Organizing With Bayes
A probabilistic model of collective power.
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Coming in hot on reentry
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Long Live Petitions
The role of petitions in an era when our leaders aren't listening
Power for the Rest of Us
Identify your power, join together, and apply it
How to use a Zine: A Zine
How and why you should use a zine
Pride Brick Plushie: A Zine
DIY your own brick-shaped friend
Immigrant Rights are Our Rights: A Zine
How ICE endangers all of us
The Ratchet: A Zine
A devious political mechanism, and the way to break free.
Public Transit vs Pollution: A Zine
Five unusual ways of looking at pollution (and the usual one) and how public transit helps reduce them
Society Skills: How to Use Your Privilege
What you should do with your privilege instead of feeling bad about it.
AI in Fiction
AI has a special place in fiction: a mirror. Even in not so fictional contexts.
Society Skills: The Normative-Harmful Alignment Chart
Reasoning through the difference betewen normative and harmful behaviors.
If your standard is not getting called a slur, mastodon is DOA
The central incompatibility in mastodon's premise
On generative AI and creativity
Why machine learning and creativity are diametrically opposed
Why begposts make you uncomfortable (and why that's good)
Lean into the discomfort
Mastodon Search Engine Indexing Expectations
A little writeup of the results of a mastodon poll
The Two Camps of Mastodon
How two sets of ideals collide over the main mastodon art instance.
Level 3 Cognition Considered Harmful
The excitement of chat GPT is driven by a quirk of our heuristics about cognitive capabilities.
Society Skills: Non-Authoritarian Persuasion
There might be a more effective way to persuade people than telling them what to do.
The Three Lies of Capitalism
There are three lies capitalism tells to perpetuate itself.
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