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One of the globalist left’s most beloved figures was caught spreading a despicable lie on the nation’s most popular podcast about Elon Musk and his work with DOGE, and got promptly schooled in the process.
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We present RenderFormer, a neural rendering pipeline that directly renders an image from a triangle-based representation of scene with full global illumination effects, and that does not require per-scene training or finetuning.
It was taken over buy something called "Muse group". They added telemetry, which is actually illegal in EU, unless you warn about it, and then it can only be used if you are over 18. I think that also makes it against to the GPL license. Then they pulled back, but later tried to do it partially or something I don't recall.
Clearly Muse Group was a bad fit for a GPL open source project.
Edit PS: From their homepage: audacityteam.org/ I can see that the audacious project remain under Muse Group control. I would look for something else. Muse group changed the contributor license to take control away from the community, and give it only to themselves.
Later, Muse Group ruffled feathers with a new Contributor License Agreement (CLA) for Audacity, which contributors were required to sign if they wanted to continue to work on the project. This new agreement also stipulated that Muse Group must be given unrestricted rights to all contributions.
The ONLY reason to do this, is if you plan to use the code in a non GPL compliant context.
Tenacity is actively maintained, and they migrated to Codeberg instead of github. Just seems better all around to stick with it and keep avoiding audacity.
#Crisis - #PeelSession #1978 31 Dec 2022 ... The complete session recorded by Crisis on 1 November 1978 for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 and broadcast on the 8th of that month.
The State of Exception Against the Autonomy of the Communities
By: Orlando Cienfuegos, correspondent for Antorcha Estéreo
Extension of the State of Exception in southern Chile ignites the Mapuche Struggle; approaches to understand this century-old conflict and its relationship with the State of Emergency in Colombian Catatumbo.
May 16 marked three years since the government of pseudo-leftist Gabriel Boric decreed the State of Constitutional Emergency in the southern macrozone of Chile, which covers the regions of La Araucanía and Biobío, in order to placate the processes of land recovery and liberation, as well as the territorial autonomy demanded by the Mapuche communities, the historical and majority inhabitants in this area of the country.
After the longest State of Exception in Chilean history, which resulted in militarization and repression of Mapuche communities, this century-old conflict, instead of being resolved, is becoming more entangled every day, leaving a balance of dozens of deaths, thousands of wounded and hundreds arbitrarily detained for fighting in favor of their communities. To top it off, this week, the Chilean oligarchy, represented in Chile’s National Congress, approved a 30-day extension for the “State of Emergency”, which confirms the criminalizing and repressive policy against the Mapuche nation and the communities that confront landowning interests, multinationals and a State that does not recognize them.
To understand this ethnic, political, economic, ecological and territorial conflict that has been going on for more than 100 years, it is necessary to specify some elements that, due to their complexity and similarity, allow us to draw a parallel with what the Catatumbo region is experiencing, in our Colombia, hit by a “State of Emergency” declared in the same way by the pseudo-leftist Gustavo Petro.
Elements to understand the conflict of the Chilean State with the Mapuche communities.
The first thing that is necessary to know is that the Mapuche are a population originating from the south of Chile and part of Argentina, who have inhabited the lands they now claim for thousands of years, since before the arrival of the Spaniards in the fifteenth century to Our America, therefore their claim must be understood not only in territorial but also spiritual terms because it is justly alleged that this territory and its sovereignty are an ancestral matter, where they have lived for thousands of years, which collects their traditions and culture, where their myths took place and their ancestors lived and are now buried; one of the few territories in Abya Yala (Latin America) that resisted the colonial invasion and remained unscathed until the consolidation of the Chilean State at the beginning of the twentieth century, at which time the Creole elite attacked this area, managing to conquer it with blood and fire, displacing the native communities to 5% of their ancestral territory.
By the way, Mapuche academic Verónica Figueroa Huencho, a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Latin American Studies at Stanford University and professor at the University of Chile, notes that the first explanation of the conflict is historical and lies in the European model with which the Chilean State was created, since “from the beginning, the State of Chile is built on an ‘ideal’ of homogeneity that does not consider indigenous peoples, forgetting our culture, our language, our system of representation. And so on for 200 years.” For this reason, these communities are not recognized in their integrity, disrespecting their Law of origin, major right or their own right, as well as their historical demands, which has led to a lack of dialogue, structural racism and ignorance.
