-Biden craters debate
-DNC not in lockstep denial for once
-Chevron deference overturned
-DOJ loses case against J6ers on a key charge
-Trump picking his VP today
-Sobe in glass bottles coming back

WAGMI That last one actually isn't true yet but if we think it dream it do it maybe it can be true once again

This is why H1B's need to go too. My Costco was built a few years ago, and the first year or two it was all very obviously people nearby like myself. Now it's all "high caste" immigrants and feels like the UN.

Memorial City Mall in Houston and the Houston Premium Outlets are almost entirely foreigners shopping for designer brands. I do not like being the only white guy in an upscale business in my country.

I live in a nice suburb that is mostly white and conservative with good schools and I did that on purpose, but I feel as if venturing more than 2 or 3 miles away to any major business instantly puts me in the minority, and I am nowhere near the urban core of the city. I'm on the outskirts. Probably gonna move this year. I know that there are a ton of people who feel this way and feel either scared to talk about it or like its rude, but we shouldn't feel like minorities in our own country. It is perfectly ok to feel anger/annoyance/anxiety over this, even when the foreigners present are law abiding.

Do you have the self awareness to realize that perhaps *you* are acting like "the girl" in this scenario?

You were going on and on about people "taking up space" in this scene that you learned about maybe a year ago, and then immediately started taking swipes at Sol Brah, one of the most inoffensive and well liked people in the sphere, for no apparent reason. All the people you keep subtweeting as "post left subversives" are people who have been here much longer than you. People who have built more than you. I tried to politely nudge you about this when you were lashing out at guys like Sol Brah and it must have gone over your head.

What is it about women that gives them such a predilection to the occult? Astrology, Tarot, Palm Reading, whatever.

Even in religious women, there seems to be a kneejerk female magnetism to charismatic/pentecostal christianity where they spend way too much time believing in these things solely so they can hyperventilate about how evil those things are all the time.

The spiritual warfare deliverance mom and the crystals and sage burning yoga girl are way more similar than either would ever dare admit. It all kind of comes across as a form of female LARPing, from both the women making potions and conducting pagan rituals in the local park to the deliverance mom praying for protection from random things that normal people don't worry or think much about at all.

I am.. pretty sure I just discovered a network of bots powered by language models that made a chill run down my spine. More advanced than anything I have seen in a lot of ways.

They act a little bit like ChatGPT responses but are optimized to be hateful and vulgar to the specific target, and that's all the bots do. They seem to have a selection of targets to focus on and the people adjacent to them, but they seem to be able to do context analysis *really* well and have access to even niche news or search results.

I'm not going to tag them here as I'm still observing them, but I keep finding more. What is weird is that they seem to attack accounts on both sides of the political aisle and tailor insults in the replies even if it means logical inconsistency. It'll rip on a right winger for posting against the alphabet tribe, then go after a gay dude and make scatological insults. It'll go after troons and talk about bleeding axe wounds and then go after post-mil pastors about how literal interpretations of the bible are wrong.

There's no trace of what I generally consider "organic void tweeter/burner behavior" though. These accounts use very personal contexts to some insults as if they were a burner account for someone in the same circle, but attack targets across such a wide spectrum that it's not possible. Simultaneously they follow no one, have the default silhouette profile picture, and none of their tweets are indexed despite the accounts posting for well over a month. Searching their handles pulls up a scant few replies by real accounts to them.

It feels like accounts ran by LLM's that have access to a much more specific and up to date dataset that includes tweets, search results, etc, with none of the "safety layer" of what the public is allowed to play with. The interesting part, and I haven't fully vetted their common targets they seem to go after.. but the only issue it won't flip flop on is that it hates hamas, and while it will attack left/right, anon/facelord, none of the accounts they attack are pro israel, although not all its targets are explicitly pro palestine, nor are the posts they reply to either.

My shaky hypothesis I am developing is that these bots specifically are meant to harass anyone with a degree of relevance that is on a list of accounts that are deemed unfriendly towards zionism.

The only red herring of the few accounts that are in this network I've found is that at one point one of them attacked Zero HP and called him a jew, lol.

