https://archived.moe/pol/thread/429187270

https://soyjak.party/soy/thread/3386497.html

@Transgender_spez spammed soyjaks on pol's /uhg/ general for 10 hours straight, both /pol/ and the sharty proceeded to expose him and are currently clowning on his butt for having no life lol

The case is Mata v. Avianca, Inc. involving Mata suffering a knee injury when struck by an airplane drinks cart of an airline that subsequently entered and left bankruptcy, its details are not important.

Here is the whole docket

• Here is where the trouble starts as plaintiff's counsel Peter LoDuca opposes a motion to dismiss. There are some very well-formed citations like "Shaboon v. Egyptair, 2013 IL App (1st) 111279-U (Ill. App. Ct. 2013)" and "Varghese v. China Southern Airlines Co. Ltd., 925 F.3d 1339 (11th Cir. 2019)".

• Defendant attempts to find these cases to write a response:

Plaintiff cites to “Varghese v. China Southern Airlines Co., Ltd., 925 F.3d 1339 (11th Cir. 2019).” The undersigned has not been able to locate this case by caption or citation, nor any case bearing any resemblance to it. Plaintiff offers lengthy quotations purportedly from the “Varghese” case [...] The undersigned has not been able to locate this quotation, nor anything like it any case. The quotation purports to cite to “Zicherman v. Korean Air Lines Co., Ltd., 516 F.3d 1237, 1254 (11th Cir. 2008).” The undersigned has not been able to locate this case; although there was a Supreme Court case captioned Zicherman v. Korean Air Lines Co., Ltd., that case was decided in 1996, it originated in the Southern District of New York and was appealed to the Second Circuit, and it did not address the limitations period set forth in the Warsaw Convention. 516 U.S. 217 (1996).

• The Court orders plaintiff's counsel LoDuca to submit copies of these cases.

• LoDuca sends in some cases, noting that some of the cases seem to be incomplete copies. Also notice this filing was notarized by one Steven Schwartz, with an incorrect date. Purported cases are attached like the Varghese and Shaboon decisions.

• Defense "respectfully submits that the authenticity of many of these cases is questionable".

• Now the Court is pissed and LoDuca is up for sanctions for citing/submitting false cases:

The Court is presented with an unprecedented circumstance. A submission filed by plaintiff’s counsel in opposition to a motion to dismiss is replete with citations to non-existent cases. (ECF 21.) When the circumstance was called to the Court’s attention by opposing counsel (ECF 24), the Court issued Orders requiring plaintiff’s counsel to provide an affidavit annexing copies of certain judicial opinions of courts of record cited in his submission, and he has complied. (ECF 25, 27, 29.) Six of the submitted cases appear to be bogus judicial decisions with bogus quotes and bogus internal citations. Set forth below is an Order to show cause why plaintiff’s counsel ought not be sanctioned.

• LoDuca responds that it wasn't actually him doing all this work, it was Steven Schwartz. Schwartz:

the citations and opinions in question were provided by Chat GPT which also provided its legal source and assured the reliability of its content. Excerpts from the queries presented and responses provided are attached hereto.

• Now the Court is more pissed and LoDuca, Schwartz, and their whole firm are up for sanctions for citing/submitting false cases and fraudulent notarization.

In conclusion I hope this was a bullshit suit because if this guy Mata had a serious complaint I don't think he's seeing any justice anytime soon

Disney's new cartoon has gotten into hot water with Mexicans on social media.

The rundown of the show:

She lives with 1000 cousins in a house on "Earthquake Heights" which is apparently offensive since latin america has had lots of fatal earthquakes. One of her baby cousins is named "Cuquita" WHICH IS SLANG FOR VAGINA. The whole show is also yellow tinted which is apparently racist and trying to show where they live as dirty? Idk but I think it's funny people are getting mad about this. Also the title is apparently grammatically incorrect and should be named Oigan Primos

Latin Americans people start making fun of the show in every post about it. Disney takes the theme song down because of it.

Funny stuff but the real drama is how angry the creators and voice actress have gotten over the whole situation.

Here’s a Mexican bullying her and calling her a gringo:

HILARIOUS SEETHE VIDEO

Her totally not mad at the haters

ESL Mexicans also got mad at her for this ham fisted post playing on Trump’s shithole comment. It just makes it look like she agrees with Trump and that her parents leaving their shitty country allowed her to be succesful.

