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Canadian Media: The Propaganda of Propaganda                                                                                        The propagandists base their business on the idea that the recipient is a kind of ignorant automaton who will vote for a seductive image capable of giving voice to their political illiteracy and confusion in an empire of fallacies plagued by misinformation, anti-politics and capricious interpretations of reality. - Fernando B. Abad

FILDEBRANDT: How long can independent media survive Ottawa's attempts to kill it?

• Derek Fildebrandt

• The bastards did it. The Liberal-NDP bloc of the House of Commons passed Bill C-18, the Online News Act, disregarding thoughtful amendments made to it by the Senate. 

  For those not following every twist and turn of Big Media's latest shakedown, the Online News Act was designed to pilfer money from Facebook and Google for those companies making news content available to readers. Yeah, doesn't make sense to me either. 

  Facebook's parent company, Meta has warned for over a year that if the bill passed (in its original, and final form), that they would "turn off the news" in Canada. And hours after Parliament passed the bill they doubled down, confirming that in the coming months — before the bill comes into force — that is exactly what they will be doing. 

  The Liberals and Big Media bosses were shocked. SHOCKED I tell you, that Meta is doing what they said they would do. 

  Now the Canadian media — big Eastern/US corporations and small independents alike — face a readership apocalypse. Most Canadians find their news through Facebook and Google. Without these two sources, readership is going to dry up fast. That will mean less money from subscriptions, and from advertising. 

  For the grifters at News Media Canada — which falsely claim to represent the news industry in Canada — this is bad. Their readership will shrink considerably. But it's not that bad. They can always go back to Daddy Warbucks and ask the federal government for even more bailout money to cover off the shortfall.

  They will be made whole by Ottawa. But the big silver lining for them is that their competing independent online upstarts — like the Western Standard — will see their readership drop off without the buckets of federal cash. 

  Moment of Truth

   

                        In Canada, the big Media are Instruments of Manipulation

  We dream of another freedom of the press, in an educated and informed country, in a country that has a comprehensive general culture and can communicate with the world.- F. Castro 

  This raises the very uncomfortable question for independent publishers like the Western Standard: how long can we continue to see our tax dollars used against us while the federal government passes laws to cut off even our readership?

  Our refusal to accept the federal money is admittedly a bit self-righteous, but it has been the right thing to do. Government funding the media is just wrong. If you need to be told why, you probably don't belong in a free country. 

  But at some point, we will just not be able to compete against our own tax dollars. We have thus far, but now we are seeing our readership about to be hacked by federal legislation (Online News Act,) our broadcast reach hurt (Online Streaming Act) and our voices censored (Online Harms Act.) Taken together, this is an existential threat to the free press.

  So what's a publisher to do? Continue to refuse, go out of business, and leave the media to the Eastern and American owned corporations that control nearly everything else? Just let the CBC and Postmedia have the field to themselves? 

  Or do we swallow our pride, get with the program and continue providing Westerners with a professional independent media? 

  I honestly don't know, and the decision chokes me. I woke up this morning gritting my teeth, already angry before I had breakfast.

  It's not a decision we should have to make. We should be allowed to compete in a free market of ideas and media in Canada, striving to make a better product than our competitors every day. But we're not. We're throttled at every turn by federal legislation and we see our tax dollars weaponized against us as subsidies for our much larger competitors. 

  I want to hear from you, our readers. Seriously, I want your feedback as to how the Western Standard should deal with this going forward. Please send me your thoughts at dfildebrandt@westernstandard.news

We are facing what Marx called the real subsumption of labor in capital

Optimus: Robotics and Artificial Intelligence 

 

 Hernán Sánchez: After his open rejection of Artificial Intelligence from the open letter published at the beginning of March of this year, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, presented his new version of Optimus, a robot controlled with artificial intelligence.  

 

This "humanoid robot" is designed to "facilitate the transportation of parts and improve the production process in the company's production facilities," according to Musk. Just over 10 months ago, Optimus was just an idea that barely existed in projects and papers. In its first presentation, the automaton did not even walk, and last October it was shown as a slow and clumsy robot. Optimus: Tesla's new humanoid robot that seeks to become the first to be sold massively 

 

 Today, it has movements very similar to those of humans and can perform precision tasks, such as operating a drill or grasping small and fragile objects. The company recently published a video in which the robot can be seen "making" another Optimus. The goal, they said, is "to create a robot capable of performing labor tasks in Tesla's own factories to eventually be able to commercialize it at a cost of less than $20,000 for home use."  