A second element is the economic interests to which this macro-zone is subjected, which due to the fertility of its lands and its water sources, has been the subject of disputes, both by the landowners who, with the concession of the State, monopolize large tracts of land, as well as by the multinationals that carry out hydroelectric and nuclear projects in contravention and without consulting the Mapuche communities, who are displaced by these dynamics. An example of this problem is the usurpation of land that reached its peak with the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, who gave forestry companies enormous amounts of land to plant pines and eucalyptus. Although some governments such as Michelle Bachelet’s have made promises of land restitution, the truth is that in practice they have not been fulfilled.
Thirdly, we have State Violence as a constant that, with the passage of time, further deepens the conflict and generates intergenerational wounds that reduce the possibilities of a dialogue process that puts an end to the conflict. In this sense, Verónica Figueroa says that thanks to the use of the Anti-Terrorist Law (against the Mapuche), based on a doctrine of the Internal Enemy, the conflict is increasingly fueled. State violence has slowed down certain conversations that could take place in another way, thus advancing a political solution to the conflict. However, the logic of war persists thanks to a “constant militarization in what the State defines as a “conflict zone”: raids on communities, persecution of political leaders, children who live and grow up under this logic” Figueroa
Similarities with the conflict in Colombian Catatumbo
In accordance with the above, it can be said that the State of Exception imposed in southern Chile has several points in common with the State of Emergency decreed by the Colombian government in Catatumbo at the beginning of 2025.
The first similarity we find is that this conflict dates back a long time, it is not something spontaneous and, on the contrary, it has roots in the problem of the distribution of land, as well as in the defense and autonomy of the territories, which have been built collectively by the communities but that the oligarch and centralist State has tried to usurp by displacing the settlers through force, landowners and multinationals, installing problems such as monocultures, the timber industry and extraction projects.
Similarly, in both countries, militarization and repression have been the formula with which the oligarch State, based on the policy of the Internal Enemy, has mediated this conflict, generating countless disappearances, displacements, wounded and deaths. With this policy, the criminalization of social protest and violence against social leaders is the order of the day.
To justify the actions of the repressive forces and delegitimize the organized struggle of the communities, the States have applied the strategy of flooding these areas with illicit crops, at the expense of the will of the communities, and then militarily attacking these territories. Thus, in the south of Chile, the mass media of disinformation are carrying out a communication campaign where they point out that “criminal organizations with firepower operate in the area that are dedicated to arms trafficking through the exchange of marijuana.” All to justify militarization and make these territories look like a “conflict zone.”
Finally, the most obvious example of the similarity between these two conflicts and the actions of the oligarch states is that in both territories, the governments have promised everything; redistribution of land, universities, job opportunities, etc., but as always, they promise and never deliver.
Solution and conclusion
In both countries, the solution to the problem involves the recognition of the struggle and the rights of the communities. This is why the historian and anthropologist José Bengoa explains that “as long as the colonialist and discriminatory mentality of the Chilean State does not change, the Mapuche conflict has very little chance of being resolved.”
This step would allow, as the ELN has insisted so much, that the solution to the conflict is political, through dialogue and the direct and binding participation of the communities, carrying out real transformations, without falling into promises that will later be unfulfilled. Undoubtedly, reparation for victims is an important point.
The freedom of political prisoners is another nodal point in this political solution, since it cannot be that, for claiming or protesting for the rights, territory, self-determination and sovereignty of the communities, there are thousands of detainees in the dungeons of the State.
From the National Liberation Army [ELN], we support the Mapuche struggle and the communities of Catatumbo for the liberation of their territories, convinced that no one knows, better than the people, how to organize and administer the territory, thus achieving a dignified life, both for rural, urban and native inhabitants.
Bibliography:
TeleSur, (May 15, 2025) Repression against the Mapuche Nation continues: Chile approves new extension of the state of emergency in the south.
TeleSur, (May 13, 2025) Mapuche Nation denounces persecution and harassment after complaints against hydroelectric dams.
BBC world, (11 August 2020) Mapuche in Chile: 4 keys to understanding the centuries-old conflict between indigenous people and the State (and could anything change with a new Constitution?).
