I mean training a model is incredibly expensive both in electricity and labor, but none of us are doing that. Is using already-trained models locally that expensive?

I don’t have a GPU so I haven’t delved into this, @yogthos@lemmygrad.ml what’s your take?

Lmao imagine the Chinese equivalent to Epstein is getting photos of people with Winnie the Pooh contraband and using that to keep them in line

I’m gonna keep plugging the recent Reitter translation of capital 1 lol, it’s much more clear than earlier translations.

Great comment!

It makes things difficult in IRL leftist circles where everyone has different exposure to theory and different abilities to engage with theory. Not understanding something is seen as a weakness so everyone has to pretend they understand it, and thus conversation ends up being really shallow and unproductive. The worst a person can do is say something “incorrect” and prove they’re not a “real” leftist.

Like, to convince people of things you have to appear confident. But to learn things you have to be humble/vulnerable. And our culture makes it difficult to code switch.

Power dynamics

I’d be happy paying taxes if they went to social works and infrastructure and whatnot, but yeah.

Now let’s talk about spending 60-80% of my remaining income on rent

FOUCAULT GET AWAY FROM THAT CHILD

Corporations are people, sweaty

70:30

There is now a clear link between proton and the state department through freedom house

fuck

still better than google at least

recommendation from one of my professors

holy based

Just a stupid joke on the tendency people have to try to reconstruct etymology from the top down rather than bottom up, often using tenuous logical connections lol

Boomers are called that because they were born after the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Zoomers are the generation of high speed rail and fast cars

Gen alpha are all chads due to the hormones used in agriculture

By that logic, there must have been a baby zoom in the '90s

healthier than buttsoda

If we’re gonna engage on shortform content platforms (and I think we should) then minimizing the amount of labor spent (wasted) doing so seems tactical. Effort asymmetry has always been a disadvantage for leftists, since fash and libs can just pump out absolute nonsense garbage.

We’ve seen how effective recuperating Soviet aesthetics has been. Brainrot edits with commie aesthetics (new idea for a username) get engagement.

Thank you for year attention to this matter!

lmao

Doesn’t this just further strengthen BRICS in the long run?

I type for a living at times, and switching to a mechanical keyboard helped with the pain a bit. But the other piece of the puzzle was posture. I now have my chair height adjusted such that my wrists naturally float, and my monitor at upright eye height.

Also fun to see libs calling anarchists tankies for [checks notes] not wanting NATO to invade Russia

lmao what is it with people trying to map abstract political concepts onto geometric and spacial shapes?

The colloquial meaning of “liberal” used by some Americans does not align with how it’s used in political theory. That’s okay, words have different meaning in different contexts.

“Left” and “right” stem from the French Revolution (1789!) where the people who sat on the left of the National Assembly were progressives that supported the revolution and people who sat on the right were conservatives that wanted to preserve the old system. Liberalism (as defined in political theory, not colloquially) is the dominant global ideology and thus is no longer progressive or radical. It may have been progressive when monarchy was the main form of government, propping up feudalism as the main economic structure. But that’s obviously not how the world works 200+ years later

Liberalism was “the left” in the 1700s and has desperately tried to maintain that label ever since, all while doing anything it can to preserve the status quo with violence.