gimulnautti

gimulnautti, 2 days ago to scifi

People who #folllow #amreading

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

#scifi #bookstodon

gimulnautti, 3 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, 8 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, 10 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, 13 days ago (edited 13 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, 14 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, 14 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, 14 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, 14 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, 14 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, 15 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.

gimulnautti, 17 days ago to c64

So how many rasterlines are there exactly in a #PAL #C64 ??

Weird stuff happens when you poke video control registers after line 255

I think this is how they do the tricks 🤔

gimulnautti, 18 days ago to Youtube

#youtube streamers have literally discovered the media equivalent of #drugs:

An influencer reading other people’s semi-funny tweets on repeat. Hundreds and hundreds. Endlessly.

It keeps giving you little hits of dopamine over and over, keeps you hooked, wastes your time & doesn’t get you anywhere even if you feel something like a real feeling.

I call these ”brain rot”. My kid agreees, and keeps watching.

The race to the bottom of the brain stem is painful to watch sometimes. 🙁

gimulnautti, 19 days ago to Ukraine

Aid bill for Ukraine finally passes, with the all-important 155mm cannon shells & long-range weapons & continuation plan. Because this will take a while.

Finally, we can expect Ukraine to be able to hit Russia on an equal footing, not outgunned 5-to-1 and banned from hitting the actual supplies far outside Ukrainian borders.

That’s going to change a lot of things.
Slava Ukraïni!

#ukraine #UkraineWar #USA #militaryaid #NAFO

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-vote-long-awaited-95-billion-ukraine-israel-aid-package-2024-04-20/

gimulnautti, 21 days ago to Suomi Finnish

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

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gimulnautti, 26 days ago to mathematics

#mathematics people:

I feel there has to be a way of training neural networks to recognise the influence of their training data on the output.

This would probably include training a complementary indexing network + database that would then ”reverse-training” resolve and offer at some predetermined accuracy the #copyright-viable sources for each generated #aiart

I need some help though. A proof would show the companies know it can be done, but they just don’t want to.

#neuralnetworks

gimulnautti, 26 days ago to ai

#AI mass-produced internet celebrity -industry has begun in #china

Mostly these are western beauty & military vloggers converted to speaking mandarin. So in effect these people have their identities ”stolen” and converted to cash cows.

I assume only a few generations of AI will enable new forms of fake personas which mix & match stolen material harvested on the open internet.

Everybody is a subject now. You could be a celebrity in China! Only not under your own name.

https://medium.com/@shutanweizhi/mass-produced-russian-beauties-are-harvesting-chinese-dads-9623440e81bf

gimulnautti, 28 days 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, 29 days ago to politics

Slavoj Žižek: ”Trump is the ultimate postmodern relativist cynical politician, he doesn’t believe in what he says himself, he changes his position all the time…”

The joke is this is exactly what #MAGA movement is claiming itself that it’s critical about.

Let that sink in for a while.

Good interview. Great points about Russia, Putin, Ukraine, Atheism, Christianity, and more.

#politics #youtube #russia #putin #imperialism #ukraine #NAFO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVgAc_oJ6DY

gimulnautti, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to philosophy

Probability of taking the time to find out the truth as inversely proportional to rate of culture events.

Propose a theory: The rate of culturally significant events experienced by the individual has an inversely proportional effect on the probability that an individual takes the time to independently verify and find out the truth.

@philosophy
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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, 1 month ago to Russia

A clip from Rogozin lecture at Moscow University for future FSB recruits.

He goes up to the point of saying that the key to victory in a war is discrediting the opponent’s political leadership.

They are to be made to seem untrustworthy in the eyes of their people by accusing of them… and he says this first..

ELITISM and corruption.

Are the bells ringing yet for you? Sound familiar perhaps? You recognise anyone?

#russia #deepfakes #politics #populism #nafo

https://youtu.be/MCG62ed3J5Y?si=Vdc32Doz63SSDP3X

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, 1 month ago to ai

Facebook has certainly become a dumpster of #ai generated ”science” groups that are just honeypots for tinfoil sites.

However, these operators fool the algorithm into thinking it’s important precisely by putting on the front lies that the science-minded will want to correct, but enough will support because it fits their confirmation bias. This promotes a fight.

It’s like an industry repeating the pattern of antivaxx groups in mid 2010’s. 🤦‍♂️

#facebook #fake #science #groups #tinfoil

gimulnautti, 1 month ago to random

Restarted reading ”The Dark Forest” by Liu Cixin, which is the second book in the Three Body Problem -trilogy.

Refreshing my memory before the second season on Netflix comes out, so I can compare better!

#bookstodon #ThreeBodyProblem