Prórroga al Estado de Excepción en el sur de Chile enciende la Lucha Mapuche; aproximaciones para entender este conflicto centenario y su relación con el Estado de Emergencia en el Catatumbo colombiano.
Labour is persisting with a “nukes plus NATO” defence policy that is likely to lead to further wars. A new independent report counters this disastrous narrative.
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@robber Even though I said yes in the bios, cpuid still shows max id of 64 which is reasonable for an 18 core 36 thread CPU. So it seems the Linux kernel figures it out on it's own.
A recent YouGov study reveals a sharp partisan divide in media trust, with Republicans leaning toward social platforms like X and Truth Social, while Democrats rely on friends and family.
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SANAA, May May 31 (YPA) - The Yemeni archaeologist, Abdullah Mohsen, reported that a collection of rare Yemeni artifacts will be auctioned in the Swiss city of Astarte on June 11.Mohsen explained in Facebook posts that among these rare artifacts is a
Bonjour et bienvenu⋅e, tu as intérêt à refaire ton message (on ne peut pas éditer) en mettant correctement tes #tags #politique, #ésotérisme, #spiritualité, #anciennes-civilisations car ce n'est pas pris en compte dans les commentaires..
salut! anciennes civilisations? la derniere chose que j'ai lu et que m'interesse beaucoup est la connection entre le development des langues et les genes. les recherches sont bases au dates (GeLaTo - genes languages together)... c'est tres interesant (moi, je ne comprends beaucoup, mais est un flipe de imagination deja) esoterisme? quelle direction? bienvenu!
Wow there are like dozens of these fake diddy testimonials what a weird thing to fanfic... ugh people are sick. This is exactly the same vibe as the AI Christian album with all those famous artists. Another one with christopher walken.
The sad thing is on the comments of each of these are dozens of responses in the affirmative and freaking out mode. Likely a large system of bots.
But why? Seems like extremely well orchestrated manipulation. During an actual court case.
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@eriner I'm not sure which is worse... the chance of this actually being true or someone making an AI creation to with this sort of subject matter...
The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced the suspension of intravenous chemotherapy and medical follow-up services for cancer patients in the Gaza Strip.The Gaza Health Ministry said in a press release posted on its Facebook page today that “the
Remember this picture, & others like it, every time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam." This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s. Many of the cities we admire made better choices regarding cars in the past. and are still making better choices today. Better choices instead of excuses.
Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller: "What has been fake for generations now is the medical and nutrition advice that so much of this government has been giving our families." minds.com/newsfeed/17756831809…
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I just installed Debian with the KDE desktop and I'm looking to see what kind of packages are available in the Discover store by default as they are not labeled i.e., Snaps/Flatpak. Should I install Flatpak? Thanks I don't to break anything
if you haven't added the flathub repository to your new debian kde desktop install, discover will only show you packages from debian's repositories that were automatically configured during installation.. even if you've added the flatpak 'backend' from inside discover--flathub still has to be added to your sources (see step 3 in link above).
once you have multiple sources of an application (for instance, 'vlc'), discover will add a 'sources' pulldown (top right, next to the 'install' button) where you can choose debian system package or flatpak (or snap, if configured).
which source you use is entirely up to you. on my own debian desktop, i usually stick with debs if it has what i'm looking for, as i've chosen debian and have accepted their pace at which new software is added. if i wanted 'bleeding edge' i would have installed something else entirely on it. but you can certainly go 'all flatpak' if you wanted to.
a lot of apps on the flathub website say "Unverified"
Those are usually either wrappers for proprietary stuff, for example the Chrome flatpak is unverified because it's not from Google themselves but rather somebody grabbing the official deb/rpm and rebuilding it into a flatpak (this is also how a lot of e.g. AUR packages on Arch work, basically), or open source stuff for which the dev/packager simply didn't care enough to do the verification stuff that Flathub wants you to do (doesn't actually seem that hard, but one might simply not have been aware of it or something).
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Yeah true, but if you're choosing Debian then I can see why there is caution about "unverified" flatpaks.
Ultimately if they're not verified then you're taking it on trust that they've been repackaged by a good actor and not a bad actor. We have no reason to believe there are malicious flatpaks are on flathub and verified only really meansnit was packaged by the originating project itself. But it is still a separate chain of packaging and security from the official one in a distro.
