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Not_mikey

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  • Battery costs have declined by 99% in the last three decades, making electrified transport a reality

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  • It's not fair competition if labor standards are far lower in the country being imported from.

  • come down from there - #pfsc

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  • Yeah, but it's not like opera attendance right now is spread very equally. At that point you have to ask is it more unjust that a janitor can't afford to see the show he's put work into, or someone can't see the show because they weren't able to get an in.

    Who decides, who gets to help...

    The workers do, hiring and firing decisions are either voted on by the troupe or by elected representatives of the troupe. Same with all the excess tickets, which would probably be split by how much labor you put into the production. So maybe you can't get a job in the opera, but maybe you can babysit for the director while they're working late and they'll give you a ticket. In this sense the audience becomes more of a community because all of them have some sort of connection to the performance, and all of them get to see the fruits of there labor. As opposed to now where you're alienated from the production and your only connection to the show is through purchasing a ticket. That community connected by labor will get more satisfaction from the opera then an audience of ticket buyers.

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  • Kropotkin also goes into this, the idea is that once we re organize labor and get rid of all the middlemen, rent seekers, dead weight etc. We'll only have to work ~4 hours a day for necessities. That leaves an additional 4 hours of leisure time. You can use that new leisure time to work on art, music etc. especially the background labor that people often ignore. You want a canvas to paint on? Go to the art workshop and help them out for a day and they'll give you a canvas. Want tickets to the opera? Go work on setting up the stage, lights etc. and they'll give you a ticket. Want a toy, go put in some hours with santas elves and help to make some toys and you'll get one in return.

    How feasible is this? Probably not as much any more. Kropotkin doesn't value specialization very highly, which makes sense as he was writing about Russia in the 1800s where most work was unskilled brute force labor like farming and working in a factory. Back then it was maybe possible for you to show up to the piano workshop and they could give you some menial job that would help them out. Now all the menial work is done by robots and machines and you need a decent amount of technical knowledge to be able to help out at the piano factory.

    Anarchism has trouble dealing with specialization. While it increases efficiency, now more than ever, it also inevitably leads to classes and eventually a hierarchy of labor. Before they thought maybe mass education would fix this, as everyone would know a bit of everything and could help everywhere, but as education has expanded so has the complexity of the system, and the knowledge needed to be a functional part of that system.

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  • Kropotkin says that you should use your labor to help out the video game co-op and then they'll give you the game. If we organize labor better we'd only have to work 4 hours a day for necessities, so the other 4 hours can be used to work on other projects and in return you'll get the products of that labor.

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  • Kropotkin goes into in "the conquest of bread", his argument is that our main priority as a society should be getting everyone's needs met. Once everyone's needs are met wages aren't really necessary as you are being provided food, housing etc. based on your need. At that point wages and money can only cause problems in the commune as it would only be for accumulation, and if someone starts accumulating money they also accumulate power, which challenges the equality of everyone in the commune.

    Maybe the commune can collectively hold currency or gold to exchange with other communes, but if you give individuals that currency that is private property ( in the Marxist sense ) and should be removed to protect anarchy.

  • Bluesky Users Respond With Overwhelming Disgust to Platform’s New AI

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  • Can someone explain to me why this is bad?

    It's a separate app so you don't have to engage with it if you don't want to

    It's helping people to control their experience, which IMO is a good thing

    This is also probably helping with the development of the platform in general, if someone has a good UI idea but doesn't have the technical know how to implement it, now they can. They can then test it out, refine it, share it and then maybe it gets added to the main UI. Same with feed algorithms. It makes development more bottom up.

  • Bluesky Users Respond With Overwhelming Disgust to Platform’s New AI

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  • Was it artificial scarcity or actual scarcity? Bluesky is and has been orders of magnitude larger then mastodon and scaling to that size probably takes time. If they took all the twitter refugees at once it's probably crash the server.

  • Bluesky Users Respond With Overwhelming Disgust to Platform’s New AI

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  • Speaking as someone who just vibe coded a client for lemmy, no matter how customizable you make your UI it will not be as customizable as having an LLM edit the code directly. The UI I wanted was completely different then the scroll based UI that most current lemmy clients have so the only way to make it was through vibe coding. You can check it out at stakswipe.com and you'll see there was no way to customize a standard scroll based interface to have the same swiping behavior.

    Also customizable UIs tend to be very menu heavy, so yeah you may be able to move the like button to the top right of the post, but to do so you'll have to navigate through three layers of menus and settings to get there. Whereas with AI you can just type " move the like button to the top right". Customizing using natural language you know is a way better experience then figuring out a bunch of configuration and templating software that's different for each app.

