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@ Maeve @lemmygrad.ml

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Lenin’s point in What Is To Be Done? was that there is no middle ground between revolutionary socialism and liberalism! Any de-emphasis of Marxist theory strengthens bourgeois ideology by default. What makes this dangerous is that the party, functionally, absorbs the energy of dedicated, loyal people who want to be revolutionaries and channels it into work that never actually threatens power, abandoning the necessary and patient work of developing leadership prepared to support the working class in times of crisis.

Resignation letter of a [now-former] member of the PSL

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  • A horse is a horse is a horse of course, unless it's a talking horse, of course.

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  • You're not going to "enjoy everything," or even "experience everything," in one lifetime. That said, you should try some things, given an opportunity. And some of the most valuable experiences may well be ones you didn't particularly enjoy. But enjoyment need not make a slave of us, and is also nice.

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  • Colombia valley wines are better than California wines, IMO.

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  • What is social murder, Alex?

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  • If you have access to a relative's land where you can pasture and have a barn, eventually you can lower the cost of boarding and feeding, but the cost in labor may not be worth it.

    The savings in feeding comes from planting horse-friendly grains, but only if you do the labor. Horses are gorgeous, intelligent, powerful creatures, and I send best wishes that you maintain it as long as you care to do.

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  • I think we should count the costs as including water, low-paid labor, etc. for any product.

  • New compression technique

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  • It's what Apple and MS basically do by uploading all your images to iCloud and showing the name in your images folder.

    Edit to ask: is this what the human brain does when retrieving a memory?

  • US Military newspaper editor voices censorship fears after being fired

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  • Jesus at the comments

  • Wellington second-hand bookstore's mysterious orders

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  • AI companies are buying these books and training their large language models, sometimes destroying books in the process. It's the only way for them to do it, she says.

    “They're not recycling, they're devouring them, they're destroying them. One of the quotes from the Anthropic court case was, Project Panama - so this is from the company, from Anthropic - Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world.”

    When she realised what was happening, she cancelled all the orders, she says.

    “We cancelled, and we got another lot, a flurry of orders last week, so we cancelled them as well. These are huge orders. There was 10 orders in one day for 180 books, going to another company.”

    This bookstore may deserve your business.

  • California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year

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  • Public trolley would save even more.

  • Google wins bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines emails, chats, documents

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  • Bullshit. They're worried regular people will get* ahold of the information and expose creeps, some probably their own.

  • 1962 Hacker Ethics, devised by PDP-1 engineers at MIT

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  • Oh, how have the mighty fallen and the weaponry of war perished.

  • Why is Everyone in Tech so sad?

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  • Then people will get the opportunity to find out who they are without the title.

  • America Broke Its Own Military

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  • With the tragic events of 9/11 and the ensuing two-front ground war in the Middle East, Rumsfeld got an opportunity to enact his programme with minimal opposition. The results were clear eight years into the War on Terror, when the DOD had 95,461 private contractors working for them in Iraq compared to 95,900 US military personnel. The use of private contractors was by then so embedded that Barack Obama’s pledge on the campaign trail in 2008 to bring an end to the practice became just another broken promise among many. But while the privatisation of the war effort is a topic that has been explored extensively by a number of journalists, notably Jeremy Scahill, one aspect of the program has received little coverage — namely Rumsfeld’s plan for soldiers on the payroll of the DOD. This was a scheme that would prove catastrophic for the troops and the occupied populations living under them. Veiled in the language of business-style efficiency savings, Rumsfeld’s plan was intended to eviscerate the US military, which was to become merely an appendage to the massive private forces the US would soon employ.

    Also, it was a 🐂 💩 war and so was the 9/11 commission.

  • Meta Pulls Instagram AI Update After Everyone Said They Didn't Want to Be Deepfaked

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  • Was thinking, "for now."

  • Human Canaries: Remembering the Munitionettes

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  • Hard paywall

  • America's Large Homebuilders Shift the Cost of Shoddy Construction to Buyers

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  • The living room ceiling has been ripped out after sewage water backed up and flooded the upstairs bathroom. With the drywall gone, you can spot loose nails and concerning gaps between the floor joists. Rainwater seeps through the cracks around the front door.

    Insects crawl through the window frames — even though the windows were reinstalled because they weren’t installed properly in the first place. And most of your bathrooms are unusable, awaiting repairs the builder promised more than a year ago.

    It feels like a nightmare — but it’s reality, according to Danielle Antonucci, who invited a Hunterbrook Media reporter to the home she and her husband bought just four years ago in Sarasota, Florida, built by the nation’s largest homebuilder, D.R. Horton ($DHI). In an email provided to Hunterbrook, Antonucci desperately pleaded with D.R. Horton to address the numerous defects rendering their home nearly uninhabitable: “I keep getting the response that this matter has been escalated to the Sarasota office,” she wrote. “It has been 21 months!”

    ...Both D.R. Horton and Lennar promise that their mission to build affordable homes will not come at the cost of quality — even as they have told investors they would cut costs to offset diminishing margins amid a tightening housing market.

    RTA. I have extensive knowledge of how horrible at least one of these two companies are. "Byzantine warranty system" is extremely magnanimous.

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    [Swedish] Mullvad CEO donates to Swedish party that believes in "remigration"

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  • europa your kind

    Nazi dog whistles

  • Microsoft reports AI is more expensive than paying human employees

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  • Hope. 🫡