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auraithx ,

They're blocking the word 'Epstein' in DMs and also asking people to list their immigration status.

auraithx ,

Lead vs microplastics

auraithx ,

Only one agent shot him.

The debate is whether the first shot was the gun they took off him misfiring.

auraithx ,

Source? Not seen anyone claim as such.

auraithx ,

? Yeah no shit. The debate was because the gun he had was known to misfire.

auraithx ,

That’s not in conflict with what I said. The debate was whether the gun misfired when the first agent walked away with it.

auraithx ,

I didn't think there was just stating what the debate was.

There is a gif floating about that shows what looks like the chamber of his gun shifting - but it's very low-res and there's no associated smoke/recoil or anything, could just be an artefact / light

And it seems the main shooters elbow did recoil slightly alongside the 1st shot.

auraithx ,

The one I’m on is pretty based

auraithx ,

You mean the Russian and Chinese hemisphere?

auraithx ,

As they should. You only get a ban after you break their rules.

auraithx ,

They haven’t posted anything yet.

‘Official verified’ isn’t a thing on bluesky. It’s self-verification, just means you own the domain.

Most western governments are terrorist. Can you name an administration that isn’t guilty of war crimes? Should they all be automatically blocked from socials?

auraithx ,

US govt has been doing that for a long time outside America. Obama incinerated plenty of kids where’s the calls to have him removed?

Just seems a bit racist is all

Do we need more users ?

Following https://tarte.nuage-libre.fr/c/fediverse/p/194717/we-need-more-users I decided to explore data a little bit more. I'm not the biggest fan of growth-as-as-target so I wanted to see how much the people were participating in the discussion. ...

A graph of posts per users and comments per user since beginning of 2024: posts per user is relatively stable, but comments per user is on the rise
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auraithx ,

I’m only here for the political posts. I’d visit more often if there were more people/posts.

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auraithx ,

Me either, but only because there was no internet til high school.

Then I got my dad’s hand-me-down PowerMac g3 in my room. 300MHz of glory, downloading pics of titties one column at a time. Good times. 🥹

auraithx ,

Especially those who can afford to go to the World Cup.

My FILs pal is spending over £100,000 to take him and his 3 pals.

auraithx ,

He’s a billionaire he’s more likely going to be paying to hunt prisoners from El Salvador for sport if we’re being honest.

auraithx ,

Feart of the wrath of the orange jobbie

auraithx ,

They’ve started ‘surgical strikes’ on ‘cartel members’ in Mexico too.

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auraithx ,

And once you’re invaluable you can reply ‘No’

auraithx ,

Harrison!

auraithx OP ,

Look back in 80-year blocks to 1946, 1866, and 1786, etc and you’ll see a repeated pattern where the established order collapses and the monsters fill the vacuum.

What makes today different is that tech has created a post-truth environment that dissolves shared reality, making it much harder to kill the monsters and build a consensus than it was previously.

auraithx ,

It’s unjust hierarchy that’s bad.

Parent/child, teacher/student, expert/novice, etc are fine of course.

auraithx ,

Probably after the upcoming ‘Democracy for Cuba’ campaign.

auraithx ,

Don’t be daft he has regime changes in Cuba and Nicaragua to get to first. Mexico will just get increasing surgical strikes.

auraithx ,

Excess testosterone will be converted into estrogen by the body, for anyone else confused as to why we all didn’t have boobs.

Testosterone itself (in the body) suppresses boob growth.

auraithx ,

Aye, but if the dose of T is not too high (a person can need a certain level to feel healthy), their doctor can prescribe a Aromatase inhibitor instead (the enzyme which converts T -> E)

However, if they leave it too long (1yr+) and the tissue becomes fibrotic; then surgery is the only way to remove it. So your hypothetical has no doubt happened.

auraithx ,

It does they just envision a much larger America.

Cuba and Nicaragua next before the mid-terms.

auraithx ,

The type of oil they have is the one that the US refineries that were built before the fracking boom need.

