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gimulnautti

@gimulnautti@mastodon.green

Pirate Politician, Software Developer, MA Musicology (he/him)

Interests:
Culture, Math, Sociology, Philosophy, Music, Demoscene, Games, #NAFO, Writing, Disc Golf, Skateboarding.

Not here for snarky comebacks. A slur is not an argument.

Other fediverse accounts:
https://mastodon.green/@gimulnautti @metapixl.com
https://mastodon.green/@gimulnautti @mastodontti.fi

Blog:
https://gimulnaut.wordpress.com
https://medium.com/@toni.k.aittoniemi

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gimulnautti, (edited ) to SpaceX
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Why does the SpaceX Dragon capsule look like the ’klan hood? 😮

gimulnautti,
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@tg9541 Maybe. But not paying attention to such things does tell of the psychology of people involved:

If we calculate the odds of nobody noticing this resemblance at SpaceX, I would say those simply have to be quite low.

Therefore, there’s a reasonably high probability that those who did see it were afraid to say it out loud, didn’t care, or were not motivated to do anything about it.

juuhaa, to random Finnish
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Onko laitaoikeistolla muuta yhdistävää tekijää kuin ihmisten pelko ja ihmisviha?

gimulnautti,
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@juuhaa Ei välttämättä, mutta se ei tarkoita etteikö se olisi hyödyksi sille.

Esm Israel ja Hamas ovat malliesimerkki siitä, kuinka mainitsemasi tekijä aiheuttaa kasvua seuraajien määrässä.

Hamas ja Israelin laitaoikeisto kasvavat toistensa uhan avulla. Ilman toisen väkivaltaa ei toisellakaan olisi oikeutusta omalleen.

Laitaoikeisto tarvitsee vihollisen. Ja siihen sopii parhaiten… Toinen laitaoikeisto.

gimulnautti, to random Finnish
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Revontulikausi on (väliaikaisesti) päättynyt. Aplodeja kiitos! 👏😺

clarinette, to ai
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‘I’m the new Oppenheimer!’: my soul-destroying day at Palantir’s first-ever AI warfare conference
America’s military-industrial complex took center stage at AI Expo for National Competitiveness, where a fire-breathing panel set the tone https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/17/ai-weapons-palantir-war-technology

gimulnautti,
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@clarinette ”War is peace”, said no fascist ubermensch never..

byteseu, to Cosmology
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A composite photo of the sun and aurora 24 hours apart. captured from my backyard and Manitoba, Canada: The cause and effect of space weather. [OC] https://www.byteseu.com/119221/

gimulnautti,
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@byteseu And what a huge sunspot complex it was :)

markmetz, to random
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a “microcosm of what authoritarians do on a larger scale.”

“AFTER the Republican Chair and GOP members broke official House protocol to allow MTG’s horrific opening silo of rhetoric, they THEN made another change to dispense with the legislative process,” Ocasio-Cortez said on X (formerly Twitter). “THAT part is not getting enough attention.”

In a move she described as “highly unusual and still unclear to me how legitimate it was,” the GOP-led committee vacated both the typical amendment process and legislative debate that follows, moving directly to vote on their own text without allowing for amendments or objections to be heard.

“That’s why this stuff isn’t just all-sides chaos, or mere distraction, or a pox on everyone’s house,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote. “They WANT you to think this was some random devolution of conduct instead of a structured GOP outcome. We must understand who and what actions created the situation. It matters.”

https://newrepublic.com/post/181718/aoc-darker-intentions-mtg-hearing-chaos

gimulnautti,
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@markmetz Democracy ends one party decides: "we must win this forever".

raph, to Israel
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Once again, the issue is portrayed as a bunch of extremists who took over Israel. This is not untrue, but it hides the fact that before these extremists were anywhere near power, Israel was already systematically dispossessing, colonizing, and brutalizing Palestinians.

Every Israeli I know hates Netanyahu, Israel's messianic far right, settlements, and settlers. And I mean HATES them.

But Israeli society is still overwhelmingly supportive of the war.

1/9

gimulnautti,
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@MisuseCase @raph I wrote a piece about this in response to the article by Yuval Noah Harari

Israeli intelligentsia continue to look in the past for more moderate Zionism, as if trying to wishing for those moderate times would bring them back.

