A few months ago, the search engine expanded its offering by making available data from OCLC’s proprietary WorldCat database. Anna’s Archive scraped several terabytes of data over the course of a year and published roughly 700 million unique records online, for free.

Scraping data is now “hacking”. Every single computer science department will have to close its doors and surrender their research datasets to the police.

AFAIK, basically they’re having to buy way more expensive liquefied gas all the way from their friendly ally, the US, rather than the cheap energy they could get from evil evil Russia. People have been pointing at the Cost of Living crisis in the UK since before the pandemic, but shit really hit the fan once they sanctioned Russia and blew up their own pipeline.

Not sure how exactly that works in the USA, but one of the PT’s government greatest achievement in Brazil was both providing legislation for selling off-patent drugs (called “generics”) and also making those tax free to encourage competition.

Lots of really important drugs (for example gut worms) became much more affordable in the span of some 5 years.

And sometimes it takes way longer than that.

There’s even a controversy about whether Google’s PageRank algorithm was intentionally developed as a worse version of (future) Baidu’s RankDex so they could patent it. The fact that there’s any scientific advancement at all under capitalism and the patent system is frankly a miracle.

How Netflix brought Latin America back to its roots of film and TV piracy

I fixed the title. Why pay for less when you can not pay for more?

You should probably watch the video because it’s not about that. It’s about how any UBI “solution” will inherently be a concession from the ruling class that can and will be taken away or gutted, just like the NHS, unemployment benefits or whatevers other wellfare state measures have been tried in the past.

And he goes on to point out that as long as the current ruling class holds the political power, any such measures that depend on begging for them to change things and keep them good are bound to failure, cut corners or downright sabotage. His point is that it’s a futile effort without the working class also seizing political power.

TL;DR: Read Lenin and while at it read Luxemburg’s Reform or Revolution too

If anybody is getting paid for this please DM me. Gotta pay rent, so might as well do it while doing something good for society.

Now, hear me out, this might sound crazy, but what if Europe gave historic reparations to Latin American countries for their colonialism and imperialism, therefore reducing the need for further deforestation? Though in all honesty a large portion of the current day deforestation is for soy plantations, which is used to make livestock rations that then go on to feed European and Yankee livestock for the profit of the local latifundiarios and nobody else. Despite what it may seem, most Brazilians (and the other countries) don’t really want more deforestation nor are they benefited by it.

And that’s not even counting all the indigenous people who are actively fighting the destruction and takeover of their lands, including a recent vote over legislation that could’ve legally barred them from claiming a lot of it.

People keep trying to say that this time capitalism is so extra bad that it’s actually something different. Crony capitalism, maniacal capitalism, feudalism. This couldn’t be the exactly the same system that produced all the monopolies of the last century in which every source of food was (and is) owned by a small cartel of supermarket monopsonies. These people could really use a read or two of Lenin’s Imperialism. Capitalism is when market, feudalism is when rent.

I’m still gonna read it when it comes out because data is cool, but what a lib title, and a worse interview.

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My uninformed opinion on this is that he is so immensely rich that Twitter doesn’t really need to be profitable in the long term anyway. Kinda like how YouTube usually operates at loss, but on Hitler’s drug cocktail. It may bite him in the ass eventually because his whole house of cards of “real life Tony Stark” seems to be waning, but I think he’s about as likely to become bankrupt as Yankee student loans are to be forgiven.

Ditch barbarous French “bourgoieisie”, embrace the superior Spanish/Portuguese “burguesía.” They get the wall independent of language though.

I don’t know the internals of Bing, but they have some triggers which themselves seem to be made with NLP. They use it a lot to fetch web info. That means that if the model somehow produces some creative version of a crime that doesn’t get caught, it’ll just send.

I think this is why Bing sometimes refuses to continue the conversation, or ChatGPT will flag its own text as against their terms sometimes. But yeah, they definitely can encourage how to crime sometimes, I’ve made ChatGPT explicitly tell me how to replicate some crimes like the Armin Meiwes cannibalism one while bored.

They aren’t “programmed” to do something, they just produce likely text. If it somehow “learned” from portions of the data to threaten to dox people in circumstances like this, it just replicates that. The programmers themselves likely never saw that portion of the corpus with 4chan bickering, since the dataset is usually impossibly large.

This aggression is definitely not warranted, I was merely providing feedback. Since these posts are pinned on the communism sub, I assumed it was an official thing and that feedback could be useful to further the develop the book club. I understand your reasons for keeping it this way, and I’m also not trying to force anybody here to do things different by just providing my perspective on what I think works best. Have fun with your studies, I might still participate again if I find anything actually interesting to say.

I may be speaking out of my ass here since I’ve never done a book club, but I don’t think that going through short pamphlets such as this one piecemeal is very conducive to interesting discussion. In the particular case of this one, it is only a short preface right now that there isn’t much to discuss, but on a broader scope it can get into an awkward spot where most discussion will rely on either the further chapters or other sources. I understand that plenty of users are new to Marxism, but I think this format might fit better for larger books, since I’m pretty sure one can read the whole Wage Labour in 1-2 hours at most, which is quite a bit, but not enough to split it over what looks like will be 5 weeks.

Maybe we could have the “Thursday” thing be only for the name but make it a weeklong thing? I don’t even know what to say about the first two parts other than “They go in further depth later on.” I guess I could make a point that I don’t remember them making there, that inflation without increase in wages is often just the reallocation and expansion of the surplus value to better benefit the bourgeoisie.

Work visas/permits are just proletarian bans. If you derive your survival from labour and are not allowed to work somewhere legally, your only survival options are to move elsewhere or work illegally. In Northwestern countries like the USA this is by design, because then immigrants/refugees without visas are coerced to work without their deserved rights which then becomes a justification to jail them and force them into prison slavery.

Wait, is that car price accurate? I was always told that for some random reason cars in the USA were the only thing they had cheap. Might as well import a Geely or Lada at that point… oh wait.

In contrast with liberal “democracies” we can see how they treat referendums as this random thing done with a year or two of preparation, and that whatever is the outcome is the will of Godthe people, which is immutable and can only be tested once in a generation, so long as they benefit the ruling class. Brexit got voted for, therefore it must happen no matter what, but the indyref didn’t get the 50% so better wait until all Scots die of old age. And when the result of the referendum goes overwhelmingly against the ruling class interest, like in Donetsk/Luhansk or even in Catalunya, then it must’ve been stuffed ballots, and it was illegal, and no we won’t redo the referendum to test that hypothesis.

I’ll prove it to you, that you don’t know what you’re talking about right now: Source?