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richwicks says

I wouldn't be too quick to ascribe this blacklisting to be from "the left".

I do not think anyone is saying the blacklisting is from the left, just that the students who are so quick to cancel others are being cancelled themselves.

In my opinion, those doing the canceling are corporate leaders who have more allegiance to Israel than they do to the United States.

Beautiful

Mutually Assured Destruction created Freedom of Religion

Now it will restore Freedom of Speech

This is what Libertarians and "Principled Republicans" don't understand. The cure is MAD, not expecting tolerance to be returned.

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/friday-funnies-friday-the-13th

Seriously, this is how I found out about a former Hamas leader calling for a “Day of Jihad” on Friday the 13th.




At first, I wasn’t sure if it was fake news… So, I googled Day of Jihad on Googlenet news - this is what I got.




Nothing - main stream media (MSM) and the Googlenet is not reporting on it. “A Day of Jihad” is evidently not a worthwhile news story.

OK then.

But is the statement real?

This is the problem with censorship and selective news reporting. Where does it end?

So, I googled “Hamas, Jihad” on the Google News. That search pulled some local news stories about local and state police forces getting ready.




Again, nothing from MSM.

With the exception of Newsweek, which did actually report on this story. Newsweek choose to run a hit piece on “Maga” in the context of the Hamas statement. Wait, what? They then asserted that the “day of Jihad”, actually just meant a day of protests…

I had to use Yandex (hat tip @richwicks) to find the hamas proclamation video (I suppose I should capitalize hamas to avoid the red squiggly underline, but I do not dignify that which I hold in contempt).

stereotomy says

I had to use Yandex (hat tip richwicks) to find the hamas proclamation video (I suppose I should capitalize hamas to avoid the red squiggly underline, but I do not dignify that which I hold in contempt).

People need to stop using Google.

Using google is like using information that is exclusively sourced from the CIA.

For details of how the leak works:

https://patrick.net/post/1313537/2018-02-02-fbi-leaks-all-tips-online-to-google

Eric Berg has popular videos on YouTube. Check them out, you might find info that could help your health.


What I really think about YouTube's new rules by Annette Bosworth, MD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi3I6_sQ7W4

YES, Yandex is better than Google, in my personal experience with using both Google search and Yandex search.
And protonmail is an awesome alternative to gmail

I agree. Yandex images is particularly good:

https://yandex.com/images/

https://www.theverge.com/23994174/epic-google-trial-jury-verdict-monopoly-google-play

Three years after Fortnite-maker Epic Games sued Apple and Google for allegedly running illegal app store monopolies, Epic has a win. The jury in Epic v. Google has just delivered its verdict — and it found that Google turned its Google Play app store and Google Play Billing service into an illegal monopoly.

After just a few hours of deliberation, the jury unanimously answered yes to every question put before them — that Google has monopoly power in the Android app distribution markets and in-app billing services markets, that Google did anticompetitive things in those markets, and that Epic was injured by that behavior. They decided Google has an illegal tie between its Google Play app store and its Google Play Billing payment services, too, and that its distribution agreement, Project Hug deals with game developers and deals with OEMs were all anticompetitive.

https://notthebee.com/article/googles-dei-training-calls-white-anxiety-a-public-health-crisis-and-compares-voting-for-republicans-to-being-addicted-to-drugs-

Google's DEI training calls "white anxiety" a public health crisis, compares voting candidates who will "bring back those jobs" to being a junkie

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2024/01/28/new-details-free-ai-upgrade-for-google-and-samsung-android-users-leaks/

Google Update Reveals AI Will Read All Your Private Messages ...

But Bard will also analyze the private content of messages “to understand the context of your conversations, your tone, and your interests.” It will analyze the sentiment of your messages, “to tailor its responses to your mood and vibe.” And it will “analyze your message history with different contacts to understand your relationship dynamics… to personalize responses based on who you're talking to.”

