Without any other context this doesn’t sound racist? My interpretation is the opposite, that as intermarriage rates increase one would need to redefine what Jewish identity is.

But it wouldn’t surprise me if he was saying the opposite, it’s just that I didn’t get that from this.

I agree with @Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works, I'm just not getting the interpretation laid out here.

But maybe that's because the link shared, "Information Liberation", is a right-wing website akin to Infowars and Breitbart (both of which it links to in its "Analysis" section). This website also links to its own presence on Gab and Minds, both of which are right-wing "free speech" social media sites. I'm struggling to see how this belongs in the community for progressive politics—surely other sources have this information? Unless you're just trying to stir the pot here with willful, inflammatory misinterpretation.

this is why we need a revolution in our community, on so many levels. So look, the reality is is that intermarriage rates continue to go up. Assimilation continues apace.

Why would there a be need for revolution if intermarriage and assimilation rates are going up? Unless the revolution is mean to bring them down.

Not engaging with my criticism of the source, interesting.

The "revolution" comment is immediately followed by:

I worry a great deal about broader questions of Jewish identity, as I think we talked about over lunch.

I think it's really important that our synagogues, our schools, summer camps, all of our institutions and the federations and denominations and other groups that sort of manage them.

I think we all need to look in the mirror and make sure that we're doing everything we can to adapt and to iterate and to be part of where the world is going, not just where the world has been.

That last bit in particular reads, to me at least, as Judaism being rather archaic still and needing to modernize. That's the revolution. He discusses identity before that, which to me seems to be evoking not just the religious aspect but the cultural aspect. He's acknowledging that intermarriage happens and doesn't denigrate it, just points out the reality that people tend to give up pieces of themselves or their identities as a result of Jewish institutions being outdated and, honestly, occasionally exclusionary.

As a heavily anecdotal example, my synagogue had regular secular events so people could bring their families without the religious weight of things. He's advocating for people to participate with Judaism in the modern context, not the "shiksas are for practice, convert for marriage or leave" mindset that you see in a lot of older people. A revolution is needed in Jewish thinking, is the point.

Attacking a source is not criticism. I chose this article because it contains the quotes and videos.

This guy advocates for Israel. A racially Jewish Ethnostate. There is only one single way to read what he's saying because if he approved of the world moving towards Jewish intermarriage he the term "revolution" wouldn't have any place here. As he himself says that the intermarriage is already popular among the youth.

I think we all need to look in the mirror and make sure that we’re doing everything we can to adapt and to iterate and to be part of where the world is going, not just where the world has been.

This means "Intermarriage is getting popular and we need to find out how to get the youth to stop doing it".

It really fascinates me how defensive you are of a right-wing website that you posted to an (ostensibly) progressive community. The video was posted elsewhere (the original source, The Algemeiner, has a YouTube channel with the interview, for example), yet you chose this particular source.

I'm aware of Greenblatt and the ADL's nonsense ("awkward gesture", anyone?) but I really struggle to see your interpretation of his words. The quote you're taking issue with doesn't mention Israel, so I'll stay on track here. I can only seem to read it as the term "revolution" being used in the context of Judaism not "the world".

He is explicitly saying that "we" (Jews) need "to adapt and to iterate and to be part of where the world is going, not just where the world has been". I don't read the implication of stopping intermarriage.

The world has been, largely and particularly for Jews, insular and separate. Older people (especially observant ones) don't usually want their kids to "marry out". This has been workable historically (especially considering all the oppression) but makes no sense in the modern age. We're not as segregated as we used to be, we're not forced out of places and professions the way we used to be, so we need to get with the times and let people be Modern Jews, whatever that looks like (including intermarriage). Assimilation shouldn't be necessary, and you can still live a Jewish life without ancient rules dictating your every move. Culture vs. religion may be a complicating factor in our understanding each other here.

I don't see how we could be talking past each other about Israel when we're not talking about Israel at all; we're talking about the use of the word "revolution" and the concept of Jewish "intermarriage" in the interview you posted.

Or is a mention of Judaism required to include an anti-Zionist disclaimer because neoliberals decided that a mention of Palestine requires an anti-Hamas disclaimer?

Or is a mention of Judaism required to include an anti-Zionist disclaimer because neoliberals decided that a mention of Palestine requires an anti-Hamas disclaimer?

We're talking about the head of the ADL here. The organisation advocating for a Jewish ethnostate. This is like asking Yahya Sinwar what he thinks about October 7 and someone shows up and says 'nah bro he didn't mean it like that'.

Considering that several companies are planning on using nuclear power to run ai data services, instead of providing power to cities.

Google turns to nuclear to power AI data centres

How is Amazon Using Nuclear to Power AI & Reach Net Zero?

I'm pro-nuclear power, but why not use those reactors and replace fossil fuel sites instead? We don't ai to consume that much power, which in turn requires morec graphite/uranium/thorium mining, which causes direct environmental damage

Google turns to nuclear to power AI data centres

The tech giant says it will use energy from small reactors to power its use of artificial intelligence.

^{João da Silva (BBC News)}

I think this is a bad faith argument because it focuses specifically on chatgpt and how much resources it uses. The article itself even goes on to say that this is actually only 1-3% of total AI use.

People don't give a shit about chatgpt specifically. When they complain about chatgpt they are using it as a surrogate for ai in general.

And yes, the amount of electricity from ai is quite significant.
iea.org/news/ai-is-set-to-driv…

It projects that electricity demand from data centres worldwide is set to more than double by 2030 to around 945 terawatt-hours (TWh), slightly more than the entire electricity consumption of Japan today. AI will be the most significant driver of this increase, with electricity demand from AI-optimised data centres projected to more than quadruple by 2030.

