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chobeat

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  • Alterity without difference: the non-identity of the Augustinian Left

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  • has no explanitory power in comparison to class, their movements and relations.

    I think this is more about transformational power rather than explanatory. You can understand something and be completely unable to alter it if you employ such perspective. As the saying goes: if you ask an engineers if planes can fly, he will say they can't.

    What this blog post boils down to is nothing new: a slavish devotion to spontaneity, and indivualistic terror.

    The author writes extensively against spontaneism and the death of the individual. You're picking the wrong fight.

    We have roughly 200 years of accumulated revolutionary experience all around us. That is our starting point.

    Experience built in a world that doesn't exist anymore. It's kinda acknowledged in the article.

  • Alterity without difference: the non-identity of the Augustinian Left

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  • The references in the article are all 19th century stuff, in the European liberation movements and Chinese anti-imperialism. There's no reference to the French or American Revolution.

  • Alterity without difference: the non-identity of the Augustinian Left

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  • well, Solarpunk, being utopic, hinges on a complete alterity. Reflecting on how articulate a connection to actual praxis could be interesting for some. Also on the same blog there's solarpunk references.

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  • Well, I would say at least since the 80s, where the political movements started in the 68 lost steam and we entered a period of political irrelevance for the Left throughout the West. After the fall of the USSR, it got worse because especially in Europe the Left lost the leverage given by the threat of a soviet invasion/support. The G8 protests in Seattle and Genova kinda sealed the deal, showing that the future has been abolished.

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  • It shouldn't, but it does. Now what?

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  • An Open Letter to Kickstarter Creators: Why We, Kickstarter United, Are Fighting for a Four-Day 32-Hour Workweek

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  • the assumption is that they are not customers. They are producer on a platform, which is very different. This is more similar to office workers striking alongside riders in a food delivery company rather than a consumer boycott.

  • What made you join a losing cause?

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  • I wish it was personal beef. It's a systemic pathology throughout the left, reason why I abandoned those spaces to organize elsewhere.

  • What made you join a losing cause?

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  • That's the narrative after the fact to justify successful revolutions.

    Many revolutions have had setbacks at times, but showed regular growth in the participation of organizations building them and growth in the resources they could mobilize.

    Most professional revolutionaries, like Lenin, Ho Chi Min, Guevara etc were middle-upper class who could commit their time and resources to build structure. Revolutions never start from the poor, because the poor are busy working. The best they can do is rioting or protesting, but protests never change things.

    What I'm saying is that with this narrative about losing we justify a tolerance for defeat, ineffectiveness and spontaneism that pamper and console people in their powerlessness, breeding activists and protestors instead of organizers. While nobody should be judged for not winning, we also shouldn't be so comfortable with losing. It's also very alienating for normal people: if they have to give up their time and energy to chase a higher goal, they want to win, they don't want to "lose better". Nobody wants to be a loser, except insular dirtbag leftists with an outcast attitude.

  • What made you join a losing cause?

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  • Because you live in a bubble and your needs are not the needs of the vast majority of human on Earth. Also change is not a matter of opinions or conscience, it's a matter of organizing and building power. Most people can agree on a topic without anything changing.

  • What made you join a losing cause?

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  • FOSS is the backbone of IT

    FOSS is the backbone of a mlitiary-corporate monstrous machine of death and exploitation. I get that originally the movement was more concerned with the freedom of software than the freedom of people, but I would say "FOSS being a force for good" is definitely a battle that was lost.

  • What made you join a losing cause?

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  • Because it’s historically been the nature of these causes that they’re losing right up until the moment they win. Seems impossible till it’s done, journey of a thousand miles, single step and all that.

    That's survivor bias. Sometimes it goes like that, but in the vast majority of cases you just lose. This narrative is toxic because it keeps people stuck into an anti-strategic mindset, turning politics into morality and making all of us worse off.

  • What made you join a losing cause?

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  • The last 30 years of activism prove you quite wrong

  • MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing

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  • That surprises me, marketing and sales being the main user of AI, I thought the back-office automation for sure was going to be by far number 1

    Generative AI is a bullshit generator. Bullshit in your marketing=good. Bullshit in your backend=bad.

     
             > So the number 1 user is sales/marketing but it’s back office admin jobs that are most impacted?

    GenAI is primarily adopted to justify mass layoffs and only secondarily to create business value. It's the mass layoffs that drive AI adoption, not the other way around.

  • Are you a feminist? (If so why, if not why not?)

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  • I'm not, because I do nothing actively in feminist political spaces. I believe opinions count nothing and don't change the world, so I don't want to be bundled up with the plenty of people who use it as a label for virtue signaling while not actually putting the effort in.

  • AI Is a Total Grift

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  • "alignment problem" is what CEOs use as a distraction to take responsibility away from their grift and frame the issue as a technical problem. That's another word that make you lose any credibility

  • AI Is a Total Grift

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  • I've met the author IRL. He's quite famous in his niche

  • What other Communities would others like on Lemmy that don't already exist?

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  • Not sure these are communities that I would like to see on Lemmy necessarily, but they are stuff that I have no space to discuss here:

    • political organization design
    • fermentation
    • fine dining and cooking
    • videogames design theory and videogames critique

  • ‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians

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  • Divestment organizers never really had a breakthrough in Microsoft like they did in other companies or organizations. Divestment is one of the best applications of worker power, but you need to build that power and Microsoft is very under-organized, especially in the US.