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  • Jake,

    John Spenser prose sheds much-needed light on the differences between the deliberate horrors of genocide and the incidental horrors of war.

    Your poetic prose, back on laser focus, provides a kaleidescope of perspective on AI.

    Until AI can express thoughts like these without prompting, it is not an equal, much less worthy of being a…[Read more]

  • The promise of the laser’s lambent came and went.

    AI has been so many things. Some positive. Some negative. As things stand they are accelerating our path to destruction, causing our worst impulses and behavioral glitches to a place beyond snitches get stitches.

    I was thinking of the singularity. Arrival at a sort of birth of consciousness…[Read more]

  • if i, pb, edit but ler’s post… it still doesn’t accept it as html:

    <iframe width=”484″ height=”861″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/0hHscSOrv7Q” title=”You have shown a flaw2.” frameborder=”0″ allow=”accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share”…[Read more]

  • Jake,

    Yes Enco,

    I am serious. Not as presently constituted obviously. That would require programming. And programming means human biases. The next generation of Gazans could easily become model citizens.

    I am thinking the future if these predictions concerning the trajectory of AI are accurate. I truly do think we are on a collision course…

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  • Unseen,

    ‘We are not dog’s’: Palestinians condemn humiliation of chasing after airdropped aid in Gaza
    https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/28/world/video/gaza-aid-airdrops-israel-digvid

    Well, if Hamas didn’t attack and commandeer aid shipments and sell aid on the black market for arms and tunnels, perhaps aid could get through by other means.

  • Enco,

    Here is a creditable evaluation of the genocide lie.

    What a sick fucking world. The obsession with Israel/jews while serious crimes against humanity of a far greater magnitude and despicable indefensible nature are occurring encapsulates the stupidity of humanity. If it were still the British there, the Turks, and for sure Arab Muslims…[Read more]

  • PopeBeanie posted an update 1 year, 3 months ago

    Simon and I can’t add a graphic to a post, and yet other AZ members can. Does anyone else have this problem?
    With me, at least, I also cannot look at graphics that I’ve uploaded in the past… I get a wordpress error.

    • I have no oversight to the coding or folder permissions but check to ensure the site’s wp-content/uploads/ folder is writable.
        • So I learned (duh!) that I can’t log into that directory via ftp. However, just accidentally discovered I could use rtmedia access (already forgot how!) to upload a graphic successfully. However, I have a bigger, unrelated question now for all of us that I’ll start a new thread for…
      • Yes Enco,

        I am serious. Not as presently constituted obviously. That would require programming. And programming means human biases. The next generation of Gazans could easily become model citizens.

        I am thinking the future if these predictions concerning the trajectory of AI are accurate. I truly do think we are on a collision course with our…[Read more]

      • jakelafort wrote:
        I would be in favor of AI taking the fuck over. Just go with it however it evolves cuz we are on a highway to hello.

        I’ve been saying for at least a year, but it bears repeating, although it is just my opinion. The danger of AI won’t be the fault of AI, but bad actors. How Putin wants to influence it with misinformation is just…[Read more]

      • Jake

        The influences on human behavior and beliefs are exploding. I would be in favor of AI taking the fuck over. Just go with it however it evolves cuz we are on a highway to hello.

        Surely you jest! After my attempts to get some basic medical information on better faster treatment of Diabetic wounds and an answer to a perfectly legitimate…[Read more]

      • Unseen,

        Two other considerations here:

        Not merely are all the tentacles of the UN biased against Israel, but if media outlets and the NGOs get all their information from Hamas, this also poisons the well since Hamas is long known to manipulate photos of casualties from sources distant to conflict, attributed their own rocket striking a hospital…[Read more]

      • The elastic stochastic anti-fantastic world of LLM’s.

        It has been interesting interacting with an LLM. It is apparent to me the bias that it promotes. Whenever i challenge it other than one instance it agrees with me. It is way too nice and complimentary. And yet it is so easy to have the feeling i am chatting with a human or at least a…[Read more]

      • @Simon. The Pravda Network in Russia is a huge misinformation ecosystem.  It is mostly automated and produces up to 10,000 articles every day. The process is known as “LLM grooming”.  More to read here.

      • Unseen,

        Food insecurity does not equal starvation. Also, consider the source of this insecurity.

        Every tenacle of the UN is already biased against Israel. And in fact the UN and Hamas are the main reasons why aid isn’t getting in:

        Israel will allow nations to drop food into…[Read more]

      • According to the BBC, Russia is flooding the internet with pro-Russian disinformation, so as to influence what turns up on Chat GPT.

      • the following is iframe code for embedding a youtube short”
        i think this can’t be done with regular user rights, so i’ll do more tests

      • @Enco

        Tell me: There is no starvation in Gaza?

        Those who disagree. They are all misguided, wrong on the facts, or working in league with each other to misinform the world?:

        Many organizations are expressing knowledge of widespread starvation going on now in Gaza. The situation is considered extremely dire, with some even stating that a…[Read more]

      • @Enco

        I’ve just come off the phone with my Israeli client, who a) lives in Tel Aviv,  b) is a Brigadier General in the army (top cyber expert) and c) cares deeply about the food issues in Gaza. He describes the efforts being made to pump food into the area.  Until all the remaining hostages are released, this situation is likely to continue.  I…[Read more]

      • Unseen,

        Tell us without saying it that you haven’t watched a single video on this thread addressing the subject of Palestinian “starvation” and propaganda against Israel.

        Also, tell us without saying it that you haven’t kept up with anything going on the Middle East since October 7, 2023.

      • In a way it will be disappointing to the lefties if and when the grand conspiracy/mythology/deliberate exaggeration/lies that demonize Israel/Jews are exposed. It is equivalent to a kid learning Santa is not real except more significant. How disgusting though that zionist santa is the suffering of Palestinian children.

        It is an unparalleled…[Read more]

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