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i read the title and was like damn we're dunking on game engines now?
really into this whole far right coup and far right right hegemony thing a lot of countries are trying out rn. really cool
As resources get scarcer the lurch back to fascism is going to get worse. People always turn to the simple (but categorically wrong) answers when times get hard, and blaming people who come from other places has historically been a winner for simple and wrong answers. Refugees are a symptom but they'll be targeted as the cause because their numbers will swell with increasing "natural" disaster frequency and severity.
And I have no idea what I can do about it that wouldn't amount to pissing in the wind.
Sometimes I wonder what future generations will think looking back on the content of today's internet and humanity's total inability to demonstrate the humane.
Looks like SK gave the bastards a hard nope, at least.
this was the most half-assed coup in recent memory, hands down
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hey army do a coup for me
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parliament said no
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ok
no fanatical loyalists in army, no militia or PMC, zero planning at all, even Prigozhin got that sorted out. very similar thing happened just two years ago in Peru, and this year in Bolivia. and same thing will happen this time, impeachment is already written as we speak. army also exactly knew what was going on and didn't participate for a reason
by the way, south korean presidents don't have a habit of leaving office peacefully, so it all tracks. it's either impeachment or coup or long prison term just after leaving office
Wonder if he did the rightwing thing and just went 'the silent majority agrees with my statements'(*) and just assumed the militaries would be all part of the incel crew and fall in line behind him.
*: On that note there was some cringe thanksgiving video of one of those weird Trump aligned culture war freaks (the daily wire perhaps?) where the freak strides into the thanksgiving event and starts slapping everybody around as some sort of victorious conquerer (at least that is what I imagined was the intended feeling. Not the deranged crazy weirdo vibe it gave off). And this video had a scene which baffled some people, there was a normal guy who was given a big cigar or something and some people were confused why that was a thing. I think that was the imagined '"normal" silent majority guys all secretly agree with me but they are ashamed to act' thing.
I really don't know what was he thinking, looks like army did the bare legal minimum so that they won't be prosecuted for refusing orders. There's a couple of things that can be done with minimal number of loyalists that would make coup easier that weren't done, like cutting power to parliament. This makes me guess that military didn't want a part in this at all
I've seen a take that this was an attempt to get entrenched in power before trump admin begins, as in for foreign relations purposes, but like, it's pretty clear that a couple of people from his family and trusted party people were under investigation so him trying to not allow that sounds more likely. Now that won't work because as far as i understand by the end of the week there will be impeachment vote
Didn't they at least try to block parliament with buses or something? (A thing easily circumvented with the parliamentarians going 'whereever enough of us gather is parliament, the building has no magical qualities'
idk what exactly they did but they did get inside anyway
Well humans are a liquid, we get into everything.
edit: context https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/chatgpt-david-mayer-name-glitch-ai-b2657197.html
Time for another round of Rothschild nutso's to come around now that ChatGPT can't say one of their names.
At first I was thinking, you know, if this was because of the GDPR's right to be forgotten laws or something that might be a nice precedent. I would love to see a bunch of people hit AI companies with GDPR complaints and have them actually do something instead of denying their consent-violator-at-scale machine has any PII in it.
But honestly it's probably just because he has money
I think Sam Altman's sister accused him of doing this to her name awhile ago too (semi-recent example). I don't think she was on a "don't generate these words ever" blacklist, but it seemed like she was erased from the training data and would only come up after a web search.
Being erased from the training data is frankly even more galling than the kind of brute force GDPR compliance they seem to have been using. It puts the lie to any claim that they're just "moving fast and breaking things" without mind to the consequences, because clearly there was some reason to prune the training data and make sure that the model didn't have certain information when it was to the company's (or the founder's) liking.
