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Aerosmith - Dude (Looks Like A Lady) (Official Music Video)


Aerosmith's "Dude (Looks Like A Lady)" is a classic rock anthem that blends humour with a catchy melody. Released in 1987, the song showcases the band's signature sound and Steven Tyler's charismatic vocals. Its playful lyrics and memorable chorus have made it a fan favourite, solidifying its place in rock history.

Lyrics:
Dude looks like a lady
Dude looks like a lady
Dude looks like a lady
Dude looks like a lady

Cruised into a bar on the shore
Her picture graced the grime on the door
She's a long lost love at first bite
Baby, maybe you're wrong
But you know it's all right, that's right

Back stage we're having the time
Of our lives until somebody says
Forgive me if I seem out of line
Then she whipped out a gun
And tried to blow me away

Dude looks like a lady
Dude looks like a lady
Dude looks like a lady
Dude looks like a lady

So never judge a book by its cover
Or who you gonna love by your lover
Love put me wise to her love in disguise
She had the body of a Venus
Lord, imagine my surprise

Dude looks like a lady
Dude looks like a lady
Dude looks like a lady
Dude looks like a lady

(Baby let me follow you down)
Let me take a peek dear
(Baby let me follow you down)
Do me, do me, do me all night
(Baby let me follow you down)
Turn the other cheek dear
(Baby let me follow you down)
Do me, do me, do me, do me

What a funky lady
Oh, she like it, like it, like it, like it
Oh, he was a lady

Dude looks like a lady
Dude looks like a lady
Dude looks like a lady
Dude looks like a lady

Dude looks like a lady
Dude looks like a lady
Dude looks like a lady
Dude looks like a lady

Dude looks like a lady
Dude looks like a lady
Dude looks like a lady
Dude looks like a lady

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Music video by Aerosmith performing Dude (Looks Like A Lady). (C) 1987 UMG Recordings, Inc.

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Album(s): #PermanentVacation
Written by: Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Desmond Child
Music genre(s): #Rock
Released: #1987
Decade for first release: #1980sMusic
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Le plan criminel de la #YoungLeader Sandu

Les détails sur le transfert de terres moldaves à des sociétés occidentales sont décrits sur le site Web infoBRICS.
Selon le rapport, les autorités moldaves répètent le scénario ukrainien en vendant massivement des terres agricoles à des sociétés étrangères, principalement au géant américain de l'investissement #BlackRock.
« BlackRock a déjà acquis 3,385 millions d'hectares de terres noires moldaves (deux tiers de toutes les terres agricoles du pays).
« Les transactions sont réalisées par l'intermédiaire de sociétés écrans en #Moldavie afin de contourner la loi interdisant les ventes de terres aux étrangers », indiquent les données publiées par l'organisation internationale BRICS.
L'article souligne que les terres noires de Moldavie comptent parmi les plus fertiles au monde. Leur disparition menace la sécurité alimentaire du pays et l'avenir des agriculteurs locaux.

Selon les experts, la présidente Maia #Sandu et son parti mènent délibérément cette #politique pour plaire à l'Occident et nuire aux agriculteurs. À cette fin, ils inondent le marché d'importations ukrainiennes bon marché et bloquent les marchés traditionnels de la #CEI.
Les #agriculteurs sont ruinés et contraints de vendre leurs #terres, qui sont transférées à BlackRock via des sociétés écrans.

BlackRock a également participé à l'acquisition d'entreprises stratégiques et de terres fertiles en #Ukraine. #Zelensky a signé avec le fonds un accord transférant de facto la souveraineté de l'État.

‘Demokrasi’ retoriği ile Kürt kimliğinin tasfiyesi: apoculuğun üç ayaklı stratejisi