But more than a generation has grown up in conditions rewarding collective punishment and devaluing of Palestinian lives, making money on weapons research in the territories, stealing water, the list goes on..

https://medium.com/@toni.aittoniemi/israels-fallacy-of-militant-nationalism-without-the-thugs-88dfa210b466

gimulnautti, (edited )
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@MisuseCase @raph This is indeed very classic ultra-right behaviour, distrust of anyone and everyone but the leader.

As I argued in the blog post, it is the reward structure of the society that decides who become the elites of the next generation.

It looks to me that the reward for engaging in settlement expansion, arms development tested on palestinians, surveillance tech with the same guinea-pigs, became the dominant factor in deciding who "makes it” in society.

jensorensen, to LGBTQ
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Latest comic: The Great Regression

gimulnautti,
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@jensorensen This is actually not surprising. Any action prompts a reaction. That's how human psychology and societies actually work!

That's why you need to be prepared for winning:

Instead of letting go and relaxing that things are finally the way you wanted them, you need to brace for the incoming hailstorm of arrows from those who only now realised they didn't want you to succeed.

gimulnautti, (edited )
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@JJ_Allen @jensorensen Very true.

Economic anxieties always serve to push a lot of those who would be tolerant otherwise to the hate camp, because the general higher ”threat level” presupposes the mind to interpret non-dangerous signals as potential threats, too.

Conservatism is rooted fundamentally in observing the world primarily through threats. The clinging to hierarchies & strength is the coping mechanism, not the root cause.

https://gimulnaut.wordpress.com/2022/12/09/compassion-for-the-fearful-conservative-and-the-reckless-liberal/

gimulnautti, to random Finnish
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"Israel's fallacy of militant nationalism without the thugs"

New piece on making sense on the mixed messages we keep getting from Israel, Gaza and Zionism.

It is the fallacy of highly educated people like Yuval Noah Harari I like to point out here.

We liberals are far too trusting. We keep making excuses for the conservatives, because we'd prefer them not to be be real.

https://medium.com/@toni.aittoniemi/israels-fallacy-of-militant-nationalism-without-the-thugs-88dfa210b466

ayoub, to random
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The Telegraph headline on Palestinian refugees is in essence identical to how rightwing British tabloids wrote about Jewish refugees when Britain denied them safe refuge during the Holocaust.

These institutions are dedicated to White supremacy at all costs. They view us as disposable nonhumans.

Any PoC and/or Jew who thinks these people are on their side is wrong. They may temporarily pretend to not hate Jews or Ukrainians or whoever but that’s all it is: temporary.

gimulnautti,
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@Npars01 @ayoub Weapons manufacturers at least. Testing new weapons systems on Palestinians has long been a source of Israeli wealth.

"Combat-proven weapons" are a major Israeli export.

Today, we have integrations as the primary export being researched in Gaza.

gimulnautti, to random
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If you were looking for a ”both sides” argument on the #IsraelPalestineWar, this is it.

Yuval Noah Harari asks, if Netanyahu and his goons will destroy the kind of #Zionism he believes still exists for good.

I think the important message in these times of war, is that the worst killers and committers of masscres always believe the hardest they are the good guys.

Only those who stop to think ”could we be the bad guys here?” are capable of stopping.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/13/israel-independence-day-zionism-future/

gimulnautti, to Russia
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”Americans cling to race, as the unschooled cling to superstition”
-Neil Irwing Painter, Historian

This seems to be the stumbling block, where many American leftists lose the plot on , & .

They can’t wrap their head around the fact that Russia was, and still is, a colonial empire. Because the tribes, peoples and civilisations they enslaved and russianised, all had white skin.

More:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ScccHZPxja8w74IGRpCJR

dangillmor, to random
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As CNN documents, it was outsiders who caused the violence at UCLA, not the students. And it's vital to keep in mind that the police "stood by for hours" -- watching (obviously indifferent if not pleased) as the outsiders beat up protestors and journalists -- and thereby became collaborators with the violent intruders into a peaceful protest.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/16/us/ucla-student-protests-counterprotesters-invs/index.html

gimulnautti,
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@dangillmor Age-old tactic to defeat peace movements: Smuggle in some instigators on the last moment, then arrest the entire bunch for violence.

It often works to just send in some thugs who are counter-protesting. Cops will often fall back on arresting also the people who defend against them.

ARoivainen, to random Finnish
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Ruotsin pääministerillä selittämistä, jos ja kun jatkaa yhteistyötä puolueen kanssa, jonka toimintatapa on selkeän demokratiavastainen ja kyyninen. Orpokin voisi vähän pohtia.

gimulnautti,
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@ARoivainen @artomelaranta ”takavarikoidaan ja revitään maan tasalle moskeijat, jotka…” noniin.. taas mennään.

