Tootfinder

I would recommend reading the source material. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/

RE: #Luigi (allegedly) did nothing wrong, and you said so, then Trump thinks you should be investigated to "prevent" future "domestic terrorism."

Tja. Glück gehabt (Hex hex!) oder Eltern sein.
Ist eigentlich auch schon jemand anderem aufgefallen, dass das Gewiehere nur im Intro zu den Hörspielen kommt?
#bibiblocksberg #bibiundtina #fedieltern

I think the thing the video fails to stress enough is the importance of the revolutionary program to the insurgency. Che failed because he failed to pay attention to his own lessons (and perhaps didn't fully understand them) about the primacy of the revolutionary program.
The true power of the insurgency comes from the things the state *cannot* compromise on.

I feel like I should do that and write a response with this in mind...
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/disaster-anarchism-an-argument-against-insurrection

I definitely need to revisit some of the primary sources here. It's been a while since I read Guerilla Warfare...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7EKs25Oxe4

It's also probably worth pointing out that humans willing to take small actions are more likely to take larger actions in the future. If you want to go from people too afraid to resist to people fighting in the streets, the path goes though little things like this.
This is the anarchist calisthenics equivalent of walking 10 paces a day before you try to prepare to run a marathon.

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RE: https://todon.eu/@CrimethInc/116240955986507756
We have a revolutionary moment in our hands. I cannot express strongly enough how important it is to seize this moment.
We must *build* an alternative society, starting by drawing people in and giving them opportunities to create a better future. We cannot win with logical arguments, because people are not logical. We must demonstrate, through experience, what we mean when we talk about liberation, autonomy, and mutual aid. We must create the new world in the shell of the old, here and now, so people can understand what it is we are fighting for. This is our best opportunity, right now, to reach out while the window is wide open.
If we miss this opportunity, we may not get another.

Propaganda of the deed generally does the opposite of what it's supposed to do: it alienates rather than activates, destroying the movement it comes from. Until it doesn't. Until it actually sparks a revolution.
But there is a prerequisite for a successful revolution. That is an alternative system to pivot into as the old one collapses. That alternative is *far more dangerous* than any one-off action, up to and including literally killing a king or an emperor.
People will eventually rise up. That's just a matter of time. The question is what's left after everything gets burned down. That's a far more important question than, "is it happening?" It's happening (sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly), what's next?
Hierarchy manifests complexity beyond its ability to manage. We're seeing that now, we will see it more. Distributed authority is more stable. Build a distributed society within the burned out warehouse of the hierarchical one.

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@igd_news/116415897425912438
Imagine the social infrastructure it would take to make this type of action sustainable. Imagine someone live streaming Mario Party, and officials being unable to stop it.
I don't advocate violence. But I do advocate building the social infrastructure that would make one-sided class war impossible.
The system can absorb some number of one-off actions. The system cannot absorb continuous action. Figure out the logistics necessary to make continuous action viable, and build *that.*
If you are mad, organize. This is the time.

Oh hell yeah
https://ddosecrets.org/article/ice-contracts

I think it can be hard to make the connection between opposing genocide in Gaza and building bike lanes, but it doesn't actually take that many steps to get there.
Or from another angle, you need trains to hold the Epstein class accountable because as long as fossil fuels, and the militaries that control them, are critical to the survival of the society then the people who control those assets remain too big to fail.

The most important among these is abolishing subsidized car parking, but with gas prices already driving prices up this is probably less critical than building out appropriate transit infrastructure.

RE: https://social.notjustbikes.com/@notjustbikes/116386013892596738
@… 's "The Sound and Fury of a Collapsing Order" hit the nail on the head. This is exactly the time that things can change. The ways in which they change matter.
Petroleum is the primary pillar of the global order, and weakening it's grip weakens that order. As an anarchist, I'm obviously more focused on direct action but there are absolutely local policies that are also important.
Attacking car-centric infrastructure as a political issue makes it easier to change other things.

The existence of Israel is a manifestation of European antisemitism, both historically justifying the project of Zionism and European governments continuing to fund Israel instead of addressing the core role of antisemitism in maintaining (at least) the conservative elements of the neoliberal order.
If antisemitism props up Israel, then a core part of dismantling Israel (and thus saving the lives of Palestinians) is addressing European antisemitism. There are Israeli Jews who would leave if they felt safe to do so. There are Jews demanding Israel be armed, because they don't feel safe anywhere else.
Protest, boycott, take whatever action you feel is appropriate. There is a limit to your ability to convince governments to stop funding genocide, but you can learn about antisemitism and you can work to fight it, especially within "The Left." You can learn to distinguish between legitimate critiques of Israel, and antisemitic ones, and you can stand and call out antisemitic ones.
Honestly, this is some of the easy work that I think a lot of people don't consider even doing, don't even realize it is a thing that can be done.
I'm talking to Israeli folks who identify as being on the Left. It's hard because they've been through a lot of propaganda. Israel is a cult that terrorizes its members. This is important work that can have a huge impact, because it focuses on dismantling the networks of support that reinforce what's happening now.
Meanwhile, I still run into wild things like "Rothschild" conspiracy theories among people who identify with the idea of supporting Palestinians.
Not only can you support the liberation of Palestine and the Palestinian people while opposing antisemitism, but you must actually do both in order to do either. They are exactly the same fight, and anything short of both is thrashing against oneself.

