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AI use in this subreddit

This subreddit often gets mail from researchers looking to post links to surveys and questionnaires in our space, which we will always decline because we do not want to put the members of this community at risk of doxxing themselves. Today, we got a message from a university in Germany admitting to having used an AI chat bot to post and comment in this subreddit as part of a study. We were not asked if this community would like to participate, and we were not informed that this "user" was a clanker until months after the fact.

To be clear: We do not allow the use of next word predictive text generators in this space. This is a space for humans to interact with other humans.

To any other humans operating an LLM in this space: fuck off. We don't want your slop machines here.

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u/ohshiitstuesday — 5 days ago

/r/Anarquismo

hola mis querides corazones. perdon para mis errores. estoy intentado escribir esto sin traduccion para que puedes ver el problema.

mi espanol? como un bebe.

pero cuando vi que el sub https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarquismo/ no tiene un mordeator lo tome porque tengo miedo que los pinches liberales quizá lo tomes en su lugar y no quiero otro especio del anarquismo ir a manos que no son nuestres.

estoy contento de tenerlo. pero, mi español... entonces, estoy un poco preocupado. no hay mucho trabajo porque nadie lo usa; pero creo que lo mejor es que, al menos, alguien que tiene fluencia guardar el espacio.

dimelo en DM si quieres auydarme.

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u/ohshiitstuesday — 27 days ago

What is Anarchy?

In a personal sense, if you identify as an anarchist, what does Anarchy mean to you?

What is the relationship between Anarchy and anarchism as you understand it?

If you believe that Anarchy is possible then what do you believe will be the path to achieving it?

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u/ohshiitstuesday — 2 months ago

Hello do you speak Italian?

If you do then can I please ask you some questions about some vocabulary to check my understanding of something written by Malatesta?

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u/ohshiitstuesday — 2 months ago

Can we be silly?

Imagine classical anarchists - where are they posting as modern anarchists?

Malatesta is a poster. He's on everything and you can't convince me otherwise.

Stirner is also a poster, but he has so many sock puppets that no one is actually able to figure out which is the OG him.

Goldman has a TikTok with a silly number of followers.

Parsons has been banned from all her socials. She keeps making them and dropping absolute fire but then gets cut from the site shortly after.

Kropotkin has a YouTube channel and he's big on the debate circuit.

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u/ohshiitstuesday — 2 months ago

In 1891 Errico Malatesta said that the word republic used to have a similar implication as anarchy for people who advocated for the monarchy, is there evidence of this somewhere?

In Anarchy (1891 Freedom Press) Malatesta says

> In those epochs and countries where people have considered government by one man (monarchy) necessary, the word republic (that is, the government of many) has been used precisely like Anarchy, to imply disorder and confusion. Traces of this signification of the word are still to be found in the popular language of almost all countries.

Where would I look to try to validate this claim?

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u/ohshiitstuesday — 2 months ago

Disabling the AI assistant?

I bought a boox note5 several years ago. For the last couple of years I had lent it to someone else but got it back in my possession today.

After doing a factory reset I saw that in the interim boox has included an ai assistant.

Is there a way to remove it from my device? I can't seem to figure out how to uninstall it.

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u/ohshiitstuesday — 2 months ago

what are your favorite accessibility features for games?

Hi friends,

I'm working on learning how to make video games and I want to make sure that I'm considering accessibility as a fundamental part of the creative process.

I'm curious what accessibility features you've found most valuable in video games or which features you wish were more standard? What do you wish devs considered when they're building games?