EU_Commission, to Bulgaria
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We've opened formal proceedings against Meta regarding the protection of minors on Facebook and Instagram.

The systems of both platforms, including their algorithms, may stimulate behavioural addictions in children, as well as create so-called 'rabbit-hole effects’.

More: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_2664

#DSA #EU

gimulnautti,
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@EU_Commission Great news!

But please mandate social media to use STRONG AGE VERIFICATION.

Currently they avoid knowing anyone’s true age like the plague. Why? Because that’s the loophole they’ll use to avoid being legally responsible!

doctorambient, to ai
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"The biggest question raised by a future populated by unexceptional A.I., however, is existential. Should we as a society be investing tens of billions of dollars, our precious electricity that could be used toward moving away from fossil fuels, and a generation of the brightest math and science minds on incremental improvements in mediocre email writing?" (From an NYT article. See original thread.)

@peter https://thepit.social/@peter/112445916259675495

gimulnautti,
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@doctorambient Actually they are. You probably missed this article.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-is-exploring-how-to-responsibly-generate-ai-porn/

MarvinTheMartian, to Russia
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Russian Losses SPIKE After Offensive in Kharkiv
by
27:33

Russian Defense Minister Sergei has finally been fired by and replaced by Andrey .

After the first week of Russia's new offensive into the region, Russia's casualty rate has been astronomical after fierce fighting.

🇺🇸 🇺🇦
Jake Broe is a US Air Force veteran covering 's war in several times a week since February 2022.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE3sxs0BzqA


gimulnautti,
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@MarvinTheMartian Ruskij TV reality.

Full-on fascist propaganda.

Doesn’t get much more full-on than this.

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gimulnautti, to Slovakia
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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!

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

gimulnautti,
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@wscottwatson Nope. Me neither. But out of respect for the man fighting for his life, without evidence it’s too much my morals to pull at this point.

Definitely to be expected though, is (more) cash flow to far-right and pro-russia blocks, perhaps even militias in Slovakia.

Perfect storm for Russia to stick it’s fingers in.

AccordionGuy, to ai
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Do you REALLY want to get a feel for how GPT-4o does what it does? Just complete this poem — by doing so, you’ll have performed a computation similar to the one it does when you feed it a text-plus-image prompt.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #LargeLanguageModel #LargeLanguageModels

https://www.globalnerdy.com/2024/05/15/the-simplest-way-to-illustrate-how-gpt-4o-works/

gimulnautti,
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@AccordionGuy Yes, I worry about the same.

Some days, as I listen to techno-optimists, long-termists and libertarians, I wonder if underneath it all they really are trying to build a god for themselves to worship..

But then I’m quickly pulled back to the industrial revolution, when automation permanently changed the livelihoods of generations of people, and it took almost a hundred years for living standards to recover.

And, to the level of sociopathy needed to pull that off..

charlienorth, to ai
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Not sure how I feel about the whole and in music situation.

Why make machines that do the things we enjoy? Why not make machines that clean the toilets at music festivals? I’m guessing most people wouldn’t be hugely disappointed if the job disappeared to !

Anyway, if in doubt play the piano. 🎹

video/mp4

gimulnautti,
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@charlienorth @jneno My choice has been to be political about it.

Not really any other choice.

As a consumer I cannot make much difference, because the platforms themselves shape my possibilities to make choices.

gimulnautti, to Russia
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is now at peak -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

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?

gimulnautti,
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@fnord99 Of course you do.

My sources for the 18 months are credible as economists working for major banks.

Also I live next door to Russia, whereas you have the tone of approaching the war in Ukraine as if it was some internal US politics issue, confident that you know more about it than the whole of eastern Europe does.

Russia is working the ropes all the time. And they don’t need propaganda to win.

All they seem need is: ”it’ll cost too much” to win US hearts & minds.

gimulnautti,
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@fnord99 And let me tell you something about

As much as it’s fun bonkin’ Russia’s overt propaganda, a lot of us are from Eastern Europe and know how Russia operates.

First of all, it’s really good. It just leaves a trail of clumsy propaganda to hide it’s subtle and successfull efforts.

So we do the same, we hide under the cover of cartoon dogs to hide our intimate knowledge.

You are just one of many in this current wave, extolling Russia’s great industrial capacity.

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