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i feel a bit blindsided bc i dont live there but the uk also having a new u16 ban on social media after australia stuns me
Its the easiest way to make everyone scan their ID into social media. In a few years nobody will be able to use mainstream internet without every word being linked to their real name. Then people will start being disappeared. Their accounts will be taken over by AI that slowly alienates their digital community. Any mention of them having been snatched will be removed from the internet, and other bot accounts will tell lies about hanging out with them in the meat world.
yeah. it’s just ghoulish on every level. i also think that even removed from the surveillance state fact it’s going to make so many kids lives so much more lonely and horrible and going to extend their parents’ control over them. fuck you terf island
The East is a Podcast and The End of Sport: talk about World cup and MoU,
Some good stuff in there. Its less about the acctual foot ball and more about the surrounding fuckery
It bugs me that people who literally lived through the invasions of nazi Germany and imperial Japan and such could somehow see how people in imperial nations were still proletarians, but nowadays third worldism is the norm among ML's online. Idk, feels ridiculous to me
Marxism-Leninism without a third-worldist corrective is just Trotskyism.
Marxism-Leninism with too much third-worldism is just Maoism.
In all seriousness I think it's an analytical mistake to assume the proletarian identity or category is homogenous, and the most stark differences you're gonna find are between imperialist-proletarians and colonized-proletarians. Trotskyists imagine some revolutionary essence that they think exists equally in an Israeli worker as a Palestinian worker, for example.
It would be an overcorrection, though, to then essentialize the category of imperialist-proletarian as homogenous and static. A corporate worker with a home and 401(k) benefits more from imperialism than a service worker that rents. And the first subclass is shrinking while the second is growing.
Maybe the settler-colonial or imperial incentives played a part in revolution failing in the West (for now), but it's an influence that ebbs and flows among other influences that ebb and flow.
Its a very shrewd and well executed maneuver by the imperialist "Marxist" theory project. By teaching Marxists in the global south to hate workers in the global north they push the left in the global north into either supporting their own death or supporting imperialism. It completely destroys international solidarity. Instead of international capital having one large enemy they have 2 small ones that hate eachother.
I have mixed feelings about all of it. I think on the one hand, it can be helpful for understanding why a western prole can easily be so reactionary in spite of it seeming against their own interests to be that. But then on the other hand, the general tactics the capitalist class uses--encouraging belief in electoral reform, allowing performative concessions through as "proof", whitewashing local violent struggle as peaceful protest--are worldwide, not confined to any particular nation. Lenin was complaining about misleading reformists back in his day and he was living in a place with far worse living conditions than the "western left" tends to be in.
From this standpoint, I'm inclined to say it is more important to call out the duplicitous tactics of the reformists no matter where they may be than it is to overly focus on what's different about the conditions of imperial core. Those differences do matter, such as when understanding why patsocs are a thing and why they are a bad thing. But the differences are not all important every time somebody in the west is trying to move the needle at all.
For example, every time a western "leftist" leans toward reformist camps, is it necessarily because they are fully aware of what imperialism is and they want "more of the spoils of imperialism" rather than dismantling it? I'm sure those cases exist, but it can also be more general ignorance; they still believe in the system enough to think the exploiting classes can be constrained through voting, which can happen to proles anywhere; they don't necessarily understand the dynamic of exploitation in the first place and we need to make sure that they do, not for them to internalize it as shame, but so they understand yet another reason why reform is not enough.
I always find it strange how Dutch nationalists clam to Christianity. Christianity itself was imported to these lands. Why not do proper paganism instead? All hail Nehalennia.
Isn't that what the Ukrainian nationalists do? Careful what you wish for 😬
No they lean into Norse paganism because they are historically illiterate.
When an ethnostate in Galacia was promised to you 3000 years ago by ~~Zeus~~ Thor
Next week will probably be the hottest one ever recorded here. I was born in the best time to experience multiple weather records being broken at a frightingly increasing pace.
I'm going to be in Beijing for a few days! Anyone have any hidden gems, communist or otherwise?
I heard museums are free in China.
o7
I don't have any info to offer, but I wanted to say, that's awesome and I hope you have a great time there!
LLMs are a funny thing, cause the "smarter" they get, the better they get at sounding smart, even if what they're saying is disjointed and poorly explained. Sometimes I have moments with code assistance where I'm like, "Am I not following this because what they're saying is beyond my skill level or because they're full of shit?" Lol.
I'm sure it can be either because I have had moments where I knew enough to tell that the LLM dramatically overthought the problem and missed something simple.
Sometimes I just take what the LLM spits out and put it through in a blank convo to make it check itself without any of the previous context.
Kinda crazy that Mexican goverment massacred students in Tlatelolco weeks before the olympics of 68 and show went on like usual.
I know that this is technically true but I still could not help but laugh out loud upon reading it.
DeepSeek added vision mode so go and give that a test drive
Living in a tourist destination this far north is a drag because we only get like 2 months a year of good weather but it DOES fuckin rule once it's actually summer. Hitting the trails on my new bike w/ iNaturalist is basically all I have left to keep me sane while not at my shitty job besides weightlifting now that the MtG well has been poisoned. I NEED to take time off to go camping this summer. Yesterday I stood in a river. :3
iNaturalist + OpenStreetMaps is very fun, it feels like it is pulling on all the leftovers bits of gamer brain & making them normal
when i get a notification for someone else’s deleted post and i have utterly no clue what happened what i said and what they said
Thoughts on Stallman's defense of Marvin Minsky? Was he actually saying what he believed or was this a little slip where someone openly defended something they were willing to do or had done? WTF is going on at MIT? Why did people take him blaming autism seriously?
CW if you need to look up what he said
