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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]

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Anarchist, autistic, engineer, and Certified Professional Life-Regretter. If you got a brick of text, don't be alarmed; that's normal.
No, I'm not interested in voting for your candidate.

18m ago

Are there any quick ways I can study, read and process socialist/communist theory?
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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @lemmy.sdf.org 18m ago
What I said applies to socialist theory with the appropriate changes.

6h ago

Cutting LLM token usage by 80% using recursive document analysis

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @lemmy.sdf.org 6h ago

We'll see how Matryoshka unifies these ideas into one system that maintains a persistent analytical state.

As a dynamical systems guy, this warms my heart. Thank you for putting this out there.

6h ago

Is Germany Looking to Put a Backdoor into Arch Linux?

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @lemmy.sdf.org 6h ago

Doubt it. No fan of Germany, but why make the payment public? And Arch is open-source and used primarily by tech-saavy people, i.e. it's one of the worst choices of distro to put a backdoor in.

My guess: Germany has some critical system(s) running Arch Linux and they want the package manager to be rewritten in a memory-safe language.

6h ago

Would it be realistic to try to set up an america-free instance?

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @lemmy.sdf.org 6h ago

I'm sorry that we're like this. I've been working my entire adult life to unlearn the lies and bullshit that the AmeriKKKan settler-colonial entity has hammered into our heads. I completely understand if you don't want to hear from AmeriKKKans, but I really want to listen to non-AmeriKKKan perspectives and signal-boost these perspectives into AmeriKKKan-dominated spaces.

7h ago

Would it be realistic to try to set up an america-free instance?

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @lemmy.sdf.org 7h ago

Yeah I'm from the US and while I would respect the community's wishes not to hear from me, I would 1000% listen through a VPN so I can learn and signal-boost your non-AmeriKKKan perspectives 😆

7h ago

Would it be realistic to try to set up an america-free instance?

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @lemmy.sdf.org 7h ago

Nothing wrong with the yanks

I appreciate you trying to be nice but there's so so so so so much wrong with us

7h ago

Minneapolis mayor: ‘I don’t support abolishing ICE’

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @lemmy.sdf.org 7h ago

The problem is not necessarily that we have immigration laws, or that there is an agency tasked with enforcing them.

No it literally is the problem. 🏴🏴🏴 You're just noticing now because they're getting efficient and being more openly ruthless.

18h ago

por qué no los dos

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @lemmy.sdf.org 18h ago

Because I'm trying (and failing) to go to sleep 🙃

20h ago

Are there any quick ways I can study, read and process socialist/communist theory?

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @lemmy.sdf.org 20h ago

It's okay to read things multiple times, get stuck, stop and think, take a long time, etc. The fact that you're not just blowing through the reading is a sign that you are critically engaging with the material.

Lately I've been reading more technical/mathematical books than socialist theory since I started engineering school, but here are some of the reading habits I've developed.

I very rarely ever read a book cover-to-cover in a linear fashion. For math books, I usually skim the contents, then read the preface. Then, the first pass of the book is just to learn the notation and conventions, and to get the most basic overview of what is going on. (For socialist books, this might mean how words look in the font the book uses, the structure of the book, words you've never seen before, definitions (especially if the author uses some words with a novel definition!), standing assumptions, and the conclusions the book makes.) Then, for the second reading, you gotta follow the proofs/arguments more carefully. And the third and subsequent readings are focused on specific sections that you figure out in previous readings that you want to take away from the book.

My preference is to read on a computer sitting at a desk, but I keep copies of basically all my books on my phone so if I'm too sad to get out of bed, or if I'm stuck waiting in line, I can read any time, anywhere, basically anything.

