grym [she/her, comrade/them]

I definitely think ace comrades (and aro comrades too!) should get a space or regular thread somewhere for themselves, to talk and share what they want to share.

I guess there needs to be a minimum amount of people/interest in it, but I think even if it’s not many people here it should be an option.

Realistically speaking, who fucking cares?

A whole lot of people spilling ink about astrology, “pseudoscience” and “mysticism” in here that don’t seem to know anything about it or its relation to the patriarchal, racial and class contradictions. And a whole lot of people that don’t seem directly concerned with most of those things themselves but feel it’s important to share their opinions on something they’re not informed about and not concerned about.

For the record i don’t care for astrology at all, I don’t like the (extremely, extremely rare) people who take it 100% seriously, but it’s still one of those things that’s kinda fun sometimes. But i don’t care, and i have no trust in people who are worried about “feminists hurting their own movement by doing things wrong” when they’re not a part of that movement.

It’s simply not your call or place to say something is “harmful to the movement” when you’re not a part of it, you can’t speak or know about it from experience. Saying stuff like that is a very easy way of getting dismissed entirely by basically every member of “the movement”, as I am doing now, i truly do not care about the topic of astrology.

Maybe go talk to feminists that like astrology and calmly ask questions, and maybe ask yourself why you care so much about something of such little consequence for a movement that is, materially speaking, probably in contradiction with your own position and benefits in the current system and will naturally tend to be seen as uncomfortable to you.

i’ve dated very little but my current partner is enby, and my ex (for complicated personal reasons) left her country to move with someone else, cut all contact with her family, and a few years back completely dropped off the internet as well and people who knew her before she left the country have not heard about her at all, the guy she was with says she’s fine but basically avoids giving any current details about her. Not in like an ominous way I think, but in a way that makes me think he’s trying to avoid bringing up the past and deadnaming.

Soooo given my track record, and what I remember of them, I think it’s very likely I should no longer gender my ex in the feminine.

That’s normal! I wish people had told me ahead of time.

Basically your hair is burned and you won’t be able to shave it really well for a bit, usually for me some of it looks somehow darker/thicker in patchy ways and after 4-6 days it falls out and then it’s all smooth. A lot of the hair is burned and the root is dead, and it has to grow a little bit to fall.

yea, it’s data transformation but there is zero intelligence, context or anything “new”.

The tool itself is fine when used clearly and purposefully, and those kinds of tools have been used for a long time in various fields, the problem I have with the current hype trends of ““AI”” is that literally nothing fundamentally new was made. People aren’t being informed on how these things really work and what they do, there’s a lot of dangerous practices and psychological manipulation, and above all these new large models are enormous labor-obfuscating machines. I don’t give a shit about private property, IP laws, etc (because I know that’s a common response), the problem is that these things are another layer of illusions, an enormous curtain hiding entire industries of data-scraping and theft, of countless people and hours of manual tagging, filtering, training, moderating and mechanical turks, in purely profit-seeking and reckless ways. And not only is all this labor not valued, people aren’t even aware it exists, people never have to interact directly with anyone along that production chain. Entire industries becoming ghosts, non-existent, and even more unable to organize and struggle for what they create.

Beyond that, class consciousness is ever harder to teach and agitate for in these domains, because shit like this is purposefully built to hide and disguise exploited labor (often from the labour force of the colonized and victims of imperialism) and privatization.

It’s not the stealing that’s the problem it’s the sneaky, rapid disruption and destruction of existing productions and jobs that it entails, and the privatization of colossal amounts of public data and user-generated data that nobody ever intended to be privatized and extracted for profits. It was always happening in the background of course, but i don’t think people realize the impact this will have, to me it’s like a closure of the internet-commons. Colossal explotation of Free Labour, the expansion of exploitation in every sphere of “content production” that was previously unreachable.

Drives me fucking insane.

Not only is the summary kinda light or missing the deeper points, the LLM did not “break down” the plot by “reading” the provided PDF. House of Leaves is impossible to fucking parse correctly as a PDF, the text is all over the place, visually placed in very complex ways, you have a whole labyrinth chapter where you have to follow footnotes across multiple pages with the text being difficult to find and follow, anything “reading” the PDF in the regular order of characters would have no fucking clue.

As always, there is no intelligence or any breaking down, the only reason the LLM is able to provide the summary is because it was trained on a dataset that included summaries and reviews of House of Leaves, and it simply detected the PDF was House of Leaves.

The LLM is, YET AGAIN, just regurgitating things that are already written elsewhere, nothing is created, it’s all obfuscation of labour.

Yea these are mainstream and so mostly bourgeois sources

I think mainstream média sources in France are limited and will not want to admit that its because people hate macron or the Olympics. So those few sources are what gets translated

That’s not at all why people are talking about it what the fuck? It has nothing to do with seeing the clean-up of the river as “wasteful spending”, it’s because everyone fucking hates Macron lmao.

The “clean-up of the Seine” is a recurring joke, multiple presidents and mayors of Paris have promised it over the decades and it never ends up happening, and this time as well everyone laughed and said “if we actually see him swim in it, I’ll eat my hat”.

It’s because we hate macron, and it’s because people really dislike the Olympics as well. The olympics are wasteful spending, very badly organized, and they’re going to a complete shit show to the delight of everyone outside Paris, myself included.

Oh yea i love her tweets. But sometimes it dies hurt a bit…

Halimede is a bit account by the way, it’s an account run by a transwoman doing a bit by posting like the character Halimede from a video game, said character is a lesbian chaser. Her posts are very funny but should not really be taken seriously in most cases.

Hey so macron just announced he’s dissolving the assembly, snap elections the 30th of this month

Lmao

Edit: this came as an announcement right after the european election results in france where the far right had a huge victory, i’m not really sure what his plan/strategy is, with this timing it feels like it’s going be very easy for the far-right to organize and the left is a clusterfuck right now.

Holyyyyyyyyyyy fuckiiinnnnnngggg shiiiiiiiiit you just described my life in disturbingly accurate details. Literally everything, the social aspect, the battery, the contradictions, the weird-ennui, every detail of this is EXACTLY my experience.

Fucking thank you. Wow.

Huh i thought that was genuinely very interesting, and adds a little bit of nuance to a few points of Marx in capital where “charactermaske” was translated into something else.

Hard to say which specific branch the author belongs to, most of this looks to be a pretty good analysis and explanation of the concept and its usage and evolution, doea a good job at providing different interpretations, responses and critiques while still defending the original concept in some ways.

Where it gets dodgy is towards the end, the inclusion of modern or post “Marxists” that apply it to the USSR in (what looks to to me like) unproductive ways, and fucking zizek at the end, but that might have been a more recent edit

Let’s go i got my first appointment to start HRT in like 2 weeks !!

Have not started hormones yet, but I can say castor/ricin oil works wonder on the front of my scalp. I do a full scalp mask maybe once a week, and sometimes on other nights i put a little on the temple. Lots of baby hair on the front and it can’t be the E since i haven’t started ^^

Hey i thought about this comment again and went online to check, couldn’t find much on the guy. I’ve started reading the manga recently, and his politics are certainly strange. Do you have any good sources or analysis on the political angle of the manga and author, his more personal beliefs?

GitS has always been a strange beast to me. The manga, the movies, the animes, all have different vibes and interpretations of the setting, and the political leanings vary quite a lot.

Was just listening to that a few weeks ago and commented about it to friends on discord.

Huge fan of GitS since i was a teenager, and only looked at the lyrics of this track recently. Wild.

That song makes me a sobbing mess every time, i can’t help it.