Oh hey, related:
https://quitgpt.org/

RE: https://glammr.us/@jessamyn/116064378371973762
I think a lot of anarchists miss the utilitarian paths because we are blinded by ideology. Like, yeah, you can't really reform the government into being good. Government is bad as a thing.
But you absolutely can infiltrate and subvert the system in ways that produce positive outcomes. It's easy to miss the subtle difference.
There are also other strategies that become available when you don't just flat-out refuse to interact with the state. Like, you can use pincer strategies where you organize in the community and subvert in the government.
We can do more and be more creative.

RE: https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/116064657955859408
I love the sentiment, but this is actually exactly what law enforcement has always been. It's always been political, always racist, always arbitrary, always genocidal.
ICE is just what happens when they think they can get away with it. The other abuses require a lot more investigation. Abolishing ICE is a good first step.
For all folks who have just now become enraged with the brutality of law enforcement agencies like ICE: I hope we can walk together, and learn from each other, until our ways part... But I do hope you'll walk a little farther with me after we achieve our shared goals.

The history of the term "anarchist" is itself adversarial. Those who embraced it did so intending to engage with it as controversy, so I feel like I'm not too out of line with this history in using my socialization of being comfortable while being adversarial, and my social license as a cis dude to just say some random shit for attention, to draw that attention back to this whole subject.
Since this post did get some attention, I'm gonna link back to the one that prompted it (and tag @…, who I think is the author, for a heads up if there's anything to add):
https://immerautonom.noblogs.org/the-elephant-in-the-room/
I think I have said some useful things in my post, or at least repeated things others have been saying for years in a useful way, but this post is really the thing to look at (again, if you didn't miss it like I did) and think. There was definitely a time when I would have fallen for that whole hoax, and maybe even have struggled to argue against the things being highlighted. But it's clear that there is still a problem, and I hope repeating these things in my dude voice catches the attention of some folks who might have otherwise missed it... And I hope my adversarial approach doesn't pull focus away from the self-reflection that needs to happen.
Men are the problem here. Men need to fix this. Men are responsible for looking at some of this really horrible shit and acknowledging that we've all been part of the system that makes them possible and have an obligation to destroy that system.

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@Hex/116368832245517751
This is an indictment of not only the US, but the entire global order. The UN was created specifically to prevent this type of existential threat, and it is time to face the fact that it has failed. The entire world has failed repeatedly to address globally destabilizing dictators including Putin, Xi, and Trump. The global order has failed to address the existential threat of pandemics, microplastics, and climate change.
It's easy to look at the US and acknowledge the failure from the outside, but it's also important to look in the mirror and acknowledge the failure of everyone and everything that was built to prevent this.
We need to build a better world, not just in the US but everywhere. The world is too interconnected, our capacity for destruction is too great, to individualize systemic failures like this.

This is, of course, digging up some old stuff but I don't think all that old stuff has been fully addressed. A friend linked me to an article that promted all this thought (I don't remember if I mentioned that in the post itself or not).

Consider this an official motion to drop the term "anarchist" and replace it with the term "consensualist" so as to leave less room for oppression to masquerade as "freedom."
https://hexmhell.writeas.com/consent

RE: #cybernetic perspective, "#GenAI" is absolutely toxic. It can radically increase variety (it can generate plausible threat reports) but it can't decrease variety (you can't actually use it to filter out its own slop).
LLMs are set up to destroy modern society. It will not ever find a way to manage this complexity because it doesn't have enough complexity to even recognize the problem.

Antifascism is a global thing. We must fight it everywhere, all at once, as a single humanity. Fighting fascism anywhere, is fighting fascism everywhere.

Empire anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere, which is why we need to support internationalists fighting empires everywhere they threaten, from Rojava to Myanmar.

If the UN or NATO are not the right organizations to manage the global disorder we are now experiencing, we need to build an international organization that is.
I have a suggestion.

Also, I hope my NSA agent knows what a shit post is.

Also, why isn't Kaczynski not in my autocomplete anymore? How am I supposed to spell his name without looking it up every time? Ridiculous.

People say that there's no valid use for LLMs without realizing that a local LLM could scrub the type of linguistic forensic signatures that were used to catch Ted Kaczynski.

Invisible gambling puts all other deceptive patterns to shame, but the others are worth knowing about for anyone who might have missed it when folks were talking more about this:
https://www.deceptive.design/

There's a whole dystopian sci-fi plot prompt hidden here about a world that mirrors company stores, where everyone is paid partially in LLM tokens which they have to use for everything including work... Work, where they basically gamble the tokens away, always ending up in debt, needing to take out loans to buy tokens to then work for more tokens.
The story would be called "Sixteen Tons." Maybe I'll write it, but not unless it can be written as solarpunk instead of cyberpunk because the new rule is "don't write 'The Torment Nexus' because someone will think it's a good idea and implement it."

