Second plaque’s wording implies the US recognizes ISIL’s claim as the legitimate caliphate and spearhead of the Ummah.
Amazing work by people who totally understand words and what they mean.
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I think it would be generous to assume he only used a slop generator to refine the post text to read more LLM-y, because that might impress the LinkedIn algorithm and audience. The text is as blatant as it gets but it’s one thing. I suspect something much worse. I’m not in that subculture, to be clear, but here’s the vibe I get.
I’m 100% certain the idea itself is LLM-generated from the get-go. If this was his own idea, the word “corporate” would not be there. He would have called it “workflow punk” or “optimizer punk” or something. Even corporate cheerleaders know how bad the word “corporate” looks.
Then he probably repeatedly prompted it for ideas. There are a lot of parts that if described sound like the description of a punk aesthetic. Reminds me of an old story from my somewhat misogynistic middle school Arabic teacher, who gave a story about how one of his friends got introduced to a woman by someone else, who was describing her before introducing them. The description was a pretty conventional way to call someone pretty in our culture, “dark beautiful eyes”, “confident stance”, etc etc. The punchline is that my teacher then meets this woman, now happily married to his friend, and her eyes are indeed wide and dark, and her stance is indeed confident, and her hair is indeed framing her face well… but as a whole, she is a person with beautiful features, but they don’t look quite right together. A look that is less than the sum of its beautiful parts. He says they’re good friends, for what that’s worth. I don’t like the way this story breaks down a person’s looks just to call them unattractive, but I have thought about it a lot. It’s an interesting thought experiment, and the crude way to describe it using a person was very memorable, tasteless as it is.
The LLM helped “brainstorm” individual bits and then he might have asked for an image to be generated, giving him a visual representation based on a list of things, rather than iterating a look to see what things fit together.
I know someone up there mentioned “hey at least he looks pleased with himself” but this is a delicate case of this person has no taste. The AI helped him “””innovate””” this look, and the AI is the tool of the future and the fire of our society’s loins, so he likes it because of that. Not because the aesthetic says anything to him.
God my comments are unnecessarily long winded. I should take a page out from the zoomers’ book and just spam NEGATIVE AURA NEGATIVE AURA instead of inflicting continued psychological damage on myself by analyzing the Ai-induced rot of our relationship with the human experience.
The less you actually work, the more impressive LLMs are at anything that’s not one of like the five very specific tasks they should be used for.
If the Mullvad desktop app could just exclude the Tailscale ports this would be fixed. I like their implementation but I would much rather have the full controls of the Mullvad software itself especially if I’m on a desktop.
I think I’ve heard somewhere an opinion that someone preferred the original atmosphere of the game even if it was flawed. I do wonder if they have a mode for that.
I haven’t played the game so I don’t know, but that’s the first thing I think of for some reason
I spent like a month obsessing over the Black Death. There was way less readily available and searchable information about how it spread in my part of the world (Levant, Middle East), even though it pops up around different eras to just pile misery on top of conflicts. So I had to really look into stuff to learn about it, and put some effort in, because almost all the neatly compiled info was about Europe.
That was at the tail end of 2019. Cool cool cool
I’m so vehemently opposed to using their euphemism for it. “Age verification” is just the marketing name for it, it’s identity verification.
I'm literally Arab lol
Cool, me too
For example in Southern Lebanon you'll find a lot Christian people
I’m literally a Lebanese Christian from the South. Well half of my family is from there. I have an extremely Arabic first name, and last name for that matter. Is that enough?
Ali, Umar, or Yusuf
These are stunning examples. Youssef is Joseph, so that’s a Christian name first to me (if I want to be that guy, I don’t.). But the other two are very explicitly coded to a single sect. Ali is not even used by half of the Muslim population, Omar is also not used by the other half. You’ve picked the probably single most uniquely Shia and Sunni names respectively. Maybe it’s different where you live, maybe there are no explicitly Sunni or Shia names around you. But no Christian bears a name like that anywhere in the country.
This is like reading a headline about a Portuguese guy named Jesús Espírito Santo and going ballistic over him not being explicitly mentioned as Christian. It’s fine. Our hero today is almost certainly a Muslim, and even if he isn’t, I’m glad he did what he did and has been a good representative for the Lebanese community around the world regardless
What a weird little internet slapfight I’ve walked into.
This is not a first name that is common among Christians here. I think adopting mainly Muslim names among Christians is common in some parts of Africa? It’s also possible that you wouldn’t be familiar enough with Arabic names to distinguish between explicitly Muslim names and secular / nonsectarian religious names (and Christian ones, we have a lot of those).
