Finn

I like to read books and watch films and won’t stop banging on about it

[Harry Pettit 🇱🇧🇵🇸 @HarrygPettit]

Lewis Goodall is a classic British imperialist. He feels sympathy with colonised peoples, like the Irish, or the Palestinians, as long as they are passive victims.

But as soon as they pick up arms to actually defend themselves and challenge their oppression, he despises them.

[☭ℭ𝔬𝔫𝔫𝔬𝔯☭ @Connor_RiceyGFC]

Aah you see it's quite simple,most national anthems rally the country together and take pride in its own culture, our national anthem is about begging god to save a bunch of inbred pedophiles/ pedophile defenders,hope this helps

[Finn @Finn_Sam95]

@sneako “We”?

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Finn @Finn_Sam95]

We can’t abandon ID politics completely, it has its place, but class analysis should come before anything else

[Finn @Finn_Sam95]

There are of course convos to be had regarding race and inclusion for those with disabilities but sweeping statements centred around ID politics are 1. Futile and unfortunately now only work against the intended aim and 2. Often lack any of the foundational class consciousness…

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Aaron Rose Philip blames "whiteness" for a lack of trans + black + disabled models on runways

[Finn @Finn_Sam95]

The most class conscious people are those that benefit from the disparity - the rich and wealthy, those with contacts, those who can afford to do an unpaid internship or pay for the expensive schools or tutelage.

[Finn @Finn_Sam95]

@Darren_Mooney You do know it’s a work of fiction yes??

[Finn @Finn_Sam95]

This is fucking pathetic, people take these people seriously as political commentators. These are the people who wanted “the adults back in the room”

[The News Agents @TheNewsAgents]

“We’re feeling cr*p as a country. It felt like someone just lifted us all up a bit”.

“I don’t think people are feeling jollier having seen speeches about checks and balances”

Are you feeling 'jollier' having watched the King’s Congress speech?

@maitlis @jonsopel @lewis_goodall

[c @_chris_is_tired]

last month the club reduced the disability ticket discount from 50 per cent to 25 per cent for next season

[Maryam Jamshidi (msjamshidi.bsky.social) @MsJamshidi]

What's so important abt the Strokes performance is that in less than 5 mins they made crystal clear that the US/Israeli war against Iran is not just happening because of Trump/Bibi. Its happening bcz this is what the US does. This is what it stands for. https://t.co/1ptmig2A4T

[Finn @Finn_Sam95]

It’s funny that they named the company after an all seeing dark object used by the two major villains in Lord of the Rings and then continuously tell you that they are evil and then Governments just hand over defence contracts and healthcare databases too them

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

Because we get asked a lot.

The Technological Republic, in brief.

1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.

3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.

6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.

7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way.

8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.

9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.

10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed.

11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.

12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.

13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet.

14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war.

15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.

16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.

17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives.

18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within.

19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.

20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.

22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska

https://t.co/8igjazz1On

[Finn @Finn_Sam95]

@Retro_NUFC What you doing?

[Barto @bartonovopolis]

Not to use hyperbolic language, but this might be the best needledrop in TV history

[Zach Vasquez @zach_vasquez]

He was right and the continued reading habits of millennials and younger generations have borne him out.

[Finn @Finn_Sam95]

Anyone staying back and clapping that I’ll open up SkyScanner right now and meet you in Hebburn park for a straightener in 3 days

[Joel Bland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @JoelBlandSport]

Don’t have any words right now, will put thoughts up next week. Big shouts from the gallowgate. #nufc

[Finn @Finn_Sam95]

@ItsBigZuu Ah shut up you melt of course that’s fine. Obviously there’s exceptions. Deliberately obfuscating his point

[Antifa_Ultras @ultras_antifaa]

“¡Viva Diego, viva Maradona!”

[Jordon Gray @Jordongray17]

They pats on his belly like he’s an angry toddler are fucking unreal hahahahaha