Starmer is no where near Blair 2.0, Blair at least had charisma, a political plan and, at least before Iraq, genuinly had mass grass roots support. Starmer has none of them, he’s an apolitical middle maneger who has been pushed to the top of the party by a right wing clique in labour as a way to purge the left.
Also, I’m not sure to what extent this law is applied in practice.
as per the article general_effort posted:
The act – which makes it a criminal offence, punishable by life imprisonment, to advocate abolition of the monarchy in print, even by peaceful means – has not been deployed in a prosecution since 1879.
Its one of those laws that are on the books mostly becuase no one has got around to modifying it and removing the bits that are unused.
Not easy to extract sure, but is it secure enough for you to claim that it hasnt been leaked and so forms a secure chain of custody? Once one has been leaked then that can be used to sign any fake pictures you like. I woudnt buy that for anything for serious than is this meme picture real.
In order for it to be traceable with a public key, it needs to be signed with the private key. That means the private key has to be on the camera. That means it can be extracted from the camera and leaked.
Sure it wouldnt be rational to care about DRM being broken a small amount allowing limited amount of copyright material to be copied.
What do you think their response would be?
No way they’d do that though, because then they’d have the mouse and the other members of the content mafia breathing down their necks.
It depends, if they’re use a transformer or diffusion based archetecture I think it would be fair to include it in the same “AI wave” thats been breaking since the release of chat gpt publicly.
I mean, if we’re going to shoot people for their awful beliefs I would like to know there is a good system in place so that we don’t end up shooting Alex Jacobson because Alex Jacobsonn has been spotted attending Klan rallies.
So again, if you want to advocate for extrajudicial violence: who gets to decide where the boot is stamping, and how do you propose making sure that it isn’t co-opted by bad people for their own ends?
and who gets to decide who is a fascist, you?
Essentially that there a bunch of far-left users (in reddit in this case but in other places too) colloquially refered to as “tankies”. They are noticably different from other groups and the centre- and far-left in what they talk about, who they associate with, and the agressiveness of their discussions.
They are far more focused on parroting the offical state position of the CCP, DPRK and Russia, far less interested in social issues and more interested in geo-politics, and far more likely to use violent language “kill the libs” etc.
The authors show this by looking at a huge chunk of reddit posts seeing who posts what, where and how communities link to each other.
This figure
is hard to understand at first but instructive once you do. For each of the word pairing the word on the left is what the tankie subreddits use and the one on the right is what the non tankie far-left subreddit in that column uses, the number is how strong this difference is. For example the blue one in the third column (Zelensky - Trump) means that the tankies use “Zelensky” in the same way the r/DemocraticSocialism uses “Trump”, presumably talking shit about them. It gives a sense of just how different the discourse is between them and even the groups who you would expect to be ideologically most similar to them, and how they hugely prefer to use terms and framing that the Russian and Chinese government do.
I saw some research about this recently let me see if I can find it, it was based on reddit communities but I think it applies to lemmy as much if not more.
ah here it is
ABSTRACT
Social media’s role in the spread and evolution of extremism is a focus of intense study. Online extremists have been involved in the spread of online hate, mis- and disinformation, and real-world violence. However, most existing work has focuses on right-wing extremism. In this paper, we perform a first of its kind large-scale measurement study exploring left-wing extremism. We focus on “tankies,” a left-wing community that first arose in the 1950s in support of hardline actions of the USSR and has evolved to support what they call “Actually Existing Socialist” countries, e.g., CCP-run China, the USSR, and North Korea. We collect and analyze 1.3M posts from 53K authors from tankie subreddits, and explore the position of tankies within the broader far-left community on Reddit. Among other things, we find that tankies are clearly on the periphery of the larger far-left community. When examining the contents of posts, we find misalignments and conceptual homomorphisms that confirm the description of tankies in the theoretical work. We also discover that tankies focus more on state-level political events rather than social issues. Our findings provide empirical evidence of the distinct positioning and discourse of left-wing extremist groups on social media.
Aye quite possibly, there’s a pinned post about it on their front page so its possible its taking a bit of a load battering. I’ll keep my eye out for your instance then.
Is there a post on this anywhere? I’d consider moving to solarpunk to get off lemmy and away from the tankies, but when I tried the .world piefed instance it was incredibly slow.
Thats because in general the “leftists” that occupy spaces like ml arent really leftists at all, they are anti-western idologues. You will very rarely see them posting about things left wing people tend to care about like workers rights, cost of living, housing or things like that. They are far more interested in geopolitics, especially on issues where they can make “west bad” posts.
Why would you bother mind controlling bees in order to make them do the thing they would be doing anyway?
If you are just talking transitor density I believe it still is, but even if not, my point was that it had exponential growth spanning over many decades.
That said, exponentials don’t exist in the real world, we’re just seeing the middle of a sigmoid curve, which will soon yield diminishing returns.
Yes, but the tricky thing is we have no idea when the seemingly exponential growth will flip over into the plateuing phase. We could be there already or it could be another 30 years.
For comparison Moores law is almost certainly a sigmoid too, but weve been seeing exponential growth for 50 years now.
From historical data, you can calculate the maximum lull where neither are providing enough.
The difficulty there is that there are a lot of places where you frequently get multiple weeks of both solar and wind at <10% capacity (google for dunkelflaute) that would need an implausible amount of storage to cover.
The OP article is already talking about 5x overbuilding solar with 17h of storage to get to 97% in the most favourable conditions possible. I dont see how you can get to an acceptably stable grif in most places without dispatchable power.
97% is great (though that is just for vegas) but it is still a long way from enough. Its a truism of availability that each 9 of uptime is more difficult to get to than the last, i.e. 99.9% is significantly more difficult/expensive than 99%
Then get it from the sources that already exist.
The problem here is that you cant simultaneously say “Solar is so much better than everything else we should just build it” and “we’ll just use other sources to cover the gaps”. Either you calculate the costs needed to get solar up to very high availability or you advocate for mixed generation.
None of which is to say that solar shouldnt be deployed at scale, it should. We should be aware of its limitations howver and not fall prey to hype.
Dont be a dick, people arent simping for Thiel just because they think the article you posted is over interpreting a single pause.