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Fascists are suffocatingly predictable lol
Well yeah but that is just being a Nazi while being on a different team superficially, you are still a Nazi!
if your friends with Nazis, you’re a Nazi.
Wow! Such a slippery slope! What about the exclusive private box I use to watch Sports Team that I have access to because I happen to know a Nazi who is generous?
You are going to probably scream I AM the Nazi now when all I do is go to removedtail parties with them and honestly I don’t even talk to them about that stuff I am there for business deals, what is this moral panic about?
Look don’t get mad I am just trying to feed my family…
…of diverse financial investments.
I struggle to imagine JK Rowling resisting the rise of the Nazis if she was a prominent figure during that time.
She would be far more likely to write an offshoot Harry Potter book about a nice Hitler Youth Camp where a noble and pure blonde hair blued eyed boy took the heroic choice of not attending Wizard School even though he was a wizard in order to support his country and join the Hitler Youth. Antics ensue in this fun and lighthearted romp through racial purity after a secret cabal of jews infilitrate Hogwarts to sabotage it and the perfect white boy must save the Wizard School with his newly found friends!
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I will not go to war for this president or this bullshit war. Period.
Edit as someone with ADHD I want to emphasize that the message I get from Trump and RFK is that my disability is just a nonsense excuse I use to be lazy and that I should either change or die. I fully expect to lose access to my ADHD meds at some point in the medium term because of Trump and RFK. I fully expect US culture to then turn around and start blaming me for failing even more.
Why the hell would I serve a country, a president or a cause that at best I am considered worthless by and at worst wants to actively crush me into nothingness?
12·4 hours agoI would suggest that for russia gaining sympathy in Poland is existentially necessary to make serious inroads in building out russia’s power in the region.
The reason? Poland has a fuckload of tanks, they have a signicant number of all of the best tanks and heavy armor in the world pretty much… and their army is well trained on them.
Poland has also purchased almost 100 Apache helicopters which themselves could singlehandedly throw a MASSIVE wrench in any plans for future wars russia might have in the region if Poland isn’t sympathetic enough to maintain relative neutrality towards russia.
In short, I am not surprised the far right in Poland flirts with russia, russia must be flirting hard with the far right in Poland, they have to, if Poland decides to decisively join an opposing side against them in war, russia is fucked.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanks_of_the_Polish_Armoured_Forces
20·20 hours agoI mean if nothing else this is also the message No Kings protests are supposed to send in the US.
The attendance to them is massive for a reason.
Most people in the US hate Trump and his policies, yes that is a paradox, but also it is true in many ways too.
Yeah, good for France and France is no small loss.
One only need to look at how major of a role the Caesar and then Bohdana (which was heavily inspired by the Caesar) has played in the Ukraine War to see how decisive of a power France is.
Appearing in the Knesset before voting began, Ben-Gvir wore a pin featuring a small metal noose on his lapel. “From today, every terrorist will know, and the whole world will know, that whoever takes a life, the State of Israel will take their life,” he said.
This kind of ideology terrifies me, it cannot stop until it consumes everything.
My heart is really heavy right now, this is dark.
23·2 days agoMeanwhile conservatives are like “I think the problem with society is we have given cows TOO much choice!”
7·2 days agoWe can force this world to cut us a break.
ADHD people should be loved for desiring to be a part of something more alien to them because they know it is the only way to move forward together and that one day we will find a way to make our chaos fit within.
The reality is that many ADHD people are far less negatively impeded by chaos, unexpected terrain and conflict that grinds you down to just raw reaction and action than neurotypical types are.
War for some ADHD people is a more “natural” state than the artificial stability and hyperpredictability of modern day life. So why don’t all of us ADHD folks wake up and choose War every day? The reason is because while it kills us to go grocery shopping that doesn’t mean we think grocery stores are a bad idea, we rather recognize we are wired oddly.
The abstractness with which ADHD people have to approach understanding society and what is good for most people and how successfully most ADHD people do that, imperfectly as they may, becomes invisible far too quick.
Same goes for all people with unusual minds of course!
66·2 days agoYeah, this was always the next obvious booster stage on the Slop Rocket.