Behind the Bastards goes into this a lot in one of their Epstein series. It's definitely worth listening to.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-how-jeffrey-epstein-helped-323226341/

This is all, of course, completely in line with Epstein's argument for micro-transactions. Modern gaming has shifted heavily towards this pay-to-play model with drop boxes that all basically looks like gambling for kids.
https://www.thegamer.com/jeffrey-epstein-call-of-duty-microtransactions/

Woke up from a dream with a thought about dark patterns and LLMs.
If LLMs (as a service) could be normalized and integrated into everything, as is currently in progress, the next step would be to charge tokens to pay for the interactions. After all, it's not really free. That's just the normal progression. Introduce the tech, get people hooked, then make them pay.
Great, now imagine this future state. Every interaction with a computer ends up mediated through a stochastic parrot. Congratulations, everything now has micro-transactions on steroids. Not only does everything you do with tech have micro-transactions, but every interaction with technology is gambling.

The interview, for reference
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/to-catch-a-fascist-an-interview-319927700/

I've seen folks boost an interview about this book. I'm really excited to see it come out, and definitely adding it to my reading list.
https://www.akpress.org/to-catch-a-fascist.html

#DeadLazyweb: Is anyone aware of a "no AI" marketplace or something? I just had to go through a hidden menu to disable "AI" on my dryer because it's not possible to buy a dryer without wifi and "AI" features (whatever the ambiguous fuck they mean by AI). I want dumb thing.
I don't want a "smart tv," I want an OLED that exposes HDMI and nothing smarter. I don't want a smart dryer. Thanks, I have enough attack surface in my house and I don't want to fight with a machine to make it just dry my laundry. Honestly, I don't even really want a smart phone anymore, but you can't really make Signal work on a Nokia brick.
If such a thing doesn't exist, I'd consider working on it but I don't want to re-invent a wheel if one already exists.

I mentioned earlier that I was writing something on #LLMs. Here it is...
#LLM

I especially like the essay "Farming regurgitated dogshit for fun and profit: Deepseek and other tools," but my favorite is "Making Google AI Barf dogshit for Imaginary Internet Points."
While neither essay exists, Google provides an excellent summary of both.

The context is probably important too, and a bit more nuanced. The general actually wasn't playing as Iran but as a rebel faction that arose due to instability. You know, like how the US got ISIS after toppling Saddam? So like... not necessarily the Iranian regime but something much more challenging that comes after a major earthquake or, like... I don't know... the US kills the supreme leader and Iranian proxies create a decentralized network that threatens international trade.
Definitely unimaginable. Everything is definitely going to go well and exactly as simulated, definitely leading to a Blue force victory.
Yeah, I'm gonna get back to writing fiction and doing art, and ignoring this mess for the moment.

tl;dr: A retired general payed as (an imaginary country that represented) Iran and kicked the shit out of the US military so badly that they changed the rules mid-game to make sure the US would win.
This was the most expensive war game ever, and they basically burned the results.

In all seriousness, there are a ton of possible scenarios. The Iranian regime is weaker than it has ever been. I deeply hope for the liberation of Iranian people, especially oppressed minorities. Meanwhile, the US is lead by the most incompetent leadership ever (which is really saying a lot).
The Kurds, who could be the keystone ground forces needed to collapse the regime have been betrayed by the US so many times that they may not rise up (correctly) predicting that the US will stab them in the back at the fist chance.
But they are also a highly oppressed group in Iran, and may well take this opportunity. I don't know enough about this region to make any kind of reasonable prediction.
There are a huge number of unknowns, which is really *not* what anyone wants when starting a conflict.
To Iranian people, I wish you freedom and self-determination against all actors. To the US military, I wish you the best of luck getting your whole behive-dick situation.

Anyone know about how MC02 came out? Probably not relevant right now. Everyone can probably just ignore this. Blue won in the end, so no potential for foreshadowing at all...
#USPol #Iran

Maybe some single payer healthcare? Ffs...

To be clear, I am specifically referring to this: https://kolektiva.social/@Hex/116099093975347697

This has essentially been the counterinsurgency program we've been living through for the past few hundred years.
Speaking of which, I'm a little surprised Andrewism didn't plug this book:
https://www.akpress.org/life-during-wartime.html

This really belongs on blue sky but I just don't have the patience for that. There's also probably some mutation of this that would make sense on Facebook, but I'm still enjoying having deleted my account 8 or 9 years ago now.