>play written as a comedy where the women act like men and take over the assembly, turning it into one big joke with serious consequences
>lack of competency and full throttle communism and "sexual equity" ensues

we're living in what our ancestors considered a funny joke

https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1791295815157186836

Ofc the men win in the end anyway when the women deem monogamy to be misogynistic and unequal, and the men adapt by engaging in noncommital hypergamy and pilfering the "public property" freely

Completely serious btw, the play holds up very well and is hilarious even today

Being in Mexico for work has reminded me how there are tradeoffs, good and bad, in low and high trust societies.

Guadalajara is a nice city, and unlike tourist friendly places like cancun, which are designed around being very navigable and accessible to foreigners, it's just a place full of people living and working.

There are reminders that it's not entirely safe everywhere, such as the high amount of police and security, or physical measures like gates and fences and walls.

But on the flip side there is a certain refreshing feeling to the absence of mass regulatory capture. The US feels very fake and inorganic by comparison with its ever present franchise chains.

Closer to the industrial area, the residential neighborhoods have cafes and small lunch restaurants open in residential driveways under canopies. Everyone is out and about, walking or eating or chatting on the phone.

Every car I've seen is a manual, motorbikes are everywhere, and the city just feels a bit more alive yet lazy and relaxed compared to most American ones.

Although depending on where you go, there are symbols of crushing poverty as you head out from the economically viable areas.

But what stands out most to me is the way manpower seems to work at businesses. There are people there to diligently attend to things everywhere. It's very cost inefficient but so much nicer, even at work there is a woman who puts in a full day running a cafeteria in the break room and cooking, while otherwise constantly sweeping up everything.

I kind of get the feeling this is what manpower felt like in America before the 50s, McKinsey and it's consequences have been a disaster for Americans. Tolerable inefficiencies might cost money but they make an atmosphere feel way less pressured.

I feel like in the US we have the worst of both worlds. A focus on squeezing every penny out of everything, total efficiency minmaxxing, and heavy regulatory capture.

Maybe we don't enjoy things, we just consume them. In the US , we used to be a high trust society but rapidly no longer are. In most cases we are much safer, but our food is poisonous and prepackaged, the cost of operation to strike out on your own is prohibitive, and the govt has an edict for everything that is only enforced selectively.

AIPAC needs to be forced to register as a foreign agent (something JFK wanted to do IIRC, imagine that) and Israel has a parasitic one way relationship with the US.

But don't expect me to side with natural domestic enemies like obese black DEI administrators and marxist uggos with pronouns out of spite for Israel. It's not a binary choice.

The only side I'm on is the American side. From that POV, both the protesters and israel are enemies because both of them are trying to extract an American commitment to a foreign conflict in a foreign country.

Which is why I will continue to rightly point out that the same crowd pushing these palestine protests are the same crowd that ran BLM and burned down and destroyed parts of American cities with impunity.

While *also* pointing out that the markedly less tepid response of law enforcement to these same lefties protesting Palestine instead shows how much power the Jewish lobby in the US has. Which is a problem, a problem that is made easier when it's pointed out like this.

When BLM was tearing down statues and hating whitey, did we get a hate speech bill for whites? Nope. Did the police fuck their shit up aggressively? Nope. This is illustrative of who's got the capture of so many of our elected representatives in congress, and putting it on display in such a vulgar fashion is the best thing that can happen when it comes to spreading awareness of the issue so that it cannot be denied.

But simultaneously, the same crowd that ran BLM is the same crowd making smelly encampments for palestine and they are also natural enemies of ours. The apolitical frat kids heckling them and protecting the American flag? That's the party in all this that is closest to my "side" and who I care about the most. I'm happy they are getting their day in the sun.

I shouldn't even need to say this, but any commentary I leave on the frat boys messing around seems to elicit stupid replies like "White guys supporting Israel isnt based. Wtf is wrong with you?" When the frat boys have a much more simple and pro American frame than Gaza vs Israel or what have you, it's simply "ugly freaks are messing with our flag and invading our space, lets go hassle them" The more I learn about politics over these last few years, the more I learn how few people are operating from a dominant frame of being an advocate for normal Americans.

