grym [she/her, comrade/them]
i’ve dated very little but my current partner is enby, and my ex (for complicated personal reasons) left her country to move with someone else, cut all contact with her family, and a few years back completely dropped off the internet as well and people who knew her before she left the country have not heard about her at all, the guy she was with says she’s fine but basically avoids giving any current details about her. Not in like an ominous way I think, but in a way that makes me think he’s trying to avoid bringing up the past and deadnaming.
Soooo given my track record, and what I remember of them, I think it’s very likely I should no longer gender my ex in the feminine.
That’s normal! I wish people had told me ahead of time.
Basically your hair is burned and you won’t be able to shave it really well for a bit, usually for me some of it looks somehow darker/thicker in patchy ways and after 4-6 days it falls out and then it’s all smooth. A lot of the hair is burned and the root is dead, and it has to grow a little bit to fall.
yea, it’s data transformation but there is zero intelligence, context or anything “new”.
The tool itself is fine when used clearly and purposefully, and those kinds of tools have been used for a long time in various fields, the problem I have with the current hype trends of ““AI”” is that literally nothing fundamentally new was made. People aren’t being informed on how these things really work and what they do, there’s a lot of dangerous practices and psychological manipulation, and above all these new large models are enormous labor-obfuscating machines. I don’t give a shit about private property, IP laws, etc (because I know that’s a common response), the problem is that these things are another layer of illusions, an enormous curtain hiding entire industries of data-scraping and theft, of countless people and hours of manual tagging, filtering, training, moderating and mechanical turks, in purely profit-seeking and reckless ways. And not only is all this labor not valued, people aren’t even aware it exists, people never have to interact directly with anyone along that production chain. Entire industries becoming ghosts, non-existent, and even more unable to organize and struggle for what they create.
Beyond that, class consciousness is ever harder to teach and agitate for in these domains, because shit like this is purposefully built to hide and disguise exploited labor (often from the labour force of the colonized and victims of imperialism) and privatization.
It’s not the stealing that’s the problem it’s the sneaky, rapid disruption and destruction of existing productions and jobs that it entails, and the privatization of colossal amounts of public data and user-generated data that nobody ever intended to be privatized and extracted for profits. It was always happening in the background of course, but i don’t think people realize the impact this will have, to me it’s like a closure of the internet-commons. Colossal explotation of Free Labour, the expansion of exploitation in every sphere of “content production” that was previously unreachable.
Drives me fucking insane.
Not only is the summary kinda light or missing the deeper points, the LLM did not “break down” the plot by “reading” the provided PDF. House of Leaves is impossible to fucking parse correctly as a PDF, the text is all over the place, visually placed in very complex ways, you have a whole labyrinth chapter where you have to follow footnotes across multiple pages with the text being difficult to find and follow, anything “reading” the PDF in the regular order of characters would have no fucking clue.
As always, there is no intelligence or any breaking down, the only reason the LLM is able to provide the summary is because it was trained on a dataset that included summaries and reviews of House of Leaves, and it simply detected the PDF was House of Leaves.
The LLM is, YET AGAIN, just regurgitating things that are already written elsewhere, nothing is created, it’s all obfuscation of labour.
Also historically the trots have literally never achieved anything, none of their strategies have ever worked. Entryism is a profoundly stupid and wrong strategy. Their “agitation” is mostly useless because they don’t really have a good reason why/how/for what purpose they agitate. Their revolutionary strategy can be summarized as “at some point people will be informed enough, then general strike, then ???, then we win” Their opinions/positions on international topics tend to be ultra and very stupid, calling AES “state capitalism” or removed socialism or whatever. etc etc
it’s a large and complicated topic but in the western world, the general idea is that trots are often very useless at best, and sabotaging at worst.
In all western countries the movements were destroyed and the only groups remaining are the ones the never posed a real threat. Those are the trots. For many reasons trots are unable to be effective. On theory they are stuck on the stalin/trotsky split and refuse to deconstruct their propagandized view of history on the USSR, leading them to make wrong analysis and to wrong strategies. On practice, this goes with their theory and the fact only the nonthreatening groups being left alive, they often don’t do much beyond a very vague “agitation”, and in many cases this is selling newspapers. They don’t have much of a revolutionary strategy beyond “we must agitate and the masses will at some point organize”, their relationship with the masses are very confused since they tend to reject concepts of the mass line, or of the actual vanguard strategy (what they think the vanguard is is often wrong).
On the ground, anyone who’s tried to do some organizing has learned to fucking hate many trots, not necessarily all of them but when there’s a group that’s sabotaging everything, creating division and splits, being ultras and calling everyone “social fascists” or stalinists or whatever, they’re trots. But that’s also because there’s often no one else.
Another joke about trots besides the newspapers is that they split as easily as they breathe, for all the reasons above, and this is really true. Something like “1 trot is a party, 2 trots is factional infighting, 3 trots is a split”.
That’s not at all why people are talking about it what the fuck? It has nothing to do with seeing the clean-up of the river as “wasteful spending”, it’s because everyone fucking hates Macron lmao.
The “clean-up of the Seine” is a recurring joke, multiple presidents and mayors of Paris have promised it over the decades and it never ends up happening, and this time as well everyone laughed and said “if we actually see him swim in it, I’ll eat my hat”.
It’s because we hate macron, and it’s because people really dislike the Olympics as well. The olympics are wasteful spending, very badly organized, and they’re going to a complete shit show to the delight of everyone outside Paris, myself included.
