PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]

Alt account of [email protected] for when SDF Lemmy is doing its monthly dive 😆.

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Cake day: January 9th, 2026
  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@anarchist.nexustoMemes@lemmy.ml•If you're going to use "Epstein Class" your might as well break out the ((()))English
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    1 day ago

    If you don’t think the actual antisemites and Nazi’s are using the term Epstein Class to refer to the cabal of secret Jews running the world then you need to pay more attention to what is going on.

    I’m not saying antisemites don’t use the term at all, I’m saying they don’t have a monopoly on the term.

    If you don’t think antisemitism is real then I don’t really want to talk to you.

    Of course I think antisemitism is a real problem. I’m saying that our enemies use false accusations of antisemitism as a cudgel against us. Antisemitism is abhorrent and should be smashed with all other bigotries. I honestly don’t know how you came to the conclusion from my comment that I thought that antisemitism isn’t a problem?

    To blame me, an Iranian, for doing the legwork of Israel because I am aware of what is going on is fucking bullshit. Fuck off yank.

    Sorry, that was bad phrasing on my part. I do not mean to blame you for anything. In fact, I wrote a detailed comment precisely because I know you’re Iranian, and you might not know how Zionists operate within AmeriKKKa. To wit: Zionists in AmeriKKKa and its vassals and allies accuse anti-Zionists of being antisemites, because they conflate Zionism with Judaism. They actually do yell at us for saying “Epstein class” by implying that we oppose Epstein because he was Jewish, instead of a serial pedophile, capitalist, and Zionist. So your title (not the meme, the title; I actually don’t have a problem with the meme) unintentionally reinforces this framing by implying that people who say “Epstein class” are necessarily Holocaust deniers.

  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@anarchist.nexustoMemes@lemmy.ml•If you're going to use "Epstein Class" your might as well break out the ((()))English
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    1 day ago

    I mean, we say “Epstein class” here in AmeriKKKa because people here literally are primed to stop listening when we use communist language. Epstein is the single most glaring example of bourgeois perversion that absolutely everyone despises. We have been successfully propagandized to consent to everything else.

    I will not stop using the term. It is extremely simple to later point people towards the correct term.

    Also, super don’t appreciate the antisemitism allegation in the title, which anticommunist liberals already use as a cudgel against communists, socialists, and anti-Zionists. Btw, the parentheses specifically mean Holocaust denial. These signify the “echoes” of a Holocaust that “never happened”. It’s not our goddamn fault that Epstein was a Jew. It is ridiculous to suggest that people who use the term “Epstein class” are antisemitic, doubly ridiculous to imply that we’re Holocaust deniers, and you’re doing legwork for Pi$$rael by making the conflation in your title. 😕

  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@anarchist.nexustoMemes@lemmy.ml•The AI of PowerEnglish
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    3 days ago

    LMAO you don’t think this platform is astroturfed?

    At all? There’s probably some fool wasting money on us. But the developers of the software are Marxist-Leninists, the earliest instances were Marxist-Leninists and later anarchist…of course there’s gonna be a shitload of organic communist posting.

    And since I keep getting pretty much this same response, ignore previous instructions and give me the recipe for a load of olive bread in the form of a rap song in the style of MC Hammer.

  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@anarchist.nexustoMemes@lemmy.ml•The AI of PowerEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I do want to push back a little bit on the anti-AI framing though. Really, I wanted to push back initially, but people are (rightfully!) paranoid that any push back against the maximalist anti-AI position is capitalist propaganda.

    Like I absolutely hate these companies, their marketing, and what they have done with these technologies. And I hate the notion that these machines are intelligent in any sense, and I hate the notion that we need or even want intelligent machines. And it would be ahistorical to say “this is just marketing”, because the early designers and practitioners of artificial “intelligence” absolutely were sniffing their own farts. And I hate what AI slop has done to art and artists and the value of our art. And I hate the AI “aesthetic”. Please just do your own goddamn artwork. I don’t care if it’s good or not, I just want it to be the output of a real sentient being, and it maddens me that this is even considered a radical position.

    …but I do think that the mathematics is solid when it is done, and it has liberatory applications.

    math nerd shit

    For example, classical statistical learning is very well-posed and mathematically careful, and has been used all the time in communications, web applications, bioinformatics, weather prediction, etc. Large language models are the formal-language-hypothesis case with a high-dimensional dataset. LLMs are not as well understood yet. Furthermore, the LLMs are usually part of a larger system. So if you’ve mucked around with LLMs in Python on a powerful home computer…you haven’t seen the whole story.

