The distinction between the consumer and the producer of information vanishes once their activity becomes data. To be online is to both consume and produce data, that is value. Users generate data through interactions which platforms monetize. This unpaid ‘labour’ is comparable to Marx’s labour power, as users produce value (data).▪️AI algorithms, cloud infrastructure, and digital platforms are the new means of production, and they are concentrated in very few hands.
Data extraction and collection is driven by the dictates of capital accumulation, which in turn drives capital to construct and rely upon a universe where everything is reduced to data. Since the data which is fed into machines has undergone a preliminary abstraction process, there is nothing to stop this data from being outcomes of previous cycles of artificial production of information through data. Data generate data that generate data and so on. Like interest-bearing capital, 'a mysterious and self-creating source of its own increase … self-valorising value, money-breeding money’, as Marx describes the process of financialization that autonomizes capital from its own support.
▪️Data accumulation and capital accumulation have led to the same outcome: growing inequality and the consolidation of monopoly corporate power.
But as the autonomization of capital that crowds out non-financial investments has a detrimental effect on productive sectors, so does the proliferation of AI content online. Several researchers have pointed out that generating data out of synthetic data leads to dangerous distortions. Training large language models on their own output doesn’t work and may lead to ‘model collapse’, a degenerative process whereby, over time, models forget the true underlying data distribution, start hallucinating and producing nonsense.3
Without a constant input of good quality data produced by humans, these language models cannot improve. ▪️The question is, who is going to feed well-written, factually correct, AI-free texts when an increasing number of people are offloading cognitive effort to artificial intelligence, and there is mounting evidence that human intelligence is declining?

Read more in my latest article https://lauraruggeri.substack.com/p/the-ghost-in-the-machine-artificial

A Russian court issued a verdict in absentia in a criminal case against a Belgian mercenary. The court determined that between April 2022 and January 2025, Maxime Roger Henri Barrat arrived in Ukraine and enlisted in the International Legion as a mercenary. He participated in combat operations. In addition, he participated in intelligence gathering and operations against the Russian Armed Forces. He received the equivalent of over 2.6 million roubles for these actions. The court sentenced Barratt in absentia to 14 years of imprisonment. The guy is terribly dangerous, he is supporting and hailing the genocide from the Belgiums in Congo a neo-nazi, which Europe has many, calling themselves supporters of right political parties. They are all over X pretending to be supporters of Trump or right-wing political parties in Europe
atrocitieswatch.org/publicatio...

A very good observer and writer on X mentioned to me he is French - https://nicolascinquini.blog/2022/07/23/lengagement-francais-dans-les-rangs-ukrainiens/#barratmaxime

President Putin has declared a ceasefire for the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War (second World war)
Guided by humanitarian motives, he announces a ceasefire for the celebrations of the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War to last from May 8, 00:00 Moscow time to May 11, 00:00 Moscow time. Any military operations will be ceased during this period. Russia believes that the Ukrainian side should follow this example. In the event of any violations of the ceasefire by the Ukrainian side, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will give a proportionate and efficient response. Of course, Western media will tell you it's a trick, and Russia doesn't want a real ceasefire, Europe is nearly a hopeless case..

North Korean troops honored by President (leader) Kim.

After we know that the Zionists blew up the tomb of the prophet Benjamin, it's known now that they have blown up more tombs from Christian and Muslim prophets; Laith Marouf, Leila Hatoum and Hadi Hotait visit the Tomb of Apostle Simon-Peter in the village of Shamaa, south Lebanon. The tomb was deliberately blown up by Zionist invaders after they occupied it in late 2024. According to both Christian and Muslim theological explanations, Apostle Simon-Peter is supposed to return with Jesus Christ (and alMahdi) to fight the Anti-Christ; and thus the looting of the remains in the tomb by a Zionist “archeologist”, and his subsequent killing by the Resistance, fall into the wider Zionist Religious war on the Indigenous peoples of the land. The three stop in multiple villages on their way to Shamaa, inspecting the damage and speaking to the locals; and end their tour in the costal resort town Sour (Tyre), where they discuss the latest political developments in Lebanon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW0ho7gzRVs

The first prototype of the MS-21 medium-range aircraft equipped with Russian systems has successfully completed a test flight. Replacing the US Boeing most likely in years to come..

Al-Julani was and remains an asset to Al Qaeda. You can take a man out of Al Qaeda, but you can’t take Al Qaeda out of a man.

President Putin and President (Belarus) Alexander Lukashenko visited the memorial complex "To the Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad" on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd. On the eve of the 80th anniversary of the Victory they the memory of the heroic defenders of Stalingrad.