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• Post #2486102

  This looks like a low effort Russian propaganda account.

• Post #1625174

  At some point you need that coalition to be wiling to put up tariffs against non-members, though, otherwise it’s a coalition of voluntary economic/production disadvantage. Or rather, that was the case 20 years ago. Now that renewables are less volatile and cheaper for states when you include the military-industrial expenses to secure access, it’s a coalition of acting sane. And that’s why it’s happening.

• Post #955946

  An LLM contains multitudes. It’s nice you can get it to a space where you benefit from it for now - its inevitable enshittification is still in the “attract users by being useful and cheap” phase - but that doesn’t contradict it being dangerous for those who don’t know how to handle it whose input activates the section of its weights that imitates cults, catfishers, scammers.

• Post #906511

  If it doesn’t make logical sense but it happens, that means you are making incorrect assumptions about the world. Capitalism is very capable of creating commons that help its power structure, like public highway systems, the global positioning system, or the 2008 bailouts. Having the continued habitability of the Earth depend on maintenance that only US megacorporations can perform is appealing to the US upper class. Theough a Marxist lens, this is no stranger than workers going on strike...

• Post #765938

  Waving away ownership because it’s a “social construct” is a dodge. I am not waving it away, I am lowering its status to be within the same realm as concerns that are secondary in capitalism. Concerns that may become primary when capital is undone, as in state communism. You’re using “class” as a catch-all. I’m using it in the stricter sense that actually lets you explain things, relation to production, control of surplus, reproduction of power. That’s what gives the concept teeth. And...

• Post #523317

  There is a big difference between available and normalized. Buying a tiny camera to film people without consent makes you a creep in a way buying a social media corporation’s product doesn’t. Pulling out a camera to film someone is a signal to them that they are being filmed in a way looking at them while wearing camera glasses isn’t. These glasses could change the landscape of our social reality. If they catch on, corporations will know your facial expressions, your location, and what you are...