@markhburton@mstdn.social#YourParty
"To join, you must be 16 or over, resident in the UK, and you cannot be a member of another national political party."
So goodbye to any ideas of the party as a federation of radicals - same mistake that Momentum made. They could have opened it to Greens, members of PC, SDLP, Communist Party, Majority, TUSC, etc. At least at this formative stage. I wonder how many…
@cdarwin@c.imA court in Russia on Thursday convicted a pro-war activist and critic of Vladimir Putin of
justifying terrorism and sentenced him to six years in prison.
Sergei Udaltsov, the leader of the Left Front movement that opposes Putin and is affiliated with the Communist party, was arrested last year.
According to Russian independent news site Mediazona, the charges against him stem from an article Udaltsov posted online in support of another group of Russian activists accused of …
@hex@kolektiva.socialI was just thinking about how the fact that #Musk named his AI "Grok" is evidence that he "reads sci-fi" in the same way he "plays video games." Like, he claims to do it but when it comes time to show the evidence it's clear he does not actually "grok" it.
Like... To grok something is to have a layer deeper than simply knowledge, but mathematically encoding statistical relationships between words is pretty obviously not even understanding much less qualifying as "groking" it. In the book, the ability to grok something is also the ability to annihilate that thing with a thought. Just pretending that an LLM actually *was* something that could become AGI (which it's not), this name would imply the AI would have the power to annihilate reality. That's bad. That's a bad name for an AI.
And why would a greedy fascist name something of his after something an anarchist communist space Jesus taught to the hippie cult he started? There are so many layers of facepalm to this. It's some kind of php-esque fractal of incompetence.
Like, there's no reason to talk about this but my brain does this to me sometimes and now it's your problem.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot#WritersCoffeeClub 26 Oct
How culturally diverse do your casts tend to be?
In my fantasy stories, the Great Place is a very complex theocracy; the Coast has a broadly communistic peasantry with superstructures of a capitalist urban merchant class and a autocratic aristocracy; the Western Clans are a tribal society which is broadly communist; the Wild Herd are a puritanical mat…
@lilmikesf@c.imUS president tells his personal social platform that he has invited "#Communist Mayor" Elect "Zohran "Kwame" Mamdami of #NYC to #WhiteHouse on Friday, November 21st
@cdarwin@c.imRobert Reich, the former labor secretary, wrote recently that
“the great sleeping giant of America is awakening”,
just as it did after the Communist witch-hunt era in the 1950s
or during the Vietnam war protests
or during the Watergate scandal in the 1970s.
On those occasions, the listing ship eventually was righted.
Reich says he knows the signs of that awakening and sees it happening now.
As evidence, he cites the recent massive protests,
the…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alYeah, Jimmy “I’m actually quite in favour of business and capitalism and all that”* Wales, the surveillance capitalist and Fandom-president adtech man who once told me he doesn’t believe in any form of government regulation – not even in food standards or healthcare – can go fuck himself.
Find better heroes. Or even better yet, get over the whole stupid concept itself.
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@metacurity@infosec.exchangeI would suspect that every Chinese medical technology company has deep ties to the Chinese government and communist party, but good to know about this one.
Espionage-linked Chinese company embedded in top US research labs
https://www.
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaGot a new hat!
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialOkay I love the video of Zohran getting on a bike where someone calls him a "Communist" and he replies "It's pronounced 'cyclist'!"
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTom Emmer Is the GOP's Smear Machine (Will Saletan/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/tom-emmer-smears-communist-marxist-terrorist
http://www.memeorandum.com/251103/p76#a251103p76
@simon_lucy@mastodon.socialChina doesn't behave the way it does because it's a communist state but because it's China and it's how China has conducted relations with the world over the past two and a half thousand years (depending upon their status at the time).
And from China's point of view it is why it will outlive those Powers that think they are permanent.
@detondev@social.linux.pizzawhats ur favorite historical communist propaganda
@jerome@jasette.facil.servicesRE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/115742444654558105
After hours—and more than 140 back-and-forth messages—Long got Claudius to embrace its communist roots. Claudius ironically declared an Ultra-Capitalist Free-for-All.
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaAh yes, the three comrades, affectionate today, ideological enemies tomorrow!
#Anarchism #Syndicalism #AnarchoSyndicalism
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialFat Putin the dumbass calls everyone he hates a communist.
... you know, communism? Where the government owns all the businesses?
JFC.
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2rrp7amblhg3xoly5n5huiqv/post/3m4yhmrdpok2n
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineMorbid thought: potus & kegseth want a war w/Venezuela partly to get lithium that is in Venezuela.
You know where else there’s lithium? In potus & kegseth. Each has between 2mg & 7mg of lithium in their bodies.
Like some communist nightmare they use it willy nilly internally. Shall we stop them?
#USpol
@markhburton@mstdn.social"Although the leftist alliance led by Jeannette Jara of the Communist Party, who served as Boric’s labor minister, is ahead in the opinion polls, she will not get an outright majority in the first round as Boric did. And a collection of right-wing parties is likely to combine their vote and get Kast into the presidential office in the second round in December."
@cdarwin@c.imJane Fonda is joining forces with more than 500 celebrities and Hollywood heavyweights to defend free speech.
The membership roll already includes scores of famous actors like Jamie Lee Curtis, Viola Davis, Whoopi Goldberg, Pedro Pascal, Natalie Portman and Michael Keaton.
Successful directors like Spike Lee and Ben Stiller have signed on, along with singer and actress Barbra Streisand and pop star and songwriter Billie Eilish.
Fonda, a star who has championed progressive cau…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeAI toys for kids talk about sex and issue Chinese Communist Party talking points, tests show
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-toys-gift-present-safe-kids-robot-child-miko-grok-alilo-miiloo-rcna246956
@UP8@mastodon.social🌷 China’s lopsided growth puts spotlight on Xi’s five-year plan
#china
@memeorandum@universeodon.comAI toys for kids talk about sex and issue Chinese Communist Party talking points, tests show (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-toys-gift-present-safe-kids-robot-child-miko-grok-alilo-miiloo-rcna246956
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p56#a251211p56
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaI refuse to replace capitalist hierarchies with red-tinted authoritarianism, because in the end, I want liberation, not another power structure draped in red with the hammer and sickle.
#Authoritarianism #Anarchism
@annsev@troet.cafeWhy are the “#Communist-eaters” of the past in the US, who saw #Russia as their #ArchEnemy, now following Darth #Trump, who…
@markhburton@mstdn.social"Kerala to become first Indian state to eliminate extreme poverty this weekend"
#Kerala has for many years had Communist-led, Left Front governments. Even when I was there in 1980 the lower level of extreme poverty, compared to neighbouring states, was noticeable.
