Ah, yes

On this day, 10 July 1985, the French intelligence service carried out a terrorist attack in Aotearoa (New Zealand), which killed Fernando Pereira, a Portuguese photographer. The target of the attack was environmentalist group Greenpeace, and their ship, Rainbow Warrior, which was headed to protest against French nuclear testing in the Moruroa Atoll. Agents of the DGSE attached two limpet mines to the hull, which exploded. France initially denied responsibility but NZ police arrested two of its agents and charged them with murder. Eventually they were sentenced to periods of seven and 10 years' imprisonment for manslaughter and “wilful damage”. However, the United Nations negotiated a settlement under which they were transferred to a French colonial prison. They were then set free after just two years. The terrorists were promoted and decorated upon their return to France. After the bombing, the damaged ship was relocated to Matauri Bay, in order to become a living reef for marine life. Greenpeace purchased a new ship, and also named it Rainbow Warrior, after a fictional Native American prophecy, which stated: “When the world is sick and dying, the people will rise up like Warriors of the Rainbow…” The attack galvanised resistance to nuclear weapons in Aotearoa. Learn more about environmental resistance in these books: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/all/environment

what do you think killed jack parsons?

going to start ranking my downloaded stock image libraries i got from archive.org from 1 to 5 stars like im doing gacha pulls. i say ohhhh shit a 5 star EX and you look over and im looking at this

ALSO..some more masturbation facts about me. theres a nonsexual scene in a book where a kid gets spanked for some reason. it was set in like the 40s and he was in a boarding school i forget. but i think i either misread the scene . or maybr the author actually did write this and theyre just fucking weird. and i thought the protag got hit (with like a ruler or something). on the penis instead of on the arse. and i remember my 11 year old brain being like. i wonder why i think that would feel good.

I do wonder if a bit of why I am to a great extent like "LLM's are pretty cool actually" is because as a teen i was around a lot of linguistics-aligned programmers who were endlessly playing with chatbots and phrase generators with various markov chains and bayesian filters and grammar definitions. And they were bad! The most advanced comedy bots I've ever seen were thousands upon thousands of lisp S-expressions stacked together to just barely assemble shitposts and now you can talk to the damn things?

I keep seeing even programmers and designers I respect a lot completely ignore the idea that modern machine learning has any use and I feel like I'm talking to one of those nurses who fell down the anti-vax rabbit hole. Have you used a translation application recently? Have you used voice recognition. Have you tried to automatically caption dialogue? These things are insanely good and cheap and easy now.

I can't really blame people for being annoyed at and dismissive of LLMs when they're being sold as "machines that do everything" and deployed in comically wasteful massive volumes rather than used for what they actually do quite well, natural language processing. But it's still pretty depressing.

hey maybe lay on the dick sucking about dick sucking just a tad there bud. kinda awesome