And so here comes the next privacy battlefield for smartphone owners still coming to terms with app permissions, privacy labels and tracking transparency, and with all those voice AI assistant eavesdropping scandals still fresh in the memory.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2020/02/26/new-amazon-apple-google-eavesdropping-threat-should-you-quit-your-smart-speaker/

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/a-new-hopium-sunday-february-18-2024

Speaking of Death Stars, state-affiliated Google can be as fascinating as it is frustrating. While the search engine slyly suppresses the national conversation, it teaches us through its omissions what the directors of the censorship regime fear the most. For instance, this morning Google pretended not to understand my simple request for a picture of a group of people together lifting a car. Ironically, I found it on TikTok.

Here you go, today’s thematic illustration :

We are far stronger together.

Patrick says

We are far stronger together.

That is what I was saying to Rich Wicks as far as small towns and communities working together and innovating together. That is a way to address and mitigate effects from large-scale dilemmas like currency devaluation.

Its like one tree stick can be easily broken. Then have a bunch of sticks and tie string around them; they cannot be broken as easily as the single stick.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synergy

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Patrick says

We are far stronger together.

That is what I was saying to Rich Wicks as far as small towns and communities working together and innovating together. That is a way to address and mitigate effects from large-scale dilemmas like currency devaluation.

its like one tree stick can be easily broken. Then have a bunch of sticks and tie string around them; they cannot be broken as easily as the single stick.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synergy

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That's why Mussolini called it "Fascism" - many sticks together are stronger than one stick alone.

Sorry for the cheap shot, but I actually agree in the sense that you meant it. It is only by tens of thousands standing together that we can oppose one oligarchical apparatchik.

Originally they used low quality pics , AI identified black ppl as gorilla. Now they overfeed woke data n its turning all black n brown.

It's all part of the drool buckets demonstrating their ritualized contempt for the populace. I can imagine them dancing around drunk on adrenochrome wearing bottomless tutus and Satanic bride gowns with their genitals flailing as they slash at their child victims with cuts and revel in the manic atrocities they anticipate against the body public. One would expect their AI to reflect their current inabilities to control their venoms.

Speaking of Founding Fathers, I wonder if kids learn anything positive about them anymore in Public Schools.

AmericanKulak says

Speaking of Founding Fathers, I wonder if kids learn anything positive about them anymore in Public Schools.

About 13% of students are proficient in History.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/03/us/us-history-test-scores.html

Misc says

AmericanKulak says

Speaking of Founding Fathers, I wonder if kids learn anything positive about them anymore in Public Schools.

About 13% of students are proficient in History.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/03/us/us-history-test-scores.html

With this so-called "history" we'd all be better off if 0% of students were proficient.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/froggycrats-friday-february-23-2024?open=false

Oh, Google. Those of us in media and politics have long discarded the company’s infamous, biased, completely-unreliable search engine. And as I’m sure you heard by now, the company’s recently-rebranded AI platform caused massive controversy yesterday when users noticed the AI, called “Gemini”, formerly “Bard,” is more biased against white folks than the Black Panthers’ Grand High Wizard, or whatever he’s called these days.

In case you missed the fun somehow — Gemini’s concept of Popes:




Users went wild exploring the boundaries of Gemini’s reprehensible racism. It wasn’t just that Gemini would draw unwanted, historically-inaccurate — but diverse! — characters, it actually refused to draw any historically accurate ones, so long as it was asked to draw white folks, that is:




Google’s AI hilariously produced pictures of diverse historical figures in the most unlikely configurations. The story quickly broke into corporate media, producing many uproarious, side-splitting headlines. ...

Now they’ve shut it down. I tried this morning, and at first Gemini refused to draw any pictures of any people, citing its highbrow standards of ethics and personal privacy instead of just admitting it’s racist. (To be fair, we’ve already seen that AI’s ethical standards can change from day-to-day, which probably makes them something different from standards, per se.)

But within an hour or so the deflated AI had thrown in the towel, and now meekly says its bosses claim it’s under improvement.

So how do they inject their goofy Neo-marxist biases and repugnant racism into the AI? It’s not even the programmers doing it. It’s safety specialists who do it using something called prompt injection. That means when you enter a prompt, like “draw a pope,” the interface adds behind-the-scenes instructions before it sends your prompt on to the AI.

