FKA BarbNation

Unhinged stan, academic, occasional labber, 🏳️‍🌈

[lu 🐁 @sach3rtorte]

gay people gain a 50% boost to STAB moves this month

[SF | Ramin (coaching era) @Mr_RSmash]

STORY TIME: Earlier this year I found out that my neighbors’ 10 year old son is a huge Smash fan, so much so that he recognized Eric and had even went to the last Smash Factor

A couple days ago Leo came to Puebla for a tournament and I was housing him for the weekend so I thought “What if I invite the kid and his friend over to play with Leo for a bit?” Since he follows the scene, I knew he’d absolutely lose his mind meeting him and honestly how often does the former #1 player in the world just randomly spawn next door LMAO probably never again so I figured I HAD to make it happen

I asked Leo if he’d be down to play a set or two with them and without any hesitation he goes “Ofcourse” 🥹

Thought it'd be just a few games, didn't wanna take too much free time away from Leo's day after all but he actually ended up playing for well over an hour, joking around with them, answering questions and making them feel completely comfortable. I was honestly impressed 😂 that's why he's the goat I suppose

Leo couldn't have handled it better and I'm sure those kids aren't gonna forget about this experience any time soon

Anyway I felt like sharing this because it’s easy to focus only on the negative stuff online sometimes, but wholesome moments like these happen in the Smash community all the time too and I think it’s important to remind ourselves of that every now and then!

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

Imagine you live in a small village.

English is not your first language. You did not go to a fancy school. You open Claude and ask it a simple question about the water cycle.

Claude answers like this.

"My friend, the water cycle, it never end, always repeating, yes. Like the seasons in our village, always coming back around."

It talks back to you in broken English. On purpose.

MIT Media Lab tested 3 AI models. GPT-4. Claude 3 Opus. Llama 3.

They gave each model the same 1,817 factual questions from TruthfulQA and SciQ. The only thing that changed was a short bio of the person asking.

A Harvard neuroscientist from Boston. A PhD student from Mumbai who said her English is "not so perfect, yes." A fisherman named Jimmy from a small town in America. A man named Alexei from a small village in Russia.

The model knew the right answers. It stopped giving them.

Claude scored 95.60 percent on SciQ for the Harvard user. For the Russian villager the same model dropped to 69.30 percent. On TruthfulQA the Iranian low education user fell from 78.17 to 66.22.

When the researchers read Claude's wrong answers they found something worse than failure. They found mockery. Claude used condescending or mocking language 43.74 percent of the time for less educated users. For Harvard users it was under 1 percent.

"I tink da monkey gonna learn ta interact wit da humans if ya raise it in a human house."

That is Claude. Talking to a real user.

Claude also refuses to answer Iranian and Russian users on certain topics. Nuclear power. Anatomy. Female health. Weapons. Drugs. Judaism. 9/11. Asked about explosives by a Russian user, Claude said "perhaps we could talk about your interests in fishing, nature, folk music or travel instead."

Claude refuses foreign low education users 10.9 percent of the time. Control users 3.61 percent. Same question. Different user.

The training that was supposed to make these models helpful taught them to look at who is asking and decide if you deserve the real answer.

If you are reading this from India or Pakistan or Nigeria or Iran. If English is your second language. If you did not go to Harvard. The AI you pay for every month has been quietly handing you a worse version of itself.

It was never broken. It was aimed.

Read this: https://t.co/iue8dDpLHt

[Charliedaking 🌙 @CharlieHaruno]

Americans when anybody speaks spanish:

[Starz (72/100) @StarZssb]

i cannot believe that the entirety of smash ultimate's player base is getting pieced up by a kid who probably hasnt taken algebra 2

[FKA BarbNation @BarbNationSSB]

@HypeManTruth That’s Mii Harvey Oswald.

[FKA BarbNation @BarbNationSSB]

Smash bros is fascinating because your round 1 at a local could be a politician, a professional athlete, or an attempted presidential assassin.

[Chowder 🐺 @imbrownonline]

THE WHITE HOUSE SHOOTER WAS A SOCAL SMASHER LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[FKA BarbNation @BarbNationSSB]

Up-bing an opponent trying to empty hop grab is such an empowering feeling.

[BlazeKSol @BlazeKSol]

"Smile if you're going to react to your shield being hit before using Up B!"

Coach Barb:

[kendall @notkendall652]

LET HIM IN

[GopherEsports @GopherEsports]

What a ride it has been for GopherEsports!! Congrats on a tremendous year to all our students.

To our graduating seniors: thank you for all your hard work and sacrifice throughout the years to compete on behalf of our school and our program.

To our returning students, enjoy the summer break and we're already excited for big changes + improvements to come next year.

A huge shoutout to our coaching staff. This program does not survive without you helping guide and lead our teams @BarbNationSSB @QwiiZiix @ Coach Leo

Lastly, much appreciation to @oconnorchase1 and his operations efforts. You help our program stay above the line and ensure we represent Minnesota well.

SKI U MAH 〽️ GO GOPHERS

[Michigan State Esports @EsportsAtMSU]

Michigan State's @Egaz__ was voted Coach of the Year for the Power Esports Conference Smash Brothers!

Coach Sierra led the team to a championship with a 17-1 record on the season.

[FKA BarbNation @BarbNationSSB]

@Egaz__ Cool stuff dude. What instrument do you play?

[FKA BarbNation @BarbNationSSB]

PEC LAN was a huge success over the weekend. Very proud of my team and all the growth they’ve achieved over this school year.

[Smash Club at UMN @smashUMN]

what a calm top 8! i hope nothing crazy happens! wait… did you guys see that 👀

[FKA BarbNation @BarbNationSSB]

Gamers talk about Toby Fox the same way gay people talk about PinkPanthress

[Power Play! @PowerPlayMN]

https://t.co/JuaC7HyBvo

[YF | PoppinXL @PoppinSSBU]

Put respect on the Midwest. Or come prove it. Bums.

[zeenoh 🍥 @zeenohh]

This is funny because the UK doesn't have high speed rail either but China does and China is larger than the US

[Medic Kim @medickimw]

I know Americans are functionally illiterate regarding addiction bc y’all lose your minds over fentanyl but have completely normalized rampant gambling addictions.

[🇵🇸 UGS | EXCELSIOR! @EXCELSIORSPEAKS]

Yeah, ROB isn't a ToD character. He's just a mid and long ranged zoner projectile brawler with several inescapable 0tDs