Hate speech, an extension of political correctness!

This is a dangerous trend of language hygiene, an extension of political correctness!

Hate speech is in the ear of the beholder! There is most likely no consensus what exactly constitutes hate speech!

It clearly conflicts with freedom of speech! 

Censorship usually leads to self censorship or evasion. Suppressed speech may result in violence. 

The elite and intellectuals call these efforts detoxification! This is the language of Nazis! It reminds of e.g. Eugenics.

Microsoft: Leveraging large language models to build more robust hate speech detection tools. Really!

This is a dangerous trend of language hygiene, an extension of political correctness!

Hate speech is in the ear of the beholder! There is most likely no consensus what exactly constitutes hate speech!

It clearly conflicts with freedom of speech! 

Censorship usually leads to self censorship or evasion. Suppressed speech may result in violence. 

Microsoft also calls these efforts detoxification! This is the language of Nazis! It reminds of e.g. Eugenics.

(De)ToxiGen: Leveraging large language models to build more robust hate speech detection tools - Microsoft Research

Canadian Parliament: 185 Yes to 151 No Votes for the Emergencies Act Motion

Democracy is a tyranny by the majority! ("argued John Stuart Mill in his 1859 book On Liberty.)" 

All citizens in Western democracies wake up!

At least 34 Members of Parliament in Canada have little or no consciousness about their acts!

Only two times since 1945 was an emergency act invoked in Canada by a prime minister! First by father Pierre Trudeau in the 1970s and now by his son! 

"The Canadian Parliament voted Monday night to approve Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s motion to invoke the Emergencies Act by a vote of 185 for and 151 against. ..."

Tyranny: Canadian Parliament Votes for Emergencies Act Motion

Glenn Youngkin Vows Ban of CRT on Day One: "We Will Not Be a Commonwealth of Dream Stealers"

If this man is not elected governor of Virginia in a few hours, quo vadis America!

Eine Hackergruppe zeigt schockierende Bilder aus Irans berüchtigtster Haftanstalt

Bravo! Hacking for a good purpose! Diktaturen fürchten die Wahrheit!

Das Evin Gefängnis (erbaut 1972) is seitdem bekannt als eine Anstalt, wo unmenschliche Taten an Gefangenen verübt werden. Schon unter Schah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi haben sich linke Protester im Westen echauffiert! Seit die Theokratie im Iran herrscht, sind die Linken sehr still geworden was dieses schreckliche Gefängnis angeht.

"Gerade noch zeigten die Bildschirme in der Kontrollzentrale des Evin-Gefängnisses die gewohnten Aufnahmen der Überwachungskameras. Doch plötzlich fangen die Screens in der berüchtigten Teheraner Haftanstalt an, rot zu blinken. Während der zuständige Wachmann alarmiert aufspringt, erscheint auf den Monitoren der Schriftzug: «Cyberangriff: Das Evin-Gefängnis ist ein Schandfleck auf [Präsident Ebrahim] Raisis schwarzem Turban und weissem Bart. Landesweiter Protest bis zur Freilassung der politischen Gefangenen.» ..."

Iran: Hackergruppe veröffentlicht Videos aus Evin-Gefängnis Einer Hackergruppe ist es gelungen, die Überwachungskameras des Teheraner Evin-Gefängnisses zu kapern. Erstmals gibt es damit visuelle Beweise für die Misshandlung von Häftlingen. Doch die wahren Zustände sind wohl noch schlimmer.

Belarusian hackers are turning the country's surveillance state against it

Hacking for a good purpose? Hacking to reveal the truth! Not all hacking is nefarious or criminal! When hacking possibly brings down a long time repressive dictator!

Will Russian hackers be inspired to do the same to Putin the Terrible?

Will this be a turning point in the history of dictatorships? Will hacking or other truth revealing techniques shorten the life of dictatorships? Hope so!
Sic semper tyrannis!

