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I’ll sell you a fair coin that’s nearly as accurate for half the price!
There isn’t a secret conspiracy to price people out of using computers for being a “democratizing force.” In fact, our computer & internet usage is monitored by the security state and by Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, etc. Or did we forget everything that Snowden revealed? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM
This was all Greek to me, and it took a while for me to figure out how to google WTF you’re talking about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_U.S._federal_deferred_resignation_program
Michael Moritz is in the big club that we ain’t in, so I’m surprised his rag published this.
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Are statements made by all countries to be blocked? Should this post from Brazil—which had 22 upvotes and 0 downvotes—have been removed?
Maybe @[email protected] was in the mood to write you a poem, or at least have an LLM write you a poem.
The hegemonic liberal conceptualization of free speech is fairly stable, and it’s understood that it doesn’t mean literally all speech. That’s the free speech I mean. But even under that meaning—which is one of the pillars of liberal ideology—neither side is giving it anything but lip service. It’s still only rhetoric to appear to be upholding liberal ideals.
- Noam Chomsky: The five filters of the mass media machine
- You’re Not Immune To Propaganda
- Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion
- Edward Bernays, Propaganda
- Michael Parenti,
- Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
As if you know communism from a ham sandwich. You and I have already been over this: https://lemm.ee/comment/11869887
Here’s another one, from Michael Parenti’s 1997 Blackshirts and Reds:
But a real socialism, it is argued, would be controlled by the workers themselves through direct participation instead of being run by Leninists, Stalinists, Castroites, or other ill-willed, power-hungry, bureaucratic cabals of evil men who betray revolutions. Unfortunately, this “pure socialism” view is ahistorical and nonfalsifiable; it cannot be tested against the actualities of history. It compares an ideal against an imperfect reality, and the reality comes off a poor second. It imagines what socialism would be like in a world far better than this one, where no strong state structure or security force is required, where none of the value produced by workers needs to be expropriated to rebuild society and defend it from invasion and internal sabotage.
The pure socialists’ ideological anticipations remain untainted by existing practice. They do not explain how the manifold functions of a revolutionary society would be organized, how external attack and internal sabotage would be thwarted, how bureaucracy would be avoided, scarce resources allocated, policy differences settled, priorities set, and production and distribution conducted. Instead, they offer vague statements about how the workers themselves will directly own and control the means of production and will arrive at their own solutions through creative struggle. No surprise then that the pure socialists support every revolution except the ones that succeed.
The pure socialists had a vision of a new society that would create and be created by new people, a society so transformed in its fundaments as to leave little opportunity for wrongful acts, corruption, and criminal abuses of state power. There would be no bureaucracy or self-interested coteries, no ruthless conflicts or hurtful decisions. When the reality proves different and more difficult, some on the Left proceed to condemn the real thing and announce that they “feel betrayed” by this or that revolution.
Maybe I should hitch my horse to something based on OpenHarmony.
The US has been gunning for that ever since Obama’s “pivot to Asia”.
The terrorist attacks in Xinjiang and the subsequent “Uyghur genocide” narrative and Xinjiang cotton embargo didn’t come out of nowhere. The blueprint of regime change operations
(n.b. the maps are a bit dated, as the US has since pulled out of Afghanistan.)
Forward-defense ring: a perfectly normal and not at all Orwellian term of art.
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- Helping 800 Million People Escape Poverty Was Greatest Such Effort in History, Says [UN] Secretary-General, on Seventieth Anniversary of China’s Founding
- China’s Energy Use Per Person Surpasses Europe’s for First Time
- At 54, China’s average retirement age is too low
- China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data
- https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/long-term-survey-reveals-chinese-government-satisfaction/
- Chinese Scientists Are Leaving the United States [for China]
It’s been known for months that they were living on borrowed time: Google “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI” Leaked Internal Google Document Claims Open Source AI Will Outcompete Google and OpenAI
A rental network would be very cool. One would come to you when called, and once you get to where you’re going, it would scoot off to another user, or take itself in for recharging, storage, or maintenance.