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brepppon Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal

That's a pretty self defeating approach that in general is not compatible with protests of any kind (Israel included). I don't think there were any protests in the history of the world that couldn't have died using the logic of "nothing will change"

As long as Iran has multiple countries it can sell its oil, there is still pressure to apply

The real reasons there are no protests are in my opinion the same ones people generally suspect

brepppon Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal

> if I go and protest, what do I ask? To sanction Iran? They would laugh at me.

That's a very weird take I see repeated over and over again

You don't protest only to get your government to do something, the protests against Israel expectedly did not meaningfully change US relations with Israel yet you still presumably went out

you can express solidarity with Iranians, you can protest the massacre, or just make people be aware there are thousands dying

brepppon Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal

don't be surprised, the Israeli Palestine conflict is team sports for people worldwide from social-economic background where football or soccer is considered banal

brepppon Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal

It's the nature of fascist countries to be fixated on the past

timothy snyder describes it as the "politics of eternity"

brepppon Heathrow scraps liquid container limit

most of airport security rests on the notion of going over a series of long tests will elicit unusual (fear, stress) responses from malicious actors and these can then be flagged for even thorougher checks which will then eventually lead to discovery, banning or removal of luggage

so it's not the test accuracy by itself but rather then the fact that these tests are happening at all

brepppon Google Books removed all search functions for any books with previews

my guess is that the copyright landscape changed due to AI training, and these publishers won't let Google use that data anymore

brepppon Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only

I'll make it easier for you: wake me up when the UK government slaughters 1% the amount of the protestors the Iranian government just did in two days. 400 protestors shot by machine guns mounted on SUVs in London.

That just might be approaching slippery slope territory to the current Iranian actions.

Currently I believe we are at zero protestors casually shot on the streets of the UK, so I fail to see the equivalency

brepppon Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only

Call me when the UK government brings the machine guns and starts slaughtering 40k Palestine Action protestors and I promise to agree it's all the same

brepppon Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only

and that's exactly how the discussion pattern I was describing above works out

and that's why it is efficient propaganda

brepppon Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only

sorry if it came out as patronizing, I was genuinely curious as to the difficulty of bypassing these

brepppon Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only

A republic with a supreme religious leader who actually decides everything, that fakes elections and has a council of religious leaders that can disqualify any candidate

that's without even talking about killing 30,000-40,000 citizens for wanting their rights

> It subsidize basic needs of its poorer citizens, such as fuel, bread, housing, education and healthcare.

I'd start with supplying basic needs like water and electricity.

The actual subsidizing is for the IRGC which steals whatever they can get their hands on so they can be counted on to mass slaughter the people

brepppon Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only

it's a very weird kind of propaganda I see a lot of lately.

Everything is the same and comparable never mind how hyperbolic. Doubt it? be showered with cherry picked micro facts that on the surface are similar.

This rests on the fact that in order to establish a big picture you have to take small facts and agree on the big picture, and that leap from small and verifiable to large and analytic is the place you can inject faith and emotion

brepppon Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only

for someone with a tech background, how hard is it to setup your own tunnel? I'd assume cloud providers are whitelisted due to economic reasons?

brepppon From stealth blackout to whitelisting: Inside the Iranian shutdown

Not going to defend the islamic republic with its massacres, but if there is no racial element there is no apartheid, no need to overload a precise term.

This is simply turning down methods of communications to reduce protestors ability to coordinate and enable mass killings

brepppon How AI destroys institutions

the slogan is "Defund the police" not "eliminate the police force militarization" or "realign police funding to mental health". It is an anti-institution rally call.

The fact that Trump has appointed Justices does not make Trump's attacks on the supreme court whenever they cancel any of his radical programs less real.

You are trying to argue that he shouldn't attack the supreme court, while I am arguing destroying institutions is ingrained into populism

brepppon How AI destroys institutions

Generally yes, I believe a democratic country without a working police force will implode.

In my limited understanding of US politics the supreme court has a history of overriding Trump's actions as he generally favors overreach as a tactic

brepppon How AI destroys institutions

that's great, hearing ultrasonic tones has saved you of the possibility of cognitive dissonance

brepppon How AI destroys institutions

Post modernism is pretty universal among humanities research in universities for a long time now.

My point here was that these institutions were undermined for a long time back, while aligned AI at least in its current state creates a notion of "truth" that is sane rather than the alternatives out there, and I believe will be safer for democracy

brepppon How AI destroys institutions

It is the same thing, it's taking institutions of the democratic state and dismantling them

exactly like trump's attack on the supreme court which could also be explained with excuses such as "a non elected institution is trying to curb the will of the people", and that's just the top off my head

brepppon How AI destroys institutions

Yes, I believe the reason we have got to this point is the destruction of institutions such as the press.

Historically the press had pushed narratives controlled by state elites who also had a vested interest in the state wellbeing.

Today these are pushed by foreign entities or the more extreme the more engagement.

That's why conspiracy theories replaced established truths, the populist left believes in anti-state slogans such as "defund the police" and the populist right wants to destroy the supreme court

AI alignment might return the elites controlled narratives which were apparently crucial for democracy

brepppon The Agentic AI Handbook: Production-Ready Patterns

I also sympathize with that approach, and found it sometimes better than agents. I believe some of the agentic IDEs are missing a "contained mode".

Let me select lines in my code which you are allowed to edit in this prompt and nothing else, for these "add a function that does x" without starting to run amok

brepppon IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service (1999)

Reminds me of that AWS hard drive truck thing where your data is sent with quite the latency

brepppon Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands,Norway,Sweden,UK

unsurprising that Chomsky has a reverse Occam's Razor that assumes the worst in any (western) action

brepppon Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands,Norway,Sweden,UK

it is still extremely doubtful that Mexico will fare well in a conflict with the United States

brepppon After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't need to look like news

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/25785648.2023.2...

For example, this article goes over disinformation by polish nationalists on Holocaust related articles. There's a chart with 10 editors accounting for 50% of the edits and another chart that shows disproportionately citing authors that in reality are not academically are under-cited

brepppon After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't need to look like news

worse yet, you might read some topics and won't expect them to be poisoned with misinformation. Like the Holocaust history in Poland

https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/history_news_articles/151... https://slate.com/technology/2023/04/how-wikipedia-covers-th...

brepppon You have three minutes to escape the perpetual underclass

it's simply the principle of fuck you money

that's why they are also more egocentric, racist, etc. When people do not feel the threat of society it is easier to have opinions that verge out of the norm or could restrict further employment (and also opinions that are wrongfully or rightfully policed in society)

brepppon 25 Years of Wikipedia

statements on wikipedia are summarized from sources, LLMs once trained on wikipedia to summarize, can then summarize on their own from the source material, and probably with less bias