1·2 days agoThese things aren’t getting built, or if they’re getting built, it’s taking way, way longer than expected, which means that interest on that debt is piling up. The longer it takes, the less rational it becomes to buy further NVIDIA GPUs — after all, if data centers are taking anywhere from 18 months to three years to build, why would you be buying more of them? Where are you going to put them, Jensen?
This also seriously brings into question the appetite that private credit and other financiers have for funding these projects, because much of the economic potential comes from the idea that these projects get built and have stable tenants. Furthermore, if the supply of AI compute is a bottleneck, this suggests that when (or if) that bottleneck is ever cleared, there will suddenly be a massive supply glut, lowering the overall value of the data centers in progress…which are, by the way, all filled with Blackwell GPUs, which will be two or three-years-old by the time the data centers are finally turned on.
I also wonder whether the demand actually exists to make any of this worthwhile, or what people are actually paying for this compute.
If we assume 3GW of IT load capacity was brought online in America, that should (theoretically) mean tens of billions of dollars of revenue thanks to the “insatiable demand for AI” — except nobody appears to be showing massive amounts of revenue from these data centers.
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-lying-to-you/
Although there has been between $30 and $40 billion in enterprise investment into generative AI, a recent MIT report shows that 95 percent of organizations are seeing zero return.
Just 5 percent of integrated artificial intelligence pilots “are extracting millions in value,” while the majority contribute no measurable impact to profits, the report found.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5460663-generative-ai-zero-returns-businesses-mit-report/
In this study, we show that, despite the ubiquity of AI-generated content, it does not perform well in search and answer engines:
86% of articles ranking in Google Search are written by humans, and only 14% are generated using AI.
82% of articles cited by ChatGPT & Perplexity are written by humans, and only 18% are generated using AI.
When AI-generated articles do appear in Google Search, they tend to rank lower than human-written articles.
https://graphite.io/five-percent/ai-content-in-search-and-llms
They found that people perceived AI scientists more negatively than climate scientists or scientists in general, and that this negativity is driven by concern about AI scientists’ prudence – specifically, the perception that AI science is causing unintended consequences. The researchers also examined whether these negative perceptions might be a result of AI being so new and unknown, but found that public perceptions of AI science and scientists did not significantly improve from 2024 to 2025, even as AI became a more common presence in everyday life.
AI is also a threat towards luring people into psychosis because it pathologically confirms every impulse you have, so trying to argue everyone loves AI is going to backfire on you. Everyone loved cigarettes too when they were a new thing. People still love cigarettes, that only proves they are addictive.
We find that sycophancy is both prevalent and harmful. Across 11 AI models, AI affirmed users’ actions 49% more often than humans on average, including in cases involving deception, illegality, or other harms. On posts from r/AmITheAsshole, AI systems affirm users in 51% of cases where human consensus does not (0%). In our human experiments, even a single interaction with sycophantic AI reduced participants’ willingness to take responsibility and repair interpersonal conflicts, while increasing their own conviction that they were right. Yet despite distorting judgment, sycophantic models were trusted and preferred. All of these effects persisted when controlling for individual traits such as demographics and prior familiarity with AI; perceived response source; and response style. This creates perverse incentives for sycophancy to persist: The very feature that causes harm also drives engagement.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec8352
The study, published Thursday in the journal Science, tested 11 leading AI systems and found they all showed varying degrees of sycophancy — behavior that was overly agreeable and affirming. The problem is not just that they dispense inappropriate advice but that people trust and prefer AI more when the chatbots are justifying their convictions.
The productivity gains aren’t there for AI, the business use cases aren’t actually there for AI, people are beginning to associate AI with “Slop” more and more as they realize how boring and poor quality content AI makes… and even in Google’s own search engine rankings AI written content barely makes it anywhere near the top because it scores so low for relevance and engagement to people.
Oh yeah and again AI sends people into psychosis by putting people into echo chambers, so defending AI as likable isn’t even a rational defense for it in the same way arguing a Venus Fly Trap tastes good to a Fly to encourage the Fly to step on in is a poor argument.
Most people like what AI is bringing to the world.
Where is your proof of this?
but anything that looks fake is more commonly a technical failure than a stylistic choice.