As salty as I am about it, there's also another way to think about this. For anyone who still has connections to folks on the right (which is perhaps unlikely for anyone on this server, I digress), the cult that has consumed them thrives on isolation and grievance.
The words "you were right" have the potential to cut through the programming and open up an opportunity for reconnection. The modern conspiratorial cult of the Right has been built partially around people who were told they were wrong or were crazy. In the vast majority of cases, they were wrong and even when they were right they completely misunderstood why, but we'll skip that for now. Liberals making fun of them (even the times when they definitely earned it) has pushed them further and further into their ideological hole.
The thing about those words, "you were right," in this context is that the way they offer reconnection also requires them to take one little step of betraying their ideology to accept them. So they must choose between maintaining allegiance to a pedophile or finally getting to feel superior after years of living in an illusion of persecution.
Under the ideology of the Right, admitting one is wrong is a weakness. It is admitting defeat. They have to "own the libs" by saying things, things that they know aren't true, in order to feel dominant. But these things are often so absurd that they end up being made fun of, feeling even more weak and pathetic, reinforcing their fear and alienation.
Offering what they're looking for can offer a way out, but only if they're willing to start to recognize the thing they've supported for what it is.
And they were right about some things. They were right that Bill Gates was a terrible person. I've had plenty of liberals defend him based on his philanthropy washing, but he's awful and always has been. The Epstein links make that blatant. They intuitively recognized him and didn't trust him, even if they were wildly off base about *how and why* he shouldn't be trusted... Even if their correct mistrust was leveraged into one of the most destructive conspiracy theories ever (vaccine denial and COVID vaccine avoidance).
They were right about Bill Clinton. He was always shady as fuck. Sure, the people who attacked him at the time turned out to be even more shady but that's not the point right now. He was connected to Epstein and that was always creepy as fuck.
And the Epstein thing was an open secret that liberals ignored for a long time. It was seen as some weird thing that right wing nutjobs believed about the Clintons. But it was true. Not all of it, and there has always been an antisemitic element to the right wing interpretation or Epstein stuff, but his whole pedophile conspiracy was always kind of real.
The whole "Illuminati"/deep state thing is a vast oversimplification, an attempt to make comprehensible an incredibly complex set of interlocking and emergent behaviors. But Epstein did very much want to remake the world, to create a new world order, and he absolutely played a part in it.
The Right wing nutjobs talked about global authoritarianism, Blackhawks flying over American cities, masked men with guns disarming and executing legal gun owners in the streets. That's all happening right now.
The "FEMA concentration camps" are not actually that far off. ICE and FEMA are sister agencies, both under DHS. I'd be more than happy to call that one "close enough" in order to hear some MAGA admit that ICE is, in fact, building concentration camps.
There was always a huge millennialist element to these things. They tended to be connected to "the antichrist." It was absurd, especially for me as someone who no longer identifies as a Christian. But I'll even acquiess that to a degree. The "the number of the Beast" is 666. That's just the sum of the Hebrew spelling of "Nero." Revelations focuses a lot on Nero coming back to life after his death. His death that involved a head wound, thus the line from Revelation 13:3:
> And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast.
The parallels between Trump and Nero are easy to draw, and Trump's ear wound feels pretty on-the-nose for this. I don't believe in "prophecy" in this way. I think that there are patterns, and useful patterns can become encoded in beleif systems. But I will, again, happily call this one "close enough" for anyone on that side willing to also acknowledge it. I'm happy to meet on that common ground, because anyone who accepts it must recognize that their duty is to fight against it.
A lot of these correct nuggets are embedded in a framework of religious extremism and antisemitism. The vast majority of the beliefs holding these together are wildly wrong and incredibly toxic. But by giving some room to feel validated, listened to, understood, can give some room to admit things that were wrong.
Cult de-programming starts with an opening. People have to talk through their own thoughts, hear their own inconsistencies. Guiding questions can help them untangle these things for themselves. And it all starts by having enough room to feel safe, to not feel cornered, to not feel stupid. Admitting mistakes means being vulnerable, and the MAGA cult is built on fear. It's built on exploiting vulnerability and locking it away.
De-programming takes a long time. It's not easy. It takes patience. But every person who comes out does so with a powerful perspective, a deep understanding, that can be turned back against it. The best people at getting people out of cults are former members. Some of the most dedicated antifa are former fascists who understood their mistakes and dedicate their lives to fixing them.

Speaking of missing analysis, a friend sent this my way and I think it does a pretty good job of explaining the current moment:
https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/the-great-convergence-and-its-discontents/
[lemme know if you want credit :P]

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@Hex/116284199711940740
Which is here...

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@Hex/116272428351854596
Somehow I had more thoughts on this subject...

Something something Quakers, Diggers, Dulcinians, Bois Caïman, Simon(e) Weil, Mohamed Abdou, etc etc...

In my head I'm just replacing "counter insurgency" with "horse cavalry."
"We're going to keep learning how to leverage horse cavalry against machine guns and tanks until we get it right."
No. No you will not. You will keep trying until you learn the hard way that it can't be done.

pause for voice over: "They did not, in fact, live to get it right."
Asymmetric warfare requires a different type of society. Old order will not survive because it cannot. It will adapt, but the adaptation can only go so far.
Cybernetics predicts that it will be impossible for the old society to adapt because it cannot possibly develop the level of complexity needed to respond to the increasingly complex environment.
Rather, *we,* the rebellion, will continue to live this day over and over again until *we* evolve to produce a level of complexity that cannot be managed by an oppressive system.

