These aren’t just some random selection of students though. This started with students (who also have the support of many professors) at ivy league schools. The top schools in the US in fact. Those are not stupid people. They picked their targets and demands concisely with historical evidence to back it up (see ending south african apartheid). Why else do you think the state has been cracking down so hard on some super peaceful demonstrations about a “foreign” nation?
On the issue of Gaza, Biden is dramatically out of touch with the voters he needs to win re-election. If he will not be moved by morality to stop his support of this war, he should be moved by vulgar self-interest. Gaza is not a distant foreign conflict: it is an urgent moral emergency for large swaths of voters. Biden will lose...
This sentiment is idiotic. There are plenty of reasons not to vote for Biden. Don’t blame people who actually vote with a spine for the shit political problem in America. Voting for the “lesser evil” has just been a slide further and further right for decades.
No representation, no vote. People can and should vote for who they feel aligned with and everyone should be okay with other people doing that. You know, actual democracy and shit. Fuck this team sports shit. Third party is an option. If the dems actually wanted to win they would offer basically any other candidate.
Biden dropping a $37bn package to bolster police forces in response to peaceful student protests should show you that its fascism on both sides of the coin.
If Trump wins, at least the liberals and the leftists might actually realign and then maybe something decent will happen before we are all obliterated/enslaved by our corporate overlords.
There are a lot of tanky posts coming from lemmy.ml. Their whole purpose seems to be to troll and spread their bullshit far and wide. They are nearly as bad as the alt-right. They argue in bad faith and celebrate authoritarian oppression. The beehaw mods might want to consider defederating.
If beehaw defederates because people are promoting communism I am 100% out of here. You should actively question capitalism and the neoliberal programming we’ve grown up with.
Not so hard to understand that a government representing people instead of a government representing corporations makes a hell of a lot more sense for humanity.
There is a reason why the CIA’s sole purpose of existence has been to target socialism and communism. The US has been blasted with propaganda. I don’t expect you to “convert” but try and keep an open mind.
I’m new to the field of large language models (LLMs) and I’m really interested in learning how to train and use my own models for qualitative analysis. However, I’m not sure where to start or what resources would be most helpful for a complete beginner. Could anyone provide some guidance and advice on the best way to get...
If you just want to use a local llm, using something like gpt4all is probably the easiest. Oobabooga or llama.cpp for a more advanced route.
I use ollama with llama3 on my macbook with open-webui and it works real nice. Mistral7b is another one I like. On my PC I have been using oobabooga with models I get from huggingface and I use it as an api for hobby projects.
I have never trained models, I don’t have the vram. My GPU is pretty old so I just use these for random gamedev and webdev projects and for messing around with RP in sillytavern.
Maybe because they are killing a fuckton of civilians as they target said civilian infrastructure. It is a warcrime. Pretty fucking clear violation of the Geneva convention. Do better.
In this thread, people who think it is okay to bomb civilians in the name of stopping “terrorism”.
If Israel are the good guys, why do they need to push legislation through in the US to make it illegal to criticize their government (antisemitism awareness act)? Why are cops all across the US beating peaceful protestors for chilling in the name of peace? Why is the US government’s response to crack down on this so extremely? Why are they arresting legal observers and press at these student demonstrations?
I am certain that peaceful students that suffer rubber bullets, flashbangs, and teargas at the hands of the state will be on the right side of history.
Lets drop this whole “lesser of two evils” thing. It doesn’t work in our two party system and it certainly doesnt work with comparing governments. Fascism is fascism. America loves having a boogeyman.
The united states is fascist as fuck. All our tax dollars are funneled into the war machine to ruin lives all around the world to help make a few dick heads rich. We fund far right monsters in order to overthrow democracies and peaceful governments that don’t want to fuck with America’s banks. Civil liberties are thrown out week after week. The wage gap is a fucking joke. Nobody can afford shit. Homelessness is on the rise. Schools are underfunded. Police are militarized against the citizens. Protesting is becoming illegal basically everywhere. We allow corporations to run slave operations all over the global south in order to placate and distract consumers from their shitty existences.
It is only getting worse. And the big reason they want to get rid of tiktok is because ordinary people are successfully sharing their firsthand experiences with fascist america. Its got nothing to do with privacy and everything to do with control. Young people are mad and organizing on the only platform that doesn’t have a US backdoor.
I accidentally deleted my last response when trying to put in an edit but it doesn’t really matter. You are arguing in bad faith and it is clear you don’t want reason. So I will leave you with this:
Fascism can exist in more than one place. I am aware that the US got its current citizen control playbook from the CCP. I am not defending china. But if all it takes for them to threaten our national security is to let people know the proper truth about america, then I ought to let them do it anyways. The primary difference between tiktok and the other SoMe platforms is largely that american billionaires and israeli special interest groups have no influence there. So important matters that affect the working class (anyone whos not rich) are less likely to be controlled and manipulated. Therefore, it is more likely for regular people to get real information/news straight from the source/people. It’s not that difficult to understand.