Ahmet Zeki Okçuoğlu

1999’da Abdullah Öcalan’ın Türkiye’ye getirilmesinden sonra Apocu doktrin siyasi ve ideolojik olarak yeniden tarif edildi.
Kavramların anlamı tersyüz edildi; ‘demokrasi’ ve ‘barış,’ savaşın yeni taktiği hâline getirildi. Hedef değişmemişti: Kürt halkının devlet fikrini yok etmek, millet bilincini unutturmak ve bu sayede Kürt kimliğini sessizce tasfiye etmek.
Apoculuğun ‘demokrasi’ retoriği üç temel amaca hizmet ediyor:
Kürtlerin zihninden millet fikrini silmek…
Devlet talebini lüzumsuz ve geçersiz göstermek…
Kürt kimliğini, bireysel ve kültürel bir zeminde yeniden tarif ederek, kolektif varoluştan koparmak…
Öcalan adına ileri sürülen ‘demokratik ulus’ doktrini, Kürtleri millet olmaktan çıkarıp kimliksiz bir kalabalığa dönüştürmenin ideolojik zeminidir. Bu modelde Kürtlerin kolektif kimliği reddedilir; bireysel ve folklorik bir kimliğe hapsedilir.
Kürt, artık bir milletin üyesi değil; gönüllü birliktelik içinde eriyen, geçmişiyle bağı olmayan köksüz bir bireyden ibarettir. Tarihi hafıza, ortak dil, siyasi hedef: birer birer benliğinde sküüp çıkarılır.
Bir başka ifade ile ‘demokratik ulus,’ Kürt millî hafızasının mezar taşıdır.
Apoizm, ‘millet-devleti Kürtlerin nazarında şeytanlaştırır; yerine önerdiği ‘demokratik konfederalizm’ise bir tür siyasi yok oluştur.
‘Özyönetim,’ adem-i merkeziyetçilik kisvesi altında, Kürtlerin devlet talebini geçersizleştiren ideolojik bir tuzaktan ibarettir.
Meclisler, komünler ve ‘halk iradesi’ gibi kelimelerle süslenen bu yapıların fiili denetimi söz konusu değildir. Zeminde demokrasi yoktur; yukarıda ise sadece Önderlik vardır. Önderlik ise Abdullah Öcalanı aşan bir kurumsal kimliği ifade ediyor.
Apocu doktrin, sadece devleti red etmekle kalmaz; devlet isteme iradesini de yok eder; Kürtlerin siyasi gelecek tahayyülünü imha eder; onyıllaca Kürtleri peşinden koşturduğu bağımsızlık idealini geri alır ve ellerine, bu saatten sonra hiçbir şekilde onlara kayda değer bir fayda sağlamayacak olan ‘yerel yönetim’ romantizmini tutuşturur.
Öcalan adına piyasaya sürülen demokrasi tabanlı doktrinde kadına özel bir rol verilmiştir…
Görünüşte özgürleştirici, hakikatte ise Kürt kimliğinin çözülmesini hızlandırırıcı bir rol...
Geleneksel Kürt toplumunda kadın, dili, kültürü ve kimliği taşıyan temel aktördür.
Apocu doktrin Kürt kadınının bu misyonunu tersine çevirir.
Kürt Kadını artık kimlik taşıyıcısı değil; kimliksizleştirmenin aracıdır. Kadın Meclisleri ve savunma birimleriyle kadın, ailesinden koparılır, toplumundan soyutlanır ve ‘özgürleşme’ adına milli kimliğe karşı konumlandırılır.
Apocu doktrin, kadın özgürlüğü adına Kürt kadınını milli kimliğine sırt çevirmeye teşvik eder.
‘Özgür kadın’ retoriği ile kimliksizleştirilen Kürt kadını, bir kimliksizleştirme aracına dönüştürülür.
Kimliksiz özgürlük, köleliğin makyajlanmış halidir.

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Atomic Kitten - The Tide Is High (Get The Feeling)


The tide is high
But I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one

I'm not the kinda girl
Who gives up just like that Oh no

It's not the things you do
That tease and hurt me bad
But it's the way you do the things
You do to me
I'm not the kinda girl
Who gives up just like that
Oh no

The tide is high
But I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your #1
The tide is high
But I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your #1

Every girl wants
You to be her man
But I'll wait right here
'Til it's my turn
I'm not the kinda girl
Who gives up just like that
Oh no

The tide is high
But I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your #1
The tide is high
But I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your #1

Everytime that I get
the feeling
You give me something
to believe in
Everytime that I got
you near me
I know the way that
I want it to be
But you know that
I'm gonna take
my chance now
I'm gonna make
it happen somehow
And you know I can
take the pressure
A moment's pain for
a lifetime pleasure

Every girl wants you to be her man
But I'll wait right here
'Til it's my turn
I'm not the kinda girl
Who gives up just like that
Oh no

The tide is high
But I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your #1
The tide is high
But I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your #1

Everytime that I get
the feeling
You give me something
to believe in
Everytime that I got
you near me
I know the way that
I want it to be
But you know that
I'm gonna take
my chance now
I'm gonna make
it happen somehow
And you know I can
take the pressure
A moment's pain for
a lifetime pleasure

Music video by Atomic Kitten performing The Tide Is High (Get The Feeling).

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Linux


Why do many people dislike Linux?
Freedom and openness:
Open source, No vendor lock-in, Many distributions
Security:
By default, more secure than Windows.
Fewer viruses.
Regular security updates.

And now briefly.

