Regardless of one's feelings on the matter, we can clearly say that AI has been transformative because it never fails to provoke heated arguments. And not only that, but the arrival of commercial models, that is, models that can be run either in your browser (on a cloud service) or on your own machine (local) seems to have shifted perspectives entirely. What becomes bothersome is that self-proclaimed communists seem to have done a complete 180 on intellectual property, and this is what we want to focus on.
I found a lot of it to be the academic in his ivory tower bemoaning the fact that the unwashed masses now had access to his niche hobby lol. Lots of name dropping expecting the reader to be familiar with the person and their theory, it’s so duplicitous.
The whole part about Zuckerberg not “needing” a bodybuilder physique, and that he’s “allowed” to “ignore what looks good or not”. It’s completely backwards. First of all whether you need or don’t need something is irrelevant, and Zuckerberg does not have a bodybuilder physique by any stretch lol. In fact he looks natural.
This is a bodybuilder physique:
And this is Zuckerberg in 2025 (he doesn’t seem to have changed a lot in physique since 2023):
He wears oversized shirts and you can tell he has a big chest under it, but nothing too outrageous I would say. If you look at his forearms they’re not that well-defined, which means he also has some bodyfat % which would also make his chest look bigger.
Bodybuilders get this way by taking a myriad of products to cut down on body fat %, build muscles beyond their natural limit, dehydrate themselves, and show vascularity (judges like seeing some veins under the skin). Zuckerberg is doing none of that lol, and there are very real health benefits to being physically active and building muscle mass. Muscle moves bone moves things - there’s a pervasive myth about huge guys that can’t even scratch their back anymore because their muscles are too big to reach, but it’s actually the other way around. Building muscle mass naturally makes you better at physical things including dexterity and agility.
Anyway that was my long tangent. As for Zuckerberg not having to care about what looks good, this is just a 41 year old man trying to pass off as gen z down to the haircut. It’s the Boris Johnson method. This is why I say this article has it all backwards, it starts from the conclusion and then tries to find whatever will support its thesis even if it has to make nonsensical points for it. It feels like someone who’s sad the common people now get to enjoy his niche interests. it’s just gatekeeping.
Unfortunately the headline is catchy and people will just link it probably without even reading to the end and it continues to do damage. I would probably be nicer to that author if the website wasn’t called the new “Socialist” because I can’t even tell what current of socialism that’s even supposed to be. The one that says you know better than the masses and if they’re wrong they should just shut up and let the art elites decide for them? And then they wonder why people are so antagonistic towards what they perceive to be ‘proper art’ and are turning towards making their own with AI?
I will say, it’s very funny that despite the author knowing about all these obscure capitalists (let’s call Vivienne Westwood what she is lol), they can’t seem to actually offer a critique of ‘bad’ fashion beyond “it just looks stupid and ugly and it’s unnecessary 😡”
i hate zuckerbot9000 as any reasonably normal human does, but it is incredible that maintaining a moderate level of fitness is “bodybuilder physique” in mr watkins’ mind
Zuckerberg is deeply cynical, he’s only doing any of this because meta is in a bad shape (facebook is hemorrhaging users, the metaverse was a huge black hole for money, and they decided to go open source with their Llama model which is biting them in the ass now bc capitalism). And now of course with trump being president again he’s trying to court him like all the other capitalists - if you remember that picture from I think december last year, with musk, zuckerberg, bezos and some fash guy standing together at a Trump function. But it’s nothing new, I called it the Boris Johnson method because Johnson has this weird-ass haircut that he thinks it makes him look working class, which is a lot to unpack. Same with tommy robinson whose real name is the much more aristocratic Stephen Yaxley-Lennon. Tommy Robinson is a nickname, it’s not his legal name or anything.
For a “New Socialist” publication it doesn’t do a lot of socialist critique and a lot of aesthetics critique 😵💫
I found a lot of it to be the academic in his ivory tower bemoaning the fact that the unwashed masses now had access to his niche hobby lol. Lots of name dropping expecting the reader to be familiar with the person and their theory, it’s so duplicitous.
The whole part about Zuckerberg not “needing” a bodybuilder physique, and that he’s “allowed” to “ignore what looks good or not”. It’s completely backwards. First of all whether you need or don’t need something is irrelevant, and Zuckerberg does not have a bodybuilder physique by any stretch lol. In fact he looks natural.
This is a bodybuilder physique:
And this is Zuckerberg in 2025 (he doesn’t seem to have changed a lot in physique since 2023):
He wears oversized shirts and you can tell he has a big chest under it, but nothing too outrageous I would say. If you look at his forearms they’re not that well-defined, which means he also has some bodyfat % which would also make his chest look bigger.
Bodybuilders get this way by taking a myriad of products to cut down on body fat %, build muscles beyond their natural limit, dehydrate themselves, and show vascularity (judges like seeing some veins under the skin). Zuckerberg is doing none of that lol, and there are very real health benefits to being physically active and building muscle mass. Muscle moves bone moves things - there’s a pervasive myth about huge guys that can’t even scratch their back anymore because their muscles are too big to reach, but it’s actually the other way around. Building muscle mass naturally makes you better at physical things including dexterity and agility.
Anyway that was my long tangent. As for Zuckerberg not having to care about what looks good, this is just a 41 year old man trying to pass off as gen z down to the haircut. It’s the Boris Johnson method. This is why I say this article has it all backwards, it starts from the conclusion and then tries to find whatever will support its thesis even if it has to make nonsensical points for it. It feels like someone who’s sad the common people now get to enjoy his niche interests. it’s just gatekeeping.
Unfortunately the headline is catchy and people will just link it probably without even reading to the end and it continues to do damage. I would probably be nicer to that author if the website wasn’t called the new “Socialist” because I can’t even tell what current of socialism that’s even supposed to be. The one that says you know better than the masses and if they’re wrong they should just shut up and let the art elites decide for them? And then they wonder why people are so antagonistic towards what they perceive to be ‘proper art’ and are turning towards making their own with AI?
I will say, it’s very funny that despite the author knowing about all these obscure capitalists (let’s call Vivienne Westwood what she is lol), they can’t seem to actually offer a critique of ‘bad’ fashion beyond “it just looks stupid and ugly and it’s unnecessary 😡”
i hate zuckerbot9000 as any reasonably normal human does, but it is incredible that maintaining a moderate level of fitness is “bodybuilder physique” in mr watkins’ mind
Zuckerberg is deeply cynical, he’s only doing any of this because meta is in a bad shape (facebook is hemorrhaging users, the metaverse was a huge black hole for money, and they decided to go open source with their Llama model which is biting them in the ass now bc capitalism). And now of course with trump being president again he’s trying to court him like all the other capitalists - if you remember that picture from I think december last year, with musk, zuckerberg, bezos and some fash guy standing together at a Trump function. But it’s nothing new, I called it the Boris Johnson method because Johnson has this weird-ass haircut that he thinks it makes him look working class, which is a lot to unpack. Same with tommy robinson whose real name is the much more aristocratic Stephen Yaxley-Lennon. Tommy Robinson is a nickname, it’s not his legal name or anything.
For a “New Socialist” publication it doesn’t do a lot of socialist critique and a lot of aesthetics critique 😵💫