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Cake day: July 18th, 2020

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  • Sort of related, I remember someone posted a prompt to use with an LLM essentially ordering it use dialectical materialism and to avoid capitalist neutrality among other things. Deepseek, Qwen, Z.Ai and others all agreed to the instructions. Kimi was the only one to push back saying it wouldn’t agree to the instructions, which I found kind of interesting.








  • A brilliant book, I can’t believe I didn’t read it sooner. It expands on his thinking from Soledad Brother, one could say this book is partly “Guerilla Warfare” and like a proto “Settlers”. Despite his decade plus incarceration, he was far better read on theory at 30 than I sure was. The analysis of fascism is spot on. His points about the need for armed revolutionary soldiers is very important. Having just read “The Jakarta Method”, in which the unarmed Indonesian Communist Party was massacred by the army is a testament to the thoughts of Jackson. He even predicted the downfall of Allende. Although this was from 50 years ago before the rise of neo-liberalism, I feel like this is gaining relevance due to the violence of this political period in the west, as the capitalist pigs have tried various economic measures to curb the revolutionary and uncooperative masses and are now resorting back to hyperfascist strongarm tactics.











  • Unfortunately, this is an issue with capitalist culture. When the cultural product revolves on wide appeal and selling something, it is difficult for it to stay unique and interesting, to its roots. Of course, I’m sure this same sort of phenomenon was happening a lot in the past with say, novels, but we live in a cultural time unlike any other. Now that I’m older I’ve just come to the acceptance that various cultural interests can be immensely popular like Baseball, Rap music, comedy shows, and that others will never be regarded as palatable or interesting to the average westerner, old foreign books, movies, obscure genres of music. I wouldn’t worry too much about it.