In the US Undergraduate commonly refers to a bachelors in my experience. Usually folks specifically say associates degree if that's what they are referring to
Certainly in agreement with that, and hopefully many users of the bear site and other adjacent instances are involved with, or getting involved with, their local orgs. It's also crystal clear that USAmerican leftists do not currently know how to pull the masses towards the direction of liberation. I guess I'm personally looking for tactics and strats that folks on the ground are using and how they are working or aren't working so people outside of those hyper local contexts can re-apply effective tools in their own cities.
Can't really tell what the intended tone of this is. Kinda reads like you're calling me a lib for using the word "involved." If this is meant as a joke, all good, I appreciate that we are all dealing with shit atm.
If this is meant as actual critique I would urge you to be more direct, as your post stands now this reads like a reddit comment or a very liberal critique from a disingenuous socdem.
No need to put yourself or your efforts down! This is a piece of agitation and education, and its always good to hear a comrade not leaving their politics at the door because its socially problematic or inconvenient. In some of my own relationships I've struggled with towing the revolutionary line (its a work in progress as always), but I do always try to push back on liberal and fascist narratives + educate and agitate when folks I know bring them up. Are you involved in any orgs?
FWIW most of my agitation time is spent with a local org where we use a variety of tactics to attempt to educate, agitate, and organize, and that feels (in a purely vibes based way) much more effective since we can reach a much larger audience and community members we've never met before. We do struggle with organizing actions to try getting folks on the ground and organized not feeling effective at times (or being somewhat liberal in nature, even if the rhetoric is revolutionary), and I would love to hear from other orgs on how they have successfully turned well meaning libs into thoughtful communists consistently.
Thanks for elaborating and the tone indicator. I had to look up what sealioning even is - I certainly wasn't trying to tone police you, I was just asking you to clarify your tone since I couldn't infer it from your original post and it clearly mattered.
I have no way of knowing how you feel or what your intentions were when you replied and really thought I was going out of my way to politely ask for clarification while pushing back with some critique. I stand by what I said that you should be more direct but in hindsight I should have phrased it differently - suggesting you were lib or socdem rather than more directly saying that your original post (if it was in earnest, which you have clarified it wasnt to some extent) smacked of a form of liberalism was not a very useful shorthand, and I apologize for that.
No harm was meant in my original reply to you, i was really earnestly asking for clarification. Thanks for spending the time clarifying comrade.
Are there any specific ICE monitoring sites that your communities have started consistently using? Asking because I starting building one (not running publicly) but would rather avoid splitting labor across many projects if I could just make use of and/or contribute to an existing site. ...
I have similar concerns and this has been rolling around the back of my mind a good chunk of the year. I do think programmers with revolutionary outlooks should lean into these tools for building out organizing tool kits and sharing them. Removing toil from revolutionary orgs seems more than worth the one time(ish) cost of using llms to build the toil removers. I'd love to see some techy comrades get together and pump out tools to smash fash (hmu if anyone knows of any).
Readily available Llms don't seem ready yet (if ever, of course) for historical material analysis IMO, but it seems like an interesting space for a specially trained llm. I do doubt that it would be worth the cost though - we have a pretty strong analysis of capitalism already
Fwiw I have very little experience with these tools still and would also love a glossary from comrades that highlights where they would benefit the working class' struggle
Thats really unfortunate. I didn't know Russia used court precedent as part of their law practice. For whatever reason I thought that was a UK/US/Common Law thing.
Same, I should have changed majors way back when that was popping off. I could have been a depressed traffic engineer instead of a depressed software "engineer"
Did you struggle session ur asses to death or something? I’ve never seen this site move so slow. Gonna post my butthole on main to get this place moving again
I'm pretty open minded regarding industry, Im really more concerned with external impacts of the job (which sounds loftier than it is, the goal is to have a neutral or better effect on the community / environment / etc). Coincidentally I'm also in the Midwest and agriculture sounds interesting. Fwiw I'm currently a tech worker and don't really know anything about the ag industry though
Yeah, definitely seems that way. Its pretty cool that ag has so many co-ops. I was under the impression that a good amount of them aren't necessarily structured as a worker co-op (I think ive seen the term seller co-op before?), but I am very ignorant to how those actually work/how specific ag co-ops might work.
