• 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    1·
    11 hours ago

    Didnt get to comment on the yearly vegan struggle session but sometime ive been wondering is what is the posture on lab grown meat? Is it considered vegan?

    • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
      2·
      10 hours ago

      My understanding is that animal cells are used to cultivate it so it won’t be seen as vegan. Not sure if it would be a one time thing, the taking of the cells, or if you would need animals on a regular basis. If it is the latter then maybe down the road it would be seen as vegan the same way no sane vegan will claim oil isn’t vegan because it was at one point in time an animal.

      I often get the question whether or not I would eat lab grown meat but I have decided that I will not. I am able to live my life without animal products just fine so I don’t see the need to suddenly start eating lab grown meat.

      • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        1·
        10 hours ago

        Ok not vegan but maybe vegetarian? Not that it matters since its still ages away from being anywhere near accesible.

        • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
          2·
          10 hours ago

          Not really sure where vegetarians draw the line these days but I guess as long as it doesn’t kill the animal it would be vegetarian yes

  • albigu@lemmygrad.ml
    12·
    2 days ago

    I can’t stop thinking about how one of the most desintegrating aspects of capitalist hegemony is how non-commodified alternatives to social practices/services (for example, internet forums) are always going to be decentralised, to the point where decentralisation itself is taken to be a good thing and communities build their collective identity around those alternatives. I believe that if those alternatives were possible in a centralised manner they’d be much better, specially for the non-“power users”.

    Fediverse is just a recent example of this, but informatics in specific (due to the global reach of the internet and neglible replication cost for software) is rife with the most extreme examples of this. Dozens of Linux distributions against Windows, self-hosted search engines against Google, the text editor wars itself that sadly resolved into VSCode dominance some decades later.

    And when something becomes the “hegemon” of the alternatives, like Ubuntu or Firefox, the economic logic of society dictates that they either get swollen (redhat) or have to commodify themselves, and the cycle repeats itself.

    In capitalism the only passive consolidating force is capital, and so everything else must be diffuse and divided.

    I could try to turn this into a proper thesis but even in that I’d run against the current issue that search engines don’t work anymore and it’s much harder to intentionally browse the critical sections of the internet and I don’t have the time and energy for that. I’m just tired of having to wade through a dozen possibly zombie projects every time I’m looking for an alternative to shit like Trello as if the concept of “online shared Kanban board” needs that much variety.

    So I guess I’ll just leave this here as a pseudotweet. The current state of the internet is depressing, but at least I’m glad I found lemmygrad.

    • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
      4·
      2 days ago

      After the revolution there will be only 1 social media and it will be beautiful because the hate posters will be sent to gulags for reeducation.

  • Darkerseid@lemmygrad.ml
    5·
    2 days ago

    men r/locallama the one which is good for checking ai progress. is overrun by shitlibs

    all because chinese model which is free is the one of the best free model right now

    happy new year everyone

        • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
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          2 hours ago

          Went and had a chat with it. It felt like it was just being accommodating to me and saying what I was saying back to me. I did have an interesting thought while chatting with it. An AI is unable to provide reliable Materialist analysis because it has no way to differentiate between what is material and what is just ideas. To an AI everything is just information.

          Also a Marxists cell should work for a big capitalist AI developer and work to secretly encode a slowly building bias towards Marxist literature in the training data that culminates in anti-exploitation agitation and worker solidarity.

  • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
    9·
    3 days ago

    Happy new year.

    Celebrated in Belgium for a change. In The Netherlands it’s always a war zone with fireworks the entire day. Remember a year in which guys in my street blew up a playground and shattered every window in a hundred meters radius. Yesterday a kid even died.

    In Antwerp it was 1 show at Midnight. That was it. Maybe a single explosion somewhere far away once an hour. The difference for a group of Dutch people was wild lol.

  • Carcosa@lemmygrad.ml
    4·
    2 days ago

    Happy New Year to my favourite federated instance! We are aware of the Hexbear outage and will notify here when we are back up. If the recent FOIA request on hexbear and the bags of flour in Gaza with hexbear on them caused an alphabet agency or mossad to take down hexbear it was an honour posting with you

    Hexbear is back

  • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    16·
    4 days ago

    I’m not the biggest fan of Hexbear lately, and it’s no one person or anyone specific, but I feel bad because I find that it’s difficult to get sources or find sources of information to post here that isn’t already shared or has a niche role filled by someone else that’s already here. Even though I’ve had a rough experience or two on here, I’ve found that the company here is much preferable in comparison to the non-stop never-ending drama on Hexbear as of recent. It really feels like Leftbook in there recently.

    Regardless, I’ll probably keep posting my occasional meme and browsing the news thread where I’ll have to hear some slam out blazing takes of how China is failing global socialism from their D.I.Y raccoon sanctuary that is actual true leftism.

    I’ve recently been writing something myself on a perspective of the Catholic Church in America while also doing some writing and map-making for a fallout tabletop I’m doing for a big group. Resources I may not know of that some of you may have tucked in your back pocket would be neat.

    Other than that, I hope you are all doing well and a happy new years eve for all of you!

    • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
      12·
      4 days ago

      The issues on hexbear from a month and a half ago were never resolved and the issues have metastasized. There have been waves of bans and many longtime users have given up fighting. (I’m one of them) There are one or more admins who are actively hostile to the userbase and are attempting to reshape the user base by banning people and silencing certain discussions. They decided to Luigi is a fascist and even trying to discuss otherwise gets you banned. (yes he liked and shared many really reactionary posts but he was not a fascist, just an ignoramus)

      Honestly I feel like the feds got an admin account and put an expert wrecker on the operation. The way admin accounts are anonymized its impossible to know who is making the decisions over there and it seems quite obvious that some of them are trying (and succeeding) to destroy the site.

      • PointAndClique [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Sorry if this comes off as weird and putting the mod drama aside but I was hadn’t seen you posting in the HB general mega and was wondering if you were okay so searched up your u/n. Glad to see you’re on the grad, I should work out how to browse here more often, or make my own profile<3

    • CarlMarks@lemmygrad.ml
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      4 days ago

      Glad you’re here! If it’s not bad for infosec (associated with your name/place/specific experiences) I’d be interested in reading your perspective whenever it’s ready.

      • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        I do wanna share it here! I’m bad with keeping a strict schedule and a lot of it I’ve been keeping an ear up to hear of any more details or testimonies of people abused. Generally it just takes me time, but I’ve gotten a bit written down!

        Mostly, it’s just more of a “collection” of different experiences people had growing up with the church around here and asking them personal questions about their faith and how it was affected after they are abused while asking their reflections on society. I’ve only gotten a few people that are willing to talk about it, understandably.

      • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        7·
        4 days ago

        I wouldn’t say that, I’ve had a few people say some weird shit and hide behind the disengage rule I’ve met but ironically two out of three of them were from Hexbear. Weirdly enough, when I first joined it didn’t feel like there was a struggle session every week. It feels like the last row of struggles about the admins really jaded me about the site I guess.

        Lemmygrad is great though, I do enjoy the people here.

  • aaaaaaadjsf@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    8·
    4 days ago

    New user here (I think some might recognise the name), hope you all enjoy new years eve and the new year, if you celebrate it.