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  • Yugopnik tweeting reactionary shite (CW: albesim)

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  • When we can get people on the same page educationally without crippling them economically, then we can talk about biology. Until then, it’s all voter manipulations

  • Right wingers being fine with the I.C.E stuff is not new nor surprising

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  • Being right wing or conservative became a moral issue quite some time ago. I am not arguing or talking to people that I have a moral disagreement with.

  • AMD and NVIDIA expected to begin raising GPU prices in January - up to $5,000 for a 5090 by EOY

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  • Platform and infrastructure as a service is a thing

  • I cannot think of one single metric by which my life has gotten better over the last ten years

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  • Technology

  • AI’s safety features can be circumvented with poetry, research finds

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  • the models responded to 62% of the poetic prompts with harmful content, circumventing their training.

  • Mike Johnson Touts $901 Billion Military Budget Plan After Gutting Medicaid, SNAP

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  • They should not get any more money until they can pass an audit. Falsely accuse Americans of fraud to take away food benefits, same reasoning

  • I have a guilty confession

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  • Try working in tech

  • BOYCOTT CHRISTMAS!

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  • “Existence has been reduced to such miserable organised boredom that without organised excuses to pretend to be happy there is no happiness and no community in this society.“

  • Yanis Varoufakis: "Big Tech are the new Soviets. We’re in a planned economy now"

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  • Rent still exists within capitalism. The dominance of rent doesn’t automatically overturn the mode of production. You can have rentier capitalism without feudalism.

    From strict Marxist criteria, feudalism is defined by: • serfs bound to land • extraction of surplus labor through extra-economic coercion • personal legal dependency ties

    Platform users are not legally bound, nor biologically tied to the land, but they are structurally dependent on platforms for access to markets, communication, and social reproduction.

    Thus the debate: Is dependency “as if feudal” enough to change the mode of production, or is this metaphorical inflation?

    Even if sovereignty is fragmented, all these platforms remain capitalist firms, operating under capitalist competition, dependent on global capital flows, and hiring wage laborers. So the base looks more like monopoly capitalism than feudalism.

    However, Durand’s supporters argue that: • platforms have become para-state entities, • capable of enforcing rules through algorithmic governance, • exercising non-democratic authority over economic life.

    That is reminiscent of feudal personal authority, but technologically scaled.

    Some Marxists argue that “technofeudalism” mystifies: • the role of global finance, • the extraction of surplus value from labor, • the capitalist structure enabling platforms.

    Others argue the term clarifies: • the intensification of dependency, • the privatization of governance, • the enclosure of the digital commons.

    Durand’s contribution is thus politically charged: “technofeudalism” is not a neutral descriptor but a theoretical weapon to highlight domination, enclosure, and monopoly power.

  • Yanis Varoufakis: "Big Tech are the new Soviets. We’re in a planned economy now"

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  • The French economist Cédric Durand. In German-language discussions, for instance, Durand’s 2020 book titled “Technoféodalisme” is sometimes said to have first operationalized the idea

  • Yanis Varoufakis: "Big Tech are the new Soviets. We’re in a planned economy now"

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  • This argument is disingenuous, he’s basically saying it was ok when Thomas Edison did it because that created things, but cloud doesn’t create things so instead it’s a social order? Tell me you don’t understand IT infrastructure as the backbone of the world without telling me you also don’t think internet should be a utility owned by the government

  • This is how Hillary can still win

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  • My tits are so jacked I’m scared to look down

  • Rising Prices Are Bad, but Plummeting Prices Are Worse: Americans may envy China’s deflation. They shouldn’t (CW: The Atlantic)

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  • Pretty sure this is their foreign policy as well

  • Rising Prices Are Bad, but Plummeting Prices Are Worse: Americans may envy China’s deflation. They shouldn’t (CW: The Atlantic)

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  • From an astrology perspective yes, same energy as 1770’s

  • Rising Prices Are Bad, but Plummeting Prices Are Worse: Americans may envy China’s deflation. They shouldn’t (CW: The Atlantic)

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  • I think just forbidding owning houses you don’t live in would be a huge start

  • As Prices Soar, Trump Denounces 'Affordability' as 'Democrat Scam'

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  • Coffee and red meat are out.

  • Oops! The AWS Outage Took Down Everybody's Bored Apes

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  • How does this have anything to do with layoffs? They say this every AWS outage from years ago. It was a race condition on a DNS setting that wiped out a major one. Don’t artiunute to malice which is likely stupidity. DNS is incredibly easy to eff up and impossible to alert on

  • Oops! The AWS Outage Took Down Everybody's Bored Apes

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  • This author doesn’t know how blockchain works. The blockchains didn’t go down, what is pointing to the blockchains like markets did.

  • how a marxist sees the world

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  • Does Ibn Khaldun have an ApI I can call for this?