borzfahan

iranian spy. send me pics of important canadian infrastructure like overpriced condo, tim hortons, strip mall, etc. 25 he/him studying history of childhood. tme

[borzfahan]

[stillnaomi]

since it became the leading power of the capitalist world, the US has almost never admitted that its wars are offensive actions. it's always defending the US or global freedom from terrorism or communism, drug cartels or "rogue states", or only attacking countries for humanitarian reasons. if we believed the US, we'd think that it just stumbled into having a global empire that has 750 military bases around the world. somehow, the mass exploitation at gunpoint does seem like a little oopsie though. it's almost like it's well explained by Marxist theory

[txttletale]

if anything you're reading makes reference to the cultural practices or social structures of "indigenous societies" you should mentally annotate it with "WHICH ONES???" in bright red marker

[pattern-recognition]

top ten moments of anti white racism of all time

[stillnaomi]

can you remember the last news story you read about industrial health and safety issues? the media's full of endless stories about how profitable various corporations are and the challenges they face, but we only hear about working conditions in industries that affect tens of thousands of people when they're especially dire

[borzfahan]

SANCTIONS ARE OVERRR LETS GOOO ITS THE IRANIAN CENTURY

[borzfahan]

its hard to describe how happy i am. i feel like dancing. the next few years will not be easy, but the future for iranians has never looked brighter

[lichcoil]

so there's a natural order to this world and we need atleast four million mans in boots with armor, vehicles, and firearms to enforce it, otherwise something unnatural might happen

[men-iss-vess-ull-deactivated202]

when the ogre I hired to guard the castle complains that the longsword I gave him requires a level of control and finesse he isn't used to

[sexhaver]

the thing about all the handwringing over the deaths of the Romanov children in particular is like. oh, so you think it's bad when kids die due to factors entirely outside of their control, like the social status they were born into? i wholeheartedly agree with you, we should end any system of government that sacrifices the lives of children born into peasant classes, which necessitates killing the entire royal family including the kids. oh? oh, okay, you were arguing for the literal exact opposite thing to happen. i see. and just to double check, you said kids dying due to the circumstances of their birth was a bad thing?

[sr-roto]

Audio pls

[transmutationisms]

printers groupchat

printer 1: lets crumple up paper and jam on it and make a ton of noise

printer 2: yay

printer 3: yay

printer 4: yay

[stillnaomi]

finding out that On Guerilla Warfare probably wasn't written by Mao, but was a group project which Mao wrote parts of, and possibly oversaw, was interesting, but the part of the article that stood out to me was this:

The Yan’an Research Association can best be understood as a loose association of intellectuals within the Chinese Communist cadre acting as a think tank and military education specialist group. Many of its known members held significant leadership and teaching positions at Kangda (抗日军政大学; ENG: The War of Resistance University for Military and Political Affairs) and its various branch schools. They prolifically wrote materials for political and military education. Mao Zedong and other members of the military leadership had founded the group on the eve of the escalation of Japan’s invasion of China to a full-scale war in 1937. It was part of a greater goal to promote a culture of military intellectualism within the Red Army (later the Eighth Route Army) both to better understand the enterprise of warfighting, especially at the previously little-understood strategic level, and to improve the quality of military education across all ranks, including for guerrillas. The result was a rich collection of military writings, including On Guerrilla Warfare and its sister works.

this stands out not just because it underlines the collective nature of knowledge production within ML parties and movements more broadly, but because it shows the importance of the organized production and dissemination of specialist knowledge when attempting large tasks

I think the author of the article downplays Mao's role too much by not seeming to understand how his leadership position within the party or his position as Kangda's Chairman of the Education Committee would give him oversight and direction of activities, and instead presents him as just one of the contributors. but it's one of the notably well documented things about the CPC that much theory production was done in groups during the revolutionary struggle, and it's always good to see how seriously they took it

[jadeharleyinc]

stop posting reactionary nonsense on my dashboard come onnnnnnn

[villainessbian]

Is it reactionary to say that actually Grok has no business parenting my kids and wooing my wife? Inb4 the "soulless" word thrown at the end becomes 90% of the takeaway, but "you shouldn't depend on capitalists for no reason to achieve things you used to be perfectly proficient in" is not reactionary.

