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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Meanwhile I have got tons of people to actually read and engage with ML theory because I understand it well enough and have spent a life time working retail and service jobs that I know how to talk to people in ways they will understand. It is important to read the source material so that you can do that but it also makes little sense to just regurgitate 100+ year old vocabulary. Once we have the concepts and ideas of Marxism fully absorbed into our analysis it only makes sense to explain things in terms normal people understand.

This is why (for its time) the manifesto was written in fairly plain language that the average worker could get through intuition. We gravely need more approachable theory for modern generations.

That said there is also a time and place and certain audiences that may be swayed by someone speaking like an academic authority. You just gotta kinda read the room.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Literally 1984 (the year, not the book)."

Definitely site tagline material

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lmao this bar I go to has this one fascist who is fairly well known for being a huge reactionary dork, and one night I bullied him out of the bar prompting him to complain about me to the bouncer who came over and was gonna ask me to leave so I just explained that he was a piece of shit and once maced one of my friends.

So friday night on my way into the bar all I got from the bouncers was "hey watch out your buddy [redacted] is in there, just try to ignore him".

The dives I go to will probably let you throw a few punches before they consider throwing you out.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

this is the funniest thing in this entire thread

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah we already knew reddit was crawling with feds

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago

damn that is eerily accurate lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Bullet train is hilarious and also has amazing fight choreography

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Kent State I am guessing

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Roko's "I pulled this out of my ass"-alisk

 

For context this is the channel formerly known as Beau of the Fifth Column, famed human trafficker and probably fed plant who has now apparently turned his youtube over to his wife.

 
 

Elon Musk's X broadened an existing lawsuit on Saturday to include several major brands — accusing more companies of illegally boycotting the social media platform in 2022 following Musk's acquisition.

The suit, which was filed last year in a federal court in Texas, initially targeted the boycott organizer, the World Federation of Advertisers, along with companies including CVS and video-streaming platform Twitch.

But early on Saturday, Musk's lawyers filed an amended complaint, adding several new defendants, including Lego, Nestlé, Tyson Foods, Abbott Laboratories, Colgate-Palmolive, Pinterest and Shell International.

The complaint alleges that the World Federation of Advertisers was concerned that X, formerly known as Twitter, would stray from its brand safety initiative called the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM). As a result, the suit said the group prepared a large-scale pause in advertising.

According to the suit, at least 18 advertisers that were part of GARM stopped buying ads on Twitter either in the U.S. or globally in the weeks after Musk bought the platform in November 2022, while other members of GARM "substantially reduced" their ad spending on Twitter.

In turn, X claims it was deprived of billions of dollars in advertising revenue and the ramifications of the boycott continue to be felt years later, the suit alleged.

Lawyers for X argued that in a competitive market, social media platforms should have the option to set their own brand safety standards that are "optimal for that platform."

"But collective action among competing advertisers to dictate brand safety standards to be applied by social media platforms shortcuts the competitive process and allows the collective views of a group of advertisers with market power to override the interests of consumer," the complaint said.

The companies added to the lawsuit on Saturday did not immediately respond to NPR's request for comment.

Musk has reshaped Twitter and its approach to what is and isn't permitted on the social media platform. He reinstated accounts that had been barred for violating the platform's rules. He also removed contract content moderators, the company's human rights team and investigators tasked with curbing political manipulation and child sexual abuse material, as NPR previously reported.

Last year, following the suit, the World Federation of Advertisers discontinued GARM operations, explaining that "recent allegations that unfortunately misconstrue its purpose and activities have caused a distraction and significantly drained its resources and finances."

 

Any advice on applying for unemployment in California would be appreciate. I'm wrecked right now over this.

 

Lmao

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She's still pretty skittish but she let me pet her again today.

 

A Texas substitute teacher has come under fire after inviting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to raid his school because his students “don’t even speak English.”

Fort Worth Independent School District officials launched an investigation after the substitute teacher responded to a post by ICE on social media giving an update on arrests for Jan. 23.

The teacher, who was not publicly identified but had the X username @Hookem232, called for agents to “come to Fort Worth, TX to Northside High School,” according to the Dallas Morning News.

“I have many students who don’t even speak English and they are in 10th-11th grade. They have to communicate through their iPhone translator with me. The [US Department of Education] should totally overhaul our school system in Texas too,” the post added.

School board president Roxanne Martinez sought to reassure parents about whether ICE was going to target the school district.

“Please be assured that we are taking this situation very seriously and are committed to resolving it as quickly as possible,” she said.

Two-thirds of Fort Worth public school students are Hispanic and more than one in three students is learning English as a second language.

Meanwhile, officials have not named the substitute teacher who made the post, but said the instructor will not be teaching while the posts are investigated.

Interim Superintendent Karen Molinar also sent out a message saying the district would be “supporting all families.”

The social media post comes as President Trump issued a directive allowing ICE to operate at “sensitive areas” including schools and churches.

It also comes as the president weighs sending upward of 10,000 troops to secure the US-Mexico border after former President Joe Biden’s administration allowed some 8 million migrants to enter the US illegally in four years.

It’s not the first time a Fort Worth ISD teacher has come under fire for anti-immigrant sentiments.

In 2019, Georgia Clark, an English teacher at Carter-Riverside High School in Fort Worth, wrote several posts on X, then Twitter, asking Trump to help boot “illegal students from Mexico” from her school.

“Mr. President, Fort Worth Independent School District is loaded with illegal students from Mexico,” one of her tweets read. “Carter-Riverside High School has been taken over by them.”

In another message, Clark said she did “not know what to do” to address the problem and provided two phone numbers to contact her. She said her earlier attempts to “remove the illegals” were rebuffed by local and federal authorities in Fort Worth.

“The district knows about the issue and turns a blind eye to it,” Clark tweeted.

She also told Trump in another tweet that she needed “protection from recrimination” if and when steps to remove the undocumented students were taken.

“I contacted the Texas Education Agency and then my teacher organization,” Clark wrote. “Texans will not protect whistle blowers [sic]. The Mexicans refused to honor our flag.”

Clark later told district officials she thought the messages were private and didn’t intend for them to be public. She initially was placed on administrative leave with pay before the school district voted to fire her.

 
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He asked me if I had ever seen umbrella academy.

I told him I had. Great show.

He says "you wanna know who you remind me of?"

I'm thinking if he says Klaus I'm gonna lose my shit.

"That medium guy that's always high"

After I got done laughing my ass off I was just like yeah fair.

 

Incredibly based clickbait title

 
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