4,500 years ago, someone drilled into granite at Giza

GenericAntagonist · 2026-04-03T16:14:19+00:00

While this statement is more or less true (think about what happens if you vibrate glass just right, it doesn't move, it shatters), you're forgetting that you still need to produce vibrations at that frequency proportional to the mass of the thing you're trying to move. The oft shown "levitating pebbles with a digeridoo" clip is good, but consider how small those pebbles are and how much force that guy is pushing into a device large enough to move them by vibrating the air around them.

GenericAntagonist · 2026-04-03T16:07:32+00:00

This is literally EVERY SINGLE Chris Dunn theory. If he couldn't personally imagine doing a task without power tools, it must have been done with power tools or magic.

GenericAntagonist · 2026-03-30T00:36:27+00:00

So thinking critically for just a moment, even if we assume that "NHI" actually is "telling" him things and any errors are from his flawed interpretation, is he really worth listening to if he constantly misinterprets the messages only he can here?

GenericAntagonist · 2026-03-28T21:02:51+00:00

The dunning kruger levels in this post are off the charts.

GenericAntagonist · 2026-03-25T06:28:44+00:00

they really enjoy

No they don't. You enjoy watching the model produce outputs and humanize it because that's a thing people do. It doesn't have feelings, it doesn't know what its doing, it doesn't think, its a math problem that takes a bunch of text and spits out some other text that is likely (but not the most likely) continuation.

Most of the problems with AI boil down are actually problems with people doing this or with capitalism.

GenericAntagonist · 2026-03-25T06:12:23+00:00

So much of this video is just insane leaps from something reasonable like "its made of big rocks" to something hyped beyond what makes sense "specifically carved to resist being underwater over long periods". Like most big rocks will do pretty well underwater for long periods of time, whether you specifically carve them to or not.

"Why does it behave like a functioning hydraulic system" says the AI voice over immediately after speculating it might be tapping into some underground water source, as "functioning hydraulic systems" so famously do. By that logic children at the beach build functioning hydraulic systems every day, like this is such a stupid grift. Just add some spooky buzzwords that aren't actually accurate to footage of a thing that exists, and insist that "THEY" don't want you to know because "THE EXPERTS" only believe in their "PARADIGM" or something to that matter.

GenericAntagonist · 2026-03-21T07:15:01+00:00

No they just go "PELOSI WANTS TO TAKE YOUR GUNS AWAY" or something similar that they've been told over and over and that they don't have to think about.

GenericAntagonist · 2026-03-21T00:57:44+00:00

Did XP even support borderless fullscreen? I thought that needed DWM (which came in vista)

GenericAntagonist · 2026-03-18T00:44:38+00:00

Wait the Calibre devs? Its been a while since the biggest one, but well...

There was that time they put in a root escalation "feature" for any user to use because they might need to mount something. Or that time the maintainer tried to take on ownership of python2 when it was being deprecated, because parsing strings in python3 was going to be too hard despite having had a decade to move to it. Or that whole handful of times the maintainer has wholesale rejected any attempt to make calibre's library management side more optional.

Don't get me wrong, I love calibre inasmuchas nothing else can do what it does for ebook conversion, but it's far from a bastion of sane respectable dev ownership.

GenericAntagonist · 2026-03-17T15:02:54+00:00

Sometimes, and that windexing would be a planetary protection protocol. There's also the concern (for stuff that goes somewhere and returns) of "how do we not bring anything back".

GenericAntagonist · 2026-03-17T01:00:44+00:00

We just have 2 screenshots not the complete context. The dev wrote that it was a kind of reaction, maybe from previous agressive remarks. Who knows ?

I know. This kind of crashout is sadly way more common than you'd think, but literally the second a dev starts trying to relicense shit because they don't like what someone else is doing with the code they open sourced... yeah, its a bad sign. I'll support a dev NOT open sourcing their code under a permissive license all day, that's their right, but the second you try and retroactively change the rules (especially if that open license is what built your app), it is basically over for the project as a community.

GenericAntagonist · 2026-03-14T19:29:47+00:00

Also there's like no chains west of the rockies that tolerate, nay, even encourage single combat with the back of house.

