• Maha
• Hijra
• Female Husband
• Masc Man
• Masc Woman
• gender neutral
• Fem man
• Fem woman

I’m sure I’ve missed a few.

I thought it was because they wanted to be in charge of what was censored and what wasn’t and was left able to be seen and shared amongst users.

Also, what Chinese Facebook? Xiaohong Shu or DaZhong DianPing are probably closest… But still way off.

Aren’t they a 49:51 split international company:Chinese version?

Agreed. Have a good one.

I agree with all your points on Communism. At least in terms of how it’s been implemented, at least in name, by the Soviet Union and the PRC it has been as extractivist and imperialist as Capitalist nations.

Though one can’t really divorce the conditions in countries such as Nigeria or Bangladesh from Capitalism. The Global North’s standard of living requires the conditions there to exist, the Socialist with Totalitarian Characteristic nations at least keep their poor conditions mostly in house (albiet with some local imperialism, and the PRC has recently started expanding outside it’s borders though mostly infrastructure and resource acquisition so far.)

They’re not quite two sides of the same coin as the goals for growth are expressly different but neither cares for social connections, a sense of belonging, society in the real, let alone the environment.

Those still to be solved problems may also be the result of governments. Those problems would likely shrink (albiet be replaced by others) when there aren’t global systems of power and exploitation pushing to keep extracting resources from a corrupted Global South, polluting as processed by an overworked Asia, into commodities to sell to underpaid and liminally employed citizens of the Global North for them to destress and feel a fleeting sense of meaning in our increasingly atomised societies.

Thanks for correcting me.

That’s a lot of stuff, but we don’t call Alphabet/Google a US Military company do we?

Though I’m down to call them both military companies.

More Anarchist, I think that we should try to disengage from states and their power structures and treat people with respect and autonomy. Try to bring thee principles into daily life and interactions and live as much of a better alternative as I can.

Devolution of powers is a fine first step to work towards if engaging electorily, but that’s a long way from the be all and end all of political ideology.

Thanks for the detailed responses.

Sounds like, to me, that you have a bigger issue with government than Socialism or Communism themselves. Are you much of an anarchist?

We can at least agree that it was a dictatorship under Stalin, right?

Does Kerala (though only a state and receives national funds) or Allendé’s Chile (Overthrown by US supported military coup after a couple of years) count, or do they not for the reasons in brackets or others?

Woke is also an exonym, so it doesn’t really have a hashed out definition people who it’s used to describe would agree with.

On the more pertinent issue, yes - AI can’t create new things or really do anything that hasn’t been done before. And yes, no one really plays an engine, as much as the Occulus Rift fanbois wished about a decade ago.

I think the article flows reasonably well, though is more a hit piece/jokey opinion piece rather than an actual interrogation of anything Musk said. It’s the lowest kind of news, someone’s musings on someone saying something about someone saying something. The main push is his hypocrisy, with the whole “too many big corporations, so my big corporation should do it” lines.
But yes, it’s just brainless easy dunking on Musk without giving the whole thing anymore thought than Elon himself has.

I don’t agree with you, but you are onto something.

Your use of “wokeness” is a good description for the way “Woke” is used to keep minorities in their place, c.f. Simpsons writing Apu out, despite dozens of subcontinent ethnicity comedians all openly saying they’d love the role, or streaming companies just stopping access to “problematic” content for an easy headline, c.f. Many streaming services and Community’s first D&D episode.

It is shown in people too, usually comorbid with a white saviour complex, where the being seen in the act of “helping” is more important than listening to the voices of whoever is being helped and the actual effectiveness, or desire, for the “help” given.

I wonder how neatly it maps onto a Liberal/Leftist divide… Probably not especially as everyone has blindspots and hangups over Race and Class that can be buried quite deep in the subconscious.

for example, the very idea of a “Brown comma” might more readily resonate with the concept of the Brown note.

Whoever it was, well played.