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Meta employees say Lula’s accounts restricted in Brazil election: Report (aljazeera.com)
The American propaganda platforms (especially Meta and X) have been weaponised to interfere in foreign elections for a long time. Brazil is just the latest example from South America. It is also happening in Europe. It is a stated goal of the Trump regime to change European governments which are not aligned with Trumpism. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/12/donald-trump-regime-change-europe-us-european-far-right-keir-starmer
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I do believe the US interference in flipping most of latin america to the right the last few years reached levels we haven't seen in decades and the magnitude of the machinery behind that is something we have never seen before. Trump surely got quite a few puppet governments with the likes of Milei, Noboa, here with the incredibly corrupt de la espriella and now Brazil in the verge to have another Bolsonaro.
"Any suggestion that Meta favors one side is false" Weird how it keeps happening (e.g. just last week, Instagram and the No Kings account), and it's always to the benefit of right-wing extremists. I'm sure it's just an accident, though, surely they wouldn't lie on the internet.
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They also repeatedly suspended Dutch LGBTQIA+ accounts: https://nltimes.nl/2026/04/23/meta-suspends-dozens-dutch-lgbtqia-accounts-second-time-six-months It's time countries started suspending Facebook/Instagram for meddling in national affairs.
It’s a nut take with Lula pessimism. The left has taken a radical turn to fight back against bot engagement employed by the extreme right.
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The Brazilian supreme court usurped all power in 2019 when they launched their "fake news" inquisition. They essentially became the victims, investigators, prosecutors, judges and executioners in a perpetual trial of wildcard crimes against themselves and with jurisdiction covering the whole territory of Brazil. The inquisition is still active as of today. That is what the "extreme" right is up against.
Why not both?
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Sure. Industrialization comes first though. We can care about jungles if we ever reach superpower status. This climate nonsense is a tax on developing nations. We're sacrificing for the planet, meanwhile the US puts a couple centuries of distance between us.
If I had a button that would burn that entire jungle down and replace it with a top tier national semiconductor industry, I'd press it twice. Only university leftists care about the Amazon to the point they sacrifice national interests for it. Completely disconnected from reality. > Europe is not worried about the trees in the Amazon, they want the subsoil. Dr. Enéas Carneiro. It's all about the rare earths.
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You need to go for a walk in nature. There’s more to life than semi-conductors. Sad!
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Wanna trade? Transfer all your technology to us. We'll give you the Amazon.
https://globalelectionsimulator.com/brazil/ Bolsonaro 52.26% Lula 47.74% Election starts a few hours from now. We'll know the results by tonight.
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FWIW, these two datums aren't mutually exclusive. If you have a high enough degree of certainty somebody could have a 99% chance of winning with an expected 50.1%/49.9% split. For the split to mean anything you need to know the confidence/variance.
Is this a Trump thing? Like is the motivation to please Trump and ask for stuff/be left alone? Or is Zuckerberg really gone full right wing globally?
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I think it's more that they happen to be aligned. Left-wing parties are more likely to tax and regulate Meta than radical right parties. So it's for their own profit. But Trump is also mostly there for enriching the oligarchy, he often has the same priorities.
At a certain point the big social media companies are going to have to publish their algorithms and/or let you choose your own re: friends updates, friends of friends, things your friends or friends of friends liked, etc. Make your algorithm too opaque and you run the risk of outrage engagement showing up as "the platform pushed this" whatwver that happens to be.
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I suspect this has been part of 4chan’s lasting appeal: a dead simple algorithm that can be independently verified via timestamps.
Lula went on national television and said he's going to end police in reply to Bolsonaro vowing to classify the drug traffickers as narcoterrorists. It's not even a lie. These leftists do want to abolish the police and create a bolivarian national guard or whatever. He said this despite the fact organized drug gangs have been known to wage literal drone warfare in Rio de Janeiro. I'm not even kidding. https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/nacional/sudeste/rj/operacao-no-complexo-do-alemao-deixa-18-mortos-diz-claudio-castro/ I seriously doubt he's going to recover from this.
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Given all the egregious things Trump has said on national TV and had the MAGA folks contort themselves into knots trying to explain and justify what he said, It's hardly the political death sentence that it used to be.
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I don't doubt it. His fans will vote for him no matter what he says or what he does. He literally got a call from Epstein while in jail and nobody cares. Anything could happen in the next few hours... Just saying that it doesn't look good for him.
He literally said those words. I heard them. Whole nation heard them. I saved a video of it. Most charitable interpretation possible is he's too senile and doesn't know what he's saying anymore. Not a good look either way. He also closed the 1st presidential debate by saying that if he won, Brazil would end. Just another one of those moments.
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You and everyone else who's seen them know: these presidential debates are a JOKE. Just straight up biased towards high impact cuts for people zoned out of their minds on echo chambered social feeds
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I know. Doesn't change the fact he said it and went viral on social media two days before the election. Whatever it is he was trying and failing to say, I seriously doubt he's going to recover from the attempt.
Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models (cerebras.ai)
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Lol these guys have another stupid quantization scheme they had mentioned earlier. Most models are stupider at least from them gateways. Such a weird company with a terminally online on linkedin ceo, garbage devrel on X. Cant really be friends with CSPs coz everyone has their own chip, no consumer solution either, no neocloud would want to onboard them either coz its baggage no one wants to risk dev time/customer money with.
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I tried Cerebras this week for my project and their 27b model at 2000tks would be perfect for it. Unfortunately it doesn't do the 2k tokens per second which is what I am looking for.
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And the fact that you will never be benefited from the batching they’ve explained either, you’ll be paying for every token sequential or parallel unlike nvidia or amd gpus
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Citing full precision benchmarks then just going with 4 bit quants
It is not available to "developers".
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Sure it is, you just have to pay for it. TANSTAAFL.
Cerebras is the Transmeta of the AI wave.
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Not sure why people would downvote this. Your not allowed to criticize any AI company on this site it seems.
Extreme speeds are actually interesting if you think about it. We are apparently getting some interesting results from LLMs nowadays. If they would put 100x effort in 10% the time it takes, or imagine 1% where how long tool calls take become the bottleneck, that would actually probably feel like a really special kind of "super intelligence".
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More like lighting a fire in your codebase at the speed of light. Nobody needs this, and the quality of models they're deploying, or all llms for that matter, require heavy human review (if you care at all about maintainability). One developer can barely keep up with the daily output of multiple llm sessions writing code at 50 tps. Im convinced anyone confidently thinking 2k tps is a no brainer is probably not concerned about the quality of their work (many such cases).
I think that just like there's tons of different kind of "superheroes" and nobody disputes whether they're genuinely deserving of the name or not, there could be many valid types of super intelligence. If something is roughly as intelligent as a normal human expert in a given area, but 100 times faster, that would be a valid example of super intelligence. I'm sure that by some definitions like this we've already discovered narrow super intelligence. For example - breadth of knowledge. Is knowledge a kind of intelligence? If so then current agents absolutely have a breadth of knowledge which is superhuman.
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Or you'd just be making the same mistakes experts do but at a 100x clip. Tortious really does win the race, and there is no such thing as a free lunch.
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