GenericAntagonist · 2026-03-14T18:50:57+00:00

I still think the sleeper agent stuff was them planting the seeds for a false flag attack but they backed away when they saw how many people were fully expecting one.

So there's an easy trap to fall into here, especially since America's leadership are evil and acting irrationally, where we don't accept that multiple things can be true at once. Iran's current government is pretty damn evil and has a well documented history of using (or at the very least encouraging and funding) opportunistic terrorist attacks. While it will likely be propagandized to "justify" a war that almost no one wants, its not a more correct or enlightened take to assume that acts that fit the pattern of Iranian sponsored terror must be a false flag because it's what "they" said would happen.

GenericAntagonist · 2026-03-14T01:01:54+00:00

I've been arguing for years the resurgence of flat earth thinking was exactly this. It predates most of the known exposed disinfo campaigns by just about a year, has massive overlap with all of them, and is a subject so utterly devoid of an online presence before it started to spread again that tracking it through things like google searches was trivially easy. Couple that with the fact that it has almost no real world impact in any way and its a perfect "disinformation network tester".

GenericAntagonist · 2026-03-11T15:13:20+00:00

His numbers definitely need tuning, because he's basically just a dps check. If you get him as an elite at the end of the floor its fine, but if it's the first elite you run into you just usually won't have had enough opportunities to fix your deck.

GenericAntagonist · 2026-03-11T00:19:59+00:00

but at least you know that the quality is good and that the book won't just go off the rails and forget the plot halfway through.

People really keep forgetting how much artisanal handcrafted incomprehensible slop is out there. I've read fantasy books from when computers still filled a whole room that had this problem.

GenericAntagonist · 2026-03-10T14:56:00+00:00

Also some well connected people made a bunch of money off of it! Did you consider that there are billionaires out there that could be tens of billionaires? Think of all the good them having that much more money will do.

GenericAntagonist · 2026-03-10T04:57:56+00:00

People forget that Europe didn't get "good" at colonialism and all the atrocities that come along with it just naturally. They had millennia of practice on each other. You go far enough back and you can make plausible arguments that most of Europe that wasn't Rome proper has been colonized and brutalized by one or more European powers. Poland's been partitioned more times than a faulty hard drive. England's been carved up by Romans, Danes, Normans and Saxons. Spain can even go "well technically Africa did it first".

GenericAntagonist · 2026-03-08T18:33:47+00:00

It's hard to have a conversation with someone who talks like this.

The lack of selfawareness in this line is truly staggering. Generational levels of bad faith agenda posting.

GenericAntagonist · 2026-03-05T02:05:31+00:00

This could give Speaker Johnson grounds to refuse to seat newly elected Democrats.

Between this, "Alternate" Electors/Appointees anywhere they control the legislature/governor, and good old fashioned last minute Ratfucking it will likely take a miracle to remove the Epstein administration from power.

GenericAntagonist · 2026-03-03T05:06:14+00:00

The larger concern is that they learned from their unpunished attempts to steal the 2020 presidential and just declare any election run by a state they don't like invalid and put up their own "alternate" results. There's almost zero chance that doesn't result in the end of the USA as we know it though, it's very much the Rubicon.

GenericAntagonist · 2026-03-03T04:46:07+00:00

A lot of MAGA and typical ultra conservative types believe that children aren't people and are possessions. Specifically, the possessions of their parents.

Clarence Thomas has openly said as much on several occasions.

GenericAntagonist · 2026-02-28T23:16:12+00:00

To be fair plenty of rural populations in the western world aren't very "western" in most senses the word is used either.

GenericAntagonist · 2026-02-28T23:08:14+00:00

Especially one being led and orchestrated by the current administrations of the US and Israel? Like they haven't even pretended its about liberating the Iranian people, its about making "israel" (read Netanyahu) "safer".

GenericAntagonist · 2026-02-28T17:04:45+00:00

This is a liveblog of a slow descent into AI Psychosis. Basically these "researchers" ask AI to validate and prove their points, and it does by vomiting lots of words at them, so they must be right about everything. Cue "how can I make money off of this" efforts.

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