gimulnautti

gimulnautti, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month ago to Suomi Finnish

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

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gimulnautti, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 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, 1 month 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

gimulnautti, 1 month ago to random Finnish

Dynasty
#nafo #RussiaIsATerroristState

gimulnautti, 2 months ago (edited 2 months 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, 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, 2 months ago to Netflix

Now that I’ve seen 3 episodes of #threebodyproblem on #netflix, I can say it:

For telling these kinds of stories, video is completely the inferior medium.

Does not even compare.

#bookstodon

gimulnautti, 2 months ago to Israel

A picture says more than a thousand words.

A regular Israeli citizen may not be out for #genocide of #palestinians, but they sure are making an effort to look the other way.

That’s the story of most tyrants rising to power in modern days. The willingness of people to look away is key to enabling them.

#israel #rafah #crueltyisthepoint #farright

gimulnautti, 2 months ago to Ukraine

I think the question about #ukraine is too simple: Why do we insist on turning our eyes away from #russia bombing capital cities of a major European state?

#kiyv #bombing #RussiaIsATerroristState

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1trTEvv7JjzKb80HYdBFI7?si=022967d2665c4684

gimulnautti, 2 months ago to random Finnish

Pakko kyllä sanoo, että tän hallituksen ”nää
asiat tehdään, eikä niistä neuvotella” ei edusta sitä tapaa jolla Suomessa on perinteisesti politiikkaa tehty.

Ja se kansan mandaatista puhuminen on aika lavealla pensselillä maalaamista juuri siitä syystä. Esimerkiksi tämä poliittisten lakkojen kieltäminen muuttaa koko Suomalaisen työelämän rakennettta pysyvästi pitkälle tulevaisuuteen.

Tässä rakennetaan Amerikkaa, jossa hallitus toisensa perään peruu toisensa teot, ei pohjoismaista mallia.

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gimulnautti, 2 months ago to Podcast

This could be the most important #podcast you listen to this year. Seriously! 🙏

#Taiwan is under constant #cyberattack and #misinformation #campaign from China.

Yet, Taiwan managed to hold fair and democratic elections and their people didn’t fall for the traps set by China, and the threats of their jets and missiles flying over the island.

How do they do it?

#democracy upgrades for an age of #militarised every-day #information #warfare

https://open.spotify.com/episode/21jQ8od7MmZd9WI93IvbIj?si=Eh_D4EQ7RtKjzt46ktGeag

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 memes Finnish

#satanictemple #memes

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