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Mirrors Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Mirror List 2.1. Postcapitalist Desire culture philosophy 2.2. Free as Air, Free As Water, Free As Knowledge culture hacker_culture 2.3. AI Use is "Anti-Human" ai philosophy life 2.4. "They Killed Their Mother": Avatar as Ideological Symptom culture philosophy anarchism 2.5. God is Evil, Man is Free anarchism philosophy religion 2.6. The Cathedral and…
Category: Emacs Table of Contents 1. Unique aspects of GNU Emacs 1.1. A general computational environment integrated from inside and outside 1.2. Transparent from the inside 1.3. Malleable at run time 1.4. Modifications compose robustly 1.5. Unity of internals and user interactions 1.6. Infinitely malleable 1.7. Application output ("UIs") are composable and open to reflection 1.8. A powerful set…
Category: Programming and Software Table of Contents 1. A plea for simpler FP 2. Why I'm obsessed with Common Lisp 2.1. Homoiconicity 2.2. Procedural non-hygienic macros 2.3. Image-based development 2.4. Type system 2.5. Generic programming (CLOS) 2.6. Ugly 2.6.1. It's too big/complex of a language standard 2.6.2. It can't be implemented in a way that's performant 2.6.3. It isn't…
Category: Philosophy Table of Contents 1. Terra Ignota 1.1. Rant about the stupid reviews of it that totally miss the point 1.2. Conversation with a friend about gender and religion in Terra Ignota 2. How to use a large language model ethically 3. Large language models will never be able to reason reliably… but that doesn't make them not useful 4. My opinion on large language models 5. Capitalism…
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Category: Life Table of Contents 1. Aphorisms 2. Thoughts on meaning-making: don't force it 3. Communities do exist, and they're evil 3.1. Human behavior in communities 3.2. Communities as separate emergent entity 3.3. Social inertia 3.4. What do do about it? 4. On schooling, public and at home 5. TODO Hobbies: the secret to good living 6. TODO The point of art is the process of creating it 7.…
Category: Writing Table of Contents 1. Edginess 2. Hyperfiction and Org-Mode 3. High culture, low culture, and what I want to write 1. Edginess Edginess as a concept is a fatal package-dealing of two separate concepts. In their complete and meaningful expression, these two concepts are interwoven to highlight something valuable: the performance of suffering, mental illness, or darkness that is…
Category: Input Devices Table of Contents 1. Why I Prefer Keyboard-Driven Interfaces 1.1. Throughput 1.2. Tactile Feedback and Location Invariance 1.3. Convenience 1.4. Memorizability 1.5. Pointing 1.6. So what is the mouse good for then? 1.7. So why do I still use the mouse for things? 2. You need a split ergonomic mechanical keyboard 3. Key arpeggios versus key chords 4. Low-key keyboards are a…
Personnel File "A year here and she still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading nightly… the dreams came on in the Japanese night like livewire voodoo, and she'd cry for it, cry in [her] sleep, and wake alone in the dark, curled in [her] capsule in some coffin hotel, hands clawed into the bedslab, temper foam bunched between [her] fingers, trying to reach the console that wasn't there." — William…
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A Total Amateur's Guide to Ergo Keyboards Table of Contents 1. Motivation 2. Disclaimer 3. Vocabulary 3.1. Ergonomics 3.2. Ergonomic Keyboards 3.3. Mechanical Key Switches 4. Picking An Ergonomic Keyboard 4.1. Proletarian Options (~$30-100) 4.2. Petite Bourgouise Options (~$100-$250) 4.3. Bourgouise Options ($250-♾️) 1. Motivation You're probably here because you work an office job that has you…
An absolute beginner's cyberspace privacy guide for rising fascism Table of Contents 1. Threat model 1.1. Who are we defending against? 1.2. What kinds of attacks? 1.3. What to defend from what? 1.4. A useful rule of thumb 2. Actual suggestions 2.1. Browser 2.2. VPNs 2.3. Email, calendar, drive, etc provider 2.4. Maps 2.5. Video-watching 2.6. Chatting 2.7. PC Operating System 2.8. Mobile Phone…
UNIX, Lisp Machines, Emacs, and the Four User Freedoms Table of Contents 1. UNIX 2. Lisp Machines 3. Emacs 4. Conclusion 1. UNIX The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0). The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this. The freedom to redistribute copies…
