god_from_celegans
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Trump is obviously one of the greatest Americans to ever live.
Come on! He's clearly one of the greatest of the WORLD if not the greatest.
He casually reinvents the language every time he speaks.
Soon we will all be talking trumps english
god_from_celegans
1mo ago
True, I guess it shows the USA can still "just build" when it decides to.
god_from_celegans
1mo ago
I'm a physicist who's always loved it. I'm surprised. But I'll note that this is not an USA phenomenon. Worldwide attitudes have changed in multiple countries first, UWA is just jumping on the bandwagon.
Personally I think the impetus was Europe getting slapped in the face with the reality of energy shortages. The German Green disastrous shutdown of the German nuclear plant. Following by a European debate (https://www.ft.com/video/864a8145-0862-48a8-a7a9-d3e338d3177e) and an Australian debate (https://spectrum.ieee.org/nuclear-power-in-australia).
god_from_celegans
1mo ago
Is it representative of the population? Possibly. Is it representative of their workforce? Possibly. It's hard to tell
god_from_celegans
1mo ago
It's interesting to see that Assange slams the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations for their appointment of CIA directors that repressed free speech. He has a lot to say about Trump
However, in February 2017, the landscape changed dramatically. President Trump had been elected, and he appointed two wolves in MAGA hats, Mike Pompeo, a Kansas congressman and former arms industry executive, as CIA director, and William Bar, a former CIA officer, as US Attorney General. By March 2017, WikiLeaks had exposed the CIA's infiltration of French political parties, spying on French and German leaders, spying on the European Central Bank, European economics Ministries, and its standing orders to spy on French industry as a whole. We also revealed the CIA's vast production of malware and viruses, its subversion of supply chains, its subversion of antivirus software, Cars, Smart TVs, and iPhones.
CIA Director Pompeo launched a campaign of retribution. It is now a matter of public record that, under Pompeo's explicit direction, the CIA drew up plans to kidnap and to assassinate me within the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, and authorized going after my European colleagues, subjecting us to theft, hacking attacks, and the planning of false information. My wife and my infant son were also targeted. A CIA asset was permanently assigned to track my wife, and instructions were given to obtain DNA from a six-month-old son's nappy. This is the testimony of more than 30 current and former US intelligence officials speaking to the US press, which has been corroborated by records seized in a prosecution brought against some of the CIA agents involved. The CIA's targeting of myself, my family, and my associates through
And this is him limiting himself to only the public records: e.g court records and Pomeo's bragging in his book. You can only imagine what else is going on. We obviously can't trust any politician, but we can look at their past actions, and Trumps past actions are terrible. He doesn't even express any regrets for breaking campaign promises and siding with the CIA over the promised JFK files. He only says, "next time I will, you can be sure". Right....
Months after being freed from 14 years in confinement, Assange is back in the spotlight, criticising the government.
This man is simply irrepressible! I have high hopes that Australians will be able to vote him into Senate soon.
Here is his hour long address to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE): https://youtube.com/watch?v=Mq85IZMeigc&t=2120s
Some juicy extracts from the transcript (I used ChatGPTBox to summarise but it was reluctant to talk about politics)
"I want to be totally clear. I am not free today because the system worked. I am free today because after years of incarceration I pleaded guilty to journalism. I pleaded guilty to seeking information from a source, and I pleaded guilty to informing the public what that information was."
On CIA activities: "We exposed the CIA's infiltration of French political parties, the European Central Bank, European economics ministries, its production of malware and viruses, its hacking of iPhones."
Regarding alleged CIA plans against him: "CIA director Pompeo launched a secret war against WikiLeaks, including plans to kidnap and to assassinate me within the United Kingdom."
On surveillance: "The CIA had agents permanently assigned to track my wife and newborn child."
About former CIA officer Joshua Schulte: "Former CIA officer Joshua Schulte was convicted for providing information to WikiLeaks and is now held in isolation. A radio and a white noise machine plays 24 hours a day to disorient him."
On potential CIA actions in Europe: "Europe is vulnerable to having its sovereignty violated by CIA operations on European soil, violating human rights and European law."
