gimulnautti

gimulnautti, 8 hours ago to worldwithoutus

If I wanted to avoid escalation by militant Islam in the #middleeast, I wouldn’t start by making a quarter million able-bodied men homeless & motherless with nothing to lose.

#gaza #genocide

gimulnautti, 9 hours ago to psychology

In a groundbreaking study from 2017, Chatard et al found social comparison to be subliminal.

In the study women were shown images of thin women or heavy women at sub-conscious threshold viewing times of less than 20 milliseconds.

Even when they consciously didn’t register seeing them and weren’t able to make the comparison, the study found feeling good or bad about their bodies still consistently affected.

#psychology #socialpsychology #neuropsychology #science

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2017-48420-002

gimulnautti, 1 day ago to random Finnish

Onpahan muuten pakko todeta syvä kansanviisaus tähän hätään:

Mitä vittua nyt taas?

https://www.hs.fi/alueet/art-2000010446033.html

gimulnautti, 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago) to Ukraine

Good comment on #Ukraine by Timothy Snyder:

”This isn’t 1939, this is 1938 but Czechoslovakia has chosen to fight.” …

”In that world where Czechoslovakia resists, there is no second world war.” ..

”There would have been a conflict, but there would not have been a second world war.”

We are in 1938, and we can prevent World War Two by helping Ukraine win!

#NAFO #SlavaUkraini

https://youtu.be/hsaD_ZvLrF8?si=_Y5GPVu2-YmA3iA6

gimulnautti, 1 day ago to Israel

I guess I’ll start preparing for a Trump victory. Not because I think the donald is doing good, but because what Biden is saying about #israel may cost him the election.

This latest dismissal of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in particular.

Liberals understand the importance of #ruleoflaw. And undermining that just out of hand with broad strokes and bravado.. Is just digging dirt from under everyone’s feet.

gimulnautti, 3 days ago to TikTok

LOL #tiktok measures retention BY THE SECOND.

I mean ”Show me the incentives and I’ll show you the results” has never been clearer.

I bet even now at least ten thousand 12-year old kids are studying their retention metrics underneath the blanket, hiding from their parents, trying to figure out how to squueze out an extra second from their next content.

#incentives #metrics #socialmedia #notsafeforkids

gimulnautti, 4 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to SpaceX

Why does the SpaceX Dragon capsule look like the ’klan hood? 😮

#space #spacex #KuKluxKlan #elonmusk

gimulnautti, 8 days ago to Slovakia

Oh my. As much as I don’t agree with mr. Fico’s pro-Russian politics, I definitely wouldn’t want to give him any extra sympathies.

Which is sure to happen, because I hope he survives the attempt on his life.

This is also perfect for radicalising the far right among his supporters. Show them a threat and they’ll organise street patrols ”to keep the peace”.

It’s the perfect storm, really. Really wish this didn’t happen!

#fico #slovakia #shot #populism

https://www.politico.eu/article/slovakia-prime-minister-robert-fico-shot-head-chest/

gimulnautti, 8 days ago to ai

I repeat:

It must be made ILLEGAL for a computer system to pass itself off as human.

ILLEGAL.

Otherwise we’ll be #%!$d by 2028

#ai #openai #gpt4o #airisk #legislation

https://openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4o/

gimulnautti, 8 days ago to ai

When a bot speaks, the screen needs to display ”AI GENERATED”.

At all times.

#ai #airisk

gimulnautti, 9 days ago to random Finnish

#disinfo #fakenews #cartoon

gimulnautti, 10 days ago to random Finnish

Edelleen on kyllä aika lähellä 100% mahikset, että jos vanhempaa väkeä on paikalla ja tulet sähköautolla, niin joku sieltä avaa suunsa että: "Tiedätkö että toi sun #sahkoauto sitä ja tätä?"

Ja siitä keskustelusta ei pääse eroon ennenkuin ne on todistaneet että niiden 6000 romu on ekologisempi kuin mun 60000 sähkövatkain. Ihan sama mitä sanoo "faktoja" vastaan jotka on yleensä väärin.

Oon vaan ruvennu sanoo että: "Inhoan kovia ääniä ja tää on hiljainen", että pääsee vaihtaa aihetta.

gimulnautti, 11 days ago to Russia

#Russia is now at peak #military-industrial capacity, practically zero unemployment, pay hikes because not enough labour force to man the weapons factories. 35% of government spending go to military. 7.1% of GDP. All of it to go up in smoke in #Ukraine

However, if we look at the numbers, this output only matches current EU military spending. Countries which are on avg spending less than 2% on it currently.

Tell me again how Ukraine supported only by Europe can’t possibly win?

#NAFO #economy

gimulnautti, 11 days ago to space

Finally get to post my #auroraborealis photos from saturday night!

Image uploads for Mastodon servers seem to be really intolerant for packet loss, which was plenty from where I was over the weekend.

But needless to say: It was crazy how strong they were!

#space #spaceweather #solarFlare

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gimulnautti, 14 days ago to scifi

People who #folllow #amreading

How many times have you read ”Culture” series by Ian M. Banks?