I also really appreciate the optimism of the intro...

It's also critical to understand the Democratic Party as part of the counter-insurgency program. While the current regime has no ability to recover, the state can maintain a fallback position with the Democratic Party.

This is *exactly* why attacking and de-legitimizing it it is a top priority for the regime.

The document also notes that intelligence and counter-intelligence form the base of all operations. As I've noted this is exactly the area where authoritarianism is at it's weakest.
Authoritarianism is extremely weak at information collection and processing. To counter this weakness, it floods the information environment so that intelligence becomes more difficult for *everyone*.
What folks don't tend to realize, what is covered in the book "To Catch a Fascist," is the fact that "antifa" is really a big decentralized intelligence network.

After the whole Adam Something "dating advice for leftist men" thing, I realized I should probably write something about that. I didn't, but I realized I should. Here I am sort of getting around to it.
I had a friend call me an "elder" at one point. I was like 35 at that time, but like... a lot of old leftists are just dead or in prison, so we take what we can get I guess. Being also an elder in the sense that I'm an elder millennial, who is also a parent and married for almost 10 years and all that, I guess I'm technically qualified.
So here it is, dating advice for (straight cis) leftist men:
1. Don't.
That's it, actually. That's the whole thing. Let me explain a bit.
First of all, this is dating advice for neuroatypical folks. We're way overrepresented in both extremes because this system wasn't built for us. And that's who is *the most* confused by all the relationship stuff, and most likely to try to apply all this masculinity/manosphere bullshit. I'm also talking a bit from experience here, as a neruo-spicy trying to "figure out" how to date within a paradigm entirely built around neurotypicals and their relationships. It's garbage. Throw it out. There's nothing worth saving.
His video had some line comparing not having sex to your house being on fire. I'm not gonna bother to quote it because I'm busy with actual life. But like, that's exactly what I'm talking about. I recognize that and it's horribly destructive. Men who buy in to patriarchy actually believe this, because those men value themselves based on (hetro) sex. Yeah, if you think you're worthless because you aren't "getting laid" then yeah, you're gonna feel like that's an emergency.
"Dating" as a paradigm turns humans into roles. It dehumanizes us all, and thus makes human connection much harder. It is a game that, like thermonuclear war, can only be won by not playing.
When you abandon "dating" and just act like a human, everything starts to be easier. There's no such thing as being "friend zoned" because you're just friends. Sometimes friendships become other things, sometimes they don't. It doesn't actually matter, because if you're actually there for friendship then you don't *need* anything else.
My grandma, at 98 I think, gave me some advice. My grandparents always got along well, and were married for enough decades that I listened really closely. She told me I should just do things I loved to do and everything else would work itself out.
And it kind of did.
I understand the fear, the idea that you'll die alone. I get that. I get the loneliness. It all hits a lot harder when you have ADHD emotions and past trauma. I get that. But that fear is self-manifesting. When you build your confidence, when you don't *need* to be "in a relationship," you have more room to actually build relationships. For me, dating was dehumanizing. When I abandoned that, I was able to actually be a good partner, and I was able to find my partner.
I would advise against marriage as well, but we did get married for legal reasons. It can still be hard to maintain that, to see each other as people rather than roles. That becomes extra hard as parents. But the times that we cut through that are the times we're closest. Those are the times when it becomes easier to remember that we're both humans and all human relationships need tending.
Roles don't need to be tended because they are classifications. Classifications are static. But relationships between humans are not. Humans are messy and chaotic. Humans have all kinds of complex needs and desires.
So yeah, don't date. Just be a human and see what happens. Maybe google "relationship anarchy" and see where it takes you.
If you have ADHD, it can be especially useful to understand that relationships with neurotypical folks can be especially difficult. Assume you're incompatible with 90% of the population as your baseline, and you'll start to understand why the standard "dating" thing has made you feel so alienated and miserable.
Neurotypical folks generally have no idea that atypicality exists, much less how it impacts relationships. Having to conform to a neurotypical relationship just adds additional mental strain unless you find someone (really special) who can do at least some of the work.
The ADHD thing was especially important for me. There were so many things I was told to do in specific ways by neurotypicals that never worked for me. Their advice always made me feel like a failure. When I was finally diagnosed, I realized they were just giving advice for the wrong type of brain. It was advice I could never use. Basically all dating advice I ever got fell into this same category.
That's my braindump. Maybe I'll develop it more in the future, but I'm busy so maybe not. I hope it helps someone who is struggling like I was.

So the Right has been talking about how the FEMA concentration camps, the pedophile conspiracy, and how they're gonna take all the guns, but now that the pedophile conspiracy is building concentration camps and disarming then executing legal gun owners, all I can hear is the sucking sound as they try to swallow the whole damn boot.
#USPol

The system that exists today has no future. It is Petrofascism and ecocide, a system premised on the impossible, the ideology of cancer. If you prepare your kids for this world, you are preparing them for death.

Parenting is prefigurative. By preparing children for their future you are also creating it.