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u/ohshiitstuesday — 2 months ago

internet activism is fine actually, especially if that's what your capable of.

we need to stop treating "internet activism" as though there isn't valid and necessary work being done every day by people from their homes. we are so dismissive of the internet as a means and method of communication, as though that isn't how most people communicate now, where most media is produced and shared.

pew research shows that for the past few years a little over half of U.S. adults get news from social media.

if your suggestion for activism is "go outside and organize" without recognizing that there's a problem for people who aren't able to then we're just being dismissive and demeaning.

what are you doing to make sure that your organizing is accessible? because if the answer is "nothing" then this is not a problem for the people who aren't getting outside. they have nowhere to go and that isn't their fault. that's a lack in the organizing that anarchists are so happily crowing about how doing "organizing" is the only way forward toward anarchy.

people do the things they're able in the spaces where they feel welcome when they have enough information about how to do so.

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u/ohshiitstuesday — 3 months ago

mid continent emma goldman book club

sup wichita (and surrounded places)

there were three people at the first ever meeting and that was cool. i'm still waiting on confirmation from the library for the reservation but if you're not doing anything from 3:30-5:30 on Saturday you should come hang out. we'll be at the Advanced Learning Library - Keeney Stevens Board Room

also i made a little website: https://mcegbc.neocities.org/

information on the readings will be updated when we start new pieces. we'll be starting anarchy by errico malatesta.

we also will not get through the whole thing in one session so don't worry if you don't finish the whole thing. the website also has links to audiobook versions of the reading as well links to the epub and pdf versions of the pamphlet.

everyone is welcome, even if you haven't read the reading because we'll read it together.

looking forward to seeing you!

u/ohshiitstuesday — 3 months ago
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I put 14 unwanted limes in my apartment lobby and accidentally started a food exchange

I bought one of those discounted produce boxes for $6 and it ended up being mostly limes. Like an unreasonable amount of limes. I kept a few, then put the rest in a grocery bag by the mailboxes with a note saying free.

The next morning the limes were gone and someone had left a bag of potatoes in the same spot. Then another person added two unopened boxes of pasta. Its been about three weeks now and the little corner basically turned into an unofficial food exchange. Yesterday I traded some instant oatmeal I hated for canned tomatoes.

My favorite part is getting rid of stuff without wasting it. Our landlord hasn’t said anything yet and everyone keeps the area clean.

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u/Adorable-Seat-8405 — 3 months ago
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Anarcho-Media Suggestions

Hey friends. The list of media resources on the side bar and the wiki here is out of date and I'm willing to take on the labor of updating it. But I would appreciate your help.

What podcasts are you listening to?

Which YouTubers are you subscribed to?

Which streamers are you watching?

Who is out there making anarchist media?

What are your favorite zine distros?

Where do you get your anarchist news?

Are YOU an anarchist content creator? Share your stuff here please (if you want to share it attached to your reddit account - if not you can send me a dm with your links)

I've curated a fairly extensive list on my own but I know that I don't have every thing.

It would be especially cool if it isn't all English language either.

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u/ohshiitstuesday — 3 months ago

What is Crypto Spam??

Every once in a while the subreddit I moderate gets a modmail reporting a user as a "crypto spammer" and suggesting that we ban them for spam. But the comments are never spam or related to crypto currency. They are sometimes single sentences that answer a question posed in a post or paragraphs of good information written by a human.

So what is the deal with these emails?

What does this mean for the community user?

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u/ohshiitstuesday — 4 months ago

Why Marx Though?

On occasion I mention on this sub that I've never read Marx. And without fail someone who says they're an anarchist will spend the next several hours badgering me about why it is so important that I (an anarchist-without-adjectives, an anarchist tendency that specifically rejects prescription of economic solutions as potentially authoritarian or as something that may act as a barrier to the creativity needed to build new solutions according to our extant conditions as the social revolution progresses) must engage not only in economic theory, but also that it must be Marx, specifically, that I read.

