Notice these same people don’t come out of the woodwork upon the mere utterance of “El Salvador” or “Bukele” like they do with “Venezuela” and “Maduro” even as Trump is deporting legal citizens to CECOT.

The words “dictatorship” and “authoritarianism” are clue words for followers of western publications to turn off their brains. They want to sort countries, parties, and leaders into neat little “good guys” and “bad guys” bins. These words allow them to do that with minimal effort, circumventing the need to understand the societies involved. Questioning that framing takes research effort and “sympathizing with authoritarians” so they never do it.

Literally one of the few problems that “AI” is actually really useful for solving.

Turns out that when their little marketing gimmick comes at odds with implanting a rootkit on your machine, they choose the latter. The whole hype around “AI” is excitement about subverting your agency in favor of their own. Kernel level spyware directly injects their own agency without the expense of training and running cheat detection models.

All the useful applications that can really benefit people have been neglected in favor of LLMs that can more easily serve as data mining SaaS platforms.

Under feudalism: Left is about abolishing feudalism and the monarchy. Right is about preserving them.

Under capitalism: Left is about abolishing capitalism and the bourgeoisie. Right is about preserving them.

The state is the mechanism through which one class exerts its dominance over the others.

Bourgeois states are the enforcement arm of capital. When it offers improved conditions, it is merely a carrot to prevent you from taking actions that may jeopardize its power.

In a similar vein, proletarian controlled states can do the same, but the concessions go towards capital and the day-to-day ruling is on behalf of the workers.

If we want concessions that cannot be revoked, we must overthrow the bourgeois state and replace with a workers state. We cannot reform our way into a society where capital does not have near complete power.

Pacman has the worst CLI flags I’ve ever seen.

Lots of useful stuff here. Taking all of it.

Does nh use fast-nix-build (or whatever the fancy nix builder CLI is called) to build your system?

but the plane did hit their church

Do chopsticks have an orientation?