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Aside: Are “AI Boosters” the Real Disadvantaged-Marginalised-Subaltern Party?

No, and this is an extremely suspicious framing. The largest structural and monetary support ever leveraged is being put behind “AI” rollout. […] Pushing back against it is what involves sticking out your neck.

Great article. Still working through it, but full of excellent, clearheaded points like this.

I hate to focus on this one asshole when there’s a real life genocide happening, but he’s just so inept. It’s hard to look away.

Does the guy not have like one Arab friend to school him on the history here?

I get that’s how it seemed if you weren’t read up on it back then, and you’re not to blame, but what’s happening now is just a matter of extent.

Never forget to mentally replace “the economy” with “rich people’s yacht money” if you want to make sense of these kinds of articles

I don’t love this analogy. You’re comparing something out of living memory with something that’s still actively going on right this second.

I think it’s always worthwhile to at least mention it, or else you give the impression we’ve collectively moved on.

That’s great and reminds me in turn of scp-1981

I wouldn’t be surprised if your maga party didn’t pass a law that a corpse can be president

Presumably their bosses have access to this info… Like…

At a certain point you may have to make a sacrifice. You may have to reject convenience, and call the store, or park your car and walk down the block. And while you’re at it you can update the OSM address.

I know it’s not the easiest way and I’m not judging you one bit—I also take the less principled option sometimes. But I can’t even render Google maps on my phone now, and it’s amazing how things just turn out fine when I muddle through.

I come from the 90s for fuck’s sake, before all this. I’m not going to let some power tripping ad platform make me feel helpless.

Rip Debian

That’s… How it’s supposed to work. Don’t fall for the trap of getting mad at guaranteed income lol. You will regret it

Somehow I guess that wasn’t enough control for fascists. I’m sure they’ll stop now though, they probably have enough control to feel safe

Quiet now, that commie is cooking

They say every million in Microsoft ad spend is a quarter point in Linux desktop share.

Yeah I’m having conversations with the most broie business school types and finding out they’re running mint. I grew up not knowing anyone who used Linux except maybe at school.

The dems suck, aye. Afaik Mamdani is a socdem which isn’t radical or anything but I can see why people are excited for a reformist politician rather than a straight up sellout like they’re used to.

I’m kind of on the fence about whether a “good” government makes real revolutionary change more or less likely… It’s one of them things where you’d like to see ownership move to the workers and the role of the state sort of dissolve while protecting the power vacuum that non government corporations would step into.

Anyway I’m talking above my level of education. This is just vibes speaking now.