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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How much is water? Like... 3 meters width?

Probably barely even registers as an obstacle anymore than a road or highway causing a high visibility space to cross.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's mad that two women are savvier than he is. Sat there in his $70 extra chair he has been made to feel stupid because they got the same thing for free.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sums up the UK atmosphere right now

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 88 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

https://archive.is/fzIKO

Meeting the restrictions to the letter would disrupt the Pentagon’s ability to purchase the vast quantities of medical supplies, drugs, clothing and other types of logistical support the military relies on, officials contend. “There are certain parts of the world where you literally cannot get away from Huawei,” said Brennan Grignon, the founder of 5M Strategies and a former Defense Department official. “The original legislation had very good intentions behind it, but the execution and understanding of the implications of what it would mean, I personally think that wasn’t really thought through,” she said."

US can't ban Huawei use by the US government because the US needs Huawei to conduct imperialism abroad because western companies won't operate in warzones the US created.

The Pentagon is against the US blanket banning Huawei hardware for supposed "national security" reasons because of national security reasons.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

God dammit I hate these people so much.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Liberals are larping when they pretend they think that democracy is ending and fascism is happening if Trump gets in. If they sincerely thought it was so apocalyptically imminent they would be fine with bombs.

Telling them to use do it calls them out on this. If their kneejerk reaction is "We can't do that!" then they sincerely do not believe their own bullshit.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

can you assure me there's a plausible direct action way of stopping him?

illegal-to-say idf-destroyer

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

If anyone's doing this shit and they've ever been within 100meters of a psyops commander I will write them off. Let alone actually surfed with psyops commanders on a fun day out.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah I thought that was a hexbear joke comment until it was IN THE FUCKING ARTICLE while I was reading it.

Hexbear needs to up its satire because they're producing funnier material as actual propaganda.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

Some kids in our group, as young as 12, bought North Korean rice vodka, brought it back to the camp, and got extremely drunk on the first couple of nights.

Oh no kids drinking at a summer camp! Because this never happens in literally every single country in the world!

We had to clean statues of North Korea's former leaders. One morning, we woke up at 6 a.m. to clean the monuments of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.

We didn't have sponges or anything — we were just brushing off the dust, even though the monuments were cleaned professionally every week. It was strange.

So, not even really cleaning the statues then. Just like, visiting and politely brushing them while visiting. This seems like something a Japanese school would do lol.

They tried to brainwash us in many ways. We played a computer game where your character, a hamster in a tank, had to destroy the White House.

biggs tank amerikkka

One kid became so indoctrinated afterward that he joined the Communist Party in Russia and was always posting about North Korea.

For me, it didn't work — the propaganda was too straightforward.

You paid 300 dollars to attend a trip organised by the communist party of russia. The other kid was a communist before he went to DPRK.

After leaving, I craved capitalist food so badly that I bought three Burger King burgers, two large fries, and a cola. It was impossible to eat all that, but I just wanted it so bad.

Lmao fuck offfffffffffff this is the most blatantly bullshit planted "america good" part of the article.

Despite the boring, miserable and overly controlled experience, I returned the next year. I don't like confrontation, and the Communist Party officials had already signed me up, so I went again.

congratulations bottom-speak congratulations

It was a stupid decision to return, and I don't know why my parents let me go, but I'd totally do it again

I'd totally do it again

Yuri Frolov, 25, who in 2015 and 2016 attended North Korea's Songdowon International Children's Camp

I'd totally do it again

I'd totally do it again

I'd totally do it again

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How wide is the canal?

It's not a barrier at all if it can just be hopped over.

 

joker-amerikkklap

The suspect is believed to be Robert Card, a 20-year US Army veteran from Bowdoin Center, Maine.

(according to Telegrams so take with grain of salt)

EDIT: Name confirmed by news.

According to law enforcement, CARD recently reported mental health issues to include hearing voices and threats to shoot up the National Guard Base in Saco, ME.

 

spoilerSince ChatGPT burst onto the scene nearly a year ago, the generative AI era has kicked into high gear, but so too has the opposition.

A number of artists, entertainers, performers and even record labels have filed lawsuits against AI companies, some against ChatGPT maker OpenAI, based on the “secret sauce” behind all these new tools: training data. That is, these AI models would not work without accessing large amounts of multimedia and learning from it, including written material and images produced by artists who had no prior knowledge, nor were given any chance to oppose their work being used to train new commercial AI products.

