Please summarize in what way he betrayed anyone?
People feel betrayed that he kissed Trump’s ring, so to speak. But that’s CEOs for you. The bourgeoisie have class solidarity.
Andrew has cracked the case… with ᴍᴀᴛʜ. /s
How will DeepSeek affect the business viability of OpenAI?
As an AI assistant, I don't have access to internal company information. For more details about DeepSeek, please visit the official website.
Don’t be coy, DeepSeek.
US states need to develop more interstate shadow agencies and expand the existing ones.
I had to read all the way to the bottom to know what the context is: Reddit’s r/antiwork.
Edit to add: Relatedly, r/neoliberal was created by a neoliberal think tank » BPR Interviews: The Neoliberal Project
Edit to also add: Anti-China feds have been spotted on Reddit before: A Reddit AMA Claiming To Be A Uyghur Quickly Exposes A CIA Asset Slandering China
I actually agree that Americans don’t understand solidarity, because they’re soaked in neoliberal, individualistic ideology. But even if they did understand, they’re so lacking in class consciousness that they wouldn’t know what to rally around.
I have no idea what that’s supposed to mean.
Don’t make me tap the sign 👇
Let Me Wikipedia That For You https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_hair_loss#Causes
In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale. 😜
I wish you weren’t joking, because fuck NATO.
I didn’t know that it was an option: to both accept culpability and reject pardon/commutation.
Ceos dont have to make a profit. A business needs to make a profit
This is just wordplay. If the business doesn’t make a profit, the CEO gets the boot, so the CEO makes decisions with an eye on profitability.
you fundamentally misunderstand the role of a ceo.
Why don’t you tell us what the role of the CEO is then?
If you have a centralized authority over the economy then you’ll have a monoculture.
By some meanings of “monoculture,” that is definitionally true. But that doesn’t mean the entire country is necessarily run as a monolith, because that centralized “monoculture” may set up any of a variety of power decentralization/federation/power sharing schemes.
The fact is you do not need a centrally planned anything and having one actually prevents improvements.
That’s a very strong assertion of a “fact” without evidence, and frankly sounds like something von Mises or Hayek or Rothbart or Greenspan would say.
Does Lemmy have less personal stories than Reddit because users are more wary of doxxing themselves?
If privacy is what you’re looking for, ActivityPub is never going to provide it, because it wasn’t designed for it and can’t be back-ported into it. You should log off and use (or create) something altogether else.
You seem to be conflating browser technology (Chrome, Chromium, Blink, Gecko, etc.) and search engine technology, but they are unrelated technologies. I can’t imagine what your mental model for these technologies might be to create this conflation. Their only relationship to each other is that search engines are accessed via web browsers, and that web browsers often (but not always) embed a widget for calling search engines.
I suspect that the cancerous “appification of the web” has reached an advanced stage where people don’t know how to distinguish between client and server.
Does Lemmy have less personal stories than Reddit because users are more wary of doxxing themselves?
I often see it used to essentially bully someone into a side issue about citations. It’s a great way to avoid discussing the original issue.
You may well have, but that’s not what I’m doing. I’m familiar with ActivityPub’s & Lemmy’s APIs, and I’m calling bullshit on OP’s hyperbolic claim without evidence or elaboration.
Uh… it’s not a novel. It ends in her present, which was 2006/2007.
A democratic centralist government is fundamentally different from ‘ceo runs company/state’. And a CEO can’t just do whatever they want: they have to make a profit, or else their investors will have them removed or the company will be liquidated from insolvency.
This is peak BlueAnon/Marvel Cinematic Delusion, where Putin is a supervillain with a global mind control network.
Some are hoping for a great “Trump effect” on U.S. policy toward Palestine after his envoy brokered the Gaza ceasefire. But Trump was only operating out of self-interest, and these same interests will lead him right back to full support for Israel.
The truth is, neither deserves credit [for the ceasefire]. Certainly, Biden deserves none. The “plan” he put forth last May was on the table for six months before he dishonestly presented it as an Israeli plan, only to later claim it for himself. In fact, it was neither; it was the only way to negotiate a ceasefire that both sides could be made to accept, and was negotiated for that reason.
Biden preferred month after month of genocide. That his team was part of the discussions wherein Israel finally agreed to what is likely to amount to a brief pause in the genocide akin to what we saw in November 2023 should earn Biden nothing.
Was it Trump then? In comparison to Biden, Trump did do something here. As I’ve described it, “Trump could and did use his leverage over Netanyahu to push him toward the agreement.” But some are
Why Biden’s Ukraine Win Was Zelensky’s Loss
Taking back all the territory seized by Russia was never part of Washington's plan
Kit Klarenberg’s take: It's Official: US Abandoning Ukraine
JWZ: "I prefer to meet people where they are" says reasonable-sounding white dude holding court at a table in the back of a Nazi Bar, redux.
There are people out there apparently seriously proposing to spend over thirty million dollars, and an uncountable amount of labor, to adversarially interoperate with Blue Sky. Blue Sky has thus far duped the stenographers of the tech media that it is an "open" protocol that will interoperate "some ...
It's Cory. This time the guy holding court is Cory.
