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"Tenant and labor unions in Minneapolis and St. Paul have announced plans to carry out what they said would be the “largest rent strike in the United States in the last 100 years.”
Beginning on March 1, if Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz does not meet their urgent demands for an eviction moratorium and rent relief, a coalition of nearly 26,000 workers has pledged to withhold rent, which they said could create a massive economic disruption."
"Tenants in Minnesota are in a crisis," said Minneapolis City Council Member Aisha Chughtai. "The federal invasion forced many of our neighbors to stay home and devastated our local economy."
"This is why I suggest we embrace Tr💀 mp’s concept of Nordic socialism, that we make it our own, that we turn it into a signifier of a new, modern, and democratic socialism, inspired by our own experience with socialist ideas that have demonstrated their worthiness throughout our history."
https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/54318/nordic-socialism-shows-the-way-to-a-democratic-economy
i recognize there's a way of looking at this that's more of a "the more the merrier" type of thing, expanding the number of people that are able to write software.
but let's remember these LLMs are essentially exploiting the work of all the programmers that generated its data, while devaluing that work going forward.
LLMs feel fascist not just because of who is building them, but also they seem intrinsically against neurodiversity. i'm not particularly good at "executive functioning," but I'm a good programmer because my brain is able to focus in a way that "neurotypical" brains don't.
"AI" it takes these activities I enjoy and tries to shoehorn them into something that works for a different type of brain -- i.e. giving conversational orders instead of flow state. which for me just ruins it.
ugh this shit in minnesota really set back my social media hygiene in a huge way. it kind of pains me but i'm going through and unfollowing a bunch of the more politically-focused accounts I followed in the last month because I was so desperate to know what's going on.
i can handle these networks when it's mostly art & nerdy stuff, but political social media always makes me spin out.
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