strypey

strypey, 1 day ago

@paninid
> “AI” now represents whatever hype merchants are selling to make up for unused compute power left over from the crypto bubble

This was my guess too. But a good friend who works in a small, indigenous-owned company working on machine translation seems pretty convinced that blockchain mining hardware isn't particularly useful for training MOLE.

strypey, 1 day ago

@WmShakesp3are
> there is some beautiful plumage right there

The plumage don't enter into it, it's dead right! : P

@dannotdaniel

strypey, 2 days ago

This is like criticising a novel about the treatment of Uyghurs for not mentioning violence against Han Chinese.

Minor Detail is a novel about the lives of Palestinians under a military occupation that's been escalating for decades. Just like Nathan Thrall's non-fiction book A Day in the Life of Abed Salama is about the lives of Palestinians under a military occupation that's been escalating for decades;

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2023/10/how-the-occupation-of-palestine-shapes-everyday-life-and-what-happens-now

#podcasts #CurrentAffairs #NathanThrall #Gaza

strypey, 2 days ago

#InterCity is everything we were told competition would protect us from when it was privatized. It's long past time that - as with the trains - the privatisation experiment with long distance buses was declared a failure, and InterCity re-nationalized.

strypey, 2 days ago

"I understand the frustrations of religious conservatives, who have watched the culture head off in disturbing directions. But putting up with some drag-queen storytelling seems like a small price to pay to live in a relatively free society."

#StevenGreenhut, 2019

https://www.ocregister.com/2019/09/13/drag-queen-debate-spotlights-creepy-trend-on-right/

The US movement against re-electing President ManBaby can greatly improve its chances of success if it can make common cause with moderate conservatives who think like this.

strypey, 2 days ago

... I'm aware that in a highly unequal capitalist society, the expressions of different people and organisations have very different scales of "reach". So maybe there is a place for regulation to create and maintain pro-democracy media environments. As always, the devil is in the details.

strypey, 5 hours ago

The claims that need to be backed up are that;

1. there is an "American-led, rules-based order"

2. this is a good thing for the people of the US

3. ... and the people of the rest of the world

4. "democratic capitalism" is not a contradiction-in-terms

5. "democratic capitalism" is a "system for human advancement"

6. it's the best one

None of this is self-evident.

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@shoq

strypey, 5 hours ago

@shoq
I'm not sure if you noticed, but you didn't actually put forward a falsifiable argument. You just reworded the same tired There Is No Alternative rhetoric we've been hearing since Reagan and Thatcher. Which is exactly what I was rolling my eyes at Rosenberg for.

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strypey, 4 hours ago

@shoq
> How exactly do we “horizontally scale economic systems,” whatever that means

Vertical scaling is what capitalism (and cancer) does. It's how the net ended up like 5 giant websites full of screenshots of the other 4. Horizontal scaling is what decentralised networks (and healthy organisms) do; adding more elements that interrelate, rather than continually adding more servers to one service.

strypey, 4 hours ago

@shoq
> How exactly do we “horizontally scale economic systems,” whatever that means, and nurture and then wield the political power that would be required to do it?

The separation of political power from economic power is an illusion. All political power is also economic and vice-versa, and always has been. What political power would states have if they couldn't tax and regulate economic activity? How would corporations grow like cancer without political power to limit tax and regulation?

strypey, 4 hours ago

@mcc
> Turns to you slowly, looks you directly in the eye before replying in a monotone

How very Lynchian ; )

@Aedius

strypey, 2 days ago

@TheLastOfHisName
> Folks need to start using Signal, Threema, or spin up a Matrix server

... or an XMPP server. @snikket_im aims to make it much easier to use XMPP.

strypey, 2 days ago

The disposable mask is the tinfoil hat of the left.

strypey, 5 hours ago

@jackyan
> Prefer telly at that hour

Specifically via broadcast or just a news show with a video component?

strypey, 4 hours ago

@jennifilm
> This week they implemented basic following of other ghost publications

Do you know if this work will allow Ghost blogs to be followed from the fediverse?

strypey, 4 hours ago

@fgraver
> together, Canada, USA, Mexico... — ie. North America — are more than twice the the size of China and... bigger than the largest country in the world, Russia

OK, but Russia also seems to offer better rail services than North America;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_Russia

... as does India;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_India

... although neither is as advanced as China. If you look at rail across China, India and Russia as a whole, that's much bigger than North America.

@AccordionBruce @Br3nda @tbaldauf

strypey, 4 hours ago

@fgraver
> Should there be better rail offerings in North America? Of course there should. But the problems posed by sheer size are non-trivial

Granted, but I raised China as an example of how size is not a barrier to a functioning passenger rail system if the political-economic decision-makers prioritise it. I doubt we disagree that people in North America suffer from generations of over-investment in roads and cars, and underinvestment in passenger rail.

@AccordionBruce @Br3nda @tbaldauf

strypey, 4 hours ago

@AccordionBruce
> Those big open spaces make trains hard to fund with the US’s archaic government

This is my point. It's a political-economic problem. As the examples of China, Russia, India and even SEA demonstrate, the logistical and technological obstacles can be overcome, even with far less wealth (per capital or per acre) than the US or Canada has at their disposal.

@fgraver @Br3nda @tbaldauf

strypey, 3 hours ago

@sj_zero
> China is a poor example since to be comparable you'd need approximately 8 billion people on the American continent

Please explain the logic underlying this conclusion.

@Br3nda @fgraver @AccordionBruce @tbaldauf