Flumpkin

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[–] Flumpkin 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There is a very interesting documentary called "Professor Marston and the Wonder Women" and how they created her in 1940 as a feminist super hero.

William Moulton Marston, a psychologist already famous for inventing the polygraph, struck upon an idea for a new kind of superhero, one who would triumph not with fists or firepower, but with love. "Fine," said Elizabeth. "But make her a woman."

Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power. Not wanting to be girls, they don't want to be tender, submissive, peace-loving as good women are. Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.

[–] Flumpkin 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

"Despite additional dog training, leashing, working with veterinarians, and consulting with animal behaviourists, the White House environment simply proved too much for Commander," a statement said.

Welp. I can kinda imagine how that could happen. Just a lot of chaos and people running around and no space to get settled for a dog, maybe some unpleasant interactions, and maybe just not a dog temperament suited for this.

[–] Flumpkin 2 points 9 months ago

No subdural hematoma would certainly be a delayed but direct result of the altercation. It makes little sense, presumably the police is lying / covering it up.

[–] Flumpkin 4 points 9 months ago

That would be amazing! You could store the entire 450TB of ebooks in annas-archive on 4 of those disks!!!

[–] Flumpkin 1 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Then comes the discussion if “1KB” is 1024 bytes or if 1000 bytes is a kilobyte.

It's the metric system and it's standard now. 1 kilobyte is 1000 bytes, just like 1 kilometer is 1000 meters. It is much easier to convert 20.415.823 bytes into megabytes - 23.4 MB.

Only windows insists on mislabeling the base 1024 kibibyte as kilobyte. The metric unit is much easier to use.

[–] Flumpkin 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This means war!

[–] Flumpkin 3 points 9 months ago

The article is pretty tame. No mention of the bible verse used to justify this, or mention that this has implication for contraception as well.

[–] Flumpkin 1 points 9 months ago

I'm not calling anybody anything, I'm criticizing a behavior. And someone called the comment transphobic, not the poster.

So he may not have meant it that way, but we must view it that way? Absolutely insane take.

It's about how fascist strategy works. And part of that is an appeal to order for the moderates. This book (excepts) talks a lot about this stuff.

This is a life-or-death fight against fascism. Literally in this case. But the fascists won't stop with trans people.

There is a very clear fascist movement that is rapidly growing in strength in the US. First the rhetoric, the attacks on teachers, the bullying, then physical violence, the maliciousness or incompetence of the school, now a 16 year old kid is dead. Then the police are waiting and then say her sudden death had nothing to do with the attack.

Maybe the police is right? Or maybe they are biased or maybe they are fascist?

Reading all this makes people sad and angry they criticizes the police.
Now someone calls him a dingbat for jumping to conclusions.
His remarks (not the person) are being called out as transphobic.

And THAT enrages you THAT creates this outrage in you of how awful it is to get angry at people who push back against outrage at the police. Not the death, not the police makes you angry, but this incredibly injustice! This is what you chose to make comments about.

It's the presumption that the police system works as intended and should work like this and shouldn't be criticized. Coupled with an insult. It's outrageous. I'm not calling it transphobic, I'm calling it the "negative peace" that moderates prefer (see MLK about white moderates) and works in support of fascism.

[–] Flumpkin 7 points 9 months ago

Well that was the plan, Javier Milei just wants to completely destroying the country.

[–] Flumpkin 2 points 9 months ago

Why the heck does it use so much water? It sounds like a very inefficient and stupid design to not have a closed loop.

[–] Flumpkin 37 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (25 children)

They are experimenting and tuning. Apparently without any correction there is significant racist bias. Basically the AI reflects the long term racial bias in the training data. According to this BBC article it was an attempt to correct this bias but went a bit overboard.

PS: I find it hilarious. If anything it elevates the AI system to art, since it now provides an emotionally provoking mirror about white identity.

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