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gimulnautti

@gimulnautti@mastodon.green

Pirate Politician, Software Developer, MA Musicology (he/him)

Interests:
Culture, Math, Sociology, Philosophy, Music, Demoscene, Games, #NAFO, Writing, Disc Golf, Skateboarding.

Not here for snarky comebacks. A slur is not an argument.

Other fediverse accounts:
https://mastodon.green/@gimulnautti @metapixl.com
https://mastodon.green/@gimulnautti @mastodontti.fi

Blog:
https://gimulnaut.wordpress.com
https://medium.com/@toni.k.aittoniemi

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kissane, to random
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Given all the Threads discussion there is one short thing I need to say.

The simplest tech-world thing I learned from the whole Meta in Myanmar project is that Meta is WAY more callous, deceptive, and incompetent with the life-or-death things that matter the most than even most of their critics understand.

https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-full-series

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gimulnautti,
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@kissane The most scary part is that Meta’s participation to basically exciting genocide in Myanmar has been basic knowledge, for years and years.

The only echo of that I hear in tech talk today is when politicians say they ”don’t want to repeat the mistakes made with social media” on AI legislation.

But I’m afraid they will. And why? Because we humans want to create ”god” for ourselves. We want there to be an ”infallible” machine to judge us. And meta took that role, gladly.

exador23, to ai
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When +972Mag revealed that Israel was using an called Lavender and trained on faulty data to decide who is or isn't a militant, and another one called Where's Daddy to track them until they were home to kill the whole family, many folks here rightfully wanted to know who was providing the servers and computer infrastructure for that.

Time Magazine now has at least part of the answer: & https://time.com/6966102/google-contract-israel-defense-ministry-gaza-war/

The Israeli Ministry of Defense, according to the document, has its own “landing zone” into Google Cloud—a secure entry point to Google-provided computing infrastructure, which would allow the ministry to store and process data, and access AI services.

gimulnautti,
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@irenes @exador23 We really need get our heads around one important thing very soon or we’ll be in trouble:

These are not anymore companies in the traditional sense of the word, ie manufacturing a good or service.

These companies are power brokers and gatekeepers of a whole new domain. They can give or take away the power to create worlds and perform feats equalling magic.

Just letting things stay as they are will make them our feudal lords of a digital middle-age.

QasimRashid, to random
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BREAKING: The House just passed HR 6090, which expands the definition of antisemitism to include criticism of Israel.

Let me be clear. People have rights. State governments do not have rights. This terrible bill sets a dangerous precedent & does nothing to actually decrease or stop the scourge of antisemitism. The Senate should not pass this bill and Biden should not sign it into law.

gimulnautti, (edited )
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@philip @QasimRashid It’s cutting it close. Whether the state of Israel’s stated goals of remaining a jewish state is racist should still be up for debate, because it is a debate that can be learned from. It’s useful because ethnicity was a thing on the ground through 1920 to 1990, even if technically one can convert to Judaism nowadays.

The conflict is based on deep ethnically-based divisions and violence in the past, and it isn’t a worthless argument.

gimulnautti, to Finland
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BREAKING: Huge crowds gather at Finland’s capital Helsinki to demand the resignation of in the cabinet.

gimulnautti, (edited ) to snowboarding
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Some of the words for in : ❄️

Lumi = snow
Hanki = full cover of snow, at least half a meter
Nietos = large & wide ,naturally piled snow
Kinos = smaller, localized piles of snow. If articifial, always this
Nuoska = malleable snow, you can make snowballs out of this
Tykky/tökkö = wind-packed snow
Hankikanto = melted and refrozen cover of snow which you can walk on
Räntä = sleet
Pyry = heavy snowfall in wind
Tuisku = ice crystals snowfall strong wind
Myräkkä = snowstorm

gimulnautti, to random
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Not American myself, but cause for concern because what does first, the European reuses.

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, to random
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Darwin Award of the month goes to:

DrALJONES, to Israel
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    gimulnautti,
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    @DrALJONES Netanyahu knows that when the war ends, so does his political career. And after it ends, the legal protection he enjoys from the court cases awaiting him runs out as well.

