PhD-Philosophy Communist writer & educator in normative political, posthuman, & labour theory, as well as film studies & economics. They/Them Fix your hearts.
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Hey comrades! Today's popcorn classic is objectively one of the greatest films ever made, as it boasts a runtime of 422 minutes! It's Sergey Bondarchuk's legendary Mosfilm produced adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace!
In Canada the grid workers just lick their finger and touch it to the line and if it sparks they know it isn't insulated properly - we are a century behind!
A “giant snake” on a power line? Not quite.
This is a self-developed snake-like power line inspection robot deployed by China Southern Power Grid in Kunming, southwest China's Yunnan Province, for detailed power line inspections.
Equipped with cameras, thermal imagers and other sensors, the robot can autonomously crawl and navigate obstacles for round-the-clock operations with intelligent diagnosis of power line safety hazards, effectively addressing the limitations of manual and drone inspections.
LMFAO - I swear a snapping sound registers on the camera phone even over all that noise. The people on the field who got the front-row perspective must have had a real show, haha.
A U.S. Army officer falls to the field at high speed during a fast rope demonstration gone wrong during the Navy vs UTSA pregame tonight.
The officer was attended to on the field and taken to the hospital on a stretcher. There has been no update on his condition but we pray that he was not seriously injured.
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Air Force confirmed the service member, a USAF Airman, died from injuries after the rappelling demonstration. It was not a fast-rope or Army officer.
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Tsoi worked this job two days a week for guaranteed housing, food, & healthcare, & spent the rest of his time making excellent Soviet Goth-Rock. In America you are lucky to find one job that you have to spend 40 hours a week doing for basic survival, exhausted with no guarantees.
Saito's reading of Marx is deliberately counterinsurgent book-mongering. He works in the tradition of western academic distorters like the Frankfurt school and French postmodernists to normalize liberal reformism with Marxist slogans. He's a capitalist party clown with a perm.
Certainly read Capital (all four volumes), and read Lenin's works on economics, but you are not getting the whole picture if you don't read works like Grundrisse, the 1844 Manuscripts, Anti-Duhring, Materialism and Empirio-Criticism, Juche, etc. This is the antidote to dogmatism.
If we are talking about Western capitalist nations, the proletarianization horse has already bolted. This round of discourse started with the more crypto-fasc elements of Marxist twitter saying that we shouldn't care about large AI models training on work by independent artists.
Finally, independent artists should organize and collectivize, and given the nature of this work that is likely to be more progressive than hiring on and doing graphic design for some ad agency. Dismissing this struggle because Marx said merchants are reactionary is bad analysis.
The correct position on this should follow diamat analysis like anything else. We obviously seek the abolition of all commercial property, but we live under capitalism where intellectual property is a form of private property and therefore an unavoidable aspect of class struggle.
To completely hand-wave contradictions at our specific stage of class struggle is always a reactionary gesture. Cultural workers and artists do lose ground in this struggle if they take the lazy contrarian position of abstract idealism - that's anarchism, not Marxism-Leninism.