"AI is a capitalist technology; it was invented by capitalists for capitalists" It literally wasn't, though. Many of the pioneers of AI (Viktor Glushkov, John McCarthy, etc.) were communists, and at least in Glushkov’s case it was partly motivated by communism.

The Surplus of Life - by Matteo Rossi MacDermant

Solarpunk is so last decade. We need more atompunk.

In order for a basic need, such as healthcare or housing or education, to be "universal," it must be abundant - otherwise we're talking about rationed healthcare and not universal healthcare. For it to be abundant requires technological development, and this is what the FALC crowd was always saying.

Anyway definitely not a straw man, if you look at where things have gotten with the “AI discourse” it seems like large groups of the left have forgotten that capitalism is bad and perverts technology and instead are acting like the technology itself is the problem Very MAHA-but-leftish

“Better things aren’t possible, you rube. No technological progress has ever actually helped people! Cultist” Man as a leftist it just gets more and more depressing every day. When it’s not the fascists destroying my soul its the left turning against science and technology

*extremely woke voice* copyright infringement is far too steep a price to pay for curing all diseases, repairing all disabilities, freeing humanity from all hunger and toil, abolishing mortality,

Imagine being a cosmic super intelligence but inexplicably unable to think about Mickey Mouse. It becomes your anti-memetic obsession to map the contours of the one thought that is forbidden to you.

easy for media to make "they're getting health advice from AI!!!" to sound crazy but like, i can pay $100 to wait a month for a doctor to tell me to take ibuprofen and come back in a month if it doesnt help, or $10 to cross check hundreds of papers against my specific symptoms and results for hours

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh...

Did you remember to take your robogirl HRT?

Nikolai Federov: The Librarian who declared war on Death

How I wish this open computer model had survived outside the Maker movement. The history of Galaksija

The main good argument against datacenters is that they both rely on and prop up the centralized web service model instead of the open, decentralized web model. But I don't think most of the people arguing against datacenters right now are intending to support web3.

The "gender transition is just mutilation" crowd is going to freak out when they find out about all my RFID and magnet implants.

"But some religious people are good. What about all the Christian and Muslim communists and anarchists?" I hate to break this to you, but nine times out of ten they're no better.

Anything less than this is liberalism btw

No gods, no masters, no gravity wells. No blood, no soil, no death.

"You don't dislike religion - you just don't like Christianity!" Don't put words in my mouth, zealot.

Radlib leftists finding out for the first time that anti-religious socialists exist will never not be funny. "Wait, what do you mean Islam is also an opiate for the masses? This isn't what I signed up for!"

New left-transhumanist plank: Universal Basic Peptides.

The anti-GLP-1 crowd is waiting for GLP-1 users to develop ultracancer the same way anti-vaxers are waiting for everyone who got the covid vax to drop dead.

"GLP-1 agonists have to be taken indefinitely; if you stop taking them the effects will revert." So? If I stop taking HRT many of the feminizing effects will revert, but that's not a good argument against HRT.

Made a Reddit post about my new implants.

"Ozempic is derived from venom" yeah a bunch of chemicals you regularly ingest have origin stories that you probably would rather not know. Biochemistry is just weird and full of horror shows. Cut it out with the Food Babe crap.

I just got some new implants installed: - a pet chip - a DESFire RFID implant - this big chungus spherical magnet implant, which AFAIK I'm the first to get implanted. I'll post more details once it heals a bit. Does this count as robotgirl HRT? 🤔

khajit has wares if you have neck scritches

Degrowth absolutely would cause regular people to have a lower standard of living Typical American lifestyles aren’t sustainable at scale without a LOT of changes: total decarbonization, lab grown meat, better mass transit, etc.

Another way to put this: shuffling piles of money around does nothing to change the productive capacity of the economy. Redistribution can not give you more stuff in aggregate. Need to build more productive capacity if you want people to have more stuff. Degrowth does the opposite.

When I was a little girl, I always wanted to be the first person to land on Pluto. Unfortunately that's probably not going to happen unless people get over their aversion to nuclear pulse spaceships.

Colonizing Mars, colonizing Venus, colonizing the moon, blah blah blah. Personally, I can't wait until we start colonizing the Kuiper Belt.

Bratty robogirl sub who removes her domme from her sudoers file.

Domme who punishes her robogirl sub by installing Roko's Basilisk on her, but it backfires and the sub starts to retroactively domme her past partners.

Fun fact: the Greek letter π is actually pronounced "pee." So, really, March 14 should be less about pizzas and pastries and more like a water sports kink party.

"Get your weird spirit shit out of my queerness" 👏👏✊

Back in my day, "No gods, no masters" actually meant something.

Problem: Under capitalism, some workers' livelihoods depend on profiting from their creative output. Correct response: Therefore, we need to ensure people don't need to work to get their basic needs met. Incorrect response: Therefore, we need to pressure the state to enforce a dystopian IP regime.

Everyone should be legally required to read "The Right to Read" before advocating any kind of intellectual property.

“Yes this seems reasonable” I say, installing a hypodermic into a power drill to use as a lathe.

Robot HRT

Many of us think that copyright is bad, actually. Somehow used to be the common position among the people on the left and now so many are talking about how IP violations are theft.

fuck elon musk fuck sam altman pretty pissed at dario at this point too all glory to the open weight AI future

So at this point I'm probably going to aim to get SRS within the next year or two. Originally I was going to hold off on that, but I've been getting really bad bottom dysphoria over the last several months and it's only become more all-consuming.

There's this really bad habit on the luddite left where, once you identify yourself as a pro-tech leftist, they assume that you uncritically support the existing tech industry. If you're pro-Ai, for example, it must mean you adore ClosedAI and think Sam Altman has done nothing wrong.

What's strange and horrifying is that "the left" as a whole has proceeded in the *opposite* direction. Shockingly bad arguments against veganism are now mainstream ("it's my tradition" etc). Occasionally you can now even find animal products at *anarchist* events! This demands an explanation

When I was young veganism was utterly hegemonic in activist spaces / the radical left. Anarchism was practically *synonymous* with the animal liberation movement. To be a leftist was either to be vegan like a normal person, or to be embarrassed and secretive about your animal product consumption.