#scifi #bookstodon

gimulnautti, 15 days ago to Russia

Journalists in the west now seem to finally be admitting that our media environment has seen a radical shift towards anti-democratic forces.

Yet. This didn’t come out of nowhere.

Remember those same people posting RT clips daily back in 2015?

As far as my home country goes, we have pretty solid evidence that even if we have only ourselves to blame for supporting these people, #Russia had an #influence and provided a lot of the #disinformation ammo they shot with.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B09TR5RZJH/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=

gimulnautti, 20 days ago to random

When I write: ”Palestine shall be free, from the river to the sea”, am I an antisemite?

My view is I am not. Actually I don’t even even have a quarrel with with Israel existing.

The UN resolution that founded Israel didn’t say the Palestinians should leave. Israel made that decision all by themselves.

Having made that choice, one is fully responsible for the consequences. Including millions of people singing to have their homes back, and the sympathy for them.

#freepalestine #gazaprotests

gimulnautti, 22 days ago to c64

Using Visual Studio & Vice emulator with Kick Asembler to develop native Commodore 64 programs in assembly language. Even pushes your symbols to the monitor!

#c64 #retrocomputing

Yeah I know I know.. ”TRSE is for lamers” 😅

https://hackaday.com/2024/04/29/you-can-use-visual-studio-code-to-write-commodore-64-assembly/

gimulnautti, 25 days ago (edited 25 days ago) to Russia

Article in Finnish, but very important in current #russia conflict

Kreml uses ”traditional Russian heritage” as reasons to setup paramilitary training abroad. These ”cossacks” are not ethnic #cossacks, but are paid by Russian state to conduct training with live weapons as ”heritage”

Of these Kremlin-funded cossacks around the world, 27000 have already fought in #ukraine

Needless to say, Cossacks are not originally Russian either, but from south Ukraine 🇺🇦

#NAFO

https://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/art-2000010318814.html

gimulnautti, 26 days ago to psychology

A desire for a loud car in a man is linked to sadism and psychopathy, study finds.

Past psychological claims to attention-seeking behaviour fell unverified. The point was only to annoy other people, to cause uncomfort in them.

As we’ve been seeing elsewhere so much these days: Cruelty is the point.

Perhaps we invented attention-seeking to distract ourselves from noticing how much we promote and love these people? 🤔

#psychology #science #psychopathy

https://cipp.ug.edu.pl/A-desire-for-a-loud-car-with-a-modified-muffler-is-predicted-by-being-a-man-and-higher,162006,0,2.html

gimulnautti, 26 days ago to random

Only cyan, white and black pixels in this image.

Your brain is simulating the rest of the colors.

#illusions #BrainTeaser #predictivebrain

gimulnautti, 26 days ago to random

Just a note for Americans, who think it’s a ”point of view” that Russia considers itself the rightful ruler of all of Eastern Europe.

Vladimir Medinski, Putin’s personal assistant, repeatedly states Finland, Ukraine & Poland were in fact created by Russia and the ”mistake” should be rectified.

Especially this should be considered by those critical of US imperialism themselves.

Imperialism starts with you knowing better than people half-way across the world.

https://www.hs.fi/ulkomaat/art-2000010387133.html

gimulnautti, 26 days ago to random Finnish

Muistutus siitä, että rasisteille, lapsiperheiltä ja opiskelijoilta leikkaajille sekä natseille on aivan täysin turhaa teroittaa sitä kuinka mulkkuja ne on.

Se mulkkuus ON SE JUTTU, niin niillä niinkuin Trumpillakin. Kukaan ei voi syyttää kaksnaamaisuudesta jos oot ”rehellisesti mulkku”. En voi korostaa tätä tarpeeksi!

Älä siis tuhlaa aikaasi, et voi pelastaa niitä. Keskity siihen että teet jotain joka murskaa ne poliittisesti!

#persut #kokoomus #hallitus #mulkut

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3wQLjnTMdZZAEF4qig2k43?si=oICZGvw1TAyZktmpzWJfRg

gimulnautti, 26 days ago to random Finnish

Sillä välin kun poliitikot mietti että pitäiskö Putinille sittenkin antaa puolet Ukrainasta, internetin piirretyt koirat on lähettäneet satoja maastoautoja ja tuhansia drooneja sekä muuta elintärkeää siviilivoimin hoidettavissa olevaa kalustoa Ukrainalaisille veljillemme avuksi.

Älä ole Putinin sätkynukke, soita 1-800-NAFO tänään ja auta!

https://www.help99.co/donate

#SlavaUkraini Glory to heroes! #NAFO

gimulnautti, 27 days ago to random

I think today I’m first time dealing with #AIanxiety: My job is perfect for being replaced by AI.

Sure, it will do a much shittier job than I do, but all the problems will be in time manageable by engineering.

Sure, I will pick up new skills and become a director of AI assistants instead. I’ll get paid less and less per line of code though.

But what I do will become a curiosity. Hand-written code will still be needed when the machine does something stupid, but that will be the exception.