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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.

raph, to Israel
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Once again, the issue is portrayed as a bunch of extremists who took over Israel. This is not untrue, but it hides the fact that before these extremists were anywhere near power, Israel was already systematically dispossessing, colonizing, and brutalizing Palestinians.

Every Israeli I know hates Netanyahu, Israel's messianic far right, settlements, and settlers. And I mean HATES them.

But Israeli society is still overwhelmingly supportive of the war.

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gimulnautti,
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@MisuseCase @raph I wrote a piece about this in response to the article by Yuval Noah Harari

Israeli intelligentsia continue to look in the past for more moderate Zionism, as if trying to wishing for those moderate times would bring them back.

But more than a generation has grown up in conditions rewarding collective punishment and devaluing of Palestinian lives, making money on weapons research in the territories, stealing water, the list goes on..

https://medium.com/@toni.aittoniemi/israels-fallacy-of-militant-nationalism-without-the-thugs-88dfa210b466

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

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:

gimulnautti, (edited ) to Ukraine
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Good comment on by Timothy Snyder:

”This isn’t 1939, this is 1938 but Czechoslovakia has chosen to fight.” …

”In that world where Czechoslovakia resists, there is no second world war.” ..

”There would have been a conflict, but there would not have been a second world war.”

We are in 1938, and we can prevent World War Two by helping Ukraine win!

https://youtu.be/hsaD_ZvLrF8?si=_Y5GPVu2-YmA3iA6

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.

    gimulnautti, to worldwithoutus
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    If I wanted to avoid escalation by militant Islam in the , I wouldn’t start by making a quarter million able-bodied men homeless & motherless with nothing to lose.

    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 TikTok
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    LOL measures retention BY THE SECOND.

    I mean ”Show me the incentives and I’ll show you the results” has never been clearer.

    I bet even now at least ten thousand 12-year old kids are studying their retention metrics underneath the blanket, hiding from their parents, trying to figure out how to squueze out an extra second from their next content.

    gimulnautti, to random Finnish
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    #disinfo #fakenews #cartoon

    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!

    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 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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    streamers have literally discovered the media equivalent of :

    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 space
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    Finally get to post my photos from saturday night!

    Image uploads for Mastodon servers seem to be really intolerant for packet loss, which was plenty from where I was over the weekend.

    But needless to say: It was crazy how strong they were!

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    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

    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!

    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, (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/

    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/

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