Sashin

I'm so pissed at the fact that they've seemingly successfully manufactured consent to force everyone to spend most of their lives working for them under threat of homelessnes, starvation and death. The world doesn't need to be this way.

People jump straight from "there is no problem" to "the problem is unsolvable". These are magnetic viewpoints, both are compatible with not doing anything, not changing one's behaviours, not fighting.

I want to live in a world where no one has to compete with anyone else in order to live. A world where it is obvious to everyone that everyone can and should be housed clothed and fed.

Beyond explicit anti-LLM policies, I want to see more explicit anti-fascist policies.

RE: https://newsie.social/@TheNeedling/117290024708643957 The AI gets superhuman intelligence by making everyone dumber and thus lowering the bar for what superhuman intelligence even means.

Is there a nice list of actively anti-fascist, anti-AI software projects somewhere?

Just viewing all corporations and governments as straight-up evil is probably going to get you closer to reality than trying te be nuanced about it.

I'm pretty sure all wealthy and powerful people have their wealth and power thanks to some combination of being lucky and being evil.

Our constraints are not brought forth from scarcity, but rather authority.

If we had a meaningful UBI, then everyone's basic needs would be guaranteed. We would be able to take our survival for granted. This would drastically reduce the power of money and therefore the power of the wealthy. If a person felt like they were being exploited, they weren't being respected, they weren't getting a fair deal, they could simply quit. The leverage that workers would have would be increased hugely. This is not something that I could see them allowing at all. The ruling class will fight tooth and nail to preserve their power and privilige. If we have the bargaining power such that a UBI is on the table, the reason the wealthy (and the politicians they own) would accept it, is because they feel that the alternate is revolution - which would mean that they completely lose their power and legitimacy. In that case, we should choose revolution. It comes back to that Assata Shakur quote: "Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them."

@nihilistnomya@aus.social I feel like there was a good chance they made other customers uncomfortable as well.

Work-life balance is a way of saying "balancing the things that you are forced to do under the implicit threat of homelessness and starvation, with the things that you would like to do".

@carapace@mastodon.social This sounds just like Turing Complete!

What we call corruption, is not at all a corruption of the system but the system working as intended. Constant corruption, constant collusion, constant betrayal, constant lying are all required to reproduce the hierarchies that we see in the world.

Poverty is not natural but rather coerced into existence, it is reproduced and maintained by continually sabotaging people's self-determination, their ability to get by as is.

What do you think about vegans?

RE: https://framapiaf.org/@ldubost/116868542996934731 The "takers" here are taking back their own lives from the monsters that call themselves makers.

@timnitGebru@dair-community.social I think it would be good to edit the first post in this thread to fix this typo. Since we would be able to see it was edited along with the previous versions, I don't think it would be deceptive.

They make the things we need (food, shelter, medical care, education) scarce, so that they can make the thing they want (exploitable labour) abundant.

(rambling about #languageLearning, might be nonsense beware) I think there's a trade off everyone needs to make when they learn a language, that they don't realise they need to make. They have to decide how much they value pronunciation - generally at the outset. The reason is because, if we develop an accent, it would take a lot more work to correct it than if we learn to pronounce properly from the outset. Having a lot of deeply ingrained "bad" habits, is harder to work with than a blank slate. I see two paths, a person that from the outset is at complete peace with the prospect of sounding like a foreigner, and they do a lot more output from the start and don't learn about pronunciation or try too hard to get specific feedback on pronunciation. This person will get comfortable and fluent much quicker, I would imagine but they'll sound distinctly like a foreigner (which they may have literally no problem with). In their minds, they won't realise it, but they'll very likely be converting the language they've learned into the phonemes of their mother tongue very quickly. Getting better, in some sense will be, converting the sounds from the language you're learning to the sounds of your mother tongue quickly. Another path is where you delay output until you can hear very well, and have an explicit focus on pronunciation. You use a lot of time and energy that could go into just speaking and using the language to really familiarise yourself with how it sounds. You get feedback on how you are pronouncing things with a teacher and really try to get it right. Learners of a language make lots and lots of mistakes, if you insist with a teacher that they prioritise pronunciation, then you will 100% miss out on other feedback. We make too many mistakes to get corrections on everything, so teachers have to pick and choose what feels the most off to them, what's the most salient. I'd imagine focusing on pronunciation and getting intimately familiar with how a language sounds from the outset would add a lot more work, but when its done it'll be easier to parse the language, especially mumbles, slurred or fast speech. Even though I'm using the word "pronunciation" hear, I mean something like getting very familiar with how a language sounds, and pronunciation will affect perception. It's very likely that pronunciation mistakes people make, map on to perceptual blindspots - that they aren't hearing the language effectively. However, you can't get proper feedback on how you are perceiving a language directly, because a teacher can't see into your mind. Working on your pronunciation is the only way. Neither choice is *better* I think, it's just that it's a decision people make and commit to without realising that's what they are doing. Practice doesn't make perfect, practice makes permanent. It's not repetition itself, but repetition with feedback loops that leads to improvement. If you repeat the wrong pronunciation over and over again, without any feedback, you'll only engrain the habit of pronouncing things this way. It might make sense to decide you are okay with this, but most people don't knowingly decide this.

