I’m increasingly approached by these individuals since the Palestinian uprising, all the way up to this Venezuelan protests this last weekend

In particular, I think it’s some branch of the Maoist Communist Union, with the rhetorical line of China is imperialist against Taiwan 💩

Curious why folks are downvoting this?

I’ve read both Capital in the 21st as well as Capital and Ideology.

Imho, just read Capital and Ideology after reading Marx

It’s more comprehensive and wide ranging in its analysis. It’s still very socdem as others have noted, but there’s no other book which has charted the dynamics of the world’s wealth over centuries

I.e. while Marx depicts the original accumulation of Britain in Vol 1, Piketty aggregates the original accumulation of most of the world’s empires, even though he uses socdem framing

Folks who have a deep meditation practice or an appropriate about of hallucinogens in their system often experience just this

It takes some people a lifetime to build this awareness, so kudos to the revelation

Realizing the absence of an ego is only a negative thing in our western, ego and envy fueled culture. It’s actually a very calming perspective when you realize just how illusory all this is, at least outside of revolutionary praxis

The Questions of King Milinda (Milindapañha). The discussion begins with the King asking the apparently innocent question, “who are you?” Nāgasena replies coyly that he is really nobody; that he is called Nāgasena, but that this is just a name, a designation, and there is nothing to which it really refers. The name Nāgasena refers not to his body, his mind, his experiences, nor to anything apart from these.

https://www.buddhistinquiry.org/article/what-does-no-self-really-mean/

Using any AI based API that isn’t run on Chinese data centers is burning up the ecosystem, hence not free afaik

Is Mistral any different than it’s US based analogues?

Well you’re talking to a dev, so is there any db or dump that you have available?

Great work comrade. I’ve been wanting to do some data work on prolewiki, but wanted to avoid scraping the site

Did/can you put up the text dump unto hugging face or GitHub?

Similarly, curious if you’ve looked into running it through a vector database for RAG calls?

Not a word I said is advocating for anything

No need to strawman

Gender plays a huge role in how one experiences the single life. Women are often deeply enculturated towards “having a man” and are judged accordingly. Doubly so for choosing to be childfree.

Women are often seen as “individualistic” or selfish for choosing alternatives to romantic partners, whereas men often get much less criticism regardless of their social arrangement

But you are burning up the aspirations of future generations by generating them 🤷🏿‍♀️

I say this as someone who likes these memes as well

Even if this did work, there isn’t a woman on this planet who would trust a man to be diligent enough in their usage to prevent her pregnancy

…is this up vote farming?

The video immediately pivots to racist talking points of anti Asian sentiments in the black community

I didn’t wait for the end of this ai generated propaganda video, so I hope I’m wrong

We live in a classist society that pivots shame from those bourgeoisie individuals who silently benefit from hoarding opportunity to those who struggle and are exploited the most

Might be a time to really grasp the history of those who have struggled before you so that you realize are one part of a long lineage of human liberation

You might want to ask it to break it’s work down into steps, then ask it to double check it’s work for each step

Not perfect, but you’d be surprised how much asking the questions in the right way will improve performance

“DSA can support a Revolutionary movement”

Press X to doubt

Please read this with the intentions of maintaining this as illuminative disagreement rather than another inane internet argument

Historically, serfs are bound to the land, produce collectively for their own consumption and are "taxed absolute authority over that land, secures it through his own personal militia, and neither party significantly engages in commerce for their social reproduction.

I think we can agree that all of these criteria are confirmed with my initial point except taxation.

Ex. your data is bound to the service provider, users produce content collectively for their own consumption, a private militia via security teams, and that users and the corporation do not use commerce for social reproduction (at least from each other in this case)

Imho, I’d argue that the taxation is in the form of attention, which is also commodified by the corporation to sell targeted ads as per your point about surveillance capitalism

Respectfully, I think you’re missing a great deal of labor value in the cloud.

One branch is the developers who are creating the cloud infrastructure and the algorithms that keep us hooked, the other branch is us as users (or serfs more accurately) who are training these algorithms endlessly via social media consumption

I don’t know if you’re in the tech industry or have exposure to the level of engineering as well as the value of processed data harvested from users, but the massive valuation of tech companies in Western stock markets vs the rest of the society should be a reasonable indicator

Both of these forms of labor power create the underlying value of cloud capital (as well as the all of the upstream workers, but they are not novel forms of value to your point)

Secondly, there seems to be a meaningful incongruence regarding influencers. I think we agree that their form of labor pales in comparison to the other labor inputs noted above.

Technofeudalism isn’t concerned with influencers at all, and it’s a red herring to suggest so imho

But to your closing point, while I agree this comes from a global north perspective, its consequences are universal in that serfs from the global South are tilling the land of cloud capitalism for free just as much as folks from the global north

…Are we following the same economist?

Yanis has been very clear that this stage of capitalism could still be considered capitalism, but he’s specifically meaning this period as technofeudal because the relationship of worker to the mode of production has meaningfully shifted with the owners of cloud capital

Say what you will about capitalists owning the railroads, utilities, etc., I and most people reading this don’t work for these companies for free and therefore give these companies egregious valuations

The workers under cloud capitalism (the other name for this shift) are better described serfs as they are not wage labor and will never be