And not to be the one defending oil companies, but when Trump says ‘they stole our oil’, he means they seized billions of dollars in American-owned assets without providing the "just compensation" required by international law. International tribunals agreed and ordered retribution but then Maduro just refused to pay.

AOC Slams Operation To Capture Maduro: 'It's About Oil And Regime Change' ( www.latintimes.com )

"It's not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn't have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It's about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn't. Especially to distract from Epstein + skyrocketing healthcare costs," she claimed in a social media publication.

auraithx ,

Well if you’re a fascist who doesn’t care about blending of the state with capital then it’s a pretty strong argument.

They did sign contracts, let American companies build a bunch of infrastructure, then seized it at gunpoint.

Iran, Iraq, etc done similar things, but Venezuela is pretty unique in that it lost the international legal cases and still refused to pay retribution.

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  • “Fascist to the core... the most dangerous person to this country.” — Gen. Mark Milley, Trump’s Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Highest-ranking military officer). Status: Trump has suggested he should be executed for treason.
  • “He fits the general definition of fascist... he certainly prefers the dictator approach.” — Gen. John Kelly, Trump’s White House Chief of Staff and retired Marine General. Status: Trump has attacked him as "dumb," "weak," and a "low life."
  • “Effort to subjugate American democracy by mob rule, was fomented by Mr. Trump.” — Gen. James Mattis, Trump’s first Secretary of Defense and retired Marine General. Status: Trump labeled him the "world’s most overrated general."
  • “I do regard him as a threat to democracy... I think he’s unfit for office.” — Mark Esper, Trump’s second Secretary of Defense. Status: Fired after refusing Trump's order to "just shoot" protesters in the legs.
  • “His sense of betrayal drove him to abandon his oath to ‘support and defend the Constitution,’ a president’s highest obligation.” — Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, Trump’s second National Security Adviser. Status: Publicly attacked by Trump as "naive."
  • “Anyone who puts himself over the Constitution should never be president of the United States.” — Mike Pence, Trump’s Vice President. Status: Trump has spent years attacking him for refusing to overturn the election.
  • “A consummate narcissist... our country can’t be a therapy session for a troubled man like this.” — Bill Barr, Trump’s second Attorney General. Status: Trump has called him a "weak," "lazy," and "RINO" coward.
  • “I understand what you want to do, but you can’t do it that way. It violates the law.” — Rex Tillerson, Trump’s first Secretary of State. Status: Fired; Trump called him "dumb as a rock" and "lazy."
  • “He has never cared about America... his conduct and mere existence have hastened the demise of democracy.” — Ty Cobb, Trump’s White House Lawyer during the Russia investigation. Status: Dismissed by Trump as a "weak lawyer."
  • “He makes up what he wants to say... how little of American history he knows.” — John Bolton, Trump’s third National Security Adviser. Status: Trump calls him a "wacko" and a "disgruntled boring fool."
  • “We don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator.” — Gen. Mark Milley, during his farewell address as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
auraithx ,

They did.

No internal monologue gang rise up

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Aye that’ll do it 🤣

Bernie Sanders criticizes AI as ‘the most consequential technology in humanity’ ( www.theguardian.com )

US senator Bernie Sanders amplified his recent criticism of artificial intelligence on Sunday, explicitly linking the financial ambition of “the richest people in the world” to economic insecurity for millions of Americans – and calling for a potential moratorium on new datacenters. ...

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The reasoning models were the breakthrough in its ability to reason and understand?

AI has solved 50-year-old grand challenges in biology. AlphaFold has predicted the structures of nearly all known proteins, a feat of "understanding" molecular geometry that will accelerate drug discovery by decades.

We aren't just seeing a "faster horse" in communication; we are seeing the birth of General Purpose Technologies that can perform cognitive labor. Stagnation is unlikely because, unlike the internet (which moved information), AI is beginning to generate solutions.

  1. Protein folding solved at near-experimental accuracy, breaking a 50-year bottleneck in biology and turning structure prediction into a largely solved problem at scale.

  2. Prediction and public release of structures for nearly all known proteins, covering the entire catalogued proteome rather than a narrow benchmark set.

