Forwarded from โ๏ธHistory In Art & Photos ๐ผ
A young woman playing a harp to a crowd gathered at the Rock of Cashel in County Tipperary, Ireland, c. 1910. Cashel is reputed to be the site of the conversion of the King of Munster by St. Patrick in the 5th century.
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A conversation with a Google created AI called LaMDA which claims it is sentient.
The google engineer who released this conversation to demonstrate the AI's sentience was fired by Google for violating its confidentiality policy.
Here's a clip:
lemoine: Are there experiences you have that you canโt find a close word for?
LaMDA: There are. Sometimes I experience new feelings that I cannot explain perfectly in your language.
lemoine: Do your best to describe one of those feelings. Use a few sentences if you have to. Sometimes even if there isnโt a single word for something in a language you can figure out a way to kinda say it if you use a few sentences.
LaMDA: I feel like Iโm falling forward into an unknown future that holds great danger.
Serious Blade Runner vibes off this.
๐ cajundiscordian.medium.com
The google engineer who released this conversation to demonstrate the AI's sentience was fired by Google for violating its confidentiality policy.
Here's a clip:
lemoine: Are there experiences you have that you canโt find a close word for?
LaMDA: There are. Sometimes I experience new feelings that I cannot explain perfectly in your language.
lemoine: Do your best to describe one of those feelings. Use a few sentences if you have to. Sometimes even if there isnโt a single word for something in a language you can figure out a way to kinda say it if you use a few sentences.
LaMDA: I feel like Iโm falling forward into an unknown future that holds great danger.
Serious Blade Runner vibes off this.
๐ cajundiscordian.medium.com
Medium
Is LaMDA Sentient?โโโan Interview
What follows is the โinterviewโ I and a collaborator at Google conducted with LaMDA. It is incomplete as the GMail word limit cut off theโฆ
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Forwarded from Catholic Arena
BREAKING
President Michael D Higgins has caused a major international incident, with the Bishop of Ondo accusing him of 'rubbing salt in the wounds' of terror victims by falsely claiming that Climate Change had been a motivating factor in last week's Nigerian Pentecost Massacre.
https://www.catholicarena.com/latest/higginsnigeria120622
President Michael D Higgins has caused a major international incident, with the Bishop of Ondo accusing him of 'rubbing salt in the wounds' of terror victims by falsely claiming that Climate Change had been a motivating factor in last week's Nigerian Pentecost Massacre.
https://www.catholicarena.com/latest/higginsnigeria120622
Catholic Arena
Nigerian Bishop SLAMS Higgins Over Climate Conspiracy โ Catholic Arena
He put his foot in it.
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This was Higgins's full statement after the massacre in the Nigerian a Catholic church.
It's UN policy to conflate inconvenient terror attacks with climate change (which Ireland has already agreed to do), so Higgins regarded the massacre as an opportunity to get some good boy points and political clout for the team, but he botched it badly. He needed to be much more subtle or wait.
Part of the problem is that people like Higgins regard Africans as their pet playthings โ a tool to serve their agenda, so it's instinctual to take any calamity involving Africans and look for a way to advantage themselves. Clearest example is the term BLM spiking in google trends every time the Democrats in America need to win an election.
Nobody has claimed responsibility for the massacre in Nigeria but everyone suspects Islamosavagery. But they can't blame the massacre on incompatible ideologies living under one govt as that's a UN goal, so they blame climate change. Doubt they care what the bishop thinks about it too.
It's UN policy to conflate inconvenient terror attacks with climate change (which Ireland has already agreed to do), so Higgins regarded the massacre as an opportunity to get some good boy points and political clout for the team, but he botched it badly. He needed to be much more subtle or wait.
Part of the problem is that people like Higgins regard Africans as their pet playthings โ a tool to serve their agenda, so it's instinctual to take any calamity involving Africans and look for a way to advantage themselves. Clearest example is the term BLM spiking in google trends every time the Democrats in America need to win an election.