    He is the Berlusconi of Israel, but with blood on his hands.

    dominiksteiger, to Israel German
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    Quite an astounding efficacy of air defense, if these numbers are correct. Especially the missiles.

    gimulnautti,
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    @dominiksteiger @HistoPol One would think making it obvious that attacks don’t make a difference would do that.

    But I think the actual sources for escalation of this conflict lie elsewhere.

    For example, it could also be thought that the escalation started with Israel for bombing Iran’s consulate.

    I have no love for Iran and I wish for their oppressive regime to swiftly end. But I have even more concern for not following international law.

    gimulnautti, to random Finnish
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    Ei sitä varmaan kenenkään kannata olla yllättyneitä että Muskin alla Twitter sensuroi enemmän kuin ennen, kumartaa autoritääreille enemmän kuin ennen, jne.

    Mutta n-sanan käyttö on viisinkertaistunut.

    Tästä siinä ”sananvapaudessa” lopulta taisi lyhykäisyydessään olla kyse. 🤷‍♂️

    gimulnautti, to ai
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    Facebook has certainly become a dumpster of 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. 🤦‍♂️

    gimulnautti, to c64
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    So how many rasterlines are there exactly in a ??

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

    I think this is how they do the tricks 🤔

    gimulnautti, to Russia
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    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?

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

    gimulnautti, (edited ) to random Finnish
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    Helsingin Sanomat:

    Russian Telegram channels shifting blame of 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, to Israel
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    A picture says more than a thousand words.

    A regular Israeli citizen may not be out for of , 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.

    gimulnautti, to Podcast
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    This could be the most important you listen to this year. Seriously! 🙏

    is under constant and 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?

    upgrades for an age of every-day

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

    gimulnautti, to random
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    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, to psychology
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    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? 🤔

    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, to Youtube
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    #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, to random Finnish
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    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

    Glory to heroes!

    noelreports, to random Dutch
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    "The US will leave NATO if I win the election," Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy in an interview with Politico. Ramaswamy is a strong opposer of aid to Ukraine and made fun of Zelenskyi multiple times.

    And than what, enter BRICS? 🤡

    https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/05/ramaswamy-wants-the-us-out-of-nato-00134068

    gimulnautti,
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    @noelreports I do concur that US in control of that might happen with a victory, might become indistinguishable from Putin’s if the ‘s Project 2025 gets implemented and all power is conglomerated in the executive branch.

    And the faithful will cheer them on all the way through and call it “freedom”. Until it’s not, but it will be too late.

    https://www.project2025.org/

    omaproud, to random
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    Zelensky talks Putin today to NATO Thread

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    gimulnautti, (edited )
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    @omaproud Save the Russian people from the yoke of imperialism. Set them free and let them become just another country in the world like the rest of us!

    Blunders in war have ended empires in the past, they will again.

    Let Russia lose spectacularly. Ukraine only needs a proper supply of weapons to do that!

    LeftistLawyer, to ai
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    gimulnautti,
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    @LeftistLawyer The wrong thing is that we’re calling a DATA QUERY mechanism ”artificial intelligence”.

    Generally we as humans tend to be ignorant that the very words prompt us to think in wrong ways about the technology.

    gimulnautti, to mathematics
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    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 -viable sources for each generated

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

    gimulnautti,
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    @sofia In other words: Getting paid a reasonable amount from the model providers would incentivise people to be part of the training data.

    Getting also paid from using the models creatively incentivises their use, and this is where copyright reform is most needed.

    Instead of remaining a grey area forever, as the industry would sure be happy about, we need legal category for the remix as piece of art.

    https://gimulnaut.wordpress.com/2023/04/20/ai-art-is-a-remix-the-djs-of-pictures/

    gimulnautti, (edited )
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    @sofia No, actually I am looking forward to people making MORE contributions to AI training instead of hiding their work away to protect it from being stolen.

    I am not looking for copyright violations, but a new paradigm, where generative models feed back into the creative economy.

    For this rewriting of the copyright laws will be necessary. I wrote lengthily about this for the Finnish Pirate party more than a year ago:

    https://gimulnaut.wordpress.com/2023/01/13/copyright-wars-pt-2-ai-vs-the-public/

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