I wonder if it’ll be the porn.

I’m going to be so pissed if this AI bullshit ends up drawing too much attention to the best shadow libraries and they get bopped because of it.

Yeah I know. The first sentence should have made it clear that I was commenting on the fashion industry at large in that particular portion of the comment.

Yeah, there’s a reason why there’s such a massive resistance to things like public transit and universal healthcare; it’s because desperate plebs are easier to abuse. Someone dependent on their employer-provided health insurance will be less likely to step out of line when their access to important stuff like insulin is threatened.

China has implemented a state capitalist economy and like most Marxist-Leninist projects, it seems to have stalled at that stage, so I would say that the commentary applies.

Eh, they just posted (and then immediately reposted after it was removed) a mildly antagonistic comment. Like I said, the user in question seems like they want a comm that serves a different purpose than what we’re going for, then they came back next day in a separate thread to continue derailing/arguing about it instead of just making peace with the fact that the comm isn’t going to be what they want and looking elsewhere. It’s just annoying gray area behavior that’s taking focus away from the actual content. I would heavily encourage users not to do stuff like that. I don’t think that it makes for a good experience to click on an interesting thread expecting discussion/jokes/memes relevant to the topic and all the comments are just that shit instead.

Yeah, it’s definitely amusing to witness.

That little monarch really needs to stop appropriating our aesthetic to justify such nonsense.

Honestly, the fashion industry in general is one of the more blatant examples of the shallow, conspicuous consumer culture that capitalism fosters. It encourages people to define themselves by the products that they buy and is often used to signal social status. People pay top dollar to get brand name products (which of course usually has the brand logo plastered on it): literally paying money to advertise a company’s product for them. I’ve also been told before that clothing is a massive pain in the ass to produce, so fast fashion having serious ethical problems would not be surprising.

Glad you liked it!

Well, you’re free to your opinion on that one.

What kind of cooling methods specifically should be implemented here?

Nah, this is the right community for this article. climateandcapitalism is an ecosocialist publication and mitigating climate disaster is a key policy goal for most socialists, so it is important for us to observe the consequences of climate change and think about effective solutions for various communities.

Can’t come soon enough. I’m stuck in connector hell over here with USB-A, USB-C, and Micro-USB.

It’s all good.

Socialism is a series of political movements on top of being an economic theory and our platforms cover more than just said theory. For example, socialists have been in the ring for Palestine since well before October 7th and want to hold the assholes in power accountable for facilitating this atrocity (and past atrocities); as such, it is important to pay attention to who is responsible and why so that when they try to bullshit their way out of accountability, it doesn’t work.

As for your other link there, that’s just part of a larger series of paying close attention to the behavior and biases of corporate media outlets, which has been a time-honored socialist tradition that even predates when Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky first published Manufacturing Consent in 1988. Such media outlets have large amounts of influence over public opinion and frequently serve as reinforcement for the ideology and politics of the bourgeoisie, so if they’re capitulating to US government officials and their nonsense (or are being intimidated into being even less critical of them than they already are), then that is something socialists should pay attention to (because it can, has been, and will continue to be weaponized against us).

Basically, this beehive is a news feed for stuff that would be of interest to socialists and our political goals from preferably leftist news sources, though theory discussion is also welcome (I occasionally post reading lists as well).

BTW, the Fediverse equivalent is called Friendica and it also supports more platform protocols than just ActivityPub.

If you post in public, it can be scraped; that’s true on Bluesky as well as the Fediverse and also on the centralized corporate platforms. It’s something you have to be mindful of when posting. Using privacy-conscious walled chat apps is the better option for people who want to avoid that, but even those can have leakers in the group chat.

Mozilla is looking pretty cooked, NGL.

Oh yeah. I’ve always thought that Tlaib is the best of the squad members, personally.