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  • It’s the latest Fox news fake outrage story. Teachers are recognizing that in the wake of such a divisive election, taking the day after off is a good idea. No matter which side of the side you’re on, you’re probably going to be distracted. A day off from class is better than an unproductive day of class.

    The Fox News angle is that college students are all crying because Trump won and are unable to function through day-to-day life, because they are committed to attacking education at every possible opportunity, even with misrepresentation and lies.

    Look at OP’s comment history. Joined a month ago, and talks like a Republican. Don’t let these fuckers trick you with stupid questions.


  • What you’re doing is called concern trolling.

    You love Trump, like an unhealthy amount, as many rabid Trumpers do. Other people despise him so much they need time to psychologically process what it could mean for their basic freedom and way of life having him in charge. After all, the President is about to be someone who expressly promised to take our freedoms away, and who has described himself as a dictator.

    You are having trouble processing the fact that other people could hate Trump when you love him. Your mind is so permanently made in favor of him that the fact that anyone would be upset that he won is something you can’t comprehend.

    So, instead of just coping with this fact yourself, you have come whining about it in public, but you’re framing it as a “I want these students to be more resilient and go to school anyway”, but what’s actually happening is you’re watching people who possess the empathy you lack help other people process this, and like any Conservative, you become belligerent and angry that people aren’t made to suffer more following your victory.

    Even in winning you folks act like sore losers. It’s not enough that you get what you want, we need to fall in line and act like nothing fucking happened.

    At least we didn’t shit and piss all over the capital.











  • Israel intentionally conflates itself with Judaism (religion) and Jewishness (ethnicity)

    Look, the Jewish People are both defined by ethnicity and religion, but the way you speak of that dynamic shows a profound ignorance of it. This isn’t some Israeli conspiracy, most self-identified Jews are at least somewhat ethnically Jewish. Not all are religious, though many respect tradition regardless. That ethnic group historically originated from the Levant, and Judaism as a religion views the Levant as a holy land.

    The only real Judaic aspect of Israel’s war on Palestine is Zionism, which can range from the belief that an Israeli has a basic right to exist in the Levant (alongside others), to the belief that Israel should dominate the Levant (and expel others). Netanyahu is on the latter end of that spectrum, and supports mass violence against and forced displacement of Palestinians to meet that end, which is indefensible. We cannot accept Israel, U.S. ally or not, to be engaged in a holy war.

    But anyone deciding to point the finger at Israel when they encounter real-world antisemitism isn’t actually making a statement about Israel. They are deflecting blame away from bigots, and suggesting that they might at least have some excuse for their hate. I don’t have any tolerance for that.



  • “Open Source” is mostly the right term. AI isn’t code, so there’s no source code to open up. If you provide the dataset you trained off of, and open up the code used to train the model, that’s pretty close.

    Otherwise, we need to consider “open weights” and “free use” to be more accurate terms.

    For example, ChatGPT 3+ in undeniably closed/proprietary. You can’t download the model and run it on your own hardware. The dataset used to train it is a trade secret. You have to agree to all of OpenAI’s terms to use it.

    LLaMa is way more open. The dataset is largely known (though no public master copy exists). The code used to train is open source. You can download the model for local use, and train new models based off of the weights of the base model. The license allows all of this.

    It’s just not a 1:1 equivalent to open source software. It’s basically the equivalent of royalty free media, but with big collections of conceptual weights.