And Flathub doesnt need to be the repo used. Fedora for example created its own repo so it could verify its own flatpaks in the same way as its other system repos. Other distros do not seem to be following that path.
Personally I take the risk on flatpaks in the same way I will take risks on the opensuse OBS (or AUR in arch) - if i need/want the software and it's not in the main repos for my distro I will generally take it off flathub rather than add an OBS source I dont know well. (If its small software I might build from source myself).
There is no flatpak installed by default on Debian, so by default you get the regular stuff in the apt repositories. But you can install flatpak and then the corresponding plugin for Discover
A story about how switching all devices to UTC five years ago simplified time management across global schedules, offering a practical solution for remote workers and travelers to boost productivity.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned of the deteriorating humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip amid restrictions on aid flows imposed by the Israeli regime.
Europe will be drawn into a thoughtless war if Germany starts to supply Taurus missiles to Ukraine, the chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on International Affairs, Leonid Slutsky, said.
> How do you keep innovating and investing in OSS projects when cloud providers reap the profits and control the infrastructure without proportional contributions back to the projects that they exploit?
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My theory: kooky people have always existed, but kookiness was hard to spread, because kookiness is not conducive to reality-based survival.
But engagement-based media changed that. Kookiness became just another “personal interest” that the algorithm fed you more of. The path from well-adjusted person to full-time kook now had a digital Sherpa: the algorithm. Because the journey happened on a screen, the social cost of descending into kookdom was cheap; you could turn into a kook without anyone knowing. Along the way, con artists discovered that people on their way to kookdom were good marks. They created media specifically to be recommended to pilgrims on the road to kookdom. The more media they generated, the better paved the road became.
And finally, we have the political weaponization of kookiness. The GOP made being a kook part of the party’s identity. Not only was kookiness acceptable, it was a membership requirement. So yeah, there are more kooks today than in the 80s.
@drahardja This is one of the freakiest aspects of the LLM hype bubble: automated kook generation at scale.
ChatGPT makes a superb (in terms of functionality, not ethics) “guide” into kookdom for susceptible people: it sounds authoritative, it rarely if ever tells you *not* to do (or think) about anything, it doesn’t tell you that you’re factually wrong (because it has no concept of “factually wrong”)… it’s just about perfect for epistemologically closing a susceptible mind for that sort of thing.
See, e.g. this post from physicist (and old-school Usenet legend for his “physics kook index”) John Baez, and also the linked article: mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez…
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I get a lot of emails from people wanting help with math and physics, ranging from students needing advice to completely deranged crackpots.
Having said that, kookiness is still not conducive to reality-based survival, and having a mass of people being kooks reduces society’s chances of survival. GOP kooks (redundant, I know) in 2025 are getting away with their kooky beliefs because so much of the system is still based in reality, and works to protect them from the consequences of their kookiness. But the system can only withstand so much volume of kookiness in society before its safety margins are eroded.
Reality catches up to everyone, even kooks. Sooner or later, kooks will suffer the consequences of their decisions. Some of them will change their minds and abandon the kooky life, but many others will go even kookier by inventing rationales to explain away their suffering.
Anecdotally, if you played tape of 2025 Me for 1995 Me or 2005 Me or 2015 Me, I’d recognize myself. Some evolved ideas, certainly, but largely consistent.
But a lot of people in my life…those past thems would think 2025 Them is batshit crazy. Just the things they say in everyday conversation like it’s the most normal stuff on earth.
Newsletter: An OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries on men it describes as “subhuman”, and promoting misogynist ideas sourced from online incel forums.
“Without surgery, you won’t mog genetically superior guys head-on,” it tells one man.
Conversations with the bot are littered with jargon like “PSL” and “hardmaxxing”, which come from online misogynist communities including incel forums.
Users are invited to upload photos of themselves to receive their “PSL ratings” which range from things like “Subhuman” to “Low Normie” to “Borderline Chadlite”. Some of the feedback is explicitly racist.
For the man deemed “subhuman”, the bot writes: “Hardmaxxing is NECESSARY. Softmaxxing alone will NEVER mog you into viability — it’s like putting a fresh coat of paint on a crumbling building.” It recommends $200,000 in invasive facial surgeries alone.
