grym [she/her, comrade/them]

yea, it’s data transformation but there is zero intelligence, context or anything “new”.

The tool itself is fine when used clearly and purposefully, and those kinds of tools have been used for a long time in various fields, the problem I have with the current hype trends of ““AI”” is that literally nothing fundamentally new was made. People aren’t being informed on how these things really work and what they do, there’s a lot of dangerous practices and psychological manipulation, and above all these new large models are enormous labor-obfuscating machines. I don’t give a shit about private property, IP laws, etc (because I know that’s a common response), the problem is that these things are another layer of illusions, an enormous curtain hiding entire industries of data-scraping and theft, of countless people and hours of manual tagging, filtering, training, moderating and mechanical turks, in purely profit-seeking and reckless ways. And not only is all this labor not valued, people aren’t even aware it exists, people never have to interact directly with anyone along that production chain. Entire industries becoming ghosts, non-existent, and even more unable to organize and struggle for what they create.

Beyond that, class consciousness is ever harder to teach and agitate for in these domains, because shit like this is purposefully built to hide and disguise exploited labor (often from the labour force of the colonized and victims of imperialism) and privatization.

It’s not the stealing that’s the problem it’s the sneaky, rapid disruption and destruction of existing productions and jobs that it entails, and the privatization of colossal amounts of public data and user-generated data that nobody ever intended to be privatized and extracted for profits. It was always happening in the background of course, but i don’t think people realize the impact this will have, to me it’s like a closure of the internet-commons. Colossal explotation of Free Labour, the expansion of exploitation in every sphere of “content production” that was previously unreachable.

Drives me fucking insane.

Not only is the summary kinda light or missing the deeper points, the LLM did not “break down” the plot by “reading” the provided PDF. House of Leaves is impossible to fucking parse correctly as a PDF, the text is all over the place, visually placed in very complex ways, you have a whole labyrinth chapter where you have to follow footnotes across multiple pages with the text being difficult to find and follow, anything “reading” the PDF in the regular order of characters would have no fucking clue.

As always, there is no intelligence or any breaking down, the only reason the LLM is able to provide the summary is because it was trained on a dataset that included summaries and reviews of House of Leaves, and it simply detected the PDF was House of Leaves.

The LLM is, YET AGAIN, just regurgitating things that are already written elsewhere, nothing is created, it’s all obfuscation of labour.

Yea these are mainstream and so mostly bourgeois sources

I think mainstream média sources in France are limited and will not want to admit that its because people hate macron or the Olympics. So those few sources are what gets translated

Also historically the trots have literally never achieved anything, none of their strategies have ever worked. Entryism is a profoundly stupid and wrong strategy. Their “agitation” is mostly useless because they don’t really have a good reason why/how/for what purpose they agitate. Their revolutionary strategy can be summarized as “at some point people will be informed enough, then general strike, then ???, then we win” Their opinions/positions on international topics tend to be ultra and very stupid, calling AES “state capitalism” or removed socialism or whatever. etc etc

it’s a large and complicated topic but in the western world, the general idea is that trots are often very useless at best, and sabotaging at worst.

In all western countries the movements were destroyed and the only groups remaining are the ones the never posed a real threat. Those are the trots. For many reasons trots are unable to be effective. On theory they are stuck on the stalin/trotsky split and refuse to deconstruct their propagandized view of history on the USSR, leading them to make wrong analysis and to wrong strategies. On practice, this goes with their theory and the fact only the nonthreatening groups being left alive, they often don’t do much beyond a very vague “agitation”, and in many cases this is selling newspapers. They don’t have much of a revolutionary strategy beyond “we must agitate and the masses will at some point organize”, their relationship with the masses are very confused since they tend to reject concepts of the mass line, or of the actual vanguard strategy (what they think the vanguard is is often wrong).

On the ground, anyone who’s tried to do some organizing has learned to fucking hate many trots, not necessarily all of them but when there’s a group that’s sabotaging everything, creating division and splits, being ultras and calling everyone “social fascists” or stalinists or whatever, they’re trots. But that’s also because there’s often no one else.

