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Cake day: July 14th, 2023
  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Red RosaEnglish
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    4 days ago

    That’s quite a cherry-picked quote, and to connect it to Bernie and AOC is to completely disregard the rest of the text.

    Rosa draws a distinction between being a legislator in a parliament – where you’re able to battle the state within its own arena, and expose its contradictions – and being an executive in a cabinet – where your job is to manage crises and therefore hide contradictions.

    But coming from a minister, social reforms can’t have the character of the proletarian class, but solely the character of the bourgeois class, for the minister, by the post he occupies, attaches himself to that class by all the functions of a bourgeois, militarist government. While in parliament, or on the municipal council, we obtain useful reforms by combating the bourgeois government, while occupying a ministerial post we arrive at the same reforms by supporting the bourgeois state.

    She also explicitly endorses political engagement as a means of class struggle:

    Personally, in this great gathering of the different socialist organizations in the free play of the daily political struggle, we don’t fear the least danger for the doctrine of Marx and the principles of democratic socialism, in as much as they have already taken root in France. There is no better school for socialist democracy than the great and living class struggle freed from abstract clichés. The materialist conception of history doesn’t allow us to believe in the development of a living popular movement begotten of abstract formulas; on the contrary, it’s on the material base of a great and strong class struggle, embracing all of the proletariat, that a clear conception of theory and principles will be erected.

    And not for nothing, the Communist Manifesto does too:

    In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things.

    In all these movements, they bring to the front, as the leading question in each, the property question, no matter what its degree of development at the time.

    Finally, they labour everywhere for the union and agreement of the democratic parties of all countries.

    The broader theme of Rosa’s text is to not accidentally align yourself with liberals in a cross-class coalition by focusing only on the political question of the day. I think we’re in danger of doing that with memes just as much as self-proclaimed socialist politicians are in danger of doing it by entering government.

  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Is "AI slop" enough?English
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    16 days ago

    We might want two separate terms: one for the personal ways that AI slop infects and manipulates your mind, and another for the way it makes the wider cultural landscape difficult to navigate by adding noise and intercepting your attempts to find the original sources of concepts or artifacts which might bring you into a community (and the fact that these communities are now all playing defense because of the everlasting scraping DDoS).

    I’m concerned about the former because I think it might make doing anything at all much more difficult.

    But I’m concerned about the latter because we… don’t really know how much pollution culture can withstand before collapsing. We may already be in the early stages of something like Kessler Syndrome but for communications.

  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialtoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•It ensures that the agent does a good jobEnglish
    5·
    26 days ago

    Ah, went and checked my work laptop this morning. It’s actually set to: !”git reset —hard HEAD && git clean -fdx

    git it is the one that’s set to upstream.

    I also have git some: add -p, git away: checkout -p, git out: !”git merge —abort 2> /dev/null || git rebase —abort 2> /dev/null #”

    And some complicated ones I’m not gonna type on my phone:

    • git on <foo> where foo is either “it”, in which case I use the appropriate main/master/develop branch and rebase on it; or foo is “up” in which case I do a pull —rebase and play a short audio clip of Get On Up; or foo is a nonexistent branch, in which case I massage the requested branch name to adhere to some conventions and then make a new branch and set the remote tracking branch
    • git with <foo> where the same “it” logic applies but it’s a merge; or foo is a commit SHA and it gets cherry-picked
    • git up is just a pull but it plays a short audio clip of Get On Up
    • I think I had a git rekt at one point, but I think it just did the same as git gud so I deleted it