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They asked me my AI policy I said it's just two words and the first one is fuck

it's not the single worst article but I'm just annoyed by the lazy both-sidesism

Here's a "both sides" article on the issue (the writing of which I don't admire) that explains the situation in broad strokes: www.clevescene.com/news/clevela...

If the strike happens, I hope other authors will be prepared to support the workers. The librarians, yes, but also the people who work the counter. The people who clean the buildings. The people who deliver books across the city from branch to branch.

If you're an author and want to see if the people going on strike are the people who put your books into people's hands, here's how you can search: search.cpl.org?browseCatego...

The Cleveland Public Library's union voted overwhelmingly, 97%, to authorize a strike, which will happen in August if the administrators continue to stall contract negotiations. As an author whose work is carried by those libraries, I whole-heartedly endorse the library workers.

Cheryl Reeve, winningest coach in WNBA history, defends transgender athletes against sports bans. “Exclusion is never the answer. Separate isn’t equal. Trans lives matter.” 💗🏳️‍⚧️💗🏀💗

counterpoint: we should be on time and do the things we say we are going to do

Sometimes I worry I’m becoming some kind of left wing version of a trucker listening Limbaugh, other times I’m listening to tales of Cool People who did Cool Stuff and @margaret.bsky.social and @iwriteok.bsky.social turn me on to George A. Romero’s 1981 classic Knightriders and I know I’ll be okay…

Proud leftist

and i'm 100% with you on the USSR

it's all good! the internet is just about the worst place to discuss theory, sadly.

I'm using Communism with a capital C throughout and make that distinction in the linked piece

lol stfu

I feel like I would have a hard time finding sources that I trust, or modern commentators whose opinions I value. I'm open to suggestions!

yet resistance to norman conquest seems absolutely morally correct, and it sure seems like norman conquest really put the nail in the coffin of local democratic projects and began the enclosure of the commons.

oh, this is interesting to me! Anti-norman resistance is strange because it seems like the pro Anglo-Saxon crowd is, starting in the 19th century(?) almost exclusively horrendous people, who then go back in time and mythmake about the noble resistance to norman conquest.

simply because the Communists are more "revolutionary," But I think that the belief in participatory decisionmaking is the more important value by far. (How much socdems really believe in that, in a representative capitalist democracy, is certainly debatable)

and I think that the anarchists trusting the Bolsheviks was one of the most consequential mistakes in history and probably our greatest moral failing. In modern organizing, I think there's a tendency for anarchists, if they work with non-anarchists, to trust Communists more than Socialists [...]

That's legit. I know I need to read more about the German social democrats repression of the revolution on the 1910s and 1920s. But I am under the impression the Spanish Republic was better to the anarchists during the revolution there than the Communists were,