gimulnautti

gimulnautti, 2 months ago to languagelearning

And similarly for every verb, way, way more!

Including: negative, accusative, indicative, conditional, imperative, in every person, in different forms for time, all combinations of them, etcetera

And.. Our nouns.. Have 17 base conjugations.. 😜

#agglutaninating #languages #finnish

gimulnautti, 5 months ago to IsraelPalestine

Now close to 17 palestinians are dead for every Israeli casualty on Oct 7th.

I just have to remind about what that says about the value of human life vs their origin.

#israelpalestine #war #massdeath

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/world/middleeast/gaza-death-toll-palestinians.html

gimulnautti, 1 month ago to Suomi Finnish

Tänään Tivoli Takatalvessa Järvenpäässä 😎❄️
#suomi #takatalvi #tivoli #perusmeininki

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gimulnautti, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

Contemporary American geopolitical reasoning:

”Our hopes for the world have been shown to be futile in #Iraq and #Afghanistan, so we will now retreat inside our borders and leave the world to fend for itself.”

Spare me the tears!

US started these wars that killed 2mil+ for 3000 of it’s own lost at #911. Militant Islam came out stronger than it went in.

The same is repeating now in #Gaza. I predict the victim mentality and acute memory-loss will behave exactly the same!

gimulnautti, 1 month ago to random Finnish

Dynasty
#nafo #RussiaIsATerroristState

gimulnautti, 1 month ago to ai

Artificial Intelligence is spelled ”tekoäly” in Finnish, but an engineer proposed a much better term: ”tukiäly”.

It translates as ”support intelligence”. This is what #ai really means at it’s current state:

Support humans engaged in human projects.

The rest is hype. I notice this when using ML for my blog. It can pick up concepts from voice memos and put them to text, but it cannot argue.

I like to look for fresh angles, and it just can’t bend there. It uses arguments that were already made.

gimulnautti, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

”I wrote the DUNE series, because I had this idea that charismatic leaders should come with a warning label on the forehead: MAY BE DANGEROUS TO YOUR HEALTH.”
-Frank Herbert, 1985

Rich tech people; Guaranteed to miss the point of critical science-fiction since forever.

#dune #elon #memes #scifi #storytelling #richmen

gimulnautti, 2 months ago to random Finnish

Niin Israelillahan ei ollut mitään syytä eikä piilotettua agendaa kuulustella YKn työntekijöitä kidutusta vastaavissa olosuhteissa, niin että heistä saatiin puristettua väärät tunnustukset että YKn avustusjärjestöllä olisi suoria suhteita Hamasiin, ja käytännössä koko maailma veti rahoituksensa pois?

Nyt hiljaa aloitetaan uudelleen, niinkuin Suomi tällä viikolla, ja Israel pääsee kuin koira veräjästä. ”Ei me tehty kansanmurhaa, ne kuoli nälkään ja tauteihin, oma vika”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/04/middleeast/un-israel-confessions-allegations-intl/index.html

gimulnautti, 1 month ago to KindActions

Here is the van I helped donate to Ukraine in February this year. It helped in transporting drones and other necessary equipment in the Bakhmut region.

I chose to write my message i cyrillic, to emphasise the resistance comes from inside what Russia claims is theirs.

This says: Tšuhna Brothers.

Tšuhna is a racist slur for Finns & Estonians in Russian.

#NAFO #donate #RussiaIsATerroristState

Thank you @noelreports for making this possible! #SlavaUkraini

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gimulnautti, 5 months ago to Netflix

I’m really digging this:
Carol & the end of the world.

42 year old lady who doesn’t have dreams to fill when the end is near.

Being average is such a forgotten art in a world where you are the odd one out if you aren’t trying to outdo the others in ”living it”.

#animated #series #netflix

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt29629770/

gimulnautti, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random Finnish

Helsingin Sanomat:

Russian Telegram channels shifting blame of #Moscow #terrorist attack to Ukraine. Putin says: ”whoever did it”, even if ISIS already claimed responsibility publicly.

Ruskij standart.

With somewhere around half of the Russian population ready to believe Ukraine is behind all the evil in the world, confirmation bias takes care of the rest.

My guess: They knew the attack by ISIS was coming, they let it happen, and got ready to blame it on Ukraine.

https://www.hs.fi/ulkomaat/art-2000010315483.html

gimulnautti, 6 months ago to languagelearning

(Finnish, but you should translate this)
A random conversation in a Russian bar with an industry mogul whose microchips make Russian drones fly and their tanks go. He thinks they’ll lose the war, eventually. Also smart enough to understand the whole world will hate them like they did Germans after WW2.

#russian #civilians #stories

https://www.hs.fi/ulkomaat/art-2000009926550.html

gimulnautti, 1 month ago to politics

Writing spree!

Two blog posts today, going into deep dependencies in our political discourse and the dangers lurking for democracy within them.

In this first post I explore how political polarisation is the most efficient tool of malicious governments like Russia and China to influence our western democracies to make them weaker at resisting their imperial push

https://gimulnaut.wordpress.com/2024/04/13/on-the-existential-dangers-of-media-polarisation-for-democracy/

#amwriting #politics #socialmedia #democracy #governance #propaganda #russia #NAFO #russiaukrainewar

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gimulnautti, 2 months ago to humanrights

Am I the only one who finds it curious, that companies can control everything about the digital footprints they produce, yet our traces of walking the digital reality are only subject to a harvest?

