I was learning French :(

“Y’all got any more of them bases?”

What is PIP?

I didn’t and I still know that quote!

The Ice at the End of the World is an epic name for a book though, it sucks to see it wasted on a non-fiction work 🙁

In the antabellum South within the USA it was argued that slavery would protect the country from Socialism, and apparently this was before Marx. Even when our movement was just a concept it terrified the ruling classes.

The People’s Kaiju.

It was also a stupid thing to lie about, the guy complains about video games and Windows for a living, who cares if he is an engineer? I don’t know what he was thinking.

In regards to his technical advice, I remember it being fairly sound but it’s also stuff you can get from privacy communities on Reddit. You don’t need to be a software engineer or anything fancy to get this stuff, having a moderate understanding of technology is enough.

I learned about digital privacy from a DuckDuckGo ad and went further down the rabbithole by joining the privacytools subreddit (I think they are called PrivacyGuides now). It’s not hard, infact it’s very easy since people working on them are idealist so they made everything as easy to understand as possible.

He is, he is also a sloptuber. He runs a by the numbers commentary channel that mostly discusses whatever else everyone is discussing that day. Or does a stealth Linux installation tutorial when there is absolutely nothing to talk about.

His videos in regard to free software and online privacy have some merit, but for the most part there is no point to his channel at all. You’ve seen all these videos already.

I like them too but it’s just not worth it. In Western animation it takes forever for a show to air, there is very few to choose from and they are subject to corporate crap every step of the way. And most Japanese animation I’ve seen is cheap and / or tropey junk.

Making a book is cheap enough that the author has way more free rein to do what they want, even if they are dealing with a commerical genre. And there are so many books to choose from and more of them keep coming out so you’ll never run out of material, the worst that could happen is you get into an ongoing series and it doesn’t finish. To me that means the tradeoffs border on irrelevant.

Oh I watched the first three seasons of Infinity Train already, the whole shitshow that followed made me give up on animation entirely. And seeing the state of animation these days confirms that I’ve made the right call in my opinion.

Just read (comic)books people, books are just better.

No, he is fine as far as I’m aware. But he didn’t get to create anything after Gravity Falls, he was working on something with Netflix but nothing came of it. I’m not aware of anyone besides Dana Terrace who made a successful cartoon in recent memory and managed to move on to a new project. Western animation is cooked.

We, as Earthling communists, need to urgently get in contact with them and forge friendly relations so that we can escape to the ONE place that hasn’t been corrupted by capitalism…

prolonged heavy panting

…SPACE!

It seems like British communists largely destroyed themselves anyway, so I don’t know to what extent Trots were necessary for this.

Lol, didn’t even notice that.

On a side note, imagine making Gravity Falls and never getting to work on another show again. We don’t push pro-comicbook propaganda to animation workers hard enough.

Fuck them indeed. So many of our leftist youth were tortured and killed just like him. We won’t forget, we won’t forgive.

Here’s a less well known one.

Great article comrade, thank you for sharing it.

Also something to add, a lot of AI investment in USA is also sketchy circular investment. So it’s actually way worse than the graph comparing AI investment volume of different countries implies.

That is something I need to look into, I don’t know how Chinese use it but I did see them protect workers from layoffs which was great news.

AI is the perfect showcase for capitalism holding the productive forces back. Under socialism it would still be a problem but not nearly to the extent it is now.