I've linked corporations, religion, government, and the Fermi paradox, which, I think, is something difficult to do without ADHD.

"You can't eat trauma." Which is unfortunate, because it would otherwise be a cheap and abundant source of calories.

I still had more to say about the whole #cultpunk thing, so here's an expanded essay. I feel like it should probably be a Zine, if anyone has any thoughts on publishing it.
https://hexmhell.writeas.com/on-gods-and-governments

The people building LLMs are trying to kill all humans. Literally. They are exterminationists who want to replace human life with AI and upload their brains to the cloud. They're AI death cultists.
They are the enemy. Anything that empowers them, at all, in any way, is unethical and suicidal.
I don't think admitting that there can be good use cases for LLMs does that, because the use cases are not being served by all this training. The *reason* they keep training is that they're trying to make LLMs do something that isn't possible.... because they're cultists.
That's the point, IMHO.

I agree with the initial premise: if you're going to do something that isn't popular, that may be unethical, explain yourself. Don't try to deflect.

Is building an LLM inherently problematic? Not necessarily, but there's no good way to do it under capitalism. Is using an local LLM funding these evil companies? No. It's not.
Spelling and grammar checking is one of the few uses of LLMs that is not based on fundamentally failing to understand what an LLM actually is. A statistical model is gonna be *really good* at flagging things that are probably typos (low probability areas). There will be false positives, which is fine if you're actually paying attention...

Meanwhile, tante points out these flaws but raises some questionable arguments of their own.
"The second aspect is often illustrated by how ships are organized: Because ships are sometimes in dangerous situations and sometimes critical decisions need to be made, the existence of ships implies the existence of a hierarchy of power relationships with a captain having the final say. Because democracy would be too slow at times."
OK, so are ships inherently authoritarian? There's a whole history of pirates who would argue otherwise...

It seems as though Doctorow is trying to preemptively deflect criticism. That's understandable, but the arguments are not good...

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116102639569199871
I think this is worth talking about, but I do think both miss the point a bit...

If you appreciate what I have to say, it's worth recognizing that at least some of it comes from listening a lot of different types of voices, including the voices that are platformed on turtleisland.social.

RE: https://turtleisland.social/@Yehuda/116188618666632672
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This gets especially interesting when you realize how there are several whole societies that are largely invisible to mainstream society. There's a whole bunch of law around monasteries which allow them to essentially operate almost entirely outside of the state. Similarly, Amish/Mennonite communities basically don't interoperate with the outside world most of the time. I lived on a religious commune for a bit (it was an Isis cult, which I wasn't really part of but that's a whole other story. And I'm not going to get in to the abuse elements of a lot of these because that critique is separate.)
A lot of these places can only exist because they don't have to pay taxes or comply with a number of laws. They often also can get government grants. There's a whole world of things that are built specifically to benefit Christian churches that can be subverted towards actually radical ends.

If anyone is interested in continuing to explore this thread, a legal church takes 3 people to start (in the US):
https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/churches-religious-organizations/definition-of-church
(no one can stop you from starting an illegal one.)

There are all sorts of complex practices and laws around churches, because "religious freedom" is really a minefield. It's not that the state cares about the law, but that the narrative of the US is deeply intertwined with the narrative of "religious freedom" and "escaping religious persecution." (I probably don't need to tell anyone that the people "escaping religious persecution" were some of the absolute worst humans on the planet who were not being persecuted but wanted to be free to persecute others... but I digress.)
It is not aligning with the law that matters, nor any other sort of legal justification for their authority. Authority comes from a complex memetic fabric of woven ideas. This fabric can be attacked, these threads can be pulled out, and eventually the fabric unravels and the authority collapses.
When central authority collapses, dual power institutions pick up the pieces. They replace the faltering authority. Today, as the US government is frantically burning itself down, corporations and churches are the two most developed institutions prepared to fill that void,

There are also a bunch of other interesting things. The Seattle Grand Jury Resisters were kept in solitary confinement (for several months) under the pretext that this would compel them to testify. Belonging to a church together could have made such compulsion (more visibly) illegal. While I don't actually believe that the US government would follow the law, not then and especially not now, being able to talk about this as religious persecution could be enough to make other religious groups that align with Trump become more skittish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_grand_jury_resisters

Legally, it takes 3 people to start a legal church, for anyone interested in exploring this a bit further:
https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/churches-religious-organizations/definition-of-church

Collectively owning property is difficult because the law is not set up for that, but a church provides a clear legal framework to do so. Prisoners can be cut off from political literature, but the first amendment protects religious literature (which is why Nazis started a church to get Nazi shit inside of prisons... but that's a whole other story). While these legal protections are definitely not guaranteed (we all know how many fucks the state gives about the law), it is both easy to hide in the noise (there are a *lot* of churches) and to hide in other ways. After all, the ichthys (Jesus fish) was an appropriated pagan symbol.
And there is also still value in peeling off other religious groups by showing them that they are also in danger. "When your enemy is strong, divide them," after all.

