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trevron ,

People on here love this kind of propaganda dude lol

trevron ,

“Baseless conspiracy theories” - makes baseless claim.

trevron ,

Yeah the US did way better…

trevron ,

lol you are always jumping to the extreme whenever I criticize the US even a little.

I didn’t “defend a dictatorship”, I correctly pointed out that the pandemic was handled terribly in the states, especially from the president, so it was a dumb thing to use as a metric for how a leader is doing. Trump was a fucking joke. He created a terrible situation and reaffirmed the antivaxxers. He was basically telling people to take crazy doses of ivermectin instead and implying it was all “fake news”. Maybe you don’t understand the entirety of that since you said yourself you “aren’t a US citizen” but for some reason you are always reaffirming our propaganda.

In regards to numbers, should we just believe state sponsored media or confirmed CIA startups like Radio Free Asia instead? They are usually listed as a source for these kinds of things despite the fact that their sole purpose for being created was to combat the spread of socialism.

The US is just a beacon of truth that would never lie about a socialist country or attempt to manufacture consent. /s

trevron ,

I mostly see US based consent manufacturing propaganda and the military industrial complex foaming at the mouth. Maybe you have some credible sources that aren’t from a CIA cutout or state sponsored media? I will dig into it so don’t be shy.

But considering that we (the US) have surrounded their borders with military bases, would you blame them if they felt the need to bolster their military? (Probably, because you’re a hypocrite.)

trevron ,

I saw someone say Israel is just Britain, France, and the US in a trench coat and it is way too accurate 😂

trevron ,

I’ve seen some USS liberty stuff. Pretty crazy that they even let those dudes live to tell the tale.

trevron ,

Key quote with no fuckin substance. Israel dropped a bomb on a refugee camp that shoots shrapnel outwards in a football field sized radius. Gee, I wonder what killed so many civilians. smh

trevron ,

All these pro-colonialism war boners should perform brain surgery on each other.

trevron ,

It’s believable though because it’s super on brand for Izzy.

trevron ,

Disgusting.

trevron ,

I have seen a lot of reports of direct US involvement on this one. Hopefully not true but I would not be surprised at all at this point.

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lol get over yourself. I didn’t stalk you. lemmy ain’t that active and we both clearly have a common ground in wanting to voice political opinion. I just happen speak out against propaganda while you shill for izzy and the feds. I hope they are at least paying you.

For clarity on what is actually disgusting though, dressing up like you are going to provide aide to suffering people only to murder them is gross as fuck. Even if it were “legal”, which it isn’t.

trevron ,

We should trust the US government on this, they know a thing or two about disinformation. All those pesky “weapons of mass destruction” for example.

This place is as bad as r/worldnews sometimes.

trevron ,

It’s right there in the title: “…the US government says”.

I am not whatabouting anything, I am just highlighting that the US government has lied about similar things before and that maybe we should be hesitant to automatically consider it an accurate or reputable source of publicly disclosed geopolitical information.

trevron ,

Agreed.

The disinformation campaigns in the states have been robust. The intelligence agencies have made sure the truth is hard to discern. That coupled with the average person just ingesting a headline and moving on is pretty concerning.

There are some real journalists out there still but they usual receive a lot of pressure from the state.

trevron ,

Audiobooks are expensive to produce.

Spotify is awful when it comes to content creators, complaining as an end user is crazy though.

trevron ,

Audiobooks are expensive to produce and have extra licensing associated with them. Even Amazon can only give out 1 credit for $15 a month. A single books costs anywhere between $10-$60 bucks. Its just unreasonable to expect spotify to be able to afford that when they already barely pay musicians.

trevron ,

I’m not defending them, just saying that it’s foolish for an enduser to expect anything different when they already don’t pay musicians and that is the primary content on their platform.

I can pretty much guarantee the average user would complain way more about the quality of simple TTS than they would the time limit. It would likely be a much bigger PR issue for them. AI generated TTS would probably be good enough for most but that is just another cost.

Regardless, the licensing involved with book publishers wouldn’t allow them to just produce their own audiobooks like that. So it is not really as simple as “just a choice”.

trevron ,

I should have used the words “want to” instead of “be able to”. It is a garbage company I am definitely not defending their business practices.

trevron ,

For sure. Ive got 100s titles in my Audible catalog and most of them are over that threshold. It is s stupid system. I don’t use podcasts or audiobooks on spotify, I think they should stick to music lol

trevron ,

Well unlike your ass, I appreciate the nuance of a good performance. But i know what you mean.

GPU time, while cheaper than a voice actor, is still a bit spendy though. And you then you also have the various copyright/licensing “issues” associated with AI content, companies may be a bit hesitant to go all in on producing books like that. Makes more sense for someone like Amazon/Audible and less sense for someone like spotify.

Besides, most audio books exist already so that really only applies to newer titles.

trevron ,

Agreed on pretty much all counts but I love Audiobooks just as much as “analog” books lol

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It is crazy to me that people flat out ignore or downplay the significance of NATO expansion directly provoking the behavior we see from Putin.

NATO has moved on from being a peacemaker. It is a corrupt cog in the military industrial complex. Britain and the US pressured Ukraine into declining a peace deal despite recent reports (at odds with corporate/state owned media) showing significant losses for the Ukrainians. NATO leaders (especially the US) do not want peace, war is way too profitable. And now they are allowing offensive use of NATO and US weapons against Russia with NATO coordination. All these leaders are crooked.

Very unfortunate times ahead for all of us.

Edit: Just to be clear, before someone freaks out on me, I am definitely not defending Russia’s actions. Just making some observations.

trevron ,

As if the US has ever respected democracy 😂

Maybe if we got rid of the CIA, their propaganda wings (Radio Free Asia, etc.), and all their cutouts we might have a chance at peace.

I am not specifically talking about Finland joining NATO, I am talking about the US military involvement in Ukraine that made it appear to the enemy of the US as though Ukraine were going to join NATO, which has been a loudly stated red line for Putin for a very long time. You have to at least admit that the western actions that lead up to the invasion were diplomatically “foolish” at best.

Contrariwise it is far too simplistic to look at this issue and say “russian propaganda” when there is so much western propaganda distorting the truth that goes by unnoticed. You can’t even talk about it here or on reddit without people exploding based off of previous propaganda they have committed to heart.

I just think when the US has been putting hot military bases all up and down the enemies border (both china and russia via NATO or otherwise), what the hell do we expect to happen?

Mass graves and body bags: Gaza's al-Shifa hospital after Israel withdrew its forces (www.bbc.com)

- After Israeli forces pulled out of Gaza City’s vast al-Shifa hospital -once the biggest and best equipped medical facility in the Gaza Strip- on 1 April, following their second raid there, the claim that there had been no civilian casualties was immediately questioned....

trevron ,

Don’t worry, once they’ve finished doing exactly what they set out to do, the US will blame it all on one or two fall guys and pretend like it’s a current leadership problem despite bullshit like this happening since Israel’s inception.

trevron ,

They know they are complicit in this. They are scared of the precedence this sets. They set up legislation (the hague invasion act) back in 2002 in order to protect elected officials, military personnel, and their allies (specifically named Israel) from persecution from the ICC because they were already doing super shady war crime shit back then.

Arrest all the traitors and warmongering d-bags. Fuck a statute of limitations.

trevron ,

AI bros are just NFT bros with an actual product.

trevron ,

There are already cases of people pretending to be AI and people revealing dumb information revealing dumb info about themselves lol

trevron ,

As if the US isn’t exactly the same. It gets a little tiring that all the western countries are so sycophantic towards the US and post this garbage propaganda.

trevron ,

I hope you don’t need to draw conclusions in your line of work because that was pathetic. What an insane response to a very casual recognition of the American police state.

I am not even defending Russia, its just the same neo-liberal police state bullshit that happens to also exist in the US. Not all states are equally in your face about it but your rights barely exist and if you can’t see that then you aren’t paying attention.

I am not a tankie, just a person that is capable of observation. But that is the most typical anti-socialist rhetoric just because I point out that the US is just as vile as all the oppressors.

The fact that you included Hamas and not Israel in your shit stain of a comment means I don’t have to take you seriously though.

trevron ,

No, they are trying to imprison peaceful protesters for speaking out about another shitty country instead. Some scary shit happening with libraries too but that depends on the state.

The US is beautiful. Many of the people are great. The policies, politicians, military industrial complex, infrastructure, healthcare, and the police are all shit though.

The surveillance state and the propaganda is everywhere. It is eerily similar to Orwells 1984. Has been for a while. Thats all I am trying to point out.

The US literally has slave labor as a punishment for crime in for profit prisons. The place is a joke as far human rights go.

trevron ,

I didn’t defend russia. Its just the tone of the article and the fact that the states are almost in parity with Orwells vision of a police state. I find it kind sycophantic that BBC will point out this russian thing but they won’t touch the police/surveillance infrastructure in the states which might as well have been modeled after that book.

trevron ,

You are the one who started accusing me of some BS. I never once lied. Your conclusion jumping and implied accusations are very revealing to what type of person I am talking to.

You have to ignore what the US has been doing around the world for 70+ years to come to that conclusion. Doesn’t matter if some states are okay if the feds start wars and coups and destabilize regions in the name of profit.

