Careful about that. New AI face detection softwares can recreate your face even with mask and sunglasses on. I don’t know if they need a reference image for it but I don’t think so. There’s ways to defeat them but just wearing a mask is not enough anymore.

Search history of China on prolewiki

in my language it means penis.

Working conditions in many Chinese sweatshops and factories are abominable, just like the European factories and sweatshops of the 19th century that Karl Marx railed against.

I’m not knowledgable on these cases. Can someone else look into this?

Additional comment since it’s another thing entirely. This is not true anymore. Their info is severely out of date, like most westerners when they speak about China. Nowadays “sweatshops” (they mean factories) even have trouble finding employees because the new generation doesn’t want to do it. They have other opportunities. It’s come to the point where some factories will lodge you, feed you, and pay you a sign-on bonus on top of your normal wage. Many younger people in China do it as a summer job.

I knew I had issues with Current Affairs and this is why. Using the aesthetic of Marxism with none of the actual substance. Doing a shoutout to Marx and expecting everyone to turn their heads and bow in reverence at the name drop. I don’t even know where Marx ‘railed’ against 19th century factories, he probably did, but his bigger point was not so much the conditions of the factories but the condition of the proletariat. They’re making him seem like a socdem… because that’s what they are.

Its human rights abuses against the Uyghur minority— although cynically seized upon by anti-China politicians like Marco Rubio who couldn’t care less about human rights—are still real and horrifying.

you know it’s gonna be a banger (sarcastic) when it starts by saying the Uyghurs are a “Turkic” people.

edit: oh my god… “(Uyghurs still often prefer to refer to their homeland by the older term, East Turkestan.)” Why did you type East Turkestan in English. Why not in Uyghur. Because it doesn’t exist in Xinjiang, that’s why. Nobody but the CIA diaspora believes in East Turkestan. Some people shouldn’t be allowed to write.

I don’t remember if it was him, I don’t remember if it was that event, and I don’t even remember if it was irrevocably proven or just theorized,

but the CIA got him.

Stremio for any device with the torrentio plugin which needs to be installed from a url, but should be the first result on a Google search

So apparently what they did was subtract the imports minus exports for each country, express as a % and divide by 2 for tariffs.

It just makes me sadder 😭 it’s true, windows sucks and you keep fighting against it to do basic shit that I remember it doing just fine in the days of XP.

The EU has been talking about abolishing DST for 10 years now and they’re not any closer to it. They couldn’t figure themselves out of a paper bag. So in the meantime, I have to live with it. The least tech could do – especially since they used to do it without any issues – is simplify our lives as long as we have it.

Maoism is a dogmatist deviation of marxism and completely divorced from Mao himself, it came from the Shining Path in Peru in 1988. Now there is a maoism in China but the way they use the word means Mao Zedong Thought, not Guzman’s interpretation. Actually I don’t even think most Chinese are aware of the Shining Path. Today China’s ideology is officially Socialism with Chinese Characteristics.

GPT has had free image generation and running of python code for a few months before Deepseek R1 came out, so the dethroning happened on the currently available GPT model. Though I don’t find deepseek categorically better for everything, the online version they have tends to overcomplicate things where GPT makes a much more to-the-point answer (both with the exact same copy-pasted prompt). Like for code Deepseek started going into an overcomplicated JS function one time, adding more and more into it to make it work despite that it clearly didn’t. GPT got it right on the first try. Though I appreciate that deepseek considered accessibility in its code from the start.

There’s places where deepseek can be better but for me it’s now more of a side-by-side thing. And if I want to run code online for data analysis and stuff then there’s only chatGPT. If deepseek restores online search though that will be OP. It used to easily pull from 50 different sources, that’s 50 search results you can look at.

I think my bigger problem is that I feel like with every new generations the models are becoming more and more neutralized lol. I feel like you need to be asking EXACTLY what you want it to do and nothing short of that, but if I’m asking AI it’s because I can’t formulate it exactly for myself! I shouldn’t have to be writing a full one-page prompt to ask just one question. Google used to answer my questions just fine with just a sentence prompt before they completely broke their search engine. Now GPT talks to you like you’re its friend with emojis and stuff and I had to specifically go into the custom prompt and tell it not to do that lol. You’re a machine, talk to me like one lmao. It started using slang and basically talking like a teenager.

Just out of curiosity, is this not something you saw before making an account? 😅

Oh I don’t disagree with you, I disagree with the article that puts Ghibli on a pedestal as if Miyazaki was untouchable, and acts as though some sacred foundation just came crumbling down from an AI doing Ghibli better than previous models did. It’s Miyazaki today and it’ll be Van Gogh tomorrow. What this shows is that AI image is getting better and is not hitting the plateau yet.

That’s my counterpoint to the article and by extension to the writer; I don’t care what Miyazaki thinks of AI and that his art style is now getting copied by AI. Miyazaki himself is a multi-millionaire (if that still means anything nowadays lol); this new development won’t invalidate his human work, won’t put him out of a job, and won’t ruin his existing movies for people that liked them before - at least until some company does an “AI edit” of Princess Mononoke or whatever lol. In fact, he has a financial interest in edifying his style to something non-copiable (or that seems like it can’t be copied). If Miyazaki wants to do something against openAI over this he has the means to do it.