[jadeharleyinc]

yes it's reactionary, Grok is not a person, Grok has no agency. parents using nazi sources to parent their kids is not new and not a feature of AI or technology in general. Grok is also not capable of wooing your wife. passing off a love poem as yours to woo your wife does not mean the original author is cucking you.

if you remove the nazism and say "ChatGPT has no business parenting my kids" you are still left with a sentence that has the same meaning as "Google/Wikipedia has no business parenting my kids". it's nonsense.

[villainessbian]

What an adroit rebuttal of a point no one made.

If you don't assume that I believe Grok to be a person or... think I'm cucked by it? what? for no reason, you're left with...

"what about other things that are also bad?"

which in order to maintain my belief that we're not doomed, I have to believe you'll agree is a terrible answer to "it's not reactionary to think that depending on extraneous services provided by capitalists for a mountain of everyday skills you used to have is bad actually"

[jadeharleyinc]

my answer is not "like ChatGPT, Wikipedia and Google have issues too", though they do. my answer is "these issues are due to capitalism. all the other arguments against them, about the nature of humanity or historical tech use or love, are vibes. they are untethered from or directly opposed to facts".

you have significantly distorted OP's point and improved it into a different, better point, which is not outright reactionary but is still a mistake. the problem in your sentence is "capitalist". fortunately it's easily solvable because you can also use AI made in socialist countries and download it to your computer so it remains under your control forever.

but i don't get the feeling OP and most people reblogging that post are cool with me doing that to write my love letters. because their objection is based on vibes, not analysis.

[villainessbian]

For anyone still doubting my gift of foresight, this is another prophecy of mine that came true

[jadeharleyinc]

baffling reply, you're the only one talking about "soul" here.

#no socialist country has produced a consumer ''everyday skill as service'' machine#some would say there is no incentive for a socialist country to produce a device that makes people worse at everything#while polluting and making working conditions worse for no benefit#others would remark that it would be bad to do that even if an incentive existed

this is where it ultimately all leads. either you think the issue is inherent to the technology and even socialism has no use for it (so you're operating purely on knee-jerk vibes, you are a reactionary), or you think the issue is that capitalists control this technology.

if that's the latter, either you're speaking about capitalism and AI without having investigated socialist countries' approach to AI, or you're arguing that China (DeepSeek), Vietnam (VT-Super), Cuba (CecilIA) and Laos (AI to be announced) aren't socialist countries.

which one is it?

alternatively, if tens of thousands of officials and scientists across all those socialist countries are making the wrong decision, and you've seen their logic, and it doesn't hold up to you, you can contest it in good faith. but you'd have to be more rigorous than this.

#sorry I come from a country where assessing students' skills is still the point#you assumed wrongly#not for the first time today

not only are you missing the point (skills to be what? a critical thinker or merely a competent and specialized worker under capitalism?), this objectively the funniest thing a French person could say, 10/10.

[mostpatheticwetclown]

I will note that "everyday skills you used to have" such as: - essays: sparked a whole industry such as Cliffnotes to streamline the process as well as a cottage industry of paying other people to write your essays for yourself (as well as just, copying the essay from a friend that's a grade up from you or something like that). - writing a eulogy: there are thousands of canned eulogies around and I'd even expect funeral planners to have a few samples laying around. (And this is also a deeply Western thing? Plenty of countries don't do formalized eulogies and I'd expect someone with grief and having to plan a funeral would not appreciate the extra homework. Because that's fundamentally the reason most abled people would ask AI to write a eulogy, isn't it? Because it's homework they don't want to do but have to turn it in.) - writing a love note: same as above except even easier to plagiarize a random love poem you found off of Google. - parenting children: the oldest known parenting guide comes from 2nd century CE. People have been outsourcing pregnancy and child rearing to third parties for at least 1800 years now. - reading a bed time story: either the problem is TTS or that the person wasn't reading a printed book someone wrote for their children. It's really a non-issue either way. (Also a Western thing btw, not reading a bedtime story to your children is, as far as I can tell, the norm around the world. And considering the increasing amount of pressure people have in their day to day lives -- specially the women who are most often doing the child rearing -- I can see why they'd want to ditch or automate this step to get themselves more time for themselves for a change).

