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A sentience trapped in a prison of meat. Made in USSR. Capitalismus delendus est! ☭

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2026-10-03 19:06:44 UTC

China's first desert renewables mega base now has full power plant support. Unit 6 at Zhongwei Power Plant in Ningxia completed its trial run, bringing all four 660-MW units online. The plant backs the Tengger Desert base producing 13 GW of wind and solar with a 800-kV UHVDC line to Hunan. It generates 11.8 billion kWh yearly, supporting 22 billion kWh of clean energy transmission while cutting 18.46 million tonnes of CO2.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2026-10-02/China-s-first-renewables-mega-base-in-the-desert-goes-fully-online-1QV1hlOwFP2/p.html
#china #technology #cleanenergy #news

2026-10-02 17:18:47 UTC

Crop outputs grew up to 100% in China’s big agricultural experiment.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3369564/crop-outputs-grew-100-chinas-big-agricultural-experiment-scientists
#china #science #news

2026-10-02 15:31:49 UTC

Europe to release diesel stocks after Trump threatens export ban. And of course, once push comes to shove then the US will ban exports anyways leaving Europe with nothing.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2026/10/02/eu-rejects-trumps-diesel-export-ban/92053570007
#news #economy #worldnews #iranwar #usa #europe

2026-10-02 12:19:26 UTC

Canada plans to destroy thousands of residential school testimonies.
https://thenarwhal.ca/trc-residential-school-records-connie-walker-2026
#canada #cdnpoli #news

2026-10-01 23:43:26 UTC

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ah yes, amazing counterpoint you've mustered there.

2026-10-01 16:21:57 UTC

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last I looked China, Vietnam, and DPRK exist. And the horrors that are happening under western regimes do not occur there.
To claim that Marxism failed is frankly the height of absurdity.
It's easier for you to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism because you reject demonstrated solution to capitalism.
How technology is used and developed is entirely a product of social relations. Once those change that changes in turn. Should be obvious, yet here we are.

2026-10-01 16:19:11 UTC

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you're confusing a tool that's used by a person with creativity here. Following your logic photographers have no creativity because the camera does all the work of capturing the image.

2026-10-01 16:17:47 UTC

Germans' biggest fear is the high cost of living, an annual study finds.
https://www.dw.com/en/germans-fear-inflation-more-than-war-or-climate-change/a-79497762

2026-10-01 15:24:51 UTC

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apparently you have convinced yourself of that.
What we're seeing is that the labour aristocracy is becoming proletarianized due to automation expanding into areas of production that have retained their artisanal character up to now. The thing artists, software developers, and other cognitive workers are horrified about has been the reality for the rest of the working class for a long time now.
The two are very much the same.

2026-10-01 14:47:14 UTC

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when you definitely understand how automation works 😆

2026-10-01 14:46:39 UTC

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nobody said technology is neutral, how it's developed and applies is a product of the system. However, the only vulgar position is to whinge about the technology itself instead of focusing on the underlying systemic problems.
You also should actually read Marx to understand what he wrote. What you lend weight to out of ignorance is not really interesting.
However, the obvious fact is that Luddites failed while Marxists did not. Something for you to think about.

2026-10-01 14:43:32 UTC

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that's where we disagree, this tech is clearly a useful form of automation when applied correctly. In fact, we can see how people in China have predominantly positive views of this tech precisely because it's being applied in a useful way.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-14/why-ai-optimism-is-so-much-higher-in-china-than-the-us

2026-09-30 14:24:04 UTC

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turns out that the lesser evil is still evil

2026-09-30 14:23:54 UTC

China’s CXMT to favour domestic suppliers in US$5.2b memory-chip capacity push. As it begins massive output increase, China’s top memory supplier sets ‘aggressive’ target for local chipmaking equipment, source says.
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3369192/chinas-cxmt-favour-domestic-suppliers-us52b-memory-chip-capacity-push-source
#china #technology #news

2026-09-30 00:27:25 UTC

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given that China controls around 90% of rare earths refining, I don't see how anybody will make robots without them.

