Yeah, the atheism-turned-socialist YouTuber Genetically Modified Skeptic made a great video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hePRA9yVdQE
Yes, but the trend of technological diffusion means that most countries today are on a much more even playing field than back when only the white Europeans had guns, and used them to oppress everyone else still fighting with bows and spears. Unless, of course, US AGI dreams become true and then it becomes this shit again, but with US terminator robots versus Global South guns.
The alternative to the multipolar shift, the immediate socialist camp strategy, was tried by the USSR and failed because staying in the US-world-order was both easier (because the US was default successor to all European colonial empires) and more attractive (for bourgeois politicians, because the US had more money and offered more profits).
Once we move to a fully multipolar world, then constructing a socialist camp will be much easier because the U.S. will no longer be the hegemonic default counter-choice.
If you're American, you apply to ELAM through the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (the official USA-Cuba liaison organization for this program, led by Claudia De la Cruz from PSL) here: https://ifconews.org/elam
I've made an earlier post with more info on ELAM: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5868962
Best of luck to your application! If you get in, you gotta post to show us everything inside Cuba.
AI in AES states is the way we get to fully automated luxury communism.
Meanwhile in the West capitalists are salivating over how they can use AI to replace everyone else and ensure their dominance forever over the homeless masses.
Good, this should never have been made dormant.
Also, China definitely needs their own version of this, since China has an even more restrictive no-first-strike policy that could legitimately mean the decapitation of all leadership before the decision to fire back is made. Has anyone heard any news on them building that out?
Unfortunately I pretty much agree. If the U.S. capitalists have their way, we will all be ruled by capitalist-funded superintelligence, which will ensure U.S. dominance forever and the suppression/execution of the now-unnecessary former working class. All I can say is that we should improve ourselves, study up, try to organize in the US, and if that doesn't work, fuck off to China or some other AES country so we can at least help save everyone else in the world. My condolences to any of the Americans who insist on staying when that time comes.
I've posted this earlier:
There are only 2 ways the worker-capitalist contradiction can ever be solved:
- communism, where the abundant fruits of automation are distributed evenly among all, ala fully automated luxury communism
- exterminism (from Peter Frase’s book Four Futures), where the capitalists finally fulfill their dream of automating everything and can genocide all the unneeded workers (with robot soldiers and whatnot).
It’s quite important we bring about revolution before option 2 becomes viable.
We have a maximum of maybe 50 years before the capitalists work out all the kinks in their super-intelligence dream. Maybe the collapse of the U.S. empire will stop this, or maybe not. It is all hard to say.
I actually agree with him in the sense that if a revolution happened tomorrow in the U.S., the U.S. still has enough money and a loyal-enough professional military to suppress it using extreme violence (picture the BLM protests plus ultra-ICE).
In order for a revolution in the U.S. to be successful, most of the U.S. neocolonies need to have revolutions/move toward sovereignty, and thereby stop paying the United States. When that occurs and the U.S. by definition loses its empire, it will no longer be able to afford for its own advanced military. At that point, a revolution will be winnable because it doesn't matter how many F-35s you have if you don't have the money to fly them.
Don't these lines just tell you to shut up and be a good tool for your master (who conveniently has that position because he is ordained by God)? This is the exact shit that they taught the serfs and slaves, and it's only after they were abolished that this was reinterpreted to support modern government.
The good thing about the Bible is that it is so convoluted that you can always find a verse that you can interpret to mean the exact opposite:
Acts 5:
29 Peter and the other apostles replied: “We must obey God rather than human beings!
Luke 4:
18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free,
19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
Psalm 2:
10 Therefore, you kings, be wise; be warned, you rulers of the earth.
11 Serve the Lord with fear and celebrate his rule with trembling.
12 Kiss his son, or he will be angry and your way will lead to your destruction, for his wrath can flare up in a moment. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.
For instance, if you connect these three sets of verses, it can be interpreted that Jesus was sent to help the poor and disabled. Thus it is our mission to obey God in doing this, to follow Jesus in his mission, rather than to obey other human beings. If these other humans try to stop our mission and end up experiencing destruction, it is because they are getting in the way of God's mission.
If you spend all day around religious people, it is a good idea to get familiar with every single verse so you can counter-argue all their reactionary positions using the "authority" of the Bible. DarkMatter2525 is a decent resource for this purpose.
I see, yeah Word Online feels lobotomized and sucks.
Also why are y'all using Word online instead of Google Docs for collaboration? In terms of features, Word desktop > Google Docs > Word online.
The fires don't even have to be a conspiracy theory. They're doing the same to the burned-down part of Los Angeles.
Wealthy capitalists just have a lot of liquid capital, and so they can exploit every single crisis to claim more assets at rock-bottom prices because normal people have lost all their money and have to sell to not starve. Everything that is bad for us is just another investment opportunity for them.
DeepSeek's newest model costs something on the order of 1/100th of OpenAI's, while being slightly dumber. Even still, DeepSeek is actually able to make a profit on their margins because they focus so many resources on making their models as efficient as possible.
OpenAI and Anthropic are betting on simply pumping more compute into the AI to get to superintelligence first. They don't want to waste time on optimization because they think once they get the superintelligent AI, it can just optimize itself after the fact. Any time you think that OpenAI and Anthropic won't make money or have some problem, they will just say that the superintelligence will fix everything like a deus ex machina.
No no, you're doing it wrong. If you make headings by just changing font sizes, Word will have no idea what you actually want.
In Word, you need to edit the default font sizes of the heading options shown in the ribbon, then apply them to the lines you want the headings to be by highlighting the text, then clicking the desired heading option in the ribbon.
Pretty sure this still counts as SFW. In other news, Grindr in Dallas suffered an overload and outage today.
The Chinese government has spent half a century, and continuing today, working to restore degraded environments.
China began by greening the Loess Plateau, a formerly productive forest and grassland ecosystem turned into a sandy wasteland by centuries of exploitative farming. The government work with villagers on the ground to change farming practices, build dams and terraces, plant trees, and more. Altogether, the project restored 4 million acres and lifted 2.5 million people out of poverty.
See more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2G79sIJ97w
China then applied these same practices to greening the Gobi and Taklamakan Deserts, stopping sandstorms, halting the growth of the deserts, and restoring former desert into productive grassland:
Caption says forest coverage increased from 8% to 73%.
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