"Since becoming president of Belarus in 1994, Alexander Lukashenko has built Europe’s most repressive police state and ruthlessly used his power to stay in office as a dictator. 

Now hackers are trying to turn the extensive surveillance state against Lukashenko to end his reign—and to do it, they claim to have pulled off one of the most comprehensive hacks of a country in history.

The hackers, known as the Belarus Cyber Partisans, have been regularly leaking information they say has been obtained by breaching dozens of sensitive police and government databases. So far they have published what they say is evidence of crimes by police, information showing that the regime covered up the country’s true covid-19 mortality rate, and recordings of illegal orders to violently crack down on peaceful protests. The partisans also say that they have successfully hacked almost every part of the Lukashenko administration and that the information released so far is just a fraction of the data they have. ..."

"... Opponents of the Belarus government said they have pulled off an audacious hack that has compromised dozens of police and interior ministry databases as part of a broad effort to overthrow President Alexander Lukashenko’s regime.

The Belarusian Cyber Partisans, as the hackers call themselves, have in recent weeks released portions of a huge data trove they say includes some of the country’s most secret police and government databases. The information contains lists of alleged police informants, personal information about top government officials and spies, video footage gathered from police drones and detention centers and secret recordings of phone calls from a government wiretapping system ..."

Belarusian hackers are turning the country's surveillance state against it | MIT Technology Review Opposition from inside the regime of Alexander Lukashenko is helping hackers run what may be the most comprehensive cyberattack on a nation ever.

Hackers Release Data Trove From Belarus in Bid to Overthrow Lukashenko  Regime Pilfered data includes lists of alleged police informants and information on government spies.

On Modern Social Hygiene And Temperance Movements

You might find them in rather unlikely places. Not only that their members might be hidden behind elite education and their members are involved in most advanced research.

If you think, movements like the Social Hygiene Movement or the Temperance Movement are human follies of the past, you might be very mistaken.

I just happen to study following preprint research paper in computational linguistics: Language Models are Few-Shot Learners

The authors of this paper are affiliated with OpenAI. Several of the researchers, who authored this paper, are highly cited and regarded. 

The paper is about one of the very largest language models ever built to date, GPT-3 with about 175 billion parameters. The paper is unusually long with 74 pages written by 30 authors.

Well, the authors did not fail to address issues like social responsibility or social implications in this paper. 

In their chapter about e.g. gender bias (pages 36-37), they discover in all earnest that there is a distinct bias in the occupational choices of women and men. Oh really! This chapter is quite amusing unless you are indoctrinated by feminist orthodoxy!

Among other things, the authors recommend:

"Ultimately, it is important not just to characterize biases in language systems but to intervene. ... There is room for more research that engages with the literature outside NLP [Natural Language Processing], better articulates normative statements about harm, and engages with the lived experience of communities affected by NLP systems" (page 39). By that they mean perceived and exaggerated gender, racial bias, and religious bias and other biases. Such politically correct obsessions, I am afraid, are all to typical for academics living in a ivory tower bubble!

Virginia Gun Control Bills Firing Up Second Amendment Backers

Sic Semper Tyrannis! The most important amendment of the U.S. Constitution is the 2nd one! If you cannot defend your God given rights ,when necessary, you have no rights!

The official seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia:



"The phrase was recommended by George Mason to the Virginia Convention in 1776, as part of the commonwealth's seal. The Seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia shows Virtue, spear in hand, with her foot on the prostrate form of Tyranny, whose crown lies nearby. The Seal was planned by Mason and designed by George Wythe, who signed the United States Declaration of Independence and taught law to Thomas Jefferson."





Virginia Gun Control Bills Firing Up Second Amendment Backers: Just two days after a pro-Second Amendment rally at the Capitol, the state Senate OKs a gun control bill on a 21-19 straight party-line vote.


P.S. Let's not forget "John Wilkes Booth wrote in his diary that he shouted "Sic semper tyrannis" after shooting U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865". A fact of history seldom mentioned! Why?