[-] tamagotchicowboy@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 3 months ago

Loves red, redistributes wealth, and is beloved around the globe

[-] tamagotchicowboy@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 4 months ago

I've recently had an LLM refuse to give me a simplified version of a script because I would be limiting myself. First time I've encountered that one.

[-] tamagotchicowboy@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 7 months ago

Read a page or a paragraph and then I try to summarize what I read in my own words or what it reminds me of, ebooks are ez for me to access to I generally just jot something down in notally on my old fire tablet from 2014, but if I were reading on a more modern device or physical book, a computer I'd use Obsidian or something for notes and the ability to link concepts.

More you read older books easier it gets, I've had this problem with some translations of books too, but once I adjust I'll be ok I figure.

[-] tamagotchicowboy@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Not quite considering conditions, even someone that's unemployed, homeless, in the most precarious of jobs etc wouldn't be able to escape some of the labor aristocracy bourgeoisification of the proles and lumpenprole logic in the core.

Biggest issue I think is not only failure to relate to the prole at large but fail to capture their imagination and inspire/create hope in something beyond fascism and the abuses of brutal capitalism that doesn't wait until the afterlife. There is no movement that reaches out to them, or frankly anyone atm in the imperial core that provides this; at best its a sort of education by outrage and shock, which don't get me wrong is useful and required, but there needs to be this other optimistic area as well. A full pessimism run mopes too hard to move a mountain, though inspiration and hope maybe can.

My experience in the west is movements are focused on endless purity tests only accessible by the petite bourgeoisie if not outright bourgeoisie, not just in entry education level to join, dues and such, you have to earn a way afterall, but in structure and time. Content almost feels somewhere between old school churchy in Latin and college lecture if you're not super familiar with theory. On the other hand education by meme has its dangers as well, but I'm sure there's a balance. Then you're fucking fried if you're doing prole tier work, its hard to attend a meeting considering 12hr night shifts no holidays and such.

Then let's assume you live among the prole, join the most precarious of work as one of the lil boojies, everyone is going to lose massive respect because you took a paycut, you purposely lost money, even your fellow max exploited workers will not totally be with you. Anyway, I think this part will naturally happen and adjust as conditions worsen in the core.

[-] tamagotchicowboy@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 2 years ago

Caudwell's Crisis in Physics does some of this but for quantum mechanics. You'd love the read.

Really its done science first approach then dialectics to examine the environment your project's developed in for anything weird that will diminish understanding, then fix and repeat since there's no such thing as perfection in reality. You don't go in with dialectics first, that won't do you good and just make you overly rigid without proper knowledge and limit your understanding of the situation at hand leading to silly errors. Gotta ground yourself in what is known of reality first.

It is neat for thought experiments for project design too and is a way to break out of the 'its x or y or a mere continuum' to noticing 'gee this doesn't fit my data nor my problem, necessity v sufficiency for instance develops from this line of approach (and others, there are many tools in the tool kit, dia is just one) and is beyond helpful in life sciences.

[-] tamagotchicowboy@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 2 years ago

Back in the 90s some nazi groups invested 10k in internet propaganda, I figure the internet being so fascistic is just the results of that along with nerds being all sorts of fascistic is just a product of western academia culture to an extent as well.

[-] tamagotchicowboy@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Speculation/privatization in critical industries/utilities.

[-] tamagotchicowboy@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 years ago

Agencies and some academic-business thinktank circles (lots of overlap between the two) do a lot of thinking 'games' like this to generate a ton of ideas or find hidden connections without diamat or spending a whole lot of time studying by trying to use 'creativity' pretty much alone as a crutch.

[-] tamagotchicowboy@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 2 years ago

A lot of money and jackbootery is spent on keeping them that way as well, its learned helplessness by design and has been for over 100 yrs. All that oppression by force and money can't last forever though, too resource draining and people are slowly but surely noticing the problems with the current way, they just generally don't have a framework to put those ideas and well a lot of our terminology is ultra taboo right now. All we need to do is persist, ultimately, to keep hope alive, from there everything else is possible since time and people will be on our side once the wool lifts (or if we lift it, hehe), and against the current rigid way of being.

[-] tamagotchicowboy@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 years ago

Mysticism and idealism in short, though imo animism-type practices mirrors a 'low-tech' materialism in its approach to the natural world, so there is room in it for the left and there should be plenty though they may not have the political framework so to speak. That's how it be for most things, the culture at large has a lot of influence on subcultures and the people within it, we don't exist in vacuums.

[-] tamagotchicowboy@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 2 years ago

That's our power.

[-] tamagotchicowboy@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 2 years ago

I figured this was some sort of show for more money, like a construction contractor rounding up the crew and showing up at the boss' house at 3am because they aren't paying enough and pissed everyone off.

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