Rhakimdar

Curious person seeking enlightenment through gaming and multimedia. he/him | | | gmail: freebird108

[Rhakimdar @Rhakimdar]

You can tell me the odds are against me. Or that its never gonna happen. Thatll just drive me further to make it. Because defying the odds and overcoming the impossible is how a HERO rolls. JUST WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM!! Im Rhakimdar, and i will make my dream a reality!

[Noah Khrachvik @khrachvik]

Socialism in China began with a handful of guys in a dingy back room, and grew to be the (arguably) most powerful political force in the world, and (inarguably) the force responsible for eliminating more poverty than anything else in human history. They began with NOTHING and built a society that today looks like a science fiction movie to us Americans.

Socialism in Russia began with a third world country where most people lived in huts and couldn't read, and within a couple decades put the first human being in space, the second largest economy in the entire world, and many more achievements, all while suffering an IMMEDIATE invasion by over a dozen capitalist countries that triggered a horrible civil war, then suffered the main brunt of WW2, losing TONS of productive industry in the process and sacrificing over 20 million of its people to defeat the scourge of fascism and save the world from its grip. They began with NOTHING and built the 2nd largest economy in the world that never saw a single day's peace, as the capitalist world was constantly attacking them.

The notion that socialism has no conception of how wealth is created or what is productive is so ludicrous for someone in the US, which is now barely creating ANYTHING productive while socialism with Chinese characteristics creates most of the productive wealth in the world, that it is seriously almost implausible someone could believe it.

[I Dissent @DissentFu]

Love to see the People taking their power back from these fuckass government psycopaths.

When will America???

[ZACH 🇵🇸 @cozyplup]

16 yrs in development… the behind of scenes on how wildwood was made is CRAZY! so how much hard work and dedication that ai could never recreate. im in actual tears.

[bONGO 🎃 @wariocolosseum]

this is why i can never get behind gen ai bc how could u see an incredible process like this and think "how can i skip this process and generate soulless dogshit instead"

[the Juice Media @thejuicemedia]

The Government™ has made an ad about the protests happening around the world, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.🌍🌎🌏

[𝓟𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓮𝓼𝓪 🐸 @princesalamwane]

It’s more like this

[USSR Pictures @PicturesUssr]

"The right place for an infant is at the nursery, not in the tundra.", Soviet poster, 1967

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

That story about Google killing hundreds of thousands of trees in Finland for its data center project is such a perfect microcosm of what capitalism is doing to our world.

Recent mass media headlines are saying the tech giant "illegally" cut down "250,000" trees, but both claims paint an inaccurate picture of what actually happened. Google killed 400,000 trees (250,000 near a town called Muhos and another 150,000 near the village of Otanmäki), and unless the company's executives actually wind up going to prison for this, their actions cannot properly be described as "illegal".

I don't know who first coined the saying "If the penalty is a fine, then it's legal for rich people," but it certainly applies here. The Finnish Licensing and Supervision Authority has reportedly ordered Google to suspend all “measures that significantly change the environment," saying it will "consider enforcement proceedings and fines" if the megacorporation does not comply. Google's parent company Alphabet has a net worth of around four trillion dollars. Whatever paltry penalties Finland might impose for these ecocidal actions, it won't have any meaningful effect on Google.

Giant corporations do this shit all the time. They calculate that the fines incurred by their abusive actions will be dwarfed by the massive profits they generate, issue fake apologies as needed, and leave it to their armies of lawyers to minimize the damage. That's why the Sackler family is still worth billions despite all the fines Purdue Pharma was slapped with while creating the US opiate epidemic.

A 2017 Harvard study titled “The Opioid Epidemic: Fixing a Broken Pharmaceutical Market" contains the following paragraph:

"Although civil claims and criminal charges were brought against Purdue and its executives, the resulting penalties paled in comparison to extended-release oxycodone profits. In May 2007, the company and its president, chief counsel, and former chief medical officer pled guilty to falsely marketing extended-release oxycodone as 'less addictive, less subject to abuse and diversion, and less likely to cause tolerance and withdrawal than other pain medications.' As part of the plea bargain, Purdue agreed to pay the federal government $600 million and 27 states $20 million. The three executives agreed to $34.5 million in fines but avoided jailtime. By contrast, Purdue has earned an estimated $31 billion in total revenues from extended-release oxycodone since its launch. Rather than deterring fraudulent marketing, the penalties simply became a cost of doing business."

A cost of doing business.