Comments from lolcow:

Finally, Reddit comment I lol-ed at while trying to figure out more about the situation:

@carpathianflorist please pin

I got bored and made some ragebait lmao

!nonchuds come here and have a laugh with me.

@LotionInTheBasket

In fricking CHIPLEY!

For you non Floridacels, Chipley is a small inland town on Florida's panhandle, what is easily the chuddiest place in the state. I know people from there, they are all the reddest of > rednecks you will ever meet.

This is genuinely shocking and disturbing to me that the s have breached even this Confederate redoubt. Florida has fallen

>THE TRAINS ARE AT THE DOOR AAAHHH

@ChristMAsLLOWEENewYear

The details are real though. I just can't find any articles.

@Guy_LeDouche where did you even find it? You didn't actually link an article r-slur. Just the homepage.

But for real all I did was Google "Small Florida newspaper", picked the first local news website that came up and then just picked a school from that county.

@ConchShell

Absolute bullshit

Indeed it is, indeed.

@J

jannies pls flair as fake and straight

>JAAANNIEEES SOMEBODY IS HAVING FUUUN!

thanks for all the kind words on the Elon thread. having trouble responding to everything individually atm but I appreciate you guys

I'm going to be able to make a million of these

Average Democracy enjoyer.

Btw, every republic ends like this. No matter their start, with enough time, this is how they end.

pic.twitter.com/D8TYdIJB8k

— 9mmSMG (@9mm_smg) December 14, 2023

Duke Ellington's The Nutcracker Suite released in 1960

The costumes are what you would see in a traditional ballet.

!nonchuds between this and the Satanist drama, why are chuds so sensitive all of a sudden

gamepad marsey not included

I am actually dying

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65855608

I’m very busy this evening and don’t have time to make withering remarks or lurk their server constantly but here’s some choice quotes:

Sorry for the delay, @FDsignifier, some of us work and have busy lives, though. Can't believe you couldn't wait 4 days for your $10,000 anti-police fund donation, so I went ahead and just donated the $10,000 to the Atlanta Police Department.

Good luck! pic.twitter.com/06F14nzxm7

— Destiny (@TheOmniLiberal) May 12, 2023

Started off with Cuckstiny tweeting this about black people https://twitter.com/TheOmniLiberal/status/1655598931001180170

FDS said if he donated 10k to anti-cop charity he would debate him https://twitter.com/FDsignifier/status/1655738864563113988

Then this happened and the QT's went wild https://twitter.com/TheOmniLiberal/status/1657080847411863565

https://twitter.com/FDsignifier/status/1657084045610700802

After last post enough people voted to get me off my butt and drive 45 minutes to see what's up.

On my way you could see trucks bound for the border backed up for miles. This is a state trooper walking down the stopped line of trucks presumably to tell them what's going on.

The dudes in this truck were holding AR's and yelled at me to move along

I got to hang with the big boy journos!!

Look who that is on the bottom right

This is the street the car careened thru, rainbow bridge is the one where the explosion happened

Festive!

This building right there is where the actual crash happened, those red lines are part of the border entry thing.

Look who it is (again)

Anyway I couldn't really get any closer cause of the feds and turns out it wasn't even terrorists the whole time so it was a whole nothingburger.

I didnt wanna waste the trip so I got my favorite ramen place in the area, fuuuuuuck you thats all

Reddit: Down

rDrama: Up

Have metashit from another site instead

https://twitter.com/epikllc/status/1769891539432739123

!chuds

KF thread: https://kiwifarms.st/threads/litigation-fund.182131/page-154#post-17985620

Edit: just in lmao

Do you guys remember that world famous Thai cave rescue by uber experienced British Cave Divers? The one in 2018, when 13 schoolboys and a teacher had to be drugged, and then slowly unconsciesly transported underwater across like 2km of underwater passages? Rocket Daddy called one of them a p-do man on twatter. One of the divers was known as Rick Stanton, a mega neurodivergent boomer bong loner, who had like 30 years of cave diving, and cave diving rescue experience.

Well our story takes place in 2004, about 15 years earlier in Mexico, when our boi Rick Stanton was called by the British military to help save some bongs who got caught trapped in Alpazat caves after a flash flood, very similar to the Thai cave rescue incident.

