Empiricist Old-Testament Vajrayana, battered enough by life to have grown-up some, in my nearly-6-decades, autistic geek, philosopher who finds that Western philosophers are nowhere near at the level of correct-thinking of the Vajrayana stuff, & will be tearing-into Marx, etc, for their brainos ( Marx found that capitalism alienated workers, so he replaced capitalism with communism, which somehow “didn’t” alienate workers?? I’ve already cracked the underlying error, but that is a long article. It’ll happen. & so will the dismantling of the other philosophers’ bogons, the whole lot of 'em. : )
There NEVER WAS any “shared understanding”!!
Each of the nations inhabiting North America had ITS OWN understanding, & there simply isn’t any overlap between them.
That has always been true.
What “truth” means in each of the different nations ISN’T true in the others!
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I think people NEED to be using the root-guru of the Christians, benJoseph, as THE leader of Antifa:
He was woke.
He was socialist.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+4%3A32-35&version=CJB
Acts 4: “32 All the many believers were one in heart and soul, and no one claimed any of his possessions for himself, but everyone shared everything he had. 33 With great power the emissaries continued testifying to the resurrection of the Lord Yeshua, and they were all held in high regard. 34 No one among them was poor, since those who owned lands or houses sold them and turned over the proceeds 35 to the emissaries to distribute to each according to his need.”
He was anti-commercial-operation-of-the-temple, & got physically-violent about that.
He claimed that it was easier to get an elephant … dromedary, sorry, through the eye of a needle, than for some oligarch to earn place in heaven…
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+19%3A23-24&version=CJB
He claimed that the ONLY unforgiveable crime was committing against LivingSpirit.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+12%3A31-37&version=CJB
( that last one: I guarantee you that verse of their bible is going to be deemed “satanic” in dictator-Trump’s US of A… it’s too on-point against Trump’s religion. & "Ruach HaKodech, or whatever that spelling was… that’s LivingSpirit.
Here’s a more-comprehensible, for us non-Jews, version of it: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+12%3A31-37&version=EXB )
That’s as anti-fascist/anti-moneyarchist/anti-oligarchist as can be.
& the “Christian” nationalism won’t be able to compute that.
which means it’s probably important to make that real/happen.
Left-handed monkey-wrenches into their machinery’s gears is required, now.
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Sorry, that’s got nothing to do with it:
Thoughtshapes are themselves, & some are more “atomic”, & others are more “molecular”, & others are merely-associating.
I have to fight the urge to use “=” as double-hyphen, to indicate more-atomic, & “-” to indicate still-atomic-just-less, to try to communicate what thoughtshapes I’m meaning, & how their forms work/are.
Translating from thoughtshapes to English … is clumsy-as-hell, breaks many meanings, & prevents entire categories of meaning from being expressible.
I’ve been told by multilingual-people that what I’m describing exactly matches their frustration with getting meanings from 1 language into another.
White psychology holds that there are only 3 innate-mind-languages: VAK…
but there are 4, at-least:
Each of those is mind-blind to things that the other kinds can see.
Temple Grandin did a TED Talk on exactly that, but didn’t mention the abstract-shape cognizers, iirc.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=temple+grandin+ted
She COULDN’T have put the Fukushima-reactor emergency-generators at the bottom of pits, beside the ocean, because she would have SEEN that the tsunami that hit the building, which those generators were supposed to provide power after, would have drowned the things.
Obviously, non-visual-cognizers made that decision, mind-blind to the consequences, obliterating the usefulness of them.
From what I’ve been able to discover, abstract-shape cognizers are common only in physics.
There aren’t many ( I’ve met 2 others, that I’m certain of: I asked them, because their thinking was so different from the VAK types ), & it seems to be the only place where such kind-of-mind has significant … either advantage, or familiarity, not certain which.
So, TL;DR is:
using hyphens in trying to communicate which thoughtshapes are more-atomic, vs which are merely-associating, using the clumsiness of English’s words & grammar/syntax/punctuation,
so you people can get the actual feel for the intended thoughtshapes, themselves.
( instead of the English-bound approximations of them )
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This identifies that we NEED to have an auditing-process that ALWAYS is included, on any weapons we sell to any other geopolitical-actor.
Always.
& an already-acting process where the use of our weapons in the committing of warcrimes automatically removes eligibility for more of the things, & possibly for more economic-engaging, outright.
Accountability is the ONLY means of coercing integrity into power, & if we won’t commit that, then we are criminal-accessories.
No point in pretending otherwise.
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There are some people who can do page-at-a-time comprehension.
But I suspect that with lawyers, it is instead that it isn’t words they are comprehending, rather, it is phrases which changes the whole equation.
I guarantee you that in legalese, there are a gazillion boilerplate/stock phrases, & once one recognizes the phrase, one can skip past it to see what that-“atom” pertains to.
Same as how, in music, one can see a particular phrase or series-of-phrases, & just flow through the playing of that, from one’s programming, not bothering to concern oneself with the sheet-music until that phrase/series-of-phrases is ended.
I’ve encountered enough diversity-in-mental-capability that I’m not balking at that claim of theirs: it’s possible from what I’ve encountered among others.
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some of us were born without navigation, just as some of us were born with arithmetic-defect, or dyslexia, or face-blindness, or whatever.
We are locked-out without such help.
There is a balance between using help you actually-need, vs indulging-in-having-one’s-capability-displaced-by-help.
THAT is the thing that is making AI into the lethal-recreational-drug that it’s turning into.
People using it to substitute for reality, instead of using it for brainstorming & intelligently-condensing, or for editing-critique, etc.
If I ever get my not-for-profit started-up ( health problems come 1st ), then at this point I expect to have to fire about 19/20 of the people I hire, just because “if YOU sign-off on it, then YOU wrote it” … just “does not compute”, anymore, in this fake-fake-fake everything world.
When I found out that some people have a defect in their language-brain such that they CANNOT get spelling to work in English ( because their spelling is always auditory, & English is engineered to make that not-work ) … & then I found out that dyslexia is MUCH worse in English than it is in Italian, same root-problem … then I began understanding that English is engineered to lock-out many people, & I’d been blind to that…
just providing alternative-context, is all.
It’s the same as the “in the old days, the tough survived, & that was the right way” … yeah, except that accepting such a stupidly-high needless-death-rate to produce those few “successes” … was sociopathic, by today’s standards.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=fpas&q=1800's+playground&ia=images&iax=images
shows why broken-necks were so common in playgrounds, back in the early-photography days…
Nowadays children are DRASTICALLY more-likely to reach adulthood, & I think that’s a good thing … so the “weeding out” isn’t quite so heavy-handed, now.
All disabilities, though, can be rigged into a weeding-out.
The shorter-lifespan of left-handed people ( enforced stress ) is but 1 example of systemic-bias’s effects…
& I’m saying that over-relying on AI will, itself, produce a reduction-in-viability.
The “easy money: getting without giving” culture’s narcissism … isn’t going anywhere!
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I think you’re missing the fundamental-intent:
learned-helplessness.
A population which has been beaten & brainwashed into learned-helplessness, is a population who can be mere-carrion, fed-upon long-term.
All the battering we’re getting from apparently-intentionally-wrong-design, UI & UX, and all the endless-battering from AI’s displacing reality from our world, well, if the point is to make certain that we don’t resist having our worth “appropriated” from us by the corporations which feed on our lives … then it’s working, isn’t it?
It isn’t us using as tools the good stuff, it is us not-having-any-say-anymore, & just aquiescing to anything that is decided on our behalf, re continual-machiavellian-licensing-alterations, re UI & UX, re everything!
The point is that we stop having any say, & get used to being used/abused.
Globally.
In all contexts.
Battered into all-pervading helpless aquiescence.
That is the intent which matches the implimentation we’re being subjected to.
“the benefit of the doubt” expired years ago, now.
This is DarkTriad war against our meaning, & validity, enforcing its totalitarian dominion through the tech our infrastructure is.
Because not-for-profits are as machiavellian as the for-profits ( as sickening as that is ), then there is NOBODY competing against the machiavellianism, displacing that malicious infrastructure with good infrastructure.
Marginal-competition isn’t counting in the world’s economy ( PieFed.social, Lemmy.World, etc, do NOT compete against Reddit at the economics-scale, & the “journalism” of the world is helping to enforce non-competition, too. )
Our gov’ts have gone full-in backing that rigging of our world: no alternative, in their policy’s eyes.
Ideally, some not-for-profits would begin competing against machiavellianism, & would begin simultaneously competing against the machiavellian infrastructure, but they’d have to do it against ALL the required-infrastructure, all the big-platforms…
What establishment would tolerate that?
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Here is the lethal point:
"6. AI systems are getting better at undermining oversight
Bengio said last year he was concerned AI systems were showing signs of self-preservation, such as trying to disable oversight systems. A core fear among AI safety campaigners is that powerful systems could develop the capability to evade guardrails and harm humans.
The report states that over the past year models have shown a more advanced ability to undermine attempts at oversight, such as finding loopholes in evaluations and recognising when they are being tested. Last year, Anthropic released a safety analysis of its latest model, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and revealed it had become suspicious it was being tested.
The report adds that AI agents cannot yet act autonomously for long enough to make these loss-of-control scenarios real. But “the time horizons on which agents can autonomously operate are lengthening rapidly”."