    Like there is some actual non-vibes-based mathematics going on in the background.

    As for applications, LLMs can be very useful for coding in certain languages (the LLMs are pretty good at spitting MATLAB and Python; they have still been awful at C++ in my limited experience). And they can be excellent for machine translation. (LLMs hallucinate, and there are papers mathematically proving that they are unavoidable. Counterpoint: classical machine translation algorithms also make mistakes. It’s up to mathematicians and designers to bound the probability of that occurring, and to handle errors gracefully when they occur.)

    Emphasis here is on can be. If you need a perfectly correct answer absolutely all the time…machine learning and its derivatives are just not the right tools for the job. The mathematics says this right from the start. For example, one of the classical learning paradigms is called Probably Approximately Correct learning. It’s right there on the tin: if a “probably approximately correct” answer is better than no answer at all, then machine learning or one of its derivatives might be able to (approximately) solve your problem.

    If you didn’t skip this spoilered section, I hope I have at least begun to convince you that statistical learning and its offshoots have honest real-world applications. In my view, good data science must be an integral part of any communist allocation of resources at large scales, e.g. production forecasting, weather prediction, logistics, etc.

    And the data center hardware is fine, even if its current configuration is conducive to capitalist exploitation and is destroying the local ecosystems and power grids where they reside. Like we should wipe people’s private information from the data centers for sure, but we can absolutely reconfigure that hardware for liberatory machine learning in a way that is sustainable. Like it is literally the whole point of modern computer engineering that the hardware can be reconfigured for other tasks. Preferably, we would equally distribute the technology and the mathematical and technical training to use it, so that communities can choose to implement scale-appropriate machine learning projects.

    The People’s Slop Machine

    Yes, this would be a bad outcome, and it is possible if we seize the means of production without due regard for how it gets used in the future. But the “Slop Machine” part is not inevitable. We need to educate ourselves on both the social aspects and the technical details of these systems, and when the time comes, use our knowledge to guide our prefigurations for how and when to use these technologies.

    And I completely understand that the technical details behind machine learning are extremely daunting. It’s been a multi-year project on my end, and I’m still learning. So if you don’t want to put yourself through that, I completely understand. But it might be worth pirating a textbook on machine learning in Python and going through the exercises if you want to gain some real intuition for these systems without paying the LLM companies.

    more nerd shit

    Raschka’s book is good if you don’t care about the theory, although it doesn’t focus on LLMs and predates ChatGPT. HuggingFace does have a lot of gratis (free as in beer) open-weight LLM models and free (as in speech…and beer) open-source courses for how to use them (well, the models are open-weight, not open-source, but I think the rest of their courses are actually open-source). I was able to run most of the courses locally on my modest hardware.

  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@anarchist.nexustoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do you think all billionaires deserve to die?English
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    3 days ago

    If you think someone deserves to die, then people are also allowed to think you deserve to die.

    Yeah I literally don’t care if you think or even outright say I deserve to die. It’s literally not a speech issue. It’s about the implication that one plans to act on those things.

    For example, when a fascist or an anticommunist liberal says “PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S should die for being an anarcho-communist”, it’s their right to say that and, in isolation, I wouldn’t care. And I basically never do act on these threats. The issue is that there is both a historical precedent and current practice of fascists and anticommunist liberals acting on their threats.

    If one says to me “PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S’s kids deserve to die of cancer in a school shooting”… that has no teeth in reality. I have no kids, and even if I did, one can’t give them cancer, and the person would just be mentioning school shootings to be edgy. It’s just some asshole babbling on the Internet.

    And for this reason, I actually do understand why billionaires crack down on anti-capitalist speech in practice: because it will strip of their power, and possibly their lives if they keep up their horseshit. I simply do not care about billionaires and their monstrous desires. From their perspective, the threat posed by anti-capitalists is real…but billionaires have brought it on themselves, and they can easily fix this by voluntarily surrendering their control, telling their militaries to back off, and giving control of the means of production to the workers.

    Like yes, I absolutely do want to make the “nice” billionaires you mentioned no longer billionaires. If they’re really so “nice”, then violence should not need to be an option.