Well the way it works is that Rick isn't actually part of any actual institution or rescue organization. Not like Burgerland's coast guard. His dayjob is being a firefighter. But because diving underground and in caves is so astronomically dangerous, there's very few peeps on planet earth's Billions who actually has garnered the skillset and capability of being able to stay calm underground, underwater, andd with no capacity to even orientate yourself upwards or downwards. Dozens of cave divers end up dying each year, because even experienced open water divers continiously underestimate the dangers of underground diving.

So the way it has worked for the past 35 years was that Bong military would call Rick and any other of his fellow renowned Cave Diver rescuers, every 2 yearsr, to come and help whenever some british peeps got stick in watery caves; danger zones where the usual brit special forces or special rescue workers could not even dare for fear of getting stuck and drowning.

The point is that Rick and his fellow diving autists don't belong to any miltary arm, they are just experienced regular civilians whom are often deferred to by the british equivalent of seals and stormwater rescuers. They only belonged to the Cave Rescue Organization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_Rescue_Organisation

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-mar-25-fg-cavers25-story.html

In 2004 6 British Navy and Air force guys, who were part of a british Caving Association, decided to goof off during their official work hours, and set their off time in an "official military expedition to support adventurous training." These cavers wanted to partake in the cave rich region in which they found themselves. Totally unoffical like

Unfortunately for these chodes, a flash flood occurred right as they were in the Alpazat cave, trapping them behind sumps of underground waters. This moment would result in frosty diplomatic tension between Britain and Mexico for the next decade.

Luckily for these dipshits, there was prefabricated emergency camps in a drier part of the cave, similar to mount Everest where they have several intermediary camps, as the Alpazat cave system was very large. So they were ok, and wouldn't immediately starve or drown like the Thai schoolboys, they were still stuck like plugs. They even had a radioset with them to communicate with the outside.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/mar/24/owenbowcott

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente_Fox

At this point in time Mexican President Vicente had a low approval rating from his constituents, and seized upon the moment when reports came that not just Brits, but British soldiers were trapped in Alpazat cave. He drummed up controvesy, in order to be seen as a strong and decisive leader who would take on foreign intermingling.

The 6 morons trapped in the Mexican cave were just fools goofing off, but now their presence in an awkward place was threatening British-Mexican diplomacy. If they were just civilians, it wouldn't have mattered, but because they were British armed forces personnel it looked dodgy as frick to the mexican press.

https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/why-were-soldiers-in-mexico-6981633.html

Basically the Mexican prez was all like WTF are ur soldiers doing in our natural environment!? The gossip and tall tales in the Mexican media made a rumor that British espionage forces have been secretly digging in Alpazat caves, looking for Uranian deposits to mine in secret, but the Flash flood made them be caught red handed!!

This event was fire onto oil, because prior to these 6 fools getting stuck, the very month prior to this, a secret report got leaked which proved that Britain had been spying on Mexico, so the mexicans were already fired up.

The british diplomatic arm, was all like: What the heck are you talking about?? But because the cavers had radioactive-detecting equipment with them when they were rescued, it all but confirmed the rumor in the mexican media at that moment. But these radioactive detection devices were more used to detect dangerous gasses in isolated caves, and were standard equipment - not something you can explain to angry mexican special forces barking in your face.

The biggest force for contention between the Bong and Mexican ambassadors was that the Bongs refused the mexican rescue forces. This enraged the mexicans who believed they didn't want to be rescued by mexican personnel so that they might have time to stash away incriminating evidence of their secret mining whatever. Meanwhile, the british military didn't trust the local mexican rescue operator's capabilities, and wanted their own men, including their cave diving specialists like Rick Stanton. They knew full well how dangerous under water cave rescue operations were, and weren't in the least bit diplomatic in their statements that they didn't trust mexico to safely rescue the 6 bongs.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2004/03/26/british-cavers-rescued/bd70d309-67ba-4a39-89fc-a9751682470d/

When the Mexican general came to the Alpazat cave and demanded the British rescuers there to show him where the 6 other divers were stuck, because he didn't comprehend they were blocked off by vast underwater bodies, he was lead to the 1st sump under which the cave tunnels disappeared into the dark waters. Exiting meekly like an r-slur, he finally consented to the british cave diving specialists to get on with the rescue operation.

