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  • I just re-read it as a (middle age :S) adult -- and while it's hardly an underrated book, it's fucking amazing and not sufficiently appreciated beyond being a fantastically fun book for a teenage brain to read. Whoever hasn't read it since they were in high school or hasn't read it, really should pick it up.

  • The State of global Piracy - February 2024
  • I'm new to the concept of nukes, but generally I understood it as a wide concept from the linked wiki. I guess what I wanted to know if it would be possible to see more about why a user has flagged the certain torrent (e.g. the user has submitted some kind of report that malware was discovered when scanning the downloaded files). Maybe I'm overthinking this -- I nearly always am -- but I figured there may be situations where it could be interesting to know, similar to seeing an angry one star review on Amazon and instantly realizing the problem lies with the reviewer when you read the review.

    In database form I think it would be most attractive if nukes could be categorized or if there was a possibility for a link to any user generated report on the torrent (but then again I have no idea about which source data you have available on any of this and to what extent I'm just fully misunderstanding "nukes")

  • Biden calls for 'immediate ceasefire' in Gaza
  • For sure! Where I live the last election was between a neo-liberal coalition or a neo-liberal coalition fueled by fascism. Both options were a vote for an erosion of civil liberties, under the banner of combating a mix of real gang violence and made up evils of evil, but one of the factions also offered the catharsis of blaming everything wrong on immigrants. Not that the not non-fascist faction has been slow to underwrite the fascist narrative, whenever that's appeared beneficial to public support. The "lesser evil" lost the election, and at no point have they stopped to consider that the "evil" part of their strategy was a part of it, they think it was a failure in selling themselves as superior administrators of the same policies the current government is championing.

  • The State of global Piracy - February 2024
  • Didn't know about this resource before. Good stuff.

    Two questions:

    Is it possible to get more information about nukings?

    What percentage of the scene releases included in your stats above are actively seeded/healthy?

  • Google suspends Gemini from making AI images of people after a backlash complaining it was 'woke'
  • Any and all issues calling out wokeness as part of any problem immediately loses all credibility to me.

    Agree.

    If wanting to include other ethnicities in something, even if it's just to make the people with the money look better, I'm all for it.

    Disagree, it's reasonable to criticize green, pink, whathaveyou washing even if there are many other worse things a company can do (discrimination, etc). I also think it's reasonable to find it offensive to depict Nazi Germany as a beacon of inclusivity.

  • Google suspends Gemini from making AI images of people after a backlash complaining it was 'woke'
  • To be fair, the aggrieved images generated by the AI included people of various ethnicity pictured as Nazi soldiers.

    I don't know though... to me, it seems weird that the criticism is focused on "wokeness" and misguided inclusivity. Shouldn't people be more concerned about these images being the result of demoing a technology for falsifying historic records in a hitherto unthinkable scale?

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