GOP voter suppression out in full force aren’t you?

PSA: Ignore all these accounts that are just saying variations of “BOTH SIDES”. This is a voter suppression tactic.

Republicans are fascist, Democrats are not. This may be your last chance to vote against fascism.

Because they’re talking about the issues the voters care about most.

But not to worry, you can think for yourself about which party is likely to be better on the climate. Is it the party that started building wind power projects? Or is it the party that actually paid money to cancel those projects?

Yeah it should have a clever name like most opensource projects, preferably with a clever recursive acrynomyn. Maybe call it something like the “InfoBay Manipulation Analytical Computational Universal Network Technology.”

The answer is pretty clearly stated:

It’s wrong, and it isn’t a reflection of the Democrats in the Congress of the United States.

The issue with a lot of the far left is that “allyship” is prioritized to the point where it’s impossible for anyone to denounce anything or anyone as long as it’s nominally “on our side.”

on multiple occasions I’ve found leftists that are incapable of even denouncing Hamas, a terrorist organization that has deliberately murdered women and children. Should be very easy to say “I’m pro-Palestine, but I denounce Hamas, those guys aren’t a part of my movement.” But we don’t want to offend any allies so let’s not say anything like that!

So if you’re in an extreme allyship culture it’s difficult to understand someone saying they don’t want to be associated with someone even if they are on the same side on many issues. The enemy of my enemy is not always my friend.

Really the pro-Palestinian movement would have a lot more success if it could separate itself from terrorist groups like Hamas and from overt antisemitism. But vibe-based internet movements with no clear goals are incapable of understanding when someone that’s nominally “on your side” is more of a liability than an asset.

The uncommitted movement are explicitly single issue voters, and GOP is way better at attracting vaguely racist single issue voters into their tent. If the Democratic Party becomes a party that is about appeasing the vaguely racist single issue voters, then how is it any different from the GOP? The typical “both sides are the same” voter suppression tactic becomes true at that point.

And sure you may be used to being the ones labeling others as being racist and it really stings when you’re the ones being labelled as such. But it’s obvious that while not everyone that’s critical of Israel is antisemitic, all antisemites are critical of Israel. Do you need an Venn diagram? Given the anti-Israel coalition refuses to recognize there is any antisemitism in the ranks (must never reject an ally!), they’re not doing anything about it. Must never criticize those that criticize Israel!

But yeah criticizing people, even those within the same party is normal. What’s actually weird is being incapable of having any kind of rational response to it, other than to attack. Always attack never defend, the mantra of cults everywhere.

It’s also obvious that the uncommitted are more comfortable with being allies with Hamas and overt antisemites than being allies with the Democratic party.

LLMs are an algorithm. There will be times it should be used and times it shouldn’t be used because it’s to inefficient and/or to expensive. Then there’s the whole field of decidability… lots of halting problems that have no solution. Who will decide when to make the call that enough tokens have been used and should stop the agent because there’s probably no solution?

Who will decide when to use LLM (and which model) and when it makes more sense use another algorithm instead?

Deciding which algorithms to use sounds an awful lot like the job of a software engineer.

There are real economic policies that could improve people’s lives. Tax the wealthy, break up large corporations, actually implement healthcare.

The wealthy want to distract you from these things because they enjoy not paying taxes, controlling huge corporations, and profiting off of you when your sick.

So they distract you with demagoguery about failed economic systems to keep you ignorant of the policies that will actually work. Guys like Hasan don’t want you to have a better life, they want to profit off of you by selling socialist themed t-shirts at their merch stores.

No socialist movement can succeed without the working class. The working class know how difficult it was for people like them under socialist systems of the past. It is only the university elite that get scammed by guys like Hasan, he does his performances on a set designed to look like a dorm room after all. You have an affinity to Marx, Lenin, Mao, maybe even Stalin if you’re particularly tankie. The Working class have an affinity towards the people that starved, were worked to death on a “five year plan” or people in China right now working a 996 shift. You’ll probably have to do some googling to figure out what a 996 shift is because you care so little about the working class.

He’s not using a dime of the money he’s made off of his grift to organize labour, there is zero effort to appeal to the working class in this faux socialist movement. It wouldn’t work anyway because there has been enough contact with people in the working class with people that have immigrated from former socialist countries that they all know the socialist rhetoric is bullshit. Life was worse for the working class under socialism, you hand wave it away as a minor detail, and that makes you toxic to the working class. Only wealthy university kids that haven’t had much contact with the working class buy into the “class consciousness” “late stage capitalism” type rhetoric. The working class knows it’s all a lie, anyone who’s talked to anyone from Eastern Europe or Cuba who was working class and not part of the political elite knows what’s up.

