Rather than “cryptocommunist” or “cryptolib”, I think “pseudocommunist” works better. They’re not necessarily similar in their hidden beliefs (there’s a whole range of reactionarisms), but instead for what they pretend to be.

In Brazil the public university sector is much more valued, but also ironically more restrictive than the private one. So you have upper middle-class (or very lucky poor) people who can get public education and get great job opportunities afterwards, and the majority either having no higher education or taking loans for lower quality private degrees.

Though the tuition fees are nowhere as offensive as the ones in the US. Besides that, our equivalent of a trade degree is a technical or professional degree, which is usually at max 2 years of training. It makes for good employment opportunities and many public institutions offer it for free. I think the main problem with the US is how commodified education is in general.

I mean, it’s right there in the article:

The union stated in a press release that this escalation comes in light of the government’s failure to disburse 500 shekels 10 days after the last government salary was issued, according to the agreement between the union and the government, in addition to the continued failure to pay salaries in full.

Though it’s important to note that this is related to the West Bank PLO’s Palestinian Authority, which holds no control of the Gaza strip which is governed by Hamas. The PNA is de facto a US-Israeli delegated government.

A second open source LLM has hit the S&P500.

I find it fascinating how much of the progress in DNNs for the last 5 years has been simply “how can we converge on training this in an Adversarial framework”. Somebody more versed in Hegel could probably write some relation between the success of GANs and the nature of contradictions.

I also hope this training method removes the annoying artefact of the chatbot replying to all my comments with “You are absolutely correct!” like it wants some favour.

I’ll check out the paper later, but at a glance I’m somewhat sceptical of the critic increasing reliability in non math stuff. Depending on how it’s modelled, it could just become a more convincing bullshitter.

The conformist depression of the left since the 90s has been healing for the last decade or so. Eurocommunism and social democracy seem to be dying as ideologies, and people are getting more radicalised worldwide, be it right or left. So there’s hope for some revolutions to happen in some places, while sadly we should also expect reactionarism to win in others.

Also China is finally confronting the USA and becoming a match in economic, military and political power. Even if one doesn’t see China as socialist, it’s undeniable that they are neither interventionist nor hostile to socialism abroad.

I meant the actual communists, which were ousted from their own party and lost all official and electoral control after a plot supported by PSUV. Everything you see from a “PCV” since 2023 is from a fake Trotskyite party leadership, which the PSUV helped create.

https://marxismo.org.br/solidariedade-com-o-partido-comunista-da-venezuela/

https://www.marxist.ca/article/solidarity-with-the-venezuelan-communist-party

https://www.solidnet.org/article/CP-of-Venezuela-Anti-communist-plan-continues-Government-PSUV-tries-to-co-opt-PCV-members-and-organisms-with-money-and-threats/

https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Venezuela

https://elcooperante.com/tsj-intervino-al-pcv-y-nombro-una-junta-directiva-ad-hoc/

https://emdefesadocomunismo.com.br/governo-maduro-tenta-criar-um-falso-pcv-subordinado-a-sua-politica-neoliberal/

https://www.solidnet.org/article/CP-of-Venezuela-Joint-Statement-WE-CONDEMN-THE-PLAN-TO-ASSAULT-AND-INTERVENE-IN-THE-COMMUNIST-PARTY-OF-VENEZUELA/

We repudiate the public and malicious intention of Mr. Diosdado Cabello, vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), to promote and execute the plan aimed at assaulting the PCV and usurping its symbols and legal-electoral figurehead, through the unacceptable maneuvering of using individuals who are not part of the PCV in order to present them as supposed “party rank and file”. We strongly reject this vile maneuver, as well as the systematic attacks of this leader of the PSUV in which he repeatedly accuses the PCV of serving the interests of U.S. imperialism, with the clear objective of criminalizing the struggles of the communists in Venezuela.

I hope prolewiki and solidnet aren’t also victims of COINTELPRO. Also COINTELPRO was focused only on US movements and didn’t extend to LATAM. Critical support to the PSUV.

I honestly have no hope of any capitalist counter-hegemonic group turning socialist any time soon. By necessity stability is what keeps them together, and an internal conflict between the proletariat and bourgeoisie would risk a comprador realignment and US victory. The persecution of the (actual) communist party in Venezuela is a good example.

I think it’s much more likely for new revolutions to pop up at the edges of the main conflict.

But I have never read any theory on socialist restoration.

Honestly much better than BRICS. There’s no geopolitical or ideological alignment for those countries other than being big and “developing” (a non-marxist term). These at least share the same strategic goal of survival from the US and military capabilities, while also being very different from each other internally.