As far as Israel goes, being pro-LGBTQ doesn’t mean anything when the entire basis of zionism and their state is xenophobic as fuck. You don’t get to cherry pick which human rights to respect in order to seem progressive.

Israel’s history is full of oppression and lies and I am not going to have it out with you when it is clear that you are absolutely unreasonable. No one should take you seriously.

They are also afraid of real democracy which is why they have infested the US with the shittiest politicians through AIPAC.

Don’t try to teach me about Palestine via Israeli propaganda lol

trevron ,

I just don’t think most Americans realize the extent that they are propagandized. I don’t think most Europeans understand the full extent of it either. It is pretty crazy. I say this as someone who spent my first 30 years growing up in the US and then moved to Europe.

trevron ,

The disinfo machine is pretty strong haha

trevron ,

Poor reading comprehension maybe? I didn’t casually throw away anything, I pointed out that if you are a racist piece of shit, then you aren’t automatically a good person for not being homophobic.

Pretty straight forward concept.

trevron ,

That is where you misinterpreted my words. I didn’t say the US is exactly the same as Russia. I was referring to the title quote from the article: “Russia now is like 1984”. The US is extremely similar to the surveillance/police state George Orwell describes.

Regardless of that, as far as evil countries go, the US is 100% up there with Russia. You need only look at what the US does outside of its borders to confirm that. Both countries are constantly having a pissing contest and they will use whatever proxy country they can to fight each other. The US is extremely aggressive all around the globe. And it has never been to “install democracy.”

They aren’t better inside the borders either. US citizens have a near 0% effect on federal policy, statistically speaking. That means that the representatives of the US are the military, intelligence agencies, lobby groups, and corporations.

I will give you one snippet from an intelligence group: the CIA literally started the crack epidemic in America to fund their secret war against socialism (and actual democracy) in central/south america. That is insanely evil. Countless operations on citizen control and disinformation too. And they didn’t stop doing shady shit when they moved their operations to their NGO they started (National Endowment for Democracy). And most americans think those things are “just some conspiracy theories” which is exactly inline with my original point.

trevron ,

This is an extremely pathetic and ignorant take that reveals very little understanding of the history of Palestine. Israel flavored koolaid must take like shit.

Israeli journalist says he was threatened by senior intelligence officials if he reported on attempts by the country's spy chief to intimidate ex-prosecutor (www.theguardian.com)

- An investigative reporter with Israel’s leading leftwing newspaper, Haaretz, has said unnamed senior security officials threatened actions against him if he reported on attempts by the former head of the Mossad to intimidate the ex-prosecutor of the international criminal court....

trevron ,

You can’t expect an ounce of altruism out of agencies that train dictators to overthrow real democracies. The CIA and Mossad pretty much have the sole purpose of ruining other peoples lives for imperialistic endeavors.

trevron ,

Cause its probably a little bit propaganda.

But also the government lets corpos do worse. See Flint for instance. Also, Nestle. They don’t give a fuck about clean water for citizens.

Advice - Getting started with LLMs

I’m new to the field of large language models (LLMs) and I’m really interested in learning how to train and use my own models for qualitative analysis. However, I’m not sure where to start or what resources would be most helpful for a complete beginner. Could anyone provide some guidance and advice on the best way to get...

trevron ,

If you just want to use a local llm, using something like gpt4all is probably the easiest. Oobabooga or llama.cpp for a more advanced route.

I use ollama with llama3 on my macbook with open-webui and it works real nice. Mistral7b is another one I like. On my PC I have been using oobabooga with models I get from huggingface and I use it as an api for hobby projects.

I have never trained models, I don’t have the vram. My GPU is pretty old so I just use these for random gamedev and webdev projects and for messing around with RP in sillytavern.

trevron ,

yep, definitely agree with all of this.

trevron ,

Nice, that’s awesome!

trevron ,

Maybe because they are killing a fuckton of civilians as they target said civilian infrastructure. It is a warcrime. Pretty fucking clear violation of the Geneva convention. Do better.

trevron ,

In this thread, people who think it is okay to bomb civilians in the name of stopping “terrorism”.

If Israel are the good guys, why do they need to push legislation through in the US to make it illegal to criticize their government (antisemitism awareness act)? Why are cops all across the US beating peaceful protestors for chilling in the name of peace? Why is the US government’s response to crack down on this so extremely? Why are they arresting legal observers and press at these student demonstrations?

I am certain that peaceful students that suffer rubber bullets, flashbangs, and teargas at the hands of the state will be on the right side of history.

trevron ,

What you learned in highschool ain’t shit. Read more. US robber barons basically funded the third reich. Our oligarchs love that shit. There is a whole swathe of history they keep out of the textbooks.

Your denial and downplay of fascism is exactly what allows it to fester in the states. Don’t be part of the fucking problem.

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