as they didn’t care that Hillary Clinton never got arrested even though Q predicted that to happen on like 6 different occasions. They will simply pick the Grok answers they like and use them as proof. They don’t care that their AI-generated mugshot of that one judge crying wasn’t “real”. They seek to collectively pretend reality into submission. If we all agree that something happened, it might as well have. And generative AI is perfect for that.























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