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“Imagine what it would look like if ChatGPT were a lossless algorithm. If that were the case, it would always answer questions by providing a verbatim quote from a relevant Web page. We would probably regard the software as only a slight improvement over a conventional search engine, and be less impressed by it. The fact that ChatGPT rephrases material from the Web instead of quoting it word for word makes it seem like a student expressing ideas in her own words, rather than simply regurgitating what she’s read; it creates the illusion that ChatGPT understands the material. In human students, rote memorization isn’t an indicator of genuine learning, so ChatGPT’s inability to produce exact quotes from Web pages is precisely what makes us think that it has learned something. When we’re dealing with sequences of words, lossy compression looks smarter than lossless compression.”
“we need to organize and create safety nets before a general strike, quit calling for these informal and unorganized strikes”
Remember when the pandemic hit and everyone hoarded toilet paper and then started overcharging for it online?
Yeah good luck getting people to care about class consciousness, each other, & organizing before capitalism kills us all (if global warming doesn’t do it first)
Anyway I think everyone just agreeing to take the same day off or Not show up to work for just One day with a unified list of demands is more realistic. Like respect to Marx and Kropotkin and everyone but they were functioning in a reality that’s fundamentally different than ours and if y'all could get that through your fucking heads and stop advocating that there’s only One Right Way to tell capitalists to fuck off and that’s how some dudes from 100 years ago said to do it…that’d be amazing.
Adjust. Adapt. It’s okay, daddy Marx is already dead, he can’t be disappointed. He can’t hurt you here.
And before him and the other messiahs like him were born do you know what workers did?
Theyd ask for a raise and if they didn’t get it they just walked off the job. In fact in 1762 sailors said “give me a raise or I will strike down the sails of your ship” and the bosses were like “okay well that would fucking suck. here you go” which is where the term strike itself comes from.
And like you have a better chance of THAT -of threatening your boss’s property to have your demands met- than of ~formally~ organizing 160 million workers across the USA before the next century arrives.
Something to consider. My two cents in the ongoing conversation about workers rights.
How does “everyone agree to just not show up to work on the same day” happen without years of methodical and strategic organizing? How can a group of people in the same workplace (let alone across a geographic area) build trust and confidence in the idea of doing a walk off together off a trending hashtag? Even in the example you gave, I have serious doubts that workers all spontaneously decided to threaten their boss like that without first getting together and having conversations between each other, building trust, and making a plan to take collective action! It would be great if a large group of workers just woke up one day already coordinated and on the same page, but thats simply idealistic thinking.
Saw this post floating around, don’t wanna target anyone or argue with Zionists, but it is my duty (especially as an actually indigenous Jew) to educate well-meaning gentiles who might see this and think they have no right to speak on the matter. I’ll go point by point.
1) “Is it so terrible for a Jew to be a Zionist?”
If we were living in any other era, where the genocidal crimes of Israel were not as widely known (though they were verywelldocumented), you could perhaps ask this question in sincerity. Many Jews (such as myself) grow up in religious educational settings which either fail to mention the human rights violations of the state or claim they’re justified because “they want to kill us!” Past a certain point, though, one can’t continue to claim ignorance of what Zionism actually does. Short answer: yes, it is terrible for anyone to claim to be a Zionist, but this will be more evident as I continue to analyze these arguments.
2) “Zionism is the belief in the inherent right of the Jewish people to return to their homeland”
First of all, Palestine is not the “homeland” of the Jewish people any more than Siberia is the homeland of indigenous american tribes. Is there a historical connection? Yes, but though assimilation and migration Jews have found homes across the world. For me, my homeland is Mexico, because my family has lived there for generations, partly through migration but mostly through having cultivated the land for millennia. Even biblically speaking, Palestine does not “belong” to the Jewish people, it belongs to G-d. Furthermore, there is no shortage of Jewish scholarship and activism that asserts that wherever we live, that is our homeland. Frankly, I’m more interested in fighting to stay where I am than fighting to force people out of their homes to accommodate me.
3) “Zionism is the belief in the Jewish right not to be murdered”
By murdering others instead? Once again, there is no shortage of Jewish scholarship and activism in favor of Jewish self defense where we live. Jewish resistance fighters lived and died fighting the nazis in Europe under the third reich. If Zionism was actually interested in preventing Jewish death, it would fight antisemitism where it is. “Preventing murder” is not an excuse to commit genocide.
4) “there are so many definitions of Zionism”
Sorry but I just think of this tweet from @jewdas on Twitter when I read this: “There’s a actual existing Zionism which practices apartheid and denial of human rights. But there’s another Zionism inside my head which is all rainbows and kosher marshmallows, so who can say which is the real Zionism?” In other words, the actual, material consequences of Zionist beliefs are more important than what any individual thinks their Zionism is. Once again, we live in the Information Age, where anyone can easily learn about the damage that Zionism has done in Palestine and abroad. There is no excuse to continue using the label that doesn’t presuppose complete ignorance of Israeli violence.
5) “zionists just want to be safe from antisemitism in the diaspora”
See points 3 & 4.
6) “and this is different from evangelical zionists”
8) “people refuse to see the difference in types of Zionism because they hate the Jews”
No, it’s because there are no material differences. See point 4. Evangelical Zionism and Jewish Zionism actually share quite a bit in common. The “Jewish state” would not exist without evangelical Zionists. See point 6. And the original Jewish Zionist thinkers had a vested interest in tying the two together.
tl;dr, Zionism is a violent ideology in practice, and no amount of making excuses can hide the fact that it is genocidal and serves European/American interests. Additionally, just because one is not Jewish does not mean one does not have a duty and an obligation to eliminate Zionism wherever it crops up. Zionism has had disastrous consequences for Palestinians, and as western citizens, we benefit from their suffering. It must end now. May Palestine be freed in our lifetimes.
do people earnestly think that an independent artist would have a chance in hell if they decided to sue a media corporation if said corporation plagarized their artistic work? be realistic
hey remember when hot topic and disney decided to print a bunch of disney fan art on their t shirts and the fan artists’ hands were tied because it was technically disney’s property to use??? hey remember when disney sent legal threats to small artists making baby yoda throw blankets on etsy and the small artists had absolutely no recourse at all??? hey remember when walt fucking disney himself plagarized oswald the lucky rabbit and then the disney corporation managed to manipulate the legal system so that the character remained their sole legal property for a hundred goddamn years??? stop playing pretend.
like let me be crystal clear: when you have a conflict where the resolution relies on one side having more money and resources to throw at it to ensure it turns out in their favor, the entity that has more money is going to win. even if they are wrong. even if you don’t think it’s right. this is how the legal system fucking works. assuming everything is fair and equal just because the laws on the books say so is foolish point blank period.