BTW, the Kickstarter for Pixelfed and Loops, the actually-open, ActivityPub based clones of Instagram and TikTok, just hit $35,000 in its first 13 hours. The creator of Mastodon just ceded control to a new non-profit. That's how you do it. By spending money to build free things for the public interest out in the open, not by tithing your money, labor and attention directly to VC-funded for-profit corporations.
For those who don’t know jwz, among other things, you have him to thank for Firefox/Mozilla’s existence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
The thing some US empire managers dislike about him is the only thing I like about him: that he makes the US empire a less effective evil because of how much less hidden he keeps the inner workings of the machine. The hood stays popped open the entire time, showing the whole world how the imperial sausage gets made.
Biden says Equal Rights Amendment is ratified, kicking off expected legal battle as he pushes through final executive actions
President Joe Biden announced a major opinion Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment is ratified, enshrining its protections into the Constitution, a last-minute move that some believe could pave the way to bolstering reproductive rights.
There Is No Safe Word: How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
Paywall bypass: https://archive.ph/79BtW
Rolling Stone yesterday: More Women Accuse Author Neil Gaiman of Sexual Assault
I’ve given Amanda Palmer the slant eye ever since her The Art of Asking TED talk. It seemed to me that she either doesn’t understand or pretends not to understand power dynamics in relationships.
Billionaires dangle free speech like a bauble. We gawp like open-mouthed babes
Zuckerberg, Trump, Musk. None care about free speech, least of all yours or mine. They care about power and remaining billionaires – or, better still, becoming trillionaires
A few observations on Mark Zuckerberg’s astonishing volte face today, declaring that he will end the crushing climate of censorship on his Meta platforms, such as Facebook and Instagram, in time for Donald Trump's arrival in the White House.
It should not have taken a video admission from Zuckerberg for us to appreciate the degree to which we have been living for many years under a regime of political censorship on social media, with Meta leading the pack.
In his grovelling video message to Trump – I mean, to Meta users – Zuckerberg effectively settles the question of whether his globe-spanning corporation has been aggressively corralling its 3 billion users away from political content. He admits it has.
What he has not admitted, and won’t, is that Meta has not even been trying to enforce that censorship evenhandedly or neutrally. We know, for example, that Meta’s algorithms were carefully engineered for many long months duri
Collapsing Empire: RIP CIA Front's 'Overt Operations'
All my investigations are free to access, thanks to the generosity of my readers.
In recent months, a remarkable development in the Empire’s decline has gone almost entirely unnoticed. The National Endowment for Democracy’s grant database has been removed from the web. Until recently, a searchable interface allowed visitors to view detailed records of Washington-funded NGOs, civil society, and media projects in particular countries - covering most of the world - the sums involved, and entities responsible for delivering them. This resource has now inexplicably vanished, and with it, enormous amounts of incontrovertible, self-incriminating evidence of destructive US skullduggery abroad.
Take for example NED grant records for Georgia, the site of recent repeated colour revolution efforts, at the forefront of which were [Endowment-bankrolled](https://www.mintpressnews.com/coup-cia-foreign-agent-law-color-revolution-geo
Why Elites Love Identify Politics
In the wake of Kamala Harris's defeat, the Left's association with identity politics has been a major focus of public debate. But what identity politics is or who primarily benefits from it remains contested.
In this episode of Confronting Capitalism, Vivek Chibber discusses the Democrats’ long-standing attachment to identity politics, why this form of politics can't fight oppression, and the real history behind struggles for justice.
In latest act of economic self-sabotage, EU green-lights Ukraine's decision to shut down one of the last remaining Russian gas routes to Europe
Almost as many of the tanks shipped between September and December as shipped between September and the summer of 2023.
It’s a Julfest Wunderwaffe Wunder.
Democracy Dies in the EU: Romania Edition
Is the cancelling of the Romanian election a harbinger of what’s to come in Western “democracies”?
Zelensky admits Ukraine does not have military strength to reclaim lost territories from Russia
Ukrainian president rules out conceding land to Russia but calls for stronger Western intervention
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
Plutocrats like Thiel are constantly thinking about the fact that ordinary people vastly outnumber them and can kill them at any time. They think about it way more often than ordinary people do. It’s a point that they are acutely aware of at all times. It consumes their attention. They are always working on manipulating public consciousness to ensure that we don’t think as much as they do about how many more of us there are of them, and how we don’t have to put up with their domination of our society if we don’t want to.
As Michael Parenti once put it:
“I tell students when they say, ‘Oh they don’t care what we think. They ignore us’, and all that, and I say, ‘Oh no, no. That’s the only thing they care about you. The only thing they care about you is what you’re thinking. They don’t care if you eat correctly, they don’t care how your living conditions are, they don’t care that they’ve built up an inhuman and irrational traffic
Another Nation Absorbed Into The Blob Of The Empire
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
Lawmakers will soon vote on a bill directing a nonprofit to draft curriculum on atrocities carried out by communist regimes.
Paywall bypass: https://12ft.io/https://theintercept.com/2024/12/05/congress-anti-communism-school-curriculum/
Bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/5349
House vote:
| Party | Yeas | Nays | Present | Not Voting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | 171 | 28 | 0 | 20 |
| Democratic | 156 | 34 | 0 | 23 |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 327 | 62 | 0 | 43 |
Who's Fighting Who in Syria?
This was published yesterday, and was made before fall of the Syrian government.
