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  • Do You Know How to Bleed?

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  • This is a very different way to use the term than how it is used in Europe and in the theory I read. For me prefigurative politics are raves (in the European sense), TAZ, worldbuilding workshops, etc etc.

    A tool library, even if only small, is prefiguration for example.

    For me, if it's done to make feel better the people setting it up, it is prefigurative. If it's done to solve real problems for real people who don't read theory, it's not prefigurative. You're already doing the thing, so there's nothing to prefigurate. If you believe that by doing it, a thousand other tool libraries will bloom, that's prefigurative again, because that's assuming that the current state of things is due to a lack of imagination and liberating subjective experiences, which didn't bring much so far. We have had at least 30-40 years of this, and most spaces and people who participated in such activities are still as powerless as they were in the past.

  • Do You Know How to Bleed?

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  • Doing politics without trying to create an arbitrary, imagined boundary between a system and its outside, the old and the new, the inside and the outside. Doing politics within history, resisting the urge to put yourself outside of it. No escapism, no coping, no otherworlding. Regaining agency by rooting yourself where you are and altering the system you're in to bring about a new system.

  • Do You Know How to Bleed?

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  • Well, it hasn't been working so far. The last 30 years of conscious prefigurative politics didn't achieve much.

  • Do You Know How to Bleed?

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  • Prefiguration is often understood as purely performative. "Behaving as if". For example, in Temporary Autonomous Zones that do not challenge existent power nor deal with the conflict coming from outside the prefigurative bubble.

    "Building the new in the shell of the old" is just... change? It's the normal mutation of society. System shift, paradigm shift, etc etc.

  • Lemmy, what's the meaning, or point if you prefer, of life? I know 42, but I'm serious. Nothing lasts, everything is meaningless - are we just amusing ourselves until death?

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  • it's your life, you decide. You can also decide not to give it meaning.

  • The Rise and Fall of the Knowledge Worker

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  • Here "replace" doesn't mean "being able to do the same job". It means you get fired. Automation in most fields never even tried to get close to a level of quality comparable to what a human can do, but it was enough to displace a majority of workers.

    The author is a machine learning engineer, so he's perfectly aware of the limits of whatever is called AI. The point is to make those limits irrelevant by lowering the expected level of quality, as it happened with textile, food, and so on.

  • What's the worst tasting meats you've had that aren't chicken, beef, pork, or lamb?

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  • Here I see a lot of people who have been served badly prepared game. For any meat that tastes too gamey, if you're not sure how to prepare it, there are some tricks that work pretty much everytime:

    1. Make an infusion of ginger by boiling it for half an hour. Lot of ginger, the water must taste spicy. Then soak the meat in it overnight. It won't really live a gingery taste in the meat, so it's good for most preparations.
    2. Don't roast, but braise. Red wine, juniper berries, rosemary, cloves, bayleaves, and laurel are good with most wild animals and musky meats: deer, wild boar, mutton, rock goat, etc etc. Sheepmeat and goatmeat can also go with a lot of cumin, turmeric, chili, cinnamon and cardamom, if you want a more central Asian vibe.

  • What's the worst you ever hurt yourself as a kid?

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  • Broke my elbow twice: one time at like 7 sliding down a hill and one time at like 13 doing a overhead kick playing soccer. Slit the skin of my head open at 8 after being pushed by a classmate against the base of a decorated column. Lot of blood, many stitches.

  • I want to leave tech: what do I do?

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  • Most people don't know they are allowed to dream, let alone in which direction. While this might not connect with you, there are millions of tech workers who have zero perspective on what's out there.

  • I want to leave tech: what do I do?

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  • I would argue the title implies "leaving the tech industry", and in the beginning it says the article is for who wants to still work with the same skillset, but outside of the tech industry as in the companies who produce technology for profit. Probably only the tech co-op part can be said to be still within the tech industry

  • The AI Company Zuckerberg Just Poured $14 Billion Into Is Reportedly a Clown Show of Ludicrous Incompetence

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  • Futurism.com is garbage. I think it's quite a distorted narrative: the vetting is extremely invasive, with regular face scans and passport verifications at sign up. Then maybe a lot of shit was still going through, but this narrative suggests that these companies are not at the forefront of extremely invasive worker surveillance, which is demonstrably false given the wave of class actions and privacy violation proceedings they are subject to.

