yes yes, ‘China bad’ and yada yada, but how do we get in on this cool milking scheme…

David Gibbs: How Intelligence Services Captured Academia & Journalism

Academia is always one of the first compromised institutions: David Gibbs: How Intelligence Services Captured Academia & Journalism

Beautyful !

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Cool ! Signed up, but worried about future enshittification: "Monetization scheme for publishers. Model authors will be able to receive financial support from people who would like to donate to them. "

It needs to be an optional secondary layer/addon, so it can’t enshittify the whole eco-system. ‘Monetization’ IS enshittification and will only get worse: popups, ads, fake accounts/recommendation, and all the other std scams will follow if a humble wish to support creators, becomes intrinsic monetization of the ecosystem !

‘Hear hear’, ‘word!’ and so on…

Btw. This is just one of the main paths to shape the public opinion/information space. They promote people and projects that align with their future, and hammers away on those that doesn’t. That’s all it takes. Do that 24/7 over years to a lifetime, and they can - and DO - beat activist voices/critique, and shape the opinions on everything from Academia, to Capitalist free market economics, to what human ‘nature’ is, to vilifying every ideological/scientific opponent so they can attack their enemies with no moral repercussions, and everything in between that suits them. Oh, and they own/control basically all western media and control/pay for their favourite 'NGO’s like ‘human rights’ etc, that play into their hands, but really don’t give 2 fcks about…

So, this is not just about enshittification/control of the open source world.

This whole western manipulation scheme is well-known, documented, and is also called “Manufacturing consent”, “The Blue Church” etc, and you CANNOT escape it if you are not aware of it ! Unfortunately, the whole western hemisphere are under the influence of these sswipe pschos misinformation, and quickly goes into a fierce defence of the Epstein Oligarchs, their pet ideological substrate, and the ‘truth’ the oligarchs are disseminating through their own effing media. Did anyone really believe that actual events in the world would pass through oligarch/epstein owned media, and survive ?!? come ooon…

Educate your-self’s on how the Rich man’s dictatorial empire actually works and break out before the Epstein cnts destroy our common future !!

This is just ONE of an ocean of studies/research done on the Merican Epstein empire: Colonization of the Mind -The Means, Roots, and Global Perils of U.S. Cognitive Warfare - By Xinhua Institute. Search and read it without inherited bias. See if you can break out of the Epstein manufactured ‘china-hate’…

Yeah, keep believing that you are not ALL controlled and pitted against each other by the same Oligarch/fascist pscho class !

Keep believing that ‘Merica GREAT’ and everything that is happening is all just the dumb maga’s fault !

Keep believing that merican peeps had ever had any actual ‘democratic’ say in what internal/foreign policies was enforced !

That’ll teach your fascist oligarch rulers for good !!

Good thinking !!

“We are about to announce a common-sense fuel economy standard because we want ​Detroit to build cars that Americans want to buy – not cars that Democrats want Washington ​to build,” “Biden focused on reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel use, accelerating a transition to clean energy and making the U.S. a global leader ​in clean-energy technology and manufacturing.”

yada yada and more standard childish propaganda for the local peeps. The closer truth is that US didn’t have to care about any of that before, but now, they can no longer extort the rest of the world anymore, and all the exorbitant privileges the merican peeps have always had - WILL be taken away from them. Slam!

Biden and the rest of the Dems are also run by the oligarchy (NO, you didn’t have ‘Democracy’ before either - look it up), and followed the exact same foreign extortion strategy (extort and keep good nations down) as everyone see openly now. Mask are just off, and the Oligarchy are panicking - that’s all. However, Dems are being propagandised to believe that everything were fine until ONE orange man destroyed the finest progressive democracy in the world - come ooonn peeps…

US society and global hegemony was always a ponzi scheme sustained by wars, suppression/extortion, but touted/presented to the merican peeps, as a “capitalist succes !” - an archaic governance belief-system that is ‘coincidentally’ also the best societal substrate for oligarchs to prosper in. Merican ‘succes’ was always about stolen money/resources by extortion/aggression, and ALL merican/capitalist virtues and dogmas was just propaganda to please the home peeps. You think extorting Venezuela was a new thing for US to do ? Using nations as proxy warriors to harm US ‘enemies’ ? Supporting the Izraeli pschos was only the orange man ?? Come on, wake up and start noticing what a horror society you have been living in your whole lives, and discover how much pure evil your lack of activism have caused the rest of the world !

You will all find that all the political activist - ‘Socialists’, ‘Commies’, ‘Anti-fascists’ etc from the so-called “Far right/left/up/down/whatever” was always correct in their attacks on the 100 yo Merican Oligarch/fascist run ‘Empire of Lies’. Time to wake/look up from the propaganda echo-chamber and swallow the realisation that you have all been conned - manipulated - your entire lives for the benefit of the 1% !