GNOME Is Not 'Mobile-First' Table of Contents 1. Lack of Customizability 2. Lack of GUI Power User Features 3. Is GNOME's UI/UX Designed Exclusively For Mobile? 4. GNOME Is a Tiling Window Manager for DE Users 5. Conclusion And like I said on my podcast, people think I only use KDE, but sometimes, I get so overwhemed with KDE that I need to fire up my GNOME virtual machine just to get a little bit…
Is GNOME Actually Evil? Table of Contents 1. What I Learned 2. Into The Future 3. Appendix A: The Brain Rot From Outer Space 4. Appendix B: The Sources 4.1. Don't use a notification area in GNOME 3 4.2. Rotting in Threes 4.3. Torvalds pours scorn on De Icaza's desktop claims 4.4. Work with theme authors 4.5. Gtk to Qt - a strange journey 4.6. GNOME can eat shit 4.7. GTK3 was a brutal upstream 4.8.…
Freedom and Domination: Toward a Reunification of Values Table of Contents 1. Autonomous and Despotic Interests 2. Situating Them Within My Thought 3. Justice-As-Balance 4. Eternal Social War 5. Conclusion As soon as the relationship between lord and subject is established, hearts become daily more filled with evil designs, until the manacled criminals sullenly doing forced labour in the mud and…
Eternal Social War: A Theory of Social Forces Table of Contents 1. A General Theory of Social Forces 1.1. Unity-Collectivities 1.2. Forces in Collectivities and Society 2. The Balance of Social Forces 3. Conclusion [T]he things that we do together with others do not simply add up… specialization and association bring about the formation of unity-collectivities, social beings with qualities,…
Anarchism: Process, Not Destination Table of Contents 1. Table of Contents That which dominates all my studies, its principle and aim, its summit and base… is that I affirm, resolutely and irrevocably, in all and everywhere, Progress , and that I deny, no less resolutely, the Absolute … Progress, once more, is the affirmation of universal movement, consequently the negation every immutable form…
Power and Hierarchy Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Coercion 3. Power-Over (Domination) 4. Hierarchy and Authority 5. Conclusion Identifying inequalities of power, instances of domination which creates the space for hierarchies and other forms of authority and subordination, is one of the cornerstones anarchist political and social theory. In order to fight back against something, after all,…
What Is A Woman? Since Matt Walsh's transphobic 'documentary' What Is A Woman? was released, I've been seeing a lot of people, even allies and members of the LGBT community, reiterating this question. What is a woman? Just what does that mean? Well, I've got a simple, compact answer: A woman is someone who identifies with womanhood. I wouldn't go beyond that for anyone in general conversation,…
Justice and the Anarchic Encounter: Synthesizing Neo-Proudhonian Social Science and Egoism Table of Contents 1. Author's Note 2. Introduction 3. The Anarchic Encounter and Justice-As-Balance 4. Justice and Rationality 5. Equality and Collectivity 6. Conclusion: Power and Justice "Another world is possible" every time equal uniques, free absolutes, meet on a terrain shaped by any number of…
Autonomy: Our Flourishing and Power Table of Contents 1. What Is Autonomy? 2. Why Is Autonomy So Important? 3. What Does This Mean? 4. Conclusion Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity…
Democracy Won't Save You Table of Contents 1. Democracy As Cooperative Tool 1.1. Democracy-As-Tool: Small 1.2. Democracy-As-Tool: Specific and Situational 2. Democracy as Reified Entity 2.1. Representative Democracy 2.2. Democracy and Marginalization 3. Democracy, Society, and Progress 4. Epilogue 5. Further Reading God, the State, Society, Humanity, etc., etc. have their own cause for themselves.…
'Don''t Fix Us: Transgender in the Face of Impossibility' Table of Contents 1. What is Gender? 2. Why Transgender Conversion Therapy is Horrifying You want, if possible – and there is no more insane "if possible" – to abolish suffering. And we? It really seems that we would rather have it higher and worse than ever. Well-being as you understand it – that is no goal, that seems to us an end, a…
