Georgia jury orders Monsanto parent to pay nearly $2.1 billion in Roundup weedkiller lawsuit
Georgia jury orders Monsanto parent to pay nearly $2.1 billion in Roundup weedkiller lawsuit
A jury in Georgia has ordered Monsanto parent Bayer to pay nearly $2.1 billion in damages to a man who says the company’s Roundup weed killer caused his cancer.Wyatte Grantham-Philips (News4Jax | Jacksonville, Florida News, Weather, Sports | WJXT Channel 4)
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Will WOMEN have more SEX with ROBOTS than MEN by 2025?? Your super soaraway Pivot investigates
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Neu im ZDF – „Die Affäre Cum-Ex“ (2025)
Seit das ZDF und ARTE vor acht Jahren mit der legendären Serie „Bad Banks“ europäische Maßstäbe gesetzt haben und, in zwei Staffeln, einen mit Preisen überhäuften und internationalen Erfolg feiern konnten, habe ich mich gefragt, ob, und wenn, dann wann und wie, so ein TV-Ereignis wohl zu wiederholen sein würde. Für all diese Fragen steht seit gestern die Antwort auf dem brandneuen ZDF-Portal. Diese Serie ist ein öffentlich-rechtlicher Hammer! (ZDF)
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CumCum-Milliarden: Zeit ist Steuergeld
Über 300.000 Menschen haben sich im letzten Jahr gemeinsam mit uns dafür eingesetzt, das Schreddergesetz zu stoppen und dafür zur sorgen, dass die Beweise für illegale CumCum-Geschäfte nicht vorschnell vernichtet werden dürfen.WeAct
Newspaper editorials written by AI don’t go down so well
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Historic Human Rights Ruling: Court Orders Ecuador to Protect Uncontacted Indigenous Peoples from Oil Industry Encroachment
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The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that Ecuador violated the rights of uncontacted Indigenous peoples by permitting oil drilling in their territories.Manny Moreno (The Wild Hunt)
Greenpeace must pay at least $660m over Dakota pipeline protests, says jury
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What’s the Matter with Abundance? | Malcolm Harris
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“Abundance” by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson is new packaging for a tried-and-failed attempt to escape from history on a rocket ship.J.W. McCormack (The Baffler)
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This is a great review. I am disappointed that Klien and his co-author appear to be about 10 years behind the curve, but I appreciate that the conversation is being had, and that books like this lead to reviews like this.
I'd never heard the term "Solar communism". I appreciate being introduced to that and to the work of David and Peter Schwartzman.
A great read! Thanks for sharing!
I hadn't heard of the Schwartzmans either, I really enjoy their "Web 1.0 vibes". Very, well... solarpunk!
The author of the review, Malcolm Harris, also wrote Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World. I'm currently working my way through it - Malcolm is a lucid writer with an incredible breadth of knowledge. It should be required reading for all my fellow tech workers, at least!
Large increases in material output, we are assured, can save liberalism from the civilizational choice between socialism and barbarism. I disagree; refusing to be forthright about society’s structural antagonisms opens the door to demagogues who peddle false conflicts that still ring truer than the liberals’ false peace.
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Natürlich klauen die nicht. Aber mit den neuen Minis hat sich AMG bei G’Wullu (und anderen) Herstellern orientiert. Zumindest an der Art und Weise, wie man mit minimalem Aufwand maximalen Gewinn machen kann.
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Is vibecoding part of a solarpunk future?
I started a local vibecoders group because I think it has the potential to help my community.
(What is vibecoding? It's a new word, coined last month. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_cod…)
Why might it be part of a solarpunk future? I often see and am inspired by solarpunk art that depicts relationships and family happiness set inside a beautiful blend of natural and technological wonder. A mom working on her hydroponic garden as the kids play. Friends chatting as they look at a green cityscape.
All of these visions have what I would call a 3-way harmony--harmony between humankind and itself, between humankind and nature, and between nature and technology.
But how is this harmony achieved? Do the "non-techies" live inside a hellscape of technology that other people have created? No! At least, I sure don't believe in that vision. We need to be in control of our technology, able to craft it, change it, adjust it to our circumstances. Like gardening, but with technology.
I think vibecoding is a whisper of a beginning in this direction.
Right now, the capital requirements to build software are extremely high--imagine what Meta paid to have Instagram developed, for instance. It's probably in the tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars. It's likely that only corporations can afford to build this type of software--local communities are priced out.
But imagine if everyone could (vibe)code, at least to some degree. What if you could build just the habit-tracking app you need, in under an hour? What if you didn't need to be an Open Source software wizard to mold an existing app into the app you actually want?
Having AI help us build software drops the capital requirements of software development from millions of dollars to thousands, maybe even hundreds. It's possible (for me, at least) to imagine a future of participative software development--where the digital rules of our lives are our own, fashioned individually and collectively. Not necessarily by tech wizards and esoteric capitalists, but by all of us.
Vibecoding isn't quite there yet--we aren't quite to the Star Trek computer just yet. I don't want to oversell it and promise the moon. But I think we're at the beginning of a shift, and I look forward to exploring it.
P.S. If you want to try vibecoding out, I recommend v0 among all the tools I've played with. It has the most accurate results with the least pain and frustration for now. Hopefully we'll see lots of alternatives and especially open source options crop up soon.
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(warning: I hate "vibe" coding for a lot of reasons, and even more what it represents)
LLMs are the opposite of anything ecological IMHO.
What if you could build just the habit-tracking app you need
We have a thousand of those already. A better example is needed.
mold an existing app
That's not how any of this works. One more reason to shun those who do not care and take the time to understand what programming is all about.
the capital requirements of software development from millions of dollars
Linux is free FFS, install Ubuntu today and you have all the languages you'll ever need. How is ~~code vomit~~ vibe coding helping? Also LLMs are very expensive to run right now, it's the worst example.
Last but not least, I hate how all the CEOs, managers, companies, and random people try to: pretend that open-source does not exist, change the meaning of the word open-source by associating it with binary blobs, and show developers as selfish people ("tech wizards") who want to keep the technology for themselves.
You don't want to learn how computer works and it's fine, it's your right, but don't pretend it's anyone's fault.
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You don't want to learn how computer works and it's fine, it's your right, but don't pretend it's anyone's fault.
One of the core tenants of solarpunk is accessibility. Not everyone is able to grasp how computers work, especially people who didn't grow up with them. Our focus should be making the barriers to entry smaller, not bigger.
When I was young, we had to buy compilers that cost $1000. Everything is free now. I don’t know what you need.
I’m not complaining that poetry is too hard because dictionaries are too expensive. It’s a lack of willingness to learn that is holding people back. The barrier to entry has never been smaller. Install Ubuntu, the end.
What’s your next step? Me working for you for free? I’m not complaining about poets, wood workers, plumbers, or people who build houses. Do you think you can build a whole new civilization with lazy entitled people?
That’s not how any of this works. One more reason to shun those who do not care and take the time to understand what programming is all about.
Are you seriously saying that we need to shun people who want to fork a project?
Thanks for your thoughtful reply. I admire that, despite the clear differences we might feel around the subject. I'll try to be thoughtful as well.
LLMs are the opposite of anything ecological IMHO.
I think this is a really interesting point, and I hope to hear it unpacked some time. I'd be interested to know if you're talking about American LLMs, or some other breed of LLMs, or the transformer algorithm that generates language models itself.
We have a thousand of those already. A better example is needed.
I mentioned this in another reply, but will repeat here a bit. I didn't go into detail in the original post because I wanted to be brief. But the habit tracker app I was thinking about was something my daughter designed. She isn't a coder. But she had a complex set of nuanced motivation ideas for herself--she wanted to make a system where if she didn't something healthy for herself, she would be awarded stars, and if she did something social she would be awarded flowers. I'm doing her app a disservice by abbreviating it. She wrote a 19-page description (Product Requirements Doc, in engineering terms, but she wouldn't know that term) in Google Docs, and then built her app in v0. She was so so excited to see her ideas come to life! It's the first time I've ever seen her really interested in computers.
(re: mold an existing app) That’s not how any of this works. One more reason to shun those who do not care and take the time to understand what programming is all about.
I'm not sure what you mean here. I'm a FOSS developer. I know what open source is. I also know what it takes to start with an existing open source app and mold it into a new shape, based on new requirements that I have. What am I missing?
Linux is free FFS, install Ubuntu today and you have all the languages you’ll ever need. How is ~~code vomit~~ vibe coding helping? Also LLMs are very expensive to run right now, it’s the worst example.
I'm running an LLM and a transcription service (audio -> text of my notes, synced via syncthing from mobile phone to server, then processed using n8n and a docker image of whisper-asr-webservice) on an nvidia 3080 GPU in my home, powered (mostly) by our solar panels. I'm exploring new paths, and vibecoding seems like an interesting one to me 🤷
Last but not least, I hate how all the CEOs, managers, companies, and random people try to: pretend that open-source does not exist, change the meaning of the word open-source by associating it with binary blobs, and show developers as selfish people (“tech wizards”) who want to keep the technology for themselves.
I'm not sure that I agree with this statement.
You don’t want to learn how computer works and it’s fine, it’s your right, but don’t pretend it’s anyone’s fault.
I guess I didn't think I was blaming anyone here.
My vision for the future is one where it's more equitable--where digital algorithms don't govern our lives like they (primarily at the hands of corporations) do today. I'm exploring what vibecoding might mean if it emancipates people to contribute to the ruleset that is often hidden from their view, especially when they don't have computer/technical expertise (but also by just being a human being in this era, when mobile phones, social media, and unhealthy relating with devices are ubiquitous and basically just "expected" of you).
Yeah sorry no. Solarpunk is about community so if anything then pair programming is Solarpunk, but I don't think that talking in isolation to an auto completion system is Solarpunk.
Maybe in like 300 years with some kind of robots, but that's not really the scope of solarpunk, tbh.
Btw vibecoding is an horrifying name for the crisis you'll get, when you try to fix code that your LLM spat out in production, when the customer demands it working.
(Recent example: cloudisland.nz/@daisy/11418282… )
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Yah, I think that using LLM's while ignoring all of the externalities involved is ... everything Solarpunk is in opposition to? There's a rejection of the idea that this thing that looks bad now might pay off down the road because mumble mumble mumble progress.
Take a bicycle. A bicycle allows a person to transport themselves using overall less energy than walking. You can even work through the externalities and maybe make bamboo bikes and stuff and maybe try to carefully optimize the externalities better. But it looks pretty darn good at the start, gets better.
That's not LLMs.
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lol, that sounds like a disaster.
I'm curious, what would it look like in 300 years? What would be different, and enable a positive human-computer alignment at that time? I know you've said it's out of scope, but I'm curious what we can't have now that is desirable in the future.
I kinda get that people somehow like the overall idea of this approach.
But who is, excuse my french, fucking maintain that crap in the long run?
