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50 First Dates but it’s 50 Closed Straits

this comment reappeared to me in a dream about pirating french cigar shipments in the age of sail.

i found it framed on the wall of a ship cabin and kept it always folded in my pocket. i would show it off to people at every port and they’d be like ‘nice’ and i was so smug about it.

this was a minor detail in the dream but it was so bizarre that it stuck with me, and my partner insisted that i should share this experience.

“It makes sense that a lot of people who are developing a psychotic illness for the first time, there’s going to be this horrible coincidence, or kind of correlation,” Torous said. “In some cases the AI is the object of people’s delusions and hallucinations.”

The second type of case to consider: reverse causation. Is AI causing people to have a psychotic reaction? “We have almost no clinical medical evidence to suggest that’s possible,” Torous told me.

correlation does not equal ‘irrelevant’. ‘we have not closely invesigated whether the application that stochastically produces sycophantic replies to users’ queries, which has been marketed as a Truth Machine, is a causative force in fomenting psychosis.’

the technicality is not very convincing, that ‘well, these people just have the Psychotic Brain, and the chatbot just happens to be the object of that psychosis! and if they were nOrMaL before and now they’re not, that just means they were always abnormal and they just didn’t show it yet! the Yes Man is innocent!’

what the fuck.

i sure do wonder why the virtual sycophant is involved in so many cases of delusions at a height of both capital crisis and anomie.

this thread is from 10 months ago, but yeah there seems to be a problem with federation between Dbzer0 and Hexbear.

tho, unlike the time this thread is about, Hexbear is still listed in the linked instances.

not to start on the HexBear emojis.

what is the charge? using an emoji? a perfect Hexbear emoji?

“No the Katyn Massacre was good actually because…”

no one says this

as an anarchist who has organised with meatspace MLs, the topic of Stalin never comes up on its own. it comes up online more often because we’re not doing anything more important than just talking.

Stalin comes up in meatspace when some liberal confronts an ML and demands to know if they’re ‘Stalinist’ and what they think of the ‘Holomdor’. then the ML explains how ‘Stalinism’ isn’t a thing, they primarily read Marx, Engels and Lenin, and how Stalin was the leader of a team not a dictator and even the CIA’s own profile on him says exactly that, and then explain the ongoing threats the Soviet security state was protecting against and the cultural and economic trauma of losing 15% of their population in World War II, and the climatological history of the Southern regions and how the famine impacted more than just Ukraine and how famines were common in the region, and how the Ukrainian kulaks, protesting that their lands were being given to the serfs, burned crops and equipment and salted the land, and how famines were ended in the region under the USSR, and then ask the liberal if they care about famines under capitalism.

then the liberal says ‘yeah but Stalin was basically Hitler’ and then we in this group of anarchists, ML(M)s and syndicalists chase this fucking wrecker out into the street so we can get back to work.

i think any strong opinion on Stalin as an individual is already wrong, because you’re falling for the Great Man of History fallacy. i think Stalin is irrelevant unless you’re an ML cadre who needs to learn from the successes and mistakes of the USSR, but i think the history of the USSR is also important to any communist.

when you see an ML defending Stalin, it’s almost always because someone is criticising MLs based on an uninformed claim about Stalin, or they’re criticising Stalin from an uninformed position. and i don’t blame them: i’m all for criticising mistakes, but we don’t need to make shit up to do that.

i get that as anarchists we’re suspicious of statist leaders, but i don’t get why it’s so hard to understand that statists would defend a communist state. even if you see them enemies, you would benefit from reading their theory to understand their position rather than going ‘uhhh, why do statists defend states so much? must be they can’t read, or they’re just stu~pid lol must be because they have daddy issues lol’

you mean the podcast hosted by Robert Evans, the anarchist who writes for Bellingcat which is funded by the anticommunist National Endowment for Democracy which is currently run by former Bush staffers and is a literal CIA front?

In 1986, NED’s President Carl Gershman said that the NED was created because “It would be terrible for democratic groups around the world to be seen as subsidized by the CIA. We saw that in the 1960s and that’s why it has been discontinued”.

In a 1991 interview with the Washington Post, NED founder Allen Weinstein said: “A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.”

that ‘anarchist’, who likes to talk over his guests, and his takes on countries outside the US repeatedly mirror the State Department?

as an anarchist, i do wonder if the antistatist who is funded by an anticommunist US government organisation might have a bias…

The link is broken.

i don’t know what you mean by that, but here’s an alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/20260210212413/https://lemmy.ml/comment/23662293

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complaining about gatekeeping

okay

Can’t we agree to disagree on things?

no, because this is a thought-terminating cliché and we fundamentally disagree about how best to spend the time and energy of the movement. also, this is a community for discussion, not a soapbox; ‘agreeing to disagree’ defeats the purpose. electoralism and parliamentarianism are deadends, and thus electoralism should only be engaged with to the degree that it promotes our ideas, not with the intention to be assimilated into the current state.

Bernie Sanders killed Rosa Luxemburg, i won’t stand for anything less than the complete destruction of the orphan crushing machine, and the pandering of socdem/demsoc parties to the right-wing in Europe is a repeat of the early 20th century. we don’t destroy the system by being civil.

Taiwan is closer to being the Union in this analogy

mmyes, the defeated right-wing nationalist warlordists are the Union in this analogy. very good.

i would like to learn your secret: how do you become so informed on things you know nothing about?

What’s functionally stopping you from living on a commune on an empty dot on a map or a deserted island and making your dream of no government a reality with your peers?

the fact that under private property there is no such thing as an empty dot or a deserted island, capitalism is a totalising system and is practically inescapable but can be eroded, and that our politics as leftists are not just a vehicle for our own individual self-actualisation but about the liberation of all people?

a bunch of ‘leftists’ LARPing on an island are not leftists if they can afford to live on an island together and isolate themselves from the rest of the world.

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and removing people from group chats […] amounts to “hinder[ing] prosecution of terrorism,”

i guess this means don’t remove people, but (periodically) create new group chats with just the people you want to keep? (and don’t announce it, obviously.)

also, generally, if the people in your group chat can’t all fit around a square table together, it’s probably too big.

… actually one does need later hardware for a phone that will work on 5G networks.

if i’m understanding you right, you’re saying we should be reusing old, functional hardware instead of producing brand-new shit (which just turns old stuff into ewaste). i agree. if countries repealed anticircumvention, i imagine there would be an industry for upcycling electronics.

would be cool if the person who downvoted my comment told me what i said wrong so i and others can learn from my mistake.

it’s more like a ‘democrat’ saying ‘if you don’t spend the next 6 months shoving shit in people’s faces, we’ll force everyone to eat raw sewage for the next 4 years.’ then when they get into office, some things stay exactly the same, and others get substantially worse. to everyone except the business tyrant and the white median they offer nothing new, and they’re both the same shit to anyone from the Global South. they’re the controlled opposition of the two faces of capital.

SStatesians should do better, and that starts by organising communities and platforms which force real (material) changes at the local level, and which can combine to resist the bourgeois state trying to reassert itself, which requires a capacity for (counter)violence.

the only incentive for either party to adopt a particular program is the threat of losing (a chance at) power, but that clearly hasn’t fucking stopped them as far as the loss of votes is concerned.

someone else suggested Molly, but be mindful that if you use database encryption you cannot receive notifications without configuring a UnifiedPush provider with MollySocket. in my experience, this means calling is essentially broken unless both parties are ‘online’ so to speak.