  • Republicans threaten to deport Mamdani, conduct mass roundups in response to New York mayoral primary

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  • You wouldn’t criticize a baker for studying and applying chemistry to their craft.

    It's fun you bring this up because it's been a debate for a long time: baker theory and practice beats chemistry every day if you want to make nice bread. Baking and proofing are not exact sciences and in most scenarios, even industrial breadmaking, complete reproducibility is unfeasible. When it's achieved, it's achieved at the cost of making terrible bread.

    Mamdani won the primary while identifying as a socialist, the fact you can somehow take that win and twist it into a negative, insisting we should abandon the label, shows that you in fact are the one who has abandoned reality for fantasy, the fantasy that the bourgeoisie has won a decisive battle against communism and our only remaining solution is to retreat onto their terms.

    Thousands and thousands before him ran for mayor under a socialist identity. He won because he built a strong infrastructure, he has good communication, he doesn't care about intellectuals and theory but actual, concrete problem as lived by people and not as investigated by sociologists. The same is true for Die Linke in Germany: decades of swinging around their socialist identity and no result. Purging the old ideologues stuck in their books and 6 months of building infrastructure for canvassing and they tripled their votes.

    Organized, disciplined class struggle can, and will, break the chains of capital. For sure, but old identities and old practices are repulsive and an obstacle to obtaining such result. Organization is built on relationships and relationships are built on commonality. If people do not identify as socialists and think socialists are losers that keep talking about irrelevant stuff, that commonality is not there and it's harder to build.

    You know what's the cool part about this new way of doing politics on the ground? That most people are realizing they can leave behind opinionated communists: they make for worse organizers because they question everything and reason from prime principles, they have no leverage, and they have no positional power. We are just collectively moving on from the need of stale leftists to be involved at all. We will leave you larping on the internet, quoting dead people to each other while we do the work.

  • Republicans threaten to deport Mamdani, conduct mass roundups in response to New York mayoral primary

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  • You should do some politics in the real world. You clearly leave in a fantasy made of theory books

  • Did PewDiePie Just Crack the Code for How to Present Libre Software?

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  • There's plenty of neo-nazis in the Free Software movement. It's "Free Software", not "Free People"

  • Republicans threaten to deport Mamdani, conduct mass roundups in response to New York mayoral primary

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  • The opposition was there, but the construction of a shared mass identity for workers was a viable strategy in the face of that specific environment, that now has changed. Political strategy is not a blueprint and just because it worked in a radically different environment, doesn't mean it's going to work again and, in fact, it failed over and over in the West for the last 40-50 years.

    Identity is a primary driver of political participation and today almost nobody wants to be a communist: right-wingers because they are right-wingers, progressives because communists lost over and over, and even communist more often than not prefer to identify with a specific sect and present themselves as such. Just because an identity and a narrative worked once, doesn't mean they will work every time.

  • Republicans threaten to deport Mamdani, conduct mass roundups in response to New York mayoral primary

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  • are you aware the world of communication, identity and political decision-making resembles very little the world they were living in? Do you think a century of anti-communist propaganda does nothing and it will magically disappear if you state your identity hard enough? So egocentric.

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    Looking for a Safe, Super Open Source (and also cheap if not free) Journaling app. Any Recomendations?

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  • it's source available, and most of the code is public, but you cannot contribute or fork

  • Republicans threaten to deport Mamdani, conduct mass roundups in response to New York mayoral primary

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  • his voter base is people of color, wtf are you talking about? That's helping him.

    He just represents novelty and anti-establishment values like talking about the problems of working class people, in the same way Trump does, but he does that without appealing to fear or hate. That's it, that's why he won. The rest is just ornamental. He defines himself socialist to get traction and participation among volunteers, but for the voter base, that's not helping him.

  • Republicans threaten to deport Mamdani, conduct mass roundups in response to New York mayoral primary

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  • or, you know, you could be strategic and stop making politics an identitarian issue to avoid such reactions. Mamdani won despite defining himself as a socialist, not because of it.