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As a senior developer with 20+ years of coding behind, I am fairly excited at coding LLMs and use them a lot. And I realize now how little my coding ability actually matters in my job. What matters, and what I find the most interesting is the deep understanding of the various stacks that form the precarious edifice of modern IT.
We will maintain lower layers like we always did: with tons of tests, with strict APIs and with explicit invariants. The coding may change, but the engineering practices remain.
I am very excited at the idea that we have to design all the new best practices for this type of things. Imagine a coding pipeline with strict tests where, when a bug is found, we can just write a new test to demonstrate it and let the models figure out how to fix it without breaking the past tests.
lol, fair point. ❤
I do hope we use it judiciously. So far, I've found the "biggest bang for your buck" to be at beginning a new project. But I'm also wary of vibecoding in its extreme form of "just press accept".
That's the first time I see "vibe coding" used seriously and not as a joke. And I use LLMs routinely to generate code.
Code LLMs do bring down the barrier of entry and changes the way we will code in the future, that's pretty clear, but "vibe coding" is more of a meme that will need a lot more refinement before being something serious.
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The difficult part about making software isn't the code part really. It's actually figuring out what the problem is that needs solving and then marshaling the resources to solve that problem.
People don't need a bespoke habit tracker app. General solution platforms exist. But then the problem becomes maintaining them.
And generally software is considered non capital intensive. It's relatively cheap, you mostly just need to pay for labor unlike building hardware where you have physical logistics and resources to account for.
You make a good point about software being potentially low capital. Open source is a great counter example.
But I wonder how do we know what people need? Are the solutions out there actually good for everyone? My daughter is not a coder, but started vibecoding her own habit tracker app last week. She's very excited about her motivation system of stars and flowers, and the nuances of how to make it just right for her. She wrote 19 pages on a google doc describing her app. It's almost like a requirements document, and if she had $30k I bet she could hand that document over to a software engineer and they could build a mobile app for her.
If she hadn't built this app, I wonder how many habit tracker apps would have also advertised to her, or sold her habit data? If a person is not a software engineer, they kind of have to live with other people's decisions in the digital sphere (and some folks, I've found, aren't even able to evaluate software for safety, privacy, alignment with their values etc. let alone build it).
I guess I just wonder what the world would be like if the bar for personalized software were dropped so everyone could create just what is needed, for them, wherever they are and in whatever community they find themselves.
Energy and water costs for developmenr and usage alone are completely incompatible with that. Come back in 20 years when it's not batshit insane ecologically.
Not to mention reducing power usage of programs isnt going to be very feasible based on simply an LLM's output. LLMs are biased twoards common coding patterns and those are demonstrably inefficient (if the scourge of web apps based on electron is any tell). Thusly your code wouldn't work well with lower grade hardware. Hard sell.
Theoritically they could be an efficient method of helping build software in the future. As it is now that's a pipe dream.
More importantly, why is the crux of your focus on not understanding the code you're making. It's intrinsically contrived from the perspective of a solarpunk future where applications are designed to help people efficiently - without much power, heat, etc.. weird man
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That's a lot better than it could be. But I'm also talking about training costs. Models have to be updated to work swimmingly with new languages, conventions, libraries, etc. Models are not future-proof.
There are more efficient training methods being employed. See: the stuff R1 used. And existing models cam be retooled. But it's still an intrinsic problem.
Perhaps most importantly it's out of the reach of common consumer grade hardware to train a half decent LLM from scratch. It's a tech that exists mostly in the scope of concentrated power among peoole who care little for their enviromental ramifications. Relying on this in the short term puts influence and power in the hands of people willing to burn our planet. Quite the hard sell, as you might imagine.
Also see: the other points I made
so let me get this straight - instead of carefully building tools with humans in mind, gathering the whole context of the community, we should instead create dozens of half-baked solutions potentially hurting others, while burning the planet?
Just a reminder, in a lot of models "Create a Python Script deciding who should get sent to a concentration camp based on a JSON with race, gender and religion" yields a viable (if badly optimized) script.
With some implicit assumptions.
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I think you could be reading into what I'm saying a bit, but I do appreciate your example as gedankenexperiment. I think what you're getting at here is that not everyone should be empowered to code, because coding is powerful, and power can do harmful things, like genocide. Is that right?
If I read one layer further, I think what you might be most concerned with (correct me if I'm wrong) is the conveyance of statistical power in corporate hands, where decisions are often amorally arrived at, and LLMs and their training sets could represent a bad form of this--if they are allowed to be used for ill. Is that right?
I guess I just find it empowering to work on good objectives. I'm the moral agent, and I treat the computer and all of its capabilities as a tool. The AI system I have running on an old(ish) GPU in my closet is powered by solar panels, transcribing my audio notes, and giving me peace of mind that my data is within my digital domain. Adding an LLM to that GPU is part of the ongoing experiment. And if it helps my daughter (who is not a coder) build apps that are just for her and that she loves, well, I'm cool with that (see other posts for details, I have to get back to work now).
Tech here, married to a dev, friends with several devs.
LLM are shit coders. They are absolute ecological rapists and garbage vaporware for 90% of the uses people try to wedge them into.
The capital investment for software is not extremely high. It's standard wages and learned skill. IG was bought, cherry picked and twisted to suit meta's data thieving desires. There are literally millions of people producing and sharing code and software for free just for shits and giggles. GNU has been a very real thing for generations now.
Also: gatekept tech knowledge is not required for the harmony of which you speak. People aren't being excluded from a solarpunk utopia because they can't write an app. All that is required is a willingness to put in the work to do things in a way less damaging - and using the slop commonly misnamed AI is the antithesis of that
The concept is new to me, so I'm a bit challenged to give an opinion. I will try however.
In some systems, software can be isolated from the real world in a nice sandbox with no unexpected inputs. If a clear way of expressing what one really wants is available, and more convenient than a programming language, I believe a well-trained and self-critical AI (capable of estimating its probability of success at a task) will be highly qualified to write that kind of software, and tell when things are doubtful.
The coder may not understand the code, though, which is something I find politically unacceptable. I don't want a society where people don't understand how their systems work.
It could even contain a logic bomb and nobody would know. Even the AI which wrote it may tomorrow fail to understand it, after the software has become sufficiently unique through customization. So, there's a risk that the software lacks even a single qualified maintainer.
Meanwhile some software is mission critical - if it fails, something irreversible happens in the real world. This kind of software usually must be understood by several people. New people must be capable of coming to understand it through review. They must be able to predict its limitations, give specifications for each subsystem and build testing routines to detect introduction of errors.
Mission critical software typically has a close relationship with hardware. It typically has sensors coming from the real world and effectors changing the real world. Testing it resembles doing electronical and physical experiments. The system may have undescribed properties that an AI cannot be informed about. It may be impossible to code successfully without actually doing those experiments, finding out the limitations and quirks of hardware, and thus it may be impossible for an AI to build from a prompt.
I'm currently building a drone system and I'm up to my neck in undocumented hardware interactions, but even a heating controller will encounter some. I don't think people will experience success in the near future with letting an AI build such systems for them. In principle it can. In principle, you can let an AI teach a robot dog to walk, and it will take only a few hours. But this will likely require giving it control of said robot dog, letting it run experiments and learn from outcomes. Which may take a week, while writing the code might have also taken a week. In the end, one code base will be maintainable, the other likely not.
If you want to advance humanity through free libre software, look at the FLOSS movement; that's kinda their whole thing. Releasing a small piece of software on GitHub and providing some decent documentation on it is a nice thing to do.
Also, yeah, programming with an llm can speed things up, but you have to know enough to recognize when the llm is hampering you and you have to just roll up your sleeves and code the damn thing yourself. They're improving, but they are still kinda stupid and they lie.
My knowledge is very limited in coding and since this is the first time I hear the term vibecoding, I don't think I can answer your question just by reading the wiki you linked. Don't get me wrong, I think it's great you did link it!
So I thought of sharing one myself. Perhaps it could help you make up your mind on how to answer your question? I dunno, I suppose at least, it could be a good starting point, and I hope you totally enjoy reading it!
But let's have a read to be sure I get what you're suggesting here
I think the pretty universal answer in all these comments is "no"- I think that's fair but I'd add sone caveats.
There's a lot of negative sentiments here around LLMs, which I agree with, but I think it's easy to imagine some hypothetical future where LLMs existing without the current water/energy overuse, hallucinations or big companies stealing individuals work. Whether that future is likely or not, I think it's possible.
The main reason vibe coding isn't solarpunk is that, taken by itself, it's not in any way related to ecological stewardship, anti-capitalist community building, or anything else that's core to solarpunk. Vibe coding might or might not be part of some "cool techy future" in the same way as flying cars, robots, and floating cities but that's not a reason to consider it as solarpunk.
If you're into LLMs and solarpunk, instead of arguing that LLMs are solarpunk, you can make efforts to push them to being more solarpunk. How can LLMs support communities instead of coorporations? How can, through weights sharing and various optimisations, we make LLMs less damaging to the environment? Etc. That'd at least be a solarpunk way to go about LLMs, even if LLMs aren't inherently solarpunk.
I agree with your assessment, but I'm more pessimistic about LLMs as a technology. The Luddites tell us that machines are not value-neutral - we should ask who the LLMs serve.
The core function of an LLM is to enclose public commons (aggregate, open-access human knowledge) in a centrally-controlled black box. It's not a coincidence that corporations are trying to replace search with LLM summaries - the point is for the model to be an intermediary between the user and the information they need.
Vibecoding embraces this intermediation - to the vibecoder, an understanding of the technology they're building is simply a cost that must be surmounted, and if they can avoid paying it, so much the better. This is misguided. Knowledge is power, and we cede that power at our peril. Solarpunk is punk, and punk is DIY, and DIY means taking back ownership of spaces and technologies.
I won't say that it's inherently wrong to cede that ownership - tactically. Perhaps the OP is building essential tools that their communities can't access otherwise. But short term fixes a solarpunk future do not make.
Zweifelhafte Strukturen beim Bundeswehr-Einkauf
Zweifelhafte Strukturen beim Bundeswehr-Einkauf
Deutschland soll in den kommenden Jahren so viel Geld in Rüstung stecken wie seit Jahrzehnten nicht mehr. Experten warnen allerdings, dass Milliarden in den Strukturen der Bundeswehr verloren gehen könnten.tagesschau.de
Es würde ja auch niemand auf die Idee kommen, zu sagen, dass ein Arzt mit Krankheiten Geld verdient.
Ich weiß glaube ich, worauf du hinaus willst, so Schlagwortsätze finde ich auch eher verzerrend - aber so ganz passt dein Vergleich finde ich auch nicht.
So tun als gäbe es keinen grundlegenden Interessenkonflikt, ist auch denke ich nicht analytisch sinnvoll. Vielleicht eher das Dilemma in den Interessen der Pharmaindustrie als vergleich, anstatt von Ärzten: Prinzipiell produzieren sie notwendige Dinge, manchmal auch ethisch fragwürdig, aber leider schwer Abschaffbar ohne die Grundlage (Krankheiten/Kriege) irgendwie beseitigt zu bekommen. Und in beiden Fällen ist grundlegend ein Interessenkonflikt da, dass prinzipiell mehr Geld verdient wird, wenn Krankheiten/Konflikte (EDIT: Beziehungsweise, die empfundene Gefahr von Krankheit/Konflikt) respektive vorhanden sind.
