TanneriusFromRome

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

What reengages my empathy muscle is remembering that lots of these people are fucking miserable, even if they lack the introspection to appreciate it. Imagine being a fucking evangelical conservative housewife for instance - no real agency or support or avenue to grow. Even imagine yourself as an evangelical conservative bread-winning husband - no real avenue for self expression or discovery, and you harm the people around you constantly without a framework to understand that.

Even when you look at fascist states like Israel, how fucking tragic for all of those indoctrinated people that their worldview is as narrow and corrupted as it is, and, honestly, most of those people didn't have a hope in hell. Fucking cooked because they happened to be born in a fascist state.

Whenever I go down this line of thinking, I always end up feeling that it's just so... sadly rational that so many awful people are full of that weird impotent rage.

NB: I am also definitely not saying that I'm some saint who can always keep this thinking, it is truly advice on framing that makes me personally hate people less when I have the energy for it.

 

Hi,

I know LLMs and machine learning catch a bad rap in leftist circles (for good reason), but I think if you haven't already considered at a content moderation 'pre-filter' of some sort, it could hugely amplify your ability to manage the forum as a (relatively) small mod-team.

I have attached a URL with an example of an approach which could be trialed in moderation flows (e.g., if likelihood post is harmful > high threshold, put into moderation queue for manual approval). But if there's an easy way to grab, e.g., a structured bulk of messages over the last couple of years with an associated 'moderation action on post' column you could also likely build a 'likelihood messages would have had moderator action based on recent empirical moderation' for a more bespoke tool. Further, you could tune this threshold such that the moderation post queue was always manageable, just raising the threshold until it hits a manageable number of (hopefully) the most toxic messages.

But, yeah, anyway... I have experience as an ML researcher and now work in the space professionally, and would be happy to discuss, guide, or develop if there is any interest. As somebody who isn't very active socially online, and has mainly lurked since the OLD chapo days, totally understand if there's reluctance. I'm happy to talk through options that could give you confidence I'm not a wrecker if this is an issue.

If this comm is the wrong place for this but there may be interest, feel free to direct me elsewhere or to DM me.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

lmao I'm so fucking glad he outed himself to a much wider population as a lil' ol' not-smart weirdo with... y'know... everything he's done recently

Still not ideal omori-furious, but at least fewer people at work will repeat this to me as a serious claim, and those who do with less enthusiasm on average

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hadn't even considered how jarring the political switch to antisemitism will be. Dems through a lens of nauseatingly misused left-adjacent points, and Reps with more overt racism and exciting language. If the NYT runs an article called "Were the Alt-Right right about Israel?" I'm putting my fucking head right in the lathe next

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

Nah, I'm just a normal person without an editor. MB fam

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think I got it

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

That's a fair point

I had meant purely that I didn't recall a Hezbollah retaliation as wide scale as this before now. Clearly they're being intentionally provoked, and are not in any sense the aggressors here.

What do you think is a better way to say it? I will edit

Edit: I just made it super academic and it fixed it as far as I can see.

 

I am convinced that Israel has realized that it can't survive a drawn out conflict, and will endlessly provoke literally all of it's neighbors until things have escalated to the point that the US feels the need to properly enter the fray.

Edited: Bad wording on my part in the first one. I'm just tired - not awful

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The anime is a complete story IMO, but obvs your call ¯\(ツ)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

I liked the below, if you don't mind a bit of fantasy isakei being in the mix.

JP title: Tensei Oujo to Tensai Reijou no Mahou Kakumei

EN title: The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

"Hah, how wonderful! And how do they reply when you say you don't necessarily want them to die?"

"I don't say that."

shocked-pikachu

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago

The word "antisemitism" has lost all meaning.

They're pretty explicit in talking about the word, not the concept. Nobody here is saying antisemitism, the concept, doesn't exist or isn't important, but that the signifier less and less frequently refers to the actual concept of antisemitism.

I think you might just be arguing at cross purposes. Original post was borderline a purely linguistic observation, but you're talking about the underlying phenomenon.

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