It’s a valid concern, I think, especially if people read the headlines uncritically at a glance without reading the content of it. IIRC, I’ve mentioned such a concern in the past myself. One thing I’ve seen yogthos do sometimes is post articles like these but with a communist slant custom headline that differs from the source. In this case, the headline looks like the empire taking an L even at a glance, so I don’t think it needs communist editing. But I do like the practice as a general rule to help guard against people taking imperialist news at face value.
We aren’t analyzing these articles as a more formal group communist discussion (though maybe we should be doing some of that), which is more where I’d expect benefit of us reading it. And approaching it as individualistic capability to see through the imperialist BS has its risks. So I tend to have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, yes, we shouldn’t bury our heads in the sand about it. On the other hand, we do have to consider the nature of how people engage with internet headlines and information in general.
I had an additional thought just now. I wonder how some LLMs would do at editing for such a communist slant title. I wouldn’t expect them to be reliable for doing it to an entire article without careful reading through of their output, but it might be an easier way to get better titles, since it wouldn’t require much proofreading.
I feel like for something like a title, it’s easy enough to come up with one yourself. And it’s good practice for seeing if you can easily decode what the article is actually saying. I do think discussing these kinds of articles and people asking questions on their framing and understanding is something we should be doing more of. If it’s not clear what the socialist perspective on a particular story is, it’s worth leaving a comment asking for clarification in my opinion. That’s kind of the whole point of having a forum like this where we can educate each other and swap ideas.
It’s a valid concern, I think, especially if people read the headlines uncritically at a glance without reading the content of it. IIRC, I’ve mentioned such a concern in the past myself. One thing I’ve seen yogthos do sometimes is post articles like these but with a communist slant custom headline that differs from the source. In this case, the headline looks like the empire taking an L even at a glance, so I don’t think it needs communist editing. But I do like the practice as a general rule to help guard against people taking imperialist news at face value.
We aren’t analyzing these articles as a more formal group communist discussion (though maybe we should be doing some of that), which is more where I’d expect benefit of us reading it. And approaching it as individualistic capability to see through the imperialist BS has its risks. So I tend to have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, yes, we shouldn’t bury our heads in the sand about it. On the other hand, we do have to consider the nature of how people engage with internet headlines and information in general.
I had an additional thought just now. I wonder how some LLMs would do at editing for such a communist slant title. I wouldn’t expect them to be reliable for doing it to an entire article without careful reading through of their output, but it might be an easier way to get better titles, since it wouldn’t require much proofreading.
I feel like for something like a title, it’s easy enough to come up with one yourself. And it’s good practice for seeing if you can easily decode what the article is actually saying. I do think discussing these kinds of articles and people asking questions on their framing and understanding is something we should be doing more of. If it’s not clear what the socialist perspective on a particular story is, it’s worth leaving a comment asking for clarification in my opinion. That’s kind of the whole point of having a forum like this where we can educate each other and swap ideas.
That’s fair.