Personally, I prefer dark mode, to the point that I invert the color of my PDFs. (In Okular, I usually use the "invert lightness" option. The default "invert" option makes blues oranges, greens reds, etc., which is annoying for color diagrams.) I personally like to read while listening to tech metal in the coldest room I can find. (Music silences the "head voice", i.e. if you're reading this right now you are probably imagining how it sounds. This slows down your reading; you can read a little faster than you process speech. I pick tech metal because it's a subset of what I like, it's energetic which gives me the energy to keep reading, but it's proggy as fuck so it makes me feel smart 🤓. If you don't want to have your ears melted off, try some jazz. IMO make sure you have at least 24 hours of study music on hand. For some people, music makes it way way worse, so be careful 😆) I just picked up some noise cancelling headphones and even with no music, it's so fucking helpful to be able to actively cancel some of the outside noise. And I like to read away from my room/bed whenever possible.

IMO the key here is: make yourself comfortable when you read. And only you know what makes you comfortable 😄. Reading should be fun!

If I get stuck on an equation or passage in any reading, I will spend a finite amount of time racking my brain and the Internet trying to get through it under my own power. (First reading, up to about 5 minutes. Second reading, up to about 30 minutes. Subsequent readings, however much time I have left to read, since I probably decided to read the section to nail down the equation/passage I'm having trouble with.) IMO thinking through problems is a hugely important part of reading and just life, but the thing with books is that sometimes, your question gets answered later in the book. E.g., in pure math books, authors sometimes define objects before they tell you (or you figure out from context) why that definition matters or what it aims to encode.

Hope this helps.

21h ago

Is Lemmy.World an authentically "modern leftist" community?

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @lemmy.sdf.org 21h ago

No lol, it's basically Reddit 2.0 and I don't mean that as a complement 😆

22h ago

Does DBZer0 allow other forms of socialism/communism like DeLeonism, syndicalism, council communism and libertarian socialism?

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @lemmy.sdf.org 22h ago

I'm not a dbzer0 account owner, but the instance rules and sign up page don't require you to personally be an anarchist or even a socialist to join. And there are definitely a few non-anarchist socialists running around with dbzer0 accounts.

But counterpoint: have you considered just being an anarchist? It's free 😆

1d ago

Americans’ take on Trump’s second term remains unchanged, poll reveals

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @lemmy.sdf.org 1d ago

More like all of us 🥴

1d ago

Trump Suggests U.S. ‘Shouldn’t Even Have’ November Midterms

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @lemmy.sdf.org 1d ago

Better than Republicans is a bar so low it's basically touching the core of the earth. Nah, I mean better than they have been, which is also a subterranean bar.

1d ago

Trump Suggests U.S. ‘Shouldn’t Even Have’ November Midterms

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @lemmy.sdf.org 1d ago

folks want them to be perfect

Well I want the Dems to literally light themselves on fire for what they did to Gaza, but really "folks" just want Dems to be decent. Like Dems don't even want to defund ICE, they just want to put down bullshit procedural crap that they'll face zero consequences

1d ago

Trump Suggests U.S. ‘Shouldn’t Even Have’ November Midterms

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @lemmy.sdf.org 1d ago

Not at all. I'm suggesting that they just be good enough, as opposed to merely being less shit than the GOP.

1d ago

Trump Suggests U.S. ‘Shouldn’t Even Have’ November Midterms

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @lemmy.sdf.org 1d ago

Yeah because the Dems didn't go after the racist rapist pedophile Nazi fascist con man dictator when they had the fucking power to do so 🤦 because they gotta protect the racist rapist pedophile Nazi fascist elites loyal to their faction of capital 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦

1d ago

Trump Suggests U.S. ‘Shouldn’t Even Have’ November Midterms

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @lemmy.sdf.org 1d ago

I mean have the Dems just tried being better?

2d ago

Website that leaked info about ICE agents is down after 'cyberattack'

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2d ago

Facing Contempt Threat, Clintons Refuse to Testify in Epstein Inquiry

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @lemmy.sdf.org 2d ago

Yeah I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at them. Sorry if I came off that way. I'm trying to be constructive but also take a firm stance against the Epstein class, you know?