Link to source: https://xcancel.com/durarbayli/status/1989831281056592037#m
Whiny "entrepreneur" attempts to find fault with LiChess, one of the most popular chess websites in the world, because it was founded by a French communist (Thibault Duplessis) and is completely free
Yes, but I used a bunch of LLMs in it and that's cringe.
doesn't seem cringe to me at all tbh! It's a cool project that you're looking at providing free of charge and if you're using LLMs to make that process faster/easier/more pleasant then that seems like the ideal use case of LLMs in coding imo. to be fair though I was using LLMs for some personal projects recently to get them off the ground for similar purposes (sharing with others for free), so maybe I'm a little biased.
Ive listened to a few episodes but I can't really parse through the rampant sarcasm from both the community and the hosts themselves as to what the general consensus is in regards to considering them "left" or what theyre even all about. Some of the things they say and talk about are typical liberal/reactionary nonsense and I ...
Ahoy comrades! Is anyone aware of any resources for learning Spanish for folks involved in organizing? It would be especially awesome if it was in the style of Dreaming Spanish, but I'm open to any suggestions.
They have virtually no moderators (they all quit because they were burnt out and manipulated), filled with racist lmayo, and are associated deeply with anti-migrant violence and warmongering (Anduril) who hire people straight out of NixOS to build weapons to fund imperialism everywhere. ...
The american drones bombing brown civilians meme satirizing the fact that rainbow imperialism is stlll imperialism but with Nix instead of a woman
Without giving away personal or org information, what are you and your orgs doing with respect to NSPM-7 announced a few days ago? Any changes to what actions your orgs may consider down the road? Suggestions for tightening up opsec? Any union (labor, tenant, or otherwise) members foresee this impacting any ongoing union work?
Hey comrades, does anyone know of any decent resources on how effective vanguard parties structured themselves prior to and during revolutionary periods? ...
I was kind of sympathetic to Bitcoin in the early days. Despite the awful politics of the community surrounding it and the obvious grift angle, it seemed a positive that we might possibly be able to escape the stranglehold that payment processors are currently demonstrating online. ...
If the project doesn't have to be a traditional crypto, but just an alternative payment system, there's probably some stuff already. I've bumped into community based time tracking software before that had a similar goal of making sure folks were compensated for taking care of common spaces and neighbors.
I think we could somewhat reasonably setup a labor voucher network where participating organizations and people can compensate other individuals with single use vouchers for time worked, that can then be used at that same network of participating companies. Like all monetary like systems its subject to many potential exploits, but I wouldn't be surprised if there are already some decent technical and social solutions for many of them.
Id rather NOT use something that will share my personal details with questionable institutions, but deepseek won't remember anything I typed in my current session (and for the libs out there, no, I don't care if China has my personal details; it's not China that can and might use my personal details against me). ...
I tend to agree regarding the environmental angle to abolish llms, but in cases like this I'm not sure that's a fair comparison. I don't have the resource usage numbers, but if I had to venture a guess regarding environment cost the actual cost of using an llm for something like this vs playing baldurs gate 3 for a similar experience, surely bg3 would blow the llm usage (not training) costs out of the water. The environmental cost of buying a printed DnD rulebook would also by itself be more.
Granted, a user could just find a PDF or whatever, but thats not really my point in this case. I just think we probably need to have concrete understanding of the costs of llms (and where it comes from) when levying critiques of the technology.
I'm too lazy to look for any of their documentation about this, but it would be pretty bold to believe privacy or processing claims from OpenAI or similar AI orgs, given their history flouting copyright.
Silicon valley more generally just breaks laws and regulations to "disrupt". Why wouldn't an org like OpenAI at least leave a backdoor for themselves to process API requests down the road as a policy change? Not that they would need to, but it's not uncommon for a co to leave an escape hatch in their policies.
Lenexa police investigated columnist criticizing the department ( johnsoncountypost.com )
Xi's Sheer Existence Crushes Epstein/Bannon Racist Gossip Email Correspondence
https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/448dad52-7d78-4153-a690-66c80e93809e.png
I think it's because the author is an asshole
"Universities are communist indoctrination centers." Okay but my university book store stocks books about how islam is undermining the west next to books about confucianism.
