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rambling_lunatic ,

My country (not USA) uses American paper. I hate it.

CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (futurism.com)

You know how Google's new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won't slide off (pssst...please don't do this.)...

rambling_lunatic ,

Or you could just not use LLMs for this.

rambling_lunatic ,

Some of us are antiorganizationalists. Maybe the writer is one of them, and furthermore the type that considers organizationalists to be hokey anarchists or something to that tune.

rambling_lunatic ,

Something like this?

https://www.ratemylandlord.com/landlords/

rambling_lunatic ,

That is very distinctly not Platformism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platformism

rambling_lunatic ,

The platformist organization itself has a high degree of theoretical unity. The platform was invented because the Ukrainian anarchists were so disparate and constantly bickering about theory that they couldn't form a consistent strategy.

Dual organizationism and social insertion are not necessarily platformist. They precede it by many decades.

Anarchism is omitted from the name because it is implied. There are no non-anarchist platformists.

rambling_lunatic ,

I think they're talking about the less addictive and nonaddictive drugs, like ganja and LSD respectively.

rambling_lunatic ,

A very important thing about individualist and mutualist anarchists that you completely omitted is that they are market socialists. They want an economy run by coops. By omitting this huge point, you described "anarcho"-capitalism. It would be lying by omission if done intentionally, though I believe that you have simply made an honest mistake.

A state is not the only way that people organize themselves and make decisions. A state forms when a person or group of people make decisions for the people in a given territory as a whole, and then impose these decisions on them through force or the threat of force. If the people make decisions collectively, without relying on kings, presidents, or senators and these decisions are not enforced by an unaccountable army/police force, then you have anarchy.

Under such a system, it is completely feasible to prevent the formation of monopolies, even if you still use a market. First, coops do not have as much of a drive towards monopolization that capitalist enterprises do. This is because the earnings of the decision-makers is not based on extracting surplus value from wage laborers. Second, if monopoly formation is noticed, then the next time the community holds an assembly, they can vote to break up the would-be monopoly.

Finally, individualist/mutualist anarchists would argue in favour of wealth redistribution. Recall that the rich have amassed their wealth through exploitation of the poor. It would be right to reverse such injustice.

You would do well to read the FAQ that the other guy linked. It talks about individualist anarchists too.

rambling_lunatic ,

The market and the lack of coordination between cooperatives?

rambling_lunatic ,

Despots, as bad as they are, do not necessarily need to grow their empires.

rambling_lunatic ,

Capital, on the other hand, needs to grow. That's the trouble.

rambling_lunatic ,

Says the guy with taipans and funnel-web spiders in his yard. You're also being very cheeky with that "land" qualifier. Your ocean is full of utter murder demons like sea snakes and stonefish.

rambling_lunatic ,

I like hiking without dying.

rambling_lunatic ,

It's all in good fun, man. I am somewhat exaggerating my position. Cheers, comrade.

rambling_lunatic ,

*Cries in tropical weather*

Even when it rains, it can still be over 30 degrees. Life is pain.

rambling_lunatic ,

I feel you, man. I live by the coast. I'll be lucky if my neighborhood doesn't join Atlantis in the next decade.

rambling_lunatic ,

https://youtu.be/qcfuA_UAz3I?si=vjG5Xbz08p09f44m

rambling_lunatic ,

Ever seen a log file be a binary file, not text?

Ever seen an init system that was also cron?

Do you want to be forced to use a specific init system in order to use udev?

Then SystemD is for you!

rambling_lunatic ,

It's paraphrased but she said roughly the same thing.

rambling_lunatic ,

It was dope but man did they not give a damn about people who didn't like Unity.

rambling_lunatic ,

Yeah but a lot of that C code has inline assembly so it's more like 5-10% asm.

rambling_lunatic ,

This is the sort of thing that industrial unionism was meant to combat. Craft unionism divides the workers.

rambling_lunatic ,

Jokes on you I use NVIDIA

*Cries*

rambling_lunatic ,

You and I know damn well that a revolution is the only way that's gonna happen, and there aren't any on the horizon.

rambling_lunatic ,

Capitalism isn't just flawed, it's broken. For every prosperous nation like the UK or Germany, there's half a dozen Haitis and Panamas.

By "communism", I presume you mean Marxist-Leninist state socialism, which indeed fails miserably. However, it isn't the only alternative to capitalism. Historically, there have been several communes during the Spanish and Russian civil wars that worked fine and didn't have a central leader, let alone a dictatorship. Although they died because of military blunders, this model is currently being followed more or less in Chiapas by the Zapatistas.

