Actually existing socialism will never be good enough because building a new economic system while the Empire tries to stamp it out is hard and inevitably it won’t be perfect, and if there are problems then it wasn’t worth trying and we should just go back under the boot of capitalism and be grateful it’s such a great boot that stomps on us.

I got a shirt for you.

When the picture is tiny, it looks like Karl is wearing sunglasses. I kind of want to give him some cool shades now.

those in power cannot be imprisoned.

This just sounds like business as usual.

I can see a continued/exacerbated erosion of faith in various institutions, and a corresponding use of state violence to maintain the status quo, but without a serious (well organized, with mass support) alternative, the current ruling class will stay in power and nothing will change dramatically. We’ll just continue along the downward spiral, same as before.

So when the US “neutralized a Venezuelan tanker”, that wasn’t an escalation, but now when Maduro takes measures to prevent this happening again, now it’s a “significant escalation”??

Despite the fact that Russia has been 0% red for the past 35 years or so.

Software as a disservice.

Your computer won’t even be a computer, just a display with an Internet connection to a data centre.

Boggles the mind that people still call this a democracy.

We should really know better by now…

So I checked the totals from Elections Ontario, and the PCP got 2,159,060 votes, or 43%, which obviously shouldn’t allow the party to do whatever they want with no accountability, but the population of Ontario (2025 estimate) is 16,258,260.

So only 13% of the province actually voted for this doofus!

I’m not buying it, it’s just marketing. We know what these models are, and they’re not sentient, they’re just fancy auto-complete machines.

Anthropic set up the situation to get the results they wanted, to make their bot sound super smart. The whole thing is extremely hypothetical.

Note how much they talk about Claude; I ctrl+F’d, Claude is mentioned 55 times, GPT 4 times, and Gemini just 2.

Yea, probably… That, or they’ll blockade the St Lawrence and starve them out.

Wow, and I thought the nobel one was worthless.

Perhaps the island of Montreal could hold out as a revolutionary enclave against the facist theocracy.

Have they even presented any evidence whatsoever that there were drugs on these boats?

The media keeps saying “suspected drug boats”, which makes it sound like they actually kind of care who they’re murdering, but I’m not convinced that’s the case. Maybe “imagined drug boats” would be more apt.

The attack began with an airburst munition exploding above the vessel and killing nine crew members. The two men who survived were then visible floating in the water.

So, there were eleven people on this small boat. Why the fuck would you have 11 people on a smuggling boat? No, this is just a random terrorist attack, perpetrated by the notorious terrorist organization know as “the US military”.

I did! There is an incredible amount of stuff going on. I love the dramatic lighting shots too, they really bring out the “nightmare” feeling.

This is completely insane, I love it.

I’ve just convinced my mum to give Linux a go too 😊

She’s getting an SSD out of the deal too, so it’ll be a sweet upgrade.

…or just liquidate the company’s assets outright.

Dooooo it