I'm not opposed to ai, I use a lot of AI tools locally on my own PC. I'm aware of how little electricity they consume when I am just using for a few minutes a day.
But the problem is when it's being crammed into EVERYTHING, I can't just say I'm generating a few images per day or doing 5 LLM queries. Because it's running on 100 Google searches that I perform, every website I visit will be using it for various purposes, applications I use will be implementing it for all kinds of things, shopping sites will be generating images of every product with me in the product image. AI is popping up everywhere, and the overall picture is that yes, this is contributing significantly to electricity demand, and the vast majority of that is not for developing new drugs, it's for stupid shit like preventing me from clicking away from Google onto the website that they sourced an answer from.

Its very complex and overkill but its not a bad idea if you want to do it. I believe there is a youtuber SomeOrdinaryGamer who runs a linux base OS with hypervisor OSs on top with GPU passthrough. He has some videos explaining his setup and how it all works and how to configure it.

You could also take a look at this linux distro designed for exactly what you want to do qubes-os.org/.

Qubes OS: A reasonably secure operating system

Qubes is a security-oriented, free and open-source operating system for personal computers that allows you to securely compartmentalize your digital life.

^{Qubes OS}

Can't comment on everything, but given you mentioned audio production: a couple of years ago I tried to get ASIO working from within a VM on a Linux host OS and wasn't having a whole lot of luck.

I think I read somewhere that someone had come up with a special ASIO driver to send the audio directly into the host Linux OS audio subsystem, but I've not tried that or measured latency yet.

I think that's possible. Some people regularly do their work in virtualized environments. Some developers, some people do this for security. And some companies have their employees run everything over network via a thin client / VNC.

It'll be more complex, and you'll probably spend some time setting it up and dealing with some edge cases and unforeseen annoyances. You'll spread your data over several (virtual) computers and probably need some network share or file sync. And whether dynamic assigning of GPUs works, depends on the exact circumstances. Linux has a few tricks available to reset GPUs, mess with the firmware and reassign devices, or pass through things. But last time I tried, that was a lot of manual work. So does audio production if you need real time. And I think the "ease of updates" will be overshadowed a bit by now five times as many operating systems to keep up to date. And I don't know much about anti-cheat. I usually skip those games altogether and the rest runs fine on my main distro.

Other possibilities: You could just use one main operating system and install some virtualization software there. And for development and ML you could also use something like Distrobox.

It'd be interesting project but it seems overkill and over complicatiion when the simplest solution is dual booting and giving each OS complete access to the hardware. Hypervisors for all your systems would be a lot of configuration, and some constant overhead you can't escape for potentially minimal convenience gain?

Are you hoping to run these OS at the same time and switch between them? If so I'm not sure the pain of the set up is worth it for a little less time switching between OS to switch task? If you're hoping to run one task in one machine (like video editing) while gaming in another, it makes more sense but you're still running a single i7 chip so it'll still be a bottleneck even with all the GPUs and that RAM. Sure you can share out the cores but you won't achieve the same performance of 1 chip and chip set dedicated to 1 machine that a server stack gives (and which Hypervisors can make good use of).

Also I'd question how good the performance you'd get on a desktop motherboard with multiple GPUs assigned to different tasks. It's doubtful you'd hit data transfer bottlenecks but it's still asking a lot of hardware not designed for that purpose I think?

If you intend to run the systems 1 at a time then you might as well dual boot and not be sharing system resources with an otherwise unneeded host for hypervisor software.

I think if you wanted to do this and run the machines in parallel then a server stack or enterprise level hardware probably would be better. I think it's a case of "just because you can do something doesn't mean you should"? Unless it's just a "for fun" project and you don't mind the downsides? Then I can see the lure.

But if I were in your position and wanted the "best" solution I'd probably go for a dual boot with Linux and Windows. In Linux I'd run games natively in the host OS, and use Qemu to have a virtual machine for development (passing through one of the GPUs for AI work). The good thing in this set up is you can back-up your whole development machine hard drive and restore it easily if you make big changes to the host Linux. Windows I'd use for kernel anti cheat games and just boot into it when I wanted.

Personally I dual boot Linux and windows. I barely use windows now but in Linux I do use Qemu and have multiple virtual machines. I have a few test environments for Linux because I like to tinker, plus a docker server stack that I use to test before deploying to a separate homelab device. I do have a Win11 VM, barely used - it doesn't have a discrete GPU and it's sluggish. If you're gaming I'd dual boot and give it access to the best GPU as and when you need it.

And if you want the best performance, triple boot. Storage is cheap and you could easily have separate drives for separate OS. I have an Nvme for Linux and another Nvme for Windows for example. You could easily have 2 separate discrete Linux installs and a Windows installs. In some ways it may be best as you'd separate Linux gaming from Linux working and reduce distractions.

Windows vms for beating kernel level anticheat takes a lot of work to prevent detection. I recommend dual booting instead for that use case.

For the Linux environments I'd recommend using containers/podman/docker, systemd-nspawn or libvirt. These three solutions use the host kernel as the hypervisor and don't require much setup.

Containers can also share the GPU with the host easily.

Your setup would be
Hardware > Windows | Bazzite > Ubuntu(container) | OSX (libvirtd)

Edit: You can also triple boot with windows, Bazzite and Ubuntu or add a proxmox/whatever hypervisor disk and try it out without touching your working system.

Conceptually, not a problem. Windows 11 runs on top of HyperV with no performance issues. In reality, I think you will spend a lot of time, hit lots of weird edge cases and performance issues, especially with trying to get the Linux and windows hosts to coexist nicely.

That said, I'd love to watch you try 😀