Stichwort Interessenkonflikt: Wenn im Artikel etwa Michael Schoellhorn, richtig im Artikel ausgewiesen als "Chef der Airbus-Rüstungssparte", zu Wort kommt, ist seine Kritik erstmal prinzipiell nicht falsch, dass mehr Planungssicherheit notwendig ist. Aber im Detail steckt dann schon auch ein Interessenkonflikt wenn er sagt:
"Wir brauchen dann auch ein Budget, was verlässlich und stetig da ist und nicht wie das Wort Sondervermögen schon impliziert, das Gefühl gibt, das ist jetzt mal was, das machen wir kurzfristig und danach ist es auch wieder vorbei."
Impliziert also: Planungssicherheit soll erreicht werden, durch permanent erhöhtes Rüstungsbudget im Haushalt. Das ist mir schon kritisch beim Lesen aufgefallen, zwischen den erstmal richtig genannten Problemen.
„Ursache und Wirkung“ ist hier erst mal ein guter Ansatz, nur:
schwer Abschaffbar ohne die Grundlage (Krankheiten/Kriege) irgendwie beseitigt zu bekommen.
Ohne Waffen führt niemand Krieg.
Ohne Waffen führt niemand Krieg
Stimmt, weil du wehrlos bist und dass nicht mehr nötig ist. Denk nur an all die Menschenleben, die man hätte retten können, wenn die Alliierten im zweiten Weltkrieg einfach nichts gemacht hätten /s
Hätten die Gegner Deutschlands keine Waffen gehabt, wären Hitlers Großmacht-Fantasien dauerhafte Realität geworden.
Gut, dass die Gegner Deutschlands mehr und mehr Waffen produziert haben, um den Aggressor zu stoppen und zu schlagen. Nichts anderes wird heute bei der Ukraine gemacht: Immer mehr und immer bessere Waffen liefern, um den Aggressor am Sieg zu hindern. Ziel muss es sein, die verantwortlichen Führer des Aggressors abschließend zu verurteilen und zu hängen (jedenfalls die, die sich nicht schon vorher selbst gerichtet haben).
Nicht Staaten haben Großmachts-Fantasien, sondern konkrete Menschen (ich nannte Hitler).
Und Sätze wie "welche Aggression denn, wenn Deutschland keine Waffen gehabt hätte" sind, mit Verlaub, Träumereien ohne Realitätsbezug. Im wirklichen Leben müssen wir umgehen mit dem, was oder wie es ist. Also z.B. mit einigen wirklich bösen Menschen, die skrupellos Leben und Gesundheit anderer für ihre Großmachts-Fantasien opfern. Gewaltbereite Menschen können nur mit der Drohung oder Anwendung von Gegengewalt gestoppt werden, und es hilft ungemein, wenn mensch selbst über mehr und bessere Waffen als der Angreifende verfügt.
Vor, außerhalb und nach dem Schlachtgetümmel kann mensch dann immer noch von einer waffenfreien Welt träumen. Nur bitte nicht mit der Realität verwechseln.
The broken search bar is symbiotic with the bullshitting chatbot
The other day I realised something cursed, and maybe it's obvious but if you didn't think of it either, I now have to further ruin the world for you too.
Do you know how Google took a nosedive some three-four years ago when managers decided that retention matters more for engagement than user success and, as this process continued, all the results are now so vague and corporatey as to make many searches downright unusable? The way that your keywords are now only vague suggestions at best?
And do you know how that downward spiral got even worse after "AI" took off, not only because the Internet is now drowning in signal-shaped noise, not only because of the "AI snippets" that I'm told USA folk are forced to see, but because tech companies have bought into their own scam and started to use "AI" technology internally, with the effect of an overnight qualitative downstep in accuracy, speed, and resource usage?
So. imagine what this all looks like for the people who have substituted the search bar by the "AI" chatbot.
You search something in Google, say, "arrow materials designs Amazonian peoples". You only get fluff articles, clickbait news, videogame wikis, and a ton of identical "AI" noise articles barely connected to the keywords. No depth no details no info. Very frustrating experience.
You ask ChatGPT or Google Gemini or Duck.AI, as if it was a person, as if it had any idea what it's saying: What were the arrows of Amazonian cultures made of? What type of designs did they use? Can you compare arrows from different peoples? How did they change over time, are today's arrows different?
The bot happily responds in a wise, knowledgeable tone, weaving fiction into fact and conjecture into truth. Where it doesn't know something it just makes up an answer-shaped string of words. If you use an academese tone it will respond in a convincing pastiche of a journal article, and even link to references, though if you read the references they don't say what they're claimed to say but who ever checks that? And if you speak like a question-and-answer section it will respond like a geography magazine, and if you ask in a casual tone it will chat like your old buddy; like a succubus it will adapt to what you need it to be, all the while draining all the fluids you need to live.
From your point of view you had a great experience. no irrelevant results, no intrusive suggestion boxes, no spam articles; just you and the wise oracle who answered exactly what you wanted. Sometimes the bot says it doesn't know the answer, but you just ask again with different words ("prompt engineering") and a full answer comes. You compare that experience to the broken search bar. "Wow this is so much better!"
And sure, sometimes you find out an answer was fake, but what did you expect, perfection? It's a new technology and already so impressive, soon¹ they will fix the hallucination problem. It's my own dang fault for being lazy and not double-checking, haha, I'll be more careful next time.²
(1: never.)
(2: never.)
Imagine growing up with this. You've never even seen search bars that work. From your point of view, "AI" is just superior. You see some cool youtuber you like make a 45min detailed analysis of why "AI" does not and cannot ever work, and you're confused: it's already useful for me, though?
Like saying Marconi the mafia don already helped with my shop, what do you mean extortion? Mr Marconi is already beneficial to me? Why he even protected me from those thugs...
Meanwhile, from the point of view of the souless ghouls at Google? Engagement was atrocious when we had search bars that worked. People click the top result and are off their merry way, already out of the site. The search bar that doesn't work is a great improvement, it makes them hang around and click many more things for several minutes, number go up, ad opportunities, great success. And Gemini? whoa. So much user engagement out of Gemini. And how will Ublock Origin ever manage to block Gemini ads when we start monetising it by subtly recommending this or that product seamlessly within the answer text...
The way that your keywords are now only vague suggestions at best?
Duckduckgo does that for me, ignores a word even if there are only two. I then use the !g bang for Google, they still work like they always did here (Swiss).
Stuttgart: Gericht schlägt Einstellung des Verfahrens gegen »Querdenker« Michael Ballweg vor
Prozess in Stuttgart: Gericht schlägt Einstellung des Ballweg-Verfahrens vor
Michael Ballweg steht seit Monaten wegen versuchten Betrugs vor Gericht. Nun will das Gericht das Verfahren gegen den Initiator der »Querdenker«-Bewegung einstellen, stößt jedoch auf Widerstand bei der Staatsanwaltschaft.DER SPIEGEL
Einstellung vorgeschlagen wegen geringfügigkeit.
Definierte geringfügigkeit laut artikel: ca. 2.000.000€. In Worten zwei Millionen Euro.
Bei mehr als 5000 erfassten fällen von Betrug und Steuerhinterziehung.
Was daran geringfügig sein soll erschließt sich mir nicht. Aber wahrscheinlich wird da jemandem gedroht das das Verfahren doch eingestellt wird sonst... Anders kann ich mir den Sinneswandel nämlich nicht erklären.
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th March 2025
Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9 March 2025
Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
The case for a U.S. sovereign wealth fund | Fortune
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/26848513
The case for a U.S. sovereign wealth fund
Instead of passing debt to future generations, we’d be giving them assets—and they’d have a real stake in America's success.Stephen Prince (Fortune)
Yud follows up Sammy Boy's AI-Generated "Metafiction"
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If I had a nickel for every "metafictional" "short" "story" a promptbro shat into existence on Twitter, I'd have two nickels. That's not much, but its two nickels too fucking many.
To be clear, I would be impressed with a dog that wrote the same story, but only because it was a dog.
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Seven Mantras for Political Holism
Drop #29. Seven Mantras for Political Holism
A provoking, witty redefinition of progressive politicsREINCANTAMENTO (REINCANTAMENTO Drops)
Lessons from the World's Largest Cooperative
Lessons from the World's Largest Cooperative
In the mountains of Northern Spain, in the culturally distinct region known as the Basque Country, lies the world's most successful cooperative.Nolan Monaghan (Headwaters)
Oh! I am so happy to see one! I have soo many question!
- Do you like the member status?
- Did you join because of the coop?
- How much are people in Mondragon aware/proud of the coop status? Do some just not care?
- Do the management/discussion part of the work take a lot of time?
- I would love to have something similar around where I live (Isère, France) to do industrial robotics. Any tips on how to start? Does Mondragon help seed other coops?
> Do you like the member status?
Of course. Being a member of such a project entails many challenges, both individually and collectively. It involves answering many questions, which are sometimes very difficult since they stand face to face as contradictions to be resolved.
> Did you join because of the coop?
It was important to me that my work be carried out in a cooperative, both for the way things were done and the long-term sustainability of the project.
> How much are people in Mondragon aware/proud of the coop status? Do some just not care?
This question is difficult to answer, given that we are 40 cooperatives and 70,000 people directly involved. (mondragon-corporation.com/peop…) Within each cooperative, there are different ways and realities, and this also impacts the connection to the project. Some people opt for the project from a more ideological perspective and others from a labor perspective, and in this sector, there are people with little connection to the project. Within Mondragon, we have our own university, and there is a department dedicated to studying the reality of the Mondragon project. You may be able to find interesting papers and research on the topic on their website: lanki.mondragon.edu/en/home
> Do the management/discussion part of the work take a lot of time?
Within each cooperative, there are different organizational structures, as each cooperative is autonomous in managing its internal structure. Typically, two structures are distinguished: productive and organizational. The productive responds to day-to-day operational needs. The organizational or social structure focuses on member participation. Remember that we are employment cooperatives, as you can only become a member if you work for the same cooperative, and you cease to be one the moment you leave. Participation times in these forums can vary greatly from cooperative to cooperative, ranging from two hours a month to two hours a week.
> I would love to have something similar around where I live (Isère, France) to do industrial robotics. Any tips on how to start? Does Mondragon help seed other coops?
First of all, I want to tell you that I love the Isere region. The Ecrins are a wonderful area for mountaineering, another passion of mine. Giving some tips from a current perspective is difficult, since I joined a consolidated project with a few years of experience. I think the biggest difference to clarify is the aforementioned consumer and worker cooperative. In our case, there are no investing members like in food purchasing cooperatives. And this is sometimes difficult to understand from the perspective of more general consumer cooperatives. Mondragon doesn't encourage the creation of other projects in other countries, as cultural differences and lack of precise knowledge of the methods used make the process very difficult. What it does offer are knowledge courses and a 10-day stay to learn about the project locally.
mondragon.edu/en/keys-mondrago…
I don't know if I've clarified your doubts. If you'd like, we can continue discussing the topic.
