Generative AI includes also image and video generation, which have a very different approach than LLMs

bro, the people who identify as right-wing in the USA control the state, the farms, the businesse, the technology, and they are a considerable part of the working class.

Who do you think Lenin was trying to win over with all his activities? People who already identified as socialist? Obviously winning over people who identify as right-wing is necessary, especially if your idea of right wing is anybody who is not actively building a socialist revolution.

Because the infrastructure group is concerned with more critical work around self-hosting than video calls. If you want to sponsor a jitsi server and do the plumbing work of replacing all our technical and organizational dependencies on zoom with Jit.si, feel free to join and expand our self-hosted infrastructure.

DMT and the Church are both technologies to access the experience of God, with very different costs. I agree on the worshipping part, in fact I’m talking about experiencing God, not worshipping. Worshipping is a way to eventually experience God, it’s not a consequence, at least within Christianity. Faith means trusting that through worshipping you will eventually have the experience of God, in a way or another.

Then if you prefer not to call it a God, that’s fine, but you miss out on the fact that countless people in the past millennia were talking about the same thing you saw on DMT. The God of Spinoza, Mulla Sadra or Plato is not necessarily a God to worship.

you’re defined by your environment, either by aligning to it or by rejecting it. You’re never free from it. What I’m saying is that that’s your understanding of spirituality and religion, even if you reject it, because most people around you employ that worldview. And it has very little to do with your rational side or critical thinking.

I’m not Christian. I was raised culturally Catholic but never practiced or believed in the Christian God. I’ve been excomunicated for a few years too. I have no connection to the Catholic in any form (except maybe some of their money funding some political stuff I do).

The Catholic Church, understood as the community of believers, is an organization going on for thousands of years, in every corner of the world, involving a few billions of humans. Every organization of that size will have stains in its history, especially if you judge them from the perspective of late-stage modernity morals, which the Church deliberately doesn’t participate in. They have their own system, and it clashes with the rationalist mindset because both systems have a claim to universalism, with the Christian universalism creating the modern colonial-scientific universalism. They are two sides of the same coin. I make little distinction between the two, because both eventually lead to oppression. That said, nowadays the Catholic Church is positioning itself as the main leader of the anti-fascist front in the Global North.

Also little historical note: quantitatively, the vast majority of witch burnings were done by protestants, not by catholics

I assume you’ve never experienced the existence of God, which is a pity. Great experience. 10/10, would recommend.

I guess you’ve never experienced the existence of aliens, which makes the two experiences equivalent in their absurdity to you, but you should consider that the vast majority of people out there did experience God in a way or another.

Sounds like normal person logic to me.

Are most of the people around you raised in a protestant culture? Because that would explain a lot.

The big selling point of Christianity was to move God and faith within the subject, moving away from external and ritualistic practices. Also, objectivity is a modernist perspective and it’s not an intrinsic valuable thing. Outside of rationalist bubbles in the global north, objectivity is pretty uninteresting trait to evaluate knowledge, because the knower and the known are never objective.

Some people tried to prove God through language and logic, but it’s beyond the point. The existence of God is much more easily experienced than proven.

The Bible was born as a support to create the community around which the experience of God was possible. A scenario in which a person is reading the Bible alone, thinking really hard about it, and comes out convinced of God’s existence is not what the Bible was written for or how it’s used in most forms of Christianity.

Yes people absolutely did write and read it as an historical account. You need to distinguish between multiple authors who did not sit in a writing room together and editors who collected the works. The reason why multiple reports were collected was to get at the truth. Long lists of names and events were included to establish historical credibility.

Were you raised in a protestant country? Because this is a very protestant logic.

If you build the infrastructure for a certain thing to happen, you’re responsible for the thing. For the same reason we hold facebook accountable for the rise of the far-right, we should hold WikiPedia accountable for this stuff. Infrastructure is never neutral.

I actually teach how to plan, execute, and assess political and social impact, beyond practicing it in my orgs. Are you aware there are plenty of disciplines working exactly on this? Your rethoric is just a way to justify your inaction. If nothing can change, it means you’re exempted from your responsibilities. Too easy.

Everything made by humans can be destroyed by humans. No social system is forever. The rest is just skill issue.

there’s plenty of studies which point to the fact that exposure to media is indeed irrelevant to determine political opinions.

yeah, it’s quite big, because in a way it’s the biggest win so far for the BDS in American tech.

I wrote about this topic too, if you’re interested: https://write.as/conjure-utopia/the-verbose-story-of-how-i-left-the-tech-industry-and-started-washing-miso-jars

I didn’t mention some other systems, but for bigger campaigns ActionNetwork is one of the most used tools and has a lot of integrations, for instance with N8N. I do run some systems with ActionNetwork, mostly for newsletters. The thing of using N8N as a glue layer is that you can integrate with more specialized tools if the need arises, maintaining your custom systems for more niche cases.

You’re focusing too much on the WordPress example. There are a dozen tools mentioned in the article that will clarify what’s possible.

A CMS is a specific type of no-code software. N8N or Appsmith are definitely not a CMS