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  1. Well you see, Chief Justice Roberts in his infinite wisdom said that "racism is solved" and so we didn't need the Voting Rights Act anymore, which also happened to do away with pesky rules and checks like you're suggesting
  2. you're telling me hamas still has a leadership structure in place after the IDF has killed >60,000 """hamas members"""? I thought all of the deaths were justified killings of hamas members, so there could hardly be any left, right? You are again asserting that this group of beseiged and genocided palestinians has no ability but to put hamas in charge. Hamas has been in charge because once they gained the levers of power they made it so no more change could occur. That strangle hold has been broken, I would say. It's just that now instead of relenting, the IDF is using it as an excuse to murder people at breadlines.
  3. Painting every Palestinian as "hamas" is pretty fucked and going to keep getting in the way of ever actually talking about this. Acknowledgment of a Palestinian state doesn't mean putting hamas in charge. To the contrary, they haven't held an election in over 20 years! The Palestinian people have been protesting against hamas for ages, and have suffered brutal and oppressive crackdowns at the hands of hamas for their peaceful protests. Granting a people local governance and freeing them from hamas does not mean "rewarding hamas with state recognition". It's pretty fucking racist to say that any group of brown muslims in Palestine is "hamas". Is every white christian person from Alambama a klansman?
  4. Giuffre spent the rest of her life speaking against sexual abuse and human trafficking. 2 months after her suicide, the President of the United States of America is speaking about her as if he owned her, and was mad another pedophile stole her
  5. Wowee! It turns out DOGE didn't save any fucking money and destroyed a bunch of public services and ended the careers of tens of thousands of public servants
  6. It's almost like elmo grew up as an heir to apartheid or something
  7. this is the genAI platform that is getting fat government contracts to replace """swampy bureaucrats"
  8. Ike WAS the bureaucrat that trump hates. His mastery of logistics is what saved the world from fascism. So, through that lens it makes sense why trump hates those sorts of people
  9. The racism is saying that anything that comes out of there is OBVIOUSLY false. I even shared supporting evidence from a reputable academic journal that showed using data science they are almost certainly NOT inflating casualty numbers, and probably under reporting them. It's real fucked up to dismiss a genocide just because you're happy about Muslims getting murdered
  10. turns out, it works pretty easily! OpenwebUI + ollama runs like a champ on my m4 macbook it even cites the page and deeplinks you to the .pdf if you click on the citation link each time it comes up. Very interested to try tinkering with other sets of documents and information
  11. Acid rain for all, hooray! Let the coal roll! https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/trumps-epa-repeal-core-greenhouse-gas-rules-major-deregulatory-move-2025-07-29/ WASHINGTON, July 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will rescind the long-standing finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health, as well as tailpipe emission standards for vehicles, removing the legal foundation of greenhouse gas regulations across industries, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced on Tuesday. Republican President Donald Trump's pick Zeldin announced the agency's plan to rescind the "endangerment finding" at an event at a truck factory in Indiana, alongside Energy Secretary Chris Wright, and called it the largest deregulatory action in U.S. history.
  12. This is just plain racism. It's the Palastinian Ministry of Health - Gaza. Is anyone who lives there "Hamas" by default? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Health_Ministry There's even been academic journalism verifying that their casualty numbers haven't been inflated so far. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)02713-7/fulltext
  13. Notably, Epstein was killed the day after the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ordered her civil suit unsealed. The facts in that civil case is what laid the groundwork for Maxwell's conviction in 2021. From Giuffre's wiki page: In mid-2000,[27][28] Giuffre met Ghislaine Maxwell when working as a spa attendant at Donald Trump's private Mar-a-Lago club while reading a book about massage therapy.[21] Maxwell, a British socialite and daughter of the late media tycoon Robert Maxwell, approached Giuffre, noted the book that she was reading, inquired about her interest in massage, and offered her a potential job working for Epstein as a traveling masseuse with the assurance that no experience was necessary.[21] When Giuffre arrived at Epstein's Palm Beach home, she says he was naked lying down and Maxwell told her how to massage him. "They seemed like nice people so I trusted them, and I told them I'd had a really hard time in my life up until then—I'd been a runaway, I'd been sexually abused, physically abused. ... That was the worst thing I could have told them because now they knew how vulnerable I was", Giuffre stated.[22] Giuffre stated that after Maxwell introduced her to Jeffrey Epstein, the two quickly began grooming her to provide sexual services under the guise that she was to be trained as a professional massage therapist.[29]
  14. Holy shit
  15. Remove the pornographic context from it, it's still video shot with real humans moving in real human motions, shot in photorealistic lighting. It's still valuable data for what a "real" video should look like. And when your directive is simply to "get more data" it doesn't really matter where it comes from, just that you're meeting the objective. Generative AI (and literally all machine learning) is just reproducing or identifying patterns already seen in training data, or ID'ing abberations from the training data set it's already seen. But once it's produced, it's basically impossible to know what data was used in which model or to create which portion of an image or video or text. That virtually impossible unknowability is what Meta and OpenAI and Amazon are banking on to shield them from copyright claims or other allegations of horrible things like (inadvertantly) training on CSAM.
