Tiresia

That’s “zenbu”.

Yeah, and being a lesbian just means you haven’t found the right man.

That's valid for workers in a capitalist system or for capitalists trying to scam people. But why would someone sign their real name to unchecked AI slop for an open source project? It would risk ruining their reputation for little personal gain.

But by the same token, what is unsuitable for trees today doesn’t have to be unsuitable a decade from now. Plant growth affects the climate. Retaining moisture, stabilizing day-night temperatures, retaining topsoil, changing surface albedo, triggering cloud formation, etc. Ideally a mega-project is thousands of small projects being attempted at once in a way that is useful even if only a fraction of them work. Those 10% of places that worked could be used as a jumping off point for further efforts in the region, and in all cases people learned valuable agriculture skills they can take with them for the rest of their lives.

They will probably make it more expensive to legally acquire content that is playable on a dumb TV than to get the same content for smart TVs. You're paying extra for having indefinite access to the content rather than revokable subscription-based access. Of course, as a consumer, you can become a criminal, with all the associated increasingly harsh consequences.

I see it as a counter to capitalist realism. It's a world that could have been if the 20th century had been spent building for the future, proof that a better world is possible not just morally but in terms of the personal prosperity and happiness of literally everyone. It's fuel for rage at our lost potential. But it's also a call for us to be the change we want to see. Even if we can't manage a solarpunk future in the next century or two amidst all the climate catastrophes, we can help the millions or perhaps billions of people that make it through get as close as we can get them.

tl;dr: The “zero knowledge” proof could have a finite number of uses per block of time for each verifier, each of which represented by a unique single-use key. This way anyone sharing keys would be limited by that finite number of uses, and if people sharing this aren’t coordinated they could end up re-using a single-use key. If the encryption was stolen without their consent, this could tip a user off prompting them to invalidate the current set and get a new one. And if the verification is used to support a pseudonym like an account for an online service then instances of re-use could get flagged for moderators.

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 and calling for a general strike. These investors are hoping to get their money back through capital class solidarity, likely in the form of massive investment and big government contracts.

There is a reply to that “breakdown” showing that whoever did that breakdown didn’t read the article

I was going to comment the opposite. The Netherlands is actually facing a fresh water crisis because unregulated farmers are pumping large amounts of water up from aquifers, causing them to pull in salt water from the sea which will poison the soil and make the aquifers undrinkable in the long term. The rivers are too polluted to be safe for agriculture without expensive processing, but the process of fresh water filtering down through ground layers into aquifers makes it potable (long-term salinification notwithstanding). I suspect the, er, “visual capitalist” disregarded those long-term externalities, or includes a theoretical capacity to clean (or even collect?) fresh water while not including the ability to desalinate salt water. I also wonder how the graph accounts for water entering a country from another country. Most Dutch water management concerns the sea, which is not included in the graph, and rivers, which mostly come from other nations. If Germany consumed/redirected the Rhine, would that make the Netherlands appear more red on the map? Also, Bangladesh and Nauru are both more “water stressed” than the Netherlands by your definition. Bangladesh regularly floods because it is a river delta in a monsoon region, and Nauru is an island nation that will be abandoned because sea levels are rising.

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.

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 all of these can continue to be monopolized by a specific societal subgroup without the use of “ownership”. Any group with authority over these matters that can have solidarity within the authoritative group will serve as a ruling class that gains from exploiting the working class. So no, solidarity isn’t a matter of interpretation. It’s grounded in position. People can misread their interests, sure. They can be won to chauvinism or reformism. But those interpretations only stick because of material conditions, and they only last as long as those conditions hold. Real solidarity has to be built on shared relation to production and shared interest in ending exploitation. Anything else is temporary alignment at best. The relation to production of different groups change over time. Serfdom, slavery, automation. Worldwide alignment of workers’ interests is temporary and shifting like intranational alignment, which is why it historically hasn’t happened yet. If the singular working class as a concept had more teeth than nationality I would expect it to, well, take a bigger bite out of history. For French revolutionaries to abolish slavery in their natural solidarity with other workers rather than continuing exploitation because their interests did not in fact align with slaves in the colonies. If every exercise of authority or unevenness in incentives is already the seed of a new ruling class, then organised transformation becomes impossible by definition. Any revolution complex enough to survive would already contain the embryo of its own betrayal and again we should just give up and kill ourselves now. No, we should become anarchist. Unevenness is a vulnerability that we build social structures to prevent from turning into authority, and complex social structures with far less authority already exist from sociocracy to decentralized guerilla cells. As with your narrative of state communism, these systems are imperfect and will develop places of authority and abuse, and we will learn from that and alter the systems to be less authoritative. But where you expect administrators to make such improvements to their personal and (sub)class’ detriment, anarchy keeps the power to make these changes with the people so the changes are made in the people’s favor. We are able to be anarchist (or state communist) even within capitalism; the countless seeds of authority we carry with us into the postrevolutionary society will be far easier to wrangle than the full-grown monstrosities of capitalism.

Oh, so your system guarantees that at all times at least one of those thoughts is "collaborate with fascists"? If one person collaborates with fascists and the rest do nothing to stop it, then the fascist still gets what they want as surely as if the entire group had collaborated. You can list as many people who didn't personally collaborate with fascists as you want, as long as they didn't stop collaboration they are complicit. So thank you for demonstrating "pride in a state that collaborates with fascism" for the class.

I'm referring to the state, not every one of its people. maia arson crimew did nothing wrong.

Switzerland has been a proud fascist collaborator for at least a hundred years. Why wouldn't they cooperate with the US?

People are exhausted because they are already worrying but they’re avoiding the issue. Politics affects their lives every day, their inaction makes their lives worse every day, but they’ve been taught to only think about it in ways that cost a lot of effort without helping, while demonizing all the ways that do help. Because you can benefit from engaging with politics immediately. Organize with your neighbors to share the tools you only use incidentally, like heavy-duty work trucks and power saws, through a library system. Estimate how often y’all are going to need them and keep that many in stock, then sell the rest and distribute the money. Congratulations, you just did an anarchocommunism and made your community a million dollars with a couple dozen hours of labor. All that’s stopping this from happening is people’s willingness to engage with politics, meaning they are stuck thinking of themselves as incidentally indebted independent individuals. That and their willingness to turn down thousands of dollars in cold hard cash rather than consider the possibility communism is better than capitalism.

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 looking at whenever you are in public, even if you have no account. They will learn the face you make when you are too tired to argue and tell the shops you’re heading towards that you’re an easy mark today. They will see a flash of defiance on your face when you hear someone say Nazi shit and change the video advertisements you walk by to ones that will make you feel powerless. And so the net is pulled ever-tighter. All we can do is try to cut our way out.

Are you being sarcastic? Because we’re still reaping the benefits of all of those. Violently gained interracial marriage got legalized at 25% public support while peacefully gained gay marriage only got legalized at 65% popular support. Peacefully won trans right are more fragile than violently won labor rights.