plinky

joined 3 years ago
[–] plinky@hexbear.net 1 points 4 hours ago
[–] plinky@hexbear.net 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

p2p and hosting harassment curious-sickle not to mention how fuentes exists then?

And again viability of online peer streaming was demonstrated, a decade ago or more, the issue is finishing the damn thing (and making it popular enough, which might be a bigger hurdle)

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 4 points 5 hours ago (5 children)

He won’t obviously, cause of treatlerism and being tech averse, but he could start it

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 6 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (3 children)

I find it funny that people with financial opportunity to dodge imperial monopolies don’t, while right wingers do (see fuentes) Yes streamer with 1k subscribers can’t do shit, millionaire is a different proposition though. But i long despair at encouraging people to dodge monopolists out of spite, yes, i can’t avoid gmail at work, but i can avoid youtube at home. Every time someone says “i searched netflix or here is my spotify roundup or here is a link to instagram” i get slightly mad.

p2p streaming in baby form exists, and people with financial opportunity can force it into reality, you know

If you haven’t noticed, we are entering in american imperial order any dollar that can be rescued from usa clutches is valuable (and political streamers are roughly useless)

Tech as in software layer is the most superficial shit there is, once you get the code built, it exists, and for some indescribable reason popular leftists are all tech averse to the max and behave like normies and pay for shit costing cents

*if we are in the deepest pit of reaction and going down ever more rapidly, while our politics are unpopular or not popular enough for people to sacrifice even a modicum of comfort, the goal of a leftist is not to live alone in the woods (although viable), but to fuck profit rates everywhere we can, which, in current world, includes tech monopolies, where one person can plausibly fuck up the whole music, if they somehow get popular, but “our” popular or interesting persons are nowhere interesting enough to see that as a direction to pursue. I would gladly only link peertube video, and avoid nitter if couple more people were on mastodon, but alas

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 6 points 6 hours ago

One mr elias had a correct idea, if flawed

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 8 points 7 hours ago (15 children)

Still finances bezos, good boy

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 12 points 7 hours ago

If they don’t maintain either a strong core of supporters or go for full redistribution of responsibility, seems like it. Nobody is willing to fight protracted people’s war, if they can get a ~~golden~~ plastic cage

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 7 points 7 hours ago

Iran, fucking idiots, start to mine the straight of hormuz

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 16 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

One day you don’t put military on high alert, next thing you know your oil is sold to usa porky, the cia is establishing contacts and cuba is getting blockaded. Truly cursed world

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 2 points 7 hours ago

$Rtx bernie, in 2025: not another dollar to entity until netanyahu is gone

Why invent factoids

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 4 points 20 hours ago

it will be audio only

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 4 points 20 hours ago

but (a) there is no small fish in ai, it's either software layer of 5 techbros over existing models, or giant internet companies, who, aside from oracle and maybe nvidia are not that exposed. (b) plus gobbling up data centers of gpus, which are on the 5-10 year amortization schedule and massive ongoing spending via electricity is a little different proposition from snatching 50% priced homes, which would exist for 50 years and don't require that much maintenance. basically the firesale has to be at 90% discount, not 40% to make any sense, and would be done if anything either by dod or gulf tyrants (who won't have money cause oil should also crash at crisis)

 
 

it was here for couple of months, but some leftie twitter users are joining now. Seems like samey centralized architecture tbh, but shrug-outta-hecks

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Good episode, even a little bit too much tilted to the cultural theory of eminence (i think hired mercenaries also had something to do with italian city states)

building from ashes is shit idea from porkies, not everyone can buy depreciated assets

renaissance is 18-19th century rehistorization (although i was taught that, but culture insists otherwise)

aztec latin shenanigans

giraffes in firenze (aka medici giraffe i-cant )

macchiaveli misfortunes

 
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linky

Not a joke btw - (Snyder said that the Initiative plans to lay the foundation of "something that will endure after the war." The initiative was founded by Victor Pinchuk, a Ukrainian oligarch with close ties to former president Leonid Kuchma; Kuchma was implicated in the killing of journalist Georgy Gongadze.)

 

linky

just do democracy and some other stuff, like abandoning missile program, in exchange for sanctions relief. i wonder which undemocratic countries this applies to

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textWashington, D.C. — America’s leading maritime labor unions are calling on the Trump Administration and Congress to require that any crude oil imported from Venezuela be transported exclusively on U.S.-flag vessels crewed by American mariners, arguing such policy is essential to U.S. economic and national security interests.

“A cornerstone of an effective national maritime policy is gaining access to private, commercial cargoes that create steady demand for U.S.-flag vessels, American mariners, and the shipbuilding industrial base,” the unions wrote in a letter to senior Administration officials. The Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association (MEBA), American Maritime Officers (AMO), the International Organization of Masters, Mates and Pilots (MM&P), and the Seafarers International Union (SIU), which represent the majority of U.S. Merchant Mariners sailing in the U.S.-flag fleet, argued that aligning American foreign policy and energy needs with “Ship American” principles would strengthen the U.S. maritime workforce, reduce reliance on foreign-controlled shipping, and counter the growth of opaque “shadow fleet” tanker operations used to move sanctioned oil outside U.S. oversight.

The unions warned that current restrictions on Venezuelan oil have shifted global trade toward foreign-controlled shipping networks, including opaque “shadow fleet” tankers operating outside U.S. labor and safety standards. As a result, U.S. maritime workers and carriers are excluded from energy cargoes that could otherwise support American shipping capacity and enforcement objectives.

from https://nitter.net/UnionBustingBot/status/2010063803040575577

 
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