Fuck the State… But Not Like That Table of Contents 1. 1. The Coldest of All Cold Monsters 2. 2. Lieth In All Languages of Good and Evil 3. 3. Whatever It Hath It Hath Stolen 4. 4. Coldly It Lieth Also 5. 5. With Stolen Teeth It Biteth 6. 6. False Is Everything In It A state? What is that? Well! …*A state, is called the coldest of all cold monsters.* Coldly lieth it also; and this lie creepeth…
Theft is Good, Actually; or, Stigmergic Socialism Vs. The Welfare State stigmergy (noun) - (biology) A mechanism of spontaneous, indirect coordination between agents or actions, where the trace left in the environment by an action stimulates the performance of a subsequent action. - (systems theory) A mechanism of indirect coordination between agents or actions, in which the aftereffects of one…
Anarchist Conflict Resolution and Community Defense Table of Contents 1. 1. Conflict Resolution 2. 2. Protection 3. 3. Property Norms and Economics Author's Note: before or after you read this essay, I highly recommend you read What Is Individualist Anarchism , which overlaps with this one in a few ways but in general elaborates more on values, property norms, and long term goals, but less on…
Summa Atheologica: Why I Am An Atheist Table of Contents 1. 1. Introduction 2. 2. A Question 3. 3. Why Evidence is Important 3.0.1. 3.1. Primacy of practicality, experience, and simplicity 3.0.2. 3.2. Falsity risk and seeking out truth 4. 4. What Is Evidence? 4.0.1. 4.1. Defining evidence 4.0.2. 4.2. Cases of indeterminacy and meta-theories 4.0.3. 4.3. Personal religious experience 5. 5. Arguments…
Why I Identify As a Satanist Table of Contents 1. 1 2. 2 3. 3 4. 4 5. 5 6. 6 7. 8 8. 10 9. 9 "Did [Satan] rebel against his maker? It was, as he himself informs us, because he saw no sufficient reason, for that extreme inequality of rank William Godwin, anarchist, 1793 1. 1 I think, given the rather obvious Satanist imagery that has permeated my blog, not to mention the references to it that are…
What Is Anti-Work? Table of Contents 1. 1 2. 2 3. 3 4. 4 5. 5 6. 6 1. 1 Wanting work reform is not anti-work. Not wanting to do anything challenging or productive is not anti-work. These are the two primary misconceptions about what it means to be anti-work that I hope to correct. The latter comes from our overt enemies, and the former from those cultists of the status quo who wish to co-opt our…
A Fuzzy Bayesian Analysis of Deductive Argumentation Table of Contents 1. 1 2. 2 3. 3 4. 4 5. 4 1. 1 Now that I've finally gotten around to writing out some of the more fundamental components of my epistemology, 1 I can at last proceed to writing one of the articles that I've been planning to do pretty much since I started writing on this blog months ago: a fuzzy Bayesian analysis of deductive…
What Is Individualist Anarchism? "Infernal world! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least We shall be free; th' Almighty…
Abortion and Individualist Anarchism Table of Contents 1. 1 2. 2 3. 3 4. 4 5. 5 6. 6 7. 7 8. 8 9. 9 1. 1 Ever since I first began my journey towards anarchism, my views on multiple conflicting intuitions and considerations all pulling my values in different directions, while the prevailing winds of my evolving moral system changed which were foremost in my mind. Usually, with things like this, it…
Possession Versus Absentee Property Table of Contents 1. 1 2. 2 3. 3 1. 1 In this post, I'm just going to try to explain, as succinctly as possible, the important differences between possession and absentee property (generally just referred to as "property" by Proudhon, e.g. "property is theft"). I've covered this distinction several times before, but I think I've boiled it down enough that…
Cops, Vigilantes, and Protection Table of Contents 1. 1 2. 2 3. 3 4. 4 5. 5 1. 1 There is a fine line between the defense of oneself and others, which is proper to anarchistic relations, and the exercise of authority which (when unleashed) is paradigmatic of police. This is not to say that there is a fine line between reciprocal anarchistic relations and the that is not the case at all, those two…
Property Provisos Table of Contents 1. 1 2. 2 3. 3 4. 4 1. 1 One of the particularly interesting threads from 'Anarchistic Relations' that I wanted to follow more was that a set of limitations on property were a natural outgrowth of property based on egoistic reciprocity. To recap: Essentially, if we take the idea that generally speaking people want to be able to satisfy the maximum amount of…
