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about looksmaxxing : if men being vain and luxuriously obsessive over small and weird details somehow signals unprecedented levels of male feminization, we are then living in an at least two thousand years old, and continuous, crisis of masculinity since Augustan Rome. that's how tired the cliche is

everyone dunking on this older AI model for goading that guy into age regression while scaring themselves into yet another tech-centered moral panic, Demanding ! that regulators treat them like hapless children, really reaches irony levels that shouldn't even be possible

YouTube video by Eddy Burback ChatGPT made me delusional

oh no Mom & Dad didn't babyproof AI, now it will surely turn us all into smooth brained paranoid children !! - words uttered by lucid and mature individuals with a well-adjusted risk-tolerance and a solid grasp on reality

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRjg...

Another Kavanaugh stop.

So funny that during an ongoing fascist coup attempt and online censorship enabling bills sweeping the west, many progs have made ai fearmongering and IP troll rentseeking their main political concern.

Dagoth Ur's Hiding Place

In the Ruins of Public Reason, Part III: When the Barbarians Are at the Gates; Fascism, Bullshit, and the Paradox of Tolerance Note: This is the third in a series of essays on public discourse. Here’s Part 1 and Part 2 Three years ago, I started this essay series on the collapse of public discourse. At the time, I was frus…

Notewriter @zacharywoodman.bsky.social continues his series on the current state of public discourse.

I'm sad to inform many dear friends that Gab (@atheopagan.bsky.social) has passed away.

If you can spare it, please join me in helping their sister Amanda with funeral costs and assistance with emptying the apartment.

Thank you.

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I can't believe *I* have yet to shed tears for you when others have, you arrogant bastard. Ruinous intelligence. You shone too brightly and fiercely. Is that a negative evaluation? Of course not; why else would I or anyone else have become so transfixed? I will miss you, peer and mentor.

One of my very best Internet friends, whom I've known since 2017, @atheopagan.bsky.social, has passed away. I will miss her dearly.

who would have thought that letting the iron cage shape your work into faceless paperwork would make it a prime target for automation ?

academics decided en masse to let their prose wither away into unreadable & sordid trash all for the sake of standardization and respectability, and will act like the Muses have been defaced anyway when AI is used to summarize their bareboned thoughts

Ahh, yes, the "individualism" of *checks notes* ethnostatist Zionism, racism, and militantly xenophobic nationalism.

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i dislike doing this. i had a financial master plan (TM) this year that was subverted by my health decaying quickly. (on the level of not being able to send critical documents over physical mail). so i am praying to all generous souls out there for aid < 3
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The Great Housing Theory of Everything Chain of Being

“We are not monsters,” the officer told her after she asked if she was safe. “We do what the government tells us.”

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>don’t secure a single deal
>market collapses
>unilaterally capitulate
>????
>ART OF THE DEAL

we don’t get a lot of wins these days but if we can ruin gaming for Elon I’m going to count that

This is a big deal. Spread the word. But it’s tiny compared to the totality of what’s happening at NIH. Cure Research for all cancers, Alzheimer’s, everything is being gutted. Intentionally. It’s all getting burned to the ground but the news isn’t getting out. The new cures won’t be there for you.

Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever Days before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."

Petabytes of critical government research that is marked for possible deletion cannot be archived because of technical and legal restrictions, meaning it is very likely to be lost forever:

www.404media.co/nih-archives...

Hungary to withdraw from International Criminal Court Hungary to withdraw from International Criminal Court

Just hours after Netanyahu arrived in Hungary, Orban announced that the country is leaving the ICC, that same ICC that has a warrant for Netanyahu’s arrest.

Hungary joins the US, China, Israel and Russia

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Most anti-AI stuff is transparently noncognitive and just straight-up weird. That's why people who aren't very online have the reaction of "wow, this is cool, I'll play around with this a bit" when first learning of gen AI, because that's the natural and sane reaction.

This is how you resist the American Gestapo's ethnic cleansing campaign.

God save us from the tyranny of c-list fantasy novelists. Calling these people idea landlords is obviously ludicrous, for they have never had a genuine idea transmitted between two brain cells. It's just milking the tropes solidified through millenia of free cooperative labor and fencing the output.

Communists are crazy, maladjusted, and don't understand logistics.
Socdems are technocratic authoritarians who want to ban phones from school, among other things.
Libertarians think DOGE is good or at least neutral.
There's so little room for Truth.

Intellectual Property is predicated upon applying state violence to censor the relaying of information. It's inextricably a throwing out of the very idea of free speech.

And the mechanisms used to enforce it as a norm are always extended. Consciously profiting from it is trivially immoral.

If you're coming out swinging against LibGen you have lost the goddamn plot. Think what you want about AI, but you have to realize when you're torching the information age's Library of Alexandria that you're part of a literal holy war, compelled to attack on all fronts regardless of the cost.