I was banned from my home instance's Ukraine community in a conversation responding to someone who said that Israel was de facto and ally of Ukraine and asking them to back that up with some proof.
The person linked to an AI asserting that Ukraine and Israel are allies as a way to "prove" their point.
edit I misinterpreted the thrust of what you are saying, there is language and narratives in what you are saying that I don't agree with, did someone honestly tell you the color of your skin was problematic for being white...?
However my initial read was not correct, sorry.
Also, yes, conservatives still are the serious problem here despite how much hypocritical liberals lean into the problem too.
These people are so pathetic our country is descending into violent fascism with literal masked thugs in paramilitary gear and no identification are abducting people off the street for looking "illegal"... and they are too busy panicking about Hasan Piker saying maybe we should all have healthcare and that maybe Israel is doing a Genocide and we should not fund that...
Dangerous idiots is what they are.
Is it an "extreme left-wing" belief to think that healthcare and housing are a human right?
Is it an "extreme left-wing" belief to believe the International Criminal Court when it says Israel is committing a Genocide?
Is it an extreme left-wing belief to believe in the separation between church and state?
Is it an "extreme left-wing" belief to treat Climate Change as the most existential threat we face?
Is it an "extreme left-wing" belief to be antifascist or "antifa" for short?
Is it an "extreme left-wing" belief to believe all human beings are created equally and that stereotypes never capture the diversity contained within even a single person?
Is it an "extreme left-wing" belief to respond to creepy old republican men demanding to inspect the genitals of high school kids to determine what sports team they should play on by calling them creepy weird ingrown human beings instead of coddling them?
Is it an "extreme left-wing" belief to tax billionaires?
Is it an "extreme left-wing" belief to respond to what your voting base demands instead of condescending them that their other option is worse so they should shut up and take the gift bag they were handed with some pens and a lanyard in it?
I feel very passionately about Ukraine and will return to posting regularly about it, but probably not on the sopuli.xyz Ukraine instance.
Nobody really bothered to address my concerns, @QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz reached out to me personally and the second I pushed back on their framing they cut off communication.
I received no response from @Burstar@sopuli.xyz for their moderation actions.
I have received lots of little messages saying that people at sopuli.xyz like me but the lack of meaningful reaction to a mod silencing criticism of Israel quite blatantly and repeatedly from myself and others is alarming at this juncture in world history.
I don't know how to feel other than kind of disconnected, it is important to me to keep posting updates about the Ukraine War, it doesn't stop for my feelings but I just think it is so damn frustrating and indicative how the sopuli.xyz moderation team treated me with oven mitts from 1000 miles away while likely coddling the Zionist? mod who can't handle anyone questioning whether Israel has actually behaved as an ally to Ukraine.
Are their personal issues are too tied up in the politics of this for them to see this lucidly? What makes me upset is that the rest of sopuli.xyz just kind of fell silent about it and made me feel like I was the problem.
Ukraine has no missile interceptors, and there is no end to the shortage of them in sight now. THE ONLY REASON FOR THIS are the choices Netanyahu/Israel and Trump/US made to launch the Iran War when they did and they were told repeatedly by advisors that this would be the inevitable result. I cannot emphasize this enough.
I was banned for responding to someone's comments about Israel too, it wasn't even like I brought Israel into the conversation, I just challenged the axiomatic assumption the person was making about Israel being Ukraine's ally and that was enough to have my comments removed and be banned.
won’t be able to afford a HEPA filter anytime soon.
We are talking a box fan, some tape and a HEPA air filter. It will meaningfully improve the quality of your life! It does not have to be expensive.
I understand what you are saying though, shit is hard and you are just surviving, I didn't mean to make you feel unheard about how difficult things are.
Please take a step away from the internet for a bit, you are not a healthy presence here.
and tell me how i can only 'fix' my toxicity by going to talk therapy and how that will somehow magically make my life better. or do i fix it by being a socialist, or an ally, or whatever other convenient political term that serves as your basis of gender genuflection?
I never said anything of the sort, when I say reject placing people into narrow categories I am not saying that what you say you need is not what you say you need, I am saying our needs our individual and esoteric...and I am saying you are an asshole for extrapolating from your misery to "all men" or whatever the hell other generalizations you are making.
I am a man, you have NO idea what I need, do not speak for me when you speak for yourself.
Please stop vomiting all over this thread with your generalizations about what "men" and "women" do, I am sorry you are stuck in a very gendered environment but what you are doing is perpetuating and reinforcing those structures by continually invoking them as if they were axioms of reality, you are making the problem worse by insisting on opposite gender qualities to the ones that you are recoiling against, and in that sense your position is potentially equally as toxic.*
Reject the need to define what it means to be a "man" or a "women", reject the need to violently force the entire spectrum of humanity into a narrow set of identities, binary or otherwise.
men improve their mental health by doing things, not by talking about feelings.