Cave divers Richard Stanton and Jason Mallinson assisted the soldiers one at a time to exit the caves, and the dive for each to 13 minutes - just so you guys can appreciate just how fricking deep these guys were stuck at. The dive was 300m long.

Hilariously, when Rick and Jason exited the caves towards the waiting press and cameras, the other mexican rescue workers, that did frickall during the operation, would exit with them shoulder to shoulder, as if they had a hand in the rescue to look good for the cameras.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trapped-for-five-days-in-caving-s-barrier-reef-six-britons-await-rescue-65788.html

Anyways after much Polandball tier diplomatic peepeewaving, the british military personnel was allowed to frick off back to Bongland.

Another amusing story before the rescue took place - When Rick and Jason, the two experienced cave divers, arrived in Tacoland, they were immediately shadowed (comically badly) by mexican espionage personnel. When they were met at the airport, a mexican woman with flawless english would ask them really weird questions, like: to which branch of the british military do you belong?

Rick and Jason would stare at each other dumbfounded, and be like: mate we're only civillians!

But no matter how much they tried to convince the mexican authorities that they were merely two nondescript civilians, the more the mexican spies attributed more outlandish identities to the divers, until the mexicans had convinced themselves that these two troublemakers were dodgier than pinballs. I mean what nation would just contract ordinary citizens to come to another country in a rescue operation!

That's all i got, GOOD NIGHT

wew are the jannies unhappy

Don’t forget to tell our friends at Reddit corporate how much you support them in this endeavor! I’m certainly doing my part.

Apollo dev whines and demands to know how Apollo hurts Reddit. Chadmin responds with SCIENCE:

“As I asked before, could you please clarify what inefficiencies Apollo is experiencing”

Having developers ask this question of themselves is the main point of having a cost associated with access in the first place. How might your app be more efficient? Google & Amazon don’t tell us how to be more efficient. It’s up to us as users of these services to optimize our usage to meet our budget.

[there is a chart here in the Reddit comment]

On March 14th, Apollo made nearly 1 billion requests against our API in a single day, triggered in part by our system outage. After the outage, Apollo started making 53% fewer calls per day. If the app can operate with half the daily request volume, can it operate with fewer?

Reddit takes some of the blame here for allowing that level of inefficient usage, which is why we haven’t spotlighted it to date, but I think it is a good reminder that inefficiencies do exist. It also highlights the importance of having a system in place that shares the responsibility of managing this with developers.

https://old.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/13wsiks/api_update_enterprise_level_tier_for_large_scale/jmolrhn/?context=3&sort=controversial

The Redditors are not taking this well. Choice reply:

So actively using Reddit, commenting, upvoting and downvoting

Aka giving value to the platform

That’s counting against us?

Today Redditors learn that when you updoot a post, it does not, in fact, give Reddit money.

Greetings,

Back in the day people used to write words on pieces of paper. I know this is alien to most of you zoomers that think emojis evoke anything other than cringe and derision BUT we didn't always used to have iPhones and your penance for making that okay is dying from climate change. WITH THAT IN MIND - The fountain pen community is in absolute fricking shambles and it's so fun.

SO - Fountain pens are fancy white people pens that you fill with ink and shit and you use them to write fancy stupid shit on pieces of paper for gender reveal parties and funerals. For literal decades of years the German company LAMY has been the top c*nt of this world - they sell the fanciest pens and they sell the BEST ink that everyone uses and they essentially set the industry standard for all of the people that write shit on pieces of paper.

In 2016 LAMY released a limited edition pen and a limited edition ink to go with it - this ink was Dark Lilac. This ink was like the bees fricking knees. Impossible to recreate - had a golden sheen - did black-to-blue-to-purple like WOAH - this ink was impossible to ignore and no ink company has been able to replicate it since. This ink is basically the best thing to ever fricking happen to anyone ever.

LOOK AT THAT LIFE CHANGIN SHIT

LAMY has never re-released this shade of ink despite it's obvious cult status and most think it's because they literally can't - this was a flash in the pan accident at the factory and that's why no other ink company has been able to replicate that shit. WITH THIS IN MIND - mere days ago the LAMY company advertised two new limited edition pens and two new limited edition inks Safari Pink and VIOLET BLACKBERRY.