 

The increasing investment in robotics and Artificial Intelligence by large technology companies is an undeniable reality, despite the fact that the same actors are asking to stop their development

 

. The combination of these elements brings about a leap in production on an ever-larger scale, based on the possibility that a robot has some type of artificial intelligence (or combinations thereof) integrated into its software, and can make decisions based on from previous databases and information and/or "knowledge" that it acquires as it is put into operation. 

 

 Tesla Optimus is the robot that wants to end poverty - soloautos.mxUnlike that type of robotics that does not have built-in AI and that was already used (such as the robotic arms that exist in various factories around the world), these new models can learn automatically and perfect the execution of the tasks for which they have been created, even being able to start performing new functions.

 

  Tesla's numbers, in this case, have been increasing in productive terms. According to official company data, 3,870,340 Tesla models have been built in the last five years (including the first quarter of 2023), of which almost 1,400,000 were produced in 2022 alone.

 

  The difference between the number of Tesla cars (“3/Y” and “X/S”) produced during 2021 and 2022 was more than 400,000 examples; the same figure that the company already produced in the first quarter of the current year. The company's sales data also show this reality, which reflects a growing increase in its production. 

 

 Break the mirror, fade the reflections 

 

 

 

 Faced with a chaotic reality where the informational bombardment of technological advances is overwhelming, it is necessary to understand what happens from the point of view of the subaltern classes, for whom the conditions for the reproduction of life worsen, while time is made available to the capital to produce knowledge, without question, beyond the working day as we know it. 

 

 Technological development has been presented in multiple debates as a threat to the human race, in the construction of a fatalistic discourse that envisions a future in which work will disappear. But we must be clear on this: everything built, absolutely everything created in this new financial-digital phase of the economic system is the product of live labor, of the "wisdom of the majority" or "general intellect", in the words of Carlos Marx. .Mexico and the challenges of science and technology in the face of the pandemic  

 

Within the framework of the fourth industrial revolution, connectivity on a planetary scale has allowed the formation of a global worker, an interconnected unit that, in its action on a series of instruments (devices), produces information from which average parameters are built. global.  

 

These parameters of human action on the instruments -in short, work-, are absorbed by the companies that today dispute global governance and that are personified in a New Financial and Technological Aristocracy, which allows them to update and/or improve each time with greater speed the instruments that have been socialized and, in this way, increase competitiveness, and accumulate. They make more and more surplus value. 

 

 We are facing what Marx called the real subsumption of labor in capital:

  “…with the development of the real subsumption of labor in capital or the specifically capitalist mode of production, it is not the individual worker but more and more a socially combined labor capacity that becomes the real agent of the labor process in its whole” (K. Marx, unpublished chapter VI).

Specifically, by way of example, if Tesla increases his productivity, it is not because Optimus is a worker who "learns and thinks for himself", but because the machine has been trained with the knowledge and work of scientists, engineers, technicians, workers etc It is our bodies and minds, it is our intelligence that, subsumed into this system, increases the productivity of work... and the profits of a few.

Robot generations, robotics engineering evolution, ai robot technology and humanoid computer generation cartoon | Premium Vector This is where the mirror breaks and the reflections fade. It is humanity that has developed collective knowledge, from work, which allowed the development of science and technology. Shouldn't technology then be made available to humanity, rather than the profits of a handful of companies?

Technology as a tool in a process that leads to greater liberation, and not, on the contrary, to greater degrees of slavery, implies fighting to put the human race at the center of development.

If we fail to reverse the logic, once again the economic powers concentrated in their eagerness to win the war for the appropriation of wealth will manage to stabilize after the crisis produced by this phase change and will leave behind a world environmentally devastated and a starving humanity.

The alternative for the great majorities is to weave social networks that produce power to wage the final battle against the truly useless class, which lives off those who work. Stop being an instrument of the machine so that it becomes an instrument of humanity and recover what belongs to us. That is the future that we must propose and fight to conquer it.

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