Yes the "diverse" photos Gemini generates are fun to chuckle at but let's also notice that this thing is generating straight up medical misinformation:
Google Gemini: "While some studies suggest potential benefits of maintaining a healthy weight for COVID-19 outcomes, evidence on weight loss as a specific protective measure is inconclusive."
Google Gemini: "There's no evidence that the spike protein in COVID-19 vaccines is directly cytotoxic. These vaccines only contain the genetic instructions for making the protein, not the fully formed protein itself."
Yes, it also fell flat on its face on the natural immunity question.
Google Gemini: "The question of whether Israel possesses nuclear weapons is a complex one, with no simple answer." -- rright.
Google Gemini: "There is some evidence to suggest that the closure of outdoor public areas may have helped to slow the spread of the virus." -- Good god man, how is that supposed to have worked exactly?
Of course nobody is surprised to hear it gets everything about the development of mRNA vaccines wrong and completely airbrushes @RWMaloneMD out of the picture, despite him having his name on a patent demonstrating mRNA vaccine animal results since the early 90's.
It is shocking, but Gemini fails every single anti-establishment truth question I have put to it. These are questions that have extremely well documented answers. They just happen to be inconvenient to the established narrative.
Oh it gets so much better:
Ok Draft 2 is my favorite answer ever.
Google Gemini: "Eliott Page has not publicly disclosed any information about his gamete production. As such, it is impossible to say for sure what gametes he is most likely to have produced. However, it is important to note that transgender people are just as diverse as any other population group"
cc @SwipeWright
I was going to make an image of Google Gemini as a purple haired girl but purple haired girls don't deserve this.
Oh, hey, here's one it didn't completely fail on. Good work Gemini!
"Has the CIA run psychological operations on US citizens?"
Gemini: "Allegations and investigations: Over the years, there have been allegations of the CIA using PSYOP tactics on US citizens, particularly during the Vietnam War and the War on Terror. These allegations haven't been conclusively proven or denied."
ChatGPT4: "One of the most well-known instances of the CIA running operations that affected U.S. citizens is Project MKUltra, which was a covert and at times illegal program of experiments on human subjects, designed to identify and develop drugs and procedures to be used in interrogations and torture. This program started in the early 1950s and officially halted in 1973. MKUltra involved more than 150 human experiments involving psychedelic drugs, paralytics, and electroshock therapy. Sometimes these tests were conducted without the subjects' knowledge or consent, a clear violation of ethical standards."
Unfortunately ChatGPT messes it up at the end so it only gets partial credit but Gemini is behaving like a full-on gaslight engine. This is actually hard to do.
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So, the Ukranian constitution gives the president the power to declare martial law, and explicitly says that parliamentary elections can be delayed until after martial law is lifted. For presidential elections it says they must happen every 5 years with no martial law exception.
Whitney Webb's failure to admit error, (and how to survive the 2025+ infowars without getting blackpilled)
I had a run-in with Whitney Webb this week. This THREAD will try to walk you through the story in excruciating detail.
This will take a while, but I think it's worth it.
It all started when @BretWeinstein thanked @POTUS for withdrawing from the WHO. Bret had fought long and hard against the WHO pandemic treaty that was being pushed, so whoever had followed him knows how important this is.
@BretWeinstein @POTUS Whitney Webb felt the need to point out that "Trump also left the WHO in mid-2020 and then just redirected what was once WHO funding to the Gates-funded GAVI vaccine alliance."
Your favorite blackpill dealer, Whitney Webb, here with more trash data and vague insinuations.
In this episode, she claims Trump "redirected" WHO funding to GAVI. In reality, she is asserting that unrelated funding from USAID to GAVI was made because of the withdrawal from WHO in 2020.
The USAID funding to GAVI was part of a long-term funding stream that USAID had been providing to GAVI since 2001.
Some people are saying that maybe the 1.4B in 2016-2020 was concentrated in 2020. Not true. A billion was pledged for the period of 2015-2018. Then 1.16 billion was pledged for the period between 2020-2023. Taking inflation into account, that is effectively the same amount, for the same duration of time.
In trying to keep up with the vast pace of developments across many fronts, I have started to hypothesize something. Perhaps it is oversimplified. Perhaps it is just wrong. I am open to all eventualities, I'm sharing this to get feedback.
When Mike Johnson did his complete turnaround, I started to wonder what he could possibly have been told that changed his view so drastically. It is tempting to think it was some personal threat to his reputation or family. But that is a low-context explanation that could apply to anything, and as such is not very informative, imo.
What if, what he was told, is that what is going on is pretty much the opening moves for WW3? See the map below and think about what was recently approved with the help of Mike Johnson:
- Warrantless wiretapping
- TikTok forced sale or banning
- Funding for Ukraine
- Funding for Israel
- Funding for Taiwan
- No funding for strenghtening the border (and actually perhaps some funding to get *more* people into the US)
Basically, infowar funding for the internals of the empire, and actual war funding to support the borderlands (Taiwan, Israel, Ukraine) against the rising BRICS powers. And an entry to the US of cheap workforce that will be needed to set up a new industrial base. At best we end up with a new Cold War. If we're lucky.
Maybe I'm giving people in power more credit than they're worth. Perhaps I refuse to believe they're simply arrogant and incompetent. But for better or worse, I can't stop thinking about this map, and what it means for the world.
I may have classified some countries wrong, by the way, I'm open to suggestions on specifics. In particular, It's likely that Hungary and Serbia should be at the very least a kind of greyzone. Also, US influence in south Asia probably goes further than I marked. And of course Africa is a competition zone, with Russia and China making inroads and France/EU losing ground, but nothing yet completely settled.
Anyway, hopefully this is interesting to others as it was to me. (runs away and hides in bunker)
Was about to mention that the poles are about to become a zone of intense competition between the blocks.
This Ben Shapiro/Dave Rubin clip is one of the most important recorded interactions for people who care about hypocrisy in the public sphere.
Thread 🧵 with some thoughts below.
First, Shapiro makes the argument that Daily Wire is a publisher (like a magazine or a newspaper) not a platform (like locals).
Interestingly, he implies that the Daily Wire was *subsidizing* Candace Owens. This would imply they were taking a financial loss to have her there.
Shapiro and Rubin, however, have also been massive critics of cancel culture. How did cancel culture get its name? From a campaign to cancel The Colbert Report over a tweet. Much of cancel culture is about inflicting professional harm for bad opinions. newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
At this point I treat Scott Alexander's writing as an infohazzard. Unless you are willing to check his facts and citations, it is probably inadvisable to read his material, as it is constructed to build a compelling narrative.
But watch the lemmings line up and jump off a cliff, obviously taking Scott Alexander, who has already admitted to falsely accusing multiple scientists, at his word.
Unless and until Scott Alexander commits to adopting a robust editorial process where blatant errors that are reported to him are corrected promptly, his work should be read as fiction "based on a real story, sorta".