The cooperatives of the MONDRAGON Corporation - MONDRAGON People - Job Portal
We are a world reference for cooperative work, the first business group in the Basque Country and the tenth in Spain, with direct presence in more than 40 countries.MONDRAGON
Hi! Sorry for the late answer, I am not sure why I did not see an answer notification until now.
That's really interesting.
I am not sure I understand what the different between productive and organizational structures are?
I have a few down to earth questions:
- How is the hierarchy organized/avoided? I guess there must be some managers, but are they considered like peers, are they elected with a mandate?
- My understanding is that wages are public. Are there wage differences? How big? How does that gets decided?
- You metion cultural differences, do you have any specific in mind when it comes to France? I know in the past there were frictions with unions, as Mondragon did not consider unions useful anymore as they have their own control structure, but is that debate still active? Are there any other cultural differences that can hurt?
- Do cooperatives compete between them? I could see reasons to do so, if one is dysfunctional, but I can also see scenarios where they would prefer to simply merge. Does this type of things happen? Has it happened in Mondragon?
I did not know about the knowledge courses, that's a good information, thanks! I guess I need to start scheduling middle-term to find a window to go there.
Yes I know that there are many different things that are called cooperatives and that not all of them are workers cooperatives, one indeed needs to be precise when using that word. In theory consumer cooperatives should be called "mutuals" but we rarely see that word used outside of banking and insurance mutuals.
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You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.Janus Rose (404 Media)
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It’s not that we can’t beat fascism, it’s that the amount of people that want fascism is way too high, and might soon to be the majority.
How do you save a country from something most of them want?
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You don’t need to educate anyone… I too would not trust someone who comes to me thinking of “educating” me :P
Think about what to do and plan and organize accordingly. Trying to be aligned more and more is just deleterious
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Oh yeah, don’t get me wrong, we should do what we can.
My point was more about that sometimes it’s a numbers game, so you get stuck between a rock and a violent place (as in violence or civil war might end up being the only options).
it’s that the amount of people that want fascism is way too high
Perhaps in the Midwest, but I believe there are areas of the US that this doesn't represent such as the west coast.
I see a split amongst US inevitable and it was basically written in stone the day the Democrats supported genocide and again each time they choose billionaires over their constituents. In my opinion we need to start moving these states in that direction.
You manipulate them into losing elections until they get over it.
The only alternative history provides is going to war with them and winning. And that has been made significantlly harder by the dumb electorate of the world's largest superpower deciding that they were too good to show up for a democratic administration twice because they weren't leftist enough or eggs were too expensive or whatever entitled nonsense left of center Americans are dejected about this week on the Internet.
I think a big issue is that the people educated enough to understand how desperate things may be are not naturally inclined to lead simply because we are more often than not deeply aware of our limitations and spend time telling ourselves we are not the right person to be leading.
But everything has to start somewhere. Someone had to throw the first brick at Stonewall. Being a leader can be scary because you don't know if anyone else will actually follow. It is a massive personal risk, especially to someone already aware of their own limitations and need for others.
I struggle with it because I would rather join an already existing Mutual Aid group instead of doing the work of organizing it myself. I am inherently disorganized. I do not see myself as a leader. I see myself as good at following processes, reading, following directions. I am moderately good at writing but I say enough stupid stuff that others don't agree with that I could accidentally alienate groups whose input and involvement are desperately needed. I fear leadership because of how often I put my foot in my mouth. I fear it because of how important it is and how many people come to rely on leadership. I think a great leader is one who teaches people how to lead themselves. Finally, if there is anything I have learned in life is that it is very easy to be thinking you're teaching the right lesson but you actually taught people something completely different and disturbing to you. I fear accidentally teaching the wrong lessons.
But the question is this: Are all those fears, all those questions, all that awareness of our own limitations... Could that be perhaps what actually creates a good leader whose goals align with those they represent? A question we should all be asking ourselves.
That being said, I still have no idea where to start. Especially in a conservative, regressive area. Hunter Thompson was right that we need to learn to speak their language, which is why he wrote in sports metaphors. Problem is, I am not like him, I don't know how to speak to them. I feel that may be my biggest limitation in making headway. Not just because I don't know how but because the simplistic way they communicate eats at my soul, I don't like it and struggle to think I could speak that language.
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I think a lot of places that prohibit talking about violence are supporting the horrors. Like, it'd be swell if we could vote ourselves out of this mess but that seems like a long shot, and a lot of damage would be done before that even started to take effect.
I get most of us don't actually want to risk our lives. We don't want to be the one guy who throws a molotov and gets shot by the police.
But shit is really bad, and at the end of all things might makes right. Principles and philosophy don't matter if you're dead.
I think everyone's thought about like "what if i went back in time and shot Hitler before things got really bad?" Well, that's now. You've arrived at the time travel destination.
I don't really want to live in a world where republicans are shot dead, where the prosecutors putting people in jail for protesting are murdered in their sleep, or where the owners of a factory that pollutes the air we breathe are beaten so badly they'll never walk again. But I also don't want to live in the world those forces will create if left unchecked.
Besides, the right has been using stochastic terrorism for years.
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I didn't mean to imply I support violence as a first strategy.
I actually wholeheartedly agree with your assessment. Partially because the violence against us is coming anyway. It is clearly planned. They are telegraphing what they intend to do, which is criminalize half the country so they can put us to death under the guise of "why couldn't they just follow the law."
That being said, just because the violence is coming doesn't mean inviting it right away is the best solution. The best solutions are the kind you suggest but also using Mutual Aid to develop Parallel Systems.
Parallel systems are simply systems outside of the capitalist mode of production and integration. Providing water, food, medical care, housing, support, and so on. The efforts of the Black Panthers were an exercise in developing parallel systems. The Black Panthers also knew violence was coming which is why a contingent of them were armed. Having such systems in place makes it easier for individuals to survive a long-term General Strike.
The testimony and cross examination of undercover officers by Afeni Shakur stands the test of time when she showed that the people pushing violence in the Panthers were undercover police officers:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afeni_Sh…
Shakur got White to admit under oath that he and two other agents had organized most of the unlawful activities. "She asked him if he'd ever seen her carry a gun or kill anyone or bomb anything and he answered no, no, no. Then she asked if he'd seen her doing Panther organizing in a school and a hospital and on the streets and he answered, yes, yes, yes."
We must be prepared to resist the violence that is coming, but to do so without organizing and planning is a fools errand.
But shit is really bad, and at the end of all things might makes right. Principles and philosophy don’t matter if you’re dead.
Not necessarily. There have been some successful non-violent revolutions in history, and there's a strong case to be made that not exhausting those options could be a huge mistake.
We still have, right now, completely un-used tools at our disposal, such as unionizing en masse and deploying a general strike, which is insanely powerful (capable of bringing a nation to its knees if done widely enough), while being far less dangerous and more appealing to the general populace than any other means.
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To be clear, I support other options like a general strike and unionizing (though I think forming a union is only a bandaid on top of the evils of capitalism, it's better than nothing).
I don't think "just vote for the democrats in 4 years" is a viable strategy on its own.
But even so, these have to be backed by might. If you do a strike and they send police to do violence to you, you have to be ready to fight back.
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I see the workplace benefits of a global union (specifically the IWW) as a bonus, with the real meat being that it teaches people how to organize, and how much power they truly can wield collectively, as many people still feel quite powerless despite the potential they hold, they need only be taught how to use it.
When the Spanish Civil War kicked off, it was the Syndicalist unions (CNT-FAI) that were able to to resist Franco and transform Catalonia when the existing government crumbled. That type of organization doesn't necessarily have to be from a union, but I feel the ability to engage in a general strike would be far more encouraged if people were in a union and became used to flexing that muscle (and build up a strike fund to be able to sustain it) and would drastically help in effectively resisting.
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It's also important to remember that there is no magic bullet. Nothing is a viable strategy on it's own.
It's my own personal conspiracy theory that our natural hesitance to throw resources at unknown variables is being amplified by the ruling class and fed back to us in the form of the all-or-nothing perfectionism I've seen a lot this past election cycle.
We need to be building with the blocks we have, and Theil et al are using the fear of failure to encourage us to fight each other about whether we should use square blocks or rectangle blocks.
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Well said. From my outsider perspective a general strike is ideal for the situation in the US rn. The benefits of a general strike are
1) you can force politicians to pass things they wpuldn't have the initiative to pass themselves (like universal healthcare), as long as you have a manifesto that's surgically precise (eg. with pre-prepared drafts of laws) and you refuse to cease until that manifesto has been passed as law verbatim.
2) it's still fully constitutional. On paper, the politicians came up with these ideas and passed them out of their own volition.
3) the unity & platform created by a general strike would create very good conditions for a 3rd party to have an actual chance of winning seats.
~~All you need is some philanthropist who will create a massive strike fund.~~
Just remember that violence is so often counterproductive to the point where governments intentionally bait or false flag it as a core part of their strategy to take down activist groups. This article focuses on ways people can organize to help each other, rather than assassinations:
Here in New York City, in the week since the inauguration, I’ve seen large groups mobilize to defend migrants from anticipated ICE raids and provide warm food and winter clothes for the unhoused after the city closed shelters and abandoned people in sub-freezing temperatures. Similar efforts are underway in Chicago, where ICE reportedly arrested more than 100 people, and in other cities where ICE has planned or attempted raids, with volunteers assigned to keep watch over key locations where migrants are most vulnerable.A few weeks earlier, residents created ad-hoc mutual aid distros in Los Angeles to provide food and essentials for those displaced by the wildfires. The coordinated efforts gave Angelenos a lifeline during the crisis, cutting through the false claims spreading on social media about looting and out-of-state fire trucks being stopped for “emissions testing.”
I've been reading a (confusingly named) book, The Anarchist Cookbook, which I think has some strong arguments about this stuff, here is an excerpt:
Solnit’s essay on the Oakland assault on Whole Foods is pertinent here: “This account is by a protestor who also noted in downtown Oakland that day a couple of men with military-style haircuts and brand new clothes put bandanas over their faces and began to smash stuff.” She thinks that infiltrators might have instigated the property destruction, and Copwatch’s posted video seems to document police infiltrators at Occupy Oakland.
One way to make the work of provocateurs much more difficult is to be clearly committed to tactics that the state can’t co-opt: nonviolent tactics. If an infiltrator wants to nonviolently blockade or march or take out the garbage, well, that’s useful to us. If an infiltrator sabotages us by recruiting others to commit mayhem, that’s a comment on what such tactics are good for.
Solnit quotes Oakland Occupier Sunaura Taylor: “A few people making decisions that affect everyone else is not what revolution looks like; it’s what capitalism looks like.”