  16. Well fortunately, the 1930's are well-known for their economic equality and opportunity for all. And absolutely ZERO inflation or unemployment problems.
  17. that's an element of this, as well as many of the core datasets collected back in the early 2020's had really REALLY shit governance controls and they were absurdly wide, to the point of containing CSAM. Organizations like Thorn have made tooling to make it easier to maintain your training datasets and remove odious content, but Meta DID still download and reseed CSAM. A regular joe would go to FPMITA prison for that
  18. New shit has come to light! https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-jail-video-no-missing-minute-government-source-says/ The "missing minute" from the surveillance video at the Manhattan Metropolitan Correctional Center where Jeffrey Epstein died in 2019 may not be missing after all, CBS News has learned. ... Attorney General Pam Bondi was questioned about the gap during a July 8 Cabinet meeting with President Trump. She said the missing minute was the result of a nightly reset of the video that caused the recording system to miss one recording minute every night, and attributed that information to the Bureau of Prisons. "There was a minute that was off that counter and what we learned from [the] Bureau of Prisons was every year, every night, they redo that video," Bondi said. The equipment was old — "from like 1999, so every night is reset, so every night should have that same missing minute," she said. Bondi said the department would share other video that showed the same thing happened every night when the video system reset. That video, however, has not yet been released. Experts in surveillance video, including video forensic professionals, told CBS News that a nightly reset would have been unusual and was not something they encountered in most video systems. One thing that is clear, forensic experts say, is that the version of the recording released by the FBI was edited and not raw, as the government stated. Bondi, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino and others have said publicly that the video would be released unaltered. When the DOJ and FBI shared the video with the public, they said in a news release that it was the "full raw" video, and that "anyone entering or attempting to enter the tier where Epstein's cell was located from the SHU common area would have been captured by this footage." Jim Stafford was one of several video forensic analysts who looked at the video for CBS News using specialized software to extract the underlying coding, known as metadata. He said the metadata showed that the file was first created on May 23 of this year and that it was likely a "screen capture, not an actual export" of the raw file. He also told CBS News the metadata showed that the video was in fact two separate videos stitched together. It was also slightly sped up, so the video covering 11 hours runs approximately 10 hours and 53 minutes in length. CBS asked the FBI and Justice Department for a response, but they declined to comment. The Bureau of Prisons said they "had no additional information to provide."
  19. https://archive.ph/G1pnW https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/29/palestinian-awdah-hathaleen-oscar-winning-no-other-land-killed-in-west-bank Awdah Hathaleen, a Palestinian activist and journalist who helped make the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, has been killed during an attack by Israeli settlers in the south Hebron hills. The attack on Monday was captured on video, which appears to show an Israeli settler, Yinon Levi, who was put under sanctions by the US president, Joe Biden, then removed from the sanctions list by Donald Trump, firing his gun wildly at the time of the killing. He was arrested later by Israeli police for questioning, though no charges have been filed against him. (pictured: Yinon Levy in the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, today. Sourced from haaretz.co.il) To top things off, Odeh's family - the murder victims - are being held in jail while the murderer is in house arrest
  20. There was a big hullabaloo last year about companies taking measures to remove CSAM from their training datasets https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/23/24138356/ai-companies-csam-thorn-training-data Correct, thats pretty standard operating procedure for these foundational model maintainers
  21. Pron is/was part of their training datasets for their large language models, aka "AI" models
  22. Meta needed a shitton of data, ANY kind of data, to feed into their LLM's. For LLM's that generate video, that data tends to be video data. As part of collecting training datasets, Meta used torrenting to download and reseed a BUNCH of copyrighted works, as well as some porn, and even CSAM. Which means they were distributing child porn via torrent seeding, and propagating that child abuse, for the sake of building a more capable video generation large language model Edit: allegedly
  23. You're conceding the point that "facts are CR" before even getting to the conversation. You're complying in advance of the fascists. That is how fascists control language and control the dialogue and remove the linguistic capability of disagreeing with them. Orwell wrote a book about where that sort of thing leads. I'm not saying that the strategy is go "go high". I'm saying the Dems should fight fire with factual fire. Most of the republicans accusations are confessions. Go to the matt, drag out that dirt, disinfectant everything with sunlight. Blast from the heavens every goddamn republican that gets caught with kiddie porn and fucking children. That's facts that employs rhetoric. That however unfortunately is "CR", while spouting off random hateful bullshit is protected as "just being an idiot".
  24. If the logic is to abandon logic and reasoning, then you're playing into the fascists hands. What is "the message around trans as is" from the democrats? I understand it to be "they are human beings and deserve the same dignity and rights we all enjoy, because they're fucking human beings". I understand that it's not your position, but you really do seem to be recommending the democrats abandon that position to better attract the hateful youth vote
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