On this day in 1837, in what has been described as “one of the most disgraceful acts in American military history”, Seminole leader Osceola was captured by U.S. forces after he was tricked into meeting for “peace talks”.
Osceola (in Creek, “Asi-yahola”; 1804 - 1838) was an influential leader of the Seminole people in Florida, in particular the Seminole resistance against colonization. Although he was raised in the Creek tradition, Osceola became part of what was known as the Seminole people after moving to Florida as a child.
Osceola’s successful attack on military forces on December 28th, 1835 served as a catalyst for beginning the Second Seminole War against the United States. Although the Seminole was victorious in some of the battles of the Second Seminole War, it was on this day in 1837 that General Joseph Hernández captured Osceola, who had come to meet Hernández under the false promise of peace talks.
General Hernández had agreed to meet with Osceola under a white flag of truce, but promptly arrested Osceola and 81 of his followers. Osceola died from illness a few months after his capture, on January 30th, 1838.
I hope you nerds have a good month of October
Remember no crackers
I’m so glad I didn’t pay for a Switch 2, my partner is playing Pokopia on my PC and it’s running perfectly already lol it is having a really good time
After all the hype about Nintendo hardening security and it supposedly going to take a decade to get a Switch 2 emulator working, it’s turned into a Wii U situation where like 80% of the work from Switch 1 emulators carried over lol.
Fitgirl is going to be launching the Ocarina of Time remake soon and I’m so excited to play it for free
Something’s been bugging me about AI lately. Sooner or later humans are going to become the bottleneck. Our minds just can’t match a computer’s speed or efficiency
So at that point are we still the ones using the tool or are we just the slowest part of the system?
AI has serious limitations, it can string words together convincingly and temporarily glue human-written open source projects together but I’m not worried about it. Solving hallucinations is mathematically impossible since its ‘correct’ outputs are also hallucinations and it’s only seeming improvements are by throwing exponentially more computing power at it.
The date to look for is November 27 when Anthropic launches their IPO and there’s a good chance the AI industry begins its decline after that.
The better offline newsletter by Ed Zitron and his subreddit is the best resource I’ve found to contextualize the AI hype. This technology has cost trillions of dollars and all it has to show for it are a handful of software toys, it can never replace a person for any serious task.
Its best case scenario has been in software, it was supposed to replace office workers and service workers but it’s fundamentally incapable of doing so (I definitely haven’t scammed customer service chatbots several times lol). But in software the more AI is used the less maintainable and hallucination prone it becomes over time, and the true cost of business makes it not worth it
True those are current limitations. But what about in 5 or 10 years? Or 100? Or if we figure out a way to use quantum computing with AI? Do you see what I’m getting at?
My point is that machines will eventually outpace us, because they can always be improved one way or another. Humans can’t be upgraded like a machine
We’re faulty by nature, we were born not built, and we expire
I see your point, thankfully though it seems like this particular wave of “AI” is a dead end. It’s probablistic, and seeds an input through a series of matrix math equations to push out what is mathematically likely to be an appropriate output.
In the end LLMs are fundamentally different from thinking, they’re fundamentally just random number generators and closer to your keyboard’s auto complete algorithm than a fruit fly or even an amoeba.
The way the technology is improving has been to stack more of these LLM calculations together and putting them against each other, exponentially increasing energy and compute costs without making them any closer to the ability to think. These also need constant retraining to stay up to date, and end up poisoning themselves when they ingest AI-written data like an ouroboros. Eventually you would burn up the entire biosphere of the planet from energy costs without getting any closer to actually truly replacing a single human being or creating any true form of intelligence because they’re just categorically different.
Another wrench is that quantum computers aren’t faster than normal computers for almost any tasks, and can’t be used for LLMs, they’re just capable of accelerating very very specific calculations. I imagine after this AI craze is over, they’ll be rebranding some kind of ASIC (like Bitcoin mining specific-chips) as ‘quantum computing’ but just like how ‘artificial intelligence’ has nothing to do with intelligence, the quantum revolution hype in 2036 will have nothing to do with quantum computing.
So I think we are going to be safe for now, probably for our lifetime, pretty soon LLMs will fade to the same obscurity as Bitcoin or NFTs, present but stagnated and worlds away from what the hype promised.
Humans can’t be upgraded like a machine
Not yet anyway.
White don’t even have good revenge fantasies anymore, it’s not “my people got killed” “my wife got kidnapped”, they make whole revenge fantasies over idk not getting the price of the Nikki from Obsession funko pop becoming pricier due Hormuz getting trolled.
This Rose user from lemmy.zip creeps me out. They’re scraping Hexbear accounts and logging every time you comment on Slop and downvote their comment
One should assume everything on this forum is scraped and logged by multiple actors
I don’t know why we federate with a bunch of reactionary instances, the usual reason of “we need to do agitprop and radicalize them” seems like horseshit, because that tolerance seems to only be applied to whites. People here have caught a ban for supporting the IRCG, or wanting Israelis dead, or being against, fucking, Platner.
