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/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!

  • Incredible writing from CNN

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  • People will actually defend this, too. They'll say that Maduro was just making stuff up before and frame it like a boy-who-cried-wolf situation, and actually, Maduro must have given Trump the idea to attempt a regime change operation etc etc

  • Reddit media literacy dot jaypeg

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  • There's definitely the group you're talking about, which Sartre pretty accurately described. They're just amusing themselves by deliberately defacing media because it's funny to them. "The anti-Semites have the right to play" and all that.

    They're a minority. The majority are just "wow cool future!" when they see a piece of media like Starship Troopers. They're very susceptible to that minority of reactionaries, but I think they can just as easily be swayed away from a reactionary reading of media by the very next person that talks to them. They don't really believe anything, they'll just adopt the last thing they heard.

    Unfortunately, reactionaries have way more time to talk about movies and video games.

  • Reddit media literacy dot jaypeg

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  • They have elementary literacy. Sure, they can technically read, but they can't comprehend themes, metaphor, subtext, or satire.

    This isn't just a fascist thing, it's pretty widespread. Critical analysis is something people do a few times in school for books they hated (and probably never fully read) and then avoid doing it ever again for the rest of their lives.

  • Kentucky moves toward ban on cell phone use while driving

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  • Decades ago? What are you talking about? As far as I can tell distracted driving detection software is an extremely recent technological development that's been adopted in a few countries in the past few years. The UK was first I think, in 2021. France and Germany only upgraded in the last year. I don't need to be mocked for missing out on the latest and greatest in traffic enforcement technology, and I don't appreciate being talked down to like I'm fucking stupid or the butt of a fucking joke.

  • Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency

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  • Naw, we're in a recession, they're just reassuring investors that there's nothing to worry about.

  • Choose wisely

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  • There are a lot of elements of the firewall that are something Europe should consider emulating, because it's also keeping US slop out of the country and protecting domestic industry and stopping US meddling through electronic warfare. It allows for China to develop its own internal economy rather than be hollowed out and made dependent on Silicon Valley. It's tech sovereignty.

    Imagine if Europe replaced Facebook, Instagram, Xitter, and Youtube with its own internally developed and regulated platforms. No more tech dependency! China made the right choice and it's becoming more clear as enshitification ruins the internet.

  • Workers Say AI Is Useless, While Oblivious Bosses Insist It's a Productivity Miracle

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  • Okay, but that goes back to what I said before, the bosses are oblivious to how poor this technology actually is and are sleepwalking into a disaster. They're trying to replace their workers with something that can't replace them and this will have serious consequences, not just for the AI companies, but for the entire economy.

    That's why we need to make sure they don't escape on their golden parachutes.

    In the meantime, the workers could organize and demand the bosses stop trying to replace them.

  • Society is Limited by Wage Slavery

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  • If I have no money how do I get a plumber under capitalism? There's no social infrastructure for the poor.

  • Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots

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  • Workers Say AI Is Useless, While Oblivious Bosses Insist It's a Productivity Miracle

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  • Whether it works or not matters to the investors. If it doesn't work they've sunk a lot of money, labor, and time into a boondoggle. They want to replace labor, but they want profit too. Businesses aren't just infinite money machines that can keep throwing shit at the wall until something sticks, eventually the investors pull out when they don't see the returns they expected.

    That said, it's up to us to make sure the bosses don't ride this out on golden parachutes.

    When the economy collapses we need to put them all in prison.

  • Workers Say AI Is Useless, While Oblivious Bosses Insist It's a Productivity Miracle

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  • That's part of how they're oblivious - mass adoption won't actually improve LLMs beyond a certain point, and we're long past it. The tech is fundamentally limited in what they can actually do, and instead of recognizing the limitations to work within them they're pretending we're gonna have AGI.

  • Gold’s Rise, Dollar’s Plunge: A Monetary Crisis 55 Years in the Making

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  • What does currency devaluation with no industrial policy look like?

    In every other case of currency devaluation the state would use it as an opportunity to build productive capacity and take advantage of the ability to manufacture cheap exports. The US makes some stuff, but mostly it's a financialized service economy. If that blows up, and the government doesn't step in the build productive capacity, what even happens?

  • When we say "Fuck AI" are we inadvertently helping the "AI" companies by referring to their products as "AI"?

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  • Yeah "AI" was always a marketing term to drum up grant money and investor interest.

    It was always and only meant to trick people into thinking that it meant "actual intelligence"

  • Featured

    Bulletins and International News Discussion from January 26th to February 1st, 2026 - A Powerless Ukraine

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  • Yeah - the phrase itself was used in Latin America shortly before the US imported the methods tested in Indonesia to the continent. The Latin pink tide saw what happened in Indonesia and they saw their future, and reactionary forces were taking notes.

  • Featured

    Bulletins and International News Discussion from January 26th to February 1st, 2026 - A Powerless Ukraine

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  • "Jakarta is coming" plays on repeat in my head every time I think about that.

  • Women receive more hatred for defending themselves against violence than men do being pedophile rapists

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  • Women receive hatred for being assaulted.

  • "Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse"

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  • Empire of Borders gives some insight into this, that's around the same time that border policing transformed into a series of South-facing borders trained up by US immigration enforcement and build by US security contractors.

    The war on drugs is also a series of South-facing enforcement operations, operated in close connection with the US.

  • “Far left gender pronoun children”. By this logic Elon Musk is woke.

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  • So basically he was a guy mad at the wokies for making his children have pronouns.

    Cool country.

  • Kentucky moves toward ban on cell phone use while driving

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  • As the others have said, this is actually a complicated problem without easy solutions.

    The only way I could see it working is if you were required to register the driver's phone in the car, required to connect it (wirelessly or not) when driving, and then monitor it. Basically, combine the phone and the car key. There'd also need to be authentication to make sure the driver doesn't register a burner phone to turn their car on or register a friend/partner's phone. Then, of course, you'd have to refit all the cars already on the road to add this requirement, which is especially hard for pre-2010 cars.

    And everyone would hate it. I'm all for pissing off motorists, but they're kind of the societal majority.

  • News @lemmy.world
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    Biden considering executive action to close southern border, sources say

    www.cnn.com /2024/02/21/politics/biden-considering-executive-action-to-close-southern-border-sources-say/index.html
  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    Israel orders more Gazans to flee, bombs areas where it sends them

    www.reuters.com /world/middle-east/israel-says-ground-forces-operating-across-gaza-strip-offensive-builds-2023-12-04/
  • News @lemmy.world
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    ‘All men 16 years and above, raise your hands’: how al-Shifa raid unfolded

    www.theguardian.com /world/2023/nov/15/all-men-16-years-and-above-raise-your-hands-how-al-shifa-raid-unfolded
  • Ask Lemmygrad @lemmygrad.ml
    queermunist she/her @lemmy.ml

    A recent argument forced me to see that "genocide" has been turned into an imprecise word, and I don't know what to do about that?

    www.un.org /en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml
  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    Did Israel bomb a civilian evacuation route in Gaza? | Financial Times

    www.ft.com /content/95c5fcf1-c756-415f-85b8-1e4bbff24736
  • United States | News & Politics @lemmy.ml
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    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on How She’s Changed - The New York Times

    ghostarchive.org /archive/c8b8b
  • Firefox @lemmy.ml
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    What the hell is this horror show shit that keeps showing up in Pocket?