Thanks for clarifying 😆. And maybe don’t pay attention to the software my instance is currently running 😅

then y r u here

Okay I get that you’re dunking on Rimu yelling about a Zionist getting banished to the Shadow Realm with the help of a LLM, but what’s the significance of the Maori guy?

Collective action does not require, and in my view is not even helped by, the existence of the State. Defying the government is (insufficient and) unnecessary to push off the water crisis to the future, e.g. the government can physically import water from elsewhere (although I wouldn’t bet on it), but defying the government is necessary (but insufficient) to permanently (on human time scales) solve the water crisis there, precisely because the State is designed to prevent the people from solving their own problems when it conflicts with capitalists’ interests.

But they require a significant investment of capital, engineering skill, and long-term management.

We can and should do this without the tyranny of the State. I’m not a water treatment engineer, but I am an engineer, and I don’t need nor want a cop or similar authoritarian and hierarchical structure breathing down my neck to organize complex technological systems with the continuous consent of the community.

By becoming an awkward adult

Yeah you do. Sorry, I don’t make the rules 🤷

Really putting the horny into hornyposting I see 😆

He’s unironically not communist enough 🏴🚩

It’s a cool first design but I think it’s (aesthetically) too much red. I’m an anarcho-communist, so politically I want to see some red, but having the background be completely red is just…stressful. Maybe “invert” the colors (black --> red, red --> black)?

Completely understandable, and I’m not really a fan of AI art either. IMO the best use cases of A"I", really statistical learning, are for technical problems that come with data. (We should reject the marketing that these systems are intelligent in any meaningful capacity, especially when they are useful. And we must acknowledge that we are overloading the term “learning”, i.e. statistical learning says nothing about the learning by people and animals it is inspired by.) But at the time that this community really took off, we didn’t really have the community members to draw it. (This account is under a year old, but my SDF account is over 2 years old (if SDF ever gets their hard drive space 😆), and I had a VLemmy account that I made during the R*ddit API closure.) At least, to the best of my recollection, no one volunteered to do it.

I would definitely support replacing the banner with a human-made banner if we can all decide on one.

Do we wanna get something started to replace the banner with a human-drawn banner? Any artists in the chat?

He hasn’t been hiding it either lol. He’s (openly) behind the AI Horde, which pretty clearly tries to democratize AI inference. One of the only good people in the AI space IMO.

Just because it happened in the past doesn’t mean that it’s a good idea. Actually, the appeal to nature “argument” against borders does, IMO, provide evidence that the conclusion (borders are evil and should be dispensed with) holds, but it is not an argument in itself.

IMO a better argument is the reality of the misery and oppression that borders create: they cage humanity and the ecology and thus limit our potential, and they only serve to benefit the local capitalists, and proletarians pay the price in blood and tears for those who try to assert their right to move. And then to this, we append the positive examples from nature as empirical evidence that suggests the conclusion, with the caveat that just because something is natural does not mean it is optimal or good.

Me, who went into electrical engineering specifically to do more math:

💩us Mc🐦us

And nothing of value was lost

Nah I think some comrades thought that based on the title, Jessie is literally saying that anti-fascist activism is for fools. Which they are explicitly not saying lol, like they literally say that we need to fight fascists around the midpoint, but I suspect they picked that title to rope in liberals who do think that. This is about “leftist” media not actually telling stories about alternative ways of living. E.g., Star Wars has a relatively sympathetic portrayal of revolutionaries, but in the Disney movies, the rebels basically just fight for, and ultimately go back to l, the same liberal democracy that allowed fascism to develop, with predictable results in the Disney trilogy.

To be absolutely crystal clear: Jessie does not oppose anti-fascist work literally at all. Quite the opposite! But their point is that only anti-fascism is not enough, in particular that leftist media needs to imagine alternative visions of a better world.

Can I pick one collective thing? Because I would eat the capitalist class.