There is no other book, aside from actual religious holy books that I see recommended as specifically as Marx's Capital. If someone asks for suggestions about feminist theory, no one tells them they must read the 1851 collection Woman and Her Needs by Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith even though it was a foundational work of first wave feminist thinking at the time, since it is no longer relevant. We acknowledge that feminist thinking has evolved and changed since the 1800s. If someone asks for suggestions about queer liberation, no one tells them they must read the incorporation documents of The Society for Human Rights because it was the first gay rights organization in the United States. Again, our conception of what it means to be queer and then what queer liberation might even look like has evolved and changed in the interim. Do you really mean to tell me in the century and a half since Capital was published there is not a single work of economic theory that can better describe the conditions of life under late-stage capitalism? Not a single book? I'm pretty sure that are anarchist economists. Why not them? Or something written at least by someone in the past few years where the existence of a trillionaire was more plausible than it was when Marx was alive, when there were only a cute little handful of multi-millionaires.

And even so...

Marx was antisemitic. Marx was a racist. Marx was a misogynist. Marx was a homophobe. Marx was authoritarian. Marx was anti-anarchist.

Maybe it's true that Marxism in and of itself isn't inherently authoritarian, but it is true that Marx had anarchists kicked out of the International because he disliked our ideas.

And maybe it's true that it's the Leninists and Stalinists or Moaists or whatever other other ists there are that are "the problems", but those hyphens without fail follow Marxist, that feels like something worth considering.

And maybe it's true that there are liberatory Marxists out there, but I would question why they're clinging to ideas that have, several times throughout history, ended with not only the murder and oppression of anarchists (supposed fellows in the journey toward liberation) but also in a state structure that devolved quickly back into a system of a private propertarian class holding economic power over the lower class while the government and a charismatic leader held control of social power?

And maybe it's true that reading Marx was instrumental in your understanding of labor and power and alienation, but it's also true that Marx was fundamentally incorrect in his theory as his ideas of an egalitarian society needed the impetus of industrialization, which was not true for some of the indigenous peoples of the Americas who were in some cases (but not all) able to live in complex social structures that were essentially horizontal, displaying a level of respect for bodily autonomy that was so shocking to the European colonizers that they wrote about how weird they thought it was that the indigenous people weren't raping their captive women or children.

Every time a Marxist-hyphen revolution is deemed to be a success it is followed by the murder and oppression and repression of the very anarchists that just fought along side of them that they now deem to be counter-revolutionary.

Do you imagine this time it will be different because you know the MLs from the DSA? The anarchists who were murdered, exiled, and thrown into work camps were also friends with Marxists. It isn't the liberatory Marxists who tend to win violent revolutions.

There are ML*s on this very website who have said that they would gladly put us against the wall for their glorious revolution. You might dismiss them as extremely online by which maybe you mean harmless, but those extremely online people are frequently ones doing mass murders, so I don't know that it's a great threat assessment to dismiss their radicalism against us, which frequently mirrors the things that Marx himself said about anarchists.

And look, JP Proudhon was a trash man too, but I'll gladly tell anyone that if I suggest they read Property is Theft. But I would be willing to bet money that there is going to be someone in the replies to this post who trips over themself to tell me that actually Marx wasn't x or Marx may have said y but what he actually meant was z.

This is a cult of personality and it's bad for anarchists and anarchism. Let that man go.

edit: fixed some typos.

u/ohshiitstuesday — 4 months ago

iso anarchist music

are you an anarchist in a band? i'm an anarchist about to make a podcast and i would love to feature some music by anarchists in the in betweens.

dm me if you want to share your music on a podcast probably no one will listen to.

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u/ohshiitstuesday — 4 months ago
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iso anarchist music

hello are you an anarchist in a band? i'm an anarchist about to make a podcast and i would love to put your songs on my show for the 4 people who want to listen to me talk.

dm me if you've got something to share.

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u/ohshiitstuesday — 4 months ago

Looking for songs from anarchist bands

are you an anarchist who makes music? i am an anarchist about to make a podcast and i would love to feature a song from your band or multiple songs across different episodes? whatever.

hit me up. we can chat here or via dm.

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u/ohshiitstuesday — 4 months ago