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Nacarbac [comrade/them]

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  • OpenAI strikes deal with Pentagon immediately after Anthropic denounces "Mass domestic surveillance" and "Fully autonomous weapons"

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  • Yeah, they might make a PowerPoint about their human in the loop system, but then there'll be a big AUTOKILL toggle next to the operator "for debugging purposes" that oddly enough doesn't log anything.

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from February 23rd to February 28th, 2026 - FIRST IRAN VS US+ZIONISTS WAR MEGATHREAD

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  • I too enjoy lying about needing an extension on the homework I've "almost finished", forgetting to then frantically work to get it up to spec, and then just giving up.

  • Epstein had his prostate removed but the body in his cell had an enlarged prostate.

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  • Yeah, it's like a leftist ghost story about the Great Man who escaped death to personally dab on us.

    It's his role as an agent and facilitator for Power that mattered, not himself. It would be injust for him to be alive - but so what! What a tiny thing! Does anything change with or without him?

    Can it be proven, proven? Does it lend authenticity, trust, reliability, to the leftist perspective? No! There is arguing over the flaccidity of a fucking earlobe!

    Raise the possibility, fine. Enjoy a little speculation. But without evidence, real evidence treated dispassionately, there must be no solid conclusions. What Is To Be Done doesn't change one bit, so incorporating weak arguments only dissipates energies. And thus Power wrings some more use out of him.

  • It’s Very Possible To Be Both Happy And Well-Informed

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  • Absolutely.

    Personally, I found the more, uh, "cosmic" perspective best expressed by Daoism helped - but also displayed in dialectical materialism, systems theory, various branches of science etc, but the Daoist line felt more useful for those who also live in the world. Placing the current moment against the totality of the interplay of forces and systems. Not in the sense of simple detachment, because detachment is the one thing that cannot actually be attained, but in placing yourself and events more accurately within the layers of the whole.

    ...and of course, fuck all that noise, because the brain isn't so simple a thing as to be changed like that. Because our mind is one product of a physical organ, with its own rules, habits, adaptations, and maladaptations. It can take time and work to learn the skill of not despairing, or avoiding despair, or allowing happiness... and it can also take altering our environment, meeting humans with differing perspectives to assimilate their feelings through empathy and peer bonding, finding effective medication, reading less, reading more, doing less, or doing more.

  • [CW: ableism] Epstein files show Deepak Chopra thinks people with autism are psychic

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  • It's more fun in that cursed, desperate, way. They have no need to actually ever be correct as their money doesn't care about their opinions, and they're insulated from corrective consequences so they can just enjoy incoherency without even having to be original about their fantasies.

    Engaging with reality will just tell them they suck, and that they're not above the world.

  • Should we be using the Three Arrows as antifascist symbol?

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  • some scandal that ended his breadtube career

    (I assume.)

  • This 14-Year-Old Is Using Origami to Imagine Emergency Shelters That Are Sturdy, Cost-Efficient and Easy to Deploy

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  • Video game romances need to evolve beyond lore dumps

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  • Some of that seems to be that BG3's crazy level of reactivity was really hard to manage without glitches like "romance points" accumulating way too fast (the plot is also like a few weeks long?) - if they dropped a few of the weaker characters it'd have massively reduced the complexity.

    Owlcat did a more traditional text-heavy isometric, and the romances there were better paced by being linked to the time progression and chapters of the story... and also just a lot easier to avoid if that wasn't to your taste. Hell, you could even break them all by pulling the "Become Really Awful" lever.

    ...though I suspect that BG3 being the horny game, they were "politely encouraged" to have the horny happen sooner.

  • Video game romances need to evolve beyond lore dumps

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  • Like obviously Tidus is into Yuna, why is the player even allowed to make him say dumb shit to Lulu?

    That's a good point. Xenogears just said "Hi, this is Fei. This is Elly. They're going through some shit right now, maybe it'll work out?"

    Miang.

  • Liberal politics explained

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  • Definitely, I do like having his streams on the second monitor (he's really calm and collected while playing games that would make me spit in frustrated rage), and he's definitely got a good material analysis and historical perspective.

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from February 9th to February 15th, 2026 - The Return of the Special Period - COTW: Cuba

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  • Beep boop. We're sorry, your order of "1 miniature novelty life preserver" could not be delivered today to "Foulness Island", would you like to choose a different drop off poi-

    "No! Ha ha ha. no! Send more delivery vans."

  • Is "Job Bot" really the best anyone can come up with?

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  • The rapid pace of technological development seems to have broken the brains of otherwise smart people and given rocket fuel to hucksters.

    I think it's almost the opposite. Technological development has stalled, utterly, on the promise of "making life more humane" in the way that has been promised for decades. The LLM stuff pretends it cares, that it will finally offer freedom from drudgery.

    In the case of an environmentalist, it also offers a fleeting hope of an impossible solution to climate change. Though the only result is that when the geoengineering scams get into full swing they'll be full of promises about their "AI" enabled drone swarms offering intelligent cloudseeding to optimise B2BSAAS (Shade As A Service).

  • The Baldur's Gate TV series is heading to HBO Max

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  • Opening scene is rerolling stats. Five minutes in you get the perfect set, but accidentally click to roll again. Two minutes of cursing, then you continue rolling.

  • "Make it slow."

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  • Average british peer moment

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  • One of the more annoying things about the passive threat of all internet posting, where if you pass an invisible threshold of honesty they'll just stop pretending you're anonymous and get you... is that it's so blatantly selective.

    This lady says "I am Elizabeth Bathory" and nothing.

  • China builds world’s first 20GW microwave weapon that can fire a 60-second burst

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  • Have you too been watching Shaun?

  • VIRGIL MENTIONED THIS IS NOT A DRILL

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  • Soy bean paste is really good.

    I also have some straight up MSG in a jar, though I rarely remember about it.

  • Over half of DWP disability assessors quit in a year over feeling ‘despised’

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  • My so-so understanding it is Capitalism is, literally, mathematically, exploitation. Exploitation of humans comes through the malicious exaggeration of all natural differences in things so as to divide and conquer. Within the captive population, it doesn't really want to exterminate (that's for the uncontrolled outsider), because it's happy with the mechanism of division that it understands, and it fears novelty.

    It needs "wretches", the labour of their suffering is a threat to other workers, who it tries to make complicit through endless propaganda. Turning the people against themselves makes them into their own oppressors and undermines their ability to understand themselves as a class.

    Since those with disabilities are more complicated to exploit, they're less profitable. And since care for others is so innate to humanity (and I would say basic to Life), turning the people against those in greater need is an even greater distortion - "from each according to their needs, to each according to their ability".

  • Now g@mers are going to take this Epstein thing seriously.

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  • He rather fits as an avatar of Nyarlathotep...