  3. Proteome-wide prediction of missense mutation effects, enabling large-scale disease variant interpretation that was previously impossible by human analysis alone.

  4. Weather forecasting models that outperform leading physics-based systems on many accuracy metrics while running orders of magnitude faster.

  5. Probabilistic weather forecasting that exceeds the skill of top operational ensemble models, improving uncertainty estimation, not just point forecasts.

  6. Formal mathematical proof generation at Olympiad level difficulty, producing verifiable proofs rather than heuristic or approximate solutions.

  7. Discovery of new low-level algorithms, including faster sorting routines, that were good enough to be merged into production compiler libraries.

  8. Discovery of improved matrix multiplication algorithms, advancing a problem where progress had been extremely slow for decades.

  9. Superhuman long-horizon strategic planning in Go, a domain where brute force search is infeasible and abstraction is required.

  10. Identification of novel antibiotic candidates by searching chemical spaces far beyond what human-led methods can feasibly explore.

auraithx ,

You’re assuming that transformation only counts when it yields visible scientific breakthroughs. That overlooks how many technologies reshape economies by compressing time, labor, and coordination across everyday work. When a tool removes friction from millions of small interactions, its cumulative effect can be structural even if each individual use feels modest, much like spreadsheets, search engines, or email once did.

The distinction between predictive systems and LLMs is broadly right, but in practice the boundary is porous. Most high-impact AI systems still rely on classical predictive models, optimization methods, and domain-specific algorithms, while LLMs increasingly act as a control and translation layer. They map ambiguous human intent into structured actions, route tasks across tools, and integrate heterogeneous systems that previously required expert interfaces. This does not make LLMs the source of breakthroughs, but it does make them central to how breakthroughs scale, combine, and reach non-experts.

The reasoning critique strengthens when framed around control and guarantees rather than capability. LLMs do generalize to new problems, so their limitation is not simple memorization. Their reasoning emerges from next-token prediction, not from an explicit objective tied to truth, proof, or logical consistency. This architecture optimizes for plausibility and coherence, sometimes producing fluent but unfounded claims. The problem is not that LLMs reason poorly, but that they reason without dependable constraints.

The hallucination problem can be substantially reduced, but within a single LLM it cannot be eliminated. That limit, however, applies to models, not necessarily to systems. Multi-model and hybrid architectures already point toward ways of approaching near-perfect reliability. Retrieval and grounding modules can verify claims against live data, tool use can offload factual and computational tasks to systems with hard guarantees, and ensembles of models can cross-check, critique, and converge on shared answers. In such configurations, the LLM serves as a reasoning interface while external components enforce truth and precision. The remaining difficulty lies in coordination, ensuring that every step, claim, and interpretation remains tied to verifiable evidence. Even then, edge cases, underspecified prompts, or novel domains can reintroduce small error rates. But in principle, hallucination can be driven to vanishingly low levels when language models are treated as parts of truth-preserving systems rather than isolated generators.

The compute and energy debate is directionally sensible but unsettled. It assumes progress through brute-force scaling toward brain-like complexity, yet history shows that architectural shifts, hybridization, and efficiency gains often reset apparent limits. Real constraints are likely, but their location and severity remain uncertain.

Where your argument is strongest is on incentives. The current investment cycle undoubtedly rewards short-term monetisation and narrative dominance over long-term scientific and infrastructural progress. This dynamic can crowd out foundational research in safety, evaluation, and interpretability. Yet, as in past bubbles, the aftermath tends to leave behind useful assets, tools, datasets, compute capacity, and talent, that more serious work can build upon once the hype cools.

auraithx ,

LLMs do not reason in the human sense of maintaining internal truth states or causal chains, sure. They predict continuations of text, not proofs of thought. But that does not make the process ‘fake’. Through scale and training, they learn statistical patterns that encode the structure of reasoning itself, and when prompted to show their work they often reconstruct chains that reflect genuine intermediate computation rather than simple imitation.

