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Captainant

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  1. Well fortunately, the 1930's are well-known for their economic equality and opportunity for all. And absolutely ZERO inflation or unemployment problems.
  2. 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
  3. 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."
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. Pron is/was part of their training datasets for their large language models, aka "AI" models
  7. 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
  8. 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".
  9. 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
  10. "Immigrant Asian vaccine scientist getting black bagged" is a maga dream journal mad libs from 2021
  11. So what, you're arguing dems should consign trans people to concentration camps to get along with the hip, hateful youth vote? The problem is that the """trans issue""" is much like the "jew issue" in Nazi Germany. It's fully manufactured to paint a marginalized group as the enemy and "out" group, so that the fascists can marshal their body politik around that beacon. Most republican gripes about trans people don't even actually exist in reality - it's just built up in their heads and reinforced by state media and propaganda. Litterboxes in classrooms, nurses delivering HRT on the sly in school, etc etc. None of it actually happened, but it's moving elections somehow? AND it's the Democrats fault? Please tell me more
  12. Go thread shit somewhere else soccer spray https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/palestinian-death-toll-israeli-military-offensive-gaza-surpasses-60000-2025-07-29/
  13. Practiced self-victimhood is a hard thing to beat. Just look at imma for a less horrible example, but he LOOOOOOVES to play "woe is me, my users are calling me a fascist!?" in the thread he created and named calling himself a fascist lol. Now it's that dynamic, but spread across literally any subject you can imagine. Everything is a grievance to be nursed and gotten even over. That pure invective id is the appeal and green-light to the cruelty and bully behavior that republicans have been preaching for my whole life
  14. Bruh. It's Reuters reporting what the US State Department said in a release. If that makes you ragey, that's on you
  15. He's a contrarian troll. He fuels the rhetoric about how sick and twisted the CR is, and is one of the worst instigators of the bunch. The only reason that you're trying to have a discussion with him, is that you haven't tried to already. Go ahead and touch the stove though
  16. The president is all up in the epstein list
  17. Constantine 2 is looking very different
  18. You DO realize the Southern Strategy was an explicit effort to conflate economic and social issues, so that they could attack social issues like integration using economic terms? That muddying of the waters is a very successful republican strategy
  19. None of the cases are about actual justice or following the law. This is yet another instance of turning shields into swords.
  20. The trade agreement is a reciprocal 15% tariff, which is considerably higher than what was in place prior to the current tariff regime. Not sure why a significantly and artificially higher COGS is going to trigger a rise, aside from LGU economics
  21. The subplot there is the tech bro oligarch hitching their wagon to crypto without realizing they're aligning their economic incentives with putin
  22. it still cracks me up that imma made the thread titled "Immamac is a fascist" - nobody had called him that, but he made that the discussion with his moderation decision
  23. https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/venezuelan-makeup-artist-returns-home-describes-torture-during-el-salvador-2025-07-23/ CAPACHO, Venezuela, July 23 (Reuters) - A makeup artist who became the face of more than 250 Venezuelan migrants deported by the U.S. to El Salvador's most notorious prison arrived home to his family on Wednesday after what he described as "an encounter with torture and death." Andry Hernandez, 32, and the other detainees returned to Venezuela on Friday as part of a prisoner exchange, after spending four months in El Salvador's CECOT prison, where they and the Venezuelan government allege they were beaten, shot with rubber projectiles, held in dark cells, and served rotten food. "Many of our fellows have wounds from the nightsticks; they have fractured ribs, fractured fingers and toes, marks from the handcuffs, others have marks on their chests, on their face ... from the projectiles," Hernandez told journalists at his home in Capacho, near the Colombian border. U.S. President Donald Trump invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport the men, who his government accuses of being members of the Tren de Aragua gang, without normal immigration procedures. The deportations sparked a legal battle led by civil rights groups. Families and lawyers of many of the men have denied they have gang ties. Hernandez, detained at the U.S.-Mexico border during the Biden administration, had an active asylum case when he was deported to CECOT. His case was widely covered in the media. Advocates in the U.S. have voiced concerns that Hernandez, who is gay, faces risks in Venezuela due to LGBTQ persecution. The U.S. alleged Tren de Aragua membership based on his tattoos: crowns on his wrists that read "mom" and "dad."
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