No actually you are totally right and I've made a big mistake. I thought I remembered him going to the island, but he just met with him a couple times. His reaction was pretty poor, but I don't think there's evidence he went to his island. I'll edit my comment. Thanks for pointing that out.
I consider Understanding Power an essential read, but really soured on Chomsky as a person when he defended his going to Epstein's island meetings with Epstein. I still think people should read him but not glorify him.
Edit: there is no evidence, as far as I'm aware, Chomsky went to Epstein's Island. I misremembered.
Drive? No one's out here saying rural folks need to stop driving or else. The anti car stance is about reducing driving -- recognizing our over reliance on cars is big problem, more cars is not a solution, and that electric cars placate people into thinking theyre doing something good for the environment ie greenwashing, like what you're doing now.
FYI the notion that hierarchical oppression is natural to humans is misinformed. There's plenty of archaeological and anthropological evidence of a wide variety of social systems, ranging from rigid hierarchy to flat social structures with no hierarchy whatsoever. So no, it hasn't been like that since humans were in caves, and justifying the current order as natural is way more cringe than pointing out that most of recorded history is defined by struggle between the owners and the owned.
It's still kinda janky IMO, and there are some parts where the performance can tank. But I'm not really treating as a fast-paced action game so it doesn't really affect my enjoyment.
I've really been enjoying Kingdom Come: Deliverance and swapping between my PC and SteamDeck. It runs pretty well on the Deck. Reminds me of how I felt playing Skyrim. Excited to get to the sequel.
I dont really use LLMs so I didn't even realize there were versions with different weights and stuff. I was using 7b, but found it pretty useless. Pretty sure I'm not going to be able run 32B on my rig. lmao.
I'm moving to self host all my streaming stuff. Switching from local-only plex to self hosting all my media (spotify, google photos, LLMs) and tools behind a reverse proxy so i can access outside my home. It's pretty sweet and a good learning experience using reverse proxies
Edit: Plus fuck these technofeudal lords who enclose access to markets, information, and culture.
I agree but also I think you're getting at a broader issue of the cooption/reclaimation of words, and the problem of language being fluid.
Unfortunately for anarchism, its been an uphill battle. In Plato's The Republic, Socrates refers to anarchy in the negative context we mostly see it used today, similar to just pure chaos.
The term was reclaimed by Proudhon in the 19th century as he developed anarchist philosophy, but I'm not sure the term ever really got divorced from the negative connotation it had. And so I think we still see people use anarchism to refer to any anti state belief, or chaos, in general. Are they wrong or right? Eh. Id like to say they're wrong because I was really moved when I read Kropotkin and Graeber and whatever. But then again, I'm not gonna really get mad when someone uses "gentleman" for a polite man instead of a member of the landed gentry or whatever the term "gentleman" used to mean.
This is all me being an armchair linguist though and kinda talking outta my ass so take that for what you will
Edit: I just read your objection about the mischaracterization of anarchism as a movement because of all this -- and yeah that is a problem for sure. It does make it difficult to describe to people, "I'm not talking about anarchism like you normally think, like pure chaos. I'm talking about anarchism as a political philosophy. See, in the 19th century there were these dudes..." Yeah, that gets pretty old. But idk my opinion is conflicted on this because my personal philosophy around language tends liberal due to their fluid nature
Agree 100% but wanna add that some right wing libertarians like to glob on to the A because they fashion themselves as chaotic or watched V for Vendetta one time and now have Batman complexes. Obviously they are completely ignorant of anarchist philosophy. I think the OP is similarly ignorant here (sorry OP, not meaning that as a slight against you -- most people think anarchy just means no government or chaos or whatever)
Edit: oh yeah, as others have mentioned there are also ancaps, which are oxymoronic but I'm sure they don't really care
I think I have seen a similar issue. Mine is that sometimes my firefox gets stuck in the background and I can click the icon in my dock to maximize it. Nothing happens. I have to hit the Windows key to view all my windows in that particular workspace, then click firefox to get it to the front. Sometimes it doesn't work and I have to close out Firefox and reopen. Is that similar to what you're seeing ?
The house was not built by its owner. It was erected, decorated, and furnished by innumerable workers--in the timber yard, the brick field, and the workshop, toiling for dear life at a minimum wage.
The money spent by the owner was not the product of his own toil. It was amassed, like all other riches, by paying the workers two-thirds or only a half of what was their due.
Moreover--and it is here that the enormity of the whole proceeding becomes most glaring--the house owes its actual value to the profit which the owner can make out of it. Now, this profit results from the fact that his house is built in a town possessing bridges, quays, and fine public buildings, and affording to its inhabitants a thousand comforts and conveniences unknown in villages; a town well paved, lighted with gas, in regular communication with other towns, and itself a centre of industry, commerce, science, and art; a town which the work of twenty or thirty generations has gone to render habitable, healthy, and beautiful.
A house in certain parts of Paris may be valued at thousands of pounds sterling, not because thousands of pounds' worth of labour have been expended on that particular house, but because it is in Paris; because for centuries workmen, artists, thinkers, and men of learning and letters have contributed to make Paris what it is to-day--a centre of industry, commerce, politics, art, and science; because Paris has a past; because, thanks to literature, the names of its streets are household words in foreign countries as well as at home; because it is the fruit of eighteen centuries of toil, the work of fifty generations of the whole French nation.
Who, then, can appropriate to himself the tiniest plot of ground, or the meanest building, without committing a flagrant injustice? Who, then, has the right to sell to any bidder the smallest portion of the common heritage?
Edit: and another of my fav Kropotkin passages, this time from Mutual Aid:
It is not love, and not even sympathy (understood in its proper sense) which induces a herd of ruminants or of horses to form a ring in order to resist an attack of wolves; not love which induces wolves to form a pack for hunting; not love which induces kittens or lambs to play, or a dozen of species of young birds to spend their days together in the autumn; and it is neither love nor personal sympathy which induces many thousand fallow-deer scattered over a territory as large as France to form into a score of separate herds, all marching towards a given spot, in order to cross there a river. It is a feeling infinitely wider than love or personal sympathy — an instinct that has been slowly developed among animals and men in the course of an extremely long evolution, and which has taught animals and men alike the force they can borrow from the practice of mutual aid and support, and the joys they can find in social life.
No actually you are totally right and I've made a big mistake. I thought I remembered him going to the island, but he just met with him a couple times. His reaction was pretty poor, but I don't think there's evidence he went to his island. I'll edit my comment. Thanks for pointing that out.