dustcommie

joined 1 year ago
[–] dustcommie@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

Is TikTok and US AI tech really seen as real leverage? They seem more like distractions and spectacle. Tarrif's, sanctions, the fed etc I could see making significant compromises but I don't really know enough about the situation and what their analysis of how much the economy would be helped etc.

I thought Meta was out of China because they didn't want to follow Chinese law so got kicked out, would they really change the laws for Meta? (Maybe Meta has changed its mind and would rather be in China than not)

[–] dustcommie@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

and the supreme court unanimously upheld the law. This was completely bipartisan with overwelming support from both sides(for politicians, normal people are more split on the issue)

[–] dustcommie@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are you already organizing with people? Maybe that is supposed to be self evident here, but feels like a glaring omission to being "prepared for revolutionary action". Glad you are feeling motivate and inspired though!

[–] dustcommie@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

...i dont feel like everything is assaulting my dopamine centers to fight for attention...

One video on xhs (giving an overview for the new audience) said that the algorithm isn't centered around the "rich get richer" effect and tries to give a much more even distribution, which I imagine dilutes all the "dopamine assault" content developed to game tik-tok (profit motive) type algorithms (and other addictive qualities) plus probably makes it more useful as a search engine.

[–] dustcommie@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

You should have a way to screen shot, and at least on my android it has a translate option open up (mine is vol down and power at the same time)

[–] dustcommie@hexbear.net 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

After "big" events (at least as american reporting) I like to see what chinese commenters think about them, I might have to get the app just for that. I remember like a day or 2 after "the Adjuster" there were some comments confused about why Brian Thompson/CEO was killed and shouldn't the killer be going after shareholders which I thought was funny but also has its own insight from being further from the situation (pretty sure Brian was a big shareholder anyways)

[–] dustcommie@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This reminds me of the famous "paper tiger" Strong-Mao interview I recently read(short read btw, like a page or two and honestly lots of parallels to the current Palestine/Israel+USA can be made).

If the "paper tiger" concept is useful and general, which I am not sure it is tbh, certainly dangling the threat of removing/lessening trans rights (of imperial core people) at the expense of many thousands of Palestinians lives is a type of "paper tiger" pointed inward(Mao's case seems way more dire, one of the poorest most exploited countries in a war with US supporting one side and the fear of nuclear weapons is in the air... huh sounds a little like Palestine/Israel). Trans rights are not given by a couple of politicians, they are decided and fought for by the people as pretty much all rights have. People should be a little more brave, and not be put into a box of "we got to vote blue or else our rights" and maybe that isn't the way to get trans rights and maybe we can get both trans rights and not genocide Palestinians at the same time...

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