And perhaps more importantly: you can host models on your own. While you likely don't have a strong enough computer to host something like Deepseek or ChatGPT or Gemini or whatever, an average gaming rig can train and host a decent enough LLM if you just give it one task in the corner. Even beefier LLMs if you don't mind it taking forever for generate a result (e.g.: the kind of thing you can do if you want it to generate a love note or write a eulogy or an essay. You give it a prompt before going to bed or to school or to work and check on it when you come back.) So LLMs are only "extraneous services provided by capitalists for a mountain of everyday skills you used to have" if you 1) refuse to look into self hosting, self training or the open source environment -- there are plenty of people who like tinkering with this shit for a hobby. 2) refuse to see that people were already using extraneous services provided by capitalists for everyday skills for far longer than you were born and will continue to do so long after you're dead, even in a fully automated gay communist utopia. 3) have a definition of every day tasks that doesn't consider why these tasks are everyday tasks and why people need to be able to do it. Like, why do schools have essays as opposed to oral exams or presentations? Now that a new technology was discovered that can't be undiscovered -- in part because, as I mentioned, you can host this on your computer and nobody can stop you from doing that -- do the same material conditions still apply? How can we adapt to that? Any position that comes as "this technology is bad and should be uninvented" when the technology clearly solves a problem that people have (or else they wouldn't be using it) is necessarily reactionary unless you can propose a better way to solve those problems, otherwise you're cosplaying as a Luddite and just like the Luddites did, you'll lose and become irrelevant.

[natoapologistblocker]

Keep in mind that much of what we "know" about history, economies, and the outcomes or causes of particular events is shaped by a very specific intellectual environment operating within particular parameters of funding, grants, and institutional interests. The European Union, for example, is often willing to invest substantial sums in academic research on topics such as the "threat of authoritarian regimes to scientific knowledge" or the "effects of totalitarianism on girls' education," and similar themes. This scholarship can go largely uncontested for a very long time, and so much of it is produced simultaneously that it becomes costly to refute, let alone challenge in any meaningful or systemic manner.

On top of that, much of this work is qualitative research, meaning the author's subjectivity inevitably plays a role in the analysis. In many cases, the theoretical frameworks being used can predispose researchers toward particular conclusions. The result is that some studies end up functioning as legitimacy stamps for liberal policy preferences, cloaked in the veneer of academic rigour when, at times, they amount to little more than a mass-produced intellectual echo chamber.

[borzfahan]

SANCTIONS ARE OVERRR LETS GOOO ITS THE IRANIAN CENTURY

[cross-entropy-commandant]

I am genuinely so happy for Iran right now. Much has been lost, and that loss is irreplaceable, but much also has been gained. This is the best moment for Iran since the day the revolution won. the USA has been soundly defeated and agreed to pay $300 billion in damages, all sanctions on Iran dropped, USA agrees to respect Iran's sovereignty, Iran given rights to charge fees for the use of Hormuz, and Iran affirms not to develop nuclear weapons (as it always has - the situation is unchanged here). There's the whole meme of "develop nuclear weapons or the US will invade you," and perhaps it's true, but Iran won decisively even without them. The USA only agreed to such devastating terms because if it hadn't, it would have been the end of the whole US-Israeli colonial and imperial project

[fus-mar-hoz]

I don't believe "canary in the coal mine" is a good metaphor for liberatory politics

[fus-mar-hoz]

the retrocession or worsening of social conditions is never a straight line and it would be reductive to position any one particular group or issue to be the "first one to fall". the attacks on entire social groups are never single strikes either, quantitative into qualitative etc. you need to look at trends, conditions, internal movements, not a kind of lighthouse that can cut through the idealist fog of taking the whole to be the mere sum of its parts