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i don't know that i'd even call that accelerationism so much as hoping for a silver lining

neonreaper posted...

I read the second article. It's fairly spot on. I think the terms patriarchy and toxic masculinity are correct and helpful for some folks but I think end up being polarizing. I think at this point patriarchy is a loaded term. But I think a lot of men would understand if you said something like "men are are punished for being vulnerable".

In my men's discussion group, one common thing that comes up "If I tell my wife I am stressed about something, she is very supportive. But she will avoid bringing it up ever again because it stressed me out once." I'm sure it happens with men talking to men as well.

i think i agree with this and i also think people seriously underestimate the power of language and rhetoric in terms of how certain ideas are received. i don't think changing how you talk about certain things is going to work all of the time, but i think people with good intentions and approaching certain conversations in good faith are falling into a trap of using language that - through no fault of their own - becomes interpreted as hostile

Lopen posted...

People like you are why we had toilet paper shortages

sorry about your shitty ass

ivysnow posted...

that shook the industry in the same way

if you don't have a substantive response to the whole of my point, don't bother directing posts at me.

the crux of my point is that deepseek struck a blow against what i see as a noxious and stupid economic bubble, and i cheer it for that reason. the /degree/ to which it is more efficient, while somewhat relevant to me, is an afterthought. through the damage to the hype cycle of this over-invested technology, my hope is that we more quickly reach the point of investors seeing the limited applications of ai and it finally being consigned to a niche market.

foolm0r0n posted...

But think about why you're only interested in this idea when a Chinese company does it and not when Meta or Stability did similar "OpenAI killers" a year ago

because the technology and motives that underpinned them was still as wasteful and money hungry as the original. if an american or french or swedish or whatever company had come out with a cost and resource efficient competitor that shook the industry in the same way, i'd be having the same reaction. ai is still a suckass product, but if it's not killing the planet and sucking all the oxygen out of whatever space it's in then i don't give a shit if it lives or dies.

also re: deepseek, the primary thing that makes it unique is the efficiency of resource use and being open source. if it turns out there's a cheaper way to develop similarly performing models for a fraction of the price, then the american tech sector's ability to generate huge amounts of vc funding through ai hype diminishes severely.

you probably want a variety of sources to cover bias and blind spots. a euro outlet like bbc or france24 might help, as well as a middle-eastern or asian outlet

as a socialist they only thing i'm hyped about is the idea of the current ai bubble popping. i don't give a shit about retail investors.

Not_an_Owl posted...

AI ... useful ...

lol

lol at deepseek tanking the market this morning

the idea that hewing more left or more right affects the outcome of elections is starting to ring completely hollow to me

more and more it seems that the only factor that matters is speaking the answer to some kind of insane rhetorical riddle that activates a trigger in the brains of the dumbest 500,000 humans in the united states to swing the electoral college

bracing for four years of "trump gets epically trolled!!!" headlines as he obliterates various rights and federal protections

ross ulbricht is a freak

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americans are the dumbest motherfuckers on earth for sure

this idiot is going to sign a zillion executive orders this week and spend the next four years on a fucking golf course lol [extremely wishful thinking]

Delivering Emergency Price Relief for American Families and Defeating the Cost-of-Living Crisis

I hereby order the heads of all executive departments and agencies to deliver emergency price relief, consistent with applicable law, to the American people and increase the prosperity of the American worker. This shall include pursuing appropriate actions to: lower the cost of housing and expand housing supply; eliminate unnecessary administrative expenses and rent-seeking practices that increase healthcare costs; eliminate counterproductive requirements that raise the costs of home appliances; create employment opportunities for American workers, including drawing discouraged workers into the labor force; and eliminate harmful, coercive climate policies that increase the costs of food and fuel. Within 30 days of the date of this memorandum, the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy shall report to me and every 30 days thereafter, on the status of the implementation of this memorandum.

who knew it was so easy

v_charon posted...

Exactly how enforceable is that Gulf order though really? Obviously other countries around the world will be ignoring it so what is really even the point?

red meat for the base

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lol, i fucking hate these people.

i'm not saying that the tiktok ban was partisan, but rather it was a bad decision by all involved and bit the dems in the ass in the end

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tremendous own goal from anyone in government who opposed trump, lol. our leaders are incompetent

i am willing to admit defeat if i am proven wrong

everyone is terrified of taking a certain approach based on an assumed point of view of the electorate and i think that we can't know for sure if that assumption actually stands up to reality without challenging it

i have lived all 35 of my life years in the united states.

Leafeon13N posted...

If the United States used its full power against Israel Republicans would have won a lot more than they did in this last election.

Americans dont give a fuck about Gaza and care about Israel only in a weird religious sense.

