Yep. W40k may or may not say something about someone’s politics, but the whole combination in the pic is just too much (greentext, “@ImperiumFirst”, it’s da joos). To dispel any doubt, check his feed: https://xcancel.com/imperiumfirst

On a site whose algorithm likely pushes fascist content it’s nothing surprising that two people would come across a popular fascist post.

and I’ve never seen it

I’m not saying you’ve seen the thread on /pol/ (I found it by searching for the dogwhistle “every single time”), but it’s, uh, strange that your post could be replaced with the one from /pol/ and vice versa and they would function the same on both a fascist and on a Marxist-Leninist(?) forum.

I think that the user ImperiumFirst whose banner is this:

and who describes himself as “Political Extremist | America First | Christ is King ✝️”, and whose pinned tweet is praising Kanye West for using a swastika, and whose feed is currently filled with Nick Fuentes videos…

…is in fact a fascist and probably a /pol/ user.

Do you follow that guy? Or did the site correctly assume you’d like his tweet?

And yes, the wording, that you’re acting is completely neutral, is indeed regularly used by fascists “just noticing” Jewish undermining of the White race, even by the very same profile here:

For a supposed Marxist, you’re oddly oblivious to fascist iconography and memes, and uncritical of the content served to you by a fascist-owned website.

Yeah, just w40k and nothing else. 🙄

For a start, read the username of the guy whose tweet OP posted.

A screenshot of Twitter, a site owned by a fascist and populated by fascists, of a tweet by a user called, ahem, “ImperiumFirst”, posting in greentext format (which admittedly doesn’t have to mean much by itself), with OP’s own title being “Every time”… Why does this post feel like it’s copy-pasted from /pol/? 🤔

https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/528148812/

Sorry but no. As profoundly unfair and undemocratic the US system is, it’s still more democratic than Russia where any serious opposition is literally murdered in broad daylight.

“The votes are for show” – do you mean to say that Trump’s victory in 2016, Biden’s in 2020 and Trump’s again in 2024 were prearranged by the central “powers that be”?

This is an important point in general. The old story of “voting with your wallet” is now more and more obviously mathematically absurd.

At least intuitively it seems to me that 8-shaped paths would be extremely unlikely and unstable. Wikipedia describes two types of orbits:

So the planet can orbit both stars elliptically, or just one of them - but the latter can be the case only when the other star is a dwarf that can’t affect the planet too much.

Fighting over Simple Article Summaries is just the latest fumble by the leadership, a sizable commitment of resources that’s tossed in the dump almost as soon as its off the press.

It wasn’t off the press, it was announced and in the works but still not close to shipping. Maybe Wikimedia could’ve talked about this great innovative project with the actual Wikipedia community before investing so much money into it.

International language support is… meh (one area where AI would be a huge benefit, as LLMs really shine in this field).

What would international language support entail? Translating articles into other languages?

To all the people downvoting the above comment, when was the last time you’ve read a WP article of 10k+ characters from top to bottom?

Article is not available without registering. As for the title, “destructive” book scanning means you cut off the binding and put the pages in a scanner which easily flips through them and takes the pictures. If you’re not scanning rare old books, this is a perfectly reasonable way to do it, because setting up a scanner for a normal book and manually turning each page to scan it takes a long time (Internet Archive has videos on how they do it, very nice and impressive, and logical since their original mission was scanning old public domain stuff, i.e. published before 1930 or so). If Anthropic will actually legally buy all those thousands upon thousands of books, that will be a pleasant precedent for an AI company.

Although I very much doubt that random uncritically gathered textual material can “teach their AI tool how to write well”. They’re still pushing for more and more training data, even though it’s clear actual advancement will have to happen (if it can happen) through more refined usage of / training on the data.

It’s new evidence that cows are capable of what we (humans broadly) previously thought them incapable of. It’s important because it’s a concrete indicator that there’s more going on in cow brains than humans have generally assumed.

As I said, perhaps this is surprising only because we understand brains overly mechanically. As if it’s assumed that there’s a hard “can/can’t do” switch for particular mental actions, while in reality any ability may be a result of various factors within the individual brain and outside of it aligning together (including, of course, the cow in question being a pet, so having a very comfortable lifestyle). If people can vary wildly in their mental abilities and inclinations, why wouldn’t animals?

That’s a fair point. On the other hand, Veronika is described as a pet, which might mean she’s not even being milked, and her lifestyle is perhaps more conductive to letting her experiment and learn about her environment than usual.

Still, we haven’t been treated cows that horribly until relatively recently (not to say that older practices were particularly humane either), and there’s probably a solid number of cows living outside of that system, so I’d still expect something like tool usage being noticed sooner than 2026. Which is of course a subjective impression, there may be other, better explanations…

We have NO IDEA what differences make such things unique.

What do you mean by this? Make what things unique? Why do we have to understand the differences to be sure that the outcome is unique?

To pretend it is our gift alone is to be a self-centered piece of shit.

I also think you’re a piece of shit, if I may respond directly to this indirect insult; now, can we get back to talking normally?

Doesn’t the fact that this is news also kind of diminish its importance? We’ve lived with cows for so many generations, there are millions of cows out there, and there’s just one single cow that we’ve seen being this smart. Most of them would still count as stupid, if this is proof of intelligence.

OTOH I also get the impression this is news in part because we(?) kind of overrated the trait of using tools and doing basic planning as a sign of substantial intelligence, assuming a large technical/biological gap between being and not being able to do it. Animal brains are, I would suppose, not so hard-wired and predefined as we thought, and individual specimen can be more or less creative and smart.

It wasn’t even 400 years ago that Newton was explaining what gravity is, and 400 years is a damn blip on the evolutionary scale of a species that can live 100+ years.

But that’s just further proof that we are special. In just some 5000 years we broke the nature meta countless times, and we’re doing it again and again faster and faster, we’re so fucking smart we’re doing the Paleoproterozoic extinction (“Oxygen holocaust”) all over again.

Fuck. Vimeo is used by many filmmakers and streaming services, moving all of that content elsewhere will be downright impossible to carry out completely. A lot of content will be irrecoverably lost once the company is really killed off.

Last year or so they disabled viewing other people’s profiles or even searching the website for users in the EU. I have to admit I haven’t seen any service being so actively destroyed by its owners.

Don’t spread this nonsense, please. All of Wikipedia’s content is already free, stays free and is still in the same place as ever. What has been sold to AI companies, that have already been scraping and using the site for years for free, is API access to WP’s material, suited to AI companies’ needs and hopefully less of a burden on WP’s normal infrastructure.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/wikipedia-will-share-content-with-ai-firms-in-new-licensing-deals/

The deals mean that most major AI developers have now signed on to the foundation’s Wikimedia Enterprise program, a commercial subsidiary that sells high-speed API access to Wikipedia’s 65 million articles at higher speeds and volumes than the free public APIs provide. Wikipedia’s content remains freely available under a Creative Commons license, but the Enterprise program charges for faster, higher-volume access to the data.

Can you recommend any such patched app for Facebook?

I’m sorry, how the fuck can an app made for men to find other men to get their back blown out be AI first.

AI is pretty good at fucking people in the ass.