I still can read French well enough, so I checked out this post on Twitter about Lola Daviet's murder.

Apparently, on the French tv show, Touche pas à mon poste, the French politician, Georges Fenech posited that Lola's killers specifically selected her for her blond hair and light eyes and asserted something called the "l'hypothèse des enfants zouhris."

The Magreb Obersvateur explains what that is here:

"They're called Zouhris children, in Morocco and Algeria. They're children with a very specific morphotype and characteristics. Indeed, they are often red-haired children with blue eyes or blond children with light eyes and they must present a continuous line which crosses the Palm of the hand."

Georges Fenech stated on Touche pas à mon poste that these children "are considered to have powers." He said that “Currently, there are plenty of cases being tried in Algeria. They are kidnapped, sacrificed. They drink their blood. There are satanic rites."

I haven't looked into this any further... but honestly considering some of the details of the case, I'm willing to at least entertain this as plausible.

Whenever anyone in this sphere calls them barbarians, it’s not hyperbole

From my own experience, “racist” can be added to this list

Guys, I finally found the worst timeline

This was a very enjoyable discussion, and AA’s book was just as nice. Definitely recommend listening and reading

Reformation Day and All Saints Day is in the top 3 parts of the year behind Advent/Christmas and Holy Week.

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I don’t understand people countersignalling Walsh for ranting against anime and calling it satanic and degenerate.

He’s not ever going to name Jews or banks or whatnot else. It just will never happen. Just accept that the slightly rouge Daily Wire guy isn’t as far to the right. He’s gone farther than his colleagues in leading everyone right up to the truth, though.

But you should either be comparing this to the narrative four or so years ago or where we would be otherwise.

Anime is a foreign import from a foreign culture and pushed in the west by foreigners and xenophiles. Anime is also degenerate and is absolutely pushing at least Zoomers toward infinitely more degeneracy than they would otherwise conceive (the slippery slope isn’t just relegated to high-minded reasoning).

If there’s a popular, well-established voice speaking against foreign poison where no others really were, all the better.

^ not targeting any one person. I was seeing this all over Twitter before being locked out

My Roman Catholic friends have a 100% prediction rate on what will happen in my own denomination and it’s really making me think

Tomorrow morning at 8:00 am CST, Panama Hat will be joining me once again for a very cozy stream on hymns!

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AI "art" isn't real art for one simple reason — it lacks expression — a machine cannot feel, so it cannot "express" the way a human being can.

When a human artist creates, they are communicating something about themselves and their thoughts and feelings. They are packaging a message in one medium or another and sending it off so that the recipient will be made to think and feel something upon receiving it. This is the basic mechanism behind all art forms.

AI is nothing like this. In fact, even the term "AI" is a misnomer. They're products of machine learning. "Learning" and "intelligence" are two different things. "AI" does not and cannot "think" or "feel" the way a person can. So the "art" it produces is just the product of a complex list of instructions that have been given to it, varying combinations of datasets fed into it.

This is why, despite all efforts to make AI "create art in different styles," it still produces unnerving and soulless-looking material. It's not an accident that all visual AI art has that same uncanny look about it. But I think it's most apparent with AI-generated music; go look some up on YouTube and then enjoy your nightmares.

I am sure someone will say "bUt ThAt'S bAsIcAlLy HoW wE tHiNk ToO" — no — science still can't even properly define what consciousness really is or how it comes to be, much less how it works. So although it may outwardly appear that humans simply respond to inputs, we don't know that that's how our brains actually work. What we do know is that each person has their own quirks of consciousness, that we call "personality," with some of these quirks being innate and heritable.

The entire idea of comparing that natural complexity to an algorithm with rigid logic trees that can be objectively quantified in PowerPoint presentations is just silly. There's just no comparison. The real concern I have is that human artists will be squeezed out of creative work because corporations will increasingly rely on AI for cheap and easy content generation. After all, it's not like corporations value art in the first place, so why settle for the lowest common denominator human art when they could go one further and just license a piece of software?

Fully agree with Remnant here. Art is uniquely human. AI is not human. Therefore what it produces is not art. Imitations maybe, but not art.

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