probably what happened to me as well, i remember a large part of my itunes being gone. I switched to downloading and managing my library manually on musicbee and haven't stopped, even after switching to linux i still run musicbee through wine.

Given the horrible impact of spotify on the industry and the shady shit going on, i don't regret it, as much as i feel like a weird hermit sometimes for not using spotify or any other streaming service. Nobody can take my music away, and I can use it however i want.

For anyone who doesn't follow french politics the fact bayrou got the PM position is hilarious btw. And all the gov picks are like bottom-of-the-barrel rejects and opportunists, everybody knows this gov won't last long and nobody wants to be in it. I think macron's playing for time. Remember how people used to say the 4th republic was "so unstable" because of the changes of governments and that's why it failed (which is not really the case)? We've had the shortest-lived governments in 2024 under macron, way shorter than the 4th republic ever got.

Welcome back comrade, remember this https://hexbear.net/comment/757569 ? 4 fucking years ago ey.

Welp i'm trans now. Thanks for making me read Feinberg lmao. Somehow that's not what finalized cracking my egg, but it was a little step along the way. Hope you're well.

Seeing stuff like this and some of the discourse/responses around it reminds me that I should really do an effort-post about baeddelism and all the fucking "tma/tme" brainworms that emerge from this new kind of terf rethoric, a lot of it tends to (badly) quote serano and misuse the concept of transmisogyny. Its already destroyed large parts of transfem tumblr and is doing enormous harm to many transmasc and enby friends.

I'm extremely worried about this shit spreading here, I'm already seeing the milder variants of that rethoric spread.

(For context, a decent primer on the insidious reaction that is baeddelism : https://www.tumblr.com/nothorses/743139329546846208/lets-talk-about-baeddels)

yea, it's data transformation but there is zero intelligence, context or anything "new".

The tool itself is fine when used clearly and purposefully, and those kinds of tools have been used for a long time in various fields, the problem I have with the current hype trends of ""AI"" is that literally nothing fundamentally new was made. People aren't being informed on how these things really work and what they do, there's a lot of dangerous practices and psychological manipulation, and above all these new large models are enormous labor-obfuscating machines. I don't give a shit about private property, IP laws, etc (because I know that's a common response), the problem is that these things are another layer of illusions, an enormous curtain hiding entire industries of data-scraping and theft, of countless people and hours of manual tagging, filtering, training, moderating and mechanical turks, in purely profit-seeking and reckless ways. And not only is all this labor not valued, people aren't even aware it exists, people never have to interact directly with anyone along that production chain. Entire industries becoming ghosts, non-existent, and even more unable to organize and struggle for what they create.

Beyond that, class consciousness is ever harder to teach and agitate for in these domains, because shit like this is purposefully built to hide and disguise exploited labor (often from the labour force of the colonized and victims of imperialism) and privatization.

It's not the stealing that's the problem it's the sneaky, rapid disruption and destruction of existing productions and jobs that it entails, and the privatization of colossal amounts of public data and user-generated data that nobody ever intended to be privatized and extracted for profits. It was always happening in the background of course, but i don't think people realize the impact this will have, to me it's like a closure of the internet-commons. Colossal explotation of Free Labour, the expansion of exploitation in every sphere of "content production" that was previously unreachable.

Drives me fucking insane.

Not only is the summary kinda light or missing the deeper points, the LLM did not "break down" the plot by "reading" the provided PDF. House of Leaves is impossible to fucking parse correctly as a PDF, the text is all over the place, visually placed in very complex ways, you have a whole labyrinth chapter where you have to follow footnotes across multiple pages with the text being difficult to find and follow, anything "reading" the PDF in the regular order of characters would have no fucking clue.

As always, there is no intelligence or any breaking down, the only reason the LLM is able to provide the summary is because it was trained on a dataset that included summaries and reviews of House of Leaves, and it simply detected the PDF was House of Leaves.

The LLM is, YET AGAIN, just regurgitating things that are already written elsewhere, nothing is created, it's all obfuscation of labour.

That's not at all why people are talking about it what the fuck? It has nothing to do with seeing the clean-up of the river as "wasteful spending", it's because everyone fucking hates Macron lmao.

The "clean-up of the Seine" is a recurring joke, multiple presidents and mayors of Paris have promised it over the decades and it never ends up happening, and this time as well everyone laughed and said "if we actually see him swim in it, I'll eat my hat".

It's because we hate macron, and it's because people really dislike the Olympics as well. The olympics are wasteful spending, very badly organized, and they're going to a complete shit show to the delight of everyone outside Paris, myself included.

Hey so macron just announced he's dissolving the assembly, snap elections the 30th of this month

Lmao

Edit: this came as an announcement right after the european election results in france where the far right had a huge victory, i'm not really sure what his plan/strategy is, with this timing it feels like it's going be very easy for the far-right to organize and the left is a clusterfuck right now.

Let's go i got my first appointment to start HRT in like 2 weeks !!

Keep going dude, I think you should try to be a little more insufferable and smarmy, you've almost reached a new record

Look I don't know how useful or "good" is it to be extremely aggro on twitter/nitter like Roderic usually is, but he's right.

I can never really fault him for it, it's a dumb social media and there's not much point to it if you don't actually engage with people and are able to criticize what they say, especially when talking about influencial people with a platform. And yea, he's very aggro, but his original response is not really directed at JP as a person, just angry and critical at the ideas he's peddling, and for good reason.

JP's reponse is a pretty typical one for western leftists. Criticism is seen as an attack, it is always reinterpreted in an individualistic lens. Attacking someone's really dumb or dangerous idea is immediately rolled back with "woah there calm down maybe you could be civil" as if the person criticizing is being mean, rude, or violent, when often (as is the case here) that's not the case. If you're going to talk about political things and ideas like there, and someone tells you publically "This is completely wrong and dangerous what the fuck", your response shouldn't be "Why are you attacking me?". Criticism is not a conflict, it's not a fight, it's not personal, and it is extremely important and necessary.

Uphold TC69 Thought forever.

That post made me engage with Feinberg and that book, and I actually read it and posted a little comment/review of it later as TC69 had asked. I was cis but already opening up and questioning a little back then, but that book genuinely helped me a lot, and look at me now.