I support Hegseth doing whatever the fuck he thinks he’s doing with the US army. Go get that flu boys!

People just get accustomed to the system they live in and don’t quite question it. This is why doubters are dangerous - both in capitalism and in socialism.

When I was talking to French people they never once questioned that their institutions were “democratic”. A republic where elected officials in parliament pass whatever law they like, and where the president can also pass any law with the so-called 49.3 law, thereby broaching from the executive into the legislative, which are supposed to be separate. The president needing to get elected in just two rounds too, and if there is no absolute majority they just take the top two candidates and offer a choice between them only for the second round. The fact that the president picks the prime minister, prime minister picks the cabinet, and if the president doesn’t like someone in the cabinet, he just fires the prime minister to set up a new cabinet.

Anyone listening to this would say this is not democratic whatsoever, it’s autocracy masquerading as giving you a choice. And yet they don’t question it. They will still say they have “democratic institutions” over there. None of that counts as “democratic” by any stretch of the word but here we are.

It’s the same in the US. All US Presidents are criminals against humanity, all of them. Don’t come at me with the “but what about this guy-” you know it’s true. And yet, USians will keep saying “we wouldn’t be at war under Biden!” yes you would. You were at war under Clinton, Obama, you were at war or engaged in conflicts under 275 of your pitiful 293 years existence. “But they didn’t start the wars, they just inherited them from republicans!” no, they did. Obama bombed Yemen because fuck Yemen. Clinton bombed Yugoslavia because fuck Yugoslavia. Kennedy started the invasion of Vietnam, with boots on the ground. He did. Don’t weasel your way out of it - you know he did. You learned about this. He sent US troops who had no business being in Vietnam. Carter continued destabilizing Haiti under the Duvaliers dictatorships.

But the people that need to hear it will not be receptive to it initially, because throughout all of this, they just live okayish under this system. It’s party A versus party B in that colony, and people inherit this superstructure, beamed straight into their brains from the youngest age. That’s all there is to it: you just don’t question the system as long as it runs okay.

In Germany men aged 18-45 apparently can’t leave the country for more than 3 months without submitting documents. It’s a new law.

Shortly before (in 2025) they apparently approved a ‘hybrid’ system where 18 year olds are pre-drafted. Prior to that they had a fully volunteer force since 2011. There is also a mechanism in that law that the federal gov can introduce conscription if enlistment targets are not met.

It’s getting really dire. they’re preparing for WW3, I’m not sure how else to interpret it. But this time it’ll be against anti-imperialism.

If it starts getting too real skip the country and never ever come back tbh. Tell them you’ll come back in 3 months lol.

They equip the cartels - https://x.com/creepydotorg/status/2025620182761103556

these are cartel members, not state military or police. They all wear this uniform and equipment including the jammer. This is not something they just happened across or looted from fights, clearly they’re getting it from somewhere.

Could mean the return of affordable RAM unless someone else hurries to buy the contract…

probably bringing back workhouses. I don’t have the list of stuff gates has been involved in rn but he has very eugenics-adjacent views, except his are more socially palatable. He’s huge into charter schools, wants to rethink the entire world system in his image, all the stuff he gets up to in africa, etc. and he’s in the epstein files asking epstein for antibiotics to slip his wife so she wouldn’t know he caught an STD from someone epstein provided him.

Expectation: “The chickens have come home to roost. I repeat, the chickens have come home to roost.” “Confirmed. The pizza is in the oven. Proceed.”

Reality: “man don’t you just love being a pedopihle? i love beign a pedophile so much, my dear frind jeffrey epstein who lives at 123 Main Road, New York City and can be called at 555-000-12-12. sent from my blackberry.”

This is how these people mock at the whole world. Opsec is not a luxury, it’s the tool of the masses.

It’s wild. He not only got beat up but people were outright chasing him, they were out for blood. If he’d hung around there are big chances he would have not made it out alive. In the end it was the people he despised who helped him get out. At one point he was cowering against a window as people were pelting him with water balloons - that’s the part you can see he realized he was not in control of the situation and he was fearing for his life, but that was very tame compared to what came for him later.

A black man helped him through the crowd and the red car he ultimately gets into belongs to a trans couple who were just caught up in the middle of it. They explained in one video they allowed him in because they thought he was pursued by ICE, and once he got in and the rest of the crowd followed they had no choice but to drive away as they couldn’t get out of the car themselves to get him to GTFO the back seat (completely understandable). After a couple blocks they asked him who he was and told him he couldn’t stay. Apparently the owner of the car got his contact info and wants him to pay for the damage to the car lol.

