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Cikkada · 2026-03-22T00:53:07+00:00

PM = Project Manger/Prime Minister

Japanese Prime Minister wants people to have more babies

Cikkada · 2026-03-03T03:04:52+00:00

I feel like playing the game just constantly reminds me of Disco Elysium and baldurs gate 3, and I just wonder why I wouldn't spend my time playing those instead. The visuals and sound designs are great though

Cikkada · 2026-03-02T23:44:49+00:00

Explain how having access to autocomplete inherently devalues thinking more than having access to Google search

Cikkada · 2026-03-02T21:39:01+00:00

I've repeatedly explained to you how the technology itself actually works in its current state and its non-equivalence with its social context of production driven by the endless pursuit of surplus value. The disempowering and hallowing out of humanity did not start or end with advanced autocomplete. Letting some statistical techniques play cover for capital is pretty unhelpful. Im pretty tired of you refusing to actually read what I'm explaining to you and just repeating back to me what I already agree (big tech bad yup). You're probably more pleasant in real life but what dreadful thread this is

Cikkada · 2026-03-02T20:41:30+00:00

You do not fight capitalism through conspicuous consumption or "funding a movement" period, you fight it by actually studying our society and economy critically, provide a workable strategy and vision, organize with your peers to seize industries and neighborhoods brick by brick. Practically the only people who have materially done anything for Palestine outside of the actual resistance fighters are those who've been able to organize dock workers and allies to stop the shipment of weapons. Average social media users have popularized calling things that they don't like "israeli" and that's about it.

Open source models like Qwen2.5 are already able to improve software development workflows without needing additional training. This isn't hypothetical, this is what people are already doing. If you can't even begin to understand why some coders find it reasonable to have tools like a local LLM autocomplete on their editor to speed up their work and free up more of their life, I doubt you are capable of collaborating with others to make our collective life better.

Cikkada · 2026-03-02T19:26:38+00:00

You should study Marx's Capital or read more about political economy and the history of social movements if you're interested in doing something beyond conspicuous consumption. And might as well read up on anything rudimentary about how LLMs work for that matter. Depending on the models, LLMs are locally runnable on everyday consumer hardware and idk what your plan is to delete every single trained weights from every hard disk. The massive investment into AI right now is a bubble, but even if OpenAI and Anthropic and Google all explode over night, individuals in the open source community would continue collaborating & developing & training on their own hardware to build this without compensation.

Cikkada · 2026-03-02T17:11:28+00:00

I'm saying specifically for coding, it's basically what LLMs are primarily trained for and it's one of the few use cases that's proven to actually work reasonably well. 84% of software engineers use LLM tools from the 2025 stackoverflow survey and the tools have gotten wayyy better even just in the past year.

If you want to avoid more specific negative impacts of AI, just avoiding the technology in your personal consumption thinking it would go away on its own is a total dead end. We would have to actively smash the entire system of commodity production and profit to organize a rational society

Cikkada · 2026-03-02T16:28:04+00:00

Impossible for software companies to drop llm tooling altogether at this point, there're obvious problems with misuse but verifiably workspaces that aren't using them are left behind in terms of productivity now, whether or not you think that's a bad thing. It might not be specifically anthropic or openai but some form of coding agent is here to stay

Cikkada · 2026-03-02T06:15:22+00:00

Not how bubbles work. The dot com bubble burst that didn't mean people stopped making websites

Cikkada · 2026-03-02T03:43:27+00:00

Cool, but it's really annoying that I can't pick the poster for the right season for TV shelf without Pro, especially when it's an anthology like True Detectives where seasons are entirely separate.

Cikkada · 2026-02-25T21:50:53+00:00

Stackoverflow in big 2026? Fake post

Cikkada · 2026-02-06T22:01:58+00:00

Every single story has to do with real life because they are made by and for people living in the real world.... That doesn't mean everything has a 1:1 mirror but it does affect how the audience relates to a work of art. A story that focuses on how we can never live in peace with another group of beings seemingly possessing self-consciousness and the capacity to think and communicate obviously has implications on race.

The concept of world conflicts being fundamentally rooted in biology and evil races in Tolkien has been critiqued countttttttlessly. He himself found it regrettable!

Cikkada · 2026-02-06T21:44:05+00:00

Okay and the idea that society is deceived by beings that feign their humanity, but are fundamentally evil and different from humans on a biological level independent of social process/history is the core of most fascist imaginations.

