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“State capitalism” is an unfortunate misnomer which I avoid. Unlike private enterprises, state-owned enterprises don’t necessarily need to make a profit, because the state has a monopoly on money. Previously.

premature antifascists

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That post was nine days ago… coincidence?

She became a strikebreaker three years ago. Kshama Sawant: Rail Workers Betrayed By Biden & The “Squad”

AOC justified her vote by claiming she was fighting “tooth and nail” for the additional sick days. Jamaal Bowman claimed he was “always fighting in solidarity with the workers.” But what the Congressional “Progressive” Caucus pulled was a con job, and a hamfisted one at that. They colluded with Pelosi to separate out the vote into two, promising their roughly 100 votes on the rotten TA in exchange for a separate vote on the sick day amendment, which they knew full well would get crushed in the Senate. It took only one day to confirm the brutal reality: that the majority of the “Squad,” in coordination with the leaders of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, sold rail workers down the river while blowing smoke about paid sick days.

On November 30, Democratic Socialists of America’s (DSA) national center posted a statement of support for the rail workers which included this sentence:

“Any member of Congress who votes yes on the tentative agreement is siding with billionaires and forcing a contract on rail workers that does not address their most pressing demand of paid sick days.”

What then of their own members and endorsed elected officials in Congress who voted yes? What this statement implies, and what the actions of the “Squad” definitively prove, is that these elected officials are, and see themselves as, part of the capitalist state, the state that acts for the billionaires and against the interests of the majority, the working class.

A socialist cannot be a strike breaker. This needs to be the end of any pretense by DSA that the “Squad” is socialist, and should result in their expulsion from the organization. Failing that, the Squad’s betrayal of the working class becomes DSA’s betrayal.

Today I am completely opposed to small arms and what they can do to children.

Should the little tykes have no arms at all? What a sicko.

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It’s about psychohistory historical materialism.

Markov chains are basically finite state machines with statistically weighted edges (arrows). Is a Markov Chain the Same as a Finite State Machine?

Three lifetimes ago I was using Monte Carlo simulations for optimizing queuing in manufacturing processes.

The mention of Claude Shannon reminded me that I have a book on my shelf I still haven’t read: The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

I wonder if this paper is as interesting as it sounds: Problem Solving is Often a Matter of Cooking Up an Appropriate Markov Chain (PDF)

Did you know that MBFC is occupational therapist David Van Zandt’s side gig?

• https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/about/
• https://guilfordortho.com/dave-van-zandt-cscs-ceas-fce-mes/

The dude was just in the right place at the right time, namely the “Russiagate” hoax.

It’s like I said last August:

If Harris wins, the Democratic base will continue to sleep. You can do anything when the Dems are in the WH. It was under Trump that protesters shut down airport terminals, but under Biden the base sleeps regarding immigration & asylum. That’s what Glenn Greenwald and I learned from the GWB to Obama transition: the Dems sleep when their team is in office. Greenwald “changed” from hero to villain without changing the least bit; the only difference was who was in office. Unlike the Dem-aligned media, he didn’t go to sleep.

You can war as much as you want. You can run a fucking star chamber. You can stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody.

Yes, some free/freemium products mislead or straight-up lie. Check the source code and the license(s). In some cases the fee version is open source but the premium version is neither open nor even source-available. AlternativeTo lets you filter based on Open Source, Free, and Paid.

They don’t even give these private investors better returns than the public securities market. https://lemmy.ml/post/33712885

A modern-day classic: 📺 Bo Burnham: How The World Works

based if true

How a careless, incompetent developer moved fast and broke things, specifically his company’s production database.

H-1B visa go brrr. 𝕏ittr is probably nothing but H-1B workers getting overworked and underpaid.