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As salty as I am about it, there's also another way to think about this. For anyone who still has connections to folks on the right (which is perhaps unlikely for anyone on this server, I digress), the cult that has consumed them thrives on isolation and grievance.
The words "you were right" have the potential to cut through the programming and open up an opportunity for reconnection. The modern conspiratorial cult of the Right has been built partially around people who were told they were wrong or were crazy. In the vast majority of cases, they were wrong and even when they were right they completely misunderstood why, but we'll skip that for now. Liberals making fun of them (even the times when they definitely earned it) has pushed them further and further into their ideological hole.
The thing about those words, "you were right," in this context is that the way they offer reconnection also requires them to take one little step of betraying their ideology to accept them. So they must choose between maintaining allegiance to a pedophile or finally getting to feel superior after years of living in an illusion of persecution.
Under the ideology of the Right, admitting one is wrong is a weakness. It is admitting defeat. They have to "own the libs" by saying things, things that they know aren't true, in order to feel dominant. But these things are often so absurd that they end up being made fun of, feeling even more weak and pathetic, reinforcing their fear and alienation.
Offering what they're looking for can offer a way out, but only if they're willing to start to recognize the thing they've supported for what it is.
And they were right about some things. They were right that Bill Gates was a terrible person. I've had plenty of liberals defend him based on his philanthropy washing, but he's awful and always has been. The Epstein links make that blatant. They intuitively recognized him and didn't trust him, even if they were wildly off base about *how and why* he shouldn't be trusted... Even if their correct mistrust was leveraged into one of the most destructive conspiracy theories ever (vaccine denial and COVID vaccine avoidance).
They were right about Bill Clinton. He was always shady as fuck. Sure, the people who attacked him at the time turned out to be even more shady but that's not the point right now. He was connected to Epstein and that was always creepy as fuck.
And the Epstein thing was an open secret that liberals ignored for a long time. It was seen as some weird thing that right wing nutjobs believed about the Clintons. But it was true. Not all of it, and there has always been an antisemitic element to the right wing interpretation or Epstein stuff, but his whole pedophile conspiracy was always kind of real.
The whole "Illuminati"/deep state thing is a vast oversimplification, an attempt to make comprehensible an incredibly complex set of interlocking and emergent behaviors. But Epstein did very much want to remake the world, to create a new world order, and he absolutely played a part in it.
The Right wing nutjobs talked about global authoritarianism, Blackhawks flying over American cities, masked men with guns disarming and executing legal gun owners in the streets. That's all happening right now.
The "FEMA concentration camps" are not actually that far off. ICE and FEMA are sister agencies, both under DHS. I'd be more than happy to call that one "close enough" in order to hear some MAGA admit that ICE is, in fact, building concentration camps.
There was always a huge millennialist element to these things. They tended to be connected to "the antichrist." It was absurd, especially for me as someone who no longer identifies as a Christian. But I'll even acquiess that to a degree. The "the number of the Beast" is 666. That's just the sum of the Hebrew spelling of "Nero." Revelations focuses a lot on Nero coming back to life after his death. His death that involved a head wound, thus the line from Revelation 13:3:
> And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast.
The parallels between Trump and Nero are easy to draw, and Trump's ear wound feels pretty on-the-nose for this. I don't believe in "prophecy" in this way. I think that there are patterns, and useful patterns can become encoded in beleif systems. But I will, again, happily call this one "close enough" for anyone on that side willing to also acknowledge it. I'm happy to meet on that common ground, because anyone who accepts it must recognize that their duty is to fight against it.
A lot of these correct nuggets are embedded in a framework of religious extremism and antisemitism. The vast majority of the beliefs holding these together are wildly wrong and incredibly toxic. But by giving some room to feel validated, listened to, understood, can give some room to admit things that were wrong.
Cult de-programming starts with an opening. People have to talk through their own thoughts, hear their own inconsistencies. Guiding questions can help them untangle these things for themselves. And it all starts by having enough room to feel safe, to not feel cornered, to not feel stupid. Admitting mistakes means being vulnerable, and the MAGA cult is built on fear. It's built on exploiting vulnerability and locking it away.
De-programming takes a long time. It's not easy. It takes patience. But every person who comes out does so with a powerful perspective, a deep understanding, that can be turned back against it. The best people at getting people out of cults are former members. Some of the most dedicated antifa are former fascists who understood their mistakes and dedicate their lives to fixing them.

A common argument from AI stans is basically mysticism: “we don’t really know how it works therefore it must be alive and have a soul”.
Dude, first of all we know how it works, human beings created every step of LLMs, and the didn’t imbue it with life like a golem, it’s just applied statistics.
Secondly just because you personally find it mysterious and unknowable doesn’t mean it’s magic.