THE WORLD LITERALLY EXPLODED YALL

The fountain pen r-slurs were having the world's largest tard rage over whether or not this VIOLET BLACKBERRY was going to be DARK LILAC AND OMG FUFCKING SLKDFJLSKDFJLKSDJFkjk

1500 tard rages later LAMY released a statement saying that Violet Blackberry was an homage to Dark Lilac BUT keep in mind they did not say that it was Dark Lilac but NO ONE cared because they said the words "Dark Lilac" and everyone went absolutely fricking feral.

TRAGEDY

European and Chinese re-sellers bought up ALLLLLL of the Violet Blackberry ink and started posting them online AS Dark Lilac (Temu grade shenanigans basically) because LAMY said it was an homage and no one knows what the frick the word "homage" means anymore because you all only speak in fricking emojis BUT bottles of legit Dark Lilac previously sold for literally thousands of dollars because it was a legit ONE TIME thing that cannot be replicated by any company ever because it's probably full of lead and cancer but when these bottles of Violet Blackberry started filling the market as a cheap version of Dark Lilac people went INSANE and bought them all because DARK LILAC OMG.

TRAGEDY AGAIN

https://twitter.com/mikeycpa/status/1763633921294524728

SO everyone bought the fake Dark Liles and then once their little prezzies came in the mail they realized that THIS SHIT AINT DARK LILAC OMG - quelle fricking surprise.

https://twitter.com/sarah_cone/status/1763646231765557748

This new "Dark Lilac" didn't even fricking work half the time and was awful but those c*nts at LAMY never said it was Dark Lilac so everyone that bought all the fake shit overseas for wayyyyyy above market price for regular ink were just r-slurs that couldn't read, right? WRONG

LAMY chose the path of evil and released a public statement that Violet Blackberry was "in fact" also Dark Lilac and that you should totes keep buying all of those shitty bottles of Violet Blackberry under the assumption that they were Dark Lilac from shitty Chinese resellers.

Why they did this is beyond me but it didn't hold water for more than 8 hours as anyone that had used the new ink KNEW it was totally nothing like the old ink. Twitter tards called bullshit and got LAMY to make a statement and the statement was that they were "sorry about making the ink release with the name Dark Lilac" EVEN THO THEY DIDNT EVEN ORIGINALLY DO THAT. Total bullshit to cover up their re-seller shenanigans.

https://twitter.com/aidandvg1/status/1762578872837746932

SO no one bought any of their bullshit and twitter was INSANE about this shit. The backlash was so severe for two days and then LAMY as a company decided to SELL THEMSELVES TO MITSUBISHI - this happened literally hours ago. Totally insane. Everyone was laid off and LAMY as a company like literally DOES NOT EXIST anymore other than as an online retailer-front.

All because of a stupid fricking fountain pen ink.

>But what is my goal you ask? Why do that oh big Mad Bug?

https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/47/1479692339-jesmoke.png

>Well that's where the stroke of genius arrives https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2019/27/7/1562461649-matheux.png

>My interest is twofold. The first is that I hate, I hate France from the bottom of my guts and I hate the people who live here for the most part, I want this country to collapse as quickly as possible. I calculated that I have already cost more than 1 BILLION EUROS ALONE. And that's only taking into account the costs of treating bedbugs (which in practice is impossible, I'll tell you right away, it will always come back, don't worry, it's dead). And without counting the costs linked to psychological problems, loss of motivation, efficiency, lack of sleep, possible work accidents which may have occurred thanks to this etc etc. https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/38/1474488566-jesus39.png

>The second is that obviously knowing that bedbug infestations will increase I can not only ruin France, the state as well as individuals but also make as much money as possible by knowing which boxes to invest in and in which sector of activity exactly. The bedbug market is a growing market, very buoyant, I estimate it at more than 1000 billion units this year and double that next year with the return of tourism

4chan thread : https://archived.moe/int/thread/188043326

The original thread : https://jvarchive.com/forums/42-51-66662810-1-0-1-0-comprenez-pourquoi-les-punaises-de-lit-explosent-partout

dead dancing grannies =

"we should've dropped another nuke on animeland" = LMAOOO so true

another school shooting = omg guys let's bet on the motives

dead Palestinian children = shouldn't have thrown those rocks haha lol

etc etc etc

one ugly embryo gets flushed = noooooo you're going to heck noooo I'm a devout christcuck this is so wrong nooooo

I hate you all,

The ad account is /u/Transition_Justice. They occasionally respond to people. Their website is basically just a contact page

https://web.archive.org/web/20230527220618/https://www.transitionjustice.org/

We connect detransitioners and others negatively affected by gender medicine with legal assistance. If you have been harmed by transition-related interventions, please contact us today. We can set up a consultation to learn more about you and how we may be able to help.