Other religions are on different shelves.
[no fedposting] what are we doing here?
Again, no fedposting. What the hell are we doing here USAmericans? are any folks getting more involved with their communities at least? ...
Cock is better than Pepsi
ICE watch sites?
Are there any specific ICE monitoring sites that your communities have started consistently using? Asking because I starting building one (not running publicly) but would rather avoid splitting labor across many projects if I could just make use of and/or contribute to an existing site. ...
The reason this community exists
https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/b4bf7aa1-9b0a-4e47-b329-884807a1d45f.png ...
Russia: "Left Front" leader Sergei Udaltsov sentenced to six years in prison ( www.idcommunism.com )
Koko vindicated by the Epstein revelations
Urge to fedpost the Time offices rising
https://archive.ph/9ous6
WHERE THE FUCK IS EVERYONE?????
Did you struggle session ur asses to death or something? I’ve never seen this site move so slow. Gonna post my butthole on main to get this place moving again
The Sensory Biology of Plants
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-13-8922-1
Who wants to start a cool commie coop?
For real though I'm tired of being alienated from my labor. ...
Whiny "entrepreneur" attempts to find fault with LiChess, one of the most popular chess websites in the world, because it was founded by a French communist (Thibault Duplessis) and is completely free
Link to source: https://xcancel.com/durarbayli/status/1989831281056592037#m
What's the consensus on True Anon and the hosts?
Ive listened to a few episodes but I can't really parse through the rampant sarcasm from both the community and the hosts themselves as to what the general consensus is in regards to considering them "left" or what theyre even all about. Some of the things they say and talk about are typical liberal/reactionary nonsense and I ...
[ableism] I really wish libs (and some leftists are even guilty of doing this) would stop accusing bad people of being that way because of some kind mental deficiency
"Neurodiverse = wrong/broken/evil" is a brainworm that I wish would die. Sucks that it probably never will. ...
Learning Languages (Spanish) for Organizing
Ahoy comrades! Is anyone aware of any resources for learning Spanish for folks involved in organizing? It would be especially awesome if it was in the style of Dreaming Spanish, but I'm open to any suggestions.
If a real working class party includes these people I’d rather watch the world burn in hellfire
PSA: Do *not* participate in any NixOS official community spaces
They have virtually no moderators (they all quit because they were burnt out and manipulated), filled with racist lmayo, and are associated deeply with anti-migrant violence and warmongering (Anduril) who hire people straight out of NixOS to build weapons to fund imperialism everywhere. ...
How are folks factoring in NSPM-7 while organizing? ( www.kenklippenstein.com )
Without giving away personal or org information, what are you and your orgs doing with respect to NSPM-7 announced a few days ago? Any changes to what actions your orgs may consider down the road? Suggestions for tightening up opsec? Any union (labor, tenant, or otherwise) members foresee this impacting any ongoing union work?
When LLMs blow up, what's gonna be the next thing to absorb all the excess GPU production
First it was crypto, then nfts, then llms. ...
Resources on vanguard party structures?
Hey comrades, does anyone know of any decent resources on how effective vanguard parties structured themselves prior to and during revolutionary periods? ...
My grandpa next to his panther. 1944. NOT A NAZI
https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/96d2040f-299b-46c1-992e-8a132f4ac336.png ...
Woke is dead
Can cryptocurrency be done well?
I was kind of sympathetic to Bitcoin in the early days. Despite the awful politics of the community surrounding it and the obvious grift angle, it seemed a positive that we might possibly be able to escape the stranglehold that payment processors are currently demonstrating online. ...
oh so she can wear her kaffiyah but if i wore a kippah that said all muslims are lower than animals and should be systematically slaughtered then i would be the racist????
If I want to run a solo DnD game, is chatGPT fine for that?
Id rather NOT use something that will share my personal details with questionable institutions, but deepseek won't remember anything I typed in my current session (and for the libs out there, no, I don't care if China has my personal details; it's not China that can and might use my personal details against me). ...
18+ (CW: Transphobia) Olympic athlete Simone Biles does apologia for segregated sports in poor defense of trans child athletes, gets harassed by the right anyway ( xcancel.com )
Love our allies!
Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy