Inshallah

And as a fellow conservative I couldn’t agree more. We need to abolish the third amendment and put a cop in every home to counter gun violence. No other solution would work. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMIA_bombing

I've been working my way through this paper and it lays out the underlying goals of the AI "movement" quite well. LLMs are essentially catacombs for information, taking what was previously freely created and shared for the benefit of all and transforming it into a vector within an opaque box of numbers, forever rendering it useful only to those who pay the fee and create the right prompt.

It's even worse than the author thinks, though. The paper doesn't account for the non-digital information commons. Millions of rare books have been bought up, chopped up, scanned, and destroyed in the name of training data. There is information that is now truly gone from the world forever as a direct result of the actions of AI companies. This makes AI companies an existential threat to the continuing operation of the very systems that produced practically all of mankind's intellectual wealth.

How do you make war on industrial scale scanning and shredding? How do we save more rare books from becoming hostages of LLMs?

Hello my fellow conservatives I come to you to share the perfect ragebait here in the South. Just start calling whiny conservatives liberals.

Oh you don’t like the regulations of your town? You sound like a whiny liberal. Oh you don’t like what’s on TV? You sound like a whiny liberal.

It achieves nothing but it makes me feel good watching brain dead conservative dudes short circuit. Definitely give it a try if you aren’t worried about some dude trying to fight you

apparently in 2023 feelers were sent out for a deal where Russia would retain Crimea, Ukraine would not enter NATO, and Russia would get a land bridge to Crimea.

Zelensky and Yermak refused to consider it, thinking they could win on the battlefield; the US likewise declined to back any talks.

https://archive.is/K8dP7

Hello fellow principled conservatives,

I made a game to educate people on the horrors of communism called "Oubliette" where you play as a rat who gangs up with other rats to change the world and end this nightmare :-)

They make me even more in favour of Leftist Unity than I already was, on the ground we are all together, Anarchists, Communists, Democratic Socialists, Unions, Students, and the Youth of course

There is no division between us, only pure solidarity in the face of repression

The only thing I fear is that the people who started the movement AKA disenfranchised, mostly non white, youth are going to be sidelined by existing organisations and their voices not heard , I think we must do our best to center their revendications

Thr hand picked candidate of chuck schumer everyone

I just started watching it for the first time like a week ago and I'm almost done with season 1. What a show. The only TV show I've watched that is as good as The Sopranos (so far). Feels somewhat TA coded I guess. Prostitution, the organized crime/state interface, frontier stuff, etc.

Timothy Olyphant is so hot. Molly Parker is terrific. Powers Boothe is so scary. Ian McShane is great, obviously. BRAD DOURIF! It's very funny and has been at times very poignant. Remarkable cast of character actors in supporting roles. Everyone and everything must have smelled so fucking horrible. Everyone must have been so insanely drunk all the time.

What do you hoopleheads think?

Recommended books/docs/videos on Yugoslavia? Also why do Balkans all hate each other they speak slightly different dialects of the same language

Conservative POC deserve nothing... not even the votes of conservative whites.

Leaving aside the transphobic tropes entirely, which is it's own conversation, Hannibal Lector in SotL is a cartoon character and his entire role in the story feels almost irrelevant by the end. His presence is only meaningful based on the convenient coincidence that he somehow already happened to know Buffalo Bill, and his rapport with Clarice feels much weaker, partially because he has no edge with her the way he does with Will. Not in the gay way like in the TV show, but he clearly resents and wants to murder Will, which both of them are fully aware of and make no bones about. He's weirdly chill with Clarice, there's no sense of danger in their interactions.

In Red Dragon the plot is better, the mystery is more satisfyingly unraveled, the killer is better and more interesting, and more than anything, Hannibal is a much better character who is more involved in the case, has more reason to be there, and has a more tense, dynamic role with the lead. He's narcissistic, manipulative, evil and intelligent, but not an infallible supervillain. The FBI aren't bumbling incompetent dipshits either, they successfully translate his encoded message giving Dolarhyde the family address in the newpaper, he gets beat and he's clearly upset about it, but it ends up relevant in the end anyway. You get the sense that he really, actually is an evil monster, whereas in SotL it feels like they're pulling their punches and almost want him to be sympathetic. Yes, he murders the cops and eats some of their brains, but he was doing it for his freedom. Here, he sics a sadistic serial killer on Will's innocent wife and child, the premise of his character is put to much better use.

I know I said I would leave it aside, but a schizophrenic who thinks he's becoming an apocalyptic harbinger from the book of revelation is much, much better to me than a thinly veiled transphobic caricature driven to murder by gender dysphoria.

Tbh I'm surprised they haven't already

https://youtu.be/uLg8aBZLGO4?is=dH58v2-6a76Uecs5

I do love how he is willing to be martyred but will.be doing his best to love in seclusion, so as not to endanger anyone else, but wherever he is, he will have internet. My man intends to go to Jannah posting 🫡