I feel like #CaptainAmericaBraveNewWorld is a film people are going to watch themselves today, and realize that it’s not nearly as bad as the RT score suggests or the narrative around it has been

It’s an Iron Man 2 level film, an enjoyable cohesive film, that’s also a bit messy pic.twitter.com/tlTaEGjyio

— Rayyan*🇵🇸 (@RayyanTCG) February 13, 2025

Clearly my kind is not welcome here. You will all regret this.

Amarna brought this archetype to my attention and I've never noticed it before. Seems like exclusively Millenials or dirtbag left types say "should have been shoved into a locker" or some variation with lockers. 100% drawn from the TV. Turn it off.

https://x.com/search?q=shove+locker&f=live

Not sure why it's so popular tbh. Trying some pop psych maybe it's peaked-in-high-school adults nostalgically hallucinating a higher status youth. Us vs the nerds. That, "dweeb" as insult and the lunch money thing compose the totally unreal 90s bully media tropes.

This stuff was never done, and the very online don't know it.

OpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company's proprietary models to train its own open-source competitor, as concerns grow over a potential breach of intellectual property.

The San-Francisco-based ChatGPT maker told the Financial Times it had seen some evidence of 'distillation', a technique used by developers to obtain better performance on smaller models by using outputs from larger, more capable models. This allows them to achieve similar results on specific tasks at a much lower cost.

OpenAI declined to comment further on details of its evidence. Its terms of service state users cannot "copy" any of its services or "use output to develop models that compete with OpenAI".

Short backstory - wife cheated on me around 1 year to 1 1/2 years ago( just kiss as for as I'm aware) with coworker who she works across Monday-Friday, they both handle almost every meeting together, obviously makes me insecure so I need some reassurance from her end. She has him blocked on her main account but recently she created a new book account which is her reading kindle books and reviewing them .He followed her and to me it's he can see her interests and give likes on the books he likes so it didn't sit right with me, first time I asked her to block him which was weeks ago her excuse was that it was a public account so anybody can follow her, the fighting went on and off for the next few weeks, last night she finally decided she'll block him and supposedly did it and I left it at that. That night something was bothering me so I checked her account and his likes were still there. I googled it and supposedly the likes disappear too when you block someone. So I ran a small test with a friend of mines and I find out the likes do disappear. When I brought it up to her as to how come his likes are still present , she lashes out and gets all defensive, I'm unsure if she told him to unfollow me or if I'm just overthinking and it was an app issue.

just kiss as for as I'm aware

Why on earth are YOU apologizing to HER??

Because he's kitty wiped and has no self-respect to stand up for himself.

That marriage is over, the contempt and disrespect is right there, only he doesn't see it.

First, she's not at all being receptive to what you're saying. Second, she's being incredibly mean. "You're a joke" is crazy for someone that cheated on their spouse. Either you guys go to marriage counseling or y'all need to split. Being cheated on is horrible and it'll leave you feeling insecure and paranoid for a super long time. She should be incredibly sympathetic to that and doing anything to help you but she's literally annoyed and brushing you off. Does she even want to be married? NOR.

Edit: Maybe not marriage counseling. As others have pointed out, marriage counseling will not be appropriate if there is any abuse going on.

>"You're a joke" is crazy for someone that cheated on their spouse

it's not since the r-slur didn't break up with her

You really need to find an ounce of self respect and leave…

When your wife calls you bro it's done done. Sorry bro.

BRO

Bro, she cheated and she's making you apologize.

Find your balls.

Find your balls and win her back.

Win a cheating slut back that clearly gives no frick about you? 10000/10 idea

Yes, win the MOTHER OF YOUR CHILD back.

This "cheating slut" never actually PIV cheated calm your tits you angry incel.

Yeah, the child would be better off with just the father than a whore.

After reading the texts she is in the right and she could do so much better

Okay

Anthony Mackie explains what Captain America represents for him:

“Captain America represents a lot of different things & I don’t think the term ‘America’ should be one of those representations. It’s about a man who keeps his word, who has honor, dignity and integrity.”

(Source:… pic.twitter.com/d5bvqIbreF

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) January 28, 2025

Anthony Mackie clarifies his previous comment about what Captain America means to him:

“I'm a proud American and taking on the shield of a hero like Cap is the honor of a lifetime. I have the utmost respect for those who serve and have served our country” pic.twitter.com/P6sWvlmBxa

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) January 29, 2025

this movie might bomb: https://archive.is/uBVM8

This unfortunately still leaves me with a choice between "this was working with a hostile foreign power to influence an election and the Republicans on the committee agree with this but think it isn't so bad, WTF, that's disqualifying, and a shit ton of people on the internet are wilfully lying or r-slurred"

and, uhhh, thinking that these guys are more partisan and fear-mongering than they present as.