How is it fair, that if a company’s bytes get copied by someone and read by me, I can be criminally responsible, yet the digital trail that’s created when I surf the web and is equally unique, gives me absolutely no rights to decide what others can do with it?

#data #rights are #humanrights

gimulnautti, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to Finland Finnish

Kellokoski ”winter highway” was quite popular today for and independence day walk.

Happy 106th anniversary Finland! 🇫🇮

#finland #independenceday #winter #2023

gimulnautti, 5 months ago to Magic

Well worth a read: As our interconnectivity profilates and technological provess multiplies, so does belief in #magic.

It’s not just new-age hippies & faith-healers anymore, it’s silicon valley #postrationalism and #effectivealtruism going along with the #manifesting & #occult, up to even rooting for Julius Evola’s fascist magic & #traditionalism (a favourite of Russia’s Aleksandr Dugin)

Sure, if you know it’s just self-hypnosis. But record shows that slips away easy😓

https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-internet-became-the-modern-purveyor-of-ancient-magic

gimulnautti, 5 months ago to Ukraine

I’m not anti-immigrant, but I’m pro-Ukraine.

Is support for perhaps the most important battle western civilisation has faced in decades really on equal terms with building a wall?

The thing is, if #Ukraine loses, the #western #alliance will have forfeited the #trust that those yearning democracy, equal rights & freedom from tyranny have placed in it.

If the west loses trust, there goes our push for anti-racism too. If the global south chooses Russian & Chinese style, it won’t matter a damn.

gimulnautti, 4 months ago to machinelearning

One of the most common #machinelearning #hallucinations is #recommendation engines relentlessly pushing you political content from influencers you wouldn’t touch with a long stick.

And it’s not just a one-off, it’s constant. When the training set does not contain the inference needed, the system hallucinates it.

With recommendations, the only training parameter is engagement. With generic #LLM’s the parameters are found by the system independently, but the same problem generalises across.

gimulnautti, 6 months ago to random

”Yoga and wellness culture presented itself as being educated by virtue of being spiritual. It confused politics with good intentions. Worst of all, it promoted the attitude that the common good could be served not through concrete activism, or by engaging with the details of public policy. People could change the world, it taught, through private practices, and by personally contemplating ancient moral edicts.”

Excerpt from ”Conspirituality” by Beres, Remski & Walker

gimulnautti, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

The well-off and financially secure easily get into this pipe-dream that if we just decentralise and free everything, democracy just happens like magic.

But democracy doesn’t actually happen, oligarchy happens. Freedom from central control means those resources are fought over by the most powerful, not shared like in a democracy.

Competition is healthy, as long as there is competition. But what we increasingly have also in the #west is #monopolistic #oligarchy.

https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/202_what_social_media_meant_for_the_mass_protest_decade_w_vincent_bevins

gimulnautti, 6 months ago to random

I can’t help to wonder at people’s fascination with the #spiritual with the price of rejecting the #material.

I can do all those things: I can let go of my consicious reactivity and allow my intuition to see patterns I didn’t know could even be identified.

I can stop and marvel at the unfathomable complexity of the natural world and see the flows of information in it.

Like Buddha didn’t need a god’s help to enlighten himself, #transcendence on all-material grounds is the most powerful of all.

gimulnautti, 4 months ago to RadioControl Finnish

Kovaa kritiikkiä NATO jäsenmaille #drone #sodankäynnin kehitysaskeleiden laiminlyömisestä

Samalla kun Venäjä oppii ja skaalaa teolliselle tasolle Ukrainan kehittämät droneja hyödyntävät #taistelutekniikat, länsimaiset yhteistyöhankkeet tällä saralla rajoittuvat muutamaan projektiin ja vapaaehtoisten puuhailuun

Ukrainan sodan myötä Venäjän iskukyky ja taistelutaito uudella sodankäynnin alalla tulee ylittämään NATO joukkojen tason jos yhteistyötä ei huomattavasti lisätä

https://geopolitics-decanted.simplecast.com/episodes/the-drone-wars-how-consumer-tech-is-shaping-the-ukraine-war

gimulnautti, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

With #Elon #Musk we totally failed at: ”If it’s too good to be true, it probably isn’t.”

Now. A lot of people will want to credit him for ”amazing stuff” because they used to back him earlier. But there were red flags much earlier, and his manipulative/narcissistic behaviour has been constant throughout his career.

Most of us bought into him cosplaying a sensitive nerd. I know I did, and then cheered for the team.

But that’s what narcissists do, they play u

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/roundup-elon-musk-unmasked

gimulnautti, 7 months ago to random Finnish

Militant Islam made militant Judaism stronger. Militant Judaism made militant Islam stronger.

Militant Islam will continue to make militant Judaism and hard-line militant Christians stronger.

Hard-line Judaists and Christians will continue to make militant Islam stronger.

Hamas made Netanyahu strong, Netanyahu will make what comes after Hamas stronger and more dangerous.

The hard right is the hard right’s natural enemy. This is the root of the problem, folks.

#IsraelPalestineconflict

gimulnautti, 4 months ago to ai

”We make the wrong assumption that the drive to create #AI is based on rational considerations.”

Fascinating.

#magic #wonder #mystery #culture #semiotics #podcast

https://open.spotify.com/episode/22QF1duMlwvws0QbMFJVLA?si=NyBEZmIJQoeaYCw6x7ScoQ