What a stunningly obtuse and thought terminating belief.
Don't you generalize for me or anyone else, and how dare you do it in the name of supposedly caring about the people you are generalizing wholistically for.
I get what you are saying, but I think it is a tad superficial of a read on it.
I don't think anyone involved in this study truly believed that they wouldn't find this data when they crunched the numbers, or believed that "just" finding evidence for their hunch would be a scientific and political waste of time.
What this does is provide evidence in no uncertain terms for this phenomena, of course that doesn't change how you or I see it, but it does meaningfullly change the power balance a tiny bit in rhetoric when studies like this come out.
Sorry can't hear you over your Genocide, Benjamin Netanyahu, the screaming blocks out everything and I am left to ponder for how many eons Jews will condemn your ideology as an utter betrayal of the foundational tenets of Judaism.
I think all this AI technology is pretty much crap, but what I will say is that these tools are only useful when used in ensembles where multiple different models of disparate origins are consulted with the same question and then compared by a human to determine the quality of the results.
Not only are single modality trained models always going to outperform generalist ones given the way these tools work, they are also never going to be useful unless there are multiple discrete models trained to accomplish the same task being consulted.
What makes this all so broken is that nobody makes money by setting something up like Chatbot Arena where you can quickly feed the same data into multiple entirely different models, so the entire structure of the industry is problematic before even the first brick was laid down.
It is only when you input the same data into a tool like the above one that you can sketch a picture you can begin to trust. You can get quite good information out of very simple chatbots too because given comparisons against more complex ones it is far easier to establish trust, determine where innaccuracies and systematic issues lie, and route around problematic AI models if they are responding weirdly to a particular input of data.
I still don't think it is worth the effort in most cases however unless large corporations buy up all the training data and destroy it/remove it from public access... at which point we will have a different more human problem.
I don't really think you have done what you say, and if you have in this thread it has been from a defensive and reactive standpoint that concedes context and nuance rather than willingly invoking them.
I was banned from my home instance's Ukraine community in a conversation responding to someone who said that Israel was de facto and ally of Ukraine and asking them to back that up with some proof.
The person linked to an AI asserting that Ukraine and Israel are allies as a way to "prove" their point.
This is not abstract.
I feel like I just played some kind of weird abstract joke on myself and I don't get it.
edit I misinterpreted the thrust of what you are saying, there is language and narratives in what you are saying that I don't agree with, did someone honestly tell you the color of your skin was problematic for being white...?
However my initial read was not correct, sorry.
Also, yes, conservatives still are the serious problem here despite how much hypocritical liberals lean into the problem too.
These people are so pathetic our country is descending into violent fascism with literal masked thugs in paramilitary gear and no identification are abducting people off the street for looking "illegal"... and they are too busy panicking about Hasan Piker saying maybe we should all have healthcare and that maybe Israel is doing a Genocide and we should not fund that...
Dangerous idiots is what they are.
Is it an "extreme left-wing" belief to think that healthcare and housing are a human right?
Is it an "extreme left-wing" belief to believe the International Criminal Court when it says Israel is committing a Genocide?
Is it an extreme left-wing belief to believe in the separation between church and state?
Is it an "extreme left-wing" belief to treat Climate Change as the most existential threat we face?
Is it an "extreme left-wing" belief to be antifascist or "antifa" for short?
Is it an "extreme left-wing" belief to believe all human beings are created equally and that stereotypes never capture the diversity contained within even a single person?
Is it an "extreme left-wing" belief to respond to creepy old republican men demanding to inspect the genitals of high school kids to determine what sports team they should play on by calling them creepy weird ingrown human beings instead of coddling them?
Is it an "extreme left-wing" belief to tax billionaires?
Is it an "extreme left-wing" belief to respond to what your voting base demands instead of condescending them that their other option is worse so they should shut up and take the gift bag they were handed with some pens and a lanyard in it?
Thank you so much for the kind words!
I feel very passionately about Ukraine and will return to posting regularly about it, but probably not on the sopuli.xyz Ukraine instance.
Nobody really bothered to address my concerns, @QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz reached out to me personally and the second I pushed back on their framing they cut off communication.
I received no response from @Burstar@sopuli.xyz for their moderation actions.
I have received lots of little messages saying that people at sopuli.xyz like me but the lack of meaningful reaction to a mod silencing criticism of Israel quite blatantly and repeatedly from myself and others is alarming at this juncture in world history.
I don't know how to feel other than kind of disconnected, it is important to me to keep posting updates about the Ukraine War, it doesn't stop for my feelings but I just think it is so damn frustrating and indicative how the sopuli.xyz moderation team treated me with oven mitts from 1000 miles away while likely coddling the Zionist? mod who can't handle anyone questioning whether Israel has actually behaved as an ally to Ukraine.
