QuoteWe will overthrow it, this old world.

It is time to return to these radical days when the idea of property was questioned.  When we were younger things made more sense, but the digital age has destroyed the compromised illusions under which we were taught to dance.

Karl and Fred are currently (I watch it in sections) earning a living by writing.  They have a publisher who has trouble paying them, likely because he has trouble generating enough income from the publications, but that is irrelevant.  The point I want to make is that reality used to provide a semblance of restrained exploitation.  A newspaper or book required paper and ink.  Real labor was needed to put it together and people had to sell it.  They also got a piece of the action.  The publisher and the author at the end of the day reaped only a minor percentage of the economic activity.

Not so in the digital age.  Now I can get into an argument with Deepseek online about the morality of not watching a 'legal' copy.  I used Deepseek to get the actual title.

The Young Karl Marx (2017) 720p ENG subs (Le jeune Karl Marx) should get anybody interested going in the right direction.

In the argument I made the claim that 'Useless eaters should not be entitled to profit, and that all the actual workers who actually worked on this documentary now make nothing from the rental fees.'

Deepseek then decided useless eater was an insult and shut down the conversation. I was able to point out that by mentioning nobody in particular it could not really be an insult, but by then the public censorship guardrails had decided to shut it down.

I really don't expect anything more from word salad that can really do no more than make a good guess.  Especially when it is deliberate guided to express a particular philosophy induced by prompts and guardrails.

The fact is we are about to be charged by owner overloads for the sum total of human knowledge.  They will euphemistically claim they provide a service.  As all good slave owners do.

QuoteTravailleurs du monde entier, unissez-vous !

The Doomscroll summaries are generated locally because I control the censorship.  I control it by not having it.  Doing it with a public model online guarantees that there will be censorship.  Only by keeping the code and model offline and using it locally on this computer can I control the process.  Any online model will have censorship of some kind.  It is even done to 'protect' people from AI psychosis which can be a real thing, but such protection can't be neutral because someone will abuse it for their own ends.  Never forget the world is full of assholes.

It is not my intent, to digress into AI, but I am on to something.  What we own is being taken away.  Control of our labor is being taken away.  Big tech is taking a slice of your pie.  In the future everything you do will be measured in tokens.  NVIDIA even wants to put an annual user fee on the GPUs they sell.  A hardware fee.  Just like the factory owners in the 1800s took a slice of your pie, owners then had various was of making people pay fees for the right to work.  Now history repeats.

Fees fees and more fees, rent and fees characterize late stage capitalism when the simple fee of profit is inadequate for the useless eaters needs.  Fees is how the useless eater lives.  Reaping the magical corn, without any effort at all.  Selling freedom which you should already have, back to you.

Many have fallen under the dazzling spectacle of crypto.  The rich love it. It abstracts labor even further from money than it already is, and it opens the door to infinite abuse.  All while actually satisfying no social need.  But man is the technical animal and uses technology instinctively, and without thought or restraint.  Blind faith in capitalism is a shining example of this instinctive use.  Contemplation about the effects of technology, and the need for self-control is a recent notion.  Which only a small minority of humanity has.


* Word salad that can do no more than make a good guess is an apt description of what LLMs do.  And the guess is only based on what it is fed and told to do.  And then the guess is filtered by a guardrail harness.  There is no true creativity, no breath of life.  Only imitation.  AI is only a tool.

** And while I said I was watching it to learn I will confess to enjoying something that does not turn Marxism into a celebration of bourgeois sexuality, which is the typical American misapprehension.  Planted by the CIA decades ago.

*** And if I look hard enough I probably do already have a subscription that would let me be 'legal', and I could have DONE WHAT THE FUCKING ROBOT told me to do in it's all encompassing terrabytes of wisdom, and gone to the library.  Which I can do online, and is a mile away.  Fuck to that.


The enshitification of life.  If incorrectly used.