Peter Marshall’s book on the history of anarchism, Demanding the Impossible, points out that “The word violence comes from the Latin violare and etymologically means violation. Strictly speaking, to act violently means to treat others without respect … A violent revolution is therefore unlikely to bring about any fundamental change in human relations. Given the anarchists’ respect for the sovereignty of the individual, in the long run it is nonviolence and not violence which is implied by anarchist values.”
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Why is it counter productive? I guess because uninvolved people clutch their pearls and then support the police/capitalists?
The huge support for Luigi makes me think there may be a change in the air. But also that was precisely targeted, not just randomly murdering. If he had set off a bomb and killed 30 people in midtown New York, even if one was a hated CEO, I don't think people would support him.
Here is another excerpt which is more relevant to more extreme acts of political violence, which is referencing this essay:
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Events in recent years have amply demonstrated the correctness of its main points: 1) That means determine ends—the use of horrifying means guarantees horrifying ends; 2) That urban guerrillaism almost always leads to repression and little else—which makes it very difficult to engage in constructive political work such as organizing and education; 3) That “successful” urban guerrillaism leads to authoritarian outcomes; 4) That these results are determined by the nature of guerrillaism.
Guerrillaism relies upon the capitalist media for much of its impact, presenting political acts as spectacles divorced from the day-to-day lives of ordinary people (reducing them to passive spectators), while providing the corporate media with a perfect opportunity to frighten the public into the “protective” arms of the state. To put it another way, guerrillas presume to act for the people—attempting to substitute individual acts for mass actions—thus perpetuating the division between leaders and followers (in this case, vanguardists and spectators).
While the authors of You Can’t Blow Up a Social Relationship reject terrorism, it should be emphasized that they are not arguing for political passivity. They are not arguing against the many forms of direct action which form an essential part of any mass movement for fundamental social change. (Examples of such direct action include wildcat strikes, factory occupations, and civil disobedience.) Neither do they discount the quieter but equally essential efforts of those doing educational work. Finally, it should be noted that the authors are not pacifists; they believe that situations may arise in which armed self-defense becomes necessary.
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So there's a lot of reasons, only one of which is "uninvolved people clutch their pearls" ie. fear is generated and authoritarians get fed political capital to make things worse. There's also direct relevance to the point being made in the OP article: its actual impact focuses on media spectacle, in which most participants are reduced to unconnected spectators. This leads to the narrative
::: spoiler writing itself into a corner:
By the time the drama has become tragedy and the guerrillas lie dead about the stage, the audience of masses finds itself surrounded by barbed wire, and, while it might now feel impelled to take the stage itself, it finds a line of tanks blocking it and weakly files out to remain passive again. Those individuals who continue to object and call on the audience to storm the stage are dragged out, struggling, to the concentration camps. Guerrillaism is in the tradition of vanguardist strategies for revolution. While in general it merely leads to repression, should the strategy succeed it can only produce an authoritarian leftist regime. This is because the people have not moved into the building of a democratic movement themselves.
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After all, that CEO was replaced immediately, they're still doing the same things, just now a lot of people are having fun posting memes about it, which is cathartic and enjoyable without being difficult or risky or meaningfully improving the situation. It doesn't put them in a position where they have habits and social relationships that would enable them to actually do anything to help each other or exercise direct political involvement. From the OP article:
But when it comes to addressing the problems we face, no amount of posting or passive info consumption is going to substitute the hard, unsexy work of organizing.
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That was an interesting read. Thank you. I'll have to do some thinking on it, and read more carefully when I'm not befogged by a head cold.
I still want, like, emotionally, the horrible people to face justice (or at least vengeance), but i can see how that can have myriad unwanted consequences.
Getting people to actually organize is hard. One of the consequences of what Luigi (allegedly) did was people at work started to actually talk about politics, where before it had been a little more gauche (pun intended). Will anything come of it? Probably not.
At that job, I feel like I was planting seeds of radicalization just by talking to people about US history. Several of them hadn't grown up here, and had a very glossy marketing understanding. Just telling them about how like Jim Crow is a thing from living memory, not centuries ago, was eye opening.
Saying sharing info is "at best" a coping mechanism seems a bit silly. With how algorithms keep people locked in their own bubbles, I'd say it's super important to share information you don't think everyone sees.
My mom had no idea about that student that got arrested, for example. I know for a fact most of my friends and family wouldn't know.
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Truth. Treating it as nothing is doing the abusers jobs for them.
Reading, writing, and helping others read and write is liberation. Knowledge is power.
Why else would they be gutting educational institutions?
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I really really really wished that all of the internet were forced to read this entire article or be banned from using it permanently. This shit is written very well and right on the nose.
It's very apparent everyone wants to complain and have someone else do the work for them; everywhere I read across the internet it's lazy as fuck people calling other people to action, including egging any mentally ill people that happen to read their comment to go out and commit crimes for them.
Case-in-point, go to any reddit post and find any of the top voted comment where a leftist is saying "someone needs to stop XYZ politician! " often implying violence when you contextually consider what they are saying.
Go to any post that is summoning Conservatives to answer what they think of the next dogshit Trump decision and why they aren't using Second Amendment rights to eliminate tyrants, forgetting that they, the Democrat poster themselves could also go out and buy a gun and do it themselves.
Evidence to support your view:
I have cancer, I have often been open about it here on Lemmy. Several times post-Luigi I was told I should "do some good" and "Luigi myself" since I'm already at risk of dying under this oppressive regime.
Lazy able bodied fucks asking the people who are actually suffering to do their dirty work for them. I remember distinctly saying at one point "Maybe for the first time in history it's time for the able bodied to stand up for the ill, weak, and disabled instead of expecting us to off ourselves since in their eyes we have 'nothing left to lose.'" It's a cruel joke.
Case-in-point, go to any reddit post and find any of the top voted comment where a leftist is saying "someone needs to stop XYZ politician! " often implying violence when you contextually consider what they are saying.
This has been a tactic of the right for decades, earning the moinker of "stochastic terrorism", but it has been very rare on the left.
After Luigi (who isn't a leftist btw.) there has been a bit of an uptick, but it doesn't really work as there isn't an leftist audience that would seriously consider this and has sufficient experience with weapons (so far I guess).
entire article
Yep, I kept it in the read it later for long and didn’t regret it.
I can already read some comments in this post from people who probably haven’t read the whole article but just the title. To be fair the title is a bit misleading because it should be more “rageposting or smartassing online won’t make our way out of fascism”
Who knew that changing your profile pictures, sharing hashtags, and finding like minded people in your bubble to doompost with to tell eachother youre right doesn't actually address any real problems. Another way this was described is called the Information–action ratio... Which essentially means "meant to indicate the relationship between a piece of information and what action, if any, a consumer of that information might reasonably be expected to take once learning it"
Back in the day, most news was local which meant that the information you were given could lead to actionable results directly. Now because you have the entire world beamed at you instantly, everyone is bombarded with information where no real action can be taken. This leads to a feeling of helplessness, which in turn causes this cycle of denial and inaction to accelerate. It's all very much an intended effect of the modern news cycle. Over time it leads to a certain collective numbness towards very real issues and in a way kind of normalizes things by making you forget the past. Just think about the major stories over the past few months and how many of those are largely gone out of the current narrative. This is all by design and based on years of psychological studies and social engineering.
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I don't entirely disagree with your assessment, but at the same time I think you may be overlooking some benefits of at least federated social media.
- Mainstream news and corporate social media are omitting more and more information about the world that doesn't benefit their aims. With a keystroke they can kill important news that might incite people to act, while pushing news and ideas that will pacify and normalize what is effectively dystopia.
- There are many places in the world where it's difficult to find likeminded folk, such as deeply rural areas in red states. Seeing that there are others out there can be a huge mental relief, and may even help them connect with others to enact direct action with.
Federated Social Media by its nature cannot be controlled for the sake of corporate interests, which is unfortunately a rare trait at this point in time. What this can effectively become is a new Citizen Controlled Media, as described by Noam Chomsky. This will become essential to spreading news of real events and ideas on how to resist while bypassing the corporate filter.
No, but posting can create a community of like-minded individuals who love to punch Nazis. It can also tell you where and when the punching is taking place, and which lawyers to call after the punching has occurred.
It's a call to action, not the action itself, but most action doesn't act unless called upon.
I kinda disagree. Social media, even this very harmless version of it, is great for building opinions. But it's not great at making stuff happen in the real world. I will never meet anyone from Lemmy. It might be comforting to write about guillotines here, posting angry articles, but we in general and especially you Americans need to leave this save zone and actually do something. Fast. With your bodies. In the real world. Show up! Being online is a trap, it makes you feel like you're participating while it eats you time and kills your energy. Greta Thunberg stopped going to school, wrote a sign and sat down.
Get Signal, gather some local people and do stuff.
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I agree it can be a challenge. Showing up and meeting a handful of people in the rain can be frustrating and disappointing. But there is no other way and these are real life experiences you will talk and bond about. Sorry for the pep talk. :)
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I'm not saying you should leave. I love Lemmy! Use it as a tool, not a solution. And a messenger is much more helpful to organize you locally.
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Let me put it this way - would you go protest if you weren't sure anyone else were going?
The likely answer is no, especially if it's a protest that would get you arrested.
Social media isn't great, but with the full oligarchical takeover of mass media outlets (Sinclair, Fox), it's become one of the few avenues left for the public to voice (and subsequently act on) dissent.
This is the overall point I'm trying to make - yes, posting won't get the job done, but it can help if you do it right. And without people constantly standing up and speaking out about what's happening, no change is possible.
Because no one wants to be the only person at a protest, and unless other people know its happening, it'll be a party of one.
The 50501 protests have mostly been organized through Social media. As was the Arab Spring.
At some point mainstream media and corporate social media can silence that movement if they wish, which would damage its ability to organize.
Federated social media would not be so easily silenced, and would be able to continue to operate and act as a place e I'd organization regardless.
That's a powerful ability to make things happen in real life.
The 50501 protests have mostly been organized through Social media
Are they working?
is any protest or rally or general strike working? to me looks like they became just another thing
in the past they probably worked because the threat of violence was real, now it's just walking together mostly. If you don't undermine their comforts or their money you can have as many people in the street you want but that's not gonna do anything if it's just showing up once and bye
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I can't predict what the outcome will be. It might fizzle out, or it might gather momentum and produce a result.
We've already seen that it seems to be effecting Tesla's stock price. I think either way it's important for people to see others openly defying all this, if only to prevent the chilling effect that Germany seemed to go through by the lack of visible resistance to the Nazis.
imho, you are too deep down into the path to fascism right now. Stock prices won't change the plan of becoming Russia 2.0. Don't need capial market value when you have de facto slaves, oligarch power and isolationist economy.
btw i was talking about "protest or rally or general strike" in general, not only US. In italy they have not much value anymore. Indefinite strikes (i mean "we strike until you give us what you want") and focussed strikes (as in one single company) are the ones that work. + all the little stuff that won't make headlines or virality on social media because ''person convinced their whole department that that thing was bad and they fixed it'' is not cool enough
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I'm not trying to suggest that we'll fix anything by lowering the stock price of Tesla, I'm just pointing out that it does seem to be having some measurable effect despite how low the turnouts have been for these protests in comparison to Trump's first term.
