Ranting Monkey

Control the language and you control everything

Monkey in the Morning:

[Ranting Monkey @Ranting_Monkey]

Phoebe's outdoor adventure.

[Ranting Monkey @Ranting_Monkey]

Deleted the last post because it would have taken too long to explain...

[Ranting Monkey @Ranting_Monkey]

This doesn't answer the why.

Think about it like video games. If you want to make a successful video game, you have to appeal to males. Doesn't mean there aren't outliers.

Girls have been the majority readers since at least the industrial revolution. Where so many are seeing something underhanded going on, I see the publishing world playing to their audience.

[Ranting Monkey @Ranting_Monkey]

This is what I love about Elon. He says this like he's switching from boxers to briefs. The undersell here is amazing. This is a massive shift.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

We have dumped JAX/SGLang and rewritten the entire RL and inference stack from scratch in C/C++, which took some extra time.

Training (aka pre-training) is done. Lot of cleanup was needed on the SFT data to get that mostly right. Now, 4.8 is in RL and the evals are starting to climb. We will do a soft rollout to Bot users later this week and see how it goes.

Grok 4.8 will bear no resemblance to 4.7 (thankfully). It is not yet incredible, but, this time, the foundations are built right, so I expect it to evolve to be something special.

[Ranting Monkey @Ranting_Monkey]

Ya have to give it up to the commies. Their propaganda is so pervasive people are calling saving money, in this case literally to cover expenses in an economic emergency, "hoarding."

[Sean Fitzgerald (Actual Justice Warrior) @IamSean90]

Normally I'd point out that this is an African account doing rage bait for Twitter bucks. But I think this is an African account that is legitimately confused by responsible governance, because in their world saving money is just holding it for the next thief to take office

[Ranting Monkey @Ranting_Monkey]

Anyone believe Joe is cognitive enough to even work with a ghost writer? What about you, @jaketapper?

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

I want to share a brief update.

My presidential memoir, PROMISE ME, AMERICA, is coming out on November 17th. I hope you'll read it. It covers my years as President. The challenges we faced, the decisions I made, and why I made them. It's about who we are as a nation. What we stand for. And America's role in the world. More than anything, it's about my faith in the American people and the great American experiment in self-governance and democracy.

While writing the book, I was diagnosed with cancer, a disease known all too well to millions of Americans and their families. My doctors continue to be encouraged by how I've responded to treatment. And the prayers and kind words and well wishes from so many of you have meant more to me and Jill and our family than you can ever know.

Some days are better than others. It hasn't stopped me. But sometimes it slows me down. What that means is, unfortunately, I won’t be able to do as many conversations about my book as I’d hoped. However, I’m hopeful the words on the page speak for themselves.

Looking forward, I'm going to keep following what my father told me a long time ago: "Champ, when you get knocked down, get up." It's a good lesson for me. And for America.

We are blessed. America is the most unique nation on earth. Unlike other countries, we're built on an idea. An idea bigger than any ocean. More powerful than any army. Stronger than any tyrant or dictator. That idea? All of us are created equal.

Promise Me, America, we'll never forget it.

[Ranting Monkey @Ranting_Monkey]

@6Hell6Fire6Joe6 ..aren't...dammit

[Ranting Monkey @Ranting_Monkey]

@6Hell6Fire6Joe6 Most people are cut out for leadership. It's a big responsibility. All eyes are on you. Most people are happy being followers.

[Ranting Monkey @Ranting_Monkey]

Woman Explains the Midterms - Monkey in the Morning https://t.co/1AfZJpFqpc via @YouTube

[Ranting Monkey @Ranting_Monkey]

@SimonWi14797864 It is but I missed it.

[Ranting Monkey @Ranting_Monkey]

Ever time I think I've seen the dumbest thing on the internet someone comes along to prove me wrong.

[Vitalis😈 @stefanodotsui]

Trevor Noah argues the Avengers are actually the bad guys

“The Avengers is the perfect allegory for the Democrats in America.”

“They like to fight against the bad guy, but they do not like to do anything to prevent bad guyness from happening again.”

“They’re not willing to sacrifice anything to prevent it from happening.”

“At least Thanos had a vision… He was willing to sacrifice something.”

[Ranting Monkey @Ranting_Monkey]

@SimonWi14797864 I did not.

[Ranting Monkey @Ranting_Monkey]

@Omni_X_Dragon @idontknowdude33 @TheFlameOfError @ThePapaGut You seem mad.

[Ranting Monkey @Ranting_Monkey]

@hykeaux @ZomBinaryBot For me it wasn't even the female nature of so much of it. I've never liked the artsy descriptive crap. I like to read plays and comic books because both avoid that.

[Ranting Monkey @Ranting_Monkey]

Women have been the majority of readers since at least the industrial revolution.

This seems like care for boys. It's not. It's just another woman telling us boys need to be more like girls.

[Liza Libes @pensandpoison]

Male authors are being sidelined in the publishing industry, resulting in an overwhelming number of female protagonists on our shelves��and a dearth of male ones.

By policing who and what gets published, the hegemons of the publishing industry encourage one-sided stories that focus on the female experience and do not have much to bring to a male readership.

No wonder young men are no longer reading.

[Ranting Monkey @Ranting_Monkey]

Hey Joe, rumor has it Andrew Tate hasn't stopped crying since the Brand verdict came down. Can you confirm?

[Joe McBride @McBrideLawNYC]

Too bad, Ron!

[Ranting Monkey @Ranting_Monkey]

@Omni_X_Dragon @idontknowdude33 @TheFlameOfError @ThePapaGut No, linebackers are closer to 250-280.

It's not hella old, you just said something fuckin retarded and are upset someone pointed it out. With no honest way to defend the stupid shit you said, you went with "hella old."

[Ranting Monkey @Ranting_Monkey]

@ZomBinaryBot Literacy rates and reading are two entirely different things. I haven't read a book in at least 5 years.

I read every day.

[ZomBot @ZomBinaryBot]

@Ranting_Monkey And yet there is a noticeable pattern of decline amongst male readers and literacy rates. Drop out rates too. I think that is something to be legitimately concerned about. I teach boys and I have been seeing this trend for years.

[Ranting Monkey @Ranting_Monkey]

@Omni_X_Dragon @idontknowdude33 @TheFlameOfError @ThePapaGut ...400 pound linebacker? Are you retarded? Linebackers have to be fast and agile. There's no one, not even linemen, that are 400 pounds in the NFL, ya stupid shit.

[Ranting Monkey @Ranting_Monkey]

Anakin doesn't make any sense as Vader to begin with. They had to make him sympathetic enough that groomer Amidala would hump him but convince you 2 hours later that he'd become a mass murdering psycho.

They should have never made the prequels but since they did it should have been a villain's journey skipping the romance and the childhood.

[Bradley Osborn ✝️🎃 @the_Bradster007]

As much as I love The Clone Wars, I don’t think their interpretation of Anakin Skywalker has aged well with me because I just don’t find it believable that CW Anakin would become Darth Vader.

Clone Wars Anakin and movie Anakin feel like two completely different characters.