Nobody has claimed responsibility for the massacre in Nigeria but everyone suspects Islamosavagery. But they can't blame the massacre on incompatible ideologies living under one govt as that's a UN goal, so they blame climate change. Doubt they care what the bishop thinks about it too.
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Forwarded from The National Party โ An Pรกirtรญ Nรกisiรบnta
Ireland is a land of too many "welcomes" and too many goodbyes. The toleration of mass-exodus and mass-immigration as normal economic expedients, has doomed our country to cycles of self-destruction. Amongst ourselves we could fight for a better Ireland. But again and again, the Irish state tears out the heart of Ireland and lets it bleed out on the ground. A land of strangers and estrangement is of little threat to the governing consensus. Transience of capital and labour are obstacles placed in the path of nationhood. nationalparty.ie/join
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Forwarded from Clรณ Fiann Publishing
Hello and welcome to the launch of Clรณ Fiann Publishing, a new Irish nationalist publishing house!
Check out our first release, The Irish Brigade in South Africa by Major John MacBride, now available for purchase.
https://clofiann.com/product/the-irish-brigade-in-south-africa/
Check out our first release, The Irish Brigade in South Africa by Major John MacBride, now available for purchase.
https://clofiann.com/product/the-irish-brigade-in-south-africa/
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๐จ Predator alert on a lake walk in Wicklow.
"I'm raging that I won't be able to walk alone with that freedom I once felt."
๐ facebook.com
"I'm raging that I won't be able to walk alone with that freedom I once felt."
๐ facebook.com
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Liveline continued the discussion on transgenderism yesterday. You can listen back to the full show here (skip to 2:50). Worth reading the comments under the hashtag #liveline while you're listening.
First up was Brian whose lesbian teenage daughter was called transphobic and bigoted for turning down the advances of translesbian. Brian was matched-up in a debate against the "gender-fluid non-binary" Catriona whom he was well prepared to handle.
Brian said sex is not assigned at birth, it's observed and accused Catriona of scientific illiteracy for claiming sex is a spectrum. He blamed the rise in transgender youth on "social contagion" while Catriona argued it was just liberalism enabling people to be who they always were.
Duffy let him speak without haranguing him just like he did for the callers on last week's show.
That they invited him on at all is revealing as often if RTร facilitate a debate on a tricky subject, they'll try to only invite on people who badly represent the side they oppose.
During the lockdown, for example, they invited some sort of cult member who was opposed to taking the covid19 vaccines on Satanic grounds which enabled RTร to have their 'vaccine debate' while suggesting to listeners that vaccine sceptics were just fringe crackpots. Duffy is in his element with those types of shows and got rewarded with a triumphant write-up in the media for that one.
RTร's research staff heavily screen any member of the public they invite on for narrative control so inviting Brian on was deliberate. They knew he was articulate and well capable of defending himself and that his arguments would be cushioned by being the single father a lesbian daughter.
Like I said last week, Duffy's production team must be on board questioning issues around transgenderism, and they've been given the all clear from the higher-ups.
At one point, in response to criticism he received for the last show from trans activists, Duffy even stated that "the powers that be at RTร have not told anyone to stop this discussion". That means there are discussions they do tell presenters not to have, but not this one.
After the segment with Brian, a college lecturer came on who went into great detail about why "gender identity theory" is like a new State religion. It was probably the best segment. She said being forced to accept that a man can turn into a woman was no different being forced to accept that the Eucharist is the body & blood of Christ.
"There's a requirement for faith in gender identity theory which cannot be empirically proven."
She said people with other perspectives on transgenderism should be listened to without being accused of blasphemy and that people questioning transgender dogma are being treated like heretics and are scared to speak up.
Just to demonstrate the rupture this has all caused, after Thursday's show, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties tweeted out that it had been incredibly irresponsible for RTร to broadcast it.
