I'm up to the "I dunno maybe children working 13 hour shifts is bad, guys" part of Capital and it feels important to inform people that haven't read it yet that capitalists in the 19th century were not by any means wringing their hands and twirling their mustaches about employing children to squeeze out profits, they were hiring "experts" to write newspaper articles for them, explaining how "well, the socialists have these big demands about an 8-hour work day, and taking Saturdays off, but it's actually just so complicated, it's too complicated for most people to understand, we just NEED to hire children for night shifts because the stamina of their strong, youthful bodies is the only way we can survive as a business! It's science, you see. Economics doesn't work like that, just ask our economics professors at Oxford. You CAN'T turn a profit only working people 8 hours! Trust the experts, they know. It's just so complicated..."
That exact infuriating cadence that you read in New York Times articles, in the Atlantic Monthly, in the WaPo and all the other bourgeois rags where "everything is so complicated, and it's actually a lot more complicated than you think.." that has been around since the beginning. It is nothing new. So the next time you see some op-ed from Matt Yglesias or any of those other guys huffing their own farts about how "complicated" everything is, and how "unrealistic" a 30-hour work week is, remember that Marx was dealing with that exact class of "intellectuals" "explaining" how working 13 hours at age 10 was "vital" to the "moral fibre" of those poor kids.
i grew up around muslims, i am also trans and leftist.
people in every queer and trans community i go to set an expectation: i should ofrever abandon my muslim past, i should explicitly stop associating yourself with it whatsoever, you either get to be queer or you either get to be raised-muslim.
in reality, there's no such expectation for christianity, and none of them are ready to dismantle their "inner christian" in their heads as much as they expect be to dismantle my "inner muslim"
none fo them get to admit how most first world countries are culturally christian, because christianity is "default" to them, as well as first world, as well as white.
me having a complicated relationship with islam doesn't mean i absolutely despise every piece of it. it means i distanced myself from ummah, but won't hear islamic criticism from non ex muslims at all, because you expect us to dismantle "our inner muslims" in ways you aren't ready to dismantle imperialism and racism in you.
your expectation is us "acting white", you don't want us unless we're that, which means you don't want us at all.
a lot of people claiming to want to uplift brown queer voices and such don't procced to do anything meaningful for them, or for brown people at all. it's just virtue signaling, homonationalism. you'd only care of brown people being queer, and you want the "brown" part of it gone as much as possible.
a lot of people say they want the leftist agenda to stop being us centric and imperialist, but then it's just pretending to care about it. you already made is so little and unhearable you'd have to get out of your way to seek for us speaking. then you'd not seek or if you find us, you will just pass by. hoping someone else would amplify the voice you took from us? and that someone else would hope for that too, so what?
you want us only when we agree with everything usa says about us, you want us until our lives don't put you into too much discomfort. when they put you into too much discomfort, you don't ask why, you'll restore the comfort by banishing us again. your tolerability of us is so intricately conditional, to meet those a third worlder has to build themselves into a first worlder mindset. this is your (inter)nationalism hey.
anyway, islamophobia hurt me more than islam did. now what
i'm glad everyone's finally decided to have always been against leaving disabled trans women to die. hey, can people do me a big favour? related?
this website has left my disabled trans sister to die a few times now. she used to be a regular heavy user of it before it repeatedly did to her what it does to trans women.
aside from me she has essentially zero social contact with the outside world so and the two of us are trying to build a decent nest egg so that over the course of the rest of this year or so i (and I have a lot going on in my own right!) can start moving towards vocational training to take care of us instead of ebegging on here
our social support system is each other and then tumblr, which i hope we can all understand is a dangerous situation for especially her to be in. she has been repeatedly homeless for her whole life and her pinned post is a medical fundraiser she gave up on.
