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LukeZaz

@ LukeZaz @beehaw.org

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  • Trump says Palestinians have ‘no alternative’ but to leave Gaza

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  • Man, I don't even say this shit about people who actually did vote for Trump, let alone on a forum made 90% up of people who voted against him!

    I recommend working on your empathy game, yeah? We're supposed to be working towards a world where people don't get hurt, not one where the people getting hurt are the ones you don't like.

  • Trump says Palestinians have ‘no alternative’ but to leave Gaza

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  • I could tell you about the mistakes and crimes the Democrats have committed, here, but I don't think that's worthwhile; you probably already know what I'd say. So instead, I'll ask this: How many evil, horrible things do the Democrats have to do before you decide that voting for them alone isn't working?

    I suspect the answer is that there is no such point so long as the Republicans are worse. In that, they hold you and those like you hostage, and can operate with impunity; there's no reason to change or improve when they know you'll vote for them regardless. They are not making "intelligent decisions that keep the world from being as bad as it possibly could be," they are enabling the backslide of society into hell because they benefit from it.

    If the Democrat establishment wanted to make the world better, Trump would be in prison right now, and barred from holding office. They don't, and he isn't.

    Maybe you should be upset at them for that.

  • Trump says Palestinians have ‘no alternative’ but to leave Gaza

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  • They're supposed to represent us. Not the other way around.

  • Is anyone planning on joining the 50501 protest on the 5th?

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  • Probably not. It's looking from a glance to be pretty small and ill-planned, as many spontaneous "how 'bout we just All Protest Right Now?" things tend to go. I want to believe it'll be big, but I doubt it, and my state capital is a long drive away for something I have so little faith in.

  • China's new and cheaper magic beans shock America's unprepared magic bean salesmen

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  • These ones:

    Yeah, I understand that you personally choose to disagree with reality, maybe you don’t like what reality has become, but unfortunately that doesn’t make it less real.

    None of that is because they’re “magic beans” from which no value sprouts.

    It objectively, undeniably has value. You can staunchly say pretend it doesn’t, but only if you are willingly blind to the voluntary usage patterns of hundreds of millions (possibly billions) of people every hour of every day.

    And of course, the entirety of your first comment here.

    Nothing of what you've stated has proven any of the above. Not that you care; you've decided you're right, and therefore any opinion you hold must automatically be fact. Far as I can tell, you're here to stroke your ego. Keep at it if you want, I guess — I'm not going to debate someone who only wants to hear themselves talk.

  • China's new and cheaper magic beans shock America's unprepared magic bean salesmen

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  • Can't say I've seen B anywhere. All I've seen is "tech billionaire CEOs want LLMs to take all our jobs and turn us into slaves," not so much belief that they can. Perhaps you're misinterpreting?

  • China's new and cheaper magic beans shock America's unprepared magic bean salesmen

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  • After all I've seen LLMs fail to do – including on the occasion that I've tried it – I've absolutely no interest in even bothering to click on those links.

  • China's new and cheaper magic beans shock America's unprepared magic bean salesmen

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  • Yeah, I understand that you personally choose to disagree with reality

    You saying your opinion is objective reality does not make it so. I agree that LLMs have their (few, niche) uses, but you're just being arrogant here.

  • Deepseek when asked about sensitive topics

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  • If there's one thing LLMs are very good at, it's talking about things their creators don't want them to with barely any effort from the end user.

    This is what we call "good news."

  • 'Looking for my spy': The jokes Americans and Chinese are sharing on 'alternative TikTok'

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  • I really don't feel like even that is as different as we think it is. Not because I don't think China is breathing down the necks of its citizenry – I absolutely do – but because I think America is doing it just as much. We just don't realize it because of the immense lengths local media goes through to make it look like it's not happening. Exonerative tense, copaganda, et cetera. Shit, it hasn't been much more than a decade since the Snowden leaks happened, and yet as far as I know we have no good reason to believe any of that has stopped at all.