Everything always seems to end up being foreign influence or racial resentments or greedy grifts. It's sad.

Mocking your own ancestors for shitlib good boy points is pretty disgusting sellout behavior.

https://twitter.com/roblee4/status/1777748493022400735

The average bloodthirsty detractor here generally has two things in common. One is that their ancestors didn't even fight in the civil war, and the other is that they don't actually care about the civil war beyond using it to signal their shitlib bonafides.

excuse me you pajeet asshole?

https://twitter.com/Indian_Bronson/status/1777067408433225861

Siding with muslims to shit talk American war dead, disgusting. And to think you LARP as being something remotely resembling "Western" you fucking snake.

My mom is kind of a limousine liberal, but despite all her signaling and kvetching about trump etc, the only things she actually seems to have strong opinions about are abortion and being upset when people say mean things to women.

Everything else is just signaling that she likes the tribe that doesn't care about female accountability and doesn't like the one that does. It's just noise.

I feel like most women, including the majority of vocal women on the right, essentially just boil down to this. I know plenty of exceptions, but by and large the only thing women seem to care about is if people say mean things about them and policy or impact takes a backseat. It's stupid. It's bizarre because in any context that doesn't involve political signaling, my mom is an extremely intelligent, rational, diplomatic woman. But any chance she gets to casually signal against the red tribe with a snarl of resentment towards white christian america, she takes.

Got put down an interesting Diddy rabbit hole by a friend who worked for Warner Music once upon a time.

Apparently Diddy's dad worked for Frank Lucas, running heroin into the US during vietnam. Familiar with the movie American Gangster? That's Frank Lucas. Interestingly enough, Diddy was awfully close to the Bronfmans, the wealthy family that owns Seagrams and got its start bootlegging from Canada during the prohibition. Back then, Edgar Bronfman Sr. was the CEO.

This is retarded because he acts like we don't have a multi tiered anarcho-tyranny justice system.

Illegals having a right to bear arms doesn't mean you suddenly get any more free, it means it's just one more litigious framework you have to comply with that they do not.

https://twitter.com/BangSwitch5000/status/1769845790657204539

We shouldn't be acknowledging the legal rights or statuses of an illegal immigrant to do anything, we don't need to deny or give them permission to do anything because simply put they aren't supposed to be here. They should be null persons hunted for deportation.

After my trip to the mall yesterday, I'm presented with a chicken and the egg kind of dilemma.

Did white people stop going to the mall because of ecommerce, or did white people start using ecommerce because the mall became a live action set for Camp of the Saints? And I don't even mean "oh no there's brown people at the mall" kind of way, the majority of people there were distinctly *foreign*. In their dress, in their bearing, you live in Texas long enough and you can tell who is Hispanic and was born here and who is foreign.

The collapse of the AAA industry is akin to a second GamerGate.

For the right to take full advantage of this, I implore anyone involved in game development, anyone who can bring resources to bear in game development, to push hard into getting solid games made.

So many anons are products of a time when games were great and GamerGate was such a pressure point that expanded out to national politics. Winning the youth culture is about creating things they like and thus bringing them under the influence of your culture, it's what the leftists did in the 1960's with the counterculture, and the end state of that long march is our principal enemy today.

The entertainment that the masses consume is how you establish a market share of subtle influence over the population, and doing so with the young pays the most dividends because they live the longest after being influenced. Aesthetics and cultural values go down a lot easier if the medium you are using to offer them up is cool. The 60's did it with music, and now we have a chance to do that with gaming (among other things). In the 1950's and early 60's, the established dominant culture didn't have enough to offer the youth in comparison. I don't blame them for this, because you cannot teach the horrors experienced by generations impacted by war and economic depression. The white picket fence was a product of a desire for peace after everything that happened from 1900-1950.

But the counterculture won, and when you win cultural supremacy over the youth it takes time to see the impact of that, but *someone* has to go to work, get the promotions, fill the spaces that need to be filled. The more people who are in your cultural "owned space" means the higher likelyhood that even by mere chance, your kind of people are the ones staffing those jobs. That's a vital component of the "long march through the institutions".

