He is his best fan.

Seeing China (Tencent) and the US (Lightspeed LA) working together really gives me hope that everything will turn up alright.

The idea is that in a populist scenario the command chain of a dictator-like government has to repeat exactly what the leader says. And that would come from the responsible authoritarian leaders being representatives for the people. But in a way that they are the people. And that comes from a strong “I am you” image projected by the authoritarian leader.

I will elaborate more on this later as it interests me profoundly.

Thankfully, the literature on it is quite extense. I have prepared some books to read on the “Authoritarian Personality” and on the “Sociology of Power”. It is just a shower thought after all.

Luckily I’ll be able to make sense of this and produce something that will make it able for people to understand it as well.

A blog post, a Lemmy comment, something like that.

do you think this is interesting? people clearly have a strong opinion about it given the downvotes.

I’d rather not.

That is already enough of a reason for a distinguished study. If a populist leader wants to force their core leaders and fellow party members into going along completely with them, that’s already reason enough for a deep cut in morality, ethics and integrity.

In a populist setting, where the politician says to the people that gather around her/him “I am like you”, they do this for the sole purpose of forcing the other interested members of a party to say “I am like you” as well.

I think the exact opposite. Saying that “democracy isn’t for us” banishes any kind of democracy that could happen in the country. It even bans the possibility that there is a right way of democracy for the country.

The current crimes linked to western democracy are just connected to the current state of democracy. That Burkina Faso shouldn’t buy into a democracy that kills, that doesn’t build hospitals, and so on. That doesn’t mean the concept of democracy cannot change for implementation on the country for the future.

Anyway, exact opposite.

I pay for Ollama Cloud. As for the training of the big models, big companies do it using who-knows-what resources.

Tool usage is very important. Qwen3.5 (135b) can already do wonderful things on OpenCode.

Military? Who would act militarily against a community? How do you figure slums survive? People could act “militarily” against them. Yet they survive and thrive.

I think it’s important to denote that some people categorize anarchism as a distant dream regime, for convenience of course.

You can see anarchism in action in the punk movement or other community efforts. People building bridges on their own, living in a gridless community, sharing art using their own methods like cassette tapes. That’s all anarchism.

I’m not at the heart of anarchism. I’m not occupying an abandoned building to help the poor, for example. But I’ve read a couple of books on it.

I would like to inform that in the Finnish article mentioned (which can be accessed via Google Scholar) the authors use the word “Fire” and not “Dismiss”, so it’s even clearer.

Link: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2ee3a3c1-9c57-4c27-bf90-da54bb935706/download_file?safe_filename=Adams-Prassl_et_al_2022_Violence_against_women.pdf&file_format=pdf&type_of_work=Working+paper

Sending male abusers away is the right thing to do. I’m glad women in positions of power are doing that.

Yes, you’re right. Don’t let anyone tell you how you feel. Doesn’t make it exactly scientific though, even if it’s true.

You’re a woman who wants to “NoFap”?

Everyday I stray further from the path of mainstream gaming.

It doesn’t make sense to stay locked into the Mac environment unless the hardware is incredible or you need to develop iOS applications.

Controlling people in the way you mean goes all the way back to “Revolta das Vacinas” and the higienistas. That’s not what I mean. What I mean is digital control over what people do. You think Brazil doesn’t have the US technology to control what people do over the web, but look at all the Amazon and Oracle datacenters that keep appearing on Brazil.

It might not be direct technology transfer, but it is at least licensed to process brazilian info and, if with Bolsonaro, to help the government with direct knowledge against public interest.

CPF, fingerprint, photos,… that’s all well knowledge of fingerprinting the citizen. But what about the digital fingerprint? That could be much larger: what you do, your psychological profile, and what you do on your free time.

Can you imagine; all those companies in contract with the government. Suddenly they have access to your profile and how you respond to everything. I’m not talking directly about the democratic government here, since it doesn’t matter if it is Lula or Bolsonaro on this. But you have to keep in mind that the personal interest, by which I mean the interest of the peoples initiative, association and expression, is defended by the left, not the right.

You’re in for a surprise if you think the government doesn’t want absolute control. In an age where people use their phones, are constantly online. Maybe you will find out there people who “just want to get in peace to their homes”, or “just want to be left alone”, or that the basic for life is “being able to walk carelessly on the streets”. It’s the complete reversal of what is human and what we need to be human: connection, food, water, development.

People need education and knowledge, but more than that, people need the right to build, the right to tinker, the right to find out who they are, the right to find out what’s best for everyone in society and for their own groups, the right to participate democratically.

None of which are guaranteed in Brazil right now, and certainly won’t be with Bolsonaro. Don’t be surprised if Bolsonaro talks trash of the Fediverse or of what the radical left thinks is freedom of expression and association.