    It's easy not to think so if you've not personally experienced it. But it's important to remember that if you're not privileged, there are a lot of reasons to feel very oppressed in this country.

    \* Mentioning America here because it's what I have personal experience with, not because I'm assuming that's where you're from.

  • 'Looking for my spy': The jokes Americans and Chinese are sharing on 'alternative TikTok'

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  • Now this would be the dream.

  • How China Is Advancing in AI Despite U.S. Chip Restrictions

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  • Doesn't really counter anything I said in my comment, so I stand with what I said. I won't complain if war profiteers want to self-sabotage.

  • Trump responds to Trudeau resignation by suggesting Canada merge with U.S

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  • The comment I was replying to insinuated that Russian propaganda was the primary if not only factor. Which is, again, ridiculous. Besides, as far as I'm concerned, Russian propaganda is an excuse used to prevent people from realizing how many of our problems have a domestic source, and that our government is and has been insanely terrible for a long time. Is it there? Sure, but it's far from the biggest issue. Capitalism is an excellent incubator for fascism all by itself, and you don't need an outside push to make the decay hit.

  • How China Is Advancing in AI Despite U.S. Chip Restrictions

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  • Personally, I'd rather more countries stop fucking around with LLMs generally, thanks!

    This is honestly such a stupid goddamn thing to compete over. Maybe I should be thankful in that regard, then, since it keeps the U.S. and China's ridiculous dick-swinging contest more focused on areas that don't actually matter, rather than weapons development programs that are eager to ruin our rights and our lives all the more.

  • Trump responds to Trudeau resignation by suggesting Canada merge with U.S

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  • Kill a billionaire, another takes his place. You have to make systemic change in order to actually remove billionaires from the equation. That requires a lot more than a bullet. Organizing will always be more effective.

  • Trump responds to Trudeau resignation by suggesting Canada merge with U.S

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  • Fascist rhetoric does not require Russian propaganda to spread. If you feel this way because right-wing talking points and Russia tend to line up, that's because Russia's government is terribly right-wing and has been for decades. But correlation is not causation. Blaming Russia for its own fascist trending is perfectly correct; blaming the country for everyone's fascism problems is ridiculous.

    Personally, I really dislike thinking like this. Blaming Russia for everything distracts us from problems our own countries made all on their own. It's an overly-simplistic answer to a complicated and wide-reaching set of problems, and prevents us from properly thinking about those issues.

  • Venezuela fines TikTok $10M for fatal social media challenges that led to the death of 3 teenager, intoxication of 200 others

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  • Why are you singling out one small part of their comment to the exclusion of the rest?

  • Discussion: Cybertruck involved in attempted bombing in Las Vegas auto-locked after explosion

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  • The Cybertruck is very much an actual shitty thing that Tesla does. Sure, maybe they don't literally "have a habit of exploding all on their own," but I don't think Gork was exactly trying to play off as an authority on the topic. Just mocking Cybertrucks being shit.

    Nobody's attacking EVs writ large, here. Just Elon and his awful ideas.

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    Chinese ebook reader Boox ditches GPT for state-censored China LLM pushing propaganda

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  • This has two issues with it that are sourced from the fact that most people here are likely from the States or similar. Namely:

    1. How are we supposed to do anything about China or Russia? It's anger for its own sake.
    2. Criticism of the U.S. is unlikely to make Americans racist towards themselves. Sinophobia, meanwhile, is a real risk.

    This aside, I personally am irritated by the quantity moreso than anything else. As I said elsewhere, it's the same few users, and I find it obsessive. It stops sounding to me like "I want people to be aware of particular issues from China" and starts sounding to me like "I want to bombard people with all possible negativity about China until they hate everything related to the place as much as I do."

    Thanks to these folks, Beehaw virtually always has at least one post about China or Russia on its front page. Often several. Credit where it's due; I've seen a pro-Palestine post here and there, which I appreciate. But Christ, I'm sick of the rest. Blocks are fair, but I feel like that just hides the issue rather than solving it. I feel like I'm seeing a propaganda mill in action, and I don't like the idea of just ignoring it.