I think I'm really motivated by contrarianism & dislike of lots of the vibes around the democrats to want to believe Trump isn't that bad, but golly the facts seem to make that an uphill battle.

"I recognize my own woke derangement syndrome makes me want to question the facts."

I got a series of DMs from someone calling me nasty names for not having strong enough priors about RWers being r-slurred liars....

Me! That was me! I did that. It's here that you can see that the SFBA Rationalist concept of 'priors' aka 'preconceived notions' aka 'beliefs' is an agency-robbing mythos. This person can't take responsibility for their 'priors' because their 'priors' exist (in their dimwit head) as a fiction of perfect math. Reasoning through math can't be wrong, and you can't be responsible for the fact that you got something wrong if you were using math which was correctly calculated to arrive at that wrong information. Fricking morons. SFBA Rationalist Cultists are in for a rude awakening about the degree to which their mindless faith in Bayesian math derailed their ability to recognize their error.

I think I got some motivated epistemic learned helplessness going on here/ using the "nothing ever happens" heuristic that almost always works.

To be fair, these types are capable of some introspection.

Same as AI X-risk really: The arguments that this is really really bad are convincing, and taking them seriously (generally a virtue) implies I should be bombing data centres & assassinating ML researchers.

Or you could convince Scott Alexander to retract "You Are Still Calling Wolf."

But that seems a bit extreme, so I'm just gonna sit here & try not to think about it too much

lmao these people are so weak.

My US-politics information feed, now that I think about it in response to your question, is largely partisans from either side sharing terrible things the other side did, and rather too much of that is focussed on culture war stuff like trans issues.

They thought that they were spectating the culture war in their culture war threads (@TracingWoodgrains this is important) and that this gave them logical detachment from their politics, unlike those emotional leftists, and so even as they reified their politics they were in denial of the fact of that reification. Mass myopia. Fricking hilarious.

All politics is libidinal. The people trying to be unemotional about it are in a complicated form of denial about their own emotions. Which is, arguably, autism.

So I'm not sure if I'm sensibly fighting the tendency for my finger to keep wobbling back to the fire/ ignoring news that makes me feel bad & doesn't help me/ sanitising my inputs or if I'm cravenly ignoring a pressing threat because it doesn't affect me personally & thus normalising evil.

Scott Alexander normalized the evil.

i'm at my big firm corporate girlboss job and one of my coworkers said something about grad school - i missed a deadline last month, guess that's a sore spot for me - and i just started crying. tried to hold it in but all i managed were tears silently sliding down my face. had to slip out after a minute when it didn't stop.

literally been slinking around the office and hiding in the bathroom for an hour trying to stop crying. once, i thought i was in the clear, but when i put my hand on the doorknob to the meeting room it started up again.

i'm so annoyed because i'm a totally competent person otherwise. i'm not even really ""emotional"", like i stay pretty girlboss professional eloquent deadpan all the time - which makes it even worse when i turn into a blubbery red-eyed swollen-faced mess.

all my life i've been someone who cries at the drop of a hat - in elementary school, during ballet class, at parties, etc etc. one of my exes would get so mad at me when i cried and accuse me of doing it to derail whatever stupid fight we were having and make him feel bad. i kept swearing i wasn't doing it on purpose and i tried my best not to cry but he never believed me. i do try!! i hate crying. it's embarrassing and it's a waste of my time. i'm missing an important meeting right now :( i have to go collect my laptop that's been sitting there abandoned. what do i even say? nothing? say my tummy was upset?

Good lord this woman is a MESS. Someone casually mentioned grad school and it caused her to cry for the rest of the fricking day.

Reddit knows the answer

Took a second but cinna is fat gussy saying like every other word and other is black y

she got me a little teddy bear with a heart

Several notable meetings between China and Ukraine and statements made during interviews indicate that Beijing is actively interested in the peace process and is open to cooperation with Kyiv. China is also positioning itself for post-war reconstruction efforts and potential…

— Tatarigami_UA (@Tatarigami_UA) February 17, 2025

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And I will be launching my own coin very soon.
Sometimes things work out.@wuwei113 pic.twitter.com/shwDouzmcx

— Joe Exotic (@joe_exotic) February 11, 2025

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BREAKING:

Donald Trump officially cuts off all aid to South Africa. pic.twitter.com/tRqBaz3BpW

— Globe Eye News (@GlobeEyeNews) February 9, 2025

They are ready to roar, without funds, they can only shout

Trump is the MAN

SA doesn´t respect the white people

— WW3finalboss 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 (@WW3finalboss) February 9, 2025

At this point I'm sure that every account mentioning lions or roaring is a

Funny how “human rights” only matter when it serves their agenda. Cutting aid to South Africa just because they called out Israel’s violations? Make it make sense.

