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Cake day: September 20th, 2025
  • allende2001@lemmygrad.mltoWorld News@lemmygrad.ml•there has never been a country more prepared to face down the United States than Iran.
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    5 days ago

    A full-scale American assault would not be a surgical strike. It would once again be the opening of a regional war with no clear exit. Iran would retaliate against US bases in Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the UAE and likely level them all. The Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of the world’s oil passes, would become a shooting gallery. Hezbollah’s missiles would rain on Israel. The Houthis would absolutely join in for the fun of it. Oil prices would spike globally, slamming economies already teetering on the edge. And the American people, already fracturing under domestic tensions, would watch their empire slide into another Middle Eastern catastrophe with no end in sight.

    Hezbollah’s missiles would rain on Israel. The Houthis would absolutely join in for the fun of it.

    Inshallah

    Oil prices would spike globally, slamming economies already teetering on the edge. And the American people, already fracturing under domestic tensions, would watch their empire slide into another Middle Eastern catastrophe with no end in sight.

  • allende2001@lemmygrad.mltoTechnology@lemmygrad.ml•Acting ethically in an imperfect world
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    7 days ago

    Obligatory Intellectual property in the times of AI mention

    @CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml

    Also, a comment I found under this article:

    LLMs are based on extraction, exploitation and subjugation

    So is torrenting. This is a very capitalist argument, coming from someone that self-identifies as a communist, that one deserves to reap the rewards of them adding value to humanity through some form of gatekeeping and is entitled to a reward from such gatekeeping. You’re literally arguing on the side of Elsevier and JSTOR against Aaron Swartz

    What does it matter if human knowledge is available as a book or an LLM? The important part is that all of humanity has access to it.

    Omelas is an almost perfect city. Rich, democratic, pleasant. But it only works by having one small child in perpetual torment.

    Walking away from Omelas doesn’t stop that child’s perpetual torment. Your choice is merely ignorance and cowardice in front of injustice. Choosing to stay in Omelas and poison its democratic system to lead to its downfall is the arguably the more moral option. Let’s not even get into the argument about how Germany made the Eurozone its Omelas at the expense of deficit-prone southern Europe, and how you should leave Germany by your argument.

    If everything is somehow “free and open” then we have won.

    your moral choice to not use LLMs is the same as abandoning Omelas and the eternally tormented child, it serves as nothing but intellectual onanism. Distilling GPT 5, Opus 4.6, commoditising the petaflop (see George Hotz), deploying efficient models on Huawei chips is the same as causing rot in Omelas from the inside, causing the billions invested into AI to be worthless, tearing down the system that is perpetually tormenting that child. It is the only way forward.

    Cory was right to label this “neolib purity testing”, because 1) it sides with capital (see above point re: torrenting), 2) it tries to don the mantel of dialectical materialism, while viewing this issue through a lens of “individualist action” and static morality and 3) It endlessly criticises power instead of aiming to claim and wield it for good.

    Also, one (out of many) of Cory's points mentioned in the last paragraph of the comment:

    Purity culture is such an obvious trap, an artifact of the neoliberal ideology that insists that the solution to all our problems is to shop very carefully, thus reducing all politics to personal consumption choices:

    https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/31/unsatisfying-answers/#systemic-problems

    Also also, @yogthos@lemmygrad.ml

  • allende2001@lemmygrad.mltomemes@hexbear.net•Market efficiencyEnglish
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    12 days ago

    This will also incentivize device makers including automakers to connect their devices and do the processing of most data on centralized services rather than shelling out for the 2GB of DRAM they’d previously put in the car or whatever the device is. Meaning less privacy, mandatory connected capability, more fees eventually passed onto the workers, better of the surveillance state. The interests of tech capitalists are now completely aligned with the surveillance state’s interests for the first time in quite some time (previously there was at least some public friction and what surveillance they did was via backroom secret deals that meant evidence gathered couldn’t be used in open court only by the intelligence community).

    And to make the final preparations for a ‘War with China’.