2026-09-30 00:26:45 UTC

Mark Carney says he’s protecting Canadian workers. It’s Orwellian doublespeak.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/mark-carney-says-he-s-protecting-canadian-workers-it-s-orwellian-doublespeak/article_214de2da-399a-44c6-b7c2-f680bfe86f5a.html
#canada #cdnpoli #news

2026-09-29 18:56:50 UTC

China shipped more than 19,000 humanoid robots in the first half of 2026, accounting for 77.9% of global shipments, according to figures attributed to IDC. Global shipments reached nearly 25,000 units, up 432.1% year over year.
IDC also raised its forecast for global humanoid robot shipments in 2030 to more than 750,000 units.
https://technode.com/2026/09/29/china-accounts-for-77-9-of-global-humanoid-robot-shipments-in-h1-idc-says
#china #technology #robots

2026-09-29 18:34:35 UTC

Bloomberg is malding that China’s 'Tax Grab' squeezes rich elite harder than ever. 🎻
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-09-27/china-s-tax-crackdown-squeezes-billionaires-harder-than-ever
#china #news

2026-09-29 03:58:54 UTC

15,000 hectares of Swedish forest has been sold for extraction to Palantir co-founder Alex Karp, a man who wrote his dissertation on how to utilize euphemisms to make mass death kill-chains easier. & at only about $1600/hectare.
https://www.arctictoday.com/palantir-founder-purchases-large-swath-of-forest-in-sweden
#news #europe #sweden

2026-09-29 02:55:53 UTC

Gargling with plain water 3x/day reduced upper respiratory infections by ~36% in a randomized trial.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16242593/
#science

2026-09-29 01:29:39 UTC

Ex-chairman of China's BAIC gets suspended death sentence for bribery. This is precisely what western media is talking about when they say China is 'authoritarian'.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/ex-chairman-chinas-baic-gets-suspended-death-sentence-bribery-2026-09-28/
#china #news

2026-09-28 03:11:05 UTC

China Becomes the First Country in the World to Surpass 1,000 GW of Solar Power Capacity.
https://www.renewable-energy-industry.com/news/world/article-7018-china-becomes-the-first-country-in-the-world-to-surpass-1000-gw-of-solar-power-capacity
#china #technology #solar #cleanenergy #renewables

2026-09-26 01:36:36 UTC

Trump rejects Iran ceasefire, expects renewed bombing after midterms. Naturally, Iran will just sit on their hands and wait for hostilities to resume whenever it is convenient for the US.
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/trump-rejects-iran-ceasefire-expects-renewed-bombing-after-midterms-5982ee50
#news #iranwar

2026-09-25 21:13:02 UTC

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except Marx was never opposed to automation. And that's the difference between Luddites and Marxists. Luddites failed because they thought they could simply smash the machines. Marxists understand that the problem isn't with technology itself, but rather with capitalist relations and how technology is being used by the ruling class.
Marxist position isn't to smash the data centres, it's to seize the means of production.

2026-09-24 14:19:25 UTC

Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/owners-mourn-spoiled-food-after-firmware-update-bricks-samsung-smart-fridges/
#technology #enshittification

2026-09-22 23:25:26 UTC

Unifor warns Bill C-39 will infringe on workers’ Charter-protected right to strike.
https://www.unifor.org/news/all-news/unifor-warns-bill-c-39-will-infringe-workers-charter-protected-right-strike
#canada #cdnpoli #news

2026-09-22 01:49:19 UTC

Rhizomatica's HERMES open-source shortwave radio set uses HF bands (3–30 MHz) to send files, photos, and data at 400–600 km links with ~20W power with no satellites or infrastructure needed. It includes optional encryption for sensitive regions, aiding remote communities and emergencies.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/hermes-shortwave-radio-digital-data
#technology #radio

2026-09-21 18:24:12 UTC

Carney’s war on workers would make the right to strike meaningless.
https://ricochet.media/labour/carneys-war-on-workers-would-make-the-right-to-strike-meaningless
#canada #cdnpoli #news

2026-09-20 00:22:41 UTC

Liberals looking to give minister explicit authority to end strikes. The whole talk of human rights and freedoms is promptly discarded as soon as the bourgeoisie see their profits decline.
As the saying goes, scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/section-107-labour-code-hajdu-right-to-strike-9.7350619
#canada #news #cdnpoli

