Notices by Toni Aittoniemi (gimulnautti@mastodon.green)

Excellent article from Saudi-Arabia, asking the question whether the USA entered the war because they trusted silly little text extrusion machines over human expertise?

#Palantir's "Ender's Foundry" used to develop #simulations for #war outcomes was developed only SIXTY F****NG DAYS before planning commenced!!

So, basically an off-the-shelf #chatbot, with sycophancy still full on, gave these clowns the confidence to go into a full-scale disaster in #iran 🤦♂️

https://houseofsaud.com/iran-war-ai-psychosis-sycophancy-rlhf/

#ai

@grant_h @Andii @oscarjiminy What this is essentially saying, is that failures to conform to a core defining principle of conservatism (in-group must be preferred), was ”developmental failure”.

It tells more about the unmatched levels oppression practiced by western socities at large, than it does about neurodivergent people.

We judge people who fail to be good imperialists as defective.

I really recommend following the US/Israel war on Iran from some source that gets the Israeli comments translated from Hebrew, not from English.

You will notice how casually: ”We will kill everyone” keeps being dropped from officials across the board.

#israel #hasbara #farright #rhetoric #usisraelwaroniran

"Zuckerberg wants you to think that it is technologically impossible to have a conversation with a friend without him listening in. Cook wants you to think that it is impossible for you to have a reliable computing experience unless he gets a veto over which software you install and without him taking 30 cents out of every dollar you spend. Pichai wants you to think that it is impossible for you to find a webpage unless he gets to spy on you from asshole to appetite."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur

@aral @casey @joynewacc @aseelfromgz @rania40 @fabio Thank you.

If my credit card is getting blocked by automated systems for donating to valid and verified campaigns, wouldn’t this be a potential signal for foul play by anti-palestinian operators that have access to international payment systems?

If you hear of other such occasions, could you please update me about the situation. I’d like to hear how this will play out.

@aral Hey Aral.

I had my credit card blocked from donating to campaigns listed on gazaverified.org

Some people came out to point to me that many campaigns on the site appear AI generated.

Now. I of course don’t expect there to be NO scammers on the list. And I can imagine Israel would do it’s best to mark legit campaigns as scammers through banking systems.

But what do you have to say on this? You run the list, am I correct?

#gazaverified #creditcards #banking

@DeliaChristina This goes along solidly with other observations about low-skill conservative men: They love AI, because they think it’s somehow unfair that people with talent have a say in how the world is run.

@oldoldcojote @DeliaChristina Studies show that there’s nothing ”wrong” with him, or the people he’s pandering to. Many conservatives really see the world in this simplistic framework of who has dominance over the other, and there’s nothing we can do to make them change that. We can only alter their choices of which group should have dominance, but not the framework of dominance hierarchies as a baseline reality-organising mechanism!

Oh shit.. I hadn’t read Octavia Butler’s Earthseed before.

She practically predicted Project 2025, and that it could lead to a christo-fascist America by 2032, where people can’t read, there’s no public schooling to speak of, and child labour is widespread.

It is a story of small groups of people living in the hills, trying to retain civilisation while America goes to war abroad… 🫣

#octaviabutler #earthseed #bookstodon #scifi #christofascism

UK prime minister granted US the permission to use their air bases for: ”Limited defensive opetations”.

Immediately B-52 and B-2 bombers landed there.

… sure, trust me bro, these devices purpose-built for carpet-bombing, will kill Iranian civilians entirely defensively!

A transcontinental heavy bomber aircraft literally has no defensive uses. Are the British really this stupid? Is everybody stupid? Or is Starmer just as much post-truth as Trump? 🤔

#uk #bombers #airbase #Iran #war

Asmondgold saying on stream to millions of maganazis: ”If you take a look at history, mass killing people works. It works really well.”

Yes. They are nazis. The likes of many sentenced at the Nüremburg trials: Sane, charming, industrious, hardworking, even funny, just thoroughly indoctrinated.

In the big picture, nazis were normal people doing monstrous things for normal incentives, not the monsters drinking blood we want them to be, just to avoid seeing ourselves in them.

#asmongold #nazis

One of the most through analysis of the US/Israel/Iran war I have seen to date. No propaganda here, just facts!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0

#Iran #usa #israel #gulfstates #war #empire #gametheory #nafo

@cwebber @sleepyowl Age verification is the trojan horse for absolute surveillance

@emptywheel.bsky.social I think the Democrats will vote for it, actually. They’re funded by the military-industrial complex too.

”Putin is war himself” 👏👏👏

Well spoken president Zelenskyy!

Putin has been at war almost constantly.

#ukraine #NAFO #zelenskyy

Lol, US rebroadcasts of the Winter Olympics opening ceremony had the boos to JD Vance removed and replaced with fake cheers!

That’s some Soviet Union -level shit! 😅

#olympics #jdvance

@Laukidh They are all about money, and these detention centers will be about that also. That’s what the nazi detention camps were supposedly about, too. Remember: ”work will set you free”?

They were sick paying minimum wage, so now they will pay no wage. Because they think that’s what freedom is about. A right to abuse other people.

@aral @fabio Not to discredit anything you say, but many of the donation accounts are posting a lot, tagging a lot, and this can be seen as some users who don’t care as spam.

We know around 1/5 of people tend to be like this. They will never care, and we can’t make them care whatever we do. But that’s still enough to create an amount spam reports that a server admin will take seriously.

"No politics!" makes you ignore #politics, which is fucking dangerous.

The fact it, people are fundamentally political. They are born with internal tendencies which affect their whole worldviews in a way that swings them liberal/conservative.

Because we make the mistake of thinking politics is just a choice (at least 20% of it isn't), we end up not seeing how politics affects everything.

Care, or lack of it, for groups or identities, defines us more than almost anything else.

Eastern Europe does soups well, don’t mean to brag 😃
#soup #cookstodon