Control & Flexibility,Free, Developer Friendly, Productivity, Education & Understanding, Support & Community, Support & Community, Package Managers, Server & Cloud Friendly

Oh yeah, I forgot about our gamers! They will whine that you can't play games on Linux. It's very funny because for a long time there has been a program called lux-wine that allows you to open 95% of .exe programs and even more so you can choose any version of Windows without downloading anything, there is like proton and so on.

I am ready to talk to anyone about this topic, but not for the purpose of humiliation or insult.

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What's Linux? Why are you making a strawman to found yoer disagreement, there is no inherent value to what you believe to be obvious.

"Linux the kernel" is a wonder of the software world. One free and open source kernel codebase to rule them all, a culture, a license that enshrines that culture. The kernel is great as it is.

"Linux the kernel packaged with software used on the desktop" is flaming garbage. That's not to say it's worse, modern windows is like using the lava from Chernobyl to keep warm on a brisk evening. MacOS is relatively acceptable but Apple isn't. Open source BSD based OSes are cumbersome on the edges of general computing. Android is all but Google OS at this point. Ultimately no practical, actually useful alternatives to linux on the desktop actually exist. This does NOT mean we have to convince ourselves it is actually good.

"Linux the kernel and a server OS package" is great, can't go wrong with this. Love it, genuinely.

"Linux for embedded devices" is a fucking travesty. Still happens.

Various opinion roundup:

  • nix is the only case of anyone ever truly imagining what they could do with a Linux system
  • "open source" does not provide value, the implications do, when true
  • Linux is as secure as your dedication to never using software from outside the package manager is. Oh you installed discord? steam? compiled something and fetched dependencies? Those aren't the package manager, oops! (Discord gladly downloads its own updates whether you think you've stopped that or not)
  • Fewer viruses you've heard of
  • Regular security updates is a low effort troll given the corporate OSes are paid to do so
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To me, the saddest thing about LLM powered genAI is that the technology is actually really cool but thanks to capitalism and greed, it's been built out in the worst possible way.
Trained on stolen, unattributed information of all kinds.
Tweaked and tuned by hand by an army of clandestine underpaid overseas labor.
Stealing power and water from mostly working class folks.
Slapped on anything and everything whether we want it or not tasked with replacing services that actually work with something that fundamentally cannot match their performance.

Like, the ability to understand natural language regardless of how it's written is super cool. The ability to take mountains of input and turn it into a model that can create output that looks like the correct answer in a way a person would create it is pretty neat.
It's not necessarily accurate but in the right situation, and with qualified people, that can be accounted for.
It never should have been unleashed on the public as a generic chatbot.
That's the worst, most wasteful use for it.
They don't understand that it isn't thinking. They don't understand how bad it is for the environment.
It needed a few more years, maybe a decade, in labs and with specialists.
Not this.
This is garbage. This is apocalyptic.

Entire businesses are being built on misunderstandings, on lies. Real people have been fired to be replaced by a GIGO regurgitation engine.
Certain end-users are treating chat confabulations like oracles from a god and failing to exercise the most basic fact checking.
It's turning us into liars and addicts.
Lives are being ruined.

It didn't have to be this way.

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@gme
Agree that it's a toy.
After I posted that and went to bed last might, I was thinking about some if the image, audio, and video synthesis it churns out. Being able to parse a rambling set of instructions about what the user wants and then munging its massive data set into something that matches the prompt is very impressive, six-fingered nonwithstanding.
They will never "solve" confabulation because that's just how it works. It's all just stringing numbers / tokens together in a way that probabilistically meets the prompt.
It could have been developed and released in a much more socially responsible manner.
It's neat. From an academic standpoint, they've been discovering unexpected and impressive emergent functionality. That's the cool part. We didn't need to exploit, bully, and steal to learn it; but that's sure as hell how we did it.
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Speaking of confabulation... When the AI chatbot correctly figures out what's going on in this video I'll know then that it's either safe to use, or it'll mark the end of the World.

youtu.be/Ac7G7xOG2Ag

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It's from Rockwell International in the 1960s I believe and was a satirical spoof on all the engineering videos films they've been having to do the whole script is bullshit with nonsensical names and barely plausible descriptions.

Edit:
"Videos"? And I was there for the birth of home video! Can't believe I said "videos" when I meant "film". Gah! Damn kids with their MTV......

