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A Mathematical Rubicon Has Been Crossed By AI - Ordinary Times
https://ordinary-times.com/2025/12/17/a-mathematical-rubicon-has-been-crossed-by-ai/

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⛐ Bridging Vision, Language, and Mathematics: Pictographic Character Reconstruction with Bézier Curves
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Bridging Vision, Language, and Mathematics: Pictographic Character Reconstruction with Bézier Curves
While Vision-language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong semantic capabilities, their ability to interpret the underlying geometric structure of visual information is less explored. Pictographic characters, which combine visual form with symbolic structure, provide an ideal test case for this capability. We formulate this visual recognition challenge in the mathematical domain, where each character is represented by an executable program of geometric primitives. This is framed as a program …

RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@matematico314/115557675202975465
Repostando porque notícia boa é pra ser compartilhada.

Right-wing media are describing pro-immigrant Minnesota activists using the language of war (Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/immigration/right-wing-media-are-describing-pro-immigrant-minnesota-activists-using-language-war
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p114#a260116p114

I think we can actually prove that this constraint is the *only* constraint that can preserve freedom:
1. There will exist actors in a system who will wish to take advantage of others. Evolution drives survival and one strategy for increasing survival in an altruistic society is to become a parasite.
2. Expecting exploitative dynamics, a system needs to have a set of rules to manage exploitation.
3. If the set of rules is static it will lack the requisite variety necessary to manage the infinite possible behavior of humans so the system will fail.
4. If the system is dynamic then it must have a rule set about how it's own rules are updated. This would make the system recursive, which makes the system at least as complex as mathematics. Any system at least as complex as mathematics is necessarily either incomplete or inconsistent (Gödel's incompleteness theorem). If the system is incomplete, then constraints can be evaded which then allow a malicious agent to seize control of the system and update the rules for their own benefit. If constraints are incomplete, then a malicious agent can take advantage of others within the system.
5. Therefore, no social system can possibly protect freedom unless there exists a single metasystemic constraint (that the system must be optional) allowing for the system to be abandoned when compromised.
Oh, you might say, but this just means you have to infinitely abandon systems. Sure, but there's an evolutionary advantage to cooperation so there's evolutionary pressure to *not* be a malicious actor. So a malicious actor being able to compromise the whole system is likely to be a much more rare event. Compromising a system is a lot of work, so the first thing a malicious actor would want to do is preserve that work. They would want to lock you in. The most important objective to a malicious actor compromising a system would be to violate that metasystemic constraint, or all of their work goes out the window when everyone leaves.
And now you understand why borders exist, why fascists are obsessed with maintaining categories like gender, race, ethnicity, etc. This is why even Democrats like Newsom are on board with putting houseless people in concentration camps. And this is why the most important thing anarchists promote is the ability to choose not to be part of any of that.

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Fox found its culprit for high grocery prices following Democratic election victories -- Joe Biden (Craig Harrington/Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-found-its-culprit-high-grocery-prices-following-democratic-election-victories-joe
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p95#a251217p95

Nick Fuentes suggests ICE killing Renee Good is "probably a good thing" because the "future is at stake, whether white people exist as a race" (Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes/nick-fuentes-suggests-ice-killing-renee-good-probably-good-thing-because-future-stake
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p53#a260116p53

RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@matematico314/115897285552615627
Ainda inconformado com isso. Não sei se tento consertar a multifuncional (mesmo jš tendo uma nova) ou simplesmente jogo a velha no lixo.