it doesn't matter whether a writer uses an LLM or any other assistive technology. in the end, they're the ones who choose whether to a publish the final piece. as such, they're responsible for its contents. if the quotes end being fake, the arguments bad or bigoted, or the data hasn't been fact checked etc, that's on the author. how it was written doesn't matter when judging the author on the final product that they chose to put out
people can lie, misremember or find fake quotes, be bigoted, and be sloppy with data when writing without assistive technology. using speculation about the involvement of AI in the writing process to cast someone as morally bad isn't conducive to any constructive discussion of the words they chose to publish, it only serves as a way to get people to shun them as a Bad Person for reasons irrelevant what they actually chose to publish
there literally isn't a way you can detect "AI generated text" from regular text. it's just text. I could pretend to write like chatGPT and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference because like. there isn't one. it's not Ontologically Marked With AI Soullessness. Trying to ferret out who is "using AI to write stuff" regardless of what kind of stuff it is, is a losing battle, and one in which people will resort to the academic equivalent of hitting the computer with a blunt instrument to fix it.
Ultimately I don’t disagree but there are patterns you can keep an eye out for, such as:
- strange use of idioms or expressions (e.g. “your question has a large blast radius”)
- overly verbose, lots of filler words and too many transitional, connective-type phrases
- overly-acquiescent, just begging to be useful to a degree that’s pathetic and terrified of coming across as rude even when it’s necessary
- circumlocution, too many abstract concepts or talking “around” something instead of addressing the topic directly
- em-dashes, unfortunately
- no stream-of-conscious or true passion. The “rant of love,” the messy run-on flow of praise that you’ll see here on tumblr, is reduced to a grammatically-correct essay
but those aren't reliable and have massive false-positives that will inevitably discriminate against ESL speakers, autistic writers, etc etc, which was the point of the post. and which is a problem you are contributing to.
Hi, I've seen a lot of questions recently wondering how to be a good ally, and I've been pondering the details and nuances at play in this conversation. many voices and years of research went in to this so I would really appreciate any support! please like share and comment anything I missed <3
Help me and my couple to escape pinochetist nazi regime
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Please, we need to migrate so help us to not die. This is no longer asking money to eat, this now is to not be tortured and disappeared. We can speak and read english even if not perfectly. If you know a country that allow political refugees and put less trouble to migrants, please comment.
Help is welcomed, I am still here trying hard, I don't want to die.
The whole story under the cut
In In August 2024, I was without electricity, phone or internet because of really bad storms with lots of lightning, rain and strong winds. We even have floods. On 25 May 2025, we had our first tornado in the south of the country. This has never happened before. Then spring and summer came and bc all caught fire throughout different regions a number of times. There were fires every week for months. Almost every day somewhere in the country.
To make things worst? We still live under the dictatorship constitution made during Pinochet's dictatorship installed by USA, and its politicians and families, whom own everything here and pay the owners of internet to have bots, make fake news, terror campaings, etc ploted to make the country sink and put a pinochetist nazi as president: josé antonio kast.
The war of USA (operation condor) against South America lead to the new president of Chile be a chilean german pinochetist nazi (his father a nazi liutenant that used the ratlines with the help of the Vatican to escape after exterminating ppl all over europe, for example in germany, italy, france and soviet union) and is proud of his nazi family which also helped to exterminate chileans and anyone in Chile during Pinochet's dictatorship. He even is memeber of a fundation dedicated to the creator of the dictatorship constitution, pinochetist Jaime Guzman whom Kast loves deeply since his youth. Between his people there are torturers, nazis and neo nazis, a pinochetist nephew of a german pedo christian cultist (check Colonia Dignidad), families of german colonialists that made genocide of natives at the south of Chile and Argentina between XIX and XX century, pedos, etc. All upper class from european background, upper class from Chile, as well the cops, agents, and military. Kast was a piece of shit since childhood, being part of the chilean version of the nazi youth and helped Pinochet, and this past decade helped to put Bolsonaro and Milei in power in Brazil and Argentina.