They couldn’t figure it out and their AI dep has been in shambles. Apple is/were not ‘good’ in any sense of the word. There are docs that describes why apple didn’t get on the AI train, and they were NOT trying deliberately to fight back against AI - in any way…

Yeah, the poor mistreated crapple Corp are SO good and ONLY wewil Drump is what suddenly makes them a huge international evil turd !

I mean they obviously have no fanbase/money/power, so they cannot push back in any way, and are only now being ‘forced’ to be an evil fascist corp…

So… lets all defend/protect the good Apple corp against the orange oligarch puppet, that is the ONLY reason they just now turned evil…

…Okay then…

speed run enshittifying Apple

They have had the nick name ‘cRapple’ …amongst a hundred others for many many years. Such names doesn’t come by them selves, so not sure why you think they are not already one of the most enshittified and evil corps in the world - they always were !..

Don’t ever buy their products, or in any way support their controlled ecosystem…

Just a std Merican diverting attention for money…

“You do need to own a copy of the game to play it with OpenTS”

Arg!! I love these passionate re-imaginations, remakes and whatnot of old games, but they are already developing with AI, so why are they not generating a new asset resource that replaces all the original proprietary stuff!

Anyway, I hope we soon get complete asset replacement for ALL the old games Diablo, C&C, Baldurs gate and hundreds of other old classics that all have an open engine that still relies on shtty original copies of proprietary assets. Nobody cares about these corporate parasites anyway, so f’em…

I think it’ll get harder and harder to find ‘pure’ distros. For a while you can maybe rely on something similar to Gnu linux-libre kernel that removes proprietary blobs, or BSD, or Gnu Hurd kernels etc, but linux-libre is already a pain if you need certain hw drivers, and eventually an anti-ai kernel will become crippled even worse, and it will become too hard to keep track of what kernels/parts of kernels is AI assisted code or not.

In the future, more and more new features will be from ai assisted code, and pretty soon, the anti-ai kernel will lose out to ai-assisted kernels in features, speed and soon stability (bug-finding etc).

The same goes for the rest of the distros that tries to avoid ai-assisted tools and code, and you/others will imho get completely swamped by this transformation. In fact, you will most certainly need an agent to keep constant track of this development.

I’m okay with AI, but I kind of feel for those trying to avoid it. Its hard enough just to avoid proprietary crap, and to me, avoiding ai-assists, is an even bigger mountain to climb. I do wish you all best of luck on that journey.

Ps. There ARE fully open models trained on fully libre with open libre data-sets, and for you - ethical data oriented - you could/should? probably accept that ‘non-pure’ situation, and use such an open llm to either maintain an ethical distro, or keep unethical ai-assist as low as you can get away with, for as long as you can.

I think your solution is a ‘declarative operating system’, where you just have a config file and the system builds it-self from that. You can decide if the system is locked to certain versions if you like. I know of Guix and NixOs, but maybe others exists. Alternatively an external scripting solution.

You still need to backup valuable local user data oc.

Wondered about the ‘childish’ choice of underpants:

“Citizen scientists enable large-scale research. The “Proof by Underpants” project demonstrates the potential of citizen science for research. Without the help of the many volunteers, a study of this scale across 1,000 sites would not have been possible. […] The exceptionally high level of participation is also reflected in the authorship: Around 240 citizen scientists are listed as co-authors of the publication.”

“The project was launched under the title “Proof by underpants,” and the extent of decomposition was termed the “Underpants Index” (UI).”

I guess the ‘exceptional participation’ was a small psychological study in it self. Seemed to work beautifully at least…

study

“The canonical basis rotates the model so that axis k of the hidden state corresponds to a specific spectral direction of the model’s own weight matrices.”

Ouch! Some heavy convoluted words for ordinary peeps. I got ‘observability’ and output ‘alignment/control’ out of it all, and got a sense of it being important to know, so just dumping a few direct links for the adventurous out there…

https://handwiki.org/wiki/Canonical_basis

The Hidden Geometry of Transformer Weights paper describes the ‘spectrum’ part. …sort of.

I would’ve said it was long gone settled that any memory gets ‘contaminated’ by the local intrinsic/extrinsic environment we are in. In other words; we always tweak all memories every time we ‘read’ them.

To my knowledge there is no ‘static’ memory anywhere in our dynamic brain, and that knowledge have just been updated.

Woa :-O Definitely avoiding such people and their nazty environment/ecosystem… Thanks for info…