Are their personal issues are too tied up in the politics of this for them to see this lucidly? What makes me upset is that the rest of sopuli.xyz just kind of fell silent about it and made me feel like I was the problem.
Ukraine has no missile interceptors, and there is no end to the shortage of them in sight now. THE ONLY REASON FOR THIS are the choices Netanyahu/Israel and Trump/US made to launch the Iran War when they did and they were told repeatedly by advisors that this would be the inevitable result. I cannot emphasize this enough.
I was banned for responding to someone's comments about Israel too, it wasn't even like I brought Israel into the conversation, I just challenged the axiomatic assumption the person was making about Israel being Ukraine's ally and that was enough to have my comments removed and be banned.
I don't know what else to conclude.
Lemmy.World is bad, avoid it and your experience will improve massively.
Lemmy.World has an abyssmal admin team that believes more rules and automation solve everything.
What a loser
We are talking a box fan, some tape and a HEPA air filter. It will meaningfully improve the quality of your life! It does not have to be expensive.
I understand what you are saying though, shit is hard and you are just surviving, I didn't mean to make you feel unheard about how difficult things are.
Yes but there is one thing, get a HEPA filter for indoor spaces. If only for you and your pets sleep quality.
The Coway Airmega Mighty AP-1512HH is a well reviewed plug in air filter.
You can also make a HEPA air purifier for very cheap out of simple materials.
https://www.epa.gov/emergencies-iaq/diy-air-cleaners
https://www.epa.gov/air-research/research-diy-air-cleaners-reduce-wildfire-smoke-indoors
shrugs it is pretty much that dumb
Please take a step away from the internet for a bit, you are not a healthy presence here.
I never said anything of the sort, when I say reject placing people into narrow categories I am not saying that what you say you need is not what you say you need, I am saying our needs our individual and esoteric...and I am saying you are an asshole for extrapolating from your misery to "all men" or whatever the hell other generalizations you are making.
I am a man, you have NO idea what I need, do not speak for me when you speak for yourself.
Please stop vomiting all over this thread with your generalizations about what "men" and "women" do, I am sorry you are stuck in a very gendered environment but what you are doing is perpetuating and reinforcing those structures by continually invoking them as if they were axioms of reality, you are making the problem worse by insisting on opposite gender qualities to the ones that you are recoiling against, and in that sense your position is potentially equally as toxic.*
Reject the need to define what it means to be a "man" or a "women", reject the need to violently force the entire spectrum of humanity into a narrow set of identities, binary or otherwise.
What a stunningly obtuse and thought terminating belief.
Don't you generalize for me or anyone else, and how dare you do it in the name of supposedly caring about the people you are generalizing wholistically for.
You are part of the toxic problem.
I get what you are saying, but I think it is a tad superficial of a read on it.
I don't think anyone involved in this study truly believed that they wouldn't find this data when they crunched the numbers, or believed that "just" finding evidence for their hunch would be a scientific and political waste of time.
What this does is provide evidence in no uncertain terms for this phenomena, of course that doesn't change how you or I see it, but it does meaningfullly change the power balance a tiny bit in rhetoric when studies like this come out.
Sorry can't hear you over your Genocide, Benjamin Netanyahu, the screaming blocks out everything and I am left to ponder for how many eons Jews will condemn your ideology as an utter betrayal of the foundational tenets of Judaism.
I think all this AI technology is pretty much crap, but what I will say is that these tools are only useful when used in ensembles where multiple different models of disparate origins are consulted with the same question and then compared by a human to determine the quality of the results.
Not only are single modality trained models always going to outperform generalist ones given the way these tools work, they are also never going to be useful unless there are multiple discrete models trained to accomplish the same task being consulted.
What makes this all so broken is that nobody makes money by setting something up like Chatbot Arena where you can quickly feed the same data into multiple entirely different models, so the entire structure of the industry is problematic before even the first brick was laid down.
https://arena.ai/text/side-by-side
It is only when you input the same data into a tool like the above one that you can sketch a picture you can begin to trust. You can get quite good information out of very simple chatbots too because given comparisons against more complex ones it is far easier to establish trust, determine where innaccuracies and systematic issues lie, and route around problematic AI models if they are responding weirdly to a particular input of data.
I still don't think it is worth the effort in most cases however unless large corporations buy up all the training data and destroy it/remove it from public access... at which point we will have a different more human problem.
The worst part about RFK is that RFK is not the only RFK in the world. One RFK causes far too much violence, murder and death, we don't need any RFKs.
I don't really think you have done what you say, and if you have in this thread it has been from a defensive and reactive standpoint that concedes context and nuance rather than willingly invoking them.