Kim Jong Un is a bit behind on standing lessons.

Apparently the stufio is actually owned by Tencent so it's actually Chinese-owned so that's a plus.

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I guess that Grapes of Wrath passage is based on this.

People should read the article. He talks a lot about how they completely failed.

thry turned the US into the microsoft logo and it immediately broke

"Ah Done with That" at 10:20 is great. But it doesn't seem to say what country it's from and it seems ungoogleable.

Did find another version though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d7PGaeDn-k

Ah Done with Dat · Singing Diane

Then & Now

℗ 2011 Hometown Music / VPAL Music

Released on: 2011-08-23

But are there at least 13 genders?

Clearly photoshopped, the lighting is completely screwed up.

Is that really necessary? I'm using a new CPU and motherboard with multiple drives, (and an older GPU) and my computer maxes out at around 350 W.

full of slight liberalism and slight western chauvinism, but mostly properly anti-American 👍, especially one of the best video segments I've seen on YouTube recently at around 58:00, should be clipped separately for distribution.

finally finished it and it's pretty great.

RIP whales.

Also

China currently has six nuclear-powered attack submarines. Carlson, the former U.S. Navy officer, predicts that once China has settled on new designs it could triple the current U.S. annual production rate. In its annual assessment of the Chinese military published this month, the Pentagon forecast China would have a total fleet of 80 attack and ballistic-missile submarines by 2035, up from 60 at the end of last year.

Most obvious wagging-the-dog on earth. Look at the accompanying image:

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So China has 12 submarines but they write 60, just so it looks like they have almost as many as the US (but not as many because remember America #1!)

Archived article: https://archive.vn/moq9h

Crazy that they're even attempting it. Seems like a project ripe for American sabotage.

“This will further make it easier for the Chinese to extract all of these resources from the region, so that should be concerning,” Army Gen. Laura Richardson, who heads the U.S. Southern Command, said last month at a Florida International University security conference.

This lady is such an open ghoul lmao. She's always talking at events and being like "WE NEED TO STEAL RESOURCES FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH!!!".

It's just dollar signs, doesn't actually mean much in and of itself. But you can imagine what all the labor that went into designing and extracting resources and building the planes could have done, considering they've built quite a few of them.

website that randomized all the labels on this image -> collect social media metrics -> machine learning algorithm -> repeat -> ???

tankie ICBM on it's way to nuke the headquarters of white supremacy (Amerikkka)

Feels like OpenAI has like every ruling class person on it's board or in some kind of partnership or something. Absolutely bizarre structure. But it makes more sense when you see companies as clubs for American rulers. Every big company (including the one I work for) has people who came directly from other companies in various industries on their board. They're often basically pushing for a closer relationship with said companies too. You could call it "incestuous" but it's basically just networking for this country's economic managers. But for some reason this is supposed to be hush hush or something. As if everything is about "free market competition" between entirely atomic, self-interested, nameless faceless companies. It isn't. It's just people.

Also this is literally a diagram from their website:

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https://openai.com/our-structure/

The only real thing I see on their website about who's at the company is at the bottom of that page:

OpenAI is governed by the board of the OpenAI Nonprofit, currently comprised of Independent Directors Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D’Angelo.

It looks like "AI" is here to stay

I don't think chatbots are a very strong sign of being "here to stay".

From the excerpt of another article that loathesome dongeater@lemmygrad.ml quoted, the actual useful uses of machine learning have already been adopted by Apple. There was no need for this ridiculous "OpenAI" collaboration thing other than as either a stock price boost thing or marketing. All of the stuff labelled "AI" or "generative AI" is just worthless garbage, even though they've already implemented all kinds of actually useful stuff. It's such a weird phenomenon. Is anyone actually falling for this stuff?

the wake of its stunning bribery and embezzlement scandal several years ago

given how supportive of genocide joe the UAW is I wouldn't be suprised if there is a ton of corruption.

The CIA to Nazis in West Germany after WWII: