zbyte64

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[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (12 children)

With you up until bringing the far left into this. What does universal healthcare, trans rights or taxing billionaires have to do with the surveillance state, aside from dismantling it?

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago

But not by the white people.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Does Japan / type-A not have grounded circuits?

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago

If this is Walmart we're talking about then I sure as hell contributed to their success by subsidizing their underpaid employees with food stamps.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Don't know who needs to hear this but VPNs are allowed in China and can get around "censorship". In general you can still access information abroad but China is dedicated to having their mass-media not be inflammatory. You can talk about Uighurs on RedNote, but you can't level baseless accusations and expect those to stay up.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

You need to have better opinions. Only Nazis disagree with me! /s

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The point is that being a consumer of AI is not seizing the means of production. If you're not spending millions of dollars training and operating the AI to actually own it, the power you have is on lease and the terms can change at anytime without regard to your needs or wishes.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 1 month ago

More like national socialist

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

AI isn't your pal, it is not the cure for isolation under capitalism. It is also not free to run unless you are the product.

Frankly this take that AI will lead to a communist revolution if people embrace the technology reads more like Vulgar Marxism. You're not seizing the means of production by being a consumer of a technology. And training a communist aligned LLM is a dubious value proposition.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago

Dude wasn't talking about you

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's not an either or situation, there is plenty of blame to go around. But I believe that the people with the most power are the most responsible. I know that runs counter to American corporate culture and can be a cultural shock to hear.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So I guess you'd say we should change nothing and ignore the wildly eroding support and the poll numbers showing the democratic party has just 28% favorability?

My brother in Christ, you're not talking to a liberal here.

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