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VeganPizza69 ⓋⒶ

"The Right’s ‘Natural’ Meat Obsession Is a Regressive Fantasy" by @sentientmedia

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Another component for Kennedy of what constitutes “natural” is taking on things like red food dye, seed oils and ultra-processed foods — while promoting tallow, raw milk and grass-fed beef.
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sentientmedia.org/mahas-natura

Vegans often are faced with fallacious arguments, and one of the most common is the Naturalistic fallacy.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturali

However, this is often a bad faith disguise. The use of naturalistic fallacies in these contexts, such as the claim that consuming animals is "good" because it's natural, is a disguise for another more insidious fallacy: the traditionalist fallacy or "appeal to tradition".

simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appe

The traditionalist fallacy is, in this context, the argument that "consuming animals is good because we've done it for thousands of years".

Traditionalism is heavily political, as the people are finding out again in places such as the US. It's sometimes known as "paleoconservatism", and it should be no surprise that the popularity of the "paleo diet" culturally connects to this.

Conservatives, ever since the rise of modernity (end of 'traditional' society, end of monarchism and feudalism) have been trying to reinvent the past through pseudointellectual and pseudoscientific efforts. This has been at the heart of incredible amounts of suffering and horror since then. I have some notes on that on my pinned thread: veganism.social/deck/@veganpiz

Bullshit & snake oil are not vegan.

A support cheers for Robert F. Kennedy Jr
Sentient · The Right’s ‘Natural’ Meat Obsession Is a Regressive FantasyThe rise of the carnivore diet, and the search for simplicity.
#MAHA#meat#grassFed
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Amadeus Paulussen

I have been teasing this a couple of days ago... 🫣
RV Audio Design today announced that Disseptor, an outstanding harmonics processor, is now available for #linuxaudio. 🥳
Make sure to check it out in White Sea Studio's #snakeoil video #review at youtu.be/ebCjnirg6qE or on their website at rvaudiodesign.com/.
#plugin #harmonic #distortion
PD: I keep nagging developers, and I'm really happy that more and more of them are willing to make their products available for #linux. 😊

Linux support announcement artwork with the text "Disseptor now supporting Linux", the RV logo and a penguin (Tux).
Disseptor plugin window with spectrum and all-pass filters and input, drive, assymetry, output and mix dials
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Stjep

Ever notice how most of the "look at what amazing things genAI can do" clips are only a few seconds long?

That's because, if they were any longer, you'd see how the AI starts "hallucinating" and making very obvious and embarrassing mistakes.

Most of the longer clips and animations you see, have been extensively edited or re-worked by trained design professionals.

#snakeoil
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65dBnoise

#TheGuardian: (#BS #snakeoil) 👎

"SpaceX’s #Starship explodes in second failure for Musk’s 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘀 program. Back-to-back mishaps indicate big setbacks for program to […] 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘀"

(#ChatGPT? Is that you?)

Have they at The Guardian seen a "program" that we haven't?

#Musk has no "program" for #Mars, just graphics. #SpaceX is a cargo (space)ship company polluting the planet, not a space agency. #NASA, the most successful space agency, is not mentioned even once in the article.

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

The Guardian · SpaceX’s Starship explodes in second failure for Musk’s Mars programBy Guardian staff reporter
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Anthony
"You need suckers who think AI is effectively magic:

… people with lower AI literacy perceive AI to be more magical, and thus experience greater feelings of awe when thinking about AI completing tasks, which explain their greater receptivity towards using AI-based products and services. 

AI marketing is 100% about whether the sucker is sufficiently wowed by an impressive demo."

From https://econtwitter.net/users/amycastor/statuses/113902204443133686

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #SnakeOil
EconTwitterAmy Castor (@amycastor@econtwitter.net)How to promote AI: make the ‘AI illiterate’ think it’s magic https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/01/27/how-to-promote-ai-make-the-ai-illiterate-think-its-magic/
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Anthony
DeepSeek launched a free, open-source large-language model in late December, claiming it was developed in just two months at a cost of under $6 million — a much smaller expense than the one called for by Western counterparts.

These developments have stoked concerns about the amount of money big tech companies have been investing in AI models and data centers, and raised alarm that the U.S. is not leading the sector as much as previously believed.
The "Western counterparts" are claiming training a model might take years and billions of dollars. This has always been a hyped-up grift, with snake oil salesmen and con artists being showered with money and power. It's really quite amazing how profoundly unintelligent "the market" is in practice.

The sad reality is that the US could lead in this field (1), if we'd stop routinely putting narcissists and con artists in charge and showering them with praise even when they fail.

From https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/27/nvidia-falls-10percent-in-premarket-trading-as-chinas-deepseek-triggers-global-tech-sell-off.html

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #SnakeOil #hype #grift #MarketCapitalism

(1) Putting aside whether we should, which is an important question.
CNBCNvidia plummets 13% to lead global tech sell-off as China's DeepSeek raises questions about AI chip spendingDeepSeek launched a free, open-source large language model in late December, claiming it was developed in just two months at a cost of under $6 million.
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