🏴‍☠️ 𝕰𝖎𝖗𝖎𝖓𝖓 🏴‍☠️

‣ Libertarian/Post-Leftist
‣ Irish Republican
‣ Egoist
‣ Atheist
‣ Pirate
— Digital Rights
— Open Source
— Open Access
— Copyright/Trademark Reform
— Right to Privacy
‣ Anti-AI
‣ Lazy Writer & Blogger
‣ Aspiring Artist
‣ Lost/Obscure Media Hunter

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Last Notes

2024-08-05 05:20:39 GMT

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Honestly, it's the dominance of these state capitalist authoritarian apologists in Marxist communities that has made me deliberately distance myself from Marxism and look into left alternatives instead (like Bakunin and Proudhon, whom Marx held fiery contempt for).

2024-07-02 18:07:33 GMT

Those on the Irish far-left, who are now coming out of the woodwork 48 hours from a huge General Election with a full-scale campaign of anti-Sinn Féin propaganda, are merely demonstrating why the left here is ill-equipped to unite against the growing threat of the far-right domestically and abroad.
Other than SF there are no alternatives to the neoliberal madness of FF and FG in the Republic or the unhinged unionism of the DUP, UUP and TUV in the north.
Use some fuckin' nuance for once.

2024-06-26 21:22:44 GMT

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When tankies tell you to "read theory" they really just mean to read it until you arrive to the exact same conclusions they did and don't ask any questions afterwards.

2024-06-26 21:11:59 GMT

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I genuinely just saw this in action. Someone suggested they go read a serious anarchist text and all they had in response was claiming Mein Kampf and The Doctrine of Fascism.
Nobody tell them there was a point in time where Hitler and Mussolini were friendly with Stalin and vouched for the Soviet Union to become part of the Axis.

2024-06-26 08:36:07 GMT

T̶a̶n̶k̶i̶e̶s̶ d̶o̶n̶'t̶ w̶a̶n̶t̶ p̶r̶o̶p̶e̶r̶ e̶l̶e̶c̶t̶o̶r̶a̶l̶ d̶e̶m̶o̶c̶r̶a̶c̶y̶ i̶n̶ t̶h̶e̶i̶r̶ s̶t̶a̶t̶e̶ c̶a̶p̶i̶t̶a̶l̶i̶s̶t̶ d̶a̶r̶l̶i̶n̶g̶ n̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶s̶ b̶e̶c̶a̶u̶s̶e̶ i̶t̶ w̶o̶u̶l̶d̶ s̶h̶a̶t̶t̶e̶r̶ t̶h̶e̶i̶r̶ d̶e̶l̶u̶s̶i̶o̶n̶ o̶f̶ h̶o̶w̶ p̶o̶p̶u̶l̶a̶r̶ t̶h̶e̶y̶ t̶h̶i̶n̶k̶ t̶h̶e̶i̶r̶ d̶a̶r̶l̶i̶n̶g̶s̶ a̶c̶t̶u̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ a̶r̶e̶ a̶m̶o̶n̶g̶s̶t̶ i̶t̶s̶ c̶i̶t̶i̶z̶e̶n̶s̶, t̶h̶u̶s̶ a̶n̶y̶o̶n̶e̶ c̶a̶l̶l̶i̶n̶g̶ f̶o̶r̶ d̶e̶m̶o̶c̶r̶a̶c̶y̶ t̶h̶e̶r̶e̶ a̶r̶e̶ F̶A̶S̶C̶I̶S̶T̶S̶!̶!̶!̶!̶
ELECTIONS ARE EASILY RIGGED BY CIA, YOU FASCIST LIB!11!1!!!!!
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2024-06-25 19:23:38 GMT

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Is that guy still making like 600 videos per day about Brie Larsen?

2024-06-25 13:40:36 GMT

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Agreed. Just look at Hollywood's attitude towards AI during the SAG-AFTRA strikes last year. They were absolutely considering replacing real actors with artificial copies rather than heeding industry strikers' concerns about AI amidst other labor issues.

2024-06-25 13:30:39 GMT

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Mind you, I'm still opposed to the "rah rah copyright protection rah rah" reasoning, I view AI as a crucial ethical issue when it comes to art in general, and must be kept completely separate from all that is produced by humans.
I don't disagree that AI could have use in other areas, but am all in favour of preventing the further bastardisation of creative industries with artificial slop by any means necessary.

2024-06-25 13:11:37 GMT

Never thought I'd be on the side of big record labels, but alas... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckrrr8yelzvo

2024-06-22 04:38:17 GMT

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What are some sites for news and such from a left/DemSoc perspective?