frezik @ frezik @midwest.social

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Historically, groups that have "communist" in their name have been Soviet mouthpieces. Not all of them, and the ideology doesn't require it by any means, but it happened a lot. Conversely, if they had "socialist" in their name, they were more likely to want nothing to do with that shit.

A security clusterfuck involving the Secretary of Defense, the VP, and a list of other high level executive branch personnel is spilling all over the news. Even conservative news outlets are calling for heads to roll.

Mike Johnson thinks this is a good time to consider dismantling the Justice branch.

It's a complete lack of control of sensitive information. Signal should never be used for this. No phone app can make the security guarantees necessary for this level of detail.

It's amusing watching Free Republic go hmm, errr, Atlantic = North Korea, err, fuck this is bad.

Pilot G2 if I must, but the real answer is a Lamy Safari.

Nobody knows. The world economy is built around America always paying its debts.

But there is one thing: build mutual aid networks that can thrive without money being involved.

It certainly makes him look younger and more dignified.

I don't think it's very good, and it's in a style I don't care for. It's not that bad, though, and looks better than Trump himself.

That is so utterly stupid that it shows why you should take a philosophy course.

It's nothing of the sort. If nobody had the capital to scale it through more power, then the research would be more focused on making it efficient.

I believe that goes through the Road of Bones in Siberia. From what I saw of Long Way Round (where Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman ride around the world on motorcycles), it's not really a road much of the year. You wouldn't want to walk it in the winter for obvious reasons. You also wouldn't want to walk it in the warmer seasons, because the snow melts and floods the road.

It's only a road in the sense that Google Maps marks it as one.

The documentary simply couldn't continue on the planned route, and they hucked it over to Alaska early on. That was after putting up with some shit ass mud in and around Mongolia where they were dropping their bikes every 10 feet (and I am not exaggerating).

You don't fight racism by ignoring it. Being out there in a frank manner is a precondition to fixing it.

What we now call science developed directly out of philosophy. You don't get to have science without it.

Large power consumption only happens because someone is willing to dump lots of capital into it so they can own it.

If gigantic amounts of capital weren't available, then the focus would be on improving the models so they don't need GPU farms running off nuclear reactors plus the sum total of all posts on the Internet ever.

Both AI and social media are a shit show because it's owned by a few people.

Unironically, the best social media is Fetlife. Not that it's perfect by any means--not by far--but it is designed to facilitate bringing people together.

The delusional maniacs are going to be surprised when they ask the Super AI "how do we solve global warming?" and the answer is "build lots of solar, wind, and storage, and change infrastructure in cities to support walking, biking, and public transportation".

Fascists are surprisingly bad at war.

They're popular in Wisconsin and Wisconsin-adjecent states. If I didn't know the details, I would prefer to go to a local chain over Home Depot or Lowes or whatever, but, yeah.

If it wasn't true, what would be different about Trump's actions?