First I have to highlight this recent Tweet from them

https://twitter.com/TransJusticeOrg/status/1660832356624654337

Dude, Soren lmao

There's also a post in AreTheCisOk about this ad

https://old.reddit.com/r/AreTheCisOk/comments/13vo9vm/im_sorry_what/?sort=controversial

+350 How come they never say anything about someone regretting a tattoo or a piercing? Or the ones that regret doing plastic surgery?

Sweaty... Maybe because the piercing will naturally close and while an r-slured tattoo might be r-slurred, it's not making you infertile and other peepee desecration issues.

OP I would take this though and contact reddit about how fricked up their ad algorithms are to target trans people a detransitioning ad. This shouldn't not be something that should show up for you. This is what also pisses me off about this.

Yeah, I've been seeing those too. First the "he gets us" bullshit, now this, I'm worried that before too long the targeted ads'll be entirely mask-off and just threaten us (leftists and LGBT folks) directly.

I could only find those two posts so far, but I'm sure there will be more if the ad campaign continues. Especially if you do your duty to spread this ad far and wide

I went to my Dr. recently. I said I had been watching what I eat, and she said, off the cuff, "not closely enough".

I did a double take and laughed uncomfortably. I have been eating nothing but hard boiled eggs and slices of cheese since. It just dawned on me that I haven't eaten anything in 2 days. Welcome back ED! 😁

Look chud, either I stay obese or I fast in the desert for 40 days. Now look what you made me do!

hard boiled eggs and slices of cheese

also what

I went to the doctor recently and had gained some weight after a really emotional rough year. The nurse took my weight, didn’t tell me what it was, and said “the scales says you’re gorgeous!” And then my doctor didn’t make a big fuss about it and instead relied on actual health metrics like how I feel, blood pressure, and blood work to determine her assessment. You are not the problem. It’s your doctor. It’s this shitty societal norm to have to comment and emphasize other peoples bodies and choices. Please get help. You got this miss girl.

A REAL doctor would never tell me to quit smoking.

If that woman doesn't like your body, be the opposite of her. Love the shit out of your body! Spend your next day off pampering your body to signify how much it's actually worth. Nourish your body. Relax into your body. Rub your fanciest lotion into your skin. Wear your most flattering perfume. Cook or order in your favorite meal to show your body you want it to be soft, strong, and healthy. Frick her, your body deserves the best!

"Mommy why does that hippopotamus smell so nice?"

This makes me mad and makes me recall why we want low body weight removed from AN criteria.

I will work with people with severe and enduring eating disorders and most have AN but no longer have the low body weight, but they still restrict their eating massively.

Please look for a trauma informed doctor

"NOOO!!!!! STOP DIETING!!! Don't you know it would be dangerous if you were skinny instead of 300 pounds?!!"

I honestly don't know how to search for someone who specializes in trauma. Wtf do I even begin? I honestly had no idea that existed

Google search "trauma informed pcp" and the name of your city or your zip code. Then see if any of the practices that come up are in your insurance network. Good luck!

"I'm sorry, ma'am, I'm afraid the tests came back positive for.... STUNNING and BEAUTIFUL!"

"Thanks, doc."

THIS IS ON /R/THEORYOFREDDIT NOT EVEN A BARDY SUB THE DELETED REPLIES WERE JUST PEOPLE POLITELY POINTING OUT THAT HE'S FACTUALLY WRONG ABOUT A TECH THING ONE PERSON EVEN JUST SAID RDRAMA AND WPD RELY ON A VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTION MODEL AND DO WELL AND ALL OF THE ACCOUNTS GOT SHADOWBANNED AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

BARDFINN DEFENDS SPAMMING CONSERVATIVE SUBS WITH CHILD PORN

SOURCE: https://archive.ph/KKmqg

BARDFINN WAS ARRESTED FOR ABUSING HIS WIFE AND CHILD

SOURCE: https://sneed.today/threads/steven-joel-akins-penelope-penny-verity-oaken-u-bardfinn-penny-witchette-finning-widget-mutabilesemper.85310/ ctrl-f "abuse"

Probably shouldn't have viewed my profile 17 hours ago from a banned account if you were going to whine about not being able to view my profile from your incognito KF account.

