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.

Lets talk about one of the propaganda events that presaged the first Gulf War, the Nayirah Testimony: 📜

(This is perhaps relevant to current events and propaganda more generally) At the outset of the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq, there was a televised testimony by a Kuwaiti girl named "Nayirah". She claimed they were receiving brutal genocidal treatment at the hands of Iraqi soldiers, including hospitals having incubators taken, the babies left on the floor

It's strange how absolutely shook these people are when it happens to them, considering how casual and dismissive they are to the suffering of anyone who isn't part of some protected class they've adopted like a rescue pitbull or their fellow activists.

https://twitter.com/zukosmadre/status/1709628357430644750

I remember after January 6th, when I referenced that I knew Ashli Babbitt from a deployment we were both on in the military and what she was like. I remember getting close to 100 random DM's about her being in hell, pissing on her grave, how she deserved it, etc etc.

Baby Boomers cannot conceive of world that keeps spinning without them, they think the world ends w/ them.

It's why they squander their net worth in luxurious retirement instead of leaving an inheritance, or are entirely preoccupied with nuking the russians/the imminent Rapture. Makes it make sense why they don't want to take care of their grandchildren. It's not just a smug "I already worked and raised kids I'm retired" but in their eyes, there is no point. In their own minds, the world stops the moment the last Boomer is smothered by jamaican H1B nurse

Listen to me very closely, I'll speak slowly so you can understand.

You create a show to tell a story. A good story involves struggle, and the greater the struggle, the greater the heroes, because heroism is defined by struggle.

If the antagonists and obstacles are pathetic caricatures, the heroes are equally pathetic. If your villains suck, your story sucks.

If your villains aren't formidable and scary, it's not impressive when the heroes beat them. If your heroes aren't impressive, your story is boring. If your story is boring, your worldview isn't as popular or aesthetic as you think.

So your kind are in a bind, either lefties can make formidable and daunting(i.e. cool) antagonists, or you can piss money into a furnace when nobody watches your shitty show.

https://twitter.com/v1sig0th/status/1701395717518930309

Leftists manage to make their villains cool and their heroes suck. Even in The Boys, Billy Butcher is the coolest hero, and he's an anti hero who becomes a villain later.

The heroes are usually wimpy and ugly, not very enjoyable and it's not believable when they win.

Oh 9/11, I'm not sure what there is to say that hasn't already been said. But rather than talk about where I was when it happened or its overall impact, I have a few words here worth consideration on the anatomy of a conspiracy: 🧵 While the "9/11 truthers" immediately came out of the woodwork because any discerning adult saw things that didn't add up, I like to come at 9/11 from a different angle. The Latin phrase "Cui Bono" or "Who Benefits?" works great for examining the event.

Gonna riff on #Starfield a bit here, after being able to squeeze out about 8 hours on it, I'm going to give my take: 🧵

I went in with kind of low expectations. Bethesda games at launch are usually a sort of boring base game experience built on a framework that the community can really polish with mods. In Starfields case, that's going to present some big challenges.

This is such an irredeemably gay way to look at history. Deciding who is good and who is bad based on contemporary values instead of just what happened.

And it's always some progressive turd who you know would have been a terrorized Helot in that era.

https://twitter.com/TheThomHadwin/status/1695710959128481965

The Spartans were absolute assholes in a million ways during that time, which is why the impressive parts are the parts that stand out. Their prowess as warriors, dedication to the craft, thermopylae. Those are the "cool" parts of the Spartan legacy and people like cool things.

Did you know you can do sentiment analysis of the average black person via Twitter via what I call "nigga scrying"?

🧵



Search Twitter with the query "nigga <topic or person>" and watch it work, because Twitter has a *lot* of average black people using it, segmented off into their own influence bubble.