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Zionists will cry about the grand mufti and then ignore the politics of Lehi and (later) the kahanists. The “IDF” was literally founded by a Nazi sympathizer gang.
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Beyoncé photographed by Ellen Von Unwerth for Giant Magazine 2009
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There is no such thing as AI.
How to help the non technical and less online people in your life navigate the latest techbro grift.
I've seen other people say stuff to this effect but it's worth reiterating. Today in class, my professor was talking about a news article where a celebrity's likeness was used in an ai image without their permission. Then she mentioned a guest lecture about how AI is going to help finance professionals. Then I pointed out, those two things aren't really related.
The term AI is being used to obfuscate details about multiple semi-related technologies.
Traditionally in sci-fi, AI means artificial general intelligence like Data from star trek, or the terminator. This, I shouldn't need to say, doesn't exist. Techbros use the term AI to trick investors into funding their projects. It's largely a grift.
What is the term AI being used to obfuscate?
If you want to help the less online and less tech literate people in your life navigate the hype around AI, the best way to do it is to encourage them to change their language around AI topics.
By calling these technologies what they really are, and encouraging the people around us to know the real names, we can help lift the veil, kill the hype, and keep people safe from scams. Here are some starting points, which I am just pulling from Wikipedia. I'd highly encourage you to do your own research.
Machine learning (ML): is an umbrella term for solving problems for which development of algorithms by human programmers would be cost-prohibitive, and instead the problems are solved by helping machines "discover" their "own" algorithms, without needing to be explicitly told what to do by any human-developed algorithms. (This is the basis of most technologically people call AI)
Language model: (LM or LLM) is a probabilistic model of a natural language that can generate probabilities of a series of words, based on text corpora in one or multiple languages it was trained on. (This would be your ChatGPT.)
Generative adversarial network (GAN): is a class of machine learning framework and a prominent framework for approaching generative AI. In a GAN, two neural networks contest with each other in the form of a zero-sum game, where one agent's gain is another agent's loss. (This is the source of AI images and deepfakes.
I know these terms are more technical, but they are also more accurate, and they can easily be explained in a way non-technical people can understand. The grifters are using language to give this technology its power, so we can use language to take it's power away and let people see it for what it really is.
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my quest to turn my computer into an mid-late 2000s time machine continues, with a userchrome.css that turns my firefox into internet explorer 7
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How are my locktober soldiers doing? STAY STRONG. Not me, I jerk off whenever I want.
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I'm like if an eccentric genius was fucking stupid
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Pro-Capitalist’s defense of capitalism is just explaining how it works, and then when you say “yes I know, I just think it shouldn’t be like that” they explain it to you again but angrier this time
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The short of it, it's an ad free, FOSS based Youtube/other sites that yt-dlp supports downloader developed by an anarchist trans woman:
The long of it:
After a couple of weeks of brain storming and development I've made an updated FOSS version of a project I've been providing for a couple years for Youtube downloading.
It utilizes SocketIO and other asynchronous tooling so there is no database/task queuing software needed meaning to deploy this yourself you're only looking at running a single docker/podman container (or you can run the python code without the need) for the backend and a simple web server to serve the front end (though you will need to use npm somewhere to get the JavaScript packages for the front end) or a service such as Neocities.
For the average user mostly the changes mean that you have more power, more features, and a way to audit your experience if you're so inclined.
Find the repositories here:
Last, here's the current updated feature list:
MP3 Downloading
MP3 Metadata Editor
Playlist downloading (YouTube only atm)
Subtitle downloading
Direct stream links retriever (you can download whatever format you like that yt-dlp offers for the given video)
Clip editor/gif maker
Themes (for fun and for those that need to adjust their experience for disability reasons)
Lastly, the secret feature I hinted at: you can add the url y232.live? before any video link and it will pull up y232 with the url field autopopulated
Spread this around, share it with your friends and if you're feeling generous consider tipping me to keep the site going and possibly add more servers (its a good time to, I need to pay for the domain in a couple weeks):
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i have stigmata but mine is inbetween my ass cheeks
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me to the roaches in my house
the experience of animal in your house never gets old. fuck yes dude there's an animal in here. did you guys know about the animal
edit: ^ the animal
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