I don’t know. As someone that has worked for Cisco and Microsoft on both routing/switching and cloud/datacenters. I really would put my trust in a system that has been running perfectly fine for decades over anything these companies want to replace it with. There isn’t really any company in the US that doesn’t have ties to this administrations corruption.

The entire tech industry needs to be gutted and the criminals in it need to be rotting in prison before id trust anything to be done right.

I agree our infrastructure needs to be maintained and upgraded. But, holy shit, the flight industry does not need AI. It needs a massive jobs program funded by the government for training.

It’s embarrassing how obvious it was. It felt like I was back in high school listening to someone read a book report on a book they never read. The “it’s not the new stuff. It’s the old stuff” from the white house press briefing.

Dude. They essentially plugged in 100 hair dryers, turned them on at full heat, and then complained that the wiring in the house was old when the circuit breaker tripped. “It’s not the hair dryers fault!”

“All the SI smart system does is send information”

“The outage was caused by the servers being flooded with too much data”

“They aren’t connected in anyway”

They fucking ddosed themselves dude. You can’t make this shit up.

The funny thing is that from what we know; he’s not likely some “I’m gonna help China destroy the US! Muahahaha!” Kind of guy.

His public statements about trade restrictions have been very much “dude, I wanna sell more shit and make more money; China is a huge market. Wtf happened to ‘free market’ shit?”

Like, if she really was a spy he likely just got honey potted. He’s clearly known for having mistresses. Think that’s a pretty obvious open secret for anyone that knew him. And if she did convince him to be more positive towards trade with China there is literally no reason I can think that’s better than just the incentives of a CEO to make more money.

I just find it funny if China was able to obtain information, or sway opinions, from one of the most important CEOs in the USA; because that CEO was frustrated that America wasn’t allowing him to Capitalism hard enough.

Like, I hope for the US Capitalist sake that she isn’t a spy. Because it’s just pathetic if she is. The “scary communist state” of China was able to honeypot a CEO and turn him towards pro China trade by literally just appealing to “free market capitalism”. Because that’s literally all we have that is concrete from his actions or words.

China is winning in the same way it always has. Offering American capitalist the candy that they want; you can’t make this shit up.

Haha. Just a Drunken ADHD rant.

So, I’ll answer for those that don’t have a PHD in the study of fascism/rascism and the far right. You’re normal and shouldn’t have to know this.

You probably heard about MTG (Margary Taylor Green) leaving her place in the House. If you follow politics at all. Well, this and Tucker Carlson leaving Fox News would be the early adopter’s of the shift in the right we are seeing right now.

It’s the same thing that Trump actually ran on that was so appealing to the normies that started paying attention to politics when he ran. The anti war/conflicts in the middle East (not yet anti Israel in 2015), the “make America great again” shit and anti NAFTA trade policies. The “I’ll protect social security” stuff.

People forget that Trump got popular on a lot of economic talking points he never had any intentions of actually following through on. But he captured a large portion of the population that (1) didn’t understand why their kids weren’t obtaining the same success they had; and (2) had inherent rascism built into their politics because of… well, read a fucking history book.

So, MTG is an example of timing. But Tucker Carlson is the real ideologue that we can track. A real white supremacist that is constantly looking to push his agenda on any hook of populist interest. And, to his credit, he read the room better than Trump did. He’s been hooking onto the left and saying a lot of true things about Israel. But, it’s not with good intentions. He read the room and decided to get in early with a position that he saw would need to be inevitably addressed. Trump did not. That’s why he’s stuck in Iran and failing. This is a fundamental difference.

This created a small shift in the right. That was largely working to connect to the people that didn’t get what they wanted from Trump. Their lives didn’t get better. But it was a small part of the right initially. That we will see explode before the next election. They are in a transitional phase. But are still captured by these two factions of the right that are at an impasse right now.

It’s a nationalist movement that is still holding onto the xenophobic and economic populist policies that Trump lied about (focusing only on the xenophobia). And it is attempting to capture the real economic changes that the leftist movement (DSA/Mamdani) have made popular.

It is yet to be seen, but, the upcoming presidential elections will likely be fought on the right trying to convince the population that the xenophobia and anti Israel position is “more pure” on the right than the left. The leftist politicians will be filtered by attempting to appeal to a center that does not exist. And their lack of ability to engage in class based politics will give the right wingers (following Tucker Carlson’s lead) the advantage in their lies. And, if we allow the liberal zionist to maintain control within electoral politics within the Democratic party; we on the left will lose that fight.

The “Tucker Carlson” wing of true white supremacist fascism will outweigh the good intentions of the liberals that cannot call out the class structures as the core problem.

The larger population will fall for the truths that the fascisg speak with no intention of addressing. And this time; it won’t be an incompetent old TV show host in power. It will be a competent and capable white supremacist like Tucker Carlson (or whatever puppet they put in to run) that will be more interested using their position of power to do more than just enrich themselves. They will be an actual ideologue (see Stephen Miller) that will know exactly how to direct the anger of the masses, and their worsening material conditions, towards the perfect scapegoat of whatever minority group is the best target.