A Hayekian Argument For Occupancy-and-Use Table of Contents 1. 1 2. 2 3. 3 4. 4 5. 5 1. 1 Occupancy-and-use is the term given by anarchist theory to a vague collection of property norms focused around the idea that the right 1 to use a thing, to determine what happens to it, and determine the conditions of its transfer, etc, should be assigned to those who actually do use (or occupy, a form of use…
Anarchistic Relations Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. 1 3. 2 4. 3 1. Introduction In giving up the anarcho-capitalist framework for distinguishing between legitimate and illegitimate interactions between people, I gave up clarity for greater correctness. This has left my philosophical system, in terms of what I support and do not support, in a state of general flux. This was acceptable, in…
Why I Am No Longer An Anarcho-Capitalist Table of Contents 1. 1. A Fundamental Confusion Of Values 2. 2. Cultural Problems 3. 3. A Fundamental Misunderstanding of Markets 4. 4. Excessive Normativity 5. 4. Conclusion 1. 1. A Fundamental Confusion Of Values My primary problem with anarcho-capitalists, as I mentioned in another essay ('Two Principles of Anarchism') is that they are fundamentally…
Two Principles of Anarchism Table of Contents 1. 1. Introduction 2. 2. Autonomy 2.1. 2.1. What Is Autonomy? 2.2. 2.2. Why Is Autonomy Important? 3. 3. Reciprocity 3.1. 3.1. Positive and Negative Reciprocity 3.2. 3.2. Reciprocity and Society 3.3. 3.3. Why Reciprocity Consistently? 3.4. 3.4. The Principles of Reciprocity 3.4.1. (1)*DO NOT HARM OTHERS IF THEY HAVE NOT HARMED YOU.* 3.4.2. (2)*IF…
'Synthesis Libertarianism: A Manifesto' toc: "true" Table of Contents 1. 1. Introduction 2. 2. The Values of Libertarianism 2.1. 2.1. Individual Self-Determination 2.2. 2.2. Consistency and Equality 2.3. 2.3. Entitlement Theory of Justice In Holdings 2.4. 2.4. Proportionality 2.5. 2.5. The Initiation-Response Distinction 3. 3. Social Leftism 3.1. 3.1. Anti-Traditionalism and Moderate Pluralism…
Linguistic Pragmatism and the Incoherence of Transphobia Table of Contents 1. 1 2. 2 1. 1 To all the "superstraight" and transphobic people out there: your categories are fucked. Your language is incomprehensible, and your philosophy of languages is confused. Here's why. 2. 2 As a naturalist, nominalist, and linguistic pragmatist, my position on how words are used is pretty simple: A lot of things…
The Problem With Presuppositionalism Table of Contents 1. 1 THE LOGICAL PRESUPPOSITIONALIST ARGUMENTS 2. 2 THE PRAGMATIC PRESUPPOSITIONALIST ARGUMENTS 3. 3 A NOTE ON EXPLANATION 4. 4 A NOTE ON NEUTRAL GROUND 5. 5 A NOTE ON SPECIAL REVELATION 6. 6 CONCLUSION This is an essay I wrote awhile ago as a Google Doc, which I'm reposting to this blog because it seems relevant. I haven't looked at it or…
Table of Contents 1. Outline for the Joint Writing Project: Acheron 1.1. World-Building 1.1.1. Technological Level 1.1.2. Key Technologies for space opera transition 1.1.3. Corporate Dynasties 1.1.4. Geopolitical Setup 1.2. Plot and Structure 1.2.1. Arcs and Length 1.2.2. Throughline 1.3. Characters 1.3.1. Keller 1.3.1.1. Background and Motivation 1.3.1.2. Key Scenes 1.3.2. Yuki 1.3.2.1.…
Table of Contents 1. Roberto Fortescue Universe Worldbuilding Notes 1.1. World Timeline 1.2. Timeline: Major Events 1.2.1. 2030 1.2.2. 2033 1.2.3. 2035 1.2.4. 2040 1.2.5. 2042 1.2.6. 2043 1.2.7. 2045 1.2.8. 2046 1.2.9. 2047 1.2.10. 2048 1.2.11. 2049 1.2.12. 2050 1.2.13. 2050 1.2.14. 2051 1.2.15. 2052 1.2.16. 2053 1.2.17. 2054 1.2.18. 2055 1.2.19. 2056 1.2.20. 2070 1.2.21. 2071-2089 1.2.22.…
Table of Contents 1. Worldbuilding 1.1. I. Introduction to Worldbuilding Notes 1.1.1. A. Overview of Metaphysics/Magic System 1.1.1.1. 1. Core Concept: Monadology-Infused Universe 1.1.1.2. 2. Magic as Willpower 1.1.2. B. Worldbuilding Implications 1.1.2.1. 1. Accessibility and Flexibility of Magic 1.1.2.2. 2. Social and Economic Impact 1.1.2.3. 3. Technological and Architectural Implications…
Fabian's Monologue Table of Contents 1. Original Monologue (by me) 2. Revised Monologue (with the help of Jade Kovacs) 1. Original Monologue (by me) You can feel the fear sweat rolling down your face in rivulets, trickling down around your eyes – blinded of any sight by the neural harnass jacked into the back of your head – and dripping off your chin. It tickles maddeningly, but you can't deal…
