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  • Anyone able to fill me in on what the sort of “steelman” argument would be for such a punishment?

    I’m having a hard time understanding the expected outcome - I guess just hoping he leaves the country, without actually kicking him out? Why not just kick him out?

    These are two entirely different cases. One is a private company not wishing to deal with a private group due to fundraising for Cuba. While that’s a legal thing to do, it’s also perfectly legal for a bank not to want you as a customer. If the DKP thinks they’re being discriminated against, they should sue the bank. The government is totally not involved here.

    The second example is a dude who is literally a paid Russian propagandist. Putting them on the sanctions list is much more effective, since they’re not actually in Germany most of the time, but base a lot of their work out of Turkey. Kicking them out would do nothing.

    Dogru (…) was previously a key part of Red Fish, a platform financed by Ruptly, a Germany-based outlet partially funded by the Russian state-controlled network, RT. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Dogru closed Red Fish and started his own independent outlet (red. media)

    Quite a few Russian propagandists are using the antifa label and Palestine support to get away with their propaganda work. In the case of Dogru is not even well hidden, he went straight from openly paid Russian propagandist to barely-covered propagandist without even bothering to change the name much, or the media channels at all.












  • I have been studying AI for ten+ years

    Really? Cool! What’s your take on people deliberately muddying the waters by conflating LLMs with other forms of AI like interpretative models?

    And especially keeping in mind that the latter are a roaring success, while the former is probably the single most expensive waste of time, money and effort known to humanity.