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This is bullshit and not how pro-Israel influence in US politics works. Kirk was broadly accepted by the republican mainstream and didn't stray too far from the party line. In fact he was for a while harrassed by Groypers in part because he refused to adopt bald-faced anti-semitism into his rethoric. This theory might well have originated in those circles.

Niedrig-stufiges Freud Meme. Man benötigt nicht mal Wissen obskurer psychoanalytischer Theorie um es zu checken. Komm auf mein Stockwerk: https://feddit.org/post/18456127

Ah fuck, they're also funding {ungeskripted}. He's a way too big german "free speech" type podcaster. I've got him on my shitlist recently, after wonky BSW-type supposed leftists were sharing his clips in a political group chat.

Haven't heard bad stuff about mailbox.org (Heinlein Group) yet.

This guy clearly has some deep thoughts to air out...

The middle class individual, the petty bourgeois, yearns for the righteousness of the proletariat, and avoids coming to terms with their own privileged status. That status frequently precludes them from making moral, ethical decisions, because their fleeting privileges and narrow expertise makes it difficult and dangerous for them to fall out of line [...].

Once you accept that you can begin to think about how to overcome that.

Or you may choose to ignore that and pretend they're just blue collar workers and the very obvious tendencies they display are just because they're temporarily deceived or lack class consciousness. No, they understand who they are, and yearning for proletariat righteousness is part of that understanding. It's one component of a discourse of merit and authenticity, of rationalising their distinct social status.

https://sunny.garden/@librarysquirrel/117185341657385932

Honestly, it reads like a massive self-report, as it's coming from a straight-from-uni second-year history PhD. Oh, you've noticed people tend to talk more about things that make them sound righteous rather than complicit? Probably also from people in your field. But it surely doesn't affect you, as you're so aware of the problem and working on being one of the good ones.

Yes we are. Bitches (a.k.a. my wife) be thirsting for this dad bod.

I like the notion of pulling together people who are alienated by AI (or late-stage capitalism bullshit in general). I really have an indie web project to launch, once I've scored a new job, which sounds more unlikely than ever after this read.

Shame noone mentioned Gram. Seems like it really deserves the attention.

I think I'll take my clues and abandon my attempts to build up a nvim/vim config. All I want is decent modal editing and LSP support without having to descend into plugin hell. Gram might do that for me.

I just don't think they're smart enough to make a dent in an actually competitive industry, no matter how much espionage they got.

They may throw some cash around and buy their way into a niche field that actually has a business model, but I don't see how the espionage potential would help them much. To break into a difficult domain based on that, you would need the smart humans who can tell you what you are looking at.

Maybe it would be possible if you assume competent shady management, that is willing to invest heavily in human capital and systematically violate every privacy policy in the world. I think that's just not how they operate.

I think we have already seen what direct replacement by AI companies looks like, and it's not pretty. Want an image for an ad but you're too cheap for a designer? There's a chatbot for that. Want to represent yourself in court? There's a chatbot for that. Slopplications of that sort did capture some demand for services, hardest felt by writers/graphic designers because you can more easily get away with a steep drop in quality there (for a little while).

I don't believe a takeover of that sort can happen in more sophisticated cases. Critical knowledge in SW (speaking from my wheelhouse) isn't some guarded secret-burger-sauce-recipe kind of knowledge. It's vast amounts of knowledge, organized and made actionable through effort and built-up skills. It's not knowledge they would have to replicate, it's labour. And I don't think they can privacy-violation their way to replicate a domain-specific knowledge worker from a chat history.

Wow, no upvotes. None of you did, then? Shame, it really holds up well. And you will get my previous comment.

(DM me if you need access.)

So, who else did rewatch Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World recently?