That is IF there is not already a mutiny brewing within the Trump admin. That the fascist ideologues are not already looking to maintain power before the next elections. This will depend on their confidence; and, the interest of the capitalist class that looks to maintain their hold over the economy.

We will see. But that’s my explanation of what is happening on ‘the right’ right now. I’d appreciate any criticism of the analysis.

Tons is left out. Nick Fuentes, Epstein, etc. But, that’s more of a 202 class in your second year in these studies. I’ll leave it alone for now.

Agreed. The people that respond to a comment with thought terminating cliches, instead of any real criticism, they are definitely at the top of the list of people that shouldn’t be teaching the next generation.

I’ll be happy when the devs implement the new Woke 2.0 features and remove the unnecessary preamble to any joke about a fascist that would be mean if it was about a good person that shares only the surface level physical traits.

Like, we’re all adults. I think we can stop doing the direct announcements of privilege, the footnotes, etc.

Like, I’m autistic in many ways. You’d think I’d be the kind of person that likes all these clear and direct types of rules around social conduct. But, they feel like they overwhelm the entire purpose of what they are trying to achieve (in theory). And they just make progressive circles feel like a place where we are just focusing on who knows all the rules and who has the most credit around following them.

To the point of your comment. I really want to get to the point that we can make a joke about the physical characteristics of a fucking Nazi and not have to have a comment explaining “this would be bad if we were mocking someone in this way that was a good person…”

I’m not criticizing your comment. It’s obviously something everyone is relating to. And you’re right.

I just wanna move beyond the point where so much of the space of the left has to have its discussion covered in preambles to avoid the annoying radical liberals that love to define certain jokes as absolute bigotry and rob them of all context and the position of power (or lack thereof)

And it’s always done only when the target is a right wing bigot themselves. It’s a means of showing how “moral” they are. The “I’ll defend them by principal” even though they are my enemy liberal thought. It has no material understanding of what “punching up” means in comedy.

I’m done with that shit. It doesn’t help the left in any material way. And it literally just serves as a means for fascist to use liberalism and identity to defend those in positions of power.

Stop calling out leftist. Call them “in” through a one on one conversation if they are crossing a line. But stop making it the point of the entire space. The point of the larger leftist movement is not in building seperate safe spaces. The point is to gain POWER to address the material conditions that create the need for safe spaces in the first place.

I ranted enough. But, I’d say this type of thought is dying. And it died because of the contradiction that was introduced so bluntly by the politicians that supported a genocide constantly telling us that anti-zionism was anti-semitism.

True. I think that’s about a quarter of the dram produced. Though it could be used in public sector research and not just thrown away.

Astronomy and Biology research benefit from AI image analysis models. Because it’s not just generating slop text. It’s used to analyze image data to find potential points of interest. Reducing an impossible number of raw data points (stars, cells, etc) down to a manageable number that can be analyzed and confirmed by an actual human.

This isn’t the “AI” people talk about when they say “AI”. It was just called “machine learning with computer vision models” before all the AI marketing crap.

The more the establishment fails and the more they fight DSA the better. We are in the “blue hopium” phase right now. Trying to let the libs get there on their own. I am confident the establishment Democrats will continue to betray the American people and give no accountability for the crimes of the Trump administration. Which, is not necessarily bad as long as the socialist we elect stand strong against them and don’t make compromises to obtain minor improvements. It will taint their reputation and the movement if they do.

The Democrats are already talking about “moving forward” and saying the American people don’t want retribution. Not even the most “vote blue no matter who” liberals I know agree with that. They want to see fucking heads roll. So, the Democrats are already doing it. They are already showing how weak they are in their strongest hour.

If DSA politicians are blocked it just shows the failures of the existing Democrats more and builds momentum for 2028.

If DSA politicians betray the movement; we’re gonna have to do the work to keep the movement going outside of electoral politics. Because if we don’t maintain this momentum we could lose to a Tucker Carlson style fascist that is actually competent in the white house. And the electoral portion of building class consciousness will be impossible by the time they take power. The next two years will be about preparing for both scenarios and directing our messaging based on the changing conditions.

It might be cheaper to buy the server CPUs and motherboards. But, capitalism doesn’t really do that. They’ll throw it all in a landfill before they would resell it. There is no profit in repacking it when it would just flood the market with pennies on the dollar RAM. It’s so fucking infuriating that we live in a world where throwing shit in a landfill is the solution to overproduction. Instead of people just having useful shit.

It’s annoying that news networks don’t show videos from things that happen on other news networks. I feel like that’s literally the definition of fair use. But, it’s definitely why they don’t. I think it’s more of an industry standard to not though.

But, it’s the worst case, because they don’t even link to to the source. They just write about a video. I feel your frustration.

Dude is behind on the grift. Tucker Carlson and MTG were way ahead of it. The obvious grift right now is to pretend that Trump betrayed the movement and that the real America First people were just the countless people that supported Trump until it became unpopular to do so.

It’s really easy, you just point to all the shit he lied about, that you defended previously, and now acknowledge it as a lie. Protecting social security, bringing back manufacturing, ending wars, etc. Just revert back to the shit he lied about and pretend you’re for those things. Easy.

Oh, and make sure to point to the DSA candidates as the “real grifters” that are just lying. And ignore Mamdani. Just don’t talk about him.

And does not support Medicare for all. Dude is just Haley Stevens with charisma and better PR.

Want to say something about the topic I’m actually discussing?

You’re engaging in class reductionism. The main reason is of course her socialist identity. But, to ignore that she is a black woman from the south would be like ignoring the attacks on Abdul for being Muslim (from both parties).

A black socialist woman is significantly more dangerous to the Democratic party as their core voting base in the south is comprised of lifelong democratic black voters that they are trying to distance from DSA. “DSA is all privileged white people” you hear both parties regurgitate. They clearly see her as threat that will push a large part of their base further left.

It’s ok to analyze incentives through intersectionality. The Democratic party establishment is. They are just using it to keep power. Don’t ignore it because the main reason they are against her is because of her socialist policies. That doesn’t mean there isn’t multi things that are a threat from her, because of her identity, that introduce contradictions to their existing narratives.

Edit: This is not to say that black voters aren’t extremely more left than the average American on average, they are. But, a large portion of the base of the democratic party, those that vote in primaries, are more likely to vote for the parties pick than an insurgent DSA candidate. A black woman from DSA contradictions their entire narrative. Ignoring that is ignoring how they are attempting to use identity politics to attack socialism.

The polling in Florida was not 13 points. And there was significant evidence that a cash infusion from Bernie had helped to close the gap even further.

This isn’t a “in hindsight” kind of thing. The Democratic party had plenty of opportunities and evidence to show that funding was leading to a winnable race. Even more so than places that they DID fund and ended up losing/winning as well.

I’m sorry. But you were not paying attention to Florida and Nixon if you think there wasn’t a deliberate bias against a black woman and DSA member. They abandoned her because they did not want her to win. They did not want an example of a leftist winning in the South. They want to continue to run establishment figures that are against Medicare for all; like Jon Ossof. Don’t fall for their lies.

They lose either way though. Because she nearly won and didn’t get their support. Now we’re gonna run her again in two years and by then we hopefully won’t need any of their funds.

The great thing about this election is that it was a special election. She can literally run again in two years since the term ends. And she absolutely should. As more DSA politicians gain national popularity like Mamdani and Abdul (not DSA but is very much associated with them), she will have a lot more support. And there are a lot of House members that can promote DSA from DC.

The next two years are about building the power and funding of the DSA so the Democratic party is less of an issue and a dependence. And we need AoC for that funding and national popularity. The DSA needs to understand that opportunity. That we need to be within the foundation of her campaign. So when the time comes for 2028 these candidates are further less dependent on establishment and a frontrunner for the presidential primary has DSA as its foundation. And DSA isn’t chasing her and pressuring policy from the outside.

We want less money and influence coming from the Democratic Establishment and more coming from building an independent insurgency that operates within the Democratic party until we are either forced out, or are popular enough that the “default to Democrat” vote of a lot of the country is no longer a massive hurdle.

I don’t think we will be able to run as a separate party by 2028. But, we (DSA) need to start operating like we are.

Not knowledgeable on a topic? Leave it to the people you trust most.

That’s not what people do.

But if certain policies are interesting it should be possible to intervene at will.

No, it shouldn’t. I can find vaccines “interesting”. I shouldn’t have a say in whether a new vaccine is safe or not. That decision should be left to experts in that field.

I don’t lack imagination. You are lacking any understanding of how policy is created and how governments function.

It’s such a stupid idea that I’ve heard this “app based direct democracy” multiple times from the dumbest fucking guys at bars. This is the equivalent of “we just need crypto” solution to problems with banking a capital. Ironically, if we had this type of direct democracy, you’d have the most popular policies be more and more dumb “easy to understand” solutions like the one you are presenting.

Far too optimistic. The election is a step in the right direction. But, the majority of the democratic party is still trying to return to a pre Trump era. They have no intention of actually holding this admin accountable. No more than Obama did for Bush. Not beyond what is beneficial to them without destroying the structures that protect them too.

Washington doesn’t bother hiding it’s crimes. That like saying that the Mafia boss hide his crimes from his family. It is a mutually beneficial relationship that will never allow full truths to be told. And will never let the criminals be prosecuted without being made “whole”.

We have some real good people infiltrating it. Don’t get me wrong. But, it is a step in understanding the larger problem for all. It is far from just the one side “hiding their crimes”. It is a system that allows them not to even have to hide them in the first place.

Sounds like an awful idea. Direct democracy on specific policies is a fucking nightmare. I want actually informed and knowledgeable people making decisions on shit.

Yeah, sounds great in theory if everyone was as autistic as I am. But I don’t want policies on healthcare and vaccines being decided on by the average uninformed click of some average idiot with a smartphone app.

“Ask the audience” works until you have a question that requires actual expertise.

I get your frustration with capital corruption and influence. But you’re not thinking this through.