Alphane Moon @ Alphane_Moon @lemmy.world

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It's an AI pump and dump attempt.

“hey police, someone threw cheese at my car, I’m in fear for my life.”

This had me chuckling.

Don Ho is a stand up guy! Notepad++ is also a great piece of software.

Fireflaya disrupts da AI system!

• Beatboxing noises *

Remember Tay?

Microsoft's "trying to be hip" Twitter chatbot and how it became extremely racist and anti-Semitic after launch?

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35890188

And this was back in 2016, almost a decade ago!

Thank you!

Still recommends for the price range but does not recommend for a "good experience"

Thus is funny.

Haven't really seen too many new list experiment polling (which is really too bad).

There is a good report from Dec 2024 on the topic:

The reluctant consensus: War and Russia’s public opinion

While the authors use more neutral language (while still being critical), I think it's reasons to state that this another piece of research that confirms the position that a strong majority of russians are genocidal imperialists.

Yes, list experiments. There are several research papers with such methodology that I am aware of that cover russian support for the invasion of Ukraine. One shows 65% support for the full scale invasion (even after preference falsification adjustments). Another one regarding annexation of Crimea shows 80% support with no preference falsification (i.e. full alignment with other polling methods); an overwhelming majority of russian really do support the annexation of Crimes; the first stage of their invasion of Ukraine.

And even logically, the mere existence of preference falsification doesn't inherently means that it is impossible for a strong majority of russians to be supporters of genocidal imperialism. The preference falsification would be have to be significant (which needs to be shown empirically).

The 33% support figure conflicts all other research on this topic (using any methodology), that's why I was asking.

No worries if you don't don't a have link. I might do some random searches using 33% as a base. Cheers!

50% favourable (not net) is still a lot, but nowhere near as bad as in Russia were support for the annexation of Crimea was at 85% between 2014 and 2021 with no real preference falsification.

Do you a source on the 33/33/33 split in Russia? Genuinely curious, I try to read as much as I can on this and keep an up to date DB of relevant research pieces.

I of course disagree that just 33% of russians support putin. Multiple research works show much much higher numbers. But to be honest, I just want to check out the research.

Unlike support for Trump in the US, support for genocidal imperialism among russians is at minimum a strong majority if not an overwhelming majority. The majority holds across all demographic segments; age, education, rural vs. urban, income.

At the point is usually when you hear arguments such as "all russians are afraid, they are all secret liberals" or "how can we truly know what russians think".

It turns out that people that people who work in this areas do have methods of not only accounting for preference falsification, but even estimating it's scope.

And even adjusting for preference falsification you still have at least a strong majority openly supporting imperialism and genocide.

Is this situation the same for support for Trump in the US?

No, this is how you deal with russians.

Believe it or not, their whole foreign policy posture is about keeping people scared and allowing them to control the initiative.

Montreal and Quebec City felt like the most European cities in North America.

I would argue the goal should be actually permanently getting rid of American technology services as opposed to getting a deal.

By this point American business leaders (not only in tech) have decisively proven that they are not any better than say russian oligarchs; a group of corrupt criminals who will happily support authoritarianism as long as they get to keep their businesses interests.

I think the world would be a better place if we collectively perma-banned all American digital services (while helping NGOs/open source projects relocate their infrastructure and legal organisations out of the US).

There would be a lot more competition, a wider variety of product offerings, more regional customisation, a bigger focus on long tail services.

It would be messy at first, but that's the nature of a transition from an oligarch model to a competitive model.

While what I am saying may sound like a pipe dream or pettyness, but from my perspective everything starts from a small step.

And if you don't live in the US (but are unfortunately impacted by their internal politics), you do have to take a more sober attitude towards their claimed commitment to democracy, free markets and rule of law.

I am old enough to remember not have mobile phones (not even smartphones) or even having a desktop PC that wasn't connected to the internet (although we did get dialup about 6 months after buying the PC, parents thought might as well do that).

I don't deny the utility of a smartphone or PCs for that matter. My issue is with framing a techology device as a sort of metaphysical source of "liberty" and "empowerment". Any tool can be used for bad or for good, it's all up to us. There are pro/cons to digital hardware and services.

It's like with industrialization, it clearly led to empowerment of wider society. Collapse of regressive feudal models, increased education among "commoners", rise of democracy and so on. But all of this didn't happen in a vacuum. It required global revolutionary movement that scared the oligarchs of the time into giving consessions to commoners (because at high level they realized things could have worked out really bad for them).

Then there is the propaganda line, an almost communist-like veneration around Ivey (even though in the global context it is most definitely not iOS devices that are having most impact) and some bullshit about Ivey caring.

"I care and shit about you plebs ... ugh ... yeah, the negative effects bother me ... Not sure how something I was involved in can have negatives, but yeah I really care! See I am even saying I care on this random BBC musical program! That's how much I care!"

I am not belittling the impact of the smartphone, just being critical of the positioning around iPhone bringing "liberation" and "empowerment". It has the capability to do that, but it also has the capability to enable less positive things.

There are also some inconsistencies in your story.

The iPhone launched without an app store and the app store concept existed even before iOS/Android.

From my experience living in developing countries, work type use cases do not use iPhones. If anything in developing countries an iPhone is exclusively a status symbol.

Claiming the iPhone alone was what got hundred millions of people out of poverty is a ridiculous statement. There are so many other factors at play here.

Sounds like an oligarch propaganda piece.

How has the iPhone contributed to empowerment and liberty? It's a technology tool that can be used for both good and bad things. There is nothing "inherent" about smartphones that leads to empowerment and liberty.

And I don't think he gives a shit about anything beyond his financial position and maintaining his social status and legion of fanboys.

You don't need to write a paper or even provide links.

If you actually had a legitimate arguement (and weren't just parroting copytext that you don't really understand beyond "I think it makes me look cool and independent"), you would have been able to summarize it in a few sentences in your own words.

This is not rocket science.

And if you're incapable of presenting your message even with a modicum of nuance, and you're forced to revert to comical parroting of what is essentially political spam, then what you're saying is almost certainly complete BS.

Try and promote what you're saying in a nuanced way. You won't be able to. We both know this!

Prove me wrong! ;)

So what that you're a leftist?

You were taking about "educating me" and the best you can come up with is a standard copytext that's spammed everywhere?

At least come up with something new and interesting not the standard word salad about the Federal Reserve.