S4A Livestream #124: Just Communist Chat; Looming Economic Crash; Artificial Intelligence; & More

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S4A Livestream #124: Just Communist Chat; Looming Economic Crash; Artificial Intelligence; & More

Socialism For All / S4A ☭

Jan 03, 2025

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Livestream #124 from Socialism for All / S4A, originally recorded on Twitch, discussing a variety of current events topics

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Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

23:49 Chat 1: Happy New Year; Looming Economic Crash; Thanks to the Patrons; Regional Seeds of the Housing Crash; The AI Stock Bubble

40:03 Chat 2: TikTok AI Videos; Youtube Algo Broken; Audience Can't Make It Past Chapter 1 of Capital; The Democrats' Electoral Failure; The Cult of Artificial Intelligence

58:17 Chat 3: Luigi Mangione; Communists Need to Validate People's Suffering First of All; Will Trump's Tariffs Trigger a Recession?; The Value of Getting to Know Your Local Left; Reading Capital; The Plague of the Commenters; AI as a Moral Issue for Liberals; Onion & Garlic; House Price Inflation; Turbulence in South Korea; AI Autonomy & Deception; #MaskUp with an #N95; Bluesky Is More Active Now; Moving Past Sheer Anger Online

1:19:46 Chat 4: Thanks to the Thankers (for Studying); AI in Schools; Landlords Jacking Up Rent After Minimal Improvements; Labor Union Information Sessions; Reading Anti-Union Campaign Literature; Twitter: Where Even Many of the "Communists" are Right-Wingers (NazBols); A Return to Socialism in the Former Eastern Bloc; Bad Conditions for AI Workers & Internet Comments Moderators, AI as "Actually Indians"; English Is a Difficult Language; CEO of Peak Designs; Editing as a Huge Part of Creative Work

1:38:54 Chat 5: Better Fewer, But Better; Challenging Ourselves; Online Leftists Complaining About Reading Theory; Masking for COVID & H5N1; Dogmatism; Errors of ChatGPT; Soviet Citizens' Interest in Capitalist Popular Culture; EWOC Union Organizing Manual; Doug's Union Campaign Update; People Judging MLs by Twitter Right-Wingers; Patreon Issues on Apple iOS

1:58:55 Chat 6: Organizing in DSA; The Value of Getting to Know Your Local Left, Part 2; "Anti-Revisionism" Is Easy to Claim; The Effort to Coalesce an Anti-Revisionist International

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