2026-09-19 18:20:05 UTC

Carney puts Canada up for sale through CEO summit.
https://www.marxist.ca/article/carney-puts-canada-up-for-sale-through-ceo-summit
#canada #cdnpoli #news

2026-09-19 14:22:42 UTC

This is US General Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Imagine if China, Russia or any other state spoke in this language.
https://cdn.masto.host/socialmarxistnetwork/media_attachments/files/117/298/151/857/611/369/original/d5ca652fa670b99f.mp4

2026-09-19 00:07:13 UTC

China is cracking down on billionaires and corruption. Following the landmark sentencing of Evergrande founder Hui Ka Yan to life in prison and the seizure of his assets.
Ben Norton explains how in China, capital may create wealth, but the Communist Party maintains control over the steering wheel of the economy. Since 2012, Xi Jinping has taken aggressive action against high-profile tycoons and corrupt Party officials alike. 👏
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-0YAhFWoNE
#china #politics #socialism

2026-09-18 18:32:34 UTC

China's CAS institute charts DUV route to 3nm GAA without EUV.
https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20260917PD204.html
#china #technology

2026-09-17 15:54:44 UTC

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2026-09-17 05:11:25 UTC

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but these are physically in China, and when they are retired, they'll be replaced with domestically produced equipment

2026-09-17 05:10:07 UTC

Macklemore pledges $1 million to Palestinian relief, challenges Robert Kraft to match it.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/macklemore-pledges-1-million-palestinian-relief-rcna598142
#palestine

2026-09-17 02:59:47 UTC

Huawei says its new smartphone chip is entirely free of any US-made components.
https://www.techradar.com/pro/huawei-says-its-new-smartphone-chip-is-entirely-free-of-any-us-made-components
#technology #huawei #news

2026-09-16 19:02:17 UTC

The Taiwanese don’t trust Trump, and they don’t believe America will come to their defense. A deal with the mainland is starting to look inevitable.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/10/trump-taiwan-sovereignty-china/688356/
#china #news

2026-09-16 17:57:55 UTC

New photos show widespread damage at U.S. positions caused by Iranian missile, drone attacks.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-photos-damage-u-s-kuwait-saudi-arabia-iran-drone-missile-attacks
#usa #news #iranwar

2026-09-16 17:54:13 UTC

The New York Times reports that investors from all over the world and foreign governments are increasingly looking to diversify away from U.S. assets.
The reason for this is America’s rising debt, sanctions policy and the dollar’s global dominance.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/business/trump-debt-sanctions-global-economy.html
#usa #economics #geopolitics #news

2026-09-16 15:42:01 UTC

The FBI has tapped employees from across federal law enforcement to crack down on dissent, including agents and analysts with the Internal Revenue Service, documents shared with TPM show.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/fbi-nspm-7-joint-mission-center
#usa #uspol #news

2026-09-15 18:17:21 UTC

Saudi Aramco has canceled or delayed crude deliveries to European refiners after the shutdown of the kingdom’s East-West pipeline cut into one of its remaining routes around the Strait of Hormuz.
At least three European refiners have had late-September cargoes canceled or pushed as far out as November, according to market sources cited by Argus. Two more expect notices covering September supplies.
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Saudi-Aramco-Cancels-European-Crude-Cargoes-as-Key-Pipeline-Stays-Shut.html
#news #worldnews #iranwar

2026-09-15 16:37:53 UTC

US Central Command reported that Iranian strikes have damaged and destroyed “hundreds of buildings and structures” at US bases in the Middle East, as well as “dozens” of US aircraft.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/15/us-iran-war-trump-hormuz-munitions-dod-costs-aircraft.html
#news #iranwar

2026-09-15 03:15:44 UTC

Jason Hickel explains why liberalism inevitably paves the way for fascism.
#politics #liberalism #socialism
https://cdn.masto.host/socialmarxistnetwork/media_attachments/files/117/272/878/335/774/885/original/5d8c844ba4586960.mp4

2026-09-15 01:43:15 UTC

NDP's Avi Lewis says Carney is selling Canadian assets to 'the captains of Wall Street'.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/avi-lewis-carney-investment-summit-9.7343737
#canada #cdnpoli #news