Pat Gelsinger retires from Intel
no replacement as yet
Pat walking into the last board meeting
Strong suspicion that the "interim co-CEOs" bit is leading to an attempted sell-off/spin-off of the chip fabs (which are the part of the company getting the nice juicy government subsidies)
Sorry about more insta content. Saw this today and it tickled me:
Left: pinker
Right: Yeonmi Park, who is known for defecting from north korea and speaking about it. That should be enough if she just told the truth, but for one reason or another (grifting dosh) she has started just making shit up, which I recommend you research for yourself if you are interested.
Anyway the above picture probably doesn’t come as a surprise when you consider her current tack: saying that “woke” and “cancel culture” are the first steps in a country becoming like North Korea. She’s been on JRE (where she memeably claimed that there is only one train in NK that often requires people to push it). She has a book with her anti-woke thesis with opening shit-volley by old mate JBP.
Man that page has got some really wild sentences.
Park's claims that human corpses commonly float down North Korean rivers were criticized by Swiss businessman Felix Abt, who lived and worked in the DPRK for seven years.
Now I don't know if there's any validity to her claim, but love the expert testimony from Swiss entrepreneur who's been allowed to tour Pyongyang for a bit.
It's frustrating because there is plenty of real evidence that North Korea is in a bad way. That satellite image is stark and the volume of reports claiming food shortages and lack of basic services are hard to dispute, as is the sheer obsessive control exercised by the government to avoid the depictions of it. You don't need to make up stories about using human corpses to fertilize your fields or whatever.
Ah, yes. In case you were wondering about said Swiss businessman and whether or not his actions in the DPRK were morally sound, once again, Wikipedia has something to say.
Somehow not the most horrific thing Swiss did just by trading (that would be war profiteering during Iran-Iraq war, when they sold chemical weapons precursors to one side and gas masks to other)
it's almost as if international trade of weapons creates perverse incentives
Gets easier if you want both sides to lose
Dont think that anybody involved in this is going to be a good person. Of all the people mentioned, Pinker is prob the least worse here. And that is saying much.
That's what she said? That's literally so much funnier than any of the memes
Yeah in terms of the meme mutation timeline, I believe the initial use would have been from leftists to mock outrageous/outlandishly false claims, in line with Park saying the trains thing. Since then the format has been mutated to also include “thing that exists in culture that is then exaggerated to be construed as dystopian” (see the example that soyweiser posted) and also “thing that is straight up dystopian but it’s something from the west”. So I think the only things that would approach the level of humor/absurdity of the original would have to be something else crazy out of YP’s mouth.
LOL @ North Korea being "woke". If they are, why are they assisting Russia, the Right's Great White Hope, in a war against a country that these people also denigrate as "woke"? But hey, never let facts or logic get in the way of a good grift.
I mean, with how young she is there's absolutely no credibility she can offer on how a country becomes like the "D""P""R"K. But I can see the superficial similarities between the right-wing griftoverse's depiction of cancel culture and the kind of cultural authority that gets exercised. That Bogeyman is why they use that fanciful description, after all. I can see how easily she could get radicalized from there, not that it justified any of the lies she's believed and passed on or invented outright.
And right now South Korea's president has declared martial law and banned all political activity, I guess she'll be just fine with that.
Martial law and free speech restrictions are only bad if the bad guys do it, also we get to decide who the bad guys are
Yeah, i wonder how laughably terribad takes she will try to spin for her grifting gig out of this situstion
I was curious so looked her up. I discovered that there is no rule of law in Chicago and you can just murder people in the streets. And unrelated she did a colab with Gad Saad about her failing dating in the USA or something. Didn't watch the vid, just saw she had a few vids with Saad. (Vids from a year ago which almost nobody watched 35k/15k views. Sad!). On her twitter she has said nothing about SK, but apparently is upset about cancel culture and DEI. The grift is strong with this one.
Wait is that the woman from that meme? E: Yes she is I didnt know that image was from JRE.
I’m just hoping that i get a plaque or something 1000 years from now in the Harvard meme archaeology department or similar
meme archaeology
Finally a job im qualified for.
a good follow on insta if you use it
That guy must be a communist. Cause that is a big red flag.