I have worked alongside veterans; they are not really any better off than I am.

for all the propaganda about how much the US cares about the heckin trooperinos they actually just also get treated like shit but with slightly more healthcare sometimes.

If the big reason people like this want to join the military is because they believe that it is a highly disciplined organization that will help them get their life on track… maybe we should have a disciplined organization they can join lol

https://xcancel.com/VickieforNYC/status/1559219324145082368 pretty good stuff

except apparently (per the comments, I don’t think this is 100% strict), if you have self harm scars

yeah, the enshittification is very real I am just pushing back on the framing “I hate AI but I have to use it”. I don’t honestly know why, it just bothers me when we deny our own agency in these things. LLMs may somehow reach that level of saturation into society that it is completely unavoidable, or even just mostly unavoidable, but currently it really isn’t, at all, for 95% of people. It is choosing convenience, and that’s not like, a sin or whatever, I just think we should be honest with ourselves about it, the contradiction bothers me.

I don’t want to have that struggle sesh again tbh but I can wholeheartedly agree with the first and last paragraph as someone who also lives in a place that is uninhabitable for a good part of the year and has the same issues of profiling and using the elements to social murder and regular murder homeless people.

Operator use definitely can help a good bit, but the onslaught of keyword farming slop sites is really bad these days and as far as I can tell the search engines have just given up on that front, maybe intentionally. slop sites can have a plausible sounding exact match for almost every conceivable phrasing of your query so they’re hard to filter out

I don’t want to be a jerk I just hate the “its inevitable I just had to start using AI” take. Most people hate this stuff, it isn’t inevitable! Its like a worse version of “nobody else is masking so I had to stop too” and it can easily be extended to justify doing pretty much anything

Yeah I’m thinking its 90% turf

Even the IDF babykiller says “hey bud everyone’s saying military but IMO you should probably try job corps instead”

all the search engines out there have been so enshittfied that I have to lean on a chatbot for help getting answers

I’m sorry, yes the search engines suck and are getting worse, but you really don’t actually. You simply don’t have to. A chatbot provides the illusion of a perfectly tailored answer every time, and leads us to expect that, with little to no effort, but it’s an illusion, it’s highly likely to be wrong, answering a different question than you actually meant to ask, etc. And even if it was actually just giving you great quality answers every time and google or DDG or whatever couldn’t find them, you still don’t have to use the slop machine. Sometimes things might take multiple searches, background reading, asking another human, or, occasionally, you might just not find the answer. And that’s okay.

the leader having more putler/yeltsin than Satanyahu vibes

in the movie he looks A LOT like Ben-Gurion

This reminds me of the whole house vacuum!

I’ve seen 2 or 3 houses now which have the plumbing for these still, basically just a powerful vacuum in the basement, with tubes in the walls going to ports in every room. Then the actual vacuum you use is just an extension hose attached to a vacuum head on a stick. None of them have been still in operation sadly, I’d love to try it. Its stupid honestly, but I find it so charming. it must be much quieter too!

That is why the response cannot be moralism, nor mere abstention. The task is political. We must wage struggle against the degraded superstructure by restoring criteria of seriousness: discipline, study, humility, organizational accountability, historical memory, ideological clarity, and rootedness among the people. But this remains insufficient unless joined to a scientific analysis of the base. Revolutionary organizations must become technically literate. We must study algorithms, data extraction, platform governance, AI infrastructures, digital labor regimes, and the imperial supply chains underwriting computational power. We must understand how youth are captured online, how desire is formatted, how outrage is circulated, and how dependency is engineered. What is required is not romantic anti tech sentiment, but revolutionary competence.

We must therefore construct forms of life antagonistic to the logic of virality. We must delink value from visibility, leadership from recognition, truth from circulation, and political seriousness from aesthetic performance. Above all, we must insist that the struggle is not against a few bad ideas floating in the air, but against a totality: a material order and its corresponding ideological apparatus. For if the masses come to confuse visibility with value, virality with truth, and platform recognition with political legitimacy, then bourgeois domination has secured not only obedience, but desire. And a system that can make the oppressed desire the very forms through which they are administered has achieved a highly sophisticated level of rule. That sophistication must be met with greater ideological rigor, greater theoretical precision, greater technical competence, greater organizational discipline, and an uncompromising refusal to mistake spectacle for consciousness.

super clear and to-the-point conclusions

looks like the lid of a gasometer got blown off yeah

which is less impressive than if it were like, a proper building, but still quite the spectactle

I’ll be honest, not that interested in an AI generated social network pulling inspiration from boorus and chans. And I don’t think you’ll be able to get a machine learning algorithm to optimize for class conscious content in anything more than a superficial way.

The things that could interest me about it are the type of community it attracts and the people posting on it. I’m generally on an anti-social-media kick these days, but exposure to more and different kinds of comrades and their work, thoughts, and art, is of interest. I don’t think any of that requires architecting a new site from scratch rather than using software that already exists and works, but if you do find a left wing audience that prefers this format I’ll certainly check it out.

I do need to learn more about i2p also… I’m pretty patient but 30s load time might be tough, especially if there’s a focus on image posts.

I don’t think signal is the primary issue here… At least I haven’t seen any evidence of that. its not usually the tool that’s the problem, its the organizational structures around it, the devices its installed on, the way that it’s used, the things it’s used for…

US feds just announced the indictment and arrest of 15 ICE responders/alleged direct actionists in Minneapolis:

press conf. video

article, light on details

indictment

Apparently (this is all from their wiki so grain of salt) it’s a forum descended from the facepunch forums (run by the guy that made garrys mod).

I think they also host video game servers for old valve games.

Where politics comes into it idk but it seems very typically liberal (up to and including describing themselves as leftist), and I’m guessing that just reflects the general consensus of the user base, plus is probably partly in response to frequent exposure to the utter abrasiveness of gamer chuds and 4chan types.

It doesn’t show at any window size or zoom level because of their shitty web design but inspect element reveals the second sentence is of course “Glory to the heroes!” (which if anyone doesn’t know somehow, is a slogan for the past 100 years of ukrainian fascists and their allies, which western liberals have of course adopted unquestioningly)

never mind, inverse cramer index says we’re good to go

yeah. USPS almost always has access to apartment buildings to leave packages inside. other carriers are more spotty

I once ran across a korean restaurant called Juche

I still wonder