wopazoo [he/him]
i am sincerely sorry for cyberbullying
defederating from nazi instance: takes forever
defederating from socialist instance: does it before federation even starts
Death to Israel.
None of this disproves the fact that all reactionaries are paper tigers. NATO continues and fails to defeat Russia in Ukraine, despite the fact that NATO is tenfold stronger than Russia on paper. Israel continues and fails to eradicate the Palestinians, instead rendering the whole of Israel a warzone and causing half a million settlers to flee the country.
Have a little bit of optimism, and look at the bigger picture instead of focusing on individual defeats. Too often, I see leftists doom over individual defeats. Ukraine taking a village is not the end of communism. Dooming over individual defeats is doing the work of the enemy. Have a little bit of optimism, because communism will win.
Liberals don’t actually have beliefs. To them, belief is about signaling group affiliation, not actual intellectual belief.
When a liberal says that they believe in freedom and democracy, they don’t mean that they think that freedom and democracy are the best ways to organize a society, they are merely saying that they belong to WEIRD (western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) society.
Of course it’s incomprehensible for a group of people who are profoundly nihilistic that someone would actually be willing to die for what they think is right.
I’m reminded of the tale of the liberal who says big words about climate change but cannot not be arsed to give up their gas-guzzling SUV. To them, “I believe that climate change is real” is merely a statement of group affiliation (i.e. “I’m with the cool kids”), not a factual statement that implies the need for urgent action.
Any site that is deemed to be “more than thirty-three and one-third percent of total material on a website” porn is required to ID Louisiana residents.
Is Reddit more than 1/3 porn?
Improving the city will erase the city’s identity as a bad place. This is bad, actually.
I read this blog post about a UKer’s experience of blocking all American IP addresses, which made the Internet mostly unusable.
https://www.nthbrock.com/posts/americaless-internet/
Select quotes:
Nine out of the ten most visited websites in the United Kingdom are those operated by US organisations. The same cannot be said for the flip side. There are zero UK-operated websites found in the US’s top 50.
A large chunk of the Anglo-speaking sphere I experience originates and is operated by American organisations. Within this sphere, we all feel any disturbances or changes made by the major players. We are all affected when an AWS data centre goes down. Our combined productivity goes down when Google publishes an enticing doodle. Any dint to Facebook’s SLA and we all find out as it hits the mainstream media.
One of the few constants in life is change. We can’t assume the internet as we use it today will last for the foreseeable future. The Internet is the most impressive distributed networks of our time. Yet its fragility isn’t in the technology itself but in the politics, geography and laws that encompass it. […]
(emphasis mine)
The author’s experience shows why the Great Firewall of China (GFW) is an essential economic protection measure. Without the GFW, the Chinese internet would be dominated by American websites, leading to Chinese social and economic dependence on American corporations and infrastructure. Mature American tech companies would occupy most of the space in the local market, stifling the development of an indigenous tech industry.
OpenAI just released actually good AI-generated video. The samples are actually holy fucking shit.
How will this affect disinformation, now that photorealistic videos can now be fabricated from a text prompt?
Also note that OpenAI is now presumably licensing its technology to the US military.
https://hexbear.net/post/1604077
I predict that in the next few months, we are going to see AI-generated videos of completely fabricated atrocities.