EffortlessGrace

@EffortlessGrace@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bit harsh?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bit harsh?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I’m well aware.

  I still think the meme should have “White” in front of “Americans” in its caption.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does "Woke" mean to you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Awakened to the historical and contemporary socio-economic and political realities surrounding the colonialist and native populations’ ruling classes’ manipulation, subjugation, and exploitation of marginalized peoples who were and are deemed as the “others”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bit harsh?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a citizen of the United States.

  I speak 4, besides American English, at various levels of proficiency, but I’m an American-born son of immigrants who splits time between the US and EU (my wife is Dutch). I also enjoy linguistics and etymology.

  Even though this is anecdotal, every daughter and son of an immigrant diaspora that I personally know, like me in the US, speaks multiplle languages.

  I argue this meme refers to an issue largely for Americans of European descent. Since a very young age, I noticed “white” people in America seem to be scared of “new” or “foreign” things. One of them is learning a language, trying to speak it in public with a native-speaker, and getting corrected for mistakes which will happen, including self-styled “leftists” and “liberals” (the American definition).

  I categorize this specific phenomenon, this fear of embarrassment, as another facet or aspect of what some of my black colleagues back in the States refer to as “white fragility”.

  Those people who look down on “Americans” should talk to more of us who aren’t of European descent. Perhaps, that may give some depth to your perception of us, or of what our capacity for a global perspective is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI haters be like:⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I began my DNN career path researching cancerous tissue for medical diagnostic imaging which is a computer vision problem. I think it would surprise a lot of people how power efficient you can make DNNs when it comes to other tasks besides predicting text or generating media. It pleases me greatly to see other peers in my field share my prognosis about language models compared to other DNN algorithms for different modalities

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI haters be like:⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Deep neural networks (a narrow subset of “AI” algorithms) are here to stay, and there are massive gains in the sciences to ve nade with the nature of how they make predictions based on a corpus of training data.

  There is most definitely an economic bubble due to the revolving investments vendors make into each other to prop up the illusion that “line go brrrrr forever”.

  Both things can be, and I argue are, true simultaneously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did the Internet come to reflect society? Or has society shaped the internet? Were we always distrusting mean and vindictive before the net? Are we really that bad?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When did the Internet come to reflect society?

  When it became ubiquitous. 1995.

  Were we always distrusting mean and vindictive before the net?

  Absolutely.

  Are we really that bad?

  Without a doubt.

  “The world is far better and worse than you can possibly imagine.”

  “You may have me at ‘better’, Dr. Sattler, but you can’t hold a candle to me on ‘worse’.”

  • *Contact*, Carl Sagan
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't know about that one⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Everything in moderation, including moderation.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goddammit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If she calls you a “dickhead” for not buying her a ring and proposing, she’s for the streets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, everything? In this economy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hee Hee Ho Ho Ha Ha⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You chose this, Hasan.

  You.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Confirms to Marxist theories regarding the proletariat.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Treasure” in treasure trove is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The forbidden fourth leche⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your opinion is important⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m married to a white woman. I think advocacy for segregation is a flawed and impractical position, but, at the risk of hypocrisy, I understand and commiserate with the foundation behind the argument.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your opinion is important⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Malcolm X talked about our (I am not of European descent) so-called "white allies" and the Uncle Toms they promulgate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inshallah⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s embellished.

  In reality, Ezekiel 25:17 is much shorter than the film speech. Here is the KJV translation (the same cadence as the movie monologue):

  “And I will execute great vengeance upon them >>with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I >>am the Lord, when I shall lay my vengeance upon >>them.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What OSes do Microsoft servers run on?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it a fork of RHEL? Cloud Linux? FreeBSD?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would an anarchist society work?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I commented about participation in another comment, coincidentally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would an anarchist society work?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The “political class” of an anarchical state as I’ve described would be rotationary.

  We in the United States have “Jury Duty”, where the average citizen is required by law to be selected to be part of a “jury of peers” on legal cases if the defendant exercises their right to a trial by jury.

  Jurors can be struck down (relieved of their duty) for many reasons in the jury selection phase by attorneys, the judge, or submitting documentation on why they can’t perform their duty.

  A corollary compulsory service or duty could be applied to the positions in the three branches of government we have in our current constitutional structure.

  We would effectively shift from being a democratic federal republic (on paper; in practice, the current form of government is a plutocracy) to an anarchic aleatory republic. We would have representatives, but they’d be subject to review, competency approval, and votes of confidence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would an anarchist society work?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Taking the definition at its etymological root, all anarchy means is “without heirarchy”.

  In my head-canon, that doesn’t necessarily mean the lack of laws, state, institutions or governance; the implication is that there are no citizens or individuals with permanently elevated authority in the polity of government.

  Many, of course, disagree with this mostly on the basis of practicality, but I’d like to think it’s another way to describe the concept of “No gods, no kings, no masters, no slaves.”