He hates and wants to enslave South America, poc, women, children, workers, etc anyone that is not like him. He is proud of his nazi family and their work helping the Pinochet Dictatorship. He is a proud pinochetist and visits torturers that are in prison for crimes against humanity as well have such criminals among his people which, among many things, put rats inside the vaginas of women, trained dogs to rape people, opened mothers to steal the babies from their wombs, forced fathers to rape their dauthers, made kids eat shit with torns and trow their bodies all over the country, mutilated people and torture them in ways so monstrous that no one in the world is told so you all can keep living happily.
My couple and I need to fly the country. We survived the ex president Piñera tortures and genocide in 2019/2020, we will not survive another extermination again.
We still unemployed even when we tried everything. Nothing worked. I got rejected in all and honestly I can no longer work because of my disability. I'm even losing my hair and growing grayhair. Now getting a job is asking to be tortured and killed.
My health is getting even worst. Chronic pain, chronic illnesses, long covid, celiac disease and lactose intolerance. Being autistic and having c-PTSD as well depression and fibromyalgia doesn't help and the violence never ends.
As far as I'm concerned, I've been on my own all my life (abusive family, my father tried to kill my mother, brothers criminals and abusers, now I'm alone and homeless bc I left the storage room in which i was living). My only support is my couple that also helps me as a caregiver and takes care of an old abusive cultist mother which pay the basic bills. My couple is the only family I have. This means having less money bc i make the bills bigger and the pinochetist nazi is gonna eliminate the money that elderly people are pay by the state for being a mother and a widow which is the money that pays for food and water and a roof over our heads. The father has already died. The neighbours are violent.
My couple fears that we end up in the streets, homeless. I fear that we will die under the dictatorship of Kast bc that's what what this ppl do, specially his family and all the other upper class families. The neighbours are gonna snitch on us. Their mother told a family of cops and agents (primal agents of dictatorship here) that she is a communist even when she is not (she an iliterate cultish evangelical with far right ideas) so we have a target in the face thanks to that. In the last big dictatorship, people (including kids and teens) were taken from their houses and jobs (specially students, univeritaries, teachers and culture workers, for example which is all our labels basically) and most never returned, being disappeared. Others were tortured so much that they died or ended up disabled and traumatized for life.
Dibujo de Miguel Montecinos, ex prisionero político de Villa Grimaldi.
Check info about dictatorship in my blog under the tag condor operation
EDIT: Kast's former campaign manager said that he would probably appoint his cabinet before the legal deadlines and that the National Libertarian Party would be one of the parties in the government, in addition to the party founded by Kast. In other words, the Nazis.
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Random acts of terror, arson, destruction of capital, and so on, are very much not effective political action and never actually win anything on their own, but it is a pretty good indicator of the general mood of a certain population if such acts become widespread and frequent, particularly when attached to certain material demands. Like, if people are murdering health insurance CEOs or burning down warehouses, that does generally suggest that natal class consciousness is becoming widespread. What is necessary is to take this natal class consciousness and develop it, building it into a real organised movement which is able to take the material needs of the masses and rally the masses and lead them to victory. This is already happening - we're nearing the end of the era of global counter-revolution which we've been in since the 90s, and across the world new parties and organisations and movements have since grown to fill the hole left behind by the CPSU & friends. It isn't 1991 or 2003 or even 2022 anymore. Especially as the NATO split widens and imperialism enters a deeper crisis, we're soon to see major upheavals once more.
what I mean: "sexual intercourse" is as much a social construct as "romantic courtship," and you discover this very quickly as a queer person if you try to talk to able bodied straight cis people who literally think the only thing that counts as Actual Sex is penis-in-vagina penetration, like they call oral "foreplay" it's so dire. various people have a lot of vested interest in cleanly defining "sex" vs "not sex" for a whole slew of reasons (ex. censorship dodging and enforcing, conferring the social clout of virginity and prowess, finding and closing loopholes about premarital sex, deciding what relationships "count" as serious partnerships, ligating what is general assault vs sexual assault vs Something That's Definitely Probably Fine And Not Sexual At All, Actually, etc.), and it's really not something you can just fall back on as obvious common sense that people are dumb for questioning.