"A YouGov poll backed by the Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) Policy Project and released on Wednesday showed that among the 19 million people who voted for President Joe Biden in 2020 but did not vote in 2024, nearly a third named Israel's U.S.-backed war on Gaza as a top reason for staying home."

insane how resistant people are to the idea that the failures of the american political class create opportunities for bad actors like donald trump to exploit, and instead insist that the bad actor is the whole of the problem

israel only exists in it's current state to act as a political tool for western, specifically american, geopolitical interests in the middle east. if the united states leaned with it's full weight on israel to come to a peaceful resolution to the current issue, it would be done quickly because israel is only as powerful as the us gov'ts resolve to support it

UF8 posted...

dec 15
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2873080/The_NOexistenceN_of_you_AND_me/
this is some real trashy pseudointellectualist "philosophical" flex in game form and i can't wait to see it crash and burn

i did not have interest and continue to have no interest in this game but i felt compelled to point out, six days after it's release, that it definitely didn't "crash and burn." the dismissal was so oddly smug and self-assured that i couldn't help but point and laugh. sorry. nothing personal.

ivysnow posted...

biden's internal polling had him doing abysmally. he probably would have lost worse than harris

i will caveat this by saying that i can't say with any certainty how much factors like race and gender worked against harris, so i suppose that biden could have hung on if those things played an outsized factor against kamala.

biden's internal polling had him doing abysmally. he probably would have lost worse than harris

vote to impeach yoon suk seol passes in south korea

absolutely a ton of people in suburbs who consider themselves "rural"

this new kind of rage was also being really effectively called out and mocked during the "weird" phase of the harris campaign and is another reason i'm still frustrated at how bad they fumbled

i think it might be more accurate to say that there is a /new/ kind of anti-trans rage that's been born out of a reaction to trans people finding marginal levels of acceptance in the mainstream. now that it's not taken for granted that everyone thinks we're freaks, the people that do think that way are getting more riled up about even small amounts of pushback on transphobic speech and behavior

https://lore.capital/f/vid/yHz4DJk2s30ccorJ92OEv7drGDzH0PqkieHTMQ.mp4

have a lol at peter thiel sweating like a bitch and babbling like a dipshit

worth mentioning that the only outlet/journalist (that i'm aware of) that has actually published the full manifesto is ken klipperstein, despite multiple orgs having it.

illegal immigration is a very risky workaround to a deeply broken system of legal immigration

but i completely understand why people do it. the correct response imo would be to just start naturalizing undocumented immigrants and investing heavily into the structures of legal immigration so that no one feels compelled to avoid the process

foolm0r0n posted...

The point is the current system is so calcified that it needs to be violently broken in order to be cleaned up, then replaced with something better. Obamacare was the incremental solution that was safe in the short term and completely useless in the long term. We need something that makes things significantly worse in the short term, but enables long term improvement.

musk thought

the maryland mangiones are apparently a very wealthy and connected family, so it feels a bit weird that his family had a lot of trouble dealing with medical debt, but i suppose it's possible that his branch of the family tree is further removed from the wealth

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it's not impossible it's the guy and the more that comes out about him the more suspect he seems, but if it is him then the person that ratted him out is a class traitor

nypd, teetering on the edge of being a national embarrassment: "uh actually we found him, and he had a big bag of evidence with him"

you'll forgive me if i'm not convinced that the guy who did a really good job setting up his crime has been caught in a random mcdonalds with a gun and a copy of his manifesto just happening to be on his person

if vigilante justice is actually legal then they should call off the manhunt for brian thompson's killer

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AriaOfBolo posted...

phew, glad that's solved forever, wannabe dictators never come back after a badly failed coup

he legitimately did /so/ badly that i can't see him coming back from it.

wildly unpopular leading his party to a landslide loss in april, was on the cusp of impeachment before the declaration, military seemingly dragged it's feet and put little effort into impeding the national assembly

you typically have to have some level of support somewhere downstream, whether it's popular or militarily to pull off what he tried to do and he extremely failed

the declaration of martial law in south korea was withdrawn after members of the national assembly broke into parliament and voted to force the president to do so

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

I'm still against it! I think the morally correct position is to abolish the process, I just cope by finding annoying people getting mad funny.

here's some cope i've been happy to make use of: maybe the pardon (and various other dem failures) will radicalize some libs further left

politics and the political discourse in this country are broken on a fundamental level, and it will take either sheer dumb luck or something world changing to shift it in a positive direction

trump activates a certain kind of mostly white demographic that only really cares about voting for him. a bunch of trump voters voted for trump only and didn't even bother voting down the rest of the ticket

Xeybozn posted...

Isn't the plan for the Senate to go on recess so Trump can make his appointments without holding any confirmation votes?

yeah he seems very intent on doing recess appointments which are "temporary" but can last up to 210 days and can be re-upped when they expire

LightningStrikes posted...

So Trump is putting Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy in charge of the new Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE as theyre calling it.

lol that it's a not actually a government entity. the political equivalent of slapping a "Big Boy Helper" sticker on elon's head and sending him outside to play