Ahmad is a 1,000,000% Muslim name. I think this is common knowledge in most places around the world since this is an extremely popular name almost exclusively used by Muslims.
This would be like arguing that a guy named Jesús could be from any religious community. Technically that’s true, but - Jesús. Really? Is an argument worth it?
Huh. Reddit used to allow VPN users to access images they host even if they didn’t let them browse the platform anonymously. Guess they “fixed” that.
O&O Shutup10 is the most straightforward for Windows. You can run it every once in a while to see if anything’s changed, and it will let you know.
I can’t put into words how horrible that week was. Everyone was suddenly expecting their phones, laptops, solar inverters, and even newer cars to spontaneously kill them. These things exploded out on the street, in buses, in restaurants. Even if you’ve been told all of your life these people are terrorists (and that is something I’ve definitely been told more than you have), this attack is a genuine innovation in terrorism. Utter chaos, and a complete lockdown of our weak medical infrastructure.The doctors were pulling shards of glass out of and had to amputate children’s eyeballs. For the crime of sitting in the wrong bus at the wrong time. I don’t care even if they were sharing a bus with Satan.
From a comment I made about living through that week.
Imagine driving down the road and everyone affiliated with one gang just has their phone explode. While they’re driving, sitting in buses, walking down the road or eating at a local restaurant with their family. Wouldn’t you be so relieved to see them all die morbid deaths? Wouldn’t the screams of their children and their careening vehicles as well as the panicking normal people trying to break their way out of bus windows warm your heart? They were in gangs or something, this is a good thing! 🥰🥰And the mass hysteria right after, 48 hours of people thinking their phones, computers, CPAP machines, solar inverters, cars, wireless devices, and basically anything with a power button could imminently explode. Like we don’t have other problems.And then you go online and enough people are smug about it, even on Lemmy (a rare decent space online), that you genuinely lose some remnant of respect for the average person. I’ve been online for almost two decades now, I’ve seen and gotten used to how mean it could be, but this event broke something and I’ve actually cried over nothing more than expressions of callousness online that weren’t even directed at me.
And another comment I made soon after it happened.
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TIL that Anthony Kiedis of The Red Hot Chili Peppers is a self-confessed child molester, according to his autobiography 'Scar Tissue'
I remember reading about Led Zeppelin when I was getting into them, I must have been about 14 or 15. I didn’t really understand why but that stuff made me uncomfortable, even if I was at an age where I thought of myself (and others my age) as fully understanding adults. I definitely knew it was wrong at the time but I didn’t really understand why, not at that age. Didn’t know about Bowie, that sucks. Crazy how that could be known about someone and it’s not even the first or second concern, it’s a yucky little quirk of history that we ignore.
Even taking a step back, putting the revulsion in a box for a second to take a holistic look at the situation: the way it was written about as normal, and casually known, and practically glorified in the case that OP is referring to, and all of that… I don’t know. Good old days my ass
It sometimes feels like one of the few good constants is how child abuse is considered a grave crime in pretty much every society, but I still feel like there’s a disgusting undercurrent of acceptance for older men leering at and being creepy with young women in particular. I don’t know
EDIT: a quick trip to Wikipedia is showing me a very different tone of writing than I remember. That’s good, but that’s the bare minimum
I did have reduced frights on and it didn’t work for me. I’ve even read some anecdotes about it being worse than having it off. It doesn’t remove the creatures I think it just makes them walk slower and makes the sounds less jumpy, I think.
Put off the DLC for so long (4 years now? 5?) that I’d have to relearn a fair bit to get back into it.
I remember being chased by a creature and noping out. I’m not built for horror games and that was a huge shift in tone from the idyllic feeling of the base game. I get that the thing I’m avoiding is basically a sprite with eyes and some music cues designed to feel a little stressful but I don’t know.
Anytime I have a friend flying in from the US I ask them to buy me some freeze dried shallots. I have all the fresh alliums I could want in my part of the world but this stuff is like a secret exotic drug that you can put on anything for a good time.
Pretty sure you get these if you move. These names are common in my part of the world and they’re never common in the place the name refers to. At some point an ancestor moved and it stuck to their kids.
I showed this to a friend and they said they actually know this guy and that he’s a cool dude.
Small world. Maybe I should be less cynical about putting myself out there.
I think this is the way for satire. Exactly one obvious falsehood in a sea of stuff you can’t entirely discount.
Actually no. Salesforce too. You know what I mean. The ratio is delicate.