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Cake day: 2023年6月16日

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  • The myth of the silent majority sitting directly in the midpoint of whatever positions the GOP and DNC espouse at any given time is also part of the problem. People like my dad are convinced, polls and voting trends be damned, that the vast majority of voters are right of the Democrats and left of Republicans. Less woke than Dems, but less racist than Reps. Less white than Reps, but more white than Dems. etc etc.

    But some voters are, abjectly, racist… They are a minority, but a larger share of the electorate than is often imagined quietly supports them.

    This is why I’m very wary of people (my dad included) who play the “practicality over idealism” card to push for “moderate” Democrats like stop-and-frisk Bloomberg, or people who feel the need to constantly preemptively decry any resistance that isn’t a “sitting quietly inside a government-approved box” protest (“But do you condemn violence?”).

    It’s hard to judge true intentions, and I don’t trust that many of these (often white middle-class) people aren’t protecting their own comfort over their neighbors’ lives. Trump is already doing all the things that people claim compliance/ non-interventive action will forestall (it’s totally not martial law right now, it’s just federal troops and active military deployed in a city against the local government’s wishes!), so either their actual objection is that they don’t want it done to them, or they are ignorant to the reality on the ground.

    /rant


  • Another says that the fact Poland disappeared from the map of Europe for 123 years between 1795 and 1918 was “an unimaginable tragedy for Poles…[but] a source of satisfaction for many Jews”.

    A further one says that, in the interwar period, “many Jews openly sympathised with communism, identified with the Soviets, who were hostile to Poland”, reports Gazeta Wyborcza.

    Amongst all the boy-crying-wolf cases of people (especially Israel) trying to pass off anti-Zionism as antisemitism, this seems like a pretty clear-cut case of actual antisemitism.

    Those are clearly making the argument of why Poles would have reason (with the first quote even leaning towards justification) to participate in the pogrom, while at the same time the others are arguing they didn’t participate.

    “We didn’t take part… but here are some reasons why we would have wanted to… but we definitely didn’t! But Jews were totally happy that we weren’t a country, for some reason! But that’s unrelated to the pogrom, because we didn’t do anything to them!”

    Hmmm.


  • You’re either focused on immediate relief or systemic change. You’re either practical or idealistic. You’re either working within the system or fighting against it.

    I never encounter this framing from anyone who is actually participating in attempted systemic or targeted changes, only from people arguing for inaction.

    I don’t think I’ve ever seen e.g. DSA or the ACLU, both orgs ultimately focused on systemic problems, advocate against solving one-off, in-the-moment, small-scale problems. Likewise, I’ve never seen a food kitchen argue against expanded food access at a legislative level. I can imagine a hypothetical where a non-profit’s staff are selfishly opposed to legislative changes that destroy their org’s raison d’etre and thus their jobs, but I don’t think that’s what the author is talking about here.

    If I succeed completely in paying off all lunch debt, will that remove the urgency required to change the system that creates the debt in the first place?

    First you’d have to answer the question whether your targeted lunch payoffs are actually resulting in expanded urgency towards systemic, legislative changes in the first place. You can’t remove urgency that isn’t there. If you are seeing legislative changes, you’d then need to prove (even if just to yourself) that it’s happening due to paying off the lunches. Otherwise, there’s no reason to suspect not paying the lunches- because there’s no more to pay- would affect the legislation.

    I’m not trying to be pedantic, I just think it sounds like this person may be creating an issue that isn’t there. Maybe they’ve encountered nay-sayers trying to tell them their targeted actions are pointless and won’t change the system in the end, but I guarantee those people aren’t the ones trying to make systemic changes either.






  • I think Anubis is really focused on scraper-bots feeding AI models, rather than posting bots. It’s based on requests to non-standard endpoints in your own app, which you specify for Anubis in a couple places (e.g. leaving out of /robots.txt or /.well-known).

    If you’re using e.g. a python bot that uses headless chromium executing JS to post stuff, you’re probably going to code in known-good endpoints for comments and posts, rather than hitting random ones like a scraper bot would.

    Anubis is good for stopping the n-request-per-second spamming of scrapers, but not so much for just blocking non-human bots that post at normal rates.

    My last employer was a Fortune 50, and we did automation detection through behavioral mapping, like posting locations, times, and even word patterns (a very cool experimental project that I got to work on, which used a database of normalized English word frequency to detect bots based on language that was too-similar across users, or even too “perfect”, though this was only used as an indicator and never considered definitive). It is extremely difficult to detect human-impersonating bots based on raw network traffic alone.



  • By the way, is there a rule to how these short forms are formed?

    Yep! Most Japanese verbs (with a few exceptions like ‘shimasu’ becoming suru) use one of the ‘i’ variants (‘i’, ‘ki’, ‘ni’, ‘mi’, or ‘ri’) after the kanji, that indicates they are verbs.

    Yakimasu (to burn/ cook), shirimasu (to know), arukimasu (to walk), arimasu (to be), shinimasu (to die), yogimasu (to read).

    Ki will become ku in the shortened version, ri will become ru, ni -> nu, etc:

    yaku, shiru, aruku, aru, shinu, yomu

    I believe the verbs that don’t end in one of those like tabemasu (to eat) will default to ‘ru’ (taberu), but I don’t know if that’s a rule off the top of my head, or if I just can’t think of any others right now.

    In the cases where rendaku applies, such as oyogimasu (to swim), the end kana will also have rendaku applied, e.g. oyogu. Ki -> ku, gi -> gu.



  • I don’t use streaming at all, I buy every song I own on iTunes or other services that give you DRM-free files. I have a thing (call it a compulsion) about not using “other peoples’ things” when there’s an alternative.

    As with all AI, I’m not intrinsically opposed to AI music as a concept, but I don’t want to use it now when the services that make it are leeching off of artists without paying them. I don’t get “into” bands (e.g. I can’t tell you the names of almost any musicians in the bands I listen to), and I don’t usually like concerts, so it’s not like I’ll be missing out on those like some fans would be.

    I’m sure “AI” can produce perfectly milquetoast music, but are you ever going to want to listen again? I have tracks I’ve listened to hundreds of times because they mean something to me emotionally (and often have a temporal element wherein I remember where I was living and what I was doing the first time I heard it) – and most of my tracks do not have lyrics.

    Layering nonsensical lyrics atop forgettable melodies sounds more like torture than a service providing any value.

    I suspect this is mostly an artifact of our current early AI music models. Just like we got past the days of 8-finger monstrosities in newer image models, we’ll get more ‘context-aware’ and sensical lyric models for music. We just won’t be getting there ethically.





  • Yes, 君 is ‘kun’ when used as an honorific.

    海 is ‘umi’, or sea/ocean. You are correct that the second half of the kanji (母) is the same as the standalone character for mother, but it’s base radical is ⽏, which also just means mother. The first radical, ⺡, means water/ liquid, so you can sort of infer that “water mother” = ocean. Not all kanji work out this nicely with their radical structure, though.

    Last part is spot on, ikou (行こう) is the shortened (conjugation?) of iku or ‘to go’ that expresses a suggestion to do, i.e. “let’s (go)”.