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Microw ,
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Sure. Like @The_Picard_Maneuver or @fossilesque or @Blaze or @otter or @brucethemoose ... and there definitely are more people that I see regularly and simply cant think of their names right now

Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem

I feel like we need to talk about Lemmy's massive tankie censorship problem. A lot of popular lemmy communities are hosted on lemmy.ml. It's been well known for a while that the admins/mods of that instance have, let's say, rather extremist and onesided political views. In short, they're what's colloquially referred to as...

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Crushing people with tanks

Just a heads up, while it is established that the CCCP killed tons of people on that day, the idea that people were crushed with tanks is disputed in academia and mostly considered inaccurate news reporting.

The famous "tank man" photo shows a guy standing in front of a tank in order to prevent them from moving tanks to another part where the protesters had gone. We have no evidence that he was driven over by that tank.

Microw ,
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How exactly can a political policy support anything? It's the people who call themselves after an ideology who support it. Not an abstract ideology that a guy invented over 100 years ago.

Microw ,
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Has actually been posted yesterday in this community ;)

https://lemm.ee/post/33443662

Microw OP ,
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Em usually has one derivative song on his albums. I'm guessing that this one is the album opener.

Microw OP ,
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I'm actually not sure if he is working with Bass again. The song is produced by Eminem and long-time collaborator Luis Resto.
Bass is listed alongside all writers of Without Me as a writer for this track, which is probably because it heavily interpolates from that song.

CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information ( futurism.com )

You know how Google's new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won't slide off (pssst...please don't do this.)...

Microw ,
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IMO these issues are mainly with the interface / how the AI summaries are presented.

The issue with incorrect answers like the glue on pizza one isnt "hallucination". The LLM is pulling that info from an existing webpage (The Onion). The thing they need to change is how that info is portrayed. Not "one tip is to use glue", but rather "the satirical site the Onion says to use glue".

Hallucination should be combatted by the fact that the AI cant show a proper source for facts it made up itself.

Microw ,
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The main field where they are already actively in professuonal use are rough drafts in creative fields: quickly generate possible outlines for a text, a speech, an art piece. Visualize where something could be going, in order to decide which direction to pick.

Also, models that work differently from the GPTs are already in use in science, scanning through huge amounts of texts in archives to help analyzing or search for something in particular. Help find patterns in things for studies. Etc.

The "personal assistant AI" thing obviously isnt quite working yet. I think it will take some time and models with a different technological structure (not GPT) to achieve progress in that regard.

Microw ,
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My bad. Doesnt change what I mean though: the AI should not say "it's also great to put glue on the pizza" - it should either not reference that at all or say "fucksmith on reddit recommends glue on pizza".

Microw ,
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You guys ooze heteronormativism

Microw ,
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The original commenter @cumskin_genocide did neither specify their own sex nor the gender of the people they tutored.

Multiple people under that comment simply assumed that OP is male and was tutoring girls. That is heteronormative. Yes, I formulated that with a bit of snark. But come on.

Microw ,
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Do you actually understand what you are posting yourself? Qatar funded Hamas under an agreement with Bibi which enabled Bibis strategy and Qatars own political goals. Did Israel fund Hamas in those years? No. Did Israel actively guarantee that Qatar funds Hamas? Yes.

Microw ,
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I think it used to allow all kinds of erotic content and fetish stuff, just not outright porn.

Microw , (edited )
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Hm, his statement in response to the Guardian is very unusual for someone accused of sexual misconduct. Either he feels very safe that he can hide this, or he really didnt do it and somehow is the target of a campaign.

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The Guardian article literally has names and photos of the women who accuse him. That's enough to convince me that they indeed were violated by him.

Microw ,
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Because for one, it means the Guardian actually spoke to multiple people and didnt just hear something via three other people. And it means those people are actually willing to have their names and faces known publically. Making false allegations under your real name would be quite stupid.

Secret Hamas Files Show How It Spied on Everyday Palestinians ( www.nytimes.com )

The Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has for years overseen a secret police force in Gaza that conducted surveillance on everyday Palestinians and built files on young people, journalists and those who questioned the government, according to intelligence officials and a trove of internal documents reviewed by The New York Times....

Microw ,
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who would represent Palestine?

The PLO, just as they are right now and have been for 30 years. Not Hamas.

Microw ,
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Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet claims that he destroyed the camera.

Microw ,
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Crazy how Venezuela is only an ice field today, used to be quite a big country...

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Macklemore Attacks Joe Biden On Pro-Palestine Song "Hind's Hall" ( www.hotnewhiphop.com )

He hasn't released on streaming yet or YouTube only insta and Twitter. Once it's up on streaming he said all proceeds will go to The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)....

Microw ,
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Macklemore has these conscious rap lyrics regularly on his albums somewhere between the more radio friendly songs. I mean they had "same love" back on The Heist album, "White Privilege II" on This Unruly Mess I’ve Made album and there probably are more than I can think of.

I have not followed him closely in recent years but I guess most of his music is still stylistically poppy which I personally am not a fan of.

Microw ,
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But literally no one with power in the current situation wants a non-ethnostate.

Microw ,
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Yeah there are a lot of ethnocracies. Turkey being one of the most obvious examples. Even within the EU you have countries like Latvia or Estonia who have been labelled that in the past.

Microw ,
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Dude, are you all men at the same time? I'm not and I can acknowledge that some men are monsters. Womens' fear of strange men isn't something personal.

Microw ,
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Yes, but a genuine fear someone has isnt sexism. The underlying issues are the problem.

Microw ,
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Thats the economic take. If we talk about personal freedom and societal values, you'll end up with different categories, hence labels like "left-liberal" or "left-authoritarian" etc.

Microw ,
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Drake's main new allegation is that Kendrick allegedly committed domestic violence against his wife, and that one of his friends could be the real father of their kid. Which Kendrick chose not to respond too.

I'm sure no one who is actually involved will resort to violence, only dumb fans would do that.

Microw ,
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Exactly, even if the pedo accusations are wrong he still is a weird creep with his whole lifestyle.

Btw y'all can hop over to !hiphopheads as well for hip hop discussion on lemmy

Microw ,
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I'm still not sure how so many people have come to the conclusion that this is an actual thing that he did

Microw ,
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Definitely. Though it is ominous how he has not responded to the DV allegations

Microw ,
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Btw we have !hiphopheads that could profit from more engagement if any of you is interested in posting there

Microw ,
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I'm talking about the grooming thing, there is literally no proof of that (Millie saying they were talking "about boys" does not mean they were talking about sex lol)

And I might misremember that video because I thought he only talked after finding out her age and didnt kiss her again. Which is definitely weird enough on it's own. Hell, taking fans on stage and caressing and kissing them is weird enough on it's own - no matter how old they are. Drake being a sleazy slimey guy with a problematic attitude about sex and women is well established. Thing is that most guys out there dont care about that as soon as the girl is 18, so Kendrick did criticize that but then emphasized the 17 year old.

Microw ,
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Feels like everyone in rap is recognizing Taylor right now

Microw ,
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"Yemeni people" probably means Houthi-aligned people, I guess?

Microw ,
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They are well-known as al-Ḥūṯiyyūn, but you're right, I should call them Ansar Allah.

Microw ,
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Exactly. Maybe I am simply uninformed about Chris Brown's remorse and growth. But I don't see it either.

Microw ,
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If Drake really fed him this info and Kendrick was willing to bite without confirmation.. then that's sloppy for sure

Microw ,
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The idea to prompt people who want to subscribe to a publication with "enter your email or ActivityPub address" is great

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