— R! (@TheFirst1to) February 9, 2025

Here's how you too can blame Israel

Hi Trump, when are you fetching all the apartheid beneficiaries that are complaining to you ? They are descendants of the Dutch who stole our forefathers land. They r*ped and killed to appropriate the land on their arriving from Holland 🇳🇱

— Ngwana Wa Modimo 🫶🏾🫶🏾 (@IsraelMoukangwe) February 9, 2025

That's a good point actually, Merica pls carpet bomb the tulip eaters

The real truth is because of BRICS affiliation and the fact that Cape Town beat New York as best city in the world this time around. pic.twitter.com/gpMF87mzda

— Sage🇿🇦✈️🌍🛬 (@SagewaseSouthAh) February 9, 2025

Yeah, I'm sure Trump can't sleep at night because of Cape Town

Good riddance South Africa doesn't need him. It's high time we as Africans depend on ourselves.

— niwdalg ☠️ (@niwdalg_) February 9, 2025

About that...

On behalf of South Africans, thank you so much for doing us a favour to be independent. We appreciate and accept the discontinuation of your lousy funding. pic.twitter.com/fCZ5mLfOVw

— Oracle (@Oracle5152) February 9, 2025

We don't even need your money white devil

Trump's policies
1. I don't need neighbors, impose tariffs on them wall
2. I work for Israel
3. Anyone against Israel is my enemy
4. I am mister know all
5. I work for Israel
6. I work for Israel
7. I work for Israel

— People (@MadawaMan_) February 9, 2025

If only the strongest country in the world love your country as much as it loves Israel...

I hope SA will stand up and not bow down to Trump! I think African countries need to accept that we will not die without aid. Let's all work together on building our countries using internal resources.

— Baraka Megiroo (@BarakaMegiroo) February 9, 2025

>Africa

>work together

South Africa's and indeed Africa's true greatness and prowess is about to be unleashed...sometimes comfort zones hold us back!

— Agatha's Son (@TakuraChamuka) February 9, 2025

America beware, you've made a very powerful enemy today

Some of us we have never received any aid . So it won’t make any difference.

— Lolo (@lioneszT) February 9, 2025

Oh, everything will be fine then!

Its true. She is no more . @Keke-The-Adopted-Cat is dead . Ferociously killed by my alter ego and evil doppelganger, Lil N. She died a painful death—microwaved out of existence. Keke The Adopted Feral tabby cat was my only source of affection and happiness . She helped me escape the darkness in my heart. I was so happy with her. I fed her cat food once every month, and she never complained . All she ever did was "meow

" You could ask her anything, and all she would reply with was "meow ".

"Keke The Adopted Feral tabby cat, do you love me?"

"Meow "

"Keke The Adopted Feral tabby cat jump "

"Meow "

"Keke The Adopted Feral tabby cat, are you homosexual ?"

"Meow "

"Bad behavior, Keke The Adopted Feral tabby cat. Stop or I'll declaw you"

"Meow "

Reminiscing about all the misadventures we went on together , like when we robbed a bunch of old , disabled , helpless yt ladies on the street , makes my heart melt . I'll miss those days. I'd go on, but my eyes are watering , and my hands are shaking like crazy . I tried huffing industrial glue mixed with cement to calm myself down, but it didn't help. So now, I'll end this farewell with a sweet message to my sweet cat , wherever she is. Keke The Adopted Feral tabby cat, my sweet kitty , you were an angel in my life , and I'll always miss you. You completed me and helped me become a better person. NGL, you were kinda evil — remember how you bit off the nose of the fat kid in our neighborhood, lol ? But that still doesn't discount the fact that you changed me for the good. I still love you, and I always will .

With love and swag ,

Lil B for Little Bars

Based Freestyle for Keke The Adopted Feral tabby cat(I'm the first rapper to steal drake's flow btw):

I mean it's probably not going to happen for me anyway but I think I kinda want to have children. The problem is that I cannot stop thinking how selfish that is. What if my children end up hating their lives and wish they were never born? I really wish I never encountered anti-natalism.