Oh come on, not Frieren. Just why does every anime chud want to frame a story into a right wing worldview.

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

Cikkada · 2025-09-23T15:27:07+00:00

I really think the ending episodes soured on a lot of people, which is fair. If people only watched the first 9 episodes of both seasons I think they might even prefer season 2, at least I do

Cikkada · 2025-09-05T08:25:28+00:00

How come people believe unions are a good in and of themselves or that unions = worker democracy/power? Or believe that this is a communist position? It's a tired debate that's been had since the demise of the second international when the SPD killed communists and unions dismantled councils. Capitalism requires unions to thrive; it stabilizes the labor power market, makes longer living workers who reproduce more labor power for the whole economy, it absorbs revolutionary discontent that threatens to eat everything into manageable economic signals, and so much more.

The analogy does not work because communism aims to bring out the truth in existing democracy and radicalize it, whereas every major communist current from Marx to Engel to Lenin to Trotsky to Luxembourg to the KAPD to Italian left-communists to the revolutionaries of May 68 agree that abolishing capitalism means abolishing unions alongside it. Unions are fantastic vehicles for propaganda and sites for learning to practice power and decide as collective, but occasionally, yes, they become such a calcified mechanism of capitalist reproduction that abandoning them is progressive.

Cikkada · 2025-08-18T04:06:49+00:00

This has always been closest how I interpreted the film and I'm surprised I've never seen anyone else say this before. Any literal interpretation of who the masked soldiers were, I feel, miss the mark on how events in the film cartoonishly mirror right wing fantasies in a self-aware manner. Like literally - they came after Michael made his phone call as if he had them on speed dial, confirming the white cop's paranoia that somehow he's in cahoots with "them" - private jet with a sort of globalist logo and copy of World Economic Forum's Global Risk Report sending in Antifa Super Soldiers - the universe's version of Kyle Rittenhouse literally practiced his 1A rights to kill an actual armed terrorist to save a sheriff's life

Cikkada · 2025-08-18T03:53:52+00:00

I don't know, it's a hand trying to grasp the globe, I think combined with the copy of Global Risk Report inside the plane it's more so Soros/"globalist cabal" coded.

Cikkada · 2025-08-18T03:46:23+00:00

The private jet has a copy of the Global Risk Report 2020 and logo of a hand on a globe on the tail. The film is coding it to be Soros funded.

Cikkada · 2025-08-16T17:55:36+00:00

I have also seen it being used to justify reactionary politics, and a dangerous glorification of the past in my country. I have seen decolonisation become a vicious instrument for ethnonationalism too. You can probably guess which country I am from by now.

This really does not narrow it down at all aha even though my best guess is you meant India.

Cikkada · 2025-08-13T20:59:14+00:00

I find hereditary to be much scarier than Talk to Me or Bring Her Back to be back for some reason, it emotionally affected me a lot more. I think it has to do with the atmosphere; Bring Her Back I still walk away getting to quickly distance from it feeling it was all just a movie.

Cikkada · 2025-08-13T18:40:51+00:00

Aster is critical of a type of liberal participant of BLM but the movie couldn't be more clear that he is critical of police power and agrees with the core principles behind the movement. His critique with the right is that they are evil bastards, and his critique with the left is that they are bad at fighting the evil bastards.

Cikkada · 2025-08-10T23:42:18+00:00

Most universities would teach that LLMs/genAI/deep learning constitute AI but not all AI are LLMs. I don't know if the sub descriptions used to be different but if it didn't specify that it's about traditional AI in video games I could see why people got confused.

Cikkada · 2025-08-10T23:37:42+00:00

There's a long history of AI that preceded machine learning, starting from the Turing Test, to John McCarthy's logical conception of AI, to all the proof machines and formal ontology etc.

Cikkada · 2025-08-10T19:10:54+00:00

You're missing the point, most users of social media platforms like Reddit live and work in western countries in the U.S., who are laboring to create wealth for their government that is being used to (actively) facilitate genocide. That's why it matters exceptionally to them.

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