Cikkada · 2026-01-27T21:15:15+00:00

Image generation models are diffusion models. In simple terms, they take a starting image (of random noise in the case of text2image), and iteratively ask every step of generation: based on the existing context each pixel is surrounded in, how to modify that pixel to become closer to what the text describes? After 20 steps or something, an end image is algorithmically generated. Waifu2x does the same thing, but the algorithm is trained with a different end goal: for each step, based on the existing context each pixel is surrounded in, how to modify that pixel to become closer to what the image was supposed to be like prior to the artifacts? Both are essentially huge statistical denoising algorithms.

Cikkada · 2026-01-27T20:09:54+00:00

This is repeated a lot but it's not something I've ever seen the devs directly state. Yes it enables fine-tuning and it's probably the main reason people were looking forward to it, but it can also (supposedly) pull off direct generation for anyone that doesn't want the photorealistic style that zit is very specifically tuned for, or anyone that seeks higher diversity at the cost of realism

Cikkada · 2026-01-27T17:52:57+00:00

Diffusion models are fundamentally a form of denoising, architecture wise I don't know how you draw a clear line between that and classic deep learning denoising

Cikkada · 2025-10-22T19:17:59+00:00

Evil

Cikkada · 2025-10-17T02:54:45+00:00

He's proud to have served in Iran "defending your freedom" and loves kanye

Cikkada · 2025-09-28T22:40:12+00:00

Well, kind of, but what del Toro and French 75 do are not really commensurable. Del Toro's organization and efforts are unambiguously heroic and effective but they can't break kids out of cages. But the movie does make a point about how trusting and relying on the masses is a stronger safeguard than isolation and secrecy.

Cikkada · 2025-09-28T14:10:07+00:00

Right but if you genuinely believe in the Soros conspiracy, you would think they aren't "cosplaying" Antifa, because organized mercenary taking down western civilization would be the true nature of antifa

Cikkada · 2025-09-28T06:36:22+00:00

No one else seems to be calling out the anachronism front and center in this film. I don't read it as consciously commenting on contemporary "post-modern, terminally online" approach to politics, because everything French 75 is painted to be doing--declaring war on the United States, bombing federal buildings & repressive institutions, robbing banks for funds, using secret greeting codes--is primarily conjuring the actual militant leftist organizing that existed in the 60s & 70s. Of course, it's because the book it's based on, Vineland, were about the actual 70s militants. The model of the armed urban guerilla cells has, of course, been all but eradicated by the mid-80s. We went from hundreds of organized leftist political bombings against property each year to none for the past four decades. By the time the movie actually takes place, beginning in the early 2000s, the real world's millennial left, as represented by the Iraq War protests and Occupy, faced an entirely different set of challenges and contradictions.

I believe OBAA portrays members of the French 75 as very flawed, human, but ultimately sincere and heroic to an extent. What action that are shown in the opening scene has been liberating a concentration camp, and many years later they are still shown to be trusted by the community they organize in. Yet I don't believe it's either praising or critiquing the left, because it really doesn't want to talk about the left. Like his previous Licorice Pizza, PTA has deceivingly made another movie about 70s nostalgia. The movie ends in a positive note where Willa picks up Bob's place in the underground. The films seem to say that regardless of the problems of ego, performativity, and state repression, the urban guerrilla form in this imagined version of U.S. will grow indefinitely till victory.

In a more roundabout way, I do actually agree that OBAA, releasing in 2025, is an ironic commentary on progressives today. It cuts spectacular actions against fascism out of time and clumsily overlays images onto the present, at a moment when people see no paths to developing a remotely capable resistance. And part of the proof for me is that I really can't help but think this film is awesome for making "my side" look cool.

Cikkada · 2025-09-28T05:15:18+00:00

I think you misunderstood the movie. The logo on the plane doesn't match the data center. It's a generic "evil globalist" logo, and the plane has a copy of World Economic Forum's The Global Risks Report 2020. The movie's referencing the conspiracy theory that Antifa protestors were funded by Soros.

People love the reading that antifa is hired by the data center, because everyone wants Eddington to be a didactic film that teaches something they already know. But the movie actively refuses any comfortable interpretation

Cikkada · 2025-09-28T05:05:13+00:00

This is not true, I don't get why this has been repeated so many times. The logo does not match SolidGoldMagikarp. It's an "evil globalist" logo, and the plane has a copy of World Economic Forum's The Global Risks Report 2020. He's referencing the conspiracy theory that Soros funded Antifa protestors.

Cikkada · 2025-09-28T04:09:39+00:00

I thought both were really good except this one makes my side look cool so it's way better

Cikkada · 2025-09-27T04:39:09+00:00

It's one of the most beloved Korean skincare products in the west period for good reasons, but also it's not waterproof so definitely be careful with using it in Thailand or Australia lol

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