What you learned in highschool ain’t shit. Read more. US robber barons basically funded the third reich. Our oligarchs love that shit. There is a whole swathe of history they keep out of the textbooks.
Your denial and downplay of fascism is exactly what allows it to fester in the states. Don’t be part of the fucking problem.
For me, Google video search, Google books (Internet Archive is good, but doesn’t always have the same stuff), Adobe InDesign (but in the process of learning LaTeX), and Typewise. As for the Google stuff, I liked Whoogle a lot, but almost all their instances seem to have been blocked or shut down. Also, apologies if this is...
The US is a capitalist dumpster fire. Seems like a lot of folks in here don’t use the platform much because they are just repeating the same talking points western media parrots.
The big problem seems to be that younger generations are connecting and organizing on there and they can’t shut it up. If the issue is that a foreign adversary is exposing the corrupt shit the US is doing and that they allow US citizens to connect with each other rapidly on such issues, well… where is the fucking problem?
Outside of that, it is a dope platform with a scary good algorithm. Lots of good folks in there. Most content creators flocked there because the other platforms are shit now. Bytedance has complied in every way but they are essentially trying to force the sale of tiktok despite them not wanting to sell. That is shitty.
I do use the platform and used to think the same thing everyone else my age thinks but it is actually super good. Most content creators moved over for a reason.
There is a lot of “good activism” on there and I think that is the thing they would like to stamp out.
I think it’s a scary thing combined with the fact that politicians have been trying to pass KOSA and similar bills that outline very harsh punishments for anyone using vpns to circumvent national bans.
America isn’t free and it is getting less free by the day.
The domestic apps scrape and sell the same data to anybody who will buy it, foreign adversaries included. They are banning tiktok because the younger generation is way more connected on there and there is attention being brought to places they don’t want it. Simple as that.
Agree with you on the price, disagree with the sentiment. Unless you’re comparing to a linux machine it is a bad take. You can do plenty to MacOS and it isn’t constantly trying to reinstall fucking one drive or hijack my search bar or reset my privacy settings after an update.
No, being gay is absolutely not a mental illness. But there are those who are mentally ill that think they are gay when they are not or were abused in a way that caused them to fear/be repulsed by the opposite sex in a major way.
But being gay is also not a fetish and absolutely not comparable to being a pedophile.
Not saying it is impossible, but the simple fact that internet exists or not is absolutely not indicative of porn having a positive or negative effect. It is a pretty weak article to use as evidence against what I am saying when it states clearly that these are only associations and correlations and essentially guesswork.
It is just as fair and, dare I say, more sensible to assume that places with internet have been more informed, more developed, and more progressive than places without and therefore have less uncivilized behaviour.
I will preface this next part by saying I have no idea if it is true or not, and I don’t really want to search for it for obvious reasons. But my wife was telling me about a study done in some Asian country where they literally prescribe pedophiles with child-like dolls to “have a harmless outlet” and it was found that it only made their impulses stronger and they eventually grew bored by the dolls. Again, not sure how credible it is so take it with a grain of salt.
I just don’t see any reason why we should deem it acceptable in any form.
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On the issue of Gaza, Biden is dramatically out of touch with the voters he needs to win re-election. If he will not be moved by morality to stop his support of this war, he should be moved by vulgar self-interest. Gaza is not a distant foreign conflict: it is an urgent moral emergency for large swaths of voters. Biden will lose...
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lemmy.ml Tankies
There are a lot of tanky posts coming from lemmy.ml. Their whole purpose seems to be to troll and spread their bullshit far and wide. They are nearly as bad as the alt-right. They argue in bad faith and celebrate authoritarian oppression. The beehaw mods might want to consider defederating.
Advice - Getting started with LLMs
I’m new to the field of large language models (LLMs) and I’m really interested in learning how to train and use my own models for qualitative analysis. However, I’m not sure where to start or what resources would be most helpful for a complete beginner. Could anyone provide some guidance and advice on the best way to get...
Hamas accepts cease-fire proposal for Gaza after Israel orders Rafah evacuation ahead of attack (apnews.com)
Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it (www.theverge.com)
What non-FOSS software have you been unable to quit?
For me, Google video search, Google books (Internet Archive is good, but doesn’t always have the same stuff), Adobe InDesign (but in the process of learning LaTeX), and Typewise. As for the Google stuff, I liked Whoogle a lot, but almost all their instances seem to have been blocked or shut down. Also, apologies if this is...
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AI-generated child sexual abuse images could flood the internet. A watchdog is calling for action (apnews.com)