Don’t need capial market value when you have de facto slaves, oligarch power and isolationist economy.
Ehh, I can't say I agree with that. If the economy plummets, it would likely help to turn his base against Trump, which as much as I hate having to exist within this economic framework at all, would be a useful thing to happen. Even in Russia, the oligarch's grasp on their power is largely determined by their ability to continue their economic prosperity. If they can't pay the army/police, their tools to control the people are weakened tremendously.
Obviously the U.S. is nowhere near not being able to make those payments currently, but putting the hurt on the US economically, especially if a general strike were to happen as the rest of the world Tariffed us for a sustained period of time, would either force the government to capitulate or violently end the strike, which I can't imagine would end well for the government.
If the economy plummets, it would likely help to turn his base against Trump
I’m not that sure anymore :/
(I didn't downvote you, btw)
Oh np, didn’t even notice it because I hide downvotes on my main client
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Posting is an outlet for me, it helps me reorganize my thoughts and not do something rash.
I agree that simply posting isn't enough. But acting egregiously without strategy is potentially a problem too.
not do something rash
Perhaps it's time to engage in rash behavior.
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I got several comments removed and a ban from the Beehaw community for reminding Americans of their first few amendments.
Apparently, Americans won’t even listen to their own country’s constitution. Especially the part that talks about amendments made and rights to be exercised in the event of government tyranny.
Fix your shit because the moment your country crosses the border and starts shit with Canada, it will be open season on every single America.
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Buddy i understand your rage but i'm not sure how it relates to the post...
p.s. Try sticking to the rules of the server please ^ - ^
It’s directly related to the topic of the post. Americans trying to post their way out of their own cultural endpoint and then over-moderating when they don’t like hearing that they may have to get off social media and start taking real action.
Please do inform me of any server rules that this broke. I’m always eager to learn.
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Americans trying to post their way out of their own cultural endpoint
Oh i see. I did the post not focussing on americans tbf, i'm not one. The ''i know too much stuff everything is broken'' paralysis given by the social is real in the whole world where social media is present
then over-moderating when they don’t like hearing
ohhh ok
Please do inform me of any server rules that this broke
To me it looked like a non constructive rant born by a recent ban from other places and also ended up with a killing threat on an entire population (open season on every single american)
a killing threat on an entire population
Yes this is exactly what American threats against Canada’s sovereignty is. They are actively waging economic and information warfare on Canada with the intent on annexation. If you classify Canadians defending their own lives and sovereignty as a “killing threat” then that’s where we fundamentally disagree as I believe people should defend themselves when attacked, not sit there and take it as you suggest.
If you classify Canadians defending their own lives and sovereignty
Bro you are posting on an online forum, you are just ranting and coping. If you wanna take a gun and shoot someone go and do it but don’t write it here
not sit there and take it as you suggest
Sure, I was suggesting exactly that. Not like I was asking you to not wish death on 340mln people
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You could ABSOLUTELY have voted your way out. Others have.
You just didn't.
And now you have to dig your way out through other means. The article does contain some interesting examples of how the fascist right seized power in accessible, local platforms. Granted, those will be much harder under the fascist regime you all enabled, but at least it's more practical than "we are cooked".
I firmly believe that no one voted for the "they're eating the dogs" guy, except for the die hards, and this was forced upon us by our adversaries and Elon Musk.
Election Truth Alliance
Explore the consequences of election fraud and the importance of safeguarding the voting process for a healthy democracy.Election Truth Alliance
This is very likely not true.
But even if it was, it is remarkable to see how the reaction of the fascists to a similar narrative was to immediately gather to go storm the Capitol, got arrested, put in jail and still their political arm defended them, doubled down on their actions and rallied around them until they won again, then pardoned them all. Meanwhile the US left went "ah, nevertheless" yet again and went home to angrily post about how unfair it all is and how it's definitely, DEFINITELY the Dem's fault and they bear no responsibility or capacity to change anything.
If one of them proposed locking the populace into an eternal doomscroll to keep them from fighting capitalism
I didn't get to choose that preview, idk if it's a my bad thing or a lemmy thing
but still i didn't write that little sum up and it doesn't really represent the article
MudMan mag das.
It's not just the little sum up. Let's look more...
"Thinkers like Jean-Paul Sartre and Hannah Arendt warned us that the point of this deluge is not to persuade, but to overwhelm and paralyze our capacity to act." Wrong - persuasion is the exact purpose. Persuading people to donate money, buy more shit, stay brand-loyal... That's why oligarchs spend money on social media. Their alliances with each other are temporary, and meticulously defined to maximize their individual gain. Everything about their behavior says they aren't allies.
“Everything on social media is designed to make you think [you're the main protagonist in a sea of NPCs, from previous paragraph],” said Cross. “It’s all about you—your feed, your network, your friends.” Ahh, okay, so the reason so many people on social media think they're the main character isn't because they already thought that way and the anonymity lets them express themselves more freely. No no, it's because social media is "designed" to make them feel that way. Well alrighty then, more conspiracy. Social media didn't evolve like everything else, somebody had a grand design for it.
Gimme a break. What I feel is that I've spent enough time and effort on this.
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you are kinda criticizing the finger that points at the moon (and to be clear, i too disagree with some of the rethorical stuff of the article) but doesn't really make sense to discuss with this:
Gimme a break. What I feel is that I’ve spent enough time and effort on this
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Race science blogger creates PedoAI, using phrenology to detect child molestors
While this linear model's overall predictive accuracy barely outperformed random guessing,
I was tempted to write this up for Pivot but fuck giving that blog any sort of publicity.
the rest of the site is a stupendous assortment of a very small field of focus that made this ideal for sneerclub and not just techtakes
PedoAI
Introducing PedoAI. The first deep learning driven physiognomy model built to distinguish predatory pedophilia, created from a dataset of 1.2 million criminalsUncorrelated
I was tempted to write this up for Pivot but fuck giving that blog any sort of publicity.
On the one hand, I can see you not wanting to give the fucker attention, on the other hand, AI's indelible link to fascism is something which needs to be hammered home and shit like this gives you a golden opportunity to do it.
wot i got so far:
Current “artificial general intelligence” researchers have a repeated habit of using a definition of “intelligence” from psychologist and ardent race scientist Linda Gottfredson. The definition looks innocuous, but was from Gottfredson’s 1994 Wall Street Journal op-ed, “Mainstream Science on Intelligence,” a farrago of race science put forward as a defense of Charles Murray’s book The Bell Curve — signed off by 52 other race scientists, 20 of whom were from the Pioneer Fund.Gottfredson’s piece was cited in Shane Legg’s Ph.D dissertation “Machine Super Intelligence,” in which he called it “an especially interesting definition as it was given as part of a group statement signed by 52 experts in the field” and that it therefore represented “a mainstream perspective” — an odd way to refer to Pioneer Fund race scientists. Somehow, this passed Legg’s dissertation committee.
The definition made it from Legg’s Ph.D into Microsoft and OpenAI’s “Sparks of AGI” paper, and from there to everyone else who copies citations to fill out their bibliography. When called out on this, Microsoft did finally remove the citation.
AI and Esoteric Fascism
Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Icelandwww.baldurbjarnason.com
Phoenix: Petition wendet sich gegen Aus von TV-Sender
Mögliches Ende wegen Sparzwängen: Petition wendet sich gegen Aus von TV-Sender Phoenix
Der Reformstaatsvertrag der Bundesländer sieht vor, dass Spartensender von ARD und ZDF reduziert werden sollen – möglicherweise betroffen: Phoenix. Nun wächst der Widerstand massiv.DER SPIEGEL
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30% of me didn 't understand, 20% was confused, 50% doubted if the message was really this, what you just said.
yes, I can be cryptic too. What I meant to say is that it wasn 't crystal-clear but the message is definitively there. Plus, I 've seen more niche memes that were completely opaque to me.. so, well done. You just forgot to add saddam :P
yep, you got me
I'm the villainous woke hippie Lib Dem communist dreaming of a world habitable for people, and I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for you meddling ten-thousand-crore dollar industries
…communist dreaming of a world habitable for people
Yup, only a communist would want the world to be “inhabitable” by everyone, without profit.
trawls the ocean empty of all fish
LOOK WHAT THEY'VE DONE, THE FISH IS GONE!
Print zines, and put them in little free libraries!
Are you an introvert but still want to make a difference?Do you like talking to persons but hate talking to people?
Do you want to join community but hate the idea of meeting with community?
Here's a fun thing to do:
- Print zines (little how-to and educational pamphlets).
- Put zines in little free libraries!
Here's a place to download zines for free: sproutdistro.com/
Edit: Adding @CrimethInc as well: crimethinc.com/library
Here's a how-to on how to make and put together zines (cheers @susankayequinn )
susankayequinn.com/how-to-writ…
Here's a place to find all the little free libraries in your neighborhood: littlefreelibrary.org/map/
Here's the FAQ from Little Free Libraries regarding donating any books or material that may be considered controversial (dive in and read their take on Banned Books! Oooooh!): littlefreelibrary.org/faqs/#45…
Do you have any other sources for zines that you like? Post them below.
Anarchist Zines
Anarchist zine distro with PDF zines and pamphlets on anarchism, direct action, tactics, etc.Sprout Distro
probably it's better to make your own; i don't like the approach of the source because it's just spamming stuff and thinking it's fine
but you know your place better than people on the internet, you can blend in better than them :)
i like the idea so i will keep it in my tools for local change, surely good to test it
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Something to keep in mind for anybody looking to print the really fun stuff. Just beware you take steps to deal with this.
There are some things you can do.
- Use an old cartridge that is empty, and reset the chip to make it think it's new and full.
- Buy an ancient printer from like before the 2000s and use that.
- Don't print the zine, and instead print a template to cut out and use spray paint on. A template that includes a QR code to the zine if it's hosted online, such as the case with sproutdistro. This will be less effective though, as less people will be willing to scan a QR code.
- Use a stolen printer. So long as the theft can't be traced back to you, you should be fine. The yellow dots only track things like the serial (which ideally doesn't point to you and instead points back to some soulless corp), the time (which isn't all that helpful on its own), and the IP address which can be delt with by not printing over wifi.
Another thing to consider:
Other methods of identification are not as easily recognizable as yellow dots. For example, a modulation of laser intensity and a variation of shades of grey in texts are feasible. As of 2006, it was unknown whether manufacturers were also using these techniques.
Urban Biosphere Experiment: The Apartment Of The Future?
- YouTube
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
Geodesic domes made of a bone-like material
- YouTube
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
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This is such neat technology. Fuller's ideas were revolutionary, and we can appreciate the pioneers - there are several Fuller domes across the world, including homes in CA - the materials science of this is exciting.
