AlteredEgo
@AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 2 days ago:
I’m not from the US or UK, but I assumed that Starmer having directly succeeded Corbyn had a hand or was beholden to those in Labor who politically assassinated Corbyn. Reading a bit more (Starmer’s Resignation Speech and Corbyn’s Rebuttal | Telegraph.com) I don’t think it’s only unjust blame. I assumed the Labour party got completely ratfucked under Starmer.
But we’re seeing the same rightward and fierce anti-socialistic / anti-pacifist / anti-solidarity push in France and Germany too. Like Labour, the SPD and Greens in Germany also aided and abetted in the genocide in Gaza. What sane party is left to vote for?
In the USA I can’t imagine the Democrats doing any serious reconstruction or “new deal” program to undo the economic, institutional and political damage Trump has done. Not with all the plutocrats, establishment and media against them. Just look at the reaction to Mahdami. Or them shooting themselves in the foot with Platner lol (See this article from 2025 that should have cancelled him).
Honestly, I believe the era of social or liberal democracy is pretty much over. It’s like they are doing everything they can so fascist parties rise and take power. They don’t know how to do anything else. The elites are not dumb, but they are stupid. They’ll accelerate and drive us straight into a global collapse.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 3 days ago:
Isn’t Labour right wing now too?
- Comment on Sony 1 week ago:
Games used to be much more simple too, and easier to test and fix.
- Comment on Butter 1 week ago:
This calls for a Butterian Jihad!
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 week ago:
Thanks! I just wondered what could be in the game that triggers banning it in my region.
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 week ago:
Any idea why “This item is currently unavailable in your region”?
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 2 weeks ago:
You wrote “they stole all their data”. Since they mostly use publicly available data like books, articles, papers, internet forums, social media (all public info) it must mean they “stole” that public data.
Which means you believe that data should be intellectual property and belong to someone like meta or reddit (who else?). This is exactly what the oligarchs want.
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 2 weeks ago:
I said no such thing. Private is private. I’m saying there is no such thing as public information, information that you put on the public internet, meaning for the public to see, then being somehow not “free”.
You can argue about copyright a little, I’m against it, but this has nothing to do with private messages or private information or data protection.
You’re just arguing a strawman and trying to make the discussion about something else and an ad hominem calling me a troll.
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 2 weeks ago:
Public information vs private information
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 2 weeks ago:
Well yeah, they suck. I’m a fan of anna’s archive.
But this doesn’t change the fact that AI models will continue to improve, and the tactical question is if we give them munition to monopolize it using “intellectual property” rights. I want open source/weights models to use locally without paying some license to meta or reddit or some publisher cartel.
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 2 weeks ago:
That is incorrect though, it follows the fallacy that it’s just like a big database where all that (much larger) data is being copied and compressed into. It’s called machine learning and denying the reality of how it works is just not useful.
Imagine you study as an engineer in whatever field, but now laws have been passed that you only licensed the knowledge from university and publishers. If you work you have to demonstrate who you learned it from and then pay royalty fees. Obviously that would be insane for humans, but I do forsee that they will try to do this for machine learning. Because of the argument you made.
So any open source / weight model you find and could run locally (like e.g. deepseek) will now be illegal because you can’t prove where “dey tuerg dur dartae” from.
Thus all potential future gains from AI will be monopolized, while the costs socialized.
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 2 weeks ago:
Every book ever published, every article anybody ever wrote, every comment anyone ever posted on a public internet is “consent” to read and learn from it.
I’m pro piracy as you can tell. The idea that something can be out there publicly on the internet but it’s “not consent” to read is the intellectual property one. Look at how they try to gatekeep publicly owned scientific papers. Big AI is clearly hypocritical doing this, but corporations are just soulless, amoral programs executed by sentient humans.
But the RESULT of all that (e.g. deepseek) should belong to all people. And THAT is why these IP arguments by fuckAI are dangerous, because it is only a threat to open models. The answer is open source (or weight) AI models and with advances in computing to run them locally.
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 2 weeks ago:
they stole all there data
Obviously fuck the capitalists and AI scammers. But reading and learning from a library, then writing and selling your own book based on that is NOT stealing. It’s the wrong argument.
The answer obviously is to keep the actual source material and libraries and book archives open and just run open source AI models at home. You can run smaller versions on a solar powered PC no problem.
The issue with trying to make “AI is just stolen” happen is that it will make open source AI models illegal. AI companies would love that because they can afford to license and pay or work around or obscure or whatever. The “intellectual property” argument is always a disgusting capitalist one. Knowledge is either free or nothing is.
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 4 weeks ago:
Tbh there is little evidence. There is a lot of shitposting people socialists are pissed off being called “tankie” or communist as a slur. I mean this shit is old. McCarthy would love this “oh you’re a tankie!” shit.