Regarding Michael Pompeo's memoirs: "Europe in Michael Pompeo's memoirs, which were published this year, brags about how the CIA reopened the investigation against me in Sweden."
On the broader implications of his case: "The criminalization of journalists in the United States for asking for, receiving, or publishing classified information prevents Russia or indeed any other state from doing the same thing."
"In 2017 the landscape changed dramatically. President Trump had been elected. He appointed two wolves in MAGA hats: Mike Pompeo, a Kansas congressman and former arms industry executive as CIA director, and William Barr, a former CIA officer as [Attorney General]."
god_from_celegans
2mo ago
Ya, I'm not disagreeing, just adding data to the discussion
god_from_celegans
2mo ago
god_from_celegans
2mo ago
I think the main problem actually is the government and advertisers enforces a certain level of censorship. Just look at the "shots fired" at the Telegram founder when he refued to play ball. So unless someone can answer how they will fund it, and how it will stay independent of government demand for "enough censorship"
god_from_celegans
2mo ago
what about a giant with a giant dick vs a human with a human dick, how does that change the calculus?
god_from_celegans
2mo ago
It depends on how technical you want lilianweng.github.io it is very technical lit reviews, a lot of the best stuff is in papers and research updates not blogs. And if you want an into, there are "transformer illustrated" type posts that are good at introductions.
god_from_celegans
2mo ago
EpochAI can see another 25x https://x.com/Simeon_Cps/status/1826134542857499005
god_from_celegans
3mo ago
- searching other lists of policy proposals, 2) searching for unique terms in the list like psudo-futarchy. I presume they are both by you under different accounts, and that's why you ask this. But don't worry both accounts are anon, and it's not like there's anything to be ashamed of, it's excellent thinking. imo someone should give you a few million to turn them into policy proposals
god_from_celegans
4mo ago
god_from_celegans
6mo ago
One thing I learnt is: no reads all these damn documents.
Which is why it will be interesting when someone gets an LLM to read through them for us. The CIA is building its own LLM to read the people's messages. It's only fitting that the people have an LLM to read the leaked documents and provide some transparency.
god_from_celegans
1yr ago
Interesting, that is different from what I was imagining. I didn't realise it was on CIA premises either.
god_from_celegans
1yr ago
Plus it filled in some of the details of "how" which was nice
Woah, I haven't stayed up to date with Ukraine, partly due to the high signal to noise ratio on most of the discourse. But this is great, it facts. It's especially fascinating that the Pentagon could do nothing about.
I think the reason the governments are scared of leaks is that it shows their incompetence and lack of control. That's a threat.
god_from_celegans
1yr ago
Oh not the climategate ones, just climate science professors (although I assume it's a field wide problem). I shouldn't mention names either way as it would dox my alt account. But I was just doing my honours, and while they seemed to have excellent character and integrity, I didn't have the full picture of the pressure they were under.
god_from_celegans
1yr ago
Oh... that might be why I couldn't find it. I'll have another look.
I think, even if something is widely suspected, it's still nice to have written evidence and details like the prices. It helps with debates and economics papers if nothing else.
god_from_celegans
1yr ago
Fascinating, I've studies under some of these professors and this sounds entirely realistic and plausible human psychology.
It's worth noting that the stratigraphic record has many instances of climate change, and you don't need a simulation to put bounds on the type of changes we could possibly see. How likely it is, is another matter of course. (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliocene_climate)
god_from_celegans
1yr ago
Wow, that is interesting and I totally missed it. It's nice to see the dynamics of mundane corruption.
I agree there was little reporting on the contents. I remember one spreadsheet that detailed "what they have given me" and "what position I have given them" but I can't for the life of me find it again. However, it showed that you can buy an ambassadorial position for ~$100k
When you see more evidence you should be more sure, right?
But what about when you believe something, and expect it to show up in the leaked documents, then it doesn't show. Shouldn't that surprise you?
god_from_celegans
1yr ago
Well for example they will spy of foreign oil companies like Petrobas, but they will cooperate with ones from allied countries like Shell. You can see the known facts in those links. And I extrapolate this out to a more general rule, that's speculation on my part.
Your logic is sound
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