@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social Would it make sense for Firefox forks to base on this if and when you complete it?

@futurebird@sauropods.win What's a gaster?

@ivor@social.ivor.org @davidgerard@circumstances.run burnnnn

@CStamp@mastodon.social rice is part art of my culture

@Hex@kolektiva.social Thanks, this is already helpful and clarifying. I'll go through the links.

@GeePawHill@mastodon.social @grimalkina@mastodon.social I played a demo of this game over and over again as a kid!

RE: https://mastodon.nz/@cestfleuve/116854277521545603 Money is fake news. It's printed by the central bank to meet the budget. It's not the real constraint, labour, expertise and natural resources are. Politicians use it as an excuse not to engage in any pro-social spending (as it will definitely hurt the ruling class). When it comes to starting new wars (which greatly benefit the ruling class), they magically find the "money". I want Modern Monetary Theory to become common knowledge, and for us to completely lose the sense that financial constraints exist at the level of the state or society as a whole. They have used this lie for so long it is about time it wore out. Money is nothing more than permission from the ruling class.

@yukijoou@fedi.kemonomimi.gay @davidgerard@circumstances.run @navi@social.vlhl.dev I'll buy from you if you do. I am in the awkward position of wanting this to be my forever laptop yet not wanting to support Framework.

@davidgerard@circumstances.run Is this Mullvad? Or did something else happen since?

@pacific06@mastodon.social @econetwork@mas.to They look great!

RE: https://digitalcourage.social/@lethe/116824017377196328 Explicitly taking a stance against facism and bigotry should be the bare minimum we expect.

@cmconseils@mastodon.social okay, this is good

@DGI@graeber.social So is this a quote from Graeber? (If so where was it from)

@WeirdWriter@caneandable.social My portfolio is here: https://sashin.dev I don't have Shopify knowledge specifically but I am confident I'll have no problem learning it.

@thorcik@mastodon.com.pl @catsalad@infosec.exchange I think it's an imposter

@wdlindsy@toad.social @jab01701mid@mastodon.social @claushoumann@mastodon.social I recommend using fedi.garden to pick a server over joinig a large one like that.

RE: https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/115710439198541031 This is put really well, people that enjoy being cruel to others, don't make friends, they make accomplices.

@LRRRonEarth@beige.party There's still the chance Mitch dies by day's end!

@donni@mastodon.social it's one way of living well

@ploopy@mastodon.social how does this compare with a touchpad? I imagine its more precise but more taxing to use?

How do people feel about using a japanese style keyboard for English? It feels slow and clunky to me but it is plausible that I am just not used to it and need to build the muscle memory.

@Hex@kolektiva.social Wait, but how do we build the new world?

@yaxu@post.lurk.org We have to do it anyway and point to the fact that the association is a non-sequitor.

@thesaigoneer what's dwm?

There should be a browser that aims to have the minimum updates required to be secure, stable and up-to-date with web standards.