Why this is all relevant to the OP is that there is actually nothing preventing us from exploiting these same vulnerabilities (and doing so far more effectively). The (illusion of The) Satanic Temple has already given us some vision of what that could look like. We can imagine a religious institution that actually challenges power in the way TST claims to do. We could imagine an institution that is more radical. We could imagine an institution so dangerous it actually forces the state to choose between it's own survival and alienating liberals by (more) visibly clamping down on freedom of religion.
One could imagine an anarchist or solar punk religion that intentionally builds an alternative society within the shell of the old, one that recognizes the validity of other religious sects (like, for example, Quakers) who are doing similar things.
While there is a very interesting spiritual element to #CultPunk. I think there's also a very interesting set of radical opportunities that we have long since ignored....

This becomes especially interesting when you understand the history of the church as a quasi-revolutionary organization. One could describe early church history as a mostly-successful attempt to overthrow the Roman empire. I say mostly successful because, in the end, the Roman state mutated the church for it's own ends and basically pulled a Lenin.
The early church was a religion of women and slaves that set up alternative institutions. See, the Roman economic system basically ran through the temples. Temples were basically the banks of their day (thus money changers in the temples and all that). So when the church set up their own institutions, they were actually attacking the economic system of the Roman empire. *That* is why the empire tried to destroy them. The Romans didn't really care about the gods. They would just mutate their beliefs to pull other pagans in. No, it wasn't about the gods. The Christian were fucking with the money.
The whole church as an institution was about dual power, and Paul (one of the early founders of the church) was central to organizing this into a political machine that could actually threaten the dominant order. One could argue that he saw the potential of the church, and used it to solidify his own power.
It all basically worked, right up until Constantine figured out how to flip the whole thing against the most radical elements. He had his people collect up different books of the Bible and modify them in such a way that it favored Rome. The trick here was to highlight the existing antisemitic threads of early church, and destroy the anti-Roman ones. Anti-authoritarian sects were killed as heretics, and centralized sects became aligned under the church.
This strategy of controlling internal dissent probably feels quite familiar. It's basically how the US works.
But this whole time, during the whole lead up to this, Christianity was illegal and it was continuing to grow as a system of dual power. When Romanism merged with Christianity, it created the most authoritarian institution in human history that brutally destroyed all opposition. Even still, several hundred years later it's power broke.
Today Liberalism has separated banking and the church, and has created the illusion of separation of church and state. But the same dual power strategy that allowed the first church to gain enough power to merge with the Roman power structure have now allowed Christian Nationalism to fully merge with Americanism into the Christian Fascism we see today...

I've mentioned it before, and I'm sure I will again, but, as much as there's a reason why I reject Christianity, there were also a lot of good things. Churches have governing bodies (with varying degrees of democratic representation) that guide the ministry (preaching and actions) as well as managing logistics (building maintenance, accounting, etc). This provides opportunities for self-governed collective action.
Quakers are the most radical in terms of this, and are basically anarchists. Quaker circles often meet at people's houses and can be as small as 3 people. There is often no leadership. A Quaker service could easily just be everyone sitting in a circle and someone talking at one point.
I grew up in a Presbyterian church, and one of my first jobs (at 11 or 12) was landscaping there. Within the church there were a lot of different trades, which meant that you could volunteer time and learn basically any kind of maintenance. Basically everything that needed to be done was done in-house. This also meant that if you needed a plumber, an electrician, etc, that you could pick one from within the church.
I remember painting the church, learning how to paint, with a bunch of other members of the congregation at a work party. I also remember being volunteered for child care during choir. There were a few rooms around that were used for different things, such as music practice. But these rooms could be made available for any type of community activity. This can actually include community organizing. In fact, Seattle GDC was offered an occasional space for organizing in a church (we didn't take it, but appreciated the offer), and that same church hosted a lot of other community events. I actually went to a queer relationships skills class once hosted in a church, which was great.
What I'm saying is that churches often act as a kind of parallel society up-to-and-including acting as dual power structures....

On one hand, "carbon footprint" was made up by oil companies to shift the blame. On the other, commons management benefits from collaboration and social pressure. On that note, I've been thinking about starting a Lemmy community called "carbon challenge" where you can post about crazy things you do to reduce your fossil fuel consumption. For example, we moved apartments entirely by bike (like 10 trips with a bakfiets).
Would you join a community like that?
Yes
No

Apropos of nothing...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=TPDVA9O5gQc

This all comes from the 3 pillars PDF (https://web.archive.org/web/20190713131016/http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/uscoin/3pillars_of_counterinsurgency.pdf) referenced in the original video.
It's cool to see the use of a biological model, similar but perhaps less advanced than the one in the cyber-memetic model. I wrote that without having seen this one, which feels a bit like a confirmation of the theory I've been developing.

It should be easy to see how state escalation across the US (especially MLPS) is a strong indicator of a failing counter-insurgency effort.
Force escalations in other areas are, likewise, a strong counter-indicator of success. Given that Trump only know how to escalate, you can assess for yourself the direction of the next few years.

Speaking of original sources...