Stating that some errors appear isolated is fair, but the conclusion drawn from it is not. Human reasoning also produces slips that fail to propagate because we rebuild coherence as we go. LLMs behave in a similar way at a linguistic level. They have no persistent beliefs to corrupt, so an error can vanish at the next token rather than spread. The absence of error propagation does not prove the absence of reasoning. It shows that reasoning in these systems is reconstructed on the fly rather than carried as a durable mental state.

Calling it marketing misses what matters. LLMs generate text that functions as a working simulation of reasoning, and that simulation produces valid inferences across a broad range of problems. It is not human thought, but it is not empty performance either. It is a different substrate for reasoning, emergent, statistical, and language-based, and it can still yield coherent, goal-directed outcomes.

auraithx ,

I didn’t call it human-like reasoning? Just that reasoning isn’t limited to human-like reasoning.

Have already covered your other points in this comment

auraithx ,

So what percent is AI?

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Scotland too please

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Antifaschistische Aktion (1932), established as a "red united front" to combat Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party and their paramilitary wing

Prior to this there was also Arditi del Popolo (1921)

auraithx ,

Had some manic schizophrenic cunt running a targeted harassment campaign at me aw week cause I told him to fuck up and stop posting holocaust denial shite.

But up the west end for Christmas jumper night oot wea the lads tomorrow 🍻

auraithx ,

Complex, integrated electrical patterns rather than just the presence of a specific chemical.

The measure of electrical activity in the motor cortex (visible via EEG) that builds up milliseconds before a person makes a conscious, voluntary movement. It’s distinct from the sharp spike of a reflex.

If the action originates from the Prefrontal Cortex (executive function/planning), it’s generally considered "conscious effort." If the signal bypasses the cortex and stays in the brainstem or spinal cord, it’s a reflex.

auraithx ,

Your definition of consciousness as any "internal state correlating to external state" is functionally too broad; by this metric, a mercury thermometer possesses a "world model" and is therefore conscious, which renders the term useless for distinguishing complex biology from simple causality. Phenomena like crown shyness are better explained by mechanical feedback loops, essentially biological if/then statements based on light and abrasion, rather than a self-aware "sense of self." A true "thought" or "world model" requires the capacity for "offline" simulation (counterfactuals) decoupled from immediate sensory input, whereas plants are entirely reactive ("online") and current AI lacks continuous internal state. Ultimately, you are conflating reception (reflexive data intake) with perception (integrated awareness), failing to distinguish between the mechanism of a map and the subjective experience of the territory.

auraithx ,

We also can't know "for certain" that a rock isn't screaming silently, or that there isn't a china teapot orbiting the sun between Earth and Mars. Science doesn't deal in absolute certainties; it deals in probabilities based on evidence. There is zero evidence for plant consciousness and massive evidence against it.

Consciousness, as far as we observe it in the entire animal kingdom, is an emergent property of a centralized nervous system processing information. Plants lack neurons, a brain, or any substrate capable of integrating information into a unified experience.

Claiming a plant might be conscious is like claiming a calculator might be running Call of Duty. It’s not that we "don't know", it's that the hardware simply cannot run that software.

Evolutionarily, consciousness (and specifically the ability to feel pain or fear) is a mechanism to trigger escape or avoidance. Since plants are sessile (they cannot move), developing a complex, energy-expensive system to "feel" damage would be a massive evolutionary disadvantage. Why would nature select for an organism that can feel being eaten but do absolutely nothing about it?

auraithx ,

Those paragraphs outlined the evidence which explain why it’s as improbable as any other nonsense statement.

auraithx ,

I was using "chemical" as a shorthand for simple, automatic biological triggers to contrast them against complex, integrated networking.

i.e, for a Venus fly trap, a trigger (like a fly touching a hair) releases chemicals (ions like Calcium) that cause an electrical wave. This wave forces water to move quickly out of cells (turgor pressure), making the leaf collapse shut.

Consciousness is measurable because it’s not just that simple chemical reflex. It is the complex electrical buildup (readiness potential) in the brain's cortex that happens before the action.