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tinyForest
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I'm going to make my own Cybernetic Culture Research Unit, with blackjack and hookers.
가입일 Kasım 2008
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"Dear BAP. It’s not too late to join the club. You only have to profess that history DOES HAVE A DIRECTION! Follow the historical theology, do the Christian eschatology, let me be your priest, and become part of the club. We want you! It matters to us! We are winning, therefore we are good."
It’s funny that a guy like BAP becomes this sort of anachronistic, stubborn, headstrong erotic body that is wanted for the club. In that sense, Nick Land, in saying this, ends up honoring BAP’s critique of accelerationism.
Xenocosmography@xenocosmography
BAP is coming around. x.com/BronzeAgePerv/…
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In 1966, a B-52 collided with a tanker over Palomares, Spain, dropping 4 hydrogen bombs. 3 were found on land; 1 vanished into the Mediterranean. The US Navy spent months searching with no luck.
They called in a mathematician named John Craven, who ignored the expert search grids. Instead, he used Bayes' Theorem.
He asked various salvage experts to bet on different scenarios (e.g., "What is the likelihood the parachute deployed?"). He treated their guesses as Priors. As the submersibles searched areas & found nothing (Evidence), he used the formula to update the probability map.
The bomb was found exactly where the Bayesian map said it would be, an area the expert searchers had previously dismissed as highly unlikely.
vixhaℓ@TheVixhal
Most people with “AI/ML” in their bios don’t even know what Bayes theorem is.
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@DanFriedman81 @razibkhan All of this is true, but to people dunking on her for not just getting a job, I'm sure that of the small number of historic preservation jobs that probably do exist require a credential like that.
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A lot of people are dunking on this, and it’s true, she should have paid the $60 per month for 20 years and let the forgiveness kick in. But what they’re missing is that she was loaned $65k for a terminal master’s in historic preservation.
That should never have happened.
Tuition has skyrocketed because the ability of students to pay it has completely decoupled from how much money they or their families can afford. Colleges charge infinity dollars because students have access to infinity student loans.
In many cases students hoping a credential will lead to a better life get duped into indenturing themselves permanently to get worthless terminal master’s degrees.
If the loans didn’t exist, then the master’s programs wouldn’t exist, and if the master’s programs didn’t exist then employers wouldn’t be looking for job applicants with master’s degrees which don’t even connote any real skills.
Burn this whole rotten system down.
Jonah Goldberg@JonahDispatch
This is just amazing. nytimes.com/2026/04/04/bus…
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@wigger There's an interesting story with philosemitism in Japan during WW2 that may be of interest to your audience
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@AuronMacintyre This is a good point. All my educated liberal friends have a strawman, fundamentalist view of religion as preferences, superstition and folklore.
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Religion isn’t just some personal system of belief but the collective network of understanding that undergirds a society
The assumptions contained within allow us to communicate and coordinate, to understand and predict the world around us
This is just as tragic as an adult who can’t read or do basic math
The ignorance is crippling, it makes basic social functions impossible
While literacy rates have risen the number of people who have the cultural knowledge to understand what they’ve read has plummeted
A bunch of zombies who can technically read the words on their screen but have no culture matrix in which to contextualize them
Jorge of the Wired@saturnine_grace
The vast majority of people have premarital sex so if you say it's sinful you basically have to say that everyone around you is evil which seems obviously false? Not sure how to square this
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@SandyofCthulhu If you come in there, looking down on everyone and being an asshole, then yes, you aren't welcome. Liberal media article from almost 20 years ago "I went to Yale, and I can't talk to my plumber" - it's because you're a dick. Only got worse the last decade. theamericanscholar.org/the-disadvanta…
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One of the dumbest Hollywood film ideas is that "outsiders" are disliked and distrusted in small towns. At least in the West and South it's not true. Your neighbors will be over at your house helping you move in your furniture, inviting you to church, bringing a casserole for your supper.
Maybe it's true in New England, or outside the USA, but where I've seen new people move in, the "new guy" is the most popular, the "new girl" is considered the hottest. And so forth.
I think the idea comes from Hollywood writers knowing absolutely nothing about real small towns except their own Los Angeles neighborhood prejudices.
Note: this doesn't apply to a new guy who showed up by walking down the railroad tracks; i.e. a hobo. It also doesn't apply to a huge group that arrives all at once, since that upsets the status. Those have been true since Neanderthal times. But though we might balk at having a thousand Haitians suddenly moved to public housing next door, if just one or two Haitian families moved into a small town neighborhood, the folks would be intrigued.