Of course Altman is a fascist! I don’t disagree with the author there and have written about him myself a couple times and how these tech figures are conspiring to reshape society in their individual image. But he will be a fascist with or without a Ghibli AI model.

Counterpoint: I don’t care about Ghibli and Miyazaki!

I don’t have time to get deep into it right now but OP can you clarify why you posted this link please?

Much of what western internet “thought leaders” peddle is rebrands of old things

Rebrands of old things they stole from the Black community even

I think there’s a lot of emergent theories that can come out of this new development, which is why I ended publishing the piece (it had been in my drafts 90% finished for over a month lol). So yeah, I can’t say you’re wrong or that I’m also absolutely right. I think it’s definitely a development to keep an eye on, and it might not be entirely new (we have a book that makes a case about Shining Path operating like a CIA operation, and then of course I think of the Iran-Contra affair), but we may see more of it from now on. It also lends credence to the color coup as something that can happen with imperial involvement. Many people are not aware the US created ISIS (through Al Qaida) and funded them too.

One thing I’d like to add is these terror cells build their own governance aside from the government’s and therefore fund themselves, which is not the case with the color revolution. We see in Ukraine that they had to restart the maidan protests after they started fizzling out come Jan. 2014. It also gives an excuse for the US to intervene militarily. France was doing Operation Serval in West Africa for a few years against the ISIS cells established in the Sahel, and this gave the impetus to form the AES because French troops were more concerned with looting Africa than actually doing something about the terrorists.

It’s not so much my opinion as it is a qualitative comparison between an actual revolutionary movement and what the ACP claims to be. They will yell high and low that they are doing “good” things (they always talk in this super basic baby way, reducing everything to “good” and “bad”, and lots of ad hominems). Since the ACP doesn’t do anything on the ground it’s sufficient to look at how they behave online and what they advertise online. In the flower distribution video there is no ACP symbol anywhere, for all we know they stole the video from a local flower shop and posted as their own.

The limits of “no investigation, no right to speak” is that when other people do the investigation and report the results, that counts as your investigation too. If we all had to study for ourselves in the field to confirm the same thing over and over we would never get anything done.

So with this in mind,

anyone loud online getting disproportionate amount of hate without concrete proof of them being a piece of shit is probably doing something right.

They are getting deserved hate because it’s all they exude themselves. Why are you defending them if you don’t know what they’re up to? Why do people and orgs need to be “pieces of shit” for their praxis to be criticized? This is, incidentally, something patsocs claim too. They’ll claim they’re just doing their own thing and them being piled on like they are is just haters or wreckers, and then they’ll call you a slur or explain that they want to have you committed to an asylum. Lovely people.

But the SA charges are probably just the standard defamation play they use against everyone they want to silence.

There’s literally videos of Tate abusing women on camera. People can be actual criminals under bourgeois law too. Why are you defending him too? Where did Andrew Tate even come from? You’re the one that brought him up in this thread, nobody else even thought about him. Is it because people like Hinkle advertise Tate and try to launder his reputation?

I assume you might also be thinking of Scott Ritter when it comes to silencing someone (and if you’re not at least this will teach someone something). He didn’t deny his CSAM charges, rather his “defense” is that he knew he was chatting with a cop and so he did not commit a crime because the cop was an adult and it was roleplay. The ex-UN weapons inspector doesn’t know the most basic child protection laws, sure. The US Army has to run these honeypot operations every year because so many of their service members are pedophiles, I don’t think it means that they’re trying to silence Private Joe Marine.

And I will add that I think Haz actually says a lot more interesting and thought provoking things that are new ideas to me compared to Hassan

Why is your benchmark Hasan and not Lenin or Mao? You are also admitting to watching Haz which makes me think your comment isn’t as innocent as you make it seem, especially as you downvoted the post.

The term originally comes from this Pravda article by Lenin https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/apr/09.htm

In it he describes what is ultimately a parallel state structure, with its own institutions and the seizure of power. Instead of waiting to seize the state, a parallel state emerges already and rules by itself without asking the established “official” state. This is something we can do at all levels, incidentally. In Belgium the PTB offers free clinics for the people so they can see a doctor without paying. It’s not quite dual power because it’s not quite a government, but it’s taking over an institution without state involvement. We are totally allowed to convene with our neighbors and decide on rules by ourselves without having to go through city hall. I think this is where the value of dual power lies, it starts there.

In the Vietnam context (or China or Russia), we see that laws and policies were enacted already in the liberated areas, they didn’t wait until the end of the war. It wasn’t military rule either, the Viet Minh (to keep with the topic) formed committees to rule locally, by the locals. Interesting source that I found for this: https://vietnamlawmagazine.vn/emergence-of-the-peoples-democratic-state-in-vietnam-4484.html. You can also see the huge difference between this and Makhno’s Ukraine lol, where Makhno instead went in with armed goons and said “okay, no more political organization. This is anarchy.” The Viet Minh also ruled, but they did so by example.

This is a necessary step to not only show people how you rule but to continue the revolution after the war period. Right after Japan surrendered, a Provisional Government was formed with Ho Chi Minh elected president. How would they have formed this government if they had not started dual power? They would have had no popular support, so nobody to vote for them. Going even further back, how do you win a war without the people on your side to feed and protect you?