On the “google is a legit for real no cap monopolist” decision
It’s not an opinion. It’s not a take. It’s facts. And actionable.
On the “google is a legit for real no cap monopolist” decision
It’s not an opinion. It’s not a take. It’s facts. And actionable.
Google *has* monopolized the advertising market. They operate a "full stack" ad-tech shop.
By controlling the tools that sellers and buyers use, and the marketplace where they use them, Google steals billions from advertisers and publishers.
One effect of Google's monopoly power is a global privacy crisis. Google works with other members of the surveillance cartel to prevent the passage of privacy laws.
Everything we do, everywhere we go online and offline, every relationship we have, everything we buy and say and do – it's all collected and stored and mined and used against us.
The commercial surveillance industry provides the raw feedstock for a parade of horribles, from stalkers and bounty hunters turning up on their targets' front doors to cops rounding up demonstrators with location data from their phones to identity thieves tricking their marks.
Cory Doctorrow and the true, tactical significance of Project 2025 https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/14/fracture-lines/
The American right has, since the founding of the Republic, been bent on creating a system of hereditary aristocrats, who govern without "interference" from democratic institutions, so that their power to extract wealth from First Nations, working people, and the land itself is checked only by rivalries with other aristocrats
@Magooish @AeonCypher @seachanger Making allies is not about making friends, but finding commonality in goals, so we can work together as comrades.
Your goal seems to be "don't cut ties with liberals, since it's complicated". Been there, done that, it's not a goal I find worth pursuing, so no allyship can be found here.
But good luck dismissing the experience and frustration of past allies into yet one more chance.
I guess you'll go alone on this one, this time.
@Magooish @AeonCypher @seachanger @luckytran By protecting a hypothetical liberal you're alienating *me*, and that's not very forging-alliances of you.
Allyship should be questioned at every step. If they want to keep connections, *they *need to change, not me.
You think you're being mature, but you're just silencing criticism here.
@AeonCypher @Magooish @seachanger @luckytran Maybe that's what we need in America, the idea thatl iverwla are cobelligerent towards leftists.
The narrative here lacks nuance. It's all black or white, purity politics.
It's a puritan nation, after all.
@Magooish @AeonCypher @seachanger @luckytran Liberals are not leftist allies. They are complicit with fascists.
Sorry, I didn't do it. They made it clear with their behavior. 🤷♂️
Don't "it's complicated" it. It's very simple.
You're free to disagree, but please spare me of trying to convince me.
@seachanger @luckytran Centrists don’t want to win. They want to receive bribes by playing the ineffective good cop “I tried but the bad guys are so bad”
Frankly they are paid to lose every once in a while so we can go further right, by a pretend pendular movement.
Liberals are not allies of the left.
@Magooish @seachanger @luckytran True. I meant liberals are not allies *of the left*.
They are certainly allies of corporatists. Fascists even. Anyone is an ally of some other at some point so I should have specified.
@Magooish @seachanger @luckytran Yes we need to forge alliances. Purity politics won't help us.
But we should also divest from false alliances.
@Magooish @seachanger @luckytran Alliances should be questioned. Specially when said allies invest in genocide. It's time to divest.
I guess we're talking about leftist win in France. The fact that there's an appetite for leftism, and not just centre-right disguised as left. That left doesn't need to make alliances that dilute their ideals.
Alliances are not the goal and should *always* be rethought and renegotiated. At this point left allying with liberals *detracts* from their goals.
Today is Aaron Bushnell's birthday. He would've been 26yo.
This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C83SwWXgN0I/?igsh=MXducGZwcTloMnR6aA==
The entire concept of a Supreme Court is bad, eh?
You build a democracy *pero no mucho* because racism (it is!) with electoral offices and supreme court and when corporations grow so big they say fuck checks and balances, I want my metrics to grow, they go straight there.
A christofascist women-hating brown-people-bombing hellfire is how *we* experience it. They experience it as bonuses.
Rapacity on a planetary scale! That's the American project.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8xwgjzS8Fl/?igsh=dTV6a21qODQ1cmt5
@maxthefox @futurebird @dahukanna @PavelASamsonov @nyrath Yesssss, that's the premise of the book. It doesn't substitute humans (that's snake oil from AIbros), it *surfaces outliers* for our revision. Augmented systems.
@futurebird @dahukanna @PavelASamsonov AI can be used as a layer of simulation between scientific hunch and actual testing.
And yes I'm with you, those claiming AI can replace anything are unhinged born-again types peddling to investors. It's hype, it will fall, and hurt a lot of people in the process.
For my own sanity, I separated the technology of AI from the business of AI.
@futurebird @dahukanna @PavelASamsonov this book talks how to add this layer of simulation. The theory is that emergent properties of digital or analog processes are homomorphic, provided you know which model to use.
That means computers can guide the promising experiments to research, from simulations. Making research less wasteful.
Then dude goes on each model for each discipline. It's a journey.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/philosophy-and-simulation-9781350096790/
@kevinriggle @futurebird @dahukanna @PavelASamsonov substitutable as homomorphic, right?
that means we can play *with* simulations, surface opportunities there, and then keep researching *out* of simulations... with a better grasp.
like @knowuh's Alpha Fold example.
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