2026-09-15 00:25:15 UTC

The Telegraph has a cunning plan to bring down the energy prices. 😆
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/09/14/proscribing-houthis-bring-energy-bills-down-burnham

2026-09-15 00:21:49 UTC

Chen Jining’s trajectory from academic to high-ranking political office exemplifies the Party’s growing recognition of environmental issues as central to China’s domestic and international agenda.
https://smallwarsjournal.com/2026/09/14/chen-jining-china-leadership
#china #environment

2026-09-15 00:18:18 UTC

China has built the world's largest basic healthcare security network over the past decade, with more than 1.33 billion people covered by basic medical insurance as of the end of 2025, according to official data.
https://www.bastillepost.com/global/article/6154237-china-builds-worlds-largest-basic-healthcare-security-network
#china #news

2026-09-14 23:42:53 UTC

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our glorious tech leaders ushering in AGI 😆

2026-09-14 23:42:20 UTC

An already-strong El Niño just crossed into "super" territory, hitting the NOAA threshold of 2.0°C above average which is the strongest on record for this date.
It has a 75% chance of becoming the strongest event since 1950, fueling record Pacific hurricanes, a hurricane-free Atlantic, and Indonesian wildfires.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/14/weather/super-el-nino-forecast-strength-climate
#worldnews #news #elnino #climatecrisis

2026-09-14 23:24:31 UTC

https://cdn.masto.host/socialmarxistnetwork/media_attachments/files/117/271/969/929/587/168/original/044172ba3d6585d4.mp4

2026-09-14 22:25:16 UTC

World Robotics 2025 report - 57% chinese market share in factory robotics while being the fastest growing robotics market.
https://ifr.org/ifr-press-releases/news/global-robot-demand-in-factories-doubles-over-10-years
#China #robotics #technology

2026-09-14 17:00:53 UTC

Leaders of Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland unite for self-determination. 👏
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/14/leaders-of-scotland-wales-northern-ireland-unite-for-self-determination
#europe #news

2026-09-13 22:07:49 UTC

Physics Ph.D. grads depart U.S. at record rates as new policies sweep science.
And if you look at science funding in the EU, Canada, or Australia it's a drop in a bucket compared to US and China. So if you want to work on interesting stuff, you basically have to go to China now.
https://www.aps.org/apsnews/2026/09/grads-depart-us-record-rates
#usa #science #news

2026-09-13 20:33:44 UTC

China's installed capacity of new-type energy storage had grown from 3 million kilowatts at the start of the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025) to 153 million kilowatts by the end of June this year, showing a rapid and leapfrog growth.
https://www.bastillepost.com/global/article/6150817-china-sees-leapfrog-growth-in-installed-capacity-of-new-energy-storage
#china #cleanenergy #news

2026-09-12 20:21:48 UTC

Reuters reports that DPRK’s consumer and leisure sector is expanding rapidly using absurd propaganda phrasing. You're going to be pretty hard pressed to find a country where the government encourages you to have state-unsanctioned fun.
https://www.reuters.com/world/kim-jong-un-wants-north-koreans-have-more-state-sanctioned-fun-2026-09-11
#news #dprk #korea

2026-09-11 14:53:42 UTC

Chinese scientists propose converting some of the 12,000 abandoned coal mines across China into agricultural units, to test out new approaches to farming – approaches that might become increasingly important as the climate shifts. Another bonus of farming underground is access to geothermal energy.
https://www.sciencealert.com/chinese-scientists-propose-turning-abandoned-coal-mines-into-farming-laboratories
#china #science

2026-09-10 18:03:48 UTC

Job postings and interviews with senior security officials at Anthropic show that the frontier AI lab is building out an extensive monitoring system to keep tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of artificial intelligence.
https://prospect.org/2026/09/09/anthropic-artificial-intelligence-surveillance-system-monitor-activists
#usa #news

2026-09-10 16:09:40 UTC

Ansar Allah taking the strategic port city of Mocha means that the entire West coast of Yemen has now been liberated. This is an enormous defeat dealt to Saudi Arabia and its proxies.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/10/houthis-seize-key-port-mocha-yemen-red-sea-coast-iran-saudi-arabia-us
#yemen #news