I should also probably revisit this in the context of the original sources referenced as well:
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/a-cyber-memetic-model-of-revolution

Oh hey....
https://cultpunk.art/2023/06/30/read-this-first-a-cultpunk-manifesto/

#DearLazyWeb ( #Nederland #HamRadio edition): I have small kids. My oldest is just turning 7. I have an idea of starting to introduce radios to them and some other parents are also interested.
I'm starting with walkie talkies and basic radio protocol. My thought is to try to play a few games of "keep talking and no one explodes" over walkie talkie, then trying to expand that out into an informal radio net or something. I have some other ideas for projects, like downloading weather satellite data or something (but I think this may be a bit too advanced, perhaps).
I've also been thinking about playing a bit with LoRa radios (meshcore or reticulum), but I haven't yet figured out an application that would be fun for kids.
One parent suggested a kids radio broadcast. In the US it's possible to get a local FM license (within about 2 kilometers) for community stations and educational use and such. Is there any similar program here in NL?
Extra question for #Ham operators: are there other simple kid friendly projects you can think of?
For parents (to gauge interest outside of my weird little circle): one goal here is getting kids into radio to build the next generation of disaster communication. Is this something you would be excited about for your kids? Is this something you would be interested in seeing as an after school program?

Ok, actually, one more thing. There was an #OccupyICE in 2018 and it worked really well with far less support than there is now.
Ok, that's all, I'm dropping offline again. Go organize some shit!

In the time I've been offline, I've been doing a lot and feeling a lot more mentally healthy. I've been exploring nomadnet a bit, looking at reticulum. I'm definitely going to go back to my break and being online much less regularly.
I actually totally forgot about the anniversary of the shooting, which is the first time that's happened since... uh... the shooting, I think.
I've definitely realized that, on some level, I've definitely used Mastodon (and formerly Twitter) as a coping mechanism, often in order to deal with the stressful things that I've found out about on Mastodon or Twitter.
But, again, none of those things really change our core job: build community. And that's part of what I've been neglecting, and what I can focus on more when I'm not spending as much time talking to people all over the world indirectly. Like, I can just chat directly with folks and talk about this shit.
Yeah, I do think there's value in this community. I don't think it's really screaming into the void (at least, not most of the time). But I know that I need the balance to be way farther on the side of direct engagement with comrades doing and building.
So that's what I'm gonna go back to. I feel as though it's a good sign that with all the writing about getting shot that I've been doing, and all the thinking about that, that the actual anniversary of the shooting I'm actually just thinking about bread.
And that seems like a good note to leave on. I'm gonna go back to some hacker shit.

And now for something completely different...
https://write.as/hexmhell/sourdough

I also think it's worth just doing the math here. There aren't enough ICE agents to remove an occupation of more than a couple of facilities. They would have to rely on local police. A lot of police departments have been ordered not to support ICE activities. This means Trump would have to activate the military. If an occupation was peaceful, especially playful like Portland, deployment may not even be possible. Meanwhile, if ICE agents continue to be as violent as they are Governors may be forced to activate the national guard to protect citizens against ICE.
Forcing conflict when Trump is at his weakest, in a way that is non-violent, puts resistance in the best possible position.
At the same time, we are at a strange time of unity. Trump supporters are leaving over Epstein, some are even mad about the deportations, and he's otherwise systematically alienated basically his whole base (except literal Nazis working for ICE).
The AI bubble is, in a lot of ways, a fun house mirror reflection of the 2008 financial crash. The whole economy is held up by loans secured with "compute." Everyone hates this, and Trump's policies have made everything far worse.
#OccupyICE could actually have a lot of momentum and be difficult to stop, especially if folks went to ICE facilities in frog suits and Luigi bloc with banners demanding the release of the Epstein files.
At least, that's my impression from out here.

Oh hey, if you like mesh networking and hidden networks, you might want to keep an eye on https://reticulum.network/
It still has some issues, but it's getting off to a good start. It's kind of amazing how easy it is to embed it in other things for steganographic purposes. I definitely see room for improvement, but it's already exciting.
Nomadnet (built on top of it) is already really exciting. It feels very much like the 90's internet. Enjoy!

Of course, economic pressure isn't the only tool we have. Diversity of tactics is critical. I'm not going to tell anyone not to throw buckets of screws into the parking lots and driveways of ICE facilities or blockading facilities with burning dumpstes. Even if i don't promote those types of tactics, we should all STFU if we see people doing them. We all have a place. There are things we can all do. Everything is on the table and it should be, because ICE agents will intimidate you, steal your car, and even murder you for just filming them.
You can cower in fear, or you can stand up and fight with everything you have. Which or those do you want to remember yourself doing?

Economic pressure has always been the most powerful weapon in our arsenal. There's already a general strike being organized for this Friday.
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/01/20/18883119.php
(Original release https://minneapolisunions.org/system/files/2026-01/press_release_-_january_16_2026.pdf)
This has moved quickly, and it can keep moving quickly. The more people organizing, the faster the regime will back down and (I think quickly) collapse.