gimulnautti

gimulnautti, 2 months ago to Russia

In their current state, both #russia and #israel remind me of a narcissistic schoolyard bully, that alternates between beating people up and crying about how nobody likes them for who they are.

#nafo #StopPutin #StopNetanyahu

gimulnautti, 3 months ago to memes

Exactly what happened with #tuckercarlson & #vladimirputin

#memes #NAFO

gimulnautti, 3 months ago to KindActions

#donate to #ukraine now!

Donald Trump has made the choice of cancelling aid to Ukraine as part of his platform for president of the USA.

Due to pressure from Trump, Republicans are against provinding an already shell-choked Ukraine a critical aid package.

At the same time, MAGA is forging intimate connections with Vladimir Putin, and promoting him.

It is clear Donald Trump’s USA might cast it’s lot with Russia instead.

It’s up to the people now! 🫡 #NAFO

https://bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/natsionalniy-bank-vidkriv-spetsrahunok-dlya-zboru-koshtiv-na-potrebi-armiyi

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, 3 months ago to Unions

People on the #left: Don’t be fooled by right-wing claims that #unions & #strikes are ”anti-market”. On the contrary, they exist precisely because big business is anti-market.

In a #market #economy, everyone sets their price. A market that offers better working conditions for skilled workers, moves workers where they are happier.

But in a #monopoly, there is no option. For a worker bound to a location (due to family etc), the local factory is a de-facto monopoly.

Pro-market vs pro-business.

gimulnautti, 3 months ago to random Finnish

@IceCubesApp frequently crashing after posting. Ios 17.2.1.

gimulnautti, 3 months ago to random

#amreading ”Yellowface” by R. F. Kuang, and it just throws my moral compass off the charts to see people underlining the worst parts of the protagonist’s mad ramblings.

Here’s a practically proto-fascist example: The white protagonist feels her asian ”friend” has taken something away from her by being so succesfull. 🥵

Of course, they may just be following her evil ways in intellectual curiosity, but I can’t help but feel shocked.

#kuang

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

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, 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, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to Ukraine

A core aim of Russian-style #misinformation, aka ”flooding the zone with shit” is to also create cynicism.

When everything is subject and nothing is true, people slowly start thinking that whatever they do, it will be corrupted and won’t matter anyway.

So they stop doing anything, political talk moves ”to the kitchen” as they say.

So they keep telling how #ukraine is corrupt, and more & more people in US think it’s a smart move to avoid assistance from lining up politician’s pockets there.

gimulnautti, 4 months ago to random

Not American myself, but cause for concern because what #ChristianNationalism does first, the European #farright reuses.

#HeritageFoundation #Project2025 aims to concentrate all power in the executive branch, allow discrimination based on religion, erase all gender and equality not based on their interpretation the bible, and more..

But why you should take them seriously? 50000 absolute loyalists trained to take over all levels of administration, for starters.

https://www.project2025.org/

gimulnautti, 4 months ago to fediverse

From what little i hear from the #black #fediverse in #africa, it does appear #russia is engaged in a strong #propaganda campaign promoting itself as ”anticolonial” there.

This couldn’t be farther from the truth.

In imperial Russia, people were property to be bought and sold as much as in the west. In fact #slavery was abolished in USA and Russia the same year.

Russia simply engaged in #colonialism where the enslaved had the same skin color as their masters.

I call this”blackwashing”

#NAFO

gimulnautti, 4 months ago to random

Charlie Munger’s advice the to corporate world: ”Show me the incentive, and I will show you the outcome” is not just empty words but applicable to society in general.

As we see incentives slowly becoming more toxic, also the world becomes more so.

The free market is especially effective at optimising based on incentives. There will always be someone who delivers for a price..

This is why when the main #incentives become money itself, we have to be on our toes:

It’s a runaway feedback loop!

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, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to Israel

The #israel far right are completely crazy: If Netanyahu and his pundits think this level of carnage in #gaza would not make millions of people consider picking up arms in revenge, they are mad.

So many people who have lost everything? You know what that makes? Soldiers with nothing to lose. Suicide bombers.

They think they will weaken Iran? No, they are strenghtening Iran. It’s network of Jihadis will be even bigger after this. And now they will be armed by #Russia.

https://youtu.be/7WAql3Cgc4U?si=Uv9wKsjPFzdhzUfh

gimulnautti, 4 months ago to random Finnish

Mun mielestä on ihan oikeutettua kategorisoida Halla-Aho poliittisesti fasistiksi. Umberto Econ 14 tunnusmerkkiä, jotka yleismaailmallisesti tunnustetaan päteviksi, löytyvät lähes heittämällä:

https://www.openculture.com/2016/11/umberto-eco-makes-a-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html

#hallaaho #perussuomalaiset #fasismi

gimulnautti, 4 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 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, 5 months ago to tesla

Elon Musk’s #X again plays the home field:

After swedish journalists in #aftonbladet reveal #tesla and other electric car manufacturers buying minerals mined with #childlabour, X places a warning label on links to their article in attempt to discredit them and stop the news from spreading.

”Freedom of speech”, he said.

https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/76rPL3/x-varning-efter-granskning-om-glimmer

gimulnautti, 5 months ago to GraphicsProgramming

I like to work on 1-minute videos, promoting the new releases of the record label I co-founded.

I try to take two days making each. 1 day I #code some #shaders for the special fx, 1 day I spend in #editing the #video.

Graphics are usually from the cover #artist.

This time the theme was #offroad vehicles. Which is great, because #suomisaundi music is all about being honestly back-water, not trying to be fancy.

So here we go, psychedelic rally & motorsports, far out! 😊

video/mp4

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, 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, 5 months ago to random

I can just imagine Elon Musk’s face when he’s reading about #longtermism like:

”Wait, so if the future contains so many more potential human lives than the present, that basically means I don’t have to care jack about anyone currently alive and I can still be the hero & saviour of humanity?

😈🤠🤑 YASSSS!!!!”

gimulnautti, 5 months ago to Bulgaria

Hah hah! 😄

Putin’s stooge Orban (Hungary) agrees to peacefully leave the room, as rest of EU decides to go ahead with Ukraine membership negociations without him.

I’m very happy that the EU is growing some serious balls, because I certainly had enough with this mad clown who thinks he can deal with Putin and not get burnt!

#FCKPTN #SlavaUkraini #EU

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/14/eu-sidestep-viktor-orban-to-open-membership-talks-with-ukraine