Captain’s log, stardate 5786.03.02. While traveling at warp three through the Levant Nebula, we’ve come across a mysterious being. It appears to have a biological makeup consisting of hummus, sandals with socks, and PTSD. Lt. Data is attempting to initiate communication with this “Zionist entity”

This is the big thing! One reason why polls have failed to capture the Trump phenomenon is he brings out voters with low social trust who don't respond to polls. Even Republican campaigns were shocked by how much his voters turn out.

also just not important? idk I feel like all the options on the side hype its importance and I don't think its important, I think its annoying and not helpful and maybe will make minor changes to our lives maybe and it'll be like any number of "life changing" tech that never took off.

Both of them are Gundam fans

As a socialist, I consider Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (2008) the most important text in revolutionary theory of our generation. Oh and also Eren Yeager did nothing wrong

at this point many years in the big AI companies are deep in the red with a crazy burn rate and a promise to make something worthwhile in 2 to 3 years, always 2 to 3 years. I suspect in very narrow, not at all public facing ways involving mass data analyst for medicine and science there are uses

you're missing "is not anywhere near as important or world changing as anyone thinks" AI in our day to day lives, as an assistant for office work and writing is a dud, AI video and photos could be scary propaganda but so far remains pretty easy to spot

this is basically the thiel faction of tech and the theory of victory is fundamentally that you -- you specifically -- can't do anything about it, and never will be able to, because the left has no actual political agency or leadership, and the ratchet only goes one way

“Faces antisemitism accusations”… holy fuck, could they frame this Nazi in a more pathetically milquetoast way?

90% of "communism" these days consists of duct-taping a bunch of books to state capitalism and hoping nobody notices.

Communists saying this never gets old lol. Most countries that adopted it have abandoned it, China is communist in name only, North Korea has a hereditary monarchy so the best example in practice is Cuba?

people will really say "the Chinese think in centuries" as though Mao didn't do a bird genocide to increase grain production while forgetting that birds eat bugs and caused famines then 50 years later they did a one-child policy and accelerated their demographic collapse by a century for no reason

Perennial

Your tax dollars did not pay for this. I did. It was a lot. And I know it doesn't look very good, but it's not. It's not very good.

‘Overseen’ is doing a lot of work here, and let’s remember that biden had a 51-49 edge, and then only for his first two years

considering the possibility that ft graphics are vehicles for just so stories designed in a lab to oneshot me. graph so pretty and from finpress so must be insightful WAIT SHUT THE FRONT DOOR

Dang, is that why almost all socialist and communist countries have reverted to Capitalism? Daaaaang.

"I'm anti-algebra because I think people need to learn calculus"

"Lol fuckin liberals, what kind of wins have they put up recently??" is a true "fish in tank asking wtf is water" moment

I'm sorry that your cohorts have stupid ideas about what it means to be "on the left" such that it reveals that they haven't even read Marx lmao. It's embarrassing to have so many virulently stupid leftist. We deserve a better left. What we got was meme-driven morons.

This is such a strange position. A1 is ostensibly a technical judgement, and it is ostensibly wrong. The talking points about transformers, neural networks and ML are even more specific technical positions. People are confidently stating falsehoods about technical facts for political posturing.

Radical liberalism is inherently federalist.

its a political economy problem, as usual

LOL it's just housing techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/s...

I’m honestly unsure what Silicon Valley’s theory of victory is here. As far as I can tell, the plan is: 1.) Suck up to president who has annihilated the taboo on political violence 2.) Take everyone’s job 3.) Expose them to nonstop extremist propaganda And like... For fuck’s sake, why?

I guess, but “Joe Biden was too spicy for me, so I’m going to plant the seeds of an actual communist uprising” sounds, uh… insane?

I mean, the thing about the ruling class in a decadent state is that they take the existence of the system they run as a given. So they spend all their effort keeping opponents from being able to run the system, but don't care to maintain it, because, to them, it will always be there.

so I think this actually plays a role in it too - tech used to get the benefit of the doubt because they successfully presented themselves as cool nerds who wanted to make the world better the AI rollout has coincided with the tech overlords going openly fash, so people assume the worst instead

In some very specific senses, the best allies for the AI boosters are the people going into frenzies about the vast professional & infrastructural disruptions it promises, the enormous supposed water & environmental costs - THESE ARE ALL UPSIDES TO INVESTORS, because they promise development.

They're saying it because they *benefit* from saying it. AI boosters are talking to investors, who ALSO, for example, like massive layoffs & outsourcing as cost saving & even growth opportunities (new hires!), even as the general public obviously finds such things about as appealing as rancid meat.

Neither pro-capitalist nor anti-capitalist, but instead fully post-capitalist.

the overwhelming message the AI industry has sent to young people is “this will ruin any chance you have at a stable career”, of course college grads are booing it regardless of the reality of the claims, the way this technology has been sold is one of the greatest self-inflicted PR disasters ever

"Real antisemitism is when the country with millions of Jews in it lets you buy antisemitic materials at the store, while fighting antisemitism is when you ban it by law and then expel all your Jews anyway. Also, the Jews should go back from the first country to the second country."

Me “Marx was not anti capitalist” You: “oh yeah? What about Kropotkin??” Yeah man that’s a whole different dude who disagreed with Marx about many things bsky.app/profile/vitu...

again, staying completely silent on the actual merits of ai, the initial ai boosters basically campaigned on "this will eliminate your job, forever, and make me personally rich." it should not surprise *anyone* that this provoked a backlash.

I remember the bit in Eren's dad's Big Reveal Journal about how his first son was convinced to sell out their family, and how he blames himself for "forcing his own beliefs onto his son" and, like, the belief he forced on his son was "we deserve to Have Rights."

There’s a long-standing, congressionally chartered organization responsible for the semiquincentennial. Trump abandoned that, created his own thing, and is using it as another vector of bribery etc. Below are the corporations that have signed onto do some bribin’.

Yea he wrote The Communist Manifesto because he was in favor of capitalism.

A good puzzle game and a good technical textbook are structured exactly the same way. Introduce a concept. Explore the boundaries of the concept with the simplest elicitation. Explore its interaction with each previous concept. Every puzzle/exercise should have a small epiphany.

When we all know that The Left starts at antisemitism.

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

The people jumping to Birthright in describing Kars4Kids and the people giggling at how Fiveish the anthropomorphic 5-dollar bill is an antisemitic stereotype are really telling on what goes on inside goyishe heads in a similar way

And I can tell you, as a former Republican, that the GOP counts on that, and actively promotes cultural hot-button issues to bait Democrats into fighting among themselves. Works like a charm.

I was just wondering about how big mad Palo Altans were about the BTS concert and traffic last night!

Correction: not just an “R1 STEM” lab- any academic science research lab anywhere. Pitching ideas, doing experiments, and publishing results isn’t just an R1 thing

Being pro-capitalist and pro-democracy is incoherent with democratic principles. Also, liberalism is not inherently pro-capitalist. Anti-capitalist liberalism is more consistent than pro-capitalist liberalism.

Status report, "It Only Took Me An Hour To Find This" dep't: (eyeroil) A scrap of yesterday-discourse put me in mind of this "cover". (And the delightful quote from @terryandrob.bsky.social). ...Still must write the damn book. 😏...More discussion: dduane.tumblr.com/post/7634308...