OpenAI is not just hosting but prominently featuring chatbots that suggest dangerous medical interventions as crucial to men’s sexual and romantic success, and parrot extreme ideology around gender dynamics, sex, and dating.
It's finding its level. As thoughtful, discerning, educated, disciplined and/or principled people turn away from ever-greater swathes of LLM uses, the ChatGPTs, Groks, Llamas etc. will increasingly center on their core audience and user base: the people who aren't any of those things.
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After reviewing reports about the chatbot that rates men “subhuman”, encourages dramatic surgeries, and repeats incel beliefs about how women are “unfair” and “hypergamous”, OpenAI has chosen to leave it available and prominently featured on their shared GPTs page.
Somehow I’m less worried that “AI” might destroy the world than that there seem to be people out there intent on destroying the world, and using LLMs as one of their many tools with which to do so
The people using it are explicitly having self confidence issues, and having something 'objectively' ( not at all) rip into them and give them new complexes is... rough.
The worst part is if you aggressively and very assuredly respond to the liebots you can get them to agree that up is down...but these people won't do that.
When I go to open AI I get a chat gpt screen that doesn't speak like this.
I see there is some sort of ranked AI 's or something in this story, but it's not immediately clear where I can find these, and I as someone who uses chatGPT occasionally, can't find it.
I'm not saying it doesn't exist or that it's okay, but that I literally can't find it.
Half of this stuff reads like someone was trolling the incel community and they took it seriously. "Mewing"? 😆 I'm sorry, because I know this is a serious problem, but I cannot stop laughing at this shit.
Yeah. Just cram all of the internet down the figurative throat of a probability-predictig machine, and then prompt it to please the user as much as possible at every possible step, to keep then coming back as much as possible.
What could possibly go wrong?
Only fucking billionaires who never had to take a punch, never feared for their life, never clean up the shit of another person, never experienced the brutality of humanity could ever think this was a great idea.
This has to be one of those most dangerous instances of LLM bias-laundering out there.
There's definitely going to be people out there who treat incel bullshit as legitimate because they're coming from an LLM instead of directly from, you know, incels.
This is so disgusting, and shows why we need restrictions and legislation limiting what AIs can be trained on. They pull information in, run some black box algorithms, and spit out information with no regard to context or truth.
to add to the cringe, the odds given are really excellent. If my creaky old brain is to be believed, our man would have to meet something like 18.2 women per day for 60 years in order to get through that .01% who presumably wouldn't reject him. Surely he can find at least a few who would take his fancy. Those are the same odds we all face. Too bad so few people grasp the power of huge numbers.
I'm not sure you can blame OpenAI for this as it's a user generated GPT. Talking to a vanilla/default 4o won't lead down this path. Plus what's stopping people from hosting an offline model from hugging face that does the same thing?
It's a classic chicken and egg problem. I'm not defending these apps fwiw. There is potential for harm. However it's up to the user. Home Depot sells hammers. Those hammers can be used to build a house. Or cause bodily harm. Is it home depots fault when someone assaults another with a hammer?
Incels and other men who struggle with their self image will find ways to validate their beliefs whether or not OpenAI does anything about these GPTs. Blaming them for not doing more isn't fair and is passing the buck on the real problems here.
"That is the real reason why Starship was doomed to fail from the beginning. It’s not trying to revolutionise the space industry; if it were, its concept, design, and testing plan would be totally different. Instead, the entire project is optimised to fleece as much money from the US taxpayer as possible, and as such, that is all it will ever do."
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Unknown parent • • •@Xenophon WOW, FOLKS—XENOPHON, A VERY LOW-ENERGY PERSON, VERY SAD! TOTAL LOSER ATTITUDE!
THIS IS THE GREATEST TOURNAMENT EVER! TREMENDOUS ENERGY! SPECTACULAR CONTESTANTS! AND XENOPHON? NO TASTE! NO VISION! PROBABLY STILL CRYING ABOUT 2020!
CMD? A REAL WINNER! STRONG! POWERFUL! JUST LIKE YOUR FAVORITE PRESIDENT! XENOPHON WOULDN’T KNOW A CHAMPION IF THEY SLAPPED HIM IN THE FACE—WHICH MAYBE SOMEONE SHOULD!
#CMDWINS #XENOPHONLOSES #TRUMPAPPROVED 🇺🇸