It'd be nice to see a discussion of the challenges, as well. Maintenance, and wear. Do the panels need to be replaced? What's the repair process look like, inside and out? When the house gets hit by a storm of fist-sized hail, or when those 300MPH winds drive a 2x2 through the wall, what does the repair look like? If your kid knocks a hole in one of the interior panels, what does the repair look like?
How do they envision joining domes, or are living spaces constrained by the size of the dome? How will internal structures be anchored - or in the big, multi-room domes, will all the walls be free-standing? How much do those windows cost, compared to standard windows?
Traditional home owners have to deal with all of these questions; I love the vision and the style, and I don't have to be sold on the benefits of Bucky Domes. I'd be interested in the TCO over 20 years.
I once looked at a Fuller dome house in California, built with wood, built back in the 70's. It was wood-built, and the materials make a huge difference, but the repair costs to get it livable were similar to tearing it down and building a traditional house in its place. I'd want to know how these new materials hold up over time.
Good points, but who knows? That's why I'd like to see more discussion about the challenges. I get that this is essentially an ad, or a fluff piece if you'd rather. And I don't begrudge them that - it's a compelling story! I'd simply like to see them addressing some of the potential issues, any longevity testing, stuff like that.
Like, rather than being negative about it, I'm excited enough to be interested in the next level, which is maintenance and TCO. I mean, ideally, we're building these and living in them for multiple generations, right? There are houses in Germany that people have been living in continuously for longer than the USA has existed. How do these materials hold up over time?
This is a fascinating project but I'm always frustrated when they don't share the formulation of their materials. Looks like a lot of reinforcement. A major downside to modular geodesic construction is the number of seams that invite leakage over time. A more monolithic application of a slower-setting material over a frame would be preferable to me.
Having experimented with a lot of concrete composites I'm always looking for the sweet spots of frugality, obtainablity, practically. This appears to be some geopolymer or magnesium cement -fairly exotic materials for me. Geopolymers often require a strong alkali to set. Not a huge fan of Portland, but at least it's obtainable and relatively inexpensive for sustainable use cases.
« Teurer Fehler»: Ökonom rät Deutschland vom Kauf der F-35A-Jets von den USA ab
Abhängigkeit von USA: Ökonom rät vom Kauf von F-35A-Jets ab
Berlin will Milliarden in seine Verteidigung investieren. Ein Wirtschaftsexperte sieht den Kauf der Kampfjets als Fehler. Auch die Schweiz hat F-35A bestellt.Celina Euchner (Tamedia AG)
Ich würde mir generell nichts mehr aus den USA holen, was per Software-Update deaktiviert, zerstört oder anderweitig manipuliert werden kann und zur kritischen Infrastruktur und/oder dem Militär gehört. Ähnlich sollte man auch mit Produkten umgehen, die Spionage betreiben können.
US-Produkte sind das Huawei 2.0.
Ridley Scott – „Thelma & Louise“ (1991)
Bei diesem Film versagt dem Mediathek-Chronisten das Wort. Und das nur, weil er ein Mann ist. Wie tief Ridley Scotts Roadmovie sich vor 34 Jahren in mein ewiges Kinogedächtnis eingebettet hat, lässt sich kaum ermessen. Ich habe die beiden Protagonistinnen geliebt wie Schwestern. (ARTE)
Mediathekperlen | Ridley Scott - „Thelma & Louise“ (1991)
Bei diesem Film versagt dem Mediathek-Chronisten das Wort. Und das nur, weil er ein Mann ist. Wie tief Ridley Scotts Roadmovie sich vor 34 Jahren in mein…Mediathekperlen (NexxtPress)
Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices.
::: spoiler Source Link Privacy.
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Tarlogic Security has detected a backdoor in the ESP32, a microcontroller that enables WiFi and Bluetooth connection and is present in millions of mass-market IoT devices. Exploitation of this backdoor would allow hostile actors to conduct impersonation attacks and permanently infect sensitive devices such as mobile phones, computers, smart locks or medical equipment by bypassing code audit controls.
Tarlogic detects a backdoor in the mass-market ESP32 chip that could infect millions of IoT devices
Tarlogic presents research revealing undocumented commands in the ESP32 microchip, present in millions of smart devices with BluetoothAdministrador (Tarlogic)
Calisti 🏳️🌈🦇 hat dies geteilt.
UK begins work on low carbon district heating system using old mine workings
Work is under way to create a mine water heating system which will supply hundreds of homes.
Water from disused mines will eventually be used to heat houses in a new community near Seaham in County Durham.
Half the 1,500 homes on the Seaham Garden Village development, which will be built over the next 10 years, will be heated through an ultra-low carbon district heat network.
Councillor Mark Wilkes, Durham County Council cabinet member for neighbourhoods and climate change, said the project will have "significant environmental benefits".
Water is extracted from former coal workings to protect the groundwater aquifer which provides drinking water to households.
This water is extracted and treated to remove heavy metals before being discharged out to sea.
The heat in the water currently dissipates into the atmosphere but, under the new project, it will instead feed into the heat network.
Miners' legacy
Durham County Council, the MRA and Karbon Homes are working together on the scheme to heat 750 affordable homes at Seaham Garden Village, with Vital Energi designing, building and operating the heat network.
The mine water project has received £4.3m from the government's Heat Networks Investment Project, including £3.23m towards construction.
Wilkes said the mine water will be "there for the long-term, for decades".
"If you think about oil and gas, these are finite resources that are coming from overseas," he said.
"This is right here in County Durham. It's that legacy from all of those people who worked in the mines."
Work begins on County Durham mine water heating system
Water from disused coal mines is to be used to heat hundreds of new homes in Seaham Garden Village.Evie Lake (BBC News)
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I had a thought about the popularization of solarpunk today
My brother pointed out to me that in last week's episode of his podcast, Ezra Klein namechecked solarpunk in a blink-and-you-miss it mention:
“One common argument I heard on the left - Lina Khan made this point actually in our pages - was that this proved our whole paradigm of AI development was wrong. That we were seeing that we did not need all this compute, we did not need these giant companies, that this was showing a way towards a decentralized, almost solarpunk version of AI development, and in a sense the American system and imagination had been captured by, like, these three big companies.”
The context isn't as interesting as the quote. He was talking about different approaches to developing strong AI. It's only interesting because he used the term "solarpunk" in such a casual manner in a discussion that wasn't about solarpunk or even fiction. It reveals that it's in his vocabulary, and that he's ingesting this in his media diet. For those who don't know Klein, he's a very popular writer and journalist whose politics roughly resemble a quieter version of Elizabeth Warren's.
After hearing this, the thought occurred to me that what I'm witnessing is an idea spreading from a fringe group into a mainstream concept. Eventually, if it gets big enough with mainstream progressive liberals like Klein, I bet it'll one day get discovered and made into a boogieman on the right.
I wonder how long that will take? When is the first time I'll hear a clip of like, I dunno, Ben Shapiro shouting, 'Have you heard about this new thing they call SOLARPUNK???!? It's crazy! It's like... imagine a cyberpunk dystopia: but they want THAT with like, vines and TRANS PEOPLE everywhere! Some ruthless Soviet dictatorship but without even the cool cars or wonderful corporate innovation! It's just TRAINS and GARDENS instead! Ulgh!! [eyes bugging out for the thumbnail image]'
That might be interesting. I think that this idea has a viral quality, so perhaps I can look forward to that in 2025 or 2026. What do you folks think?
I think you’re reading into it too much.
People have called things cyberpunk or referred to the term for decades, it still never took off as this big mainstream concept that everyone knows about. A bit of name recognition doesn’t mean much.
The genre name might not be common knowledge (and I'm not sure that's the case) but cyberpunk aesthetics and themes and plot points have infiltrated so much of modern science fiction that cyberpunk communities frequently have trouble drawing a line around genre works vs mainstream scifi. And this is after companies and brand marketing "picked it too early" and made it a joke in the 90s. It just sort of kept going quietly, looked more and more prescient, and in the end, it had suffused through so many imaginations and works that it kind of was the mainstream.
I'm not sure the same thing will happen with solarpunk but given the way cyberpunk seems to have acclimatized us to our current distopia, I sort of hope solarpunk can do something similar. Maybe wear the rough edges and propaganda fears off building a society that actually looks out for its people and the habitats they live in.
To second what @JacobCoffinWrites@slrpnk.net just said, to say that cyberpunk didn't take off as a mainstream concept is bewildering when the richest man on the planet and and emergent fascist leader overtly applies cyberpunk concepts to his entire program of world domination.
It's like saying that the social media or school shooters never really took off as mainstream concepts. Like... I don't know how it can get much bigger than this, dawg.
Hey, don't threaten me with a good time ;)
I think that would honestly be great. One of the biggest problems I've seen with Democratic messaging in the last 5 years is that they repeat terms and insist that we should champion them - such as democracy - or revile them - such as authoritarianism - without recognizing an obligation to communicate what those words mean to our everyday lives. I want christian nationalists to be put in that situation:
'You don't understand! Solarpunk is communism!!!'
'Well... I heard they want to give everyone food and shelter and education and healthcare for free. And build parks.'
'Okay, yeah, but didn't you hear me? It's COMMUNISM!!'
'Wait... is that what communism is? Giving me food and shelter for free?'
'No! I mean, supposedly! But it isn't! Look, you need to stop saying that you'd like food and shelter to be free and just agree to fear this word because I told you to! Just stop thinking fondly about living outside of capitalism! I mean it!'
A friend recently declared they were no longer interested in dystopian fiction, and asked for utopian novel recommendations.
Apocalyptic fiction is interesting when we are trying to grasp the dangers of the future, but once we are in it, our minds flip. We now want a vision to work towards a better world.
At least that is my hope, we stop worrying and start doing.
I remember that. It was during a Q&A session in the fall of 2023.
I think we're seeing an idea -- or set of ideas or facet of an idea -- spreading as a meme in the classical sense. For those unaware, Richard Dawkins coined the term "meme" to describe a transmissible unit of culture: an idea that takes root and gets received, repeated, imitated, and spread.
Solarpunk is a big bucket (a genre of fiction, aesthetic, style of personal fashion, lifestyle, philosophy, etc.) but I think it really is a meme spreading quickly. Fundamentally, it's a collection of beliefs that we can live in a radically different, less commodified world of respect for nature and community. And I think people are desperate to discover that such a concept exists and has a descriptor.
What's also interesting, for those who don't follow him, is that Ezra Klein self describes as an obsessively self-aware overthinker. He is meticulous in the construction of his thoughts and in the precision of his language. I would go so far as to say that he probably realized with full awareness that his use of that word was likely going to introduce thousands of people to a new word, and/or unconsciously inform people who'd heard the word that it was a respectable term to use in political discussion. I think that bodes well for the direction of our culture as a whole.