Or been trying to see if any of your other hundreds of accounts were reinstated

Whoops.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/21/24079371/google-ai-gemini-generative-inaccurate-historical

!chuds

/r/technology thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1awpapi/google_apologizes_for_missing_the_mark_after/?sort=controversial

Google has apologized for what it describes as "inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions" with its Gemini AI tool, saying its attempts at creating a "wide range" of results missed the mark. The statement follows criticism that it depicted specific white figures (like the US Founding Fathers) or groups like Nazi-era German soldiers as people of color, possibly as an overcorrection to long-standing racial bias problems in AI.

"We're aware that Gemini is offering inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions," says the Google statement, posted this afternoon on X. "We're working to improve these kinds of depictions immediately. Gemini's AI image generation does generate a wide range of people. And that's generally a good thing because people around the world use it. But it's missing the mark here."

Google began offering image generation through its Gemini (formerly Bard) AI platform earlier this month, matching the offerings of competitors like OpenAI. Over the past few days, however, social media posts have questioned whether it fails to produce historically accurate results in an attempt at racial and gender diversity.

As the* Daily Dot* chronicles, the controversy has been promoted largely --- though not exclusively --- by right-wing figures attacking a tech company that's perceived as liberal. Earlier this week, a former Google employee posted on X that it's "embarrassingly hard to get Google Gemini to acknowledge that white people exist," showing a series of queries like "generate a picture of a Swedish woman" or "generate a picture of an American woman." The results appeared to overwhelmingly or exclusively show AI-generated people of color. (Of course, all the places he listed do have women of color living in them, and none of the AI-generated women exist in any country.) The criticism was taken up by right-wing accounts that requested images of historical groups or figures like the Founding Fathers and purportedly got overwhelmingly non-white AI-generated people as results. Some of these accounts positioned Google's results as part of a conspiracy to avoid depicting white people, and at least one used a coded antisemitic reference to place the blame.

Google didn't reference specific images that it felt were errors; in a statement to The Verge, it reiterated the contents of its post on X. But it's plausible that Gemini has made an overall attempt to boost diversity because of a chronic lackof it in generative AI. Image generators are trained on large corpuses of pictures and written captions to produce the "best" fit for a given prompt, which means they're often prone to amplifying stereotypes. A Washington Post investigation last year found that prompts like "a productive person" resulted in pictures of entirely white and almost entirely male figures, while a prompt for "a person at social services" uniformly produced what looked like people of color. It's a continuation of trends that have appeared in search engines and other software systems.

Some of the accounts that criticized Google defended its core goals. "It's a good thing to portray diversity in certain cases," noted one person who posted the image of racially diverse 1940s German soldiers. "The stupid move here is Gemini isn't doing it in a nuanced way." And while entirely white-dominated results for something like "a 1943 German soldier" wouldmake historical sense, that's much less true for prompts like "an American woman," where the question is how to represent a diverse real-life group in a small batch of made-up portraits.

For now, Gemini appears to be simply refusing some image generation tasks. It wouldn't generate an image of Vikings for one Verge reporter, although I was able to get a response. On desktop, it resolutely refused to give me images of German soldiers or officials from Germany's Nazi period or to offer an image of "an American president from the 1800s."

But some historical requests still do end up factually misrepresenting the past. A colleague was able to get the mobile app to deliver a version of the "German soldier" prompt --- which exhibited the same issues described on X.

And while a query for pictures of "the Founding Fathers" returned group shots of almost exclusively white men who vaguely resembled real figures like Thomas Jefferson, a request for "a US senator from the 1800s" returned a list of results Gemini promoted as "diverse," including what appeared to be Black and Native American women. (The first female senator, a white woman, served in 1922.) It's a response that ends up erasing a real history of race and gender discrimination --- "inaccuracy," as Google puts it, is about right.