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I like Draper's 1967 essay Who’s going to be the lesser-evil in 1968? but I think its dated references can be alienating to some people (even though the datedness of it kinda reinforces its argument).

Opening up a space for everyone to talk about how they're doing! Got some cool stuff going on? Feeling kinda down? Let's talk about it!

Remember you are loved

Started "working" with Outlier, basically training AI responses. Minimum wage, boring ass work, but i put in 70 hours this past week (most of it time thievery). Behind on rent and bills, but if I can push myself for 2 more weeks of this I can maybe catch up! Had a few "serious" job interviews this week, so we'll see where they go. The one I'm looking forward to most is a pet care company, but no response after a phone call like 10 days ago. Partner just got a job today so that's cool!

Beyond that...I dunno. Just feeling kinda blah and not very great. Both tummy and brain troubles today.

How have you been?

First off, I’m truly asking this in good faith, please be nice but correct me too on anything I saw that’s stupid.

As an anarchism, my ideal solution for Palestine is a no-state solution where people are allowed to move freely, interact freely, and work being done on both sides to heal from the decades of conflict and live in one society.

Now you folks (I love you folks) aren’t all anarchists and I’d love to hear your thoughts. Sometimes I’ll see people saying that all Israelis should just move somewhere else, but I think that’s really dumb. Both sides seem to be operating on the assumption that the other group will leave, which in my opinion is just as racist thinking as saying all the Palestinians should just leave.

So what are the tankie’s (/j) thoughts.

Is there any truth to the claim that Yugoslavia slaughtered people from Kosovo or is it just another Uyghur thing?

(Even if relatively true it still doesn't make the bombing of Yugoslavia justified)

Recently I’ve become a little more paranoid about this. I also try to remove them when I post anywhere besides private discord server, but I’m wondering how justified my paranoia is and if it’s something I should encourage others to be cautious about.

I'm in a class that requires I use VMWare virtual machines, however it's running very slow. I had a meeting with my professor to try and trouble shoot why but we both can't seem to find a reason.

I got plenty of ram, I shut down a few programs that seemed to be causing my computer to run slow and made sure the VMs were in my actual drive not the cloud but is still very sluggish.

The title of the history post "Pic from the UCSB anti-apartheid burning of Bank of America (1970)".

It would be deeply triggering to see him and he is extremely manipulative, plus he has friends that attend the scene. Some of them were doing meth last I saw them over ten years ago.

If I make friends, they could easily link back to him through themselves or multiple people. I seriously cannot tolerate that. I don't want him knowing anything about me and my life.

Do you think I can manage being part of a small scene with these conditions?

Pic unrelated bc I didn't know what to add for this

I'm going to be honest, I'm not confident in the future of AI and think it would've been ultimately better if it weren't invented to begin with.

I know that it can have genuinely incredible applications that would benefit humanity as a whole, namely healthcare, accident prevention (like with airplanes, ships, shuttles, workplace related, etc.), and weather/natural disaster predictions. I'd love if that were all that it could do.

But I've also seen AI in warfare, surveillance, and policing used to seriously harm innocent people. Employers are already using AI to unfairly filter people out of jobs, and I believe black rock also uses AI to buy up properties. Not to mention that jobs like illustrators, writers, musicians, etc will all inevitably be replaced by their employers looking to consolidate workplace power from unions and increase profit margins.

Boycotting AI art is one way to slow down its growth that I can think of, but what else can be done?

It needs to be regulated and curbed before it's too late.

I’ve had people laugh. Others just stare. One or two people murmured some kind of critical response that I couldn’t hear. I find it strange and just wanted to know if this is an ordinary experience. It’s rare for someone to agree. I live in a rich white area.

Firstly:

Okay now for the post.

When Palestine is liberated, I think the vast majority of settlers will either be [redacted] or forced out of the region. There is no way that any Arab in the region will accept having a settler in their land, and the settlers know this. The plan will have to be a mass exodus for the west, both for their safety and livelihood (I can see many going into ghoul industries like defense, tech, and police training).

That being said, how would you react if your country decides to accept settlers? Would you support the move? If they were going to live in your community/ neighborhoods how would you feel?

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2723840

Hi, I need to read handwriting off scanned documents and then file them digitally. What's the best way to approach this? I've done some searching myself but I'm curious what you nerds think. Ty.

Tories are obviously fucked but labour are the new tories. I don't believe in bourgeois electoralism so I'm inclined not to vote at all but would also like to spoil the tories and labour from winning in my constituency. To that end, I'm torn between Green (libs with good climate policies, left of labour but pro-Israel-existence) and Workers Party GB (economically socialist with weird-to-concerning opinions on LGBT+)**. Discuss.

** Workers Party leader Galloway in an interview with Novara media has said he believes all LGBT+ people should be treated with dignity and respect and that he has had many gay and one trans colleague (and used their preferred pronouns) but he has boomerish ideas about what should and should not be taught to children in schools and which changing rooms people should use. It's not great but could be worse I guess.

They're feeling like a failure because of job shit and if they get fired they're probably gonna get deported back after their family spent essentially their entire life savings (and more?) to support them studying abroad

So far I got:

Industrial Reserve Army (Reserve Army of Labor)

Tendency for Rate of Profit to fall (to understand increasing exploitation of workers)

I want to try and keep things light

I grabbed the photo from this article - Have You Seen A Cybertruck Yet? | Defector.

https://subium.com/profile/prisonculture.bsky.social/post/3ku7cmvenz222

Prisonculture is Mariame Kaba.

Mariame Kaba

Mariame Kaba is an American activist, grassroots organizer, and educator who advocates for the abolition of the prison industrial complex, including all police.

or any thoughts on the matter.

i've been thinking about this for a while but I do not have the words to explore it well or in details.

like the white idealist part of ecology, the concept of "nature" as some kind of perception-black-hole that blinds from the class struggle aspect, or more complicated, the realization for white from the west that they can neither pursue the neverending capitalist global death machine, nor go back to some fantasized "local", "traditional", "simple", "close to nature" lifestyle that never even existed, and if the sources of that fantasy even existed, they were obliterated during the building phase of the nation state that needed to colonize itself before going outward. colonial mindset x "state of nature" etc

shit like that

be it "classic" works/thoughts on the subjects or very recent things, because things are shifting quite quickly

other random threads : the right to land, soft colonialism wanderlust, white indigenous, Bruno Latour

I'm almost convinced that people don't become ultraleft; they end up ultraleft. What type of confusion, abuse, bigotry, whatever- it doesn't matter- turns someone into an ultraleft?

I'm at my wits end, are they just neoliberals that haven't accepted that fact?

I am 100% confident it's them because so many details lined up (team, size of family, compensation, role, location, job level) including them using a specific phrase of words after a few days I sent it in our work chat

Obviously, I can't prove it's them so HR would never take action. Not only that but this guy is one of those started coding when they were 10 years old so not only are they a higher level than me, they also perform way better than me so complaining to my manager or teammates would 100% also backfire as they would 100% prefer a very high performing misogynist and transphobe than a poor performing woke sjw (me)

What's stopping us? Not all of us have to, obviously, but at least some of us can live that way.

If our antiquated predecessors could sometimes manage it, I'm sure we can too. Maybe even better.

Going to DC with a friend for a couple days and am wondering if Hexbear has some ideas on what to do. We already have a list of the 4 (maybe 5) museums we're going to, so probably don't need any suggestions there. (Though feel free if somewhere was super cool to you.) Preferably things close to metro and/or downtown.