I yap about this too much, but where else am I gonna talk about it. I just want a space online where black, and brown, people are treated the same as white people.
Just woke up. Death to all cracKKKers
Literally me after waking up every single morning
My younger relatives were into this streamer called Jasontheween. I look into him and find out his dad fought for south Vietnam, fled to America, and talks about how he could have been so rich if it weren’t for the damn commies. He apparently wants to live there again now lol
Participating in that polyamory thread has made me think that polywashing is going to be a thing. There’s also an apparent blindness of concubinage as a patriarchal institution and how it was rooted out either indirectly with the abolition of slavery or directly like how the CPC abolished concubinage within the PRC for good. Countries or societies that resist polyamory because they see it as a return to polygamy and concubinage that they had fought so hard to dismantle would be slandered as backwards.
I doubt it. Polyamory really isn’t that popular even within the west. And there’s not a lot of people in the global south practicing it for there to be much of an impact compared to the number of lgbt people.
Is hexbear having a polyamory struggle sesh now?
https://hexbear.net/post/9986340/7592610
https://hexbear.net/comment/7592654
https://hexbear.net/comment/7592687
He hedged his statements, but it’s pretty obvious he’s doing that cracker thing where they try to universalize what’s just a harmless cultural custom within the West towards other cultural contexts where it’s not so harmless. The whole thread just gives me a bleh feel. It reminds me of various struggle sessions about China being too punitive towards drugs, never mind that China’s drug policy is on par with the rest of East Asia and most of SEA and how unlike those countries, China has a historic trauma through the Opium Wars, so why pick on China?
I don’t think the people within the thread themselves are pushing for a weaponized polyamory, but I think the prerequisite parts are mostly there. The CIA intern just needs to put the parts together and begin pushing it out through their NGOs.
Meta thread about poly being morally superior, Lmao
https://hexbear.net/post/9994136
Also, comparing monogamy to the murder of animals is complete debate pervert behaviour.
Lots of removals I couldn’t be bothered to follow up on, but I appreciated this summary: https://hexbear.net/comment/7594395
Uh, are half of the comments just from OP arguing with random people?
have to read a few articles for civic education class and one of them opens up with “persecution of uyghur muslims in china” while the other is a western chauvinistic article regarding the UDHR oh yeah colleges are liberal all right
Imagine the most memorable event in your life having screams in it, having blood and death in it, a crowd of your closest friends and relatives, imagine you and your partner being buried on your happiest day. We’ve grown accustomed to the U.S. bombing weddings, but you gotta remember how evil this is, the U.S. will not let you happy a single day of joy and if you live you’ll always remember it on your anniversaries. Obama is known for doing that in Yemen, and the empire has done so much more that we’ve grown to trivialize this yet not only are his hands clean but he gets away with being “the best U.S. president still living” or whatever vomit inducing sicknesses they bring. This is the person who “leftists” are happy that he endorses Abdul Rahmane Mohammed Al-Sayed.
When I see so-called “leftists” jumping up and down like a toddler getting handed a candy bar over their favorite parasocial cult figureheads getting elected to the reichstag, I can only picture them dancing on the graves of the victims of genocide
Looking forward to the same old cycle of denial, acceptance, and anger when they realize that they’re just around to pay lip service to their beliefs only to fall for it all over again when the next batch of succdems come around with the same song and dance.
I’ve come across too many Americans who think indigenous genocide was good because they believe no other nation or group of people (non-Europeans) were able to make the US into a superpower. It comes up a lot especially when Hawaii is discussed.
If we didn’t kill the indigenous people, how would we have our child killing empire? Have you thought about that? Hmm? Do you want to live in a world without our child killing empire?
Yeah… I’ve made the mistake of arguing with a cracker that had the view and its like talking to a brick wall. Yet these are the same people that liberals and domes ‘leftists’ say you have to appeal to to bring about change.
Today I found out Ulysses S. Grant’s father, Jesse Root Grant, was an abolitionist and friends with John Brown’s family. After moving to a slave town around 20-years-old, he became disgusted with it and was very outspoken about abolishment, way back in the 1830s. He ran for mayor on a platform of abolishing slavery within the town. When that failed, he became editor of an anti-slavery newspaper. Initially a supporter of Andrew Jackson and his policies on federal banking, Grant broke with the Democrats over slavery and starting supporting the Whigs in their final days before becoming a Republican. Ulysses would quote his father about John Brown that “It was certainly the act of an insane man to attempt the invasion of the South, and the overthrow of slavery, with less than twenty men.”
