I’ve had great luck running qwen2.5-coder:7b on my work laptop. It’s great for a wide range of dev and operational tasks with opencode.

You don’t sound like a doomer. This is a very mature and moral take.

Amazing answer! I’d add that in my experience the best antidote for depression is getting out there and organizing. You’ll feel a lot better when you see how well our message can resonate when you do it with people who make a habit of putting theory into practice, it’s also a great way to make IRL friends. There are active ML parties all over the world!

JPMC is pretty sure that the US needs a “solution” that “reopens” Hormuz by early June. That cuts both ways, more pressure to find a military solution and greater risk of any miscalculation or failure. The safest play is to keep the blockade on the blockade going and say that Iran is being crippled.

It looks like there’s very little room for a negotiated solution but a long slow drawdown that ends somewhere both sides can accept without ever declaring an agreement doesn’t seem insane to me. It’s face saving for the US and Iran collecting tolls and controlling Hormuz is pretty good for them.

I did, I was just coming here to see where we’re talking about it. It’s not huge but various activists groups shut down 4 intersections near the US Capitol. As a relatively new Lemmy user can anyone point me at the right spot to be talking about actually organizing successes?

Is there any reason to think this is actually directed towards Iran and not entirely just to suppress battle damage images in the media?

the Ministry of Foreign Affairs calls on the international community to assume its legal and humanitarian responsibilities

Feels like the thoughts and prayers of international relations.

The other obvious reason to purge your officer core is you think you might need officers who’s loyalty is guaranteed if you intend to do something about an upcoming election you’re confident will go badly for you.

I’d be pretty surprised by that. Soldiers are chatty and have access to some social media. Casualty communications blackouts aren’t perfect and eventually things start to leak, especially once details make it into the family readiness groups back home. Not saying it’s impossible but the odds of something like that working for more than a couple days would be pretty small.

I’m not an expert but I’m familiar with that particular mechanism.

Has anyone seen any evidence of talks between Iran and the US, or even some serious third party discussions?

Has anyone seen any independent corroboration for this? I’ve been looking and having seen anything.

Thought this was an interesting piece of analysis from the folks over at Oilprice.com, an industry publication focused on investors and oil execs. TLDR is they are suggesting 200$ per barrel oil is realistic based on the damage being done to energy infrastructure and Iran’s ability to restrict oil traffic.

Note embedded link is to the archive.is version.

I think this is a critically important point. The contradictions of capitalism are becoming clearer and more and more folks will awaken to them as the situation deteriorates. It’s important that we do our best to prepare the ground now. If things go the way they seem to be going this will be a fantastic opportunity to disrupt and oppose the forces of global capitalism.

Yup, my best friend is a communist, he’s the one that got me into it. He’s not the most articulate guy in the world but he’s intellectually honest and never stopped trying. I’ve been slowly converting more and more folks. Lucky for all of us it’s getting easier and easier to convince people capitalism is killing us. From there it’s not a big jump to socialism.

You had me in the first half, I’m not gonna lie 😂