I also prefer that to the Axis of Resistance, because Syria had become a ruined state long before the defeat this year.

I think it’s fair, long range missiles are the “diplomatic weapon”. Give long range missiles to Sweden and also Cuba, Venezuela, the Sahel States, Colombia, Mexico, Bolivia and any other small country that feels threatened by a military superpower. That’ll ensure no more wars. \s

For Russia I would say it probably won’t be as bad as the west but will absolutely effect them, which will likely make Putin’s life a living hell at literally the worst time possible for the Russian Bourgeoise class (currently Russia is experiencing a large scale resurgence in socialism thanks to the SMO as well as increases ties to china making surpressing campaigns, complicated.) which could potentially be a catalyst for a socialist restoration

Genuine question, why would Russia be hurt worse than China? From my lay perspective I’d guess that they’d be even safer, since their economy has been forcefully decoupled from the West already.

Took a look at the repository and almost had a stroke.

Piefed

A Lemmy/Mbin alternative written in Python with Flask.

Clean, simple code that is easy to understand and contribute to. No fancy design patterns or algorithms.

Easy setup, easy to manage - few dependencies and extra software required.

Emphasis mine. Also fastAPI.

So on the development side, it’s worse, less mature and way less efficient than Lemmy. The repository is also very messy. No complaints if it were a simple student project, but I doubt it’ll hold up for much longer. I just would never personally risk changing a server I admin to that software.

The moderation tools described there seem cool, so Lemmy contributors probably have more useful opinions there.

And on the interface front, by default it looks like the New Reddit interface that privileges image and video posts over link and text posts. That is configurable in Lemmy too, but most server admins or users never mess with that. Not my cup of tea, but some people prefer things like Instagram over things like RSS feeds.

Overall it seems like a fine experiment for ease of implementation of some tools, but anybody jumping ship right now really just dislikes the lemmy.ml instance and the developers.

Antimatter Dimensions, but it’s stupidly addictive. It’s the best one I’ve ever played. Only complaint is that, at times, it can actually require a lot of thought for an idle game.

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Can’t have New Labour without war crimes, and Starter knows it.

if you do get the time could you please explain what that sentence means

Ontology is the study of being or existence, so that sentence is just a short way to say that, with regards to the "truthyness"of the beliefs of any religion, I don’t believe them, nor do I believe in the existence of the supernatural. But believing would not significantly change my analysis.

[Defense Secretary John] Healey issued the warning as he made the case for increased defense spending a week before the government releases its new budget. Even though Prime Minister Keir Starmer has pledged big military spending increases in light of threats from Russia, China and Iran, the government is facing tough tradeoffs as it eyes tax increases and spending cuts to close a multi-billion-pound shortfall in its finances.

More austerity to feed the war machine.

My username is a reference to a catholic communalist leader in Brazil, so you can guess lol. I can’t speak for other religions, but the Catholic church has massive hegemony in Romance Language European and Latin American countries, as well as a lot of tenets that focus specifically on the plight of the poor, spurned and exploited. It also has a form of political organisation that has survived the test of time and deserves study.

So I see religion as a great tool, and the positivist and idealistic tendency to reject religion altogether as one of the biggest problems of communist movements in religious countries. The God that demands blood and condemns infidels can be the same Christ that washes the feet of the poor, feeds the hungry, lives among the abandoned. All it takes is molding the religion to the beliefs and hopes of the people, rather than abandon it to the reactionaries.

Besides that, religion is also part of culture. For all his atheism, Richard Dawkins is functionally a Christian. We can try to deny that part of our culture, but even in that we are engaging with it as a negation. I’d much rather engage with it dialectically and materialistically than pretend to replace it with “neutral” cultural values that are often actually just Western European.

That all said, ontologically I’m an atheist.

Yeah, if he backs down and joins the Dems on this it’s fucked. But at least we can have the assurance that that would be a terrible choice for him, losing all anti-zionist support while never ever being allowed to escape the ghost of “antisemitism”. If he actually backs that legislation (I’m not sure from the wording) and it gets passed, it’s political suicide.

Actually it’s not torture, it’s Enhanced Interrogation Techniques. Totally different so it’s completely fine. \s

As someone who is still very sceptical of China’s foreign policy, nothing irks me more than them “trying to portray the US as allies”. Thankfully the laws of motion of imperialism dictate that no such alliance can actually be made, so China will still have to fulfil their anti-hegemonic role for a while.