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FT @FrappeFT

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Shruti @heyshrutimishra

8 months ago

The US government doesn't need a warrant to spy on you. They just buy the data instead. Here's how it works: Every app on your phone is quietly selling your data to companies called "data brokers." Your location every hour of the day. Every website you visited. Every person you texted or followed online. Data brokers package all of this and sell it openly. Anyone can buy it. Including the government. Before AI, this data was too messy and scattered to be useful. Now AI can take all of it, connect the dots in seconds, and build a complete picture of your life. Where you go. Who you meet. What you believe. What you're planning. Without ever knocking on your door. Without ever going to a judge. This is not a future threat. It's happening right now. Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei literally wrote about this in his letter to the Pentagon last week. That's why he refused to let the US military use Claude for mass surveillance. The last major US surveillance law was written in 1986. The iPhone didn't exist until 2007. Congress has had 40 years to update these laws. They haven't. Senator Wyden introduced a bill to stop government data broker purchases. It has zero co-sponsors. Not one senator joined. The law hasn't caught up with the technology. And until it does, your data is for sale to anyone with a budget.

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Shruti @heyshrutimishra

8 months ago

BREAKING: 300+ Google & OpenAI employees just did something WILD. In 8 hours, the Pentagon's ultimatum expires. Instead of their companies giving in, employees just made it impossible to comply. Either Anthropic removes all AI safeguards for military use, or face the Defense

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2 years ago

@movief0n3 @FoxyMarxist Oh absolutely not, it's filled to the brim with anti-communist drivebys and anti-AES rhetoric, not to mention the lionization of the Hong Kong protests and especially the insistence on China being repressive despite not providing any evidence. Do not recommend him to any marxist

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3 years ago

@sovietstern Definitely interested, sign me up!

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3 years ago

@ohfrackoff @chamurglx @RodericDay @caitoz @comrade_pabs @bidetmarxman I’m being a little pedantic here, but I'm not sure you can really "impart" class consciousness as much as help people develop/refine it. The oppressed know that they’re oppressed, more than anyone else. There's no "waking up the masses and opening their eyes"

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FT @FrappeFT

3 years ago

@ohfrackoff @chamurglx @RodericDay @caitoz @comrade_pabs @bidetmarxman Pairing the study of theory with real, material programs which gave immediate benefits and a solid prospect for the future, based on a solid dialectical materialist foundation, pushed more and more people to study: x.com/allyPOUM/statu… 2/2

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Shruti @heyshrutimishra

8 months ago

BREAKING: 300+ Google & OpenAI employees just did something WILD. In 8 hours, the Pentagon's ultimatum expires. Instead of their companies giving in, employees just made it impossible to comply. Either Anthropic removes all AI safeguards for military use, or face the Defense

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3 years ago

@ohfrackoff @chamurglx @RodericDay @caitoz @comrade_pabs @bidetmarxman No one said it's easy! Some things aren't meant to be easy, and that's ok. There is no shortcut to the revolution, the work is a lot and hard. People might not desire to if they see no material benefit to studying it, which is why the Black Panthers were so effective. 1/2

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FT @FrappeFT

3 years ago

@chamurglx @ohfrackoff @RodericDay @caitoz @comrade_pabs @bidetmarxman x.com/allyPOUM/statu… Education does not equal intelligence nor ability to grasp material. Why single out blue collar workers? What makes you think that white collars could grasp Capital any better? This kind of elitism gets us nowhere. See:

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Shruti @heyshrutimishra

8 months ago

BREAKING: 300+ Google & OpenAI employees just did something WILD. In 8 hours, the Pentagon's ultimatum expires. Instead of their companies giving in, employees just made it impossible to comply. Either Anthropic removes all AI safeguards for military use, or face the Defense

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3 years ago

@ohfrackoff @chamurglx @RodericDay @caitoz @comrade_pabs @bidetmarxman I find this statement to be quite gross and condescending. The working class is not any more or less propagandised or ignorant than anyone else. There is no need to "dumb down" arguments for people to understand them, you really should give people more credit

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3 years ago

@comrade_pabs @bidetmarxman @chamurglx @RodericDay @caitoz Just to clarify: I'm talking about workers in the imperial core

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3 years ago

@comrade_pabs @bidetmarxman @chamurglx @RodericDay @caitoz I disagree, long-term yes, it's within all workers' interests. But short-term, not yet. We don't have the structures and the movement in place yet. It's understandable why anyone would be hesitant when there's no immediate material alternative yet

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3 years ago

@comrade_pabs @bidetmarxman @chamurglx @RodericDay @caitoz I actually feel that calling workers "heavily propagandized" is talking like you're better than them, and kind of feeds into the propaganda-as-brainwashing narrative. Also, no one here is saying that we should be disrespectful

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FT @FrappeFT

3 years ago

@comrade_pabs @chamurglx @RodericDay @caitoz @bidetmarxman x.com/bidetmarxman/s… In most cases I would just repeat what @bidetmarxman said here, but I'm assuming that this is a person you see often, so doing this kind of work can't hurt at all, especially if you need to spend a considerable amount of time talking with this person

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3 years ago

@comrade_pabs @FrappeThat @chamurglx @RodericDay @caitoz In the time it takes to delicately and slowly ‘convince’ a small business owner, assuming they won’t just return to their reactionary views once their class position is threatened, we could convince 1,000 super exploited workers. Tone isn’t the primary problem.

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3 years ago

@comrade_pabs @chamurglx @RodericDay @caitoz @bidetmarxman I often find that small business owners are just as bad as big business owners actually. In most cases their class character is aligned

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3 years ago

@chamurglx @comrade_pabs @RodericDay @caitoz @bidetmarxman Oh yeah, I agree with that. I'm just not sure how much energy we should put into affecting change through the superstructure rather than the base.

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3 years ago

@comrade_pabs @chamurglx @RodericDay @caitoz @bidetmarxman Agreed!

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3 years ago

@chamurglx @comrade_pabs @RodericDay @caitoz @bidetmarxman Yes, but if those biases are rooted in material conditions, until those material conditions change, those biases will almost always stay put

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FT @FrappeFT

3 years ago

@comrade_pabs @chamurglx @RodericDay @caitoz @bidetmarxman I actually don't know if I agree there. A communist revolution in the imperial core would inevitably mean a significant change in lifestyle for a lot of people, so people would effectively lose some of what they have in most circumstances

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FT @FrappeFT

3 years ago

@comrade_pabs @chamurglx @RodericDay @caitoz @bidetmarxman Oh yeah, that was the lens I was going for. I do wonder, though, if energy spent on converting individual liberals is energy well-spent. It's something I've been pondering thinking about my own efforts to do so

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FT @FrappeFT

3 years ago

@comrade_pabs @chamurglx @RodericDay @caitoz @bidetmarxman Oh yeah of course, there are many other factors as well. But even then, people like Che are (sadly) more of an exception. I don't think putting too much focus on the affluent is an effective tactic

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FT @FrappeFT

3 years ago

@chamurglx @comrade_pabs @RodericDay @caitoz @bidetmarxman I don't see how, though. Could you elaborate?

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