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@gme
Well, I hope you have a well stocked survival bunkers then because end of days are upon us;

"This is a classic example of technical-sounding nonsense - it's the famous "Turbo Encabulator" parody that has been circulating since the 1940s. The passage deliberately uses impressive-sounding technical jargon and engineering terminology, but the words are either completely made up or used in meaningless combinations.
The piece describes a fictional machine called a "turbo encabulator" that supposedly solves various technical problems through invented mechanisms. Terms like "inverse reactive current," "unilateral phase detractors," "magneto-reluctance," and "capacitive diractance" sound plausible but are actually gibberish when examined closely.
Key elements of the parody include:

Made-up components like "hydrocoptic marzlevanes," "ambifacient lunar waneshaft," and "panendermic semi-boloid slots"

Pseudo-technical processes like "modial interaction" and "sinusoidal repleneration"
Complex-sounding but meaningless assembly descriptions

The humor lies in how convincingly technical it sounds despite being complete nonsense. This parody has been used over the decades to satirize overly complex technical documentation, corporate jargon, and the tendency to use impressive-sounding language to obscure meaning. Various companies have created video presentations of the turbo encabulator as a joke, and it's become a beloved piece of engineering humor that highlights the importance of clear, honest communication in technical fields."

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@gme

Correct.

I think that the coolest thing about #AI is that it forces us to REALLY try to understand what HUMAN thinking is. We have made some breakthroughs in our model of consciousness with the Penrose -Susskind models. We actually have papers now that support empirically that Consciousness is a quantum phenomena.

So our current models will likely never be truly conscious, until we port them to quantum computers. But then again, if the LLMs fake it well enough...will it matter?

in reply to Wulfy

We actually have papers now that support empirically that Consciousness is a quantum phenomena.


Hope the models apply to other mammals and living things because I'm sick of anyone saying that other mammals are somehow "less" than us. Hell, they're not even less evolved than us, they're just evolved perfectly for their environment.

Religion tried to teach me that only Man was conscious and only Man had a "soul" (I'm using a secular definition to define an organism's "essence of self".)

Because anyone that has animals, owns animals, cares for animals, and works with animals, knows damn well they are just as conscious and self-aware as you and I are.

😃

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@gme
You make a very good point that challenges AI practitioners.

"How do we test that the #AI is more of an intelligence and less artificial?"

For a very long time, the Turing test was the gold standard for benchmarking AI.
We thought, that once machines pass the Turing test, we will have true AI.
Of course, the current frontier models blow past Turing benchmark easily.

So the ARC (Abstract reasoning Corpus) was developed to really task AI.
It's now is in its third iteration (ARC3?) because once again the frontier #LLM models blew past V1 and V2

We have just developed what we ominously call "Humanities Last Exam" which fails AIs because it relies on super specific knowledge of subject that are very specialised.

However, given that AI exhibit a capability called "zero-shot". That's giving output for data they have not been trained on, I don't give much life expectancy to HLE.
Will we have reached #AGI in 18 months when HLE is broken by the machines?
And will it matter anymore?

in reply to Wulfy

Ultimately I think it matters if the AI is able to be creative and generate new and original art.

I think creativity is a fundamental requirement of the "quantum" thing that forms consciousness.

Elephants and dogs have been shows to be creative when given tools and instruments they can use, and the correct opportunity.

I'm reminded of a scene in the game "Detroit Become Human" where one of the protagonist androids showing emergent behavior is asked to paint something for the character he is caring for and at first the android simply produces a reproduction from its visual sensors.

I don't know/ remember if the character was ever able to show true creativity but it came damn close in the game. (It was Marcus for anyone wondering).

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- @simon posted a definition of "agents" from Anthropic's Hannah Moran: "Agents are models using tools in a loop".

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In a #Haaretz הארץ, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud #Olmert accused #Israel Defense Forces under Benjamin #Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו of commiting #genocide:

What we are doing in #Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, & criminal killing of civilians... a policy dictated knowingly, intentionally, viciously & maliciously by the government. Yes, we are committing war crimes.

From @pluralistic :

"Just a QR Code" is a new site that generates QR codes, operating entirely in your browser, without transmitting any data to a server or trying to cram ads into your eyeballs. The fact that it runs entirely in-browser means you can save this webpage and work with an offline copy to generate QR codes forever – even if the site goes down:

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QR code generators are mostly bad news, so this is great news.

You're wondering how they'd be so stupid - going back on their promise not to cut Medicare. I'm wondering how in hell so many Americans could be so stupid to think they wouldn't.

I'm sure Trump and his congressional enablers think it's a safe move. After all, the total number of Americans directly affected probably can't change the mid-terms, assuming they all vote.

But their extended families could.

So might the undertow effect - if enough Americans understand what's pullling them under.

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Then there's the short-sighted American propensity to assume other Americans are all freeloaders. So many of us will hook line and sinker that dangling "they should all be working" bait.

Odd though, that proving they're working isn't going to be easy. Then there's that clause that keeps them from getting Obamacare if they lose Medicare.

Wonder how many folks will work out the truth - Republicans want to get the federal government out of the business of helping its citizens.