Barba

Farmer. Six children, two grandchildren

[JD™ @LostMyHats]

Young men, don’t let anyone tell you that you aren’t a good capitalist because you rightfully complain about how hard it is to buy a home, pay your mounting bills, buy your family groceries, or keep a roof over your head.

It didn’t always used to be this way, the deck really is stacked against you, and turning you into debt cattle, tax slave, and lifelong renter were the goals of very wealthy and powerful people since they first assigned you a number. Because that’s what you are to them.

Your right to complain about it is written in your sweat and blood. And no. You are not experiencing “capitalism.” You are experiencing exploitation they call “capitalism.”

You are competing for a starter home against global capital with access to money you could never borrow at rates you could never get. You are paying taxes into a system that subsidizes corporations large enough to purchase the politicians who write the rules governing those corporations. You are watching losses get socialized while profits remain private, industries consolidate until “competition” means choosing which logo gets to fleece you, and financial institutions turn necessities like housing, medicine, education, and even food into investment vehicles to be squeezed for maximum yield.

That is not a free market. That is a market with a thumb and an entire federal bureaucracy sitting on the scale.

Real Capitalism requires meaningful competition, private property, enforceable contracts, and honest money. When the powerful can purchase exemptions, subsidies, bailouts, regulatory moats, preferential financing, cheap foreign labor, and political influence, while you get a mortgage at seven percent and a lecture about skipping Starbucks, somebody has rigged the %*#* game.

You work. You produce. You build. You fix. You haul. You create things people need. and then you watch an ever-growing procession of governments, banks, monopolies, middlemen, institutional investors, and politically connected parasites reach into your pocket to take it.

There is nothing anti-capitalist about objecting to that. That is a rigged table where the house writes the rules, deals the cards, owns the casino, lends you the money to play, and then calls you “anti-capitalist” and “unpatriotic” when you notice.

Heck, I’ll even complain *with* you. It’ll be fun. But we’ll have to do it while we work because a single day off might cause cascading financial ruin and then they’ll call us lazy.

[Barba @barbapasko]

@martyrmade Darryl, people are not defending Bolsheviks, they are just pointing out that you are peddling utterly retarded bs.

[Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft @PalominoOMG]

Does anyone have an Encyclopedia Britannica from 1968?

@OwenBenjamin

[Barba @barbapasko]

@RWApodcast

[Parody Jeff @Parodyjeffx]

Finally a Jewish headline that exceeded my expectations.

Fucking deplorable.

[Uncensored.AI @GoUncensored]

Nazis didn’t kill Jews in gas chambers

[Barba @barbapasko]

https://t.co/m00lZKzjYq

[I @selfie_monkey]

@zei_squirrel We should focus on the sane voices coming out of Israel.

[Kaguya’s Top Gal @hayasaka_aryan]

This is the reaction of a jewish feminist to the fact that 250,000 white british girls were r@ped by immigrant gangs:

[Abraham Mendieta @abrahamendieta]

Así debe funcionar la justicia.

Un servidor público de tu país traiciona a la Patria pidiendo sanciones contra su país, y los tribunales lo condenan.

Punto.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

You have noticed it. ChatGPT feels dumber than it used to. Your prompts that worked six months ago produce worse results now. The writing sounds flatter. The ideas sound safer. The internet itself feels like it is shrinking. Every article reads the same. Every email sounds the same. Every answer sounds like it was written by the same voice.

You thought it was you. It is not you.

Researchers at Oxford and Cambridge published a paper in Nature proving what is happening. They call it Model Collapse.

Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI trained on AI-generated data gets dumber every generation until it forgets what real human data looked like.

The internet is filling with AI-generated content. Blog posts. Articles. Reviews. Comments. Social media. AI companies scrape the internet to train the next generation of models. Which means the next generation of AI is being trained on the output of the current generation.

Each cycle loses information. Not randomly. It loses the rarest, most unusual, most creative parts first. The researchers call these the "tails of the distribution." The weird ideas. The unexpected perspectives. The things that made the internet feel human. Those disappear first.

What remains is the average. The safe. The expected. The bland.

Then the next generation trains on that. And loses more. And the next generation trains on that. And loses more. The researchers proved this is not a slow decline. Major degradation happens within just a few iterations. Even when some of the original human data is preserved.

They tested it on large language models. On image generators. On statistical models. The pattern was the same every time. The output converges toward a narrow, flattened version of reality that looks nothing like the original data.

The lead researcher put it plainly. "Large language models are like fire. A useful tool. But one that pollutes the environment."

The pollution is invisible. You cannot see which sentence on the internet was written by a human and which was written by AI. Neither can the AI that is about to train on it. And once the tails are gone, they do not come back. The damage is irreversible.

This is not a prediction anymore. It is a diagnosis.

The internet you grew up on was built by humans writing things no algorithm would have written. Strange, personal, imperfect, alive. That internet is being diluted. One generation of AI at a time. And the models trained on what remains are learning a smaller and smaller version of the world.

Model Collapse is not a technical problem. It is a cultural one. The thing that made the internet worth reading is the thing that disappears first.

[Barba @barbapasko]

@sohi1962 Why do you have to call it "City Park Hotel"?. Don't you have russian name for it? Why do you have to suck up to Americans?

[Barba @barbapasko]

Very interesting interview https://t.co/Rb7V0fAxqQ

[Brandon Weichert @WeTheBrandon]

That's because the America that we all remember and grew up in is dead. Our political elites--which Trump is now part of--spent the entirety of the post-WWII era killing the miracle that was America.

What we have today is a glorified Third World country with iPhones.

[Anna @provemewrong411]

I want to see more of this, but not on Kiev,on Lvov… an actual NATO command center….

[Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @lugaricano]

No smoking gun, but the preponderance of evidence points to smartphones, not economics, as the culprit for the global drop in fertility:
• In the US and UK, births fell first and fastest in areas that got 4G earliest
• Birth rates were stable in the US, UK and Australia until 2007; in France and Poland until 2009; in Mexico and Indonesia until 2012; in Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal until 2013-15
Each of these inflection points matches local smartphone adoption (see picture).
• The younger the age group, the sharper the drop.
• in-person socialising among young adults is dropping. In SK, by 50% in 20 years
• Sexual dysfunction is higher among heavy social media user
• Effect is largest in culturally traditional societies — Middle East, Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa
• Decline holds across countries hit hard by GFC 2008 and those not hit, fast-growing and not growing.
Excellent again @jburnmurdoch.
https://t.co/RYEMXD2bRM

[Barba @barbapasko]

@FistedFoucault > She has two children and herpes
> Hmm... Are you saying that someone actually fcked her?

[Barba @barbapasko]

@Emilyaustin @EmilyAustinShow Why would Ana Kasparian go to Met Gala? Ana is known for her brains, not for plastic tits.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Tucker Carlson shares footage of IDF soldiers mocking Christian worship inside a church.

This is what happens when a society believes it is chosen. Everyone else's faith is a joke