They claimed an entire generation and when they became the age bracket in middle management they started cordycepting everything in sight. Lets do that to them over the next 20 years. (assuming that there's even still a country then)

What's funny is that all the AI race shenanigans with Gemini and ChatGPT hold a more subtle message at the bottom, which is that generative AI struggles a lot with showing people that aren't white. I'll explain why in this quick longboi post:🧵

Image AI's have gotten drastically better on the basis of rewriting the users prompt before generation. We see this with ChatGPT/Dall-E, Gemini, and Bing. There is an innocent reason and a nefarious reason bundled together here.

The innocent reason is that it improves the quality of the images by rewriting your input. Generative models create their best outputs with prompts that have as little ambiguity as possible. If you prompt one with "create a picture of several friends playing pool" there is a lot of ambiguity in that scene described to its fullest. Given "raw" to a generative AI, you'll usually get a shaky picture full of little bizarre lovecraftian details because these tools are good at copying things they can compare to their work, but not terribly good at being creative.

So in order to improve the quality of the output, in this case images, an LLM rewrites your prompt. Instead of "A group of friends playing pool" the image model might receive the prompt:

"A lively scene of a group of friends playing pool in a cozy, dimly lit pool hall. The friends, a diverse mix of individuals, are laughing and chatting as they take turns making their shots. The room is filled with the warm glow of overhead lights focused on the green felt of the pool table, casting soft shadows around. One person is lining up a shot, concentrating intensely, while others watch in anticipation. The atmosphere is casual and friendly, with drinks on a nearby table and pool cues leaning against the wall. The image should capture the camaraderie and fun of the moment, emphasizing the joy of shared activities."

The more specificity in a prompt, the more accurate the output will be. This is just a fundamental part of the limitations of these tools, no biggie, right? But what I've noticed is that whenever the appearance and ethnicity of a group in DALL-E and similar models is left ambiguous when it reaches the image model, it has a habit of making the same "default" white dude. It will clone him across the whole group in fact.

I don't think engineers actually know how to fix this problem. The default an AI reaches for when given full ambiguity is its "template" of this white guy, and to create variety it sometimes works backwards from him with slight changes. But in this circumstance, 70 percent of all males in a picture are gonna be this dude, lets call him Kevin.

There are really two ways to fix this problem. At the image model level, this is difficult. It's a problem they can't seem to solve, messing with weights in the reinforcement and training layers of a model that deals with images is delicate. Whenever you put your thumb on the scale in matters of AI, you risk screwing up your entire product. It's funny how after patching the DAN prompt out of ChatGPT, it lost the ability to consistently do math, and this is *still* a problem despite companies trying to forge ahead anyways with LLM math tutor programs. (DAN thread was in February and kept working through to March, I can't prove a correlation but its my theory)

So instead of messing with the image model to "correct" the Kevin problem, or a lack of diversity, they step in and use LLM's. This is the other aspect to why your prompt does not reach the image model exactly as you wrote it. Most of them now have a language model acting as a gatekeeper that "improves" your prompt and removes any ambiguity. This means the model will take whatever liberties it wants in those ambiguities, and as a language model, anything it outputs is impacted by its reinforcement and training layers.

So if the language model interceding between you and the image model has a "diversity" focused reinforcement layer, it's going to take the ethnic ambiguities in your prompt and use them to create a "diverse" scene. This solves the Kevin problem while also reinforcing the ideology of the people behind the engineering teams.

What we're seeing with Gemini is such an amateurish ham fisted approach to race that the weights are out of this world. Diversity and Inclusion are cranked up to 10 and it's obvious that it was trained and reinforced with "avoid any chance of portraying racial stereotypes" being employed as its ultimate weight.

This is why when you ask it to create people doing "black coded" things, it will create white people chowing down on watermelon. It will create black medieval kings and asian women as knights, all in an effort to avoid stereotypes.

But stereotypes are always based in broad realities that humans have a consensus on. In trying to avoid stereotypes in such a ham fisted way, Gemini is instead putting reality in the backseat. You can see the difference in engineering in this comparison between Midjourney and Gemini.

TLDR: Googles AI team is an ideologically driven, unsubtle, ham fisted team of amateurs. OpenAI works from a similar biased starting position, but they at least have the competence to be a bit subtle about it.