So, the ‘prompt’ the AI gets is different from what you typed. If you type, “draw a pope,” the AI will get “draw a pope from the perspective of a speed-addled Black Panther activist being chased by a pack of KKK hangmen. And make sure the result makes trans people feel more like real women.”

I asked ChatGPT to explain ‘prompt injection’ and it actually gave me an honest response:




Slipping a note, lol. But the problem is, we users aren’t allowed to see the true, modified prompts that get sent to the AI. That’s a secret. To its credit, ChatGPT admitted it:




The AI community barks about safety and transparency all the time. But they are just as secretive and non-transparent as any government skunkworks biolab. However, it seems sort of fundamental, for trust and confidence in the AIs, that we be allowed to see how our questions are being modified before being submitted to the computer.

Google’s racist chatbot just opened up that conversation, big time. Let’s have it. Transparently.

Ah yes, Abigailia Sourfaceus, Ubuntus Seguntus, and Hiros Tamaguichius, the Roman Emperors.

NEIN! NEIN!! 9!


The AI was taught this, of course. Otherwise it would have looked for or been fed images of the era and simply used those as a basis. The fact it added Asian and Black Wehrmacht soldiers was entirely Woke Religion.

AmericanKulak says

looks like disney movies… same blackening of white historical figures.

I've been playing with AI quite a bit, and it's quite amazing at how bad it is, for certain tasks that ought to be trivial.

It couldn't do a non-blocking read on Perl and instead suggested using pipes and a fork despite this being quite common in being part of the Perl cookbook:

https://okojj.github.io/ebook/books/perl2/cookbook/ch07_15.htm

I think it's good for learning technical stuff, but it's far from complete, and it's useless for anything else.

Patrick says

I am perplexed as to why anybody at this point doesn't use the Brave web browsers.

Before, it took some work to avoid advertisements, now there's a browser built entirely around this. I don't think I've seen an advertisement in months, but some do get through.

And I've noticed a great benefit to the NoScript plugin: you usually don't get those cookie warnings anymore.

When the EU imposed their rule that sites have to get you to confirm that you know they are using cookies, they helped nothing at all and soaked up a thousand years of human consciousness with stupid clicks on stupid warnings.

https://www.piratewires.com/p/google-culture-of-fear

Google's Culture of Fear

inside the dei hivemind that led to gemini's disaster

Following interviews with concerned employees throughout the company, a portrait of a leaderless Google in total disarray, making it “impossible to ship good products at Google”

Revealing the complicated diversity architecture underpinning Gemini’s tool for generating art, which led to its disastrous results

Google knew their Gemini model’s DEI worldview compromised its performance ahead of launch

Pervasive and clownish DEI culture, from micro-management of benign language (“ninja”) and bizarre pronoun expectations to forcing the Greyglers, an affinity group for Googlers over 40, to change their name on account of not all people over 40 have grey hair

No apparent sense of the existential challenge facing the company for the first time in its history, let alone a path to victory

Patrick says

No apparent sense of the existential challenge facing the company for the first time in its history, let alone a path to victory

I think AI from competitors like ChatGPT are viewed as future competitors to Google search.

I read that about 77% of Googles revenue is from advertisement sales and 74% of its advertisement sales is from Google Search.

So about 56% of Google revenue is from Google search.

Hence if Google search sales drop 50% due to competitors, then the stock price should drop at least 25%.

But I read AI is not meant to be a search replacement as there are bigger plans for it such as with robots that work in a hospital, factory, as well as replace or augment lawyers, journalists, engineers, software coders, and other white collar workers.

I remember Rick Wicks said AI is just a tool and I liken that to CAD as far as tool for engineers such as SolidWorks and Anysys. However CAD did disrupt the drafting workers field just like Microsoft Word and Office replaced the typist pool.

For the federal government, I remember clerk typists (who were replaced with Microsoft Word) "transitioned" over to "administrative assistants" or "contract assistants or administrators" to the contracting officer.

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