Anywho, the point I’m making is there’s never an excuse for what’s wrong. There are people today who recognize Palestine is the target of a genocide. We know transphobia is wrong, right now. The excuse “Well, that was just the times!” or “I didn’t know!” aren’t good enough. Anyone who supports genocide, the US military and its troops, zionism, prisons, carnism, and anything short of fully augmented luxury gay space communism is wrong, knows they’re wrong, and chooses to be wrong because of their material and class interests.
feels weird to have presentations through zoom. Most of us can’t afford strong internet and the regular blackouts accompanied by Burmese teachers usually being pretty unforgiving towards a student’s condition, situation, or accommodations makes me a little worried of how these factors will affect our grades when I’m seeing and experiencing regular internet instability. It’s a lot more noticeable in group projects when one person being disconnected can really disturb the group’s flow. Then there’s also the fact that some of us aren’t lucky enough to afford a soundproofed or private room, which I’m worried might penalize our grades too
man i hate being born here
I once went to a friend’s online public speaking course (lol, I know) presentation. But basically, he had to make a recording of himself in a room full of people, giving the speech, then e-mail it in to the class. Seems kind of silly to do livestreams in a place where internet is shoddy when you could pre-record things and send it in that way.
I think final year projects used to be prerecorded for this uni, but the recent ones I’ve seen also appear to be regular presentations done through zoom so idek for sure
he had to make a recording of himself in a room full of people
That sounds kinda funny, like did he get a random group of people for it or was it pre-planned with volunteers and such
Just had to be minimum of 12, so it was friends and friends of friends who had 10 minutes in the middle of the day.
Should have recorded myself raid leading in 2012 for a free college degree apparently
I hope people find this as funny as I did.
Hanging out with anarchists and:
Cis white guy: I would rather we have another Obama than Trump
Me, brown trans woman with immigrant parents: idk how much that matters, I mean Obama set the stage for Trump, and was far more competent at running the empire. I’m enjoying watching the US empire own itself under Trump.
His cis white girlfriend turns to me: yeah, that’s a pretty privileged position to have.
I was so surprised by her having the audacity to say that to my face (well, to my mask, everyone else wants to pretend Covid is over) that I couldn’t even respond before the conversation had moved on. Yes, it’s very privileged to recognize that no matter how bad I have it as a brown trans 2nd generation immigrant, people in the third world are more precarious and in more danger from the US Empire so what benefits them matters more. It’s very privileged to be willing to take on worse adversity at home for the betterment of the world. It is not privileged to go “me me me what about me I’m so scared of what Trump will do to me, a cis white american woman, we have to center my safety here, it’s really privileged to think about the third world”
American chauvinists cannot be trusted and cannot be considered leftists even if they say they are. Also why do anarchists who supposedly respect no nation keep defaulting to american chauvinism? Obviously it’s plain selfishness but I don’t see MLs doing that
Anarchists sit in a weird place. They’re radicalized enough to reject capitalism but they still buy the empire’s lies, so they end up in a confusing position where it’s hard to be consistent or have a coherent worldview
Things seemed better under Obama, when Americans didn’t have to pay attention to the bombing in Iraq and could pretend everything was fine at home. Trump makes America look like a country of selfish, evil assholes and that’s when people miss being able to ignore reality
Anarchists sit in a weird place. They’re radicalized enough to reject capitalism but they still buy the empire’s lies, so they end up in a confusing position where it’s hard to be consistent or have a coherent worldview
Maybe this is why I keep finding anarchists and then being confused about whether they are actually anarchists or are radlibs or are liberals who learned a few words without knowing the theory or context behind them.
Lmao NATO leftist and Anarchists were the first people I met who fit that description to a T.
White atheist/agnostic marxists on this site and outside would rather just shit on religious poc/3rd world comrades, who do more for communism globally than they ever will, than just admit humans are complex beings who can hold contradicting beliefs yet still commit to the cause huh
This is something I’ve had to unlearn myself, since I grew up in the era of edgy atheism. And while I never really agreed with how many of them view Islam in particular, growing up with a largely Evangelical family gave me a negative view of religion in general. And I feel theres a strong misconception that religion is incompatible with communism.
I’m no longer Muslim because I can’t believe in an omnipotent benevolent deity, but I am a Communist because of the Islamic values I was raised with.
It’s complicated. I also think Islam is on the whole a better religion than Christianity. The virgin “I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.” vs the chad “the inviolable deeds are just requital: whoso transgressed against you, transgress against him just as he transgressed against you”
A lot of atheism was just a cover for Islamophobia or justifying white supremacy. See Richard Dawkins or justifications for the Iraq War.
Richard Dawkins saw women in hijabs and announced that he was a secular christian. Which is true! Look at my new atheists dawg
It’s funny because even Marx acknowledged that some of the earliest examples of communism came from religious communities like the Waldensians. Probably one of the few based Protestants.
