• rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml
    32·
    15 days ago

    Wow Lula won! Not bad.

    Even though I dislike him because of what he did to Venezuela with BRICS, he is a better choice than Bozonazi.

    • KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml
      18·
      15 days ago

      Yeah, the left hasn’t reached their full potential in Brazil yet. But at least the communist movement has space to grow now. Especially if Lula decides to ban Meta

    • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      9·
      14 days ago

      Well, uh, I know comrades have opinions about Pedro Sanchez here in Spain, but I am kinda hoping the snap elections don’t result in a right-wing victory at the moment. 😭😭

        • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          3·
          12 days ago

          Just now getting my insurance. I hope they don’t change anything about how to become a full Spanish citizen later (I am only an EU citizen atm)

          • Maeve@kbin.earth
            4·
            12 days ago

            Think positive thoughts, be prepared for anything. I have the utmost confidence in your ability to navigate complexities and heal, simultaneously. Of course, I want to take concerns seriously, and you can address them, with online and 3D comrades, a therapist with whom you work well, all of the above. Always with an eye toward, “I’ve come through the worst. I am strong, healthy, getting better, and things will work out for me!”

            It may sound a little doubtful to you at tomes, but as Sun Tzu noted, the battle is won and lost before we’re ever on the field.

            I love you, dear comrade, and I’m glad that rather than remain paralyzed by fear, doubt, denial, rage, you are finding a way to make the most of your available options. That takes real courage, strength, taming the inner beast. I am so proud of you!

            And maybe one day we can meet in 3D. I would be honored and love to meet my sister and friend in real life.

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmygrad.ml
    23·
    15 days ago

    Have a great week, everyone! Be sure to wear weather-appropriate clothing as the seasons change where you live!

    As always, communism will win.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    23·
    15 days ago

    Life is happening fast right now. On the plus side I feel the most alive I have in years. On the downside I have an anxiety disorder that likes to punch me in the throat.

    I am starting therapy soon, though, so I hope it can help me in my eternal struggle against my own brain.

    • Maeve@kbin.earth
      11·
      15 days ago

      I’m sorry for that, Comrade. I wish you swift success in slaying that “demon.”

      Wishing everyone a good week

  • rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml
    22·
    14 days ago

    Mbappe got metaphorically smacked very beautifully by China due to his disrespectful comments regarding Mao Zedong.

    • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      16·
      13 days ago

      I love it tho Mbappe is not that terrible politically as other footballers so it kinda sucks it happened to him. But props to China for putting a stop to the infantile and malicious slander of their political figures, lie after lie turned the characterization of Mao as a dictador in the west while Mao is widely loved in his country.

      • rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml
        17·
        13 days ago

        Honestly, it is good that he was made an example. It feels nice when libs can’t get away with their anticommunist slanders.

  • TabularTuxedo@lemmygrad.ml
    17·
    11 days ago

    I’m realizing that if Marx was alive today, he would 100% be the sort of guy that would use Excel or LibreOffice Calc as an everything app.

    I’m talking a giant spreadsheet with random notes, links to other books, and images and graphs on any cells.

    And poor Engels would have to parse this mess.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    16·
    10 days ago

    You can think of AI ethics what you want. What amazes me most is that people genuinely seem to like the art style many of these AI’s produce. It just looks like pure, soulless slop to me. But it’s everywhere. Stickers on lampposts are now made with AI. Pictures of food in restaurants are. Wedding invitations. I wonder how you’d look back on a souvenir of one of the most special days in your life years from now and it’s just… slop. Even drawing something yourself would probably be better.

        • demeritum@lemmygrad.ml
          5·
          10 days ago

          OMG, that’s so true. The last few days, I’ve been getting the same two AI drama shorts as ads where everyone looks like a human except for the women intended to appear attractive - they look like straight-up uncanny dolls.

    • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
      7·
      10 days ago

      The GPT asthetic is an artistic lowest common denominator of all the training data. It makes sense that many people would like it.

      I imagine that after the american AI giants fall there will be a new wave of boutique AI companies that have more focused models and the different image generation companies will likely try to differentiate themselves from the GPT look and one another.

    • KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml
      6·
      10 days ago

      For real, and the information in those stickers/posters is very cluttered and hard to make out. That’s why graphic design is so important

    • Angry_Fuck@lemmygrad.ml
      6·
      10 days ago

      I want a roll of copies of a sticker I got form a local artist, which is made to get on these AI images IRL, which translates to: FUCK YOUR AI IMAGE. And along the edges: PAY AN ARTIST, YOU FUCKING MISER. I might even want something of the eggshell variety, that one that either can’t be destroyed without leaving crap behind or the glue itself keeps some words on.

      On a side note, I get this weird feeling that the digital is bleeding, like JPEG artifacts in actual printed images and such. It’s weird.

    • chinawatcherwatcher@lemmygrad.ml
      5·
      10 days ago

      hopefully at some point the novelty of making something very quickly will wear off in favor of what the experience of consuming it is actually like

  • KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml
    16·
    11 days ago

    The EU new age restriction laws mean that subreddits about sexual health or transgender surgeries aren’t visible anymore, unless you give them your personal data. And since I’m a communist and those subreddits can be very personal, I don’t trust them with that information. They’re not making anyone safer, they’re just withholding important information, which leads to people being unsafer. If it was China, I wouldn’t mind giving them my data, but this is the EU we’re talking about. Fuck the EU

  • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
    15·
    14 days ago

    Sometimes I find myself wanting to go like “what would my life be like if xyz part of my life had gone differently?” That sort of thing. I spose in kind of a regretful way, like wishing for a better path. But then, from a diamat point of view, it seems about as meaningful as asking “what if I was a different person?” I mean, my genetics would be the same still, but if my early life had been significantly different for example, I wouldn’t have a lot of the same memories that I have, I wouldn’t have had a lot of the same experiences that I had to grow from. There’d still be aspects of me that would be the same (namely, predispositions) but the rest of it could be pretty different.

    But I might be looking at it in more of an old paradigm way too. Maybe the communist way would be to say “yeah, it could have been better and here’s how” for the purposes of better understanding what needs to be better for people broadly going forward. I can’t change what the foundation of my life was, but I can try to contribute to other people having a better foundation.

    • Maeve@kbin.earth
      8·
      14 days ago

      This is a beautiful attitude. I’m more of the mind justice may be more us learning to accept, only keep past memories as data points for mapping a way forward, releasing resentments. The body will follow the mind.