In the case of these AI model training datasets, many include material scraped from the web, a practice that artists previously by-and-large supported when it was used to index their material for search results, but which now many have come out against because it allows the creation of competing work through AI.

But even without filing lawsuits, artists have a chance to fight back against AI using tech. MIT Technology Review got an exclusive look at a new open source tool still in development called Nightshade, which can be added by artists to their imagery before they upload it to the web, altering pixels in a way invisible to the human eye, but that “poisons” the art for any AI models seeking to train on it.

Where Nightshade came from

Nightshade was developed by University of Chicago researchers under computer science professor Ben Zhao and will be added as an optional setting to their prior product Glaze, another online tool that can cloak digital artwork and alter its pixels to confuse AI models about its style.

In the case of Nightshade, the counterattack for artists against AI goes a bit further: it causes AI models to learn the wrong names of the objects and scenery they are looking at.

For example, the researchers poisoned images of dogs to include information in the pixels that made it appear to an AI model as a cat.

After sampling and learning from just 50 poisoned image samples, the AI began generating images of dogs with strange legs and unsettling appearances.

After 100 poison samples, it reliably generated a cat when asked by a user for a dog. After 300, any request for a dog returned a near perfect looking cat.

The researchers used Stable Diffusion, an open source text-to-image generation model, to test Nightshade and obtain the aforementioned results.

Thanks to the nature of the way generative AI models work — by grouping conceptually similar words and ideas into spatial clusters known as “embeddings” — Nightshade also managed to trick Stable Diffusion into returning cats when prompted with the words “husky,” “puppy” and “wolf.”

Moreover, Nightshade’s data poisoning technique is difficult to defend against, as it requires AI model developers to weed out any images that contain poisoned pixels, which are by design not obvious to the human eye and may be difficult even for software data scraping tools to detect.

Any poisoned images that were already ingested for an AI training dataset would also need to be detected and removed. If an AI model were already trained on them, it would likely need to be re-trained.

While the researchers acknowledge their work could be used for malicious purposes, their “hope is that it will help tip the power balance back from AI companies towards artists, by creating a powerful deterrent against disrespecting artists’ copyright and intellectual property,” according to the MIT Tech Review article on their work.

Hours after MIT Tech Review published its article, the Glaze project from Zhao’s team at the University of Chicago posted a thread of short messages on the social platform X (formerly Twitter) explaining more about the impetus for Nightshade and how it works. The “power asymmetry between AI companies and content owners is ridiculous,” they posted.

The researchers have submitted a paper on Nightshade for peer review to computer security conference Usinex, according to the report.

 

The slide's authenticity was confirmed by a Navy spokesperson, who cautioned that it was not meant to be an in-depth analysis.

The slide shows that Chinese shipyards have a capacity of about 23.2 million tons compared to less than 100,000 tons in the U.S., making Chinese shipbuilding capacity more than 232 times greater than that of the U.S.

The slide also shows the "battle force composition" of the countries' two navies side-by-side, which includes "combatant ships, submarines, mine warfare ships, major amphibious ships, and large combat support auxiliary ships." The ONI estimated that China had 355 such naval vessels in 2020 while the U.S. had 296. The disparity is expected to continue to grow every five years until 2035, when China will have an estimated 475 naval ships compared to 305-317 U.S. ships.

Another section of the slide provides an estimate on the percentage each country allocates to naval production in its shipyards, with China garnering roughly 70% of its shipbuilding revenue from naval production, compared to about 95% of American shipbuilding revenue.

Because of China's centrally planned economy, the country is able to control labor costs and provide subsidies to its shipbuilding infrastructure, allowing the Chinese to outbid most competitors around the world and dominate the commercial shipping industry, Sadler said.

Alternative title - "Central planning is more efficient than markets" confirms US Navy

 

Am I reaching for this?

German

Imperius (roman, reich)

Sonnenrads

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

 

Get fucked you neoliberal shit. Next time it might not be glitter.

 
 

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Unlisted video because I don't know why? It wasn't before. But this is by far one of the best critique videos of the show on the internet and very much worth your time.

 

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