Me: trying to cool down for sleep while it's 80F outside at 10:30pm with no AC in the bedroom. The cat: trying to make a batch of softies on my chest.
Considering how actively capitalism generates figures to match the bogeyman of Stalin, it drives me crazy how none of you have half the energy to constantly decry capitalism the same way. Every projected fear of communism is actively playing out under capitalism, but communism "doesn't work".
Expanding the court is a half measure
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last mo.expand the court. no more half measures. this is intolerable.
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CNN@cnn.com · last mo.Darializa Avila Chevalier, the Democratic congressional nominee endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, maintained a since-deleted Twitter account with repeated sympathetic references to communism, Marxist ideology and Soviet figures, including Vladimir Lenin. https://cnn.it/4oWMRrE
"Zero drama. Just smiles." The centrist mind is a gaping void.
Jon Cooper@joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2mo agoImagine Trump ever being invited to join a photo like this — not in a million years. Four presidents. Zero drama. Just smiles, respect, and a shared love of country. 🇺🇸
More of Birdie enjoying other people's lawns during the tail end of this heatwave plus a bonus turkey vulture (never seen one in a neighborhood).
Warhawks are extremely pissed about the Iran deal and not just because the US basically has to surrender here; I fully expect things to blow up well before the 60 days are out. Harris would have done a much better job getting us into another fascist quagmire.
The best way I can describe 2020s commercial AI (aka LLMs) is a series of rapid, low fidelity statistical engines that are built to create and output the mirage of a confident drunkard on trivia night so that self-indulgent, gilded fools can feel good about themselves as they ruin humanity.
Drinking alcohol is basically stealing happiness from tomorrow.
My guy coming hard with the truth... and the elipses
V. I. Lenin@livinglenin.bsky.social · 2mo agoNothing can be achieved by isolated strikes…or the vote, because “private property is sacred”, and the capitalists have accumulated such debts that the whole world is in bondage to a handful of men…There is no other way out but to abolish the exploiters’ “private property”
The liberal bourgeoisie grant reforms with one hand, and with the other always take them back, reduce them to nought, use them to enslave the workers, to divide them into separate groups and perpetuate wage-slavery.
My actual human son living his best life on a sunny spring day, hamming it up for the camera.
Lenin coming with a fire 'nother one from the beginning of the last century.
V. I. Lenin@livinglenin.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe splitting of the people into a bourgeoisie and a proletariat, the growth of ‘the mass of misery, oppression, slavery, degradation, exploitation’… unrolls before our eyes.
<make an ordinary comment on Reddit> <have someone reply to the worst reading possible of your comment> <ask why they did that> "i'M JuSt aDDinG tO tHe ConVeRsAtIoN, iT wAsN'T dIrEcTeD at YoU" Every. Single. Fucking. Time.
When someone claims they "vibe coded" something I am simultaneously grateful they have outed themselves while being deeply embarrassed for them admitting they did it in the first place. It's fucking cringe.
This book goes So. Fucking. Hard. I ordered a copy through Lulu after listening to about half of this part of the reading.
BEST ANTI-FASCIST BOOK EVER [1/2] | Fascism & Social Revolution, 3rd Ed. (1935) by Rajani Palme Dutt
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My preferred AI metaphor is actually Asbestos. - Seemingly magical properties - Developed and experimented with to make endless products - Poisoned countless communities in it's creation - Everything it was used for eventually becomes a toxic hazard to mitigate & it's in the fucking walls now
Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 3mo agoTrying out a new metaphor: "A.i." = cocaine. Cocaine is inevitable! Cocaine can enhance your creativity! Cocaine can make us all faster and more efficient! If your kid doesn't learn how to use cocaine, they'll get left behind!
My dog does this thing on walks where she enjoys other people's lawns. Just lays right down and hangs out for a minute or two.
Justin Sledge speaks to me in a profound way here, a very clear philosophical, ethical, and spiritual creed against LLMs and LLM content. Absolute legend.
Does ESOTERICA use AI?
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The Democrats make perfect sense when you stop seeing them as a political party, and view them instead as a business venture that provides political entertainment, but with a clear profit motive
But the bourgeoisie is more afraid of the movement of the masses than of reaction. Hence the striking, incredible weakness of the liberals in politics, their absolute impotence.
Listening to my morning news streamer and he pulls a "The Republican Party is a gun that the Democratic Party points at your head as asks if you're going to do what they want or if they're going to have to use it".