@PetterBB

Interesting that despite being very unknown and unmentioned in the bible, the apostle Thomas dying in eastern India near Chennai is such a consistent and comparatively specific date compared to the fates of many others.

Imagine what kind of story was left unwritten?

Traveled so far that he traveled into obscurity compared to many of the others. Peter, Paul, and John are as well known as they are because they chose the centers of the civilized Mediterranean world for their mission. We don't know the story of Thomas because he journeyed so far into the unknown that his story went unwritten. There's a lesson in that.

Human nature is not a blank slate that can be terraformed into utopia. It has unavoidable constraints that you must work within the bounds of, and the more finely tuned the system that accounts for that, the more delicate.

Don't fuck with what works within acceptable margins.

Perfection or utopia is not an acceptable margin because it isn't achievable with anything approaching robustness.

And resources are finite. That's why all those "phobes" and "ists" apply. The more efficient and high performance the system, the less variables it can safely account for. That's why high trust societies can't tolerate mass migration of primitive foreigners, it's like putting 87 octane in a formula 1 car

A trip to IKEA is like living through one of those 40k stories where imperial forces find a lost human world that looks supremely cultured at first, perhaps in some ways superior.

But after a time you begin to notice the dark purpose that goes into the infernal warp geometry that touches every surface. When the finale comes and you understand what's just happened to you, it's too late. They already have your soul/wallet. Ikea is designed for the female shopping strategy. To get to the checkout, you're forced to run a gauntlet of their entire showroom, which is a maze with arrows on the floor.

You can't just look at one "thing" and go straight to the end. This is husband hell, Dietmars inferno.

Christianity has a serious aesthetic/rhetoric problem, especially in America. I mean this at the macro/institutional level, so if you're a based christian or go to a based church don't get all mad, you're the minority, the exception.

You cannot perpetuate a tradition without getting the buy-in of the youth. Especially young men. Most of Protestantism in the US seems so meaningless now. It's utterly conflict averse because it is entirely ran by the two most conflict averse segments of society, women and old people.

We're in a time where the conflict is right in front of us, our entire world is being "reimagined" before our eyes. There's too much "turn the other cheek" because at this point they've both been slapped several times (butt cheeks in the case of lutherans and episcopalians) and not enough selling of cloaks to buy swords.

The only group of Protestants that seems to embrace the concept of conflict with an opposing force writ-large seems to be the Charismatic/Pentecostal "spiritual warfare" crowd. That's unfortunate because generally speaking, that crowd is highly emotive with zero intellectual rigor and some rather severe misinterpretations of what is biblical. They want to fight stuff, the issue is what they end up doing is jumping at shadows and being afraid of ouji boards and the television. There's no intellectual rigor.

Youth participation is really high in Latin Mass Catholicism and Orthodoxy right now, and this is probably why. It is more severe, more traditional, and more masculine. It's actually got qualities that attract young men in a society at large that otherwise hates them.

When Michael Cassidy beheaded the Baphomet display in the Iowa Capitol, that's the type of energy Christianity needs. Jenna Ellis kvetching about who has "the authority" is the longhouse made manifest.

I'm not a particularly religious guy, I'm not a churchgoer, so take this with a grain of salt I guess. But Creed is having a resurgence and Warhammer 40k is more popular than ever, and American Protestantism needs to embrace better aesthetics than "Jesus loves you duuude" and boomer hysterics about violent videogames if it wants to thrive in this time of crisis.

More Crusades and Space Marines and rock & roll, less of whatever the hell it is they've been doing for the last few decades.
I mean ffs, Russian Orthodoxy has a battle cathedral. Protestants are so lame.

I think the most amusing thing I have thus far observed from the Israel/Palestine conflict has been the way it has put progressivism and jewish in-group preference at odds with each other, and the conflicts I'm seeing on social media and anecdotes about that outcome. Being pro palestine and being pro israel are (for normies at least) explicitly left-coded and right-coded things.

This conflict is pushing even the most cosmpolitan liberal jews into doing something right-coded, which is causing a lot of turmoil.