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I mean, you already know it’s not a good thing, and you already know the “moral” reasons and the practical reasons why.
Colleges will often provide counseling, psychological, and psychiatric services for free or cheap. They’re not going to turn you in, they’re going to try to help you work past these urges that harm yourself & others.
Apparently Signal still requires it, though you no longer must reveal it to others.
Wired last year: Signal Finally Rolls Out Usernames, So You Can Keep Your Phone Number Private
Those features, which WIRED has tested, are designed to allow users to conceal their phone numbers as they communicate on the app and instead share a username as a less-sensitive method of connecting with one another.
Whittaker says that, for better or worse, a phone number remains a necessary requisite as the identifier Signal privately collects from its users.
Yes, the World Bank and the IMF are major actors in post-WWII neocolonialism.
Guess which is the sole country with veto power in both the World Bank and the IMF?
In the west I think it’s mostly used to sell ads
The Twitter Files showed us that this is not true. Though corporate social media didn’t invent propaganda. Previously.
This is bullshit projection.
BTW, Sam Altman is gay and an immigrant. He is betraying his own kind on multiple levels.
Altman was born in Chicago. If you want to call him an immigrant, then 99% of us are.
But more importantly, Altman’s “kind” is neither of those things: it’s his class, namely the capitalist class, with which he has class solidarity.
That’s all well and good—that LLMs aren’t AGI—but not really what’s being asked.
Machine learning isn’t my bag, so I couldn’t say. But it’s interesting that currently the best tools are open source, including China’s DeepSeek. Google: “We Have No Moat And Neither Does OpenAI”
🤷 Maybe they had a glut of inventory and needed to clear out space.
toots.matapacos.dog has a 2,000 character limit.
Among the Mastodon universe, I’ve noticed few distinct types of instances.
- There are the “flagship” general-interest instances. It is the goal of these instance operators to keep political strife to a minimum (within reason) to make the instance as welcoming as possible to as many users as possible. These tend to be fairly good about removing outright Nazis and hate speech, but politics is often treated as a potentially triggering subject (fair enough). In short, they are run by Liberals. They will embrace calls for solidarity, inclusion, and emancipation insofar as it doesn’t undermine the established Liberal institutions. Anything going further seems to stand on shaky ground.
- There are the special interest instances. Instances focused on subjects from comics to electronics to cooking to LGBTQIA+ and issues of intersectional oppression. I assume many of the operators and members of these instances would like to, more or less, remain out of the fray and focus on these interests. There is a reason their members chose these spaces instead of more mainstream or more explicitly political ones. While many of them may be operated or used by comrades, they don’t seem like the correct place to go and talk about Communism 24/7 unless you have a credible reputation in that community.
- Finally, there are the anti-capitalist instances. These instances are primarily focused on politics, and they are on the correct side of the defining struggle of our epoch - however - among them there is a disappointing amount of sectarianism. I will always assume the best of my comrades, but none of these places (at least the ones with open registration) seem like a good fit for me or many of my comrades from Hexbear.
So my goal here is to establish an anti-sectarian instance along the lines of Hexbear where Anarchists and Marxists are welcome. A space where the focus remains eternally on our leviathan enemy, bourgeois class society, the greatest existential threat to humanity and the planet. A place where a full spectrum of anti-capitalist tactics and theoretical perspectives can be entertained in good faith.
Don’t make me tap the sign 👇
Let Me Wikipedia That For You https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_hair_loss#Causes
In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale. 😜
FYI, we’re considering removing some/most/all Musk 💩, or perhaps creating a Musk containment community.
As the meme implies, stop and think about how to change tactics.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
— (alcoholics) anonymous
MySQL wouldn’t win any single event, but would get high scores all around for unknown reasons.
Oracle’s PR machine & dark money.
$ realpath $(which nano) /usr/bin/pico $