Your lack of media literacy is wild, film is entirely a honest fabrication of obvious fakes, that is the basis of cinema, the fundamental concept of the movie screen being itself simply a fake window that is honest to you about the speculative nature of the world revealed beyond.
Movies don’t convey impossible things by actually creating them, they present destabilized artifice from perspectives that invite us to see the mundane everywhere as a facade disguising something quivering underneath.
So yes, you can tell people the tin can is a spaceship… but they’d rather be shown. The preference for showing over telling is so ingrained that it’s cliche. Nobody needs to announce ‘we lay our scene in fair Verona’ when you can put the mediterranean coastline onscreen, and then cut to a cobblestone village where people have pointy shoes. Folks will get it. They’ll get it on a level deeper than narration, or an overlay reading “Verona, Italy, 15° E, 40° N, June 17th 1435, 0700 hours.” They’ll get it even if the aerial shot of the coastline was bought as stock footage. Or rendered, in one way or another.
You almost make a coherent point here but then you topple your entire logic.
The first lesson you learn as a writer is to show not tell and the first lesson you learn as an artist working with video is that to tell is actually something that is desperately hard to avoid doing with a video camera because at the heart of it that is all moving images can do moment to moment, unlike words untethered from direct sensation.
Thus the true skill of an artist working with photographs or video is how they continously subvert the tendency of images to exhaustingly tell instead of show.
This is kind of a basic aspect to an exploration of movies as art…?
Whether it be documentaries having to grapple with the inherent paradox of the production of the documentary affecting and telling upon what it is attempting only to honestly show a picture of, or movies about fictional things having to constantly avoid the catastrophe of the audience only attending to the literal quality of the thing presented to them scene to scene, it is all the same existential question.
They often fuck up in horrifying ways. But they’re usually about what you asked for. Especially if you asked for very little. That’s quite useful where small changes are wildly complex, like ‘make this guy look like another guy.’ The robot won’t do it as good as a team of human professionals, but I don’t have a million dollars to hire a team of human professionals, and I’m betting you don’t either. You can still consider projects that involve making one guy look like another.
I am an artist so I understand when I have the shallow desire to make something into a copy of another thing and my artistic capability fails me, or my lack of resources confines me from reaching my initial vision, that this is the true beginning of my artistic journey and all of that stuff before was just a way of backing myself into wanting something new or changed when I couldn’t get the perfect thing I wanted that was in my head. AI is more than anything else an attempt to seduce human beings into pushing this artistic genesis point of humility, listening and growth further and further away, which is in a way another way of explaining why AI so often leads people into Psychosis.
I have also done lots of community theater so I understand the foolishness of thinking that the important part of making one thing look like another is aesthetic mimcry and not capturing the minimal potent essence of something so it can be received as far more intense of an experience for the audience than a perfect copy could. Theater is a memory not a photograph and you are pointing to how amazingly AI can fabricate high quality fascimiles of photographs as if that doesn’t insult the complexity of how the human brain approaches something it is invited to interpret.
The human brain was designed to see a vivid memory of a hunt through a couple of paint marks on a cave wall, the whole approach of AI and AI cultists deeply insults that magical relationship the human brain has with the most mundane, minimal arrangements of sensation.
Do you think for all these years everybody watching Shakespeare plays where two actors played characters supposed to be easily mistaken for one other as a key part of the plot, that audiences of these shows were getting a suboptimal experience because the two actors didn’t look perfectly alike?
Do you care that in Hamnet that two siblings that are supposed to look so alike that they are frequently mistook for one another, even by death itself, don’t actually look that similar? No, they are child actors who did an amazing job, to care about that in the context of the achievement of Hamnet is shallow and misses the point. You could presumably use AI to “fix” this part about Hamnet (and see Hamnet as Death experienced it and how AI would undoubtedly portray it) and everybody would hate you for it if you did…
My point is that even when AI is good at particular things, often the whole approach is hollow to the Why? with AI. This is something artists could have explained easily to techbros if they ever listened, because the Why? is the whole point.
Better idea, show up to work, fly the airplane to Ukraine and donate it to the Ukrainian war effort. They are all going to die in the war against Ukraine anyways, why not make a choice for something else?