Make sure you’ve actually changed and aren’t embracing communism rhetorically. No matter how wealthy I could possibly become, I’ve seen how the sausage is made. I can’t not see the horror and exploitation endemic to every aspect of society. I always want to learn and uncover more. Money has limited utility in resisting the capitalist order so I’m not really chasing it, but I do have to survive because I know I’ll get eaten up if I lag for too long.

IMO its good that you’re worried at this stage, you might be a little less liberal than you think.

yeah the CCP , which honestly if the (Gay) California Communist Party was real we’d all be a lot happier.

I’m currently chatting with some folks in a discord server, but idk if I’m able to invite others. I’m planning to spin up a lemmy instance to facilitate more project discussion. Pretty informal at this stage, but our current draft configs are mirrored here and I have some of my other projects on there as well.

I originally wanted to have a cute little cluster of fossil repos, but the forum is text only and that’s pretty limiting.

I’ve had a couple of false starts, but I’ve been getting more into community mesh stuff recently. I think the tech is really interesting by itself and I have some ideas for mobile adhoc mesh protocols, but finding people to build something with is hard.

If you don’t have the self confidence to be emasculated for fun, you might need to go to an Alpha training camp. They’re pretty affordable too, only like 20k. Then you can come back and love her like a real man.

2x tastes like ketchup to me , but its good. I guess I like ketchup. It was a spicy noodle contest and I just slurped it down like it was nothing. 3x is pretty nice tho. I gotta go get Korean BBQ again

wait are you telling me that the AI revolution was extremely oversold???

EXACTLY. we need to build new systems of care because the american system fails and eventually kills everyone below the morality line these new systems WILL be violently opposed, which will require self defense.

Its gotta be some evil delulu shit. AI is just not that good. There could be some improvements still, but its way to early to be rationally betting on it like this. I’m sure they are eager to retaliate against unionization and shit. Blame it on the recession, get bailed out, and hire us back at way lower salaries. Though idk where the US is going to get that money this time around.

I’m still trying to understand how actually replacing people with AI is supposed to work, because the quality of the outputs is still essentially trash. I do understand that in the short term capital prefers to swing its dick around to prove a point, and maybe that’s all there is to it. However, I have a sneaking suspicion that AI hype is being used to cover for a very real economic slowdown that is actually driving the lack of job prospects and layoffs. Maybe capital is just hoping that AIs can do a good enough job to keep them floating until the recession is over.

We can thank Quechua scientists for giving us some of the best agricultural technology out there. I don’t have links, but its pretty interesting to read about some of the agricultural labs that were built in the andes ages ago to make this delicious monstrosity:

whatever you want tiktok, i’ll support you by never giving you any money

If the democratic powers that be won’t stop enabling genocide, we have to physically prevent the arms from getting to where they’re meant to go. Some countries are refusing port access to arms shipments, maybe a similar action at various US ports like have been reported on some indie outlets would be in order.

Its pretty hard core, but I don’t see what other options we have. Its possible that some kind of political reform could make a difference, but I imagine that would have to be done as part of a mass anti genocide movement. The timeline for that doesn’t really work though and we can’t resign ourselves to saying its too late.

some day, we’ll replace every bar in america with cooperative juice bars / weed dispensaries

Praise the sun!

not very active in jewish circles

i think this is going to be a recurring theme. i don’t have solid data on this, but i reckon practicing Jews are more likely to be pro-palestinian.

Try doing anything without other people being involved, is that even possible? How does that line of thinking tell us anything about how people should relate to each other? You can analyze atomized individuals, but you end up with really incoherent ideas like “humans are fundamentally selfish”. Sure, humans can be raised to be selfish, but compassion has to be beaten out of people in order to maintain a system that relies on these ideas. Honestly, the problem with individualism is that it depends on people living in an extremely forgiving environment. Any amount of serious adversity will teach you that it fucking sucks to do hard or complicated shit by yourself.

Dansup doesn’t really deliver novel tech, but I’m always happy to see the idea getting out there and working out UX ideas at least. Federated video is a tough one. Web p2p tech is extremely limited so don’t expect too much. Fedi dev’s fixation of web technologies is really holding the platform back imo. Peertube makes bit torrent look bad by not being a complete peer experience, only because browsers can’t do real networking. like, I can stream any show I want over bit torrent the day it releases no problem. with over 40 peers for popular content. hosting tiktok-like content could be just as good, but you just can’t do this with web.

Sadly, most of the more technical projects have reactionary politics and a blockchain attached… That’s slowly changing, but we have way less funding at our disposal so its rough.

the best thing about the panthers is that they’re the complete package. they operated clinics and breakfast programs and community defense and more. let them come back.