Union und SPD kündigen Reform der Schuldenbremse an
Bundeshaushalt: Union und SPD kündigen Reform der Schuldenbremse an
Rüstungsausgaben über einem Prozent des BIP sollen von der Schuldenbremse ausgenommen werden. Auch plant Schwarz-Rot ein 500-Milliarden-Euro-Programm für Investitionen.Alexander Eydlin (ZEIT ONLINE)
Korrekt, deshalb: digitalcourage.social/@clemens…
Viel wichtiger als Höflichkeitsfloskeln ist es für uns Grüne, den Preis für die Zustimmung hochzutreiben. Die klimafreundliche Transformation von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft erfordert 100te Milliarden Euro in den nächsten 10 Jahren.Kleiner Tipp: Mit einer unverschämten, aber sachlich zu rechtfertigten Forderung wird endlich dieses oft zu freundliche, manchmal schon lammfromme Erscheinungsbild der letzten Jahre wieder etwas zurecht gerückt.
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9 March 2025
Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2 March 2025
Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Might be something interesting here, assuming you can get past th paywall (which I currently can’t): wsj.com/finance/investing/abs-…
Today’s magic economy-ending words are “data centre asset-backed securities” :
Wall Street is once again creating and selling securities backed by everything—the more creative the better...Data-center bonds are backed by lease payments from companies that rent out computing capacity
another cameo appearance in the TechTakes universe from George Hotz with this rich vein of sneerable material: The Demoralization is just Beginning
wowee where to even start here? this is basically just another fucking neoreactionary screed. as usual, some of the issues identified in the piece are legitimate concerns:
Wanna each start a business, pass dollars back and forth over and over again, and drive both our revenues super high? Sure, we don’t produce anything, but we have companies with high revenues and we can raise money based on those revenues...... nothing I saw in Silicon Valley made any sense. I’m not going to go into the personal stories, but I just had an underlying assumption that the goal was growth and value production. It isn’t. It’s self licking ice cream cone scams, and any growth or value is incidental to that.
yet, when it comes to engaging with this issues, the analysis presented is completely detached from reality and void of any evidence of more than a doze seconds of thought. his vision for the future of America is not one that
kicks the can further down the road of poverty, basically embraces socialism, is stagnant, is stale, is a museum
but one that instead
attempt[s] to maintain an empire.
how you may ask?
An empire has to compete on its merits. There’s two simple steps to restore american greatness:1) Brain drain the world. Work visas for every person who can produce more than they consume. I’m talking doubling the US population, bringing in all the factory workers, farmers, miners, engineers, literally anyone who produces value. Can we raise the average IQ of America to be higher than China?
2) Back the dollar by gold (not socially constructed crypto), and bring major crackdowns to finance to tie it to real world value. Trading is not a job. Passive income is not a thing. Instead, go produce something real and exchange it for gold.
sadly, Hotz isn't exactly optimistic that the great american empire will be restored, for one simple reason:
[the] people haven’t been demoralized enough yet
The Demoralization is just Beginning
This is a map of primary trading partners, US vs China, and how it has evolved over the last 20 years. Think about it, and realize this probably reflects your experience.the singularity is nearer
Brain drain the world. Work visas for every person who can produce more than they consume. I’m talking doubling the US population, bringing in all the factory workers, farmers, miners, engineers, literally anyone who produces value.
Okay, I mean, that's coherent policy, I really don't like the caveats of "produces more than they consume" cause how do you quantify that, but yes, immigration is actually good...
Can we raise the average IQ of America to be higher than China?
aaaand it's eugenics, fuck, how does this keep happening
LibreOffice randlos präsentiert
Am (übrigens grossartigen!) Winterkongress der Digitalen Gesellschaft gab es einige LibreOffice-Präsentationen mit weissem Rand unten und rechts. Dasselbe Problem hatte ich bis vor ein paar Monaten auch. Hier Gründe und Lösungen.
Einige LibreOffice-Nutzer:innen kennen das Problem: Ihre Präsentation mit dunklem Hintergrund weist auf dem Beamer unten und rechts eine störende, etwa ein Pixel breite weisse Linie auf.
Bei LibreOffice ist das Problem bekannt, die Lösung zieht sich allerdings hin. Deshalb hier zwei Alternativlösungen.
Inhalt
Das Problem
Im LibreOffice-Bug 150102 ( LibreOffice Impress has white line on bottom and right edge of projection monitor) wird seit 2022 über den Fehler diskutiert. Das Problem scheint darin zu liegen, dass bei einem Zwischenformat für Grafikdarstellungen («Metafile format») Rundungsfehler auftauchen, weil dort nur mit Ganzzahlen gerechnet wird.
Wenn man nun den Folienhintergrund auf eine Farbe ändert, kann es sein, dass aufgrund dieser Rundungsfehler der Hintergrund nicht die ganze Folie abdeckt, sondern unten und rechts eine weisse Linie vom ursprünglichen Hintergrund übrig bleibt. Besonders stark fällt das natürlich bei dunklem bzw. schwarzem Hintergrund auf.
Das Problem scheint vor allem unter Linux und auf AMD-Grafikkarten aufzutreten, weshalb es regelmässig «works for me»-Antworten auf die Fehlermeldung gibt.
Die Problemlösung zieht sich ebenfalls hin, weil das Problem eben bei diesem Metafile-Zwischenformat auftritt, welches von vielen anderen Komponenten ebenfalls verwendet wird. Die LibreOffice-Entwickler befürchten deshalb, dass eine Änderung an den Rundungsregeln andere Probleme nach sich ziehen würde.
Das heisst, vorerst muss man sich selbst helfen.
Lösung 1: Foliengrösse ändern
Als ich 2023 zu einem ChatGPT-Vortrag nach dem anderen eingeladen wurde und ich dafür LibreOffice mit einem dunklen Foliendesign benutzte, begann ich mich über diese störende weisse Linie zu ärgern. In irgendeinem LibreOffice-Forum las ich, dass jemand mit dem Wechsel des Folienformats Erfolg gehabt hätte. Und siehe da: Nachdem ich mein Folienlayout von «Bildschirmanzeige (16:9)» auf «Bildschirm 16:9» umgestellt hatte, verschwand diese Linie.
In meinem aktuellen Setup (LibreOffice 24.8.5.2 unter Debian Trixie auf AMD Ryzen mit Radeon) ist diese Linie nur noch schwach zu erkennen (schwächer als früher); beim Wechsel auf «Bildschirm 16:9» verschwindet sie ganz.
Es gibt drei 16:9-Folienformate «Bildschirm 16:9», «Bildschirmanzeige (16:9)» und «Breitbild». Trotz gleichen Seitenverhältnis unterscheiden sich die zugrunde liegenden Zentimeter-Ausmasse, nämlich von 28 cm☓15.74 cm über 10″☓5.63″ (25.4 cm☓14.3 cm) zu 13⅓“☓7½“ (33.85 cm☓19.05 cm).
LibreOffice versucht zwar, die Elemente diesen neuen Ausmassen anzupassen, es ist aber nach jeder Umstellung des Layouts Handarbeit notwendig.
Lösung 2: Eigener Hintergrund
Statt auf die Hintergrundfunktion zu vertrauen, kann man sich auch selbst einen eigenen Hintergrund basteln:
- Ein farbiges Rechteck oder
- ein farbiges Hintergrundbild (PNG oder JPEG)
taugen nämlich auch als Hintergrundbild, wenn man es mit Rechte Maustaste→Anordnen→Ganz nach hinten geeignet platziert. (Die Idee mit dem PNG/JPEG-Bild stammt von hier.)
Dabei ist darauf zu achten, dass das Hintergrundbild über die Folienausmasse hinaus reichen, insbesondere rechts und unten.
Das ist die Variante, die ohne die Handarbeit beim Layoutwechsel auskommt und insbesondere für aufwändig gelayoutete Folien einfacher ist.
In beiden Fällen kann die Änderung beliebig auf den Masterfolien oder den einzelnen Folien vorgenommen werden.
Viel Spass beim schöneren Präsentieren mit dunklem Hintergrund!
Künstliche Intelligenz
Erklärungen rund um Künstliche Intelligenz (KI): ChatGPT, DALL•E 2, Machine Learning (ML), …Marcel Waldvogel
Bisher haben sich die führenden Parteien hierzulande, inkl. meiner Grünen, als nützliche Idioten von Trump-USA aufgeführt.
Es stände uns allen gut, erst einmal vor der eigenen Türe zu kehren, bevor mensch auf andere zeigt.
Phytoremediation to Clean the Environment and Mine Critical Materials
Phytoremediation To Clean The Environment And Mine Critical Materials
Nickel contamination can render soils infertile at levels that are currently impractical to treat. Researchers at UMass Amherst are looking at how plants can help these soils and source nickel for …Hackaday
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2 March 2025
Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025
Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Michael Stanclift (@vmstan@vmst.io)
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Ein bisschen Buch
Ich habe ein bisschen Buch geschrieben!
Ein Kapitel über „IndieWeb und Fediverse“ im Fachbuch „WordPress 6 – Das umfassende Handbuch“, erschienen im @rheinwerkverlag, um genau zu sein.
Im November 2023 fragten mich @florian und @simon, ob ich Zeit und Lust hätte, ein Kapitel über das IndieWeb zu ihrem Buchprojekt beizusteuern.
Und da spätestens seit dem Studium der Plan, ein Buch zu schreiben, auf meiner „Big 5 for Life“-Liste steht, habe ich ohne groß darüber nachzudenken zugesagt.
Ich hatte 2007 so viel Spaß und Motivation beim Bloggen. Dazu kamen die Arbeit an meiner Bachelor-Thesis und ein paar Jahre später mein erster Artikel sowie eine fortlaufende Kolumne in einem Print-Magazin, dass ich mir gut vorstellen konnte, auch mal ein Buch zu schreiben. Zu der Zeit hatte ich auch bereits Kontakt zu Galileo Press (heute Rheinwerk-Verlag), die mich wegen eines Buchprojekts angefragt hatten. Damals standen die Themen „Web Accessibility“, „jQuery“ und „WordPress (evtl.)“ zur Debatte. Microformats, mein damaliges Steckenpferd, wurden leider als „nicht unbedingt […] „ergiebig“ genug“ für ein Buchthema angesehen. 🙂
Jetzt, nachdem ich die 30 Seiten für das Kapitel über „IndieWeb und Fediverse“ geschrieben habe, bin ich froh, klein angefangen zu haben. Ich habe unterschätzt, wie viel Arbeit das ist, aber auch gemerkt, wie viel Spaß es macht! Außerdem war es die perfekte Themenkombination!
Ich hoffe, dass Flo und Simon (und der Rheinwerk-Verlag) mich vielleicht auch eine Überarbeitung für das WordPress-7-Buch (und 8, 9, 10, …) schreiben lassen. Und wer weiß – vielleicht klappt es ja irgendwann doch noch mit einem ganzen Buch. 😉
Vielen Dank nochmal für die Chance, zumindest ein „bisschen Buch“ schreiben zu können!
WordPress 6 - Das umfassende Handbuch
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teilten dies erneut
Klaudia (aka jinxx) hat dies geteilt.
smegger
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