There is nothing more childish than doomerism. Doomerism is easy. (Realist) optimism takes effort. Doomerism is a way to avoid having to deal with the emotional pain of disappointment, it gives you license to do nothing and pat yourself on the back when things don’t work out. An adult understands that disappointment is part of life, but that the only mature choice is to keep trying.

As Gramsci said, as revolutionaries we must have pessimism of the intellect but optimism of the will.

try sci-hub or anna’s archive to avoid paywalls!

Email the actual author of the paper. Academics froth at the mouth in excitement at the thought of sharing their work, and the only people making money off of gatekeeping are capitalists.

Were there that many in the first place?

As Marxists if we knew ideas were reactionary we would not cling to them. Its like asking what unknown unknowns we have.

A sort of silly one that I think of is probably my interest in fashion (silly in that it’s a pretty minor thing overall). Though I’m not sure it’d be called reactionary, so much as individualist. Anyway, the individualist brain worms part is that a part of me holds onto some of the stuff about good fashion = cool, important, good status. Stuff like that. Not to say I’d consciously treat somebody different on account of fashion, but unconsciously is harder to say.

I don’t tend to embrace fashion much in RL because I don’t really have the money to throw at fashion, so it’s mainly been a thing I’ve expressed in video games, historically. This isn’t to say the entirety of my interest in fashion is individualist bougie thought, but some part of it is. I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with being interested in fashion and understanding the practice of it could go toward collectivist causes too, such as in uniforms in a war or design that seeks to promote a certain kind of culture. But I haven’t really put my interest in it toward that, so it’s kind of just this old paradigm hobby.

Everyone here is a Marxist-Leninist and choosing to support the ML means to do away with reactionary positions. I myself used to be conservative and then right-wing libertarian and so used to have reactionary takes, but I have choose to do away with them as well.

i am super guarded with personal information i share here, but it’s also often a space that people are welcoming and supportive. ultimately, do whatever you feel comfortable with

and yeah, part of the problem with reactionary takes is that there’s debate on what those are now, and people are unlikely to be self-critical enough to believe they have reactionary takes haha. it’s kind of a dilemma

The GPT asthetic is an artistic lowest common denominator of all the training data. It makes sense that many people would like it.

I imagine that after the american AI giants fall there will be a new wave of boutique AI companies that have more focused models and the different image generation companies will likely try to differentiate themselves from the GPT look and one another.

hopefully at some point the novelty of making something very quickly will wear off in favor of what the experience of consuming it is actually like

I want a roll of copies of a sticker I got form a local artist, which is made to get on these AI images IRL, which translates to: FUCK YOUR AI IMAGE. And along the edges: PAY AN ARTIST, YOU FUCKING MISER. I might even want something of the eggshell variety, that one that either can’t be destroyed without leaving crap behind or the glue itself keeps some words on.

On a side note, I get this weird feeling that the digital is bleeding, like JPEG artifacts in actual printed images and such. It’s weird.

For real, and the information in those stickers/posters is very cluttered and hard to make out. That’s why graphic design is so important

I despise the glossy wet texture or the high saturation and gooey colors.

Keynesianism as a relief valve for worker unrest relies on empire, which is in decay. Hence the push to Balkanize Russia and to the precarization of immigrants.

For your own privacy you should consider removing the tracker part from links that you share.

Yeah, the left hasn’t reached their full potential in Brazil yet. But at least the communist movement has space to grow now. Especially if Lula decides to ban Meta

tbf being better than a bozonazi is a low bar

Well, uh, I know comrades have opinions about Pedro Sanchez here in Spain, but I am kinda hoping the snap elections don’t result in a right-wing victory at the moment. 😭😭

I think it is a mostly genuine movement that will be co-opted due to its anarchistic undertones. Their “plan” isn’t horrible its just founded on idealism. I think the cia was much less hands on than color revolutions in Ukraine, Georgia, etc.

I think they have realized chaos is the best they can get out of color revolutions so they have stopped investing the time and energy trying to build them into anything of substance.

It seems everyone is jumping at the opportunity to take lead in Serbia right now. The Students’ party won the parlimentary election, and the EU seems to be eager to work with Serbia now.

Accidentally wrote this in last week’s thread.

i think because of the leaderless nature of the movement, there is a lot of unknowns for the future. of course it is likely that EU interests become dominant, as they have the most influence, but there is some potential for left organising too.

Thanks! You too Opp- AH!! AH!! AH!!

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I love your new profile picture. It’s cute.

You too

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thanks oppo

You too Oppo

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También usted, camarada. 🫡

I wish I could be friends with these people

I’m sorry for that, Comrade. I wish you swift success in slaying that “demon.”

Wishing everyone a good week