You're perfectly fine to call Big Corp AI techno-fascism as long as I can continue to create Sloppelgänger versions of myself from 1865. 🫠
#photography #AI #vintage

Replaced article(s) found for physics.chem-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.chem-ph/new
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- Proposal on the Calculation of the Ionisation-Cluster Size Distribution (I). The Model and Its Si...
Bernd Heide
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03961 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicscompph_bot/112234374992126208
- Bridging chemistry and Gaussian boson sampling: A photonic hierarchy of approximations for molecu...
Jan-Lucas Eickmann, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19442 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/114930272911651358
- Benchmarking Universal Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials for Supported Nanoparticles: Decou...
Jiayan Xu, Abhirup Patra, Amar Deep Pathak, Sharan Shetty, Detlef Hohl, Roberto Car
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05221 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatmtrlsci_bot/115683143867496047
- Knowledge Distillation of a Protein Language Model Yields a Foundational Implicit Solvent Model
Justin Airas, Bin Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.05388 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsbioph_bot/115881090848393264
- Universal Foundations of Thermodynamics: Entropy and Energy Beyond Equilibrium and Without Extens...
Gian Paolo Beretta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09986 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/116051530776008418
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
Claude Debussy, Mstislav Rostropovich, Alexander Dedyuhkin & Alexandre Roelens:
🎵 Suite bergamasque, L. 82: III. Clair de lune (Arr. Roelens for Cello and Piano)
#ClaudeDebussy
https://open.spotify.com/track/4GoE0l7FLikVz0quhXhbt5

'The interval between great-power wars in Europe from 1648 to 1945 averaged around forty years. That’s how long it takes for the generational memory of the last war to fade from the bodies of the people who vote in the next one. The post-1945 peace in Europe is the longest stretch in recorded history, which means we have a decade or two before the generation that could say "I remember" no longer exists in political life.
What happens then, is what always happens.'

The Loop: everything has happened before, and everything will happen again
We keep replaying the same human mistakes -bubbles, strongmen, scapegoats, and panics -because the operating system in our skulls hasn’t updated in ten thousand years.

If you think #vibecoding is fine, let me ask you a single question: would you use a medical device whose software was vibecoded? And by "medical device" I mean something where a bug could literally kill you.
If you answered "oh, gawd, no!" then consider that anytime you use an #LLM to contribute to or develop an #OpenSource project, there's a chance that this code will end up powering such a device. And even if it doesn't, you're setting a trend, and it will be even more likely that the software used by these devices will be vibecoded.
I have type 1 #diabetes. I also lead a physically active life. This is both a blessing and a curse. My doctors keep suggesting Constant Glucose Monitoring systems and insulin pumps to me. And I do realize that such hardware would likely improve my blood glucose, and definitely make my life much easier (especially with a closed loop system).
So why do my fingertips look like crap, and I keep using a glucometer and insulin pens? Because I don't want to risk my life to an unnecessarily complex technology.
Admittedly, I occasionally get things wrong and suffer consequences. Or I suspect I got them wrong and worry. Or meet an unexpected situation and need to figure out a way out. Or even accept having elevated glucose levels (as in nearing 200 mg/dl) because there's just no way to safely fit insulin doses on a particular day.
But still, I prefer having control and risking my own mistakes to a device that could suddenly start pumping insulin because of a bug. And that was even before the story of the application that stripped the decimal point and gave people ten times the dose. Or the one about CGMs giving wrong high glucose alerts. Or the whole vibecoding fancy.
Back then, I could have considered such a device. Now, I'm more worried than ever. And honestly, I'm hoping that relatively simple glucometers will remain available. To think that my worst fear used to be of a mechanical fault…
#AI #NoAI #NoLLM

A while back, I was mostly-lurking on a regional #Meshcore (like #Meshtastic , but different) discord, when someone on there tried to update a repeater and accidentally soft-bricked it. They needed to climb up to where it is to get a physical connection. But there's a raven nesting near where they've …

Velkommen til Poulsbo!
Intel Poulsbo is a 130nm Atom chipset that was widely hated due to the near nonexistent Linux support for the PowerVR SGX535 GPU it included, rather than an Intel in house microarchitecture.
I'll decap and post die photos at some point but I wanted to visit the namesake with the intact board first.

The Genetic and Environmental Architecture of the Human Functional Connectome
Tanu Raghav, Daniel Guerrero, Uttara Tipnis, Julie Sara Benny, Mintao Liu, Mario Dzemidzic, Arian Ashourvan, Alex P. Miller, Beau Ances, Jaroslaw Harezlak, Joaqu\'in Go\~ni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24614 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.24614 https://arxiv.org/html/2604.24614
arXiv:2604.24614v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Functional connectivity varies across individuals due to genetic and environmental factors, yet classical twin models typically confound non-shared environment with measurement error and are largely limited to resting-state analyses. We hypothesized that: i) explicitly modeling measurement error from repeated fMRI sessions enables more accurate application of classical twin models (ACE/ADE) to functional connectivity; ii) model applicability depends on scan-length and parcellation granularity; iii) genetic and environmental effects on functional connectomes show differentiated functional modules across conditions. We extended ACE/ADE models to include a repeated-scan derived error term by analyzing monozygotic and dizygotic twins from the Young-Adult Human Connectome Project dataset. Genetic and environment variance components were estimated for all functional couplings across resting-state and task conditions, integrated across conditions using a minimum-error criterion, and analyzed using multilayer community detection across resolution scales. Functional couplings segregated into distinct categories characterized by shared environmental, additive, dominant, or epistatic influences, with a substantial fraction not meeting twin-model assumptions. Integrating across conditions revealed hierarchical community structure in genetic and environmental components observed across community resolution scales. Incorporating measurement error into twin models improves interpretability and applicability at the functional connectome level, revealing that genetic and environmental influences are structured into coherent, multiscale brain networks.
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