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I wrote a book review of "Geopolitics at the Internet’s Core" by Fiona Alexander, Laura DeNardis, Ph.D., Nanette Levinson, and Francesca Musiani. It initially seems to be a dense technical history of Internet Protocol—that constellation of technical specifications and social agreements that makes the internet work. But this would be a profound misreading.
What Alexander, DeNardis, Levinson, and Musiani have actually written is something far more elegiac: a cenotaph for a bygo…

Stochastic Hamiltonian Type Jump Diffusion Systems with Countable Regimes: Strong Feller Property and Exponential Ergodicity
Fubao Xi, Yafei Zhai, Zuozheng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14951

Stochastic Hamiltonian Type Jump Diffusion Systems with Countable Regimes: Strong Feller Property and Exponential Ergodicity
This work focuses on a class of stochastic Hamiltonian type jump diffusion systems with state-dependent switching, in which the switching component has countably infinite many states.First, the existence and uniqueness of the underlying processes are obtained with the aid of successive construction methods. Then, the Feller property is established by coupling methods. Furthermore, the strong Feller property is proved by introducing some auxiliary processes and making use of appropriate Radon-Ni…

Candyvan McTaco Twit
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This is for tee hee, not treason: put the zip ties down.
#satire #potus45

The #IWW #GDC as an antifascist organization was always kind of a hack. It was a beautiful hack and it worked well for what it did.
In 2016, as Trump was rising, I found info from the Twin Cities GDC. They were super organized, building an amazing community defense organization. When we (Seattle) went to set up our chapter, following their lead, they were extremely supportive. When I got shot, Twin Cities folks were at my house keeping my partner safe. They literally flew people out to support us. They very much remain in my mind when I think about what mutual aid looks like.
Unionism is an important strategy of a larger fight. But it's important to realize that it's not the other way around. The GDC was built to defend the union, because there wasn't something larger to do that work. It filled a gap.
When we organized against Trump, we tried to make the GDC the greater thing. We tried to make the GDC into the vehicle for social revolution against the fascist threat... And it sort of worked. We were able to do a lot.
But that was never what it was built to do. It was always built as an appendage of the IWW. This contains its own problem. If Unionism is the revolutionary movement, then it becomes impossible to build a truly revolutionary society. Unionism centers "workers" which implicitly decenters those who can't work in the traditional sense (the young, the elderly, those physically or mentally able to work). It also decenters care labor that hasn't yet been widely commodified. Sure, there are all types of hacks to patch the holes, but the fundamental construction starts from the wrong assumptions.
It felt, for a while, like things could go another way. Like that our ability to bring members in could shift things a bit, maybe set the GDC on more equal footing with the core focus of the IWW. But that was always an illusion, far less important to think about than the crushing terror of the regime we were fighting.
Now, I will absolutely trash talk the IWW on occasion but in the end I do think they're doing good and important work. Any criticism I have should be taken with a grain of salt... And I know I do have a lot of salt. Again, Unionism is an important strategy. It's useful both in improving immediate material conditions and as part of the most powerful weapon we have against the capitalist system: the general strike. It's important, I can't say that enough. But it's not sufficient.
I've been thinking about this a bit recently, and I wonder if there are any other GDC organizers or former organizers who might be feeling the same. Feel free to DM me. I'd like to get some more perspectives and see if my understanding from several years ago deviates significantly from what other folks are feeling right now.
I'd also like to bounce some ideas around that come from my own organizing experience.

New series of talks: Buddhist Approaches to the Natural World
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Prof. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, LLM, JSD: "Recognition and Justice for Victims of Sexual Violence in…
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This sentiment expressed by @… below and the aspect of slowing down is also very much part of my own reasoning for getting back into analog print making. The other large part is the conceptual overlap with (and my love of) process-based art in general. It was exactly that what has drawn me to generative/algorithmic/procedural/kinetic approaches/concepts for most of my l…

Christopher Cookson (@figwit@pixelfed.nz)
Another hand coloured #cyanotype, this time of kōwhai flowers. I'm not sure whether this counts as #fineart or #adultcolouring but it is definitely a unique reproduction of one of my photos. What really draws me to this #altprocess for #photography reproduction is that it takes time, and even though I can produce multiple prints from the same negative, each one will be visibly unique. In an age where billions of photos are taken but most will never leave a digital device, slowing down and impo…

Wie öffnet man fest sitzende #Schraubgläser mühelos? 🍯 Welche Techniken funktionieren und machen das Öffnen von #Schraubgläsern zum Kinderspiel? 🥒🔧
Hinweis für #FDP-Anhänger: Ma…

Küchentipp: Wie kann man fest sitzende Schraubgläser öffnen?
Fest sitzende Schraubdeckel sind eine Plage. Hier einige Tipps, um festsitzende Schraubgläser zu öffnen.

David Loggan spent 12 years sketching & engraving the town & colleges of Cambridge before publishing his book of plates in 1690 as 'Cantabrigia Illustrata'. Background: https://www.museumofcambridge.org.uk/2025/10/david-loggans-views-of-ca…

David Loggan’s views of Cambridge: An extraordinary visual testimony of 17th century Cambridge
By Dr N. Henry The Museum of Cambridge has on display, on the first floor, an antique print of David Loggan’s views of Cambridge from the east and the west. This print was once part of Cantabrigia …

Computable Bases
Vasco Brattka, Emmanuel Rauzy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09850 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09850 …

Computable Bases
In computable analysis typically topological spaces with countable bases are considered. The Theorem of Kreitz-Weihrauch implies that the subbase representation of a second-countable $T_0$ space is admissible with respect to the topology that the subbase generates. We consider generalizations of this setting to bases that are representable, but not necessarily countable. We introduce the notions of a computable presubbase and a computable prebase. We prove a generalization of the Theorem of Kre…

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This is satire, not sedition: don't make me go to gulag.
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