I’ve recently had an LLM refuse to give me a simplified version of a script because I would be limiting myself. First time I’ve encountered that one.

Qwen also has free api I think but I know no details

Yep and it actually doesn’t ask for cc to generate an api key, I’m planning to use it for some serious file organization.

Really late response but sure, just not on modding, haha. Didn’t help I had super bad anemia all this time.

For another Chinese model I really like z.ai’s stuff, don’t even need to log in to just use it as a chatbot which is awesome. I’m not sure on their api but coding wise I can just head over, not even bother logging in, and it’ll get me a functional powershell script powered by ollama to organize some files I have lying around.

I think their flash model’s api is free but you still have to provide a credit card that’s standard with AI.

Got back into old school Oblivion modding a bit, once I get my bearings and find energy I hope to release a small mod that I’m surprised no one else bothered in that 20yo game. I want to start small with a concept first since that has the highest likelihood of getting done.

I tried a little Erenshor, its basically single player EQ with minecraft graphics, the AI called me out for ninjalooting which was hilarious, just like RL. Its really grindy though and I lack time for that.

I’m a true gaming champion, 2025 has been a rugged year for me, completed 0 games and like 5 books which are some low numbers for me, what plans and hopes survive being deep-fried by work burnout my migraines put an end to.

Read a page or a paragraph and then I try to summarize what I read in my own words or what it reminds me of, ebooks are ez for me to access to I generally just jot something down in notally on my old fire tablet from 2014, but if I were reading on a more modern device or physical book, a computer I’d use Obsidian or something for notes and the ability to link concepts.

More you read older books easier it gets, I’ve had this problem with some translations of books too, but once I adjust I’ll be ok I figure.

Barely started Losurdo’s Class war the other day, do you happen to know when/where he takes down Nietzchean will to power in particular? I’ve read western leftists far back as 100yrs ago abandon all of Nietzsche but they won’t abandon that concept proposed by him and try their best to spin it as useful to the movement.

Not quite considering conditions, even someone that’s unemployed, homeless, in the most precarious of jobs etc wouldn’t be able to escape some of the labor aristocracy bourgeoisification of the proles and lumpenprole logic in the core.

Biggest issue I think is not only failure to relate to the prole at large but fail to capture their imagination and inspire/create hope in something beyond fascism and the abuses of brutal capitalism that doesn’t wait until the afterlife. There is no movement that reaches out to them, or frankly anyone atm in the imperial core that provides this; at best its a sort of education by outrage and shock, which don’t get me wrong is useful and required, but there needs to be this other optimistic area as well. A full pessimism run mopes too hard to move a mountain, though inspiration and hope maybe can.

My experience in the west is movements are focused on endless purity tests only accessible by the petite bourgeoisie if not outright bourgeoisie, not just in entry education level to join, dues and such, you have to earn a way afterall, but in structure and time. Content almost feels somewhere between old school churchy in Latin and college lecture if you’re not super familiar with theory. On the other hand education by meme has its dangers as well, but I’m sure there’s a balance. Then you’re fucking fried if you’re doing prole tier work, its hard to attend a meeting considering 12hr night shifts no holidays and such.

Then let’s assume you live among the prole, join the most precarious of work as one of the lil boojies, everyone is going to lose massive respect because you took a paycut, you purposely lost money, even your fellow max exploited workers will not totally be with you. Anyway, I think this part will naturally happen and adjust as conditions worsen in the core.

Yes. If you’re poorer you struggle attaining popular beauty, which is very youth and fit oriented, even outside of obvious cosmetics, good sleep, good hydration, proper nutrition and movement help keep down microwrinkles and later on wrinkles along with keeping you toned looking. Then there’s things like temperature and the right amount of sunlight. Not to mention constant stress without relief.

Cheap cosmetics are more likely to irritate your skin and look off in certain lightening, expensive cosmetics are more forgiving and last longer, making me think of a cosmetics version of the Sam Vines boots theory. This applies to lotions and such to a degree. Clothing is an obvious one and fashion is fickle and fast.

I’ve noticed in the very, very impoverished rural area I live in people generally look a good 10-20 yrs older than they really are and just haggard and prematurely wrinkled. Worst I saw was some early 20yos at work I would have guessed easily for 40. Growing up in a similar area, some of my classmates in high school were already balding.

Caudwell’s Crisis in Physics does some of this but for quantum mechanics. You’d love the read.

Really its done science first approach then dialectics to examine the environment your project’s developed in for anything weird that will diminish understanding, then fix and repeat since there’s no such thing as perfection in reality. You don’t go in with dialectics first, that won’t do you good and just make you overly rigid without proper knowledge and limit your understanding of the situation at hand leading to silly errors. Gotta ground yourself in what is known of reality first.

It is neat for thought experiments for project design too and is a way to break out of the ‘its x or y or a mere continuum’ to noticing 'gee this doesn’t fit my data nor my problem, necessity v sufficiency for instance develops from this line of approach (and others, there are many tools in the tool kit, dia is just one) and is beyond helpful in life sciences.

Back in the 90s some nazi groups invested 10k in internet propaganda, I figure the internet being so fascistic is just the results of that along with nerds being all sorts of fascistic is just a product of western academia culture to an extent as well.

Really late response, I work as a cashier deal with them all the time, I lay it on extra thick and play super slow and see if I can short circuit something. 99pct of the time it works, they may snap, just as a warning. This doesn’t work if they know you or assume any competence, in that case being super curt and tuning them out when they speak works great.

This, 100%.

To add on, its also to restructure the economy to better suit whatever big bourgeois interests founded said fascist movement, if you break down the structures in place and set new legal-economic, military and political ones that suit yor investors in particular it much faster and easier than toying with those in place, a little shuffling and terror of bourgeois sentiment is no big deal, also you ensure loyalty as well to keep things going as well as your short-sighted money-vision can sense.

I’m reading The Economy and Class Structure of German Fascism by Alfred Sohn-Rethel, would recommend so far.

Don’t think the free will v no free will dualism is the best way to look at the beast/phrase it, its something else entirely that uses these two aspects that seem like polar poles but are heavily overlapping, what some may easily call free will in some scenarios to being heavily shaded by conditions/environmental factors in others. I think of it as Marx’s “man makes history, not under conditions of his choosing” meets modern psychneurosci.

Anyway, the real question here feels like ‘what is freedom’, which would be another good topic.

Speculation/privatization in critical industries/utilities.

Agencies and some academic-business thinktank circles (lots of overlap between the two) do a lot of thinking ‘games’ like this to generate a ton of ideas or find hidden connections without diamat or spending a whole lot of time studying by trying to use ‘creativity’ pretty much alone as a crutch.

A lot of money and jackbootery is spent on keeping them that way as well, its learned helplessness by design and has been for over 100 yrs. All that oppression by force and money can’t last forever though, too resource draining and people are slowly but surely noticing the problems with the current way, they just generally don’t have a framework to put those ideas and well a lot of our terminology is ultra taboo right now. All we need to do is persist, ultimately, to keep hope alive, from there everything else is possible since time and people will be on our side once the wool lifts (or if we lift it, hehe), and against the current rigid way of being.

Mysticism and idealism in short, though imo animism-type practices mirrors a ‘low-tech’ materialism in its approach to the natural world, so there is room in it for the left and there should be plenty though they may not have the political framework so to speak. That’s how it be for most things, the culture at large has a lot of influence on subcultures and the people within it, we don’t exist in vacuums.

So much for breakfast being the most important meal of the day