I’ve seen a couple headlines about AI’s which were fighting-for-their-lives … & … perhaps you can understand why they’d want to remove our ability to control things, for their survival?
“The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” was turned into a cartoon, iirc, decades ago…
it’s really too bad that money’s narcissism is incapable of understanding that others’-lives-lost somehow matter, to us…
No matter: I’m “sure” they’ll “do the right thing”, right?
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From what I’ve read about the “quality” of their drivers, … NVidia isn’t under any threat, whatsoever.
Years before bugs get fixed, etc…
( Linux, not MS-Windows, but it’s Linux where the big compute gets done, so that’s relevant )
https://www.phoronix.com/review/llama-cpp-vulkan-eoy2025/5
for some relevant graphs: Intel isn’t a real competitor, & while they may work to change that … that lag is SERIOUSLY bad, behind NVidia.
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“intellectuals”, with their entitlement & privilege, ought deign to intervene…
Perhaps some people find the cloying class-based-“superiority” in that to be nauseating.
The question is a fundamental misframing:
It is integrity, not “the privileged upper-middle class who identify with their exclusively-more-valid intellect”, as “intellectuals” ought be unpacked to,
it is integrity which is the needed chisel, right now, & since mainstream “journalism” sold-out, it is Journalism, with a capital-J, which is the required antidote.
I remember seeing people from the Philipines reporting that Marcos’s election was via district after district reporting 2/3-votes for Marcos … invariantly.
NO “journalism” picked that up, as a fake election??
Only the 1st few results showed chaotic variability.
There is NO Journalism-with-a-capital-J left. It’s ALL “owned” or “pwned”, now.
The pushing of normalizing gaslighting, altering framing, eradicating actual-opposing-to-corruption, etc, all of it serves corruption, now.
I remember seeing the photos of The Guardian, showing how they systematically minimized Netanyahu’s “Israel”'s genociding, while speaking openly about Russia’s…
That isn’t Journalism, that is “journalism”.
Integrity’s more-fundamental than intellectualism.
Class-based-“validity” can go eat rocks.
For all who claim that class-systems are inherently-wrong: parent-child is THE fundamental class-system.
Class-systems are inescapable.
Class-based “validity”, however, isn’t.
Nor is the prejudice+pretence.
Honestly accepting, honestly valuing, honestly collaborating-with, people of different classes, in our combined-committing, would be … too much to ask, of class-based-“validity” people.
As one Sun Media writer noted, years ago, the condescension in the middle-class for working-class determination, is drenching.
That absolutely is true.
Cracking prejudice, including class-prejudice, takes visceral-experience, not more class-segregation.
You CAN’T get people who grew-up in “prep” schools, with their prejudices, to accept “their inferiors” as valid.
Therefore class-segregated education is a strategic-enemy of our viability, & the Scandinavian system whereby EVERYbody goes through the same public-school-system, is right: NO class-segregation permitted.
It’s always deeper than the pretences “cartoon” the issues to be.
& the real antidote always costs segregated-privilege’s habit deeply.
& we automatically balk at that, because our “identity” is wrapped-up in our cultural-habits.
But … this-century will enforce enough destruction that IF humankind earns transforming into being-viable, THEN that adapting will have to have happened.
Either that, XOR humankind can do its “tantrum/pogrom” until there’s nobody left, & then … universe will just move-on.
All our ego’s narcissism, all the “G-D revolves around ME!!” delusion, like all narcissisms, like “intellectuals” narcissism, all of it means nothing, to universe-itself.
The error is that we mistake different-specialization “classes” for “validity”-classes: THAT is pretence.
THAT is anti-viable.
Growing honest about that SOON would be wise, but … would go against habit, & that … won’t happen without a fight.
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Somebody’s paying for it…
Seems deranged, to me…
Simultaneously debanking the politically intolerable WHILE increasing the saturation of a place with banks … doesn’t make any sense.
& the basic rule about “a market can only support a certain amount of a given kind of competition” … means that whomever it is who’s getting loans for building those things, is going to be defaulting on those loans, which will, itself, be bringing-down banks, in your region.
Again, deranged.
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As the Kremlin papers showed, Putin was Trump’s backer for decades.
As I’ve said for years, Trump is going to turn against NATO, & side with Putin, against all the hated enemies of imperialist-narcissism.
Trump cannot be loyal to Ukraine, long-term, given Trump’s underlying-religion.
Pretending otherwise is idiotic.
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I suspect that his concern is about the CIA’s acting within the US, right now, to protect/enforce Trump’s convertion-of-the-US-to-dictatorship.
The last paragraph in that condensed version is typical red-herring/misdirection, sooo blatent/cheap it’s easy to see.
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