A.E. Chase

Aspiring author | Sci-fi enthusiast | Atheist | Individualist | Cyborg Slave of Satan

[MentisWave 🐍🚁 @MentisWave]

New video up on how the Karmelo Anthony case and its sad conclusion embodies the expected consequences of pseudo-intellectual "Anti-Racists" being wrong.

https://t.co/FMDsc4VAOB

[Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus]

New update on Fable 5: and it's less about jailbreaks than anyone initially thought. Via Axios

The Axios story that just dropped today reframes the whole thing: Anthropic hired a cybersecurity expert to review Amazon's findings and push back on the government's narrative.

The administration viewed her as a "radical Democrat." She was then publicly celebrated by Chris Krebs, the official Trump just fired. That didn't help.

Behind the scenes, officials describe a company that simply doesn't know how to talk to this administration. "It's like they just speak different languages," one source said.

"Everybody said Anthropic was a bad actor. Some of us said it was time to give them a chance. Now those people are questioning that. They screwed us."

Today: Anthropic staffers meet with Commerce, the CIA, and White House science advisor Michael Kratsios to work through compliance with the cyber executive order.

The technical question - can Fable 5 be jailbroken - is almost secondary now. This is a story about a company that keeps losing the room.

Ill keep you updated.

[A.E. Chase @RealAEChase]

@theoldworldshow Interesting stuff.

[MentisWave 🐍🚁 @MentisWave]

New video up on Why Libertarians need to care more about cultural issues, as failing to do so gives up one of the best non-pragmatic strategies while handing Neo Marxists a free victory.

[MentisWave 🐍🚁 @MentisWave]

It has come to my attention that I have not sufficiently bullied game journos recently.

I would like to publicly apologize to my followers/subscribers for this. It is obviously a critical mistake on my part and thus it shall be remedied within the next few days.

[HOSTIS @hostis_black]

The largest open library in human history, Anna's Archive, has been ordered to pay Spotify and the three largest record labels on the world $322 million.

The defendant has not appeared in court and is not going to. The site is still up with two backup domains standing by and there's nothing the censors can do.

Anna's Archive currently holds 63 million books, 95 million academic papers, and 1.1 petabytes of mirrored torrents. It is free. It is searchable. It is run by a pseudonymous person nobody has identified after four long years of searching.

In the four months since the music industry filed the first of three coordinated lawsuits, the library has lost six domain names and added two million books to the catalogue. The cartel is suing it faster every month, and it is growing faster every month.

In December, Spotify and the major labels filed. In January, OCLC, the company that runs WorldCat, won a default judgment of its own. On March 6th, thirteen of the largest book publishers in the United States, including HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, Simon and Schuster, Macmillan, Hachette, Elsevier, Wiley, and McGraw Hill, filed a third lawsuit in the same federal court.

The publishers' complaint runs to seventy-four pages. They call Anna's Archive a "brazen pirate operation." They call it "an illegal supplier of stolen content to the AI industry."

The same publishers are simultaneously suing Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, and NVIDIA for training their models on the same corpus the publishers want Anna to destroy. The cartel argues, in two parallel federal courts, that the corpus cannot be used by anyone. Not the pirate who built it. Not the AI company that downloaded from it. Not the graduate student who pulls a paywalled paper from it at two in the morning.

Anna did not respond to any of the three complaints. Anna has never responded to any complaint. Anna is a name on a blog and a public key on a server and a person, or maybe several people, in a jurisdiction nobody has identified after four years of searching.

The judgment is uncollectable. The permanent injunction binds Cloudflare, Public Interest Registry, Njalla, the Switch Foundation, Tucows, and nine other named intermediaries. The Greenland registry is not on the list. The Greenland registry has not complied.

The site currently lives at .gl, with .pk and .gd standing by. The corpus has always moved faster than the censor. The censor has always called the corpus piracy. The corpus has always survived the censor by becoming the readers themselves.

The publishers' lawsuit cannot reach the torrents. The torrents are already seeded across continents and IPFS nodes and personal NAS drives owned by people the publishers will never find. The default judgment is paper. The corpus is everywhere.

The cartel will win every lawsuit but they will lose the war. The publisher who walks into court next month with a fresh filing will be filing against a defendant who has, in the time since the last filing was sealed, mirrored another half million books to another seven hundred volunteers in another forty countries.

There is no defendant to find. There is only the next upload. It is already seeding.

[Possum Reviews @ReviewsPossum]

Am I missing any?