Hasan represents a movement for psychopaths that ignore the hardships of the people that were oppressed be the authoritarian regimes you regularly quote.

Nah, I don’t like MAGA at all, I’m Canadian.

But I do recognize Hasan is just running a MAGA style grift.

I also recognize you’re unable to accept any criticism of a wealthy grifter the same way that MAGAs defend Trump, another wealthy grifter.

You’re upset about the declining quality of life. You should be. THinking some rich guy that’s just saying controversial things on social media is going to make your life better? Feeling like it’s important to vehemently defend a wealthy social media grifter? Yeah that’s what MAGA is really about.

You’re just being angry about people not liking orange kool-aid and saying they must like the strawberry kool-aid. Y’all are drinking the kool-aid down there. Which flavour you prefer doesn’t make you any better than the other people drinking the social media kool-aid.

In that circumstance I would check the voicemail immediately. Sorry, best I can do, Morpheus.

Sounds kinda like the Tale of Foolish Curiosity from Don Quixote. Spoiler: the wife was a good woman and wouldn’t have cheated on the guy… until he started being an asshole by subjecting her to endless tests to prove her virtue.

Yeah, the AI companies have said that there’s a 10% chance AI will try to kill humanity. That sounds malicious to me. It’s could become malicious software. Malware.

I think they’re over-estimating the capabilities of their algorithms and greatly underestimating resilience of humanity. I’m not afraid of the clankers.

But I do take note that they’re saying they aren’t in control of this software and there’s a significant probability it will turn into some pretty powerful malware. I don’t think it’s going to kill me but it might try to delete all of my data.

So following the basic fundamentals of IT, we should not be putting data on any cloud server that AI on the network. That would be exposing the data to significant risk of being compromised by malware. Are there any cloud servers that are purely for data and have no AI integrations in the mix? Hmmm…

So the logical conclusion to this is we need to move all data from cloud servers onto our own servers to ensure there’s a firewall in between the data and potential malware on the cloud networks. Cloud services are unsafe and should not be trusted because at any time they may become malware.

Was that the conclusion these AI companies wanted us to get to?

You can still be the guy selling chilli to the teenagers on a road trip before they head down the road and later find out where the meat for that chilli comes from.

4? That’s the kind of crypto key an idiot would use on his luggage!

Missing a word there I think:

Trump says he doesn’t ‘give a damn’ about gas prices as US BILLIONAIRES are making a ‘fortune’

I’ve always said that most middle management can be replaced by LLMs. And not even the more expensive models. Gemini flash would probably do about as good of a job as most middle managers.

Of course an LLM couldn’t do the job of a really good middle manager. But most middle management is basically doing basically what LLMs do, and hallucinate and get things wrong just as often.

It’s not really about who started the war or who is invading who. It’s 100% about pragmatism. You can’t have an election when you’re under threat of being bombed. You don’t want large numbers of people gathering at a polling place, and people are displaced when there’s a war and can’t feasibly travel to where they live to vote. The Ukraine case has in addition to that parts of the country under occupation, so people living in those places obviously can’t vote.

We should look at how it was with the UK in WWII. Elections were suspended, but after V-E day (Germany surrendered) they held an election. But this was before Japan surrendered. So they did hold an election before the war was over, because the UK was well outside of the range of Japan’s bombers. Also note that Churchill lost that election, but he didn’t dispute the results or anything like that.

And the US did have an election in 1944, again because there wasn’t a danger from enemy bombers hitting theUS at that time.

Yeah let’s turn everything into a competition over who can be more insane.

Their economy is on the verge of collapse because of this. They borrowed a lot of money to create that high standard of living and “fuck shit up” means someone has to pay to fix things later which also cost money.

Sure it does. People build networks at these events. One of the tactics of fascism is to make dissenters feel they are alone and maybe crazy for feeling the way they do. These events tell people that they are not alone, and it is actually the authoritarians that are crazy, not them.

For a non-violent resistance campaign to succeed, you need to build up the numbers and reach a threshold of people working together to impede the actions of the authoritarians. You don’t accomplish this by engaging in violent actions, that just scares people away and gives justification for the authoritarians to do violent reprisals. Violent acts actually help the authoritarians gain more power, non-violent resistance drains their power.

You probably shouldn’t assume that monetized leftism is something that’s authentic. Leftism is just a brand that’s fairly profitable.

Hasan Piker is a creation of Jeff Bezos, and now he’s a boogeyman being used to scare people into voting for the party that cuts his taxes.

Thinking wealthy social media influencers are going to bring about some glorious revolution is the flaw here. Wondering why wealthy “leftist” influencers stick with corporate social media is missing the whole point of the scam.

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