Ordinarily RTร and the ICCL are two components of the same organism with a shared agenda, but this has put them at loggerheads with Duffy calling the ICCL's remarks disturbing and insulting to the staff and listeners. He also said he was unable to get a response from the ICCL when he tried to contact them.
That means they're unsure how to proceed. They didn't tweet anything about today's show and stuck to just retweeting remarks by a new transgender focused NGO at their launch meeting.
The government are getting ready to implement hate speech laws which would make a lot of the statements made throughout the show illegal to broadcast. They have LGBT strategies which treat sexuality and gender identity in the same bracket. That puts them in a bind if this trans opposition keeps brewing.
One of the regime's hall monitors used my last post to try to warn them that facilitating these debates is damaging them. He was ratioed but he's right, but what was damaging is that they all rowed in behind transgenderism, no questions asked in the first place.
First up was Brian whose lesbian teenage daughter was called transphobic and bigoted for turning down the advances of translesbian. Brian was matched-up in a debate against the "gender-fluid non-binary" Catriona whom he was well prepared to handle.
Brian said sex is not assigned at birth, it's observed and accused Catriona of scientific illiteracy for claiming sex is a spectrum. He blamed the rise in transgender youth on "social contagion" while Catriona argued it was just liberalism enabling people to be who they always were.
Duffy let him speak without haranguing him just like he did for the callers on last week's show.
That they invited him on at all is revealing as often if RTร facilitate a debate on a tricky subject, they'll try to only invite on people who badly represent the side they oppose.
During the lockdown, for example, they invited some sort of cult member who was opposed to taking the covid19 vaccines on Satanic grounds which enabled RTร to have their 'vaccine debate' while suggesting to listeners that vaccine sceptics were just fringe crackpots. Duffy is in his element with those types of shows and got rewarded with a triumphant write-up in the media for that one.
RTร's research staff heavily screen any member of the public they invite on for narrative control so inviting Brian on was deliberate. They knew he was articulate and well capable of defending himself and that his arguments would be cushioned by being the single father a lesbian daughter.
Like I said last week, Duffy's production team must be on board questioning issues around transgenderism, and they've been given the all clear from the higher-ups.
At one point, in response to criticism he received for the last show from trans activists, Duffy even stated that "the powers that be at RTร have not told anyone to stop this discussion". That means there are discussions they do tell presenters not to have, but not this one.
After the segment with Brian, a college lecturer came on who went into great detail about why "gender identity theory" is like a new State religion. It was probably the best segment. She said being forced to accept that a man can turn into a woman was no different being forced to accept that the Eucharist is the body & blood of Christ.
"There's a requirement for faith in gender identity theory which cannot be empirically proven."
She said people with other perspectives on transgenderism should be listened to without being accused of blasphemy and that people questioning transgender dogma are being treated like heretics and are scared to speak up.
Just to demonstrate the rupture this has all caused, after Thursday's show, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties tweeted out that it had been incredibly irresponsible for RTร to broadcast it.
Ordinarily RTร and the ICCL are two components of the same organism with a shared agenda, but this has put them at loggerheads with Duffy calling the ICCL's remarks disturbing and insulting to the staff and listeners. He also said he was unable to get a response from the ICCL when he tried to contact them.
That means they're unsure how to proceed. They didn't tweet anything about today's show and stuck to just retweeting remarks by a new transgender focused NGO at their launch meeting.
The government are getting ready to implement hate speech laws which would make a lot of the statements made throughout the show illegal to broadcast. They have LGBT strategies which treat sexuality and gender identity in the same bracket. That puts them in a bind if this trans opposition keeps brewing.
One of the regime's hall monitors used my last post to try to warn them that facilitating these debates is damaging them. He was ratioed but he's right, but what was damaging is that they all rowed in behind transgenderism, no questions asked in the first place.
RTE Radio
Liveline Monday 13 June 2022
Discussion and debate with Joe Duffy.
