I hate when I google something and Google’s AI is instantly like “Nuh uh, that never happened here’s 10 biased news articles debunking what you just typed.”

I don’t think that’s your determination to make robot.

So does anyone else think the conflation of Jews with the genocidal zionists is a deliberate plan to make real antisemitism “justified” so white people can go full hog on the pogroms again? Is that where this is going?

How to learn dialectical and historical materialism? I read the book but don’t think I understand it

I think in some ways, it has taken me a while to internalize how much BS there is surrounding capitalist narratives about jobs and job security.

As far as I can tell, scarcity of highly specialized labor for highly specialized roles is about the only “organic” means of job security under capitalism. But this is also irrelevant for the majority of the working class. If most people had highly specialized skills that fit into highly specialized roles, those roles that have a scarcity of workers trying to fill the position would cease to have said scarcity and the organic, solo bargaining power of the worker would fall apart.

So labor organizing (such as unions, when there is not yet a revolution) and state regulations (which organized labor has to push for - the capitalists aren’t going to do it out of the kindness of their hearts) are the main source of job security existing at all under capitalism.

Merit is certainly not job security, nor anything like a guarantee of a job; that’s one of the lies. I think what happens here is merit is conflated with the scarcity phenomenon; the highly specialized laborer is also probably skilled at what they do for it to be such a rare thing. But this does not mean they necessarily have more bargaining power because of merit. The real source of the “organic” bargaining power is the scarcity and the more who train to be able to benefit from it, the less who actually can.

Hate how fascism has taken over Dutch football. Multiple clubs now have firms comfortable enough to hang outright fascist flags and stickers all over the place.

Doing some writing for a marxist magazine in my country. Seems like they’re very well read and stuff. Hopefully I can write something of high enough quality 😅

Came back to make a post asking about a mod and I see we have some hexbear users genuinely debating ZOG conspiracy theories. Apparently, under left-unity I gotta be civil with these folk.

Reference: https://hexbear.net/post/9316596/7403328

I think Anthony Fantano is my example of “person you already didnt like has a good reason to not like them.” Like i saw his content pop up occasionally and i was like “eh, I’m not really sure I like the vibes” and then it turns out that [like a lot of critics] he cannot take criticism at all

Edit: Joseph Anderson is another great example of “critic who can’t take criticism.” It’s like, he can say “Miyazaki has obviously been lobotomized and is an actual idiot because the boss attacks aren’t what I want” and then is like “fans are so toxic for criticizing my criticisms”

Was in a depressed mood today due to Palestine. I never thought that I would feel so much for people so far away.

Like, there’s always a possibility that the genocide might go uninterrupted. I don’t know how I would feel after it ends on the worst case. Humanity would be unredeemable after this. Fuck.

I’m okay now. I know that there’s reasons to have hope.

A local council woman crashed an anti-AI data center event my comrades held. She showed up with body guards and basically disparaged the work that grassroots organizers have been doing to get data centers out of communities.

She opened by trying to intimidate our community by saying that the Federal government would end up labeling us terrorists because we’re loud. She vaguely tried to connect us to people making threats against politicians across the country. Mind you, we aren’t advocating any violence against people but that’s how a sitting council member introduces herself to the community. She then tried to co-opt the energy in real time before she finished with her spiel.

And of course, this council member has done a PR interview with the corporation thats supposed to build out the data center. It was absurd to watch happen in real time. Data centers are really being treated like political battle grounds here in the US.

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I was thinking about AI recently. It’s really easy to imagine a dystopian future with Robocop-style bots and intense surveillance but I don’t think it’s gonna be so easy to ditch the proletariat as a class .

Like, robot cops (not necessarily humanoid) would need batteries in order to be mobile. They would need to recharge every so often and a battery would be a really weak spot.

I think physical labor is gonna be done by human hands for a long time. Intellectual labor might be easier to replace.

Can we start telling people that Ayn Rand was a Soviet deep cover agent who was so good at parody they sent her to the west to publish PsyOps that deepened the contradictions of capitalism? We could blame it on trotsky and say he called it operation “Accelerationism in one Country.”

If you Google ‘I am alone with a Moroccan’ in Dutch AI will immediately give you the police contact info but let’s pretend it is normal

Cool thing about sign language is how much it reflects culture (so does every language, but I think it’s more obvious in SL).

Like, sign for transgender in Brazilian Sign Language is “break chain” or “self change” (roughly), which I think it’s awesome.