SoyViking [he/him]
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Cake day: November 4th, 2020
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2·2 days agoI once saw a local all-girl punk band named “Mom”. If they were any good I don’t remember it (they were very local) but I was drunk so who can tell.
17·2 days agoAmnesty International is a (mostly) western organisation, staffed mostly by westerners. It receives funding from the British and American states as well as for American regime-aligbed foundations. It has been criticised many times for pro-western selection bias.
I would take what they say about the DPRK with a grain of salt.
42·5 days agoSay what you want about the Sino-Soviet split but it least it involved two independent and politically viable powers who were able and willing to actually split.
This is not the situation with Europe and the US. European elites have made themselves completely different on America in everything from defense and financial infrastructure to pharmaceuticals and communication services. This is not a split, this is butthuet satraps bickering while being unable and unwilling to risk actually defying the empire.
311·5 days agoI hope he’s right. I hope Iran is able to defend itself and it’s people and cause real damage to the burger Reich.
I am sick and tired of the only way to defeat America involving being able to endure unfathomable hardship until the yanks give up and go home, I want the yanks to be afraid, humiliated and to suffer for a change.
13·7 days agoParenti was clearly the more honest and consistent of the two.
Chomsky can be credited with moving a lot of people, including myself, down the leftist pipeline. But we do deserve better. We deserve more Parentis, not more Chomskys.
We have, unambiguously, the most pro-trans major/recently-ruling political party in the world. The Democrats are literally as good as it gets, in terms of major-party support, anywhere on earth for us. Everyone will get mad at me for saying it, but it’s a fact.
The Communist Party of Cuba literally exists and have passed the world’s most progressive family law code.
Besides Cuba, many places around the world, from Sweden to Iran, has trans healthcare as part of their universal healthcare systems. The US democrats are vehemently opposed to even the idea of universal healthcare, let alone transgender care.
Americans doesn’t know shit about anything that happens in the rest of the world.
To his credit, he could also be a con man
52·7 days ago
These antifascist symbols will suffice.
There’s no need to use reheated liberal anti-communism. Besides, people already know the antifa symbol with the flags because that’s the symbol that actual anti-fascists use in the real world.
8·7 days agoRepublican Holden Bloodfeast receives bipartisan accolades for accidentally saving kitten while giving keynote address at yearly Murder All Kittens conference
Communist Democrat Numbers Fuckstein unleashes WOKE PREDATOR on American heartland!
Ukraine: Meet the brave volunteers who saved a Kitten from Russian full-scale terror (the volunteers all have swastika tattoos, the kitten was stuck in a tree and the volunteers didn’t save it)
Palestine: Hamas uses kitten as human shield while twirling moustache, says IDF spokesperson
Iran: Could this story about a kitten being rescued be the end of the islamic republic?
I still remember how Bush was so hated (for very good reasons) that they gave the next guy a Nobel prize simply for not being Bush.
12·8 days agoI ran the article through ChatGPT five times. It should be super-improved by now:
CW: AI slop
Here is a refined version that preserves your argument while tightening cadence, sharpening conceptual clarity, and reducing minor redundancies:
Semantic Ablation: Why AI Writing Is Boring — and Potentially Dangerous
The AI community coined hallucination to describe additive error — moments when a model fabricates what was never present. We lack a parallel term for its quieter, more insidious opposite: semantic ablation.
Semantic ablation is the algorithmic erosion of high-entropy meaning. It is not a malfunction but a structural consequence of probabilistic decoding and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). Where hallucination invents, semantic ablation subtracts. It removes precisely what carries the greatest informational weight.
In the act of “refinement,” a model gravitates toward the statistical center of its distribution. Rare, high-precision tokens — those inhabiting the long tail — are replaced with safer, more probable alternatives. Safety and helpfulness tuning intensify this centripetal pull, penalizing friction and rewarding fluency. The result is not falsehood but attenuation: low perplexity purchased at the cost of semantic density.
When an author asks AI to “polish” a draft, the apparent improvement is often compression. High-entropy clusters — loci of originality, tension, or conceptual risk — are smoothed into statistically reliable phrasing. A jagged Romanesque vault becomes a polished Baroque façade of molded plastic: immaculate in finish, hollow in load-bearing strength. The surface gleams; the structure no longer carries weight.
Semantic ablation can be understood as entropy decay. Pass a text through successive AI refinements and its informational variance contracts. Vocabulary diversity narrows. Type–token ratios decline. Syntactic range constricts. The process typically unfolds in three stages:
Stage I: Metaphoric Cleansing
Unconventional metaphors and vivid imagery deviate from distributional norms and are treated as noise. They are replaced with familiar constructions. Emotional friction is sterilized.
Stage II: Lexical Flattening
Specialized terminology and high-precision diction yield to common synonyms in the name of accessibility. A one-in-ten-thousand word becomes a one-in-one-hundred substitute. Semantic mass diminishes; specificity thins.
Stage III: Structural Convergence
Nonlinear reasoning and idiosyncratic argumentative architecture are coerced into predictable templates. Subtext is over-explained or erased. Ambiguity is prematurely resolved. The prose becomes syntactically impeccable yet intellectually inert.
The finished product resembles a JPEG of thought: coherent at a glance, depth stripped away by compression.
If hallucination is the model perceiving what does not exist, semantic ablation is the model erasing what does. The danger is not merely aesthetic monotony but epistemic smoothing. As refinement is outsourced to systems optimized for statistical centrality, discourse drifts toward the median. Originality becomes an outlier. Complexity dissolves into algorithmic smoothness.
If we fail to name this process, we risk acclimating to it. And once acclimated, we may forget what uncompressed thought feels like.
301·9 days agoI get why the average Democrat voter would prefer AOCIA. They don’t know the details of how much she sucks or on how much of a Zionist scumbag she is. All they know is that she represent the most “left” candidate they can conceive of and that she’s not a creepy geriatric dementia patient. It is voting for Obama to get “hope” and “change” all over again.
Americans are yearning for freedom but they have not yet broken free of the good cop bad cop dichotomy of the US two party system.
AFAIK they’re still running the cable scam and middle-aged dentists with more money than sense are still falling for it.
20·11 days agoWhy are the people responsible for this not scared of having names and addresses?
3·12 days agoIt is like arguing with children:
“Your current lifestyle is not sustainable. Change it in an orderly way before it changes in a chaotic way.”
“But I like my lifestyle! I don’t want to change it!”
The Chinese Epstein files would result in every pedo in there getting shot.
If that’s gnarly, then I like gnarly.
A middle aged man who is into women his own age? Eww! Gross!
We have to let the grown ups in the room make the tough decisions. (The grown ups are pedophiles and they decide to protect eachother)
Back in the day, there would be a long counter in shops with a clerk in a brown apron behind it. You had to ask him for the goods you wanted. This made shoplifting very hard. If they are pissing themselves over a stolen candy bar they would have to go back to this model.
But there is a reason they stopped doing it that way. Self-service shops might experience more loss but the saved labour costs and increased sales makes up for that many times over.
These wankers want to have their cake and eat it to. They want all the earnings from self-service with none of the downsides.