Lady Death Becomes Her
I have come to your [terrible website] as the representative of Soviet youth. I hope my visit may have some useful results.
- “But the methodology for extracting these takeaways is unclear. The government says that it used multiple AI tools […] before using an in-house classification pipeline” In other words, they didn't like the results, so rewired lie generating machine until they did betakit.com/ottawa-relea...
- This is a clear and direct example of government using "AI" to launder data and lend legitimacy to whatever conclusions they want. I strongly doubt these takeaways, which absolutely reek of known corrupt fraud Evan Solomon, actually reflect the survey data at all
- Even with that aside, practically this whole thing is essentially talking about categorizing analyzed sentiment of free-form text. Specific method of doing so aside, this is an absolutely bonkers way to collect survey data on an issue like this
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View full threadIt's often said that bourgeois electoral politics is like sports fandom, but it goes unmentioned that most people are absolutely shitfaced at the game, to the point where they won't even remember anything tomorrow
- The Snowrites paradox: throwing a single shovel-full of your snow mountain in the street to get rid of it doesn't make you a jerk, but shoveling your entire snow mountain on to the street does. At what point did you become a jerk?
- You know it's a good joke when it needs a citation and it still isn't very funny, so here you go en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites...
- This high-quality internet humor brought to you by anxiety issues and minor back injuries
- Tired of "dude with Christian stuff in bio who thinks we should kill the homeless"? Try "dude with Buddhist stuff in bio who's very attached to how smart they are"!
- I think something being overlooked in all this Canada nukes discourse is that talking about nuking the US is very funny. 1812 Round 2: This Time We Burn The Fucking Molecules
- Don't worry, there will still be a ballroom. The ball in question:
- (For the love of god, elbows up libs, don't come in here posting flags and taking this nonsense seriously, it's very tedious having to sprinkle "Markkk Carney" or whatever everywhere to ward you off)
- Counterpoint: cowards who care about popularity (derogatory). It is right to rebel! Only when you can post that Jay is literally Hitler (worse than?) are you truly free
- The US right now is a great example of what happens when you let a popularity contest run the show. Posting bad is posting good! "Too close" is the language of one who makes mistakes. No! Fly directly at the sun with the kamikaze spirit! The moths shall inherit the earth
- How does this garbage site that prides itself on providing tools or whatever not have any kind of "search within my followers/network"? It's so impossible to find anything here, and this is so trivial to implement, that I have to wonder what the incompetence:malice ratio is here
- The libertarian devs who pride themselves on reducing "toxicity" have a search feature that will give you endless results of dumbasses just begging to be dunked on, even when you're not looking for that, and then they blanket censor the whole site with shitty "AI"
- I think I said something like this before, but the state of social media in general (very much including this dump) is so bad that I'd be relatively happy with an actually competent techno-libertarian one
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View full threadI suppose I should take this opportunity to shout out @tim0theos.bsky.social for the Nafo Blocklist, which does a decent job of solving the original problem that inspired this rant (may I never see one of those stupid fucking dogs again). I eventually found it on blueskydirectory.com
- I’ve been marking up EPUB books lately, and it’s renewed my appreciation for how vastly superior XCompose is to the extended character entry systems on the other operating systems. If you have a decent configuration—see below—you can just guess how to type whatever thing and be right 99% of the time
- I’ve been using this one for many years. There’s probably other ones out there by now, but I don’t know anything about that because I’ve never had a need to github.com/kragen/xcomp...
- Liberal "communists" are something else. I've seen several liberal "communist" Stancil shooters on this hellsite today for example. Thing is, I have some good friends that are essentially this, and they're... fine, but y'all need to not argue politics online. That's not for you. You look very silly
- Here I don't mean communists with some liberal tendencies, or those who just haven't quite gotten over their obsession with electoralism, etc, but the people who are just straight-up liberals but fancy calling themselves "communists" for who knows what incoherent idealistic reason
- (Clarification is necessary because the usual definition of "liberal" is, of course, "pretty much anyone who disagrees with me")
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View full threadLiberals are as ruthless at destroying thought as their monstrous economic system is at destroying people and the planet
