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The Squad has refused again & again to clash with the Democratic leadership or fight for the working-class demands they ran on. Instead, they have engaged in a series of performative gestures, while going along with Biden & the Democratic leadership @yogthos I'm afraid AOC hasn't lived up to my hopes. The progressives are still the best we've got.  @yogthos The only resource I can see being if they locked down semiconductor production. We would probably lose a fight there. China is pretty evenly matched and advantage goes to the defender as they say... You could argue that Taiwan would be the defender, but they lack the active forces. The mountains aren't tall enough to resupply safely. I could be wrong, and we certainly don't mind fighting a losing battle... Baidu leads in AI-related patents https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202204/26/WS62678b36a310fd2b29e5966e.html An 87 year old woman dies in UK after hypothermia having been left unable to afford to turn heating on https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/woman-87-dies-hyperthermia-after-29043846 Mexican Cookbook Collection is comprised of more than 2,000 cookbooks, from 1789 to the present https://digital.utsa.edu/digital/custom/mexicancookbooks Search 5.8 billion images used to train popular AI art models to see if yours has been used in training https://haveibeentrained.com/ Proletarian is a durable job queuing and worker system for #Clojure backed by PostgreSQL This is the most hilarious piece of propaganda I've seen in a while CIA-backed Afghan death squads massacred children inside religious schools in campaign of terror. ANA special forces and Afghan Intelligence were basically under the direct control of the CIA with Afghan official being just there for show. This article by Vox on the successful 70-year campaign to convince people the USA and not the USSR beat Hitler shows the astounding power of US propaganda. @yogthos Sometimes I wonder if Western powers allowed Germany to inflict incalculable damage to USSR and if yes, then to what extent. USSR's losses are extremely massive and at the same time ignored by countries who are now enjoying the freedom that resulted from it. In some highly positive news, China's property sector is effectively being nationalized, with the market share of private developers plunging "from 70% before the crisis to somewhere between 10% to 20% over the next three years."  As we witness yet another atrocity conducted by the police forces of the US regime its perhaps worth reflecting on the fact that despite riots, protests, and movements such as defund the police, nothing actually changes. It's pretty clear that whatever methods people in US use to organize fail to translate into long term structural change in the country. These things will continue to happen until people find ways to organize effectively and to stand up to the regime.  @yogthos The Local po-lice are in Abject terror about #TyreNichols. Lots of police patrols downtown tonight. Usually they lay low until bar closing to conserve manpower. |
@yogthos All the 'isms are based on modulating scarcity. We need something new based on delivering Automated Luxury Abundance for All
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Does this say something about the book, the overarching ideology, the people, or all of the above? I similarly feel the frustration of this tweet, but I think it leads me to different conclusions.