In these places, workers' councils ruled. Direct face-to-face democracy by neighbours were how most things were done. I recon that this is a fairly nice arrangement.

Democracy's flaws come from subversion by the wealthy and the fact that republics don't let people really participate, but rather choose people who participate in their place.

rambling_lunatic ,

Using drugs as a coping mechanism is a guaranteed path to addiction. Don't do it, man.

Think of the people you know who drink at parties. How many became alcoholics?

Now think of the people you know who started drinking to cope with grief or depression. How many of those became alcoholics?

rambling_lunatic ,

I really like Anark's work. He actually has a well-defined conception of the society he wants to build instead of a vague idea, and a concrete program to advance the goals.

rambling_lunatic ,

Kellogg's tried to replace workers' contracts with notably worse ones. The workers went on strike. Kellogg's tried to fire all of them.

rambling_lunatic ,

I have happily succeeded. While there are some communities that are still on Discord, the vast majority of my friends are accessible on Matrix.

rambling_lunatic ,

There is one huge thing of value in Matrix: e2ee.

Sadly, the normies don't care about stuff like that, and the UX is indeed atrocious.

rambling_lunatic ,

It is often sketchy. The search function doesn't work properly. Loading older messages often makes your client spaz out. There's several glitchy commands. Spamming snowflakes can slow down your client to a crawl. A friend once crashed Element on my phone using a lot of nested quotes with muscle emojis. We had to spam other stuff so I could open Element again because the moment those messages started loading my client crashed again, preventing me from even changing the channel so I could open my app again.

I use Element and Matrix because it is the best privacy-respecting option, but it has a long way to go.

rambling_lunatic ,

2^32 different incompatible extensions for receiving images and an inability to receive messages when offline. Glorious.

rambling_lunatic ,

Yes, I have. With various clients. It sucked.

rambling_lunatic ,

OMEMO didn't allow it either, and IIRC I couldn't do it while doing it in plaintext either.

rambling_lunatic ,

Yeah, man. I tested with a friend. We used Pidgin, Dino, all the famous clients. I don't know what's up.

rambling_lunatic ,

In Matrix we trust

rambling_lunatic ,

"Anarchist pop group Chumbawamba performed their hit single "Tubthumping" live at the 1998 Brit Awards in support of the Liverpool dockers. They changed the words of the song to "New Labour sold out the dockers; just like they'll sell out the rest of us!" Later in the evening band member Danbert Nobacon jumped onto Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott's table proclaiming "This is for the Liverpool Dockworkers!" before emptying a bucket full of iced water all over him."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_dockers%27_dispute_(1995%E2%80%931998)

Damn shame they described Chumbawamba as a pop group.

rambling_lunatic OP ,

Who tf watches hentai on Pornhub

rambling_lunatic OP ,

The Shashlik King doesn't usually show his eyes.

rambling_lunatic ,

Great article, but one of the articles it cites early on (the one about breaking out of the activist mold) has a line that baffles me.

"The division of labour operates, for example, in medicine or education — instead of healing and bringing up kids being common knowledge and tasks that everyone has a hand in, this knowledge becomes the specialised property of doctors and teachers — experts that we must rely on to do these things for us. Experts jealously guard and mystify the skills they have. This keeps people separated and disempowered and reinforces hierarchical class society."

- Andrew X

Is he really suggesting the abolition of doctors and teachers? Is he aware of how absurdly hard it is to be a doctor or a teacher?

rambling_lunatic ,

I am, to say the least, highly skeptical that "part-time doctors" will be a possibility in the foreseeable future.

rambling_lunatic ,

You said that "doctor" likely wouldn't be a full-time role.

You need like 6 years of grueling education, plus years of experience, to be a reasonably good doctor. If you don't go through all of that, you very well may end up killing someone if you try to practice medicine.

It simply isn't practical to teach everyone the whole shebang and expect them to be able to work part-time as a doctor and also something else.

rambling_lunatic ,

I think that unless we can fully automate healthcare, there really isn't a way we can do it. Perhaps I lack imagination, but how would you do that? What did you come up with?

rambling_lunatic ,

It's okay, man. No feelings were hurt.

rambling_lunatic ,

Tau wouldn't and doesn't exterminate. On the other hand they may or may not brainwash their populace.

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