William Gillis @rechelon@mastodon.social
Physicist, anarchist, transhumanist. Really into exploring the roots of things and expanding degrees of freedom. “Radically uncool.”
One of my favorite essays on #masculinity in general, and particularly the connection between #toxicmasculinity and authoritarianism (by @rechelon): http://humaniterations.net/2017/05/23/authoritarians-and-ideology-of-love/
Normal Anarchists: "Hey I wanted to say that I really love your writing on relationships, feminism, and anarchism 101. You're one of my favorite writers."
Me: "Hey, thanks! Maybe you'd interested in my writing on economics & technology too."
Normal Anarchists: "NOT TODAY SATAN"
An idea cannot be destroyed!!!
They won't crush our hope, they'll scatter it around...
thx for the inspirations and hope people of #ZAD are creating.
Just saw PBS report on Facebook and Cambridge Analitica. Other than the claim that TINA to FB, they really captured how advertising platforms are driven to mislead, manipulate, abuse and exploit users (who are the content creators).
#platformcapitalism #platformcooperativism
#ifwebuildit
Disappointed that Mastodon is the one social network where I've run across someone trying to spoil Star Wars.
I'm taking truly sublime delight in reposting this story on mastadon/gnusocial
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/11/technology/alt-right-internet.html?_r=0
every time a tanky talks about gulag or who get shot i think: hm, well, i guess who will shoot first, if you assholes try to round us up.
How did the free sharing of scientific knowledge and culture become the worst crime our justice systems could think of? https://falkvinge.net/2017/11/24/free-sharing-scientific-knowledge-culture-become-worst-crime-justice-systems-think/
Antifa Activists as the Truest Defenders of Free Speech by @rechelon
"...cutting the telegraph wires of fascist generals coordinating an invasion would violate their personal “free speech” but...
To truly defend free speech on the whole we must sometimes deny it to its murderous enemies.
To defend the ideal of a richly interconnected world where information flows freely takes more than speech, it requires action against those brutally organizing against it."
yesterday, #catalonia
demo against suspending gov. autonomy and the release of two leaders supporting the indipendence movment.
According to local police authorities 450.000
Still there is not much to be optimistic about:
- people didn’t mind a helicopter of the Catalan police was monitoring
- every time a helicopter of the Spanish cops flew over people started to whistle and put their middle fingers up.
- Later people celebrated the Catalan cops, cheering at the
via @enough14
I just discovered that folks have subdivided sprouts into "microgreens", "shoots" and "sprouts", and I'm pretty angry about all these newfangled definitions.
When I was a kid we only had the one gender to choose from and we liked it.
Having a crush on someone is a lot like unilaterally tying them to the trigger of a gun pointed at you.
Attacking the white walkers as they peacefully raise an army of undead and march across Westeros makes you as bad as them. There's no place for preemptive violence in our society, so long as they continue to merely raise all our dead to build an unstoppable army PEACEFULLY we cannot attack them.
Sure, they attack natives and Watchmen who happen to wander near them, but they were asking for and deserve it --- what were they doing beyond the wall to begin with?
White Walkers don't exist anymore, we defeated them in the long night. What you see marching in the north are really just Soros plants. It's these "Night's Watch" thugs that are the real Others. They dress all in black like terrorists and attack peaceful undead marches.
Overheard some tech dude at the bar name dropping his company "We make a specialized database, because all databases kind of suck..." and my knee jerk reaction was to shout "ALL DATABASES ARE BEAUTIFUL". These are the life choices I'm making.
The Tangled Paths Of State Formation And Resistance by @rechelon
"No technology, no material condition, no social condition is a prison sentence. It is our common values that play a huge role in determining whether a society can handle something like agriculture, cities, writing, or markets without turning to tyranny. The fight between authoritarianism and anti-authoritarianism is ultimately a fight over values..."
Your morning/evening reading from @rechelon on how to preserve your sense of accuracy, when the discourse veers toward action: https://c4ss.org/content/49584
"There are two common ways to engage with ideas. The first is to treat them as models for the world, ideally providing us with greater accuracy or understanding and thus agency in our choices. The second is to view ideas exclusively in terms of their effects upon people and their relationships with one another." - @rechelon
Social Movements and the Sacrifice of Epistemic Rationality
Would you join a large-scale uprising against the goverment? Show more
http://hh.hinweisportal.de/1707080300/en
Hamburg police set up a site to submit images of G20
Please don't spam this with images of memes or far-right protests to confuse them and waste their time, my fellow law-abiding citizens!