Another joke about trots besides the newspapers is that they split as easily as they breathe, for all the reasons above, and this is really true. Something like “1 trot is a party, 2 trots is factional infighting, 3 trots is a split”.

That’s not at all why people are talking about it what the fuck? It has nothing to do with seeing the clean-up of the river as “wasteful spending”, it’s because everyone fucking hates Macron lmao.

The “clean-up of the Seine” is a recurring joke, multiple presidents and mayors of Paris have promised it over the decades and it never ends up happening, and this time as well everyone laughed and said “if we actually see him swim in it, I’ll eat my hat”.

It’s because we hate macron, and it’s because people really dislike the Olympics as well. The olympics are wasteful spending, very badly organized, and they’re going to a complete shit show to the delight of everyone outside Paris, myself included.

Oh yea i love her tweets. But sometimes it dies hurt a bit…

Halimede is a bit account by the way, it’s an account run by a transwoman doing a bit by posting like the character Halimede from a video game, said character is a lesbian chaser. Her posts are very funny but should not really be taken seriously in most cases.

Hey so macron just announced he’s dissolving the assembly, snap elections the 30th of this month

Lmao

Edit: this came as an announcement right after the european election results in france where the far right had a huge victory, i’m not really sure what his plan/strategy is, with this timing it feels like it’s going be very easy for the far-right to organize and the left is a clusterfuck right now.

Holyyyyyyyyyyy fuckiiinnnnnngggg shiiiiiiiiit you just described my life in disturbingly accurate details. Literally everything, the social aspect, the battery, the contradictions, the weird-ennui, every detail of this is EXACTLY my experience.

Fucking thank you. Wow.

Huh i thought that was genuinely very interesting, and adds a little bit of nuance to a few points of Marx in capital where “charactermaske” was translated into something else.

Hard to say which specific branch the author belongs to, most of this looks to be a pretty good analysis and explanation of the concept and its usage and evolution, doea a good job at providing different interpretations, responses and critiques while still defending the original concept in some ways.

Where it gets dodgy is towards the end, the inclusion of modern or post “Marxists” that apply it to the USSR in (what looks to to me like) unproductive ways, and fucking zizek at the end, but that might have been a more recent edit

Let’s go i got my first appointment to start HRT in like 2 weeks !!

Have not started hormones yet, but I can say castor/ricin oil works wonder on the front of my scalp. I do a full scalp mask maybe once a week, and sometimes on other nights i put a little on the temple. Lots of baby hair on the front and it can’t be the E since i haven’t started ^^

Hey i thought about this comment again and went online to check, couldn’t find much on the guy. I’ve started reading the manga recently, and his politics are certainly strange. Do you have any good sources or analysis on the political angle of the manga and author, his more personal beliefs?

GitS has always been a strange beast to me. The manga, the movies, the animes, all have different vibes and interpretations of the setting, and the political leanings vary quite a lot.

Was just listening to that a few weeks ago and commented about it to friends on discord.

Huge fan of GitS since i was a teenager, and only looked at the lyrics of this track recently. Wild.

That song makes me a sobbing mess every time, i can’t help it.

This 100% reads like AI-generated text, extremely formulaic and predictable with very surface-level facts. Lots of comparisons/analogies like “He did X, that’s like doing Y !” also. Absolutely no doubt in my mind, once you’ve seen enough GPT-like text you can spot it pretty quick.

Update, the face hurt like a motherfucker. Jeeeeesus. I was in tears by the end. It will be much easier and less painful with more sessions as there’ll be less to burn, and its worth it!! I fucking did it

In the laser clinic waiting room, a bunch of anaesthetic cream on my face under cling film that has to sit for 1-2 hours so the laser removal isn’t super painful, reading some Dance of Dialectic. Nice day overall, waiting just gives me an excuse to read. Also this place was recommended by trans friends in the area and I’m pretty sure I heard at least one, maybe two other transfems while waiting. Could be mistaken but beautiful women with beautifully deep voices at the laser clinic that’s very trans friendly, it’s likely !