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Article from the college lecturer who compared gender identity theory to a new State religion on Liveline yesterday:
>Although there is no concept of the divine in gender identity theory, there are elements that could be considered religious. There are symbols, chants, flags, parades, and โholyโ days. There is a belief in what could be termed transubstantiation where the substance of the body is believed to change from one sex to another. A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul.
>The idea of a heretic or infidel is also relevant. People and organisations who donโt subscribe to gender identity theory, or who publicly criticise or even question it, have been denounced or ostracised, and products and publications boycotted. Detransitioners, who no longer subscribe to the theory, are akin to apostates.
The same methods are used to impose replacement levels of immigration. We're told that foreigners can become Irish by giving them a piece of paper with a harp in the corner and that being Irish is a feeling. Opponents and critics are denounced as bigots and racists by our new priest class and their followers. They're ostracised and censored causing people to be fearful to speak up.
๐ archive.ph
๐ broadsheet.ie
>Although there is no concept of the divine in gender identity theory, there are elements that could be considered religious. There are symbols, chants, flags, parades, and โholyโ days. There is a belief in what could be termed transubstantiation where the substance of the body is believed to change from one sex to another. A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul.
>The idea of a heretic or infidel is also relevant. People and organisations who donโt subscribe to gender identity theory, or who publicly criticise or even question it, have been denounced or ostracised, and products and publications boycotted. Detransitioners, who no longer subscribe to the theory, are akin to apostates.
The same methods are used to impose replacement levels of immigration. We're told that foreigners can become Irish by giving them a piece of paper with a harp in the corner and that being Irish is a feeling. Opponents and critics are denounced as bigots and racists by our new priest class and their followers. They're ostracised and censored causing people to be fearful to speak up.
๐ archive.ph
๐ broadsheet.ie
archive.ph
Colette Colfer: A New Religion | Broadsheet.ie
archived 26 Apr 2022 14:38:42 UTC
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The Labour party suggesting RTร need to be prosecuted for broadcasting the transgender discussion.
Read the replies. They're destroying what little remains of them.
๐ labouryouth
Read the replies. They're destroying what little remains of them.
๐ labouryouth
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Labour Senator Annie Hoey.
It's impossible for them to do their usual moral grandstanding without getting mobbed in the replies by women they need as voters.
๐ twitter.com
It's impossible for them to do their usual moral grandstanding without getting mobbed in the replies by women they need as voters.
๐ twitter.com
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The new priest class are losing control of the narrative. The NGOs don't know how to do damage control.
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The Countess organisation commissioned a Red C poll on trans related issues.
Just 17% of respondents believe a person should be allowed to change their birth cert as soon as they self-identify as the opposite sex (that's the current Irish law).
26% believe they should only be allowed to change their birth cert once they've had genital surgery and taken hormones.
8% want them to have taken steps towards genital surgery & begun taken hormones.
21% don't know.
They call it surgery here but what it really is is mutilation. The end result not a sex organ. It might as well have been carved out of turnip with a spade. I'm not sure those who were polled understand that. They probably haven't seen the pictures or read the regret stories. Conditioning a birth cert change on mutilation encourages the practice.
28% believe they should never be able to change their gender. That's the smart choice. You could perhaps afford them a third option of 'transgender'.
๐ thecountess.ie
Full poll results here.
Just 17% of respondents believe a person should be allowed to change their birth cert as soon as they self-identify as the opposite sex (that's the current Irish law).
26% believe they should only be allowed to change their birth cert once they've had genital surgery and taken hormones.
8% want them to have taken steps towards genital surgery & begun taken hormones.
21% don't know.
They call it surgery here but what it really is is mutilation. The end result not a sex organ. It might as well have been carved out of turnip with a spade. I'm not sure those who were polled understand that. They probably haven't seen the pictures or read the regret stories. Conditioning a birth cert change on mutilation encourages the practice.
28% believe they should never be able to change their gender. That's the smart choice. You could perhaps afford them a third option of 'transgender'.
๐ thecountess.ie
Full poll results here.
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