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[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 8 points 6 hours ago (6 children)

Apropos of nothing and at the final hours of this week's stubsack, know that the algo started showing me a LeftistsForAI subreddit and it's just as cursed as you would imagine.

That's it. That's the post.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Oof, the brain poison is real.

Tap for spoilerMod: Nothing says revolutionary politics like voluntarily abandoning productive terrain to capital and then yelling at everyone who wants to contest it.

Organize workers? Fight over ownership? Build public and cooperative alternatives? Open source the tools? Democratize control?

No thanks. I have selected performative outrage and yelling at strangers online.

Rando: Not only that - they don't even build art coops as pushback, instead celebrate petty-burgeoise of lone commission artist. And those types have that slimy "bootstrap" mentality.

I'll do you a favor and not link it.

[–] schnoopy@awful.systems 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Capitalist: I'm gonna make a factory for feeding shit to the masses

Idiot: Comrades, we must contest the feeding-shit-to-the-masses industry by buying their shit and feeding it to ourselves.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Made me remember that I browsed r/cryptoleftists a few years ago, till I started trolling in the comments and got banned. Just checked, and the head honcho, Joshua Dávila, is still on his bullshit. Though he recently announced he is rebranding because TheBlockchainSocialist got too cringe.

PS: r/leftistsForAI isn't him I don't think. Though that would be 100% his niche.

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 2 points 3 hours ago

that's just db0 /s

i'm getting serious blockchain socialist flashbacks. how surprised would you be that he also pivoted to ai