I am most likely unable to spot all AI-generated articles, but when I start noticing that a typical AI giveaway appears so many times, it bothers me. In the same way as that I probably couldn’t spot all the English language errors, but when there are so many that I start noticing them, it becomes annoying and it undermines the credibility of the author. Especially given the fact that this article doesn’t cite any sources.

It’s an interesting subject, so I was dissapointed when it became clear that this text is written by AI. AI uses the following structure very often: “It’s not X, it’s Y”, so the list below tells me it’s AI beyond doubt.

I.

1. This is not speculation. This is not inference from supply chain tightness or price movements or anecdotal reports from frustrated procurement officers. This is the documented operational reality of…

2. This is not an analysis of a commodity market experiencing temporary tightness. This is a reconnaissance report from the front lines of a new form of economic warfare

3. This is not the blunt instrument of a traditional export ban. This is a scalpel.

4. The pattern suggests not reactive retaliation but proactive strategy.

5. The restrictions announced in 2023, 2024, and 2025 are not isolated policy responses to specific trade disputes. They are nodes in an integrated campaign

6. Tungsten is not the final escalation. It is another proof of concept.

7. The question for Western policymakers and corporate strategists and institutional investors is not whether to take this seriously (…) The question is what to do about it

II.

8. This is not marketing rhetoric from mining promoters or special pleading from industry lobbyists. This is physics.

9. These properties are not arbitrary. They emerge from tungsten’s electronic structure

10. This is not an abstract supply chain concern. This is industrial capacity disappearing in real time

III.

11. This is not a simple on-off switch. It is a tunable instrument with multiple control parameters

(Anything further is for paid subscribers.)

It’s an interesting subject, so I was dissapointed when it became clear that this text is written by AI. AI uses the following structure very often: “It’s not X, it’s Y”, so the list below tells me it’s AI beyond doubt.

I.

1. This is not speculation. This is not inference from supply chain tightness or price movements or anecdotal reports from frustrated procurement officers. This is the documented operational reality of…

2. This is not an analysis of a commodity market experiencing temporary tightness. This is a reconnaissance report from the front lines of a new form of economic warfare

3. This is not the blunt instrument of a traditional export ban. This is a scalpel.

4. The pattern suggests not reactive retaliation but proactive strategy.

5. The restrictions announced in 2023, 2024, and 2025 are not isolated policy responses to specific trade disputes. They are nodes in an integrated campaign

6. Tungsten is not the final escalation. It is another proof of concept.

7. The question for Western policymakers and corporate strategists and institutional investors is not whether to take this seriously (…) The question is what to do about it

II.

8. This is not marketing rhetoric from mining promoters or special pleading from industry lobbyists. This is physics.

9. These properties are not arbitrary. They emerge from tungsten’s electronic structure

10. This is not an abstract supply chain concern. This is industrial capacity disappearing in real time

III.

11. This is not a simple on-off switch. It is a tunable instrument with multiple control parameters

(Anything further is for paid subscribers.)

I think it’s very strange how there’s a complete absence of talk about even the possibility that the recent drop in mental health could be linked to pollution. There’s not a human on Earth who doesn’t have micro-plastics in their brain or umbilical cord, we’ve all got PFAS and related forever-chemicals in our body and there are 350.000 Novel Entities (chemicals which don’t exist in nature, but which are produced by humans) on the market, 120.000 of which we don’t even know the identity of. It’s almost impossible to imagine for me that none of that has any effect whatsoever on our mental health.

The machines fire lasers at molten tin 50,000 times per second, generating plasma at 200,000 degrees Celsius.

It’s incomprehensible to me how humans ever invented something like this.

Especially that Max Stirner guy, amIright?

Like when I ask people my age what they think about climate change, everyone generally agrees that it’s hopeless, but they also usually say “I try not to think about it”. And I get the impulse but like, if we all agree it’s a problem, there’s power in that!! We could actually do something!! We just need to actually do it, instead of “not think about it”.

Those people don’t see a realistic pathway in which their actions could contribute in any way to the problem. Our task on the left is to build working class-led organisations which do provide people with an avenue to contribute something meaningful.

So as always, the answer is “organise!”

However, when doing that, you’ll probably won’t have the recources to tackle those kind of GLobal issues, and you’mm have to occupy yourself with things which are small enough that a small, dedicated group can influence, which also feels important enough for people to care about.

https://frso.org/main-documents/some-points-on-the-mass-line/

Thanks!

an American professor from University of Chicago talking about the manner and magnitude of which the US government is currently outright undermining entire research of American universities in a podcast.

Can you be slightly more specific? :)

Calling these types 12 year olds will have so much mileage.

no it won’t

Not with that attitude!

Start organising with like-minded people. Fatalism is a result of being informed and not using that information for change.

People’s consciousness will change if they struggle with you. They won’t understand from theory, they’ll learn by standing by your side in trying to enact common-sense reforms and seeing how the state/their employer reacts to it.

Great pamphlet that relates to your question: https://frso.org/main-documents/some-points-on-the-mass-line/

I don’t know about PSOE, but the vice-prime minister is a member of the communist party. They are pro-Palestine, without a doubt.

His mother worked on the US embassy in Indonesia, his steph father worked for the military dictatorship in Indonesia during their genocide on the Indonesian communist party (2 million people were killed, the party had 1 million members).

Here’s a fragment from Obama’s autobiography about a conversation with his Indonesian steph-father:

My source is: The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins. A great book. (I’d also reccomend the film The Act of Killing, but save it for after you’ve read this book.)

The US military and it’s think tank-proxies constantly produces this type of reports to legitimate receiving additional recources. There’s a great Citations Needed episode about it, episode 117: The Always ‘Lagging’ U.S. War Machine https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-117-the-always-lagging-us-war-machine

Top administration officials also have preparing a new national defense strategy that is expected to make homeland defense the nation’s top concern, after several years of China being identified as the top national security risk to the United States.

Does this mean the military is going to be used inside the USA, on their own population, on a previously unseen scale?

Leftists don’t give a shit about hurting or shooting living beings. Anyone who does is vegan.

Most people who eat meat are completely alienated from how their food is killed and produced and don’t have the stomach to do it themselves. Many believe fairytale-like stories about happy farm animals being killed in a humane fashion.

Perhaps one could say that this is some form of hypocrisy, but I think it’s good thing: this sort of alienation of preferable over ethousiastically taking part in it.

Maoist being not welcomed any more.

Why is that? It’s not so long aho that a maoist uprising defeated the absolute monarchy in Nepal. What has become of them?

And do you also know about the differences between CPN (UML) en the maoists?

Try to prevent that from happening by not engaging in talks about politics with them. It’s hard to convince your family, harder than convincing anyone else perhaps, try not to lose them by engaging in a futile activity.

They have a bigger change than you think. A recent hypothetical poll put them at 10% national support (without that party actually existing or them campaigning!), and it’s very likely that their spontaneous support is highly concentrated in urban areas and the red wall. That means they’r competitive in those seats. Now imagine them going in to an alliance with the Green party (=15%) and they’re already bigger than the LibDems. Now if they start campaigning, and they manage to increase the turnout by 1%, steal 1% of the LibDems, and 2% of Labour and Reform each (respectively disengaged poor/working class people with whom leftist socio-economic plans resonate, dissapointed middle class Labour-voters who went to the liberals, dissapointed leftists who vote Labour because it’s the best thing on the ballot, and dissapointed Labour voters who’re “giving Reform a chance”), and you’ve suddenly got yourself the second biggest party in the election.

literal baby-eating slaveowners