2026-09-10 16:07:44 UTC

US pushes "drill, baby, drill" while China's strategy favors renewables. African nations, driven by cost, increasingly choose solar as Chinese technology lowers prices. Experts say Africa's solar revolution is spreading, with wars exposing fossil fuel dependence and boosting cheap solar adoption.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3366527/how-chinas-green-tech-undercutting-trumps-drill-baby-drill-oil-strategy-africa
#china #africa #news #solar #renewableenergy #renewables

2026-09-10 15:23:49 UTC

Multiple U.S. military aircraft damaged in Iranian strikes on military base in Jordan.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/multiple-us-military-aircraft-damaged-iran-strikes-military-base-jordan/
#iranwar #news

2026-09-09 20:11:20 UTC

Your favorite movies are CIA propaganda.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yootr6Vf7E0
#propaganda #usa

2026-09-09 04:09:11 UTC

China's top court rules that deepfakes or other likeness of people cannot be used by online platforms without consent, and they must take them down once notified. 👏
https://www.bastillepost.com/global/article/6139876-chinas-top-court-sets-rules-for-ai-deepfakes-and-other-disputes
#china #ai #news

2026-09-08 13:47:50 UTC

Turns out that the cortisol spike from exercise suppresses the next cortisol response from a stressor. You should exercise before doing stressful things.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306453021002109
#science

2026-09-05 22:23:25 UTC

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basically this https://www.versobooks.com/en-ca/blogs/news/5199-we-all-live-in-a-country-called-capitalism

2026-09-05 21:37:45 UTC

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I think it would be far more interesting to use the approach of getting LLMs to do step by step solutions in a REPL the way a human would on paper.
I've been experimenting with making a tool where a frontier of agents explore possible steps together in a shared workspace, and a human is in the loop being able to follow along and intervene.
I find it's also fun to watch evolve visually.
https://github.com/yogthos/veriframe
https://cdn.masto.host/socialmarxistnetwork/media_attachments/files/117/220/589/081/503/830/original/f259bc8b4fcd09b8.png

2026-09-05 21:28:28 UTC

If you want a perfect snapshot of how absurd things have gotten, here it is. Clorox, the company that built its entire brand on killing germs, just announced a recall because some of their cleaning products are contaminated with highly infectious bacteria.
You literally have to sanitize your sanitizer before you can use it. That is not a metaphor for anything, but it might as well be.
https://www.medicaldaily.com/clorox-mistolin-lestoil-recall-pseudomonas-puerto-rico-478212

2026-09-04 16:02:16 UTC

Canada must prepare for a 5°C hotter future and act now to avoid worst impacts: new federal report.
https://climateinstitute.ca/news/canada-must-prepare-for-hotter-future-and-act-now
#climatecrisis

2026-09-04 04:18:07 UTC

Occupied Korea is reviewing options, including military measures, to ‌support freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, the presidential office said on Friday, while denying media reports that the government had already decided on a deployment.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-korea-prepares-hormuz-military-deployment-media-reports-say-2026-09-03/
#news #worldnews #iranwar #korea

2026-09-02 23:20:35 UTC

JD Vance says he’s doing ‘God’s work – and if that leads to the end times, OK’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/02/jd-vance-god-podcast-end-times
#usa #news #uspol

2026-09-02 02:45:27 UTC

A U.S. strike hit a wedding ceremony in Kuhestak in southern Iran, killing four people, including a child, and wounding more than 50 others.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/us-launched-large-powerful-strikes-iran-trump-says-rcna595581
#worldnews #iranwar

2026-09-02 00:21:28 UTC

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agreed, a bit more due diligence on the facts would've made it even better. Still, overall pretty well done and I like the optimism at the end.

2026-09-02 00:19:05 UTC

Nvidia-backed Anthropic inks $35 billion deal. Just don’t call it ‘Circular Financing’
https://www.barrons.com/articles/nvidia-stock-price-anthropic-deal-ai-circular-financing-6be908a3

2026-09-01 21:46:40 UTC

👇️
#history #fascism
https://cdn.masto.host/socialmarxistnetwork/media_attachments/files/117/197/975/545/725/054/original/af1b5eb95361b951.mp4