Yep. And that’s exactly why we need to keep electing self-proclaimed socialists.

That’s quite a cherry-picked quote, and to connect it to Bernie and AOC is to completely disregard the rest of the text.

Rosa draws a distinction between being a legislator in a parliament – where you’re able to battle the state within its own arena, and expose its contradictions – and being an executive in a cabinet – where your job is to manage crises and therefore hide contradictions.

But coming from a minister, social reforms can’t have the character of the proletarian class, but solely the character of the bourgeois class, for the minister, by the post he occupies, attaches himself to that class by all the functions of a bourgeois, militarist government. While in parliament, or on the municipal council, we obtain useful reforms by combating the bourgeois government, while occupying a ministerial post we arrive at the same reforms by supporting the bourgeois state.

She also explicitly endorses political engagement as a means of class struggle:

Personally, in this great gathering of the different socialist organizations in the free play of the daily political struggle, we don’t fear the least danger for the doctrine of Marx and the principles of democratic socialism, in as much as they have already taken root in France. There is no better school for socialist democracy than the great and living class struggle freed from abstract clichés. The materialist conception of history doesn’t allow us to believe in the development of a living popular movement begotten of abstract formulas; on the contrary, it’s on the material base of a great and strong class struggle, embracing all of the proletariat, that a clear conception of theory and principles will be erected.

And not for nothing, the Communist Manifesto does too:

In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things.

In all these movements, they bring to the front, as the leading question in each, the property question, no matter what its degree of development at the time.

Finally, they labour everywhere for the union and agreement of the democratic parties of all countries.

The broader theme of Rosa’s text is to not accidentally align yourself with liberals in a cross-class coalition by focusing only on the political question of the day. I think we’re in danger of doing that with memes just as much as self-proclaimed socialist politicians are in danger of doing it by entering government.

Anyone know the status of Chimera Linux wrt age verification?

VSCode/Codium with vim mode. Regular vim if I’m stuck in text land.

I haven’t tried neovim. Supposedly that could handle everything I need out of vscode, but it’s easier to not be an odd one out at work.

Cursed knowledge.

Kojimamoto Toshibayamaha

10/10

When yall gonna arrest Sam Altman?

How many vulnerabilities would’ve been found if we had spent several million dollars on human security researchers though?

Culture is our most important invention as a species. So important, in fact, that we’ve evolved to make it essential to our individual health and collective capacity to function. To deny someone access to interact with culture on the basis of their lack of wealth is cruel and anti-human.

Likewise, developing something like an LLM, which spews thoughtless pollution into the only shared infosphere we have, and displaces individuals’ ability to connect to each other to develop culture… that is an existential threat to the human race and should be opposed vehemently.

Perpetual loop of “bounty encourages bad reports”, “canceled bounty”, “bug reports improve”, “bounty comes back”, “bounty encourages bad reports”…

Everything is a third kind of thing that unifies the physical and mental

Tyring

Also there is such a thing as Chihuahua cuisine.

Ever is an extremely long time.

Probably not for technical reasons, but for IP reasons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46554890

To be clear, the best case scenario here is a Chrome vs Chromium scenario, because they want the ability to slip in some proprietary components into their official build in order to play nicely with their paid services.

Seems fair to me, and I understand why that’s a substantial effort if they’re still at basically a PoC stage.

Edit: And for the record, I am much happier paying With Reach (Kagi) with my dollars than I ever was paying Google with my data, so I’m very much in favor of this model. Still, some neckbeards only wanna use software from orgs who are in it “for the love of the game”.

A Russian is on an airliner heading to the US, and the American in the seat next to him asks, “So what brings you to the US?” The Russian replies, “I’m studying the American approach to propaganda.” The American says, “What propaganda?” The Russian says, “That’s what I mean.”

How are they gonna get him to stand under a Rome statue?

I truly wish they could steal it away.

The BT client will advertise the IP(s) of whatever network interface(s) you allow it to use.