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@AnnCoulter Last summer in Krakow, drunken Polish college boys at 1 AM outside my hotel room sang "Take Me Home, Country Roads" ... superbly and then went home allowing me to sleep.
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just realized Lindy West's book is probably outselling Nuzzi's book, and I bet Nuzzi is *furious*
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@LimYenKheng I seriously don't see the value add, vs just sharing tex in a git repo. Kind of look down on academics who use it tbh, like I thought this was Computer Science?
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had too many students not able to install latex on their computers, and the only way they write tex documents is on Overleaf. This feels wrong. Tex is supposed to be open software, but still being used via an enshittified entity, online dependent. It shouldn't be like this
Reddit Lies@reddit_lies
No lies detected. It's actually insane how smartphones effectively ruined computer literacy for younger Gen Z and Alpha.
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@i_am_potetoman haha gotta vibe-code my way into a better job! hope things are good over there.
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:: Once a system is operational, it will be harder to build underground without detection, or even just to hide existing structures. To remain concealed, some sort of gravity camouflage will be necessary ::
Wayne Chambliss on "The Geophysics of Not Being Governed"
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If driving through the Fort Pitt Tunnel at night is the greatest entrance to the City of Pittsburgh…. This is the worst, or at least the most embarrassing.
liz@malkinfrog
i am in the Promised Land
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@nikitabier Feels like a psyop, though. We get a few based Japanese posts to push internationalism as a wedge when we all know which subcontinent we want blocked.
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If you’re seeing a bunch of Japanese posts, here are some fun facts:
Japan has more daily active users and more time spent on X than any other country in the world.
Over two thirds of the country is monthly active on X.
X in Japan has one of the highest penetration rates of any social network in history.
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@JoshuaClemans After we win we need to create a self confident culture that never lets this happen again.
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Get in loser, we're going to re-acquire the american supply chain.
joshua steinman (🇺🇸,🇺🇸)@JoshuaSteinman
It’s not just transformers. We need Energy. Raw materials. Metals. Chemicals. Clothing. Semiconductors. Consumer electronics. Fasteners. EVERYTHING.
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@waltuuuhr @liquiditygoblin fucking terrible that the terms got overloaded, and unacceptable, and I say this as a guy who once visited princeton to interrogate a david blei postdoc ifykyk
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@liquiditygoblin this would go hard if i understood what latent dirichlet analysis is
shit hasnt been used since 2000 though i thought?
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In an effort to try stop seeing so much slop I've been trying to train my own AI detection model.
Found something incredibly interesting.
for the most part LLM generated text and human written text are linearly separable.
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DO IT. PLEASE. PLEASE SOMEONE DO IT.
.@GregTSargent
Awful: Stephen Miller is privately floating the idea of restricting funding for the public education of undocumented kids. This has long been a right-wing dream: They want to get SCOTUS to reverse Plyler v Doe and further chip away at 14th Amendment. New: newrepublic.com/article/208114…
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@webdevMason She was engineered for this role. Given her mom's background, she clearly had some media training, and the suspicious way that she kind of popped up out of nowhere. Greta is the product of her parents' ambition, as much as Britney Spears.
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Greta Thunberg is 23 and has spent the entirety of her identity development phase raised upon a pedestal as a stand-in for All the Children Whose Futures We Selfishly Squandered, a kind of living shame idol for secular elites. This was largely a thing done to her, not by her IMO
memetic_sisyphus@memeticsisyphus
I don’t think grifter is right for someone like Greta. She hates the west, and comes front and center on any issue where the west can be painted as the bad guy. If the drug cartels in Mexico launched an assault on Texas and the U.S. bombed them into oblivion she would be on the side of the cartels.
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@revenant_MMXX Say what you want about the guys with the tiny hats, but they do take the getting people paired up young and in the church very fucking seriously.
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"Trads" don't want to hear it, but church might actually be one of the worst ways to meet a significant other in the 21st century. So much of modern Christianity is just posturing, especially in Churchianity culture
Mack@kenzietuff
Man posts in local Facebook group, moving to area. Asks which Catholic parishes have thriving community, would be best for single man to attend- “is successful + seeking wife soon” + same faith is priority. Entire comment section berating him. “Church isn’t for dating!”
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