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Any sufficiently advanced disaster preparedness is indistinguishable from revolutionary dual power. This essay is a bit of a transition between the theory I've written earlier, and more concrete plans.
Even though I only touched on my life on the commune, it was hard not to write more. These are such weird spaces, with so much invisible opportunity. But they're also just so unique and special. For all the stress and uncertainty of making sure you stