mmm I did enjoy ‘a short history of nearly everything’ by bill bryson, i found its scientific info tying geology to our understanding of modern science rather interesting, without going into the harari’s zionist pro tyranny bs in the other book.

Sapiens was one of the most annoying and vapid books I’ve ever read

the company i work for which is 90% white collar office workers and 10% blue collar workers keeps trying to get us to use Copilot. as one of the blue collar workers, it has very limited use. like someone else said, it can be used basically as an advanced search engine, but even the results for say, the specs of an old piece of equipment and how to repair are suspect.

when I am very bored at work I try and quiz it or think of ways to make it more useful to my job to save time, but all the suggestions it gives basically involve pointless entry of data that is basically just busywork in my eyes with little payoff. it doesn’t even seem to be able to properly analyze emails, which I thought perhaps it would be useful to summarize a few months of emails and point out the most important points, but it cannot seem to do this for the life of me, and continually suggests ways that do not work, or are a ton of literally copying the text of all emails and putting them into a document or something like that.

i do not see ai or robotics being able to replace my job within my lifetime

can it actually pull info from emails? everytime i try to do that it totally fails, hallucinates, or suggests i try something that it actually can’t do. the most it can seem to do is a sum a single email or thread, and the amount of time it takes to do that i could just read the thread myself…

“support” isn’t really the right word, seeing as he is long dead and so is the USSR. Even the Cosmonaut guys, who aren’t really MLs after like an 8 hour long discussion on the topic of Stalin and his life came to the conclusion that he made mistakes, did good stuff, and anyone else would be hard pressed to do any better in his shoes considering the circumstances. a better phrase would be to understand Stalin and his contributions, and not buy into all the lib/nazi bs about his life.

Freedom ain’t not free!

that’s funny, i don’t really get why it’s so difficult

Sort of related, I remember someone posted a prompt to use with an LLM essentially ordering it use dialectical materialism and to avoid capitalist neutrality among other things. Deepseek, Qwen, Z.Ai and others all agreed to the instructions. Kimi was the only one to push back saying it wouldn’t agree to the instructions, which I found kind of interesting.

Not really sure what you’re getting at. I’m not American. I see these clowns online and they are getting more attention than established legitimate groups. F 'em.

I don’t agree. They are distorters of Marxism and they are deceiving legitimate comrades and giving Communists a bad name.

incel khmer rouge incoming

I wouldn’t doubt it if some of their members are viewing this thread right now and are calling us reactionaries or feds. They also seem to be making inroads on twitter and IG, stay informed and aware to call them out, comrades.

I think this is generally understood what OP is talking about, America is not a real country/nation but rather a capitalist behemoth. The difference is between proletarian and reactionary nationalism.

Finished the Jakarta Method. Very eye opening, the worldwide connections between Indonesia and Brazil/Chile. Now I’m trying to re-read Capital, and also listening to an audiobook of the Divine Comedy, very amusing. Also, the Lemmygrad Study Group selection “Blood in my Eye” by George Jackson. I was really inspired by reading Soledad Brother last year, and this is cementing those feelings from last year.

yes

Finally got around to listening to the audiobook of the Jakarta Method. It seems the moral of the story is… if you want peace, prepare for war, don’t go quietly.

sort of. commercial building operator.

entering a home or commercial/retail building and noticing everything that needs to be fixed or maintained, listening for running water around fixtures, etc.

but was he sharing folders and were the tunes any good?

Yes, that is true. I don’t discount that many American citizens are attempting to influence our politics in Canada, but I just find it a bit absurd to put it on par with all the criminal coups and murderous stuff America has done in most of all the other countries in the original map.