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  • My kingdom for crackers to stop playing like joking about feds in your house is funny. For some crackers, it's a saturday night live routine; for us, that shit is a hashtagging of us, our lovers, our families, and maybe even our cats and dogs if the peckerwood pig on the other end of the magnum's feeling peckish. God fucking damn.

  • white (passing) liberals who think euphemistic racism isn't racism are fucking exhausting. we were driving my wife's friend home and were talking about a neighborhood in my city and how rents were going up. so I said, well, yeah, it's gentrifying. her friend started saying not really and my wife agreed, saying something about "urban youth" - apparently she meant the perceptions of bougie white people and was using the phrase tongue in cheek but it didn't land that way to me and her friend took it as an invitation to increase the level of racism. after a bit, I pretended to have spaced out for a bit and asked them to clarify who they were talking about - you know, inviting them to drop the euphemisms and walk it back a bit - but her friend just immediately jumped in with "problem people" so I just checked out for the rest of the drive, until I could properly chide my wife for the racist bullshit.

    when I did, she gave the above clarification but dove straight into the lib racism of paternalistic stereotypes (it's not their fault, they're just traumatized so they do drugs and abuse their kids - bitch, all parents abuse their kids! you're trans, you know that!) so I called her out about that too. told her to eat the racist brainworms.

    anyway, that's it. just venting. she wants me to be friends with her friend but I just don't think we're going to connect - I'm going to start a fight over bullshit like this sooner rather than later. I can't keep my mouth shut unless I'm already exhausted.

  • my car broke down so i haven't been able to make it to the latino market across town and i'm really craving majoncho and frijoles de seda smh

    • Ight, good luck then...

      • i got an old bike that i'm gonna try to fix up. like, i'm pretty lucky that there's a salvi restaurant and a bunch of taco stands around, but sometimes you just want a home cooked meal traditional style. i found ducal beans at a market down the street, so that's a win for sure. i can get regular platanos at the market too, but i had majoncho at my mom's a couple of weeks back and i can't stop thinking about it.

  • I don't know if I should post in this thread, because I'm not sure if I'm a POC. In Brazil, I'm white (says so on my ID card), but I'm right in the middle of the

    chart. When I was in New Zealand, lots of people thought I was Mexican (presumably because I had a goatee at the time, lol). Lots of "white" Brazilians who think of themselves as white are surprised when they're suddenly Latino/a when abroad.

    I always find it funny that whiteness is such a fucking made up concept.

    • You may not be white within the "American context."

      Race is a bit fluid and, by extension, whiteness.

    • My maternal grandfather was black/indigenous but I pass as white so I usually just kind of lurk in discussions like these so I don't drown out other voices. I'll never think of myself as white but it's obvious why people see me as white.

    • In Brazil, I'm white (says so on my ID card),

      What, did they declare you 50% or more European, and thus white

      Or is your European ancestry is just the most dominant DNA, but it doesn't surpass 50%...

      Either way, you can consider yourself mestizo or something...

      • Most of my ancestry on my father's side is

        , but on my mother's side it's all northeastern, and one very sus native Brazilian woman + Portuguese man couple in the 1800s, which carries quite a few nasty implications. If you used "50% or more European" as a criterion for whiteness in Brazil, I'm sure only about 1-2% of the population would be white, lol

        Essentially, the "race" part of our IDs is just a good ol' brown paper bag test.

  • I've noticed that white worship in my country is mostly with younger women in their teens to early 20's. The vast majority of them end up marrying a brown latino while a smaller and very vocal minority end up marrying some white European or North American.

  • I plan to do another banner in a few months.

    One with maybe 4 or 5 heads again.

    Representing as many races and ethnicities as I can.

    I feel that while it's the current one is alright, it could be more inclusive.

  • Is ChatGPT (or any other AI) a good tool for summarizing articles?

    I'm taking a psychology class and it's just a list of articles with no lecture, no slides and no teacher notes or even highlights. Just a pile of articles with dozens of pages each.

    I really want to use ChatGPT to help summarize these articles and make the reading load potentially easier but I'm worried about the AI hallucinating and potentially leaving me worse off for studying.

    • Usually im against the use of LLMs, but that class sounds horrible. An LLM would be helpful as a primer before you read.

    • depends on how much u care about learning the course material tbh. there's less chance of hallucinations if you ask for a high level summary but at that point you may as well have just skim read everything.

      one thing i would consider is prompting several different models, the main alternatives you can try are gemini-pro from Google and claude-2.1. if they all tell you different things then u probably want to pay attention and just read. anecdotally: gemini kind of sucks but has multi-modal stuff. claude-2.1 seems better than gpt3.5 across the board.

      you could try looking into the CoT prompting all the LLM nerds do, but that stuff tends to work better for asking language models to do a task, and not summaries.

      actually, an extra thing to add is that language models tend to 'pay less attention' to the middle of the context you send them, and this behaviour gets worse the more tokens they process. if you send them a 4000 word reading ur assigned the language model is not going to recall details in the middle 2000 words as accurately, and possibly just ignore them. this means that for accuracy you may be better off summarising each page one by one, which seems like a pretty simple ctrl+a ctrl+c crtl+v operation but regardless. if this all sounds very stupid its because they are.

      (i didn't go through the education system with language models but i abuse them heavily for corporate stuff at work. i also am not a cs/ml expert.)

  • Just saying I'm glad to be here.

    I'm back into my sailing the 7 seas way and started catching up on The Challenge on MTV. Anyone watch?

  • death to america. My arab brothers and sisters in Yemen and Palestine are dying for our sins. Really feels like shit to be an Arab-American right now.

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