The worst I’ve seen is a communist community discussing that Stalin needs to be rehabilitated for his role in building up the USSR despite his “mistakes” (The big oopsie of 3.3 million dead in the great purge). I mean that is just stupid.
The larger issue is the laser focus the liberal community has on tankies, it’s not the fascists that are currently rising or already ruling, noooo it’s the “authoritarian tankies” that are at the lowest of their power ever. Whoever has been putting money into this tankie meme is brilliant. Just amplify that shit and stoke that hatred. Fascism bad, but oh please don’t be too radical lol.
So basically lemmy failed as a platform precisely because the neoliberal have managed to already cut out the socialist heart of lemmy.
- Comment on Gog Promotional E-Mail Containing Nazi Symbols Goes Out to Subscribers 5 weeks ago:
Maybe support for Ukraine lol. Zelensky just honored Andrey Melnik, a twentieth-century Ukrainian fascist leader and Nazi collaborator who fought with the Nazi’s against the Red Army (NYTimes)
- Comment on How do I re-establish peaceful relations with a family of crows? 5 weeks ago:
No clue how exactly, but maybe you could also give them “toys” or things that are fun for them. Or shiny things that jingle or something lol. Or maybe build them a raised stand where they can land and look with a roof against rain. Or maybe even a birdbath?
- Comment on Hasan Piker, Cenk Uygur Denied Entry to UK Over Palestine Support 5 weeks ago:
The Israel regime is deliberately fostering hate against Jews to bolster their domestic power. They are literally antisemites.
- Comment on Extremely common red dwarf L 5 weeks ago:
Gotta look at the orange dwarfs. Kurzgesagt just had an interesting video.
- Comment on Why does the GOP think “ANTIFA” is bad? 8 months ago:
Fascism is capitalism in decay. It’s what you can sell right now. A modern definition is “moral belief in inequality based on identity (race / gender)”. This is what is selling right now because the dream of prosperity with liberalism is over. Shit’s bad. So that is what the propaganda channels have been churning out, on on fox, on social media, on youtube for younger audiences. Ultimately the reason is greed for money / priviledge by people without scruples.
Check out What Is Fascism? An Excerpt From “Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It” | Truthout
It’s only going to get worse from now on.
- Comment on IT'S A TRAP 9 months ago:
This hypothetical post is a thought crime!
- Comment on Missing banana for scale. 9 months ago:
Haha well that is much darker and sounds like a good premise for a science fiction / fantasy. I think star trek had a story like that. And planet of the apes / the time machine.
Crazy enough, there have been attempts to create a hybrid between an chimpanzee and a human. Luckily, none succeeded lol
- Comment on Missing banana for scale. 9 months ago:
Yeah that’s basically what we’ve done to wolves, horses, cats and cows/oxen through breeding. A giant ape would be a little more intelligent and sapient, but not that much. What would be unique would be a domesticated animal that can grasp and pick up and carry things, and trained to use some tools.
- Comment on Missing banana for scale. 9 months ago:
Imagine homo florensis had managed to domesticate Gigantopithecus, riding on their shoulders like toddlers shooting arrows.
History would have played out differently with a mini Genghis Khan and his horde riding on giant apes!
- Comment on I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it. 11 months ago:
Yeah, afaik airvpn basically can’t offer VPN to Italian citizens any more because they’d be forced to keep logs. But they can still get customers from outside Italy. And presumably Italians can still use VPN outside Italy. I think, let me know if I’m wrong.
- Comment on I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it. 11 months ago:
Many have done that for decades, but the tend remains that the internet is getting less and less free.
- Comment on I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it. 11 months ago:
Italy made VPNs practically illegal. The UK might soon follow. And surfing the web with a VPN is a painful torrent of capchas.
- Comment on I dont want to enter a contract when consuming your product.. 11 months ago:
Yeah you’d want to legally verify that and organize en masse for this to have any impact.
- Comment on I dont want to enter a contract when consuming your product.. 11 months ago:
There should be an “protest buy” action to any the products that do this bullshit. A large group of people buy the products and then return them to the store for a refund. Especially for perishable goods, this would make them worthless. Which would make stocking such products a loss and force the vendors and manufacturers to cut the shit out.
- Comment on Little Bullshitter 11 months ago:
This should be banned for self-censorsh!t.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 11 months ago:
“Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims.”
If you call this terrorism, you can call anything terrorism, and anybody can be a terrorist. If you’re willing to do that to aid the Israel fascist state, that makes you a fascist.
And sure, that was very much illegal and they could have used any number of laws applicable to attacking a military base. Just not terrorism. But the UK military is involved in a partnership in the gaza war. They are not “non-combatants”