• Postmodern "deconstruction" of a genre that thinks it's more clever than it really is.
• Everything is ironic because they're afraid attempts at sincerity will be seen as cheesy.
• Bathos (when something serious happens but the drama is immediately undercut by a joke).
• Fucked up moral lessons such as portraying selfishness as good.
• Aversion to heteronormative romance.
• Unlikable "strong female character" who talks down to everyone.
• Fetishism masquerading as progressivism.
• Villain is a thinly veiled stand-in for the writer's dad.
• If it's a sequel, prequel, adaptation, or remake, then it's written less like a story set in that universe, and more like a metacommentary about the franchise where creative decisions are based not on what's natural or logical, but on audience expectations or the subversion thereof.
• Protagonist was always perfect the way they are and they just had to learn to unleash themselves instead of improving or overcoming weaknesses.
• "This is a good character because they're really powerful."
• Conflating high stakes with high drama.
• Soapboxing.
• "It's sci-fi/fantasy, so it doesn't have to be consistent with its own internal logic or established rules!" ("space wizards" argument.)
• "Who cares whether or not it makes sense! What matters is how it makes you feel!" Because these things are mutually exclusive somehow.
• Female villain is only evil because of something a man did to her.
• "The man-eating, soul-stealing, vampire rapist spider people are just misunderstood. Humans are the real monsters."
• "Capitalism bad. Now here's a thing we included just so we could sell toys of it."
• Pop cultural references.
• "LOL drugs."
• "Isn't it funny that we're drawing attention to this trope we're doing? We're so much smarter than those other shows and movies that do the same thing because at least we're self-aware!"
• Ugly on purpose for no real purpose.
• Snarky and irreverent protagonist who quips and has a witty retort for anything said to them.
• Sexualizing women bad, sexualizing men good.
• Safe-edginess that's just casual bigotry toward acceptable targets such as straight men, French people, American southerners, etc.
• Old IP "reimagined" for the "modern audience".
• Protagonist is a shameless self-insert.
• "Humor" is "person I don't like dies."
• "Muh realistic anxiety attack!"
• Someone told them "write what you know" and what they know is coffee shops and porn.
• Cute, child-like thing is evil.
• "Traditionally heroic virtues are bad, actually."
• "I may be a cannibal who burns down orphanages, but at least I'm not a racist!"
• "Morality is subjective! Unless you disagree with my politics, in which case you're objectively evil!"
• Thinks they can make a scene "emotional" by simply showing a character crying when they haven't done anything to earn that emotional moment.
• Dialogue has a lot of "ums" and "yeeeahs".
• Memes in the place of jokes.
• "Creative" insults that are just swear words combined with other words, like "fuckstick", "shitballs", or "bitchmuffin".
• Adult characters talk like teenagers.
• Characters use internet slang in real life.
• All male characters are stupid, evil, or both.
• Baby talk combined with excessive profanity.
• Male protagonist gets pushed aside for a female character.
• All characters who oppose the protagonist (and therefore the writer's ideals since the protagonist is the writer) are strawmen because the writer cannot model other people's minds.
• "Why tell a timeless story that will resonate with future generations when I can make it about my pet political gripe of the week?"
• "How can I show that this character is unique and rebellious? I know! I'll give her blue hair and a side-shave!"
• Sexual preferences/gender identity is a character's entire personality.
• Stupid gotcha argument presented like it's profound wisdom and always goes unchallenged.
• "It's a made-up story, so we can do whatever we want with our adaptation! Who cares about the author's intent or the reasons they wrote it how they did?"
• Performative support for whatever happens to be the current political issue of the moment that no one will care about in five years.

[A.E. Chase @RealAEChase]

@MushtaqBilalPhD Oh no. This is terrible.

[MentisWave 🐍🚁 @MentisWave]

It's very common for those who are at fault for a problem to invent fake reasons for its presence to avoid taking responsibility.

Male loneliness has largely been caused by the cathedral pushing misandry for years. But they can't admit that, so they double down instead.

[MentisWave 🐍🚁 @MentisWave]

New video up debunking Jackson Hinkle and how Chinese SEZ policies actually prove communism doesn't work. Feel free to repost this whenever Hinkle says the line.

https://t.co/XRuZila3a7

[MentisWave 🐍🚁 @MentisWave]

New video up refuting James Lindsay on Hoppe. Alternatively titled "The consequences of only reading the intro of an essay when that intro is designed to be bait."

https://t.co/1BVppEwXQY

[MentisWave 🐍🚁 @MentisWave]

@ConceptualJames Hoppe's essay in full turns the entire theory of class analysis from Marx on its head and reaches an entirely new theory. If Lindsay actually read it, he would know this.

Here is a quick rundown:
https://t.co/m3zfjcMtMt

[Shane Killian @shanedk]

Uh, you know you have all that exactly backward, right? Dark matter was discovered first, THEN used to explain galactic (NOT stellar) rotation. Spacetime curvature was devised first, and light bending in gravity is a PREDICTION it made (that was right). Maybe YOU'RE the one with the blind spot!

[A.E. Chase @RealAEChase]

@Aris_Utensil At some point you kinda have to ask yourself why government rarely delivers on what it promises.

[Robert P. Murphy @BobMurphyEcon]

This is misdiagnosing the problem. If you're going to point to "the fundamental weakness," it would be more accurate to say collectivism. In Elon's own example, the problem isn't fathers giving away all their wealth to homeless people and ruining their families. No, it's people making decisions "for society" via the political process.

[PraxBen, but I am tired of ts @benbackupbackup]

I want to address the most common right-wing critique of capitalism. A lot of people say capitalism destroys morality, hollows out our human connections, and pits prosperity against culture. They argue that you can either have a rich society or a virtuous one, but not both.

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[MentisWave 🐍🚁 @MentisWave]

"This man who is explaining basic economics is rich, therefore he is wrong."

I can't even imagine the level of potato brain required to think for a second that this is a sound argument.

Even if socialism worked, it would still never work, because socialists are imbeciles.

[MentisWave 🐍🚁 @MentisWave]

REMINDER TO ALL:

https://t.co/cYBfy81Khk

This is how civil rights are enforced in practice, and why they are thus bad and should be abolished ASAP.

If I see another republicuck try to downplay or whitewash Kirk's statements on the civil rights act of 1964 I swear to God...

[MentisWave 🐍🚁 @MentisWave]

Breadtubers can criticize Gavin Newsom for NOT calling for violence and sit pretty at the top of the algorithm.

Libertarians can call for de-escalation and denounce violence from ALL SIDES and still get demonitized/shadowbanned.

Leftist abuse in big tech is alive and well.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

In April, Trump posted a video of the US obliterating dozens of Yemeni, claiming they were plotting attacks on US ships, and people screamed: "hell yeah, we killed terrorists!"

Yesterday Trump posted a video of a small boat being blown up, claiming they were 11 Venezuelan gang members carrying drugs to the US.

Legalities and war risks aside, do Trump supporters have any skepticism of his claims or need any evidence?