That's how things work under capitalism. The law primarily exists not to protect people or the environment, but to protect the interests of capital. If you destroyed a Google data center you'd probably be charged as a terrorist and spend decades in prison, but Google can destroy the natural world around you and get off with a finger wag and a symbolic fine. If you stole millions of dollars from your employer you'd go to prison for grand larceny, but if your employer steals millions from its employees you need to win a class action lawsuit to get back what they stole from you.

Proponents of capitalism often pretend they support minimal government intervention in civilian affairs, but their entire model is at all times propped up by state power using force to protect the haves from the have-nots at every level of our society. Corporations are free to destroy the environment, destroy your health, rob you, exploit you, and manipulate your government to their advantage, and if you ever take action to stand up to this world-devouring onslaught, the state will lock you in a cage.

In school we are taught that that the law exists to protect ordinary people from bad people, but that's not true at all. Under capitalism, the law exists to protect the very worst among us from everyone else. That's why we are seeing our planet being turned into dust and ashes for no reason other than shareholder profit.

It's an insane system, and it needs to end. These freaks are feeding our entire biosphere into the woodchipper.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

They're just pissing right in your face and telling you it's raining.

[kascadia🇺🇦🇵🇸 @socsoyboy]

Oh by the way- the Supreme Court has repeatedly and consistently ruled that cops are 100% allowed to deny help to members of the public during an emergency. It’s literally, legally, not their job to help you. They are armed enforcement for the state and for capital. That’s it.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The Pentagon is preparing US bases to survive months without outside support in the event of a major war as the UK tells its citizens to stock up on nonperishables and bottled water while prepping for major war within 1,000 days. Lots going on right now but this seems noteworthy.

[Yoda ☭ @UncYoda]

Kwame ture speaks:

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Proposal: AI services are only allowed to generate video and audio content featuring characters who look and sound like robots from a 1970s TV show. They must look metallic and speak in easily identifiable nasally monotones. AI companies are strictly forbidden from providing any service which simulates real people in video or audio media, and if they can't figure out a way to prevent users from generating those materials then their AI models are not allowed on the market. Full ban on any AI replication of audio or moving imagery depicting humans.

I'm serious. We need regulations requiring AI-generated video and audio to be clearly labeled in order to avoid sliding into an information ecosystem where nobody knows what's true anymore, and our universally recognized pop culture depictions of robots would be a perfect way to make it clear to people that they are viewing AI-generated content. Otherwise we're just going to be seeing more and more disinformation, misinformation, fake clickbait YouTube videos, election fraud, scams and AI psychosis until everyone's sense-making faculties are shot to shit.

Have you heard Jack Dorsey's speech-trained AI model Dessa? It's completely indistinguishable from human speech. You hear recordings of human conversations with those chatbots and you can't tell which one is the human and which one is the AI.

Ban that shit. Their similarity to human speech is going to dramatically exacerbate the effects of AI psychosis as more and more people convince themselves they're talking to a real person, and scammers are going to have a field day conning the elderly out of their life savings using simulated human conversations. Make it extremely illegal to create or use any such technology, permitting chatbots to speak only in a flat robot voice.

You can still have AI videos, AI movies, AI audiobooks, and voice conversations with chatbots, they just need to look and sound like something that cannot be mistaken for a real human. If you want your video and audio to look real, you've got to hire real humans to make them. I think that's an entirely moderate and reasonable compromise.

[Puma Chairo @PumaChairo]

Les juro que Estados Unidos es todo lo que Estados Unidos dice que es Norcorea.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

They'll say this shit right out in the open and then you'll STILL get called a crazy conspiracy theorist if you say the CIA is behind the next wave of anti-government unrest in Cuba.

[regis portalez ☭ @koroviev82]

"L’école c'est fait pour apprendre des trucs aux enfants, pas pour gagner de l’argent".

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

1984 type shit. pure totalitarianism
orwell rolling in his grave

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

The Long March is one of the greatest epics in the annals of human history.

In 1934, 86,000 Chinese Red Army soldiers began an arduous 12,500 kilometre journey to escape encirclement. They crossed 40 mountains, 100 rivers and a marshland known as the “death zone”. They fought more than 600 battles on their journey. Only about 7,000 survived the trek to Yan’an, where they established a revolutionary base.

Along the way, the marching soldiers formed deep connections with local peasants. In many ways, that experience formed the bedrock of China's revolutionary process, which was led by the peasantry and continues to be rooted in the countryside to this day.

[Ma Wukong 马悟空 @Ma_WuKong]

🇨🇳 Infraestructuras de China (Partido Comunista): abrimos una nueva ruta comercial en el Himalaya [3000 kilómetros de línea de alta velocidad]

🇦🇷 Infraestructuras de Argentina (Milei): un McDonalds en una gasolinera