Communist parties internationally, not just in the US, must now use these documents for agitprop.

For anyone who wasn’t aware as well, Trump is apparently named 600 times in the documents. It’s just been redacted but they messed it up somehow (on purpose? Can’t say, but it’s weird they forgot how to redact a document in Adobe Acrobat) and you can copy paste the redacted text just fine. If you search for “Trump” it won’t return anything but searching for "Trump " or copy-pasting the redacted text yields >600 results

Or so says twitter at least

I agree. let’s start with him

I was actually thinking of having a deepseek api key for lemmygrad that people could freely top up and use so that we can all share, but I’m not sure how feasible it is on the trust system. I’ll take a closer look and make a post if there’s something I can set up

I finished a guide yesterday, in the process of adding some pictures to it: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9911266

It’s really not that complicated to install crush! I promise haha. If she is on Windows it’s literally copy and paste a command in powershell (winget install charmbracelet.crush), close powershell, open cmd, cd to a folder, type ‘crush’ and send, and it will open.

Then in crush panel type Thinking mode to get deepseek, hit enter,

Then make a deepseek API key and top it up with 5$ on platform.deepseek.com, copy API key, paste with Ctrl+Shift+V, hit enter, and it will just work. Try to send hello to make sure you’re connected.

setting up an API connection is definitely a bit more involved, but it allows people to use it for their specific needs that the API devs may not have thought of. For example to translate all of prolewiki english to french, I set up an API access to mistral to use their servers/models to do the actual translation. Basically I sent a chunk of text through the API, it did its magic on mistral’s servers side of things, and then their servers return the translated chunk of text. My script saves that returned text to a document, without ever caring what was going on mistral’s side.

There are other programs for agent coding though I don’t have experience with them, but they might make it a bit easier for people to adopt the tools. I know Claude (Anthropic) has one that apparently works with models other than their own, and is a bit more graphical, i.e. you can use it with the mouse while crush is keyboard-only.

But try out crush, it works on any computer and I promise it’s not as scary as it looks haha (if that’s what’s holding you back). Once you’re connected it works every time you’ll use it from then on.

They have an API: https://platform.deepseek.com/usage; log in with your deepseek account and everything is on the left sidebar (including documentation and creating the key).

I use the API with crush which is an agent, which is made to solve tasks/code, but can also just chat like the web interface. I posted an install guide for it in the sidebar of !crushagent@lemmygrad.ml because it’s that easy to set up lol, literally just 7 steps and it should work. With crush you just need to give it your deepseek API key when you first start crush and it should work.

Deepseek’s API is also very cheap, I put 5$ in a couple months ago and I haven’t finished them yet, and I used literally hundreds of millions of tokens lol. On GPT or Claude this would have lasted me all of 10 minutes.

Deepseek: completely free and with 128k context window (chatpgt has a measly 16k or something)

Z-image turbo: completely free and can run on any modern GPU (6GB Vram for ggufs)

Huanyuan: open-source txt2vid model, completely free too

I think I know who’s winning…

And it’s only going to get faster…

(Note that this is the Q4 model, but otherwise still the full 671b params and thinking mode enabled)

It’s also that the most ‘capable’ person for a job has more often than not had privileges that made them capable. College costs money and not just in tuition but also in travel fees (if you have to go to another campus for a course), textbooks, and the “cost of opportunity” of not integrating the workforce yet too, which means your parents need to be able to support you for the years you’ll be in college.

It’s no surprise that social mobility doesn’t exist in capitalism and children of wealthy/ier parents will themselves find high-paying jobs. This comic is old but illustrates it, https://digitalsynopsis.com/inspiration/privileged-kids-on-a-plate-pencilsword-toby-morris/, this is basic sociology that even liberals recognize. One thing it doesn’t touch on that artisanal intelligence did is that the promise of meritocracy makes one feel like they have to grind to make it out of the race while not realizing that they were never going to cross the finish line. And ‘the grind’ often means working for unlivable wages and accepting undignified work.

Flipping a coin to decide on a hiring decision is also “fair” and “meritocratic”. It was the essay artisanal intelligence iirc which argued (a bit) against meritocracy and tbh I can see it. It’s kind of a capitalist delusion, it means only the most deserving, well, deserve anything.

https://digitalspaceport.com/how-to-run-deepseek-r1-671b-fully-locally-on-2000-epyc-rig/ it’s even better, this rig doesn’t even have a GPU.