The UAE being attacked the most paints their most recent comments that Iran is isolating itself in a new light.

It’s pretty incredible how widespread Iran attacked immediately, it really gave the feeling that they were planning on this from the get go. Especially considering what happened last time when it felt like they were slow to respond.

It clicks a lot of things into place for me tbh. Incredible revelation though. Epstein =q? /sarcasm

I figured in a generational or so, some other international framework would subsumed the UN. Maybe it’ll be faster than that. I didn’t realize they’re in such dire financial straits

If that’s your conclusion then you were never equipped to have this conversation in the first place. I’m sure somebody will be willing to explain it to you, but I’m not.

This is the last time I will reply to you because it doesn’t seem like anything anyone is saying about his behavior is resonating with you. You believe he’s not, but we have provided proof that he is multiple times to the point that he became hostile. It shows a lack of respect for queer, trans, and intersex comrades for you to be repeatedly shown proof and then turn around and say he’s not. You didn’t write those words, we didn’t write those words, he did - and this is one of the last corners of the internet where we can exist without our existence being called into question with no consequences. If I recall, this isn’t the first time you’ve asked. I’m asking you to respect that he caused harm to this community and unless he does self-crit and grows (which he hasn’t), you shouldn’t expect him to be welcomed back.

I’m sorry, but saying he wasn’t queerphobic around you does not address the issue when you were just presented with a litany of examples of a pattern of behavior over time. We don’t know you, we don’t know your ability to address or identify queerphobia, and we have experienced a very different person from the one you described as articulated in the many queerphobic things he has said that have been linked here.

It’s not that I don’t feel bad for someone having a mental crisis. It’s very serious and he should get help. But that’s also not a good reason to let him back into a community in which he has caused harm, especially when there’s no discernible proof of him having grown and learned from the harm he has caused.

Kirby talked down to me while spouting men’s rights talking points and also denied ever saying anything transphobic in the same thread. Considering the fact that he didn’t tell you anything about his ban I doubt he has reflected even in the slightest about it. I am personally not comfortable having him back, because he seemed to take it upon himself to take over every thread at the time that was about queerness or sexism, choking out the possibility for anyone learning or understanding about them while at the same time making it unsafe for queer and femme comrades. Can you honestly tell me that he wouldn’t do that again?

There are a couple comrades on this thread who have said that they would be fine with having him back, and while I usually appreciate their analysis, I am a bit skeptical of their seriousness to combat transphobia as a result.

https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/6820805

The most glaring contradiction here being that these LLMs are trained in the third world for shitty pay to begin with.

Couple that with the exponential cost of resources for how they currently work & it will create an acute crisis shortly down the line. They just can’t sustain the resources of powering it while also trying to wedge it into every single crevice of their current infrastructure lol

That is so exciting! I still viscerally remember what it was like when I started. Looking back now it’s so cute & I’mvery proud of myseld for taking the plunge. It sounds like you’re setting up a good foundation for yourself.

You certainly will! I’m catching up on your journey rn

I got my name changed last week as some of you know & tomorrow is my bay! Big year for me tbh. Big moves in the career dept & i feel much better about the direction my life is going. Happy new year’s y’all!

I got my name officially changed this week. Very big news for me.

And thanks for the quote from Frome, I haven’t read that essay for a while & will probably take a look again.

Dialectical materialism. Though stagism is a thing, enough quantiative changes will lead to abrupt qualitative changes.

I agree, but I’m also talking about the entire world here where the majority is still existing in the capitalist mode of production. Do I think it will be faster this century compared to last? Yes. Do I think it will be faster than the transition from feudalism to capitalism? Yes. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that it won’t take a long time from the perspective of an individual.

I have had a hard time articulating in the past why when people whine about China “stealing tech” it makes me feel icky. In this respect, if one thinks that any of this technology should be available to everyone, this is the only option. Western companies & states have proven time & time again their mode of distribution will only provide these technologies to the richest segment of the global population.

From a class perspective, this is a dictatorship of the proletariat waging war on the bourgeois mode of economics - the legal methods being used on behalf of the bourgeois being “intellectual property theft” & large monetary penalties in an attempt to redistribute wealth to the bourgeois. Export controls are also used to restrict the supply chain, but it seems that China has figured out ways around that. Their ability to shield an engineer from nearly a $1b fine from Western countries shows that their state apparatus is strong enough to stand up to Western economic attacks. Pretty impressive.

I’m not sure! I haven’t seen any posting about this but I’m guessing it was a while ago

What i find most ironic is the seemingly pervasive idea that they could still win the war if the US just supported them. Which would have been proven true long ago if it were true at all.

Liberals on bluesky are having an absolute fucking meltdown right now, it’s incredible & annoying to watch

Agreed. Interestingly it seems to me that decolonial movements AND American imperialist pressure have cornered Europe into turning to green energy. I have found it incredibly ironic the past couple years that they’ve been celebrating reductions in emissions when it’s mostly a symptom of deindustrialization due to energy supplies being cut off.

Exactly. The US is shifting a lot right now, no wonder it’s so chaotic