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  • Iran is just the testing ground, they're doing over there what they want to do here but can't... Yet

  • White House App Found Tracking Users' Exact Location Every 4.5 Minutes via Third-Party Server

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  • The bar is so low and they still manage to limbo under it

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  • Thanks to the andeans who gave us the potato

  • More than half a million ballots seized by top GOP candidate in California governor’s race

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  • They already sort of are and that's a good thing. The way some elections work is there's a representative from both parties observing and counting the ballots. Then they can both check each other's work and make sure everything's above board.

    This is why the whole election denial stuff is even more bullshit, they have official observers in there who can blow the whistle if they see anything but they never do. So they just rely on "reports" of other outside observers who think every truck moving around a polling spot is full of fraudulent ballots.

    It probably shouldn't be just election workers as they're just selected by whoever applies to a temp job for a day or two, and it wouldn't take much for all those people to just happen to be partisans

  • GOP Senate candidate on rising gas prices: ‘Maybe you take one less trip to Starbucks’

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  • Giving real jimmy carter energy. At least Carter was pointing to things outside of consumerism to focus on like community, health, environmentalism. The only thing trump was promising was cheap gas and watching his goons harass immigrants.

  • AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming

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  • Guy selling ai coding platform says other AI coding platforms suck.

    This just reads like a sales pitch rather than journalism. Not citing any studies just some anecdotes about what he hears "in the industry".

    Half of it is:

    You're measuring the wrong metrics for productivity, you should be using these new metrics that my AI coding platform does better on.

    I know the AI hate is strong here but just because a company isn't pushing AI in the typical way doesn't mean they aren't trying to hype whatever they're selling up beyond reason. Nearly any tech CEO cannot be trusted, including this guy, because they're always trying to act like they can predict and make the future when they probably can't.

  • Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile story

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  • it creates perverse incentive for the state to prioritize predating on problem gamblers and poor people in order to raise tax revenues

    Yeah but that incentive exists for any organization running gambling. It's just that the mob/companies will pursue that motive more ruthlessly because:

    1. The state is more accountable to the public and public opinion than a company. A company is only accountable to its shareholders who will almost always tell it to pursue profits at all costs. The state, at least in a democratic system, is accountable to the people. People can vote out a city council pushing gambling to increase revenue, they can't vote out the board of draft kings.
    2. The state bears some of the cost of addiction so they have some incentive to not let it get out of hand. A destitute gambler is more likely to use social services, to commit crime, abuse their family etc. which the state has to pay for in some way. Also there's lost sales tax revenue if they can't buy anything else and they're more likely to stop paying property tax or get their home foreclosed, sold for a lower price lowering the assessed value and the property tax you can charge. All of these costs are completely externalized for companies / the mob so they can, and usually do, ignore them.

    Also the money can go to actually good causes as opposed to the pocket of the draft king's CEO or the mob boss. You can even theoretically set a cap for revenue, say the state can only make $10 million off of gambling, and the rest is proportionally refunded to the gamblers, you'd never see that in a for-profit enterprise like a company or the mob.

  • Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile story

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  • Not saying it's the best situation but if the choice is between the mob running it, capitalist corporations running it, and the state running it, I'd pick the state.

    The state has an incentive to decrease problem gambling. Even if you ignore any democratic pressures from the people who don't like gambling being pushed, the state also has to bear the cost of addicts with social services so it's monetarily incentivized to reduce problem gambling.

  • Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile story

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  • Remove the profit motive from "the house" side. The house is taking a cut of every bet as profit, which encourages them to advertise and increase their market and market share to get more money. Which in the end means them trying to push gambling on those with a problem because they make them the most money.

    If it's run by the state it's not beholden to share holders who want as much profit as possible, social costs be damned. The state is at least nominally beholden to the people in a democratic system and the people generally don't want gambling advertising to be pushed on gambling addicts.

  • Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile story

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  • Prohibition on vices never works, it just sends the money to criminal organizations that kill people instead of capitalist companies that kill less people.

    The solution is to have it be state run, remove the profit motive, and send any money gained from it to education and social services.

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  • What exactly is this for? I understand LLMs have there limits with understanding physical reality, but at least they have a use case of theoretically automating the "symbolic work" ie moving symbols around on a screen or piece of paper, that white collar workers do.

    Yes it'll never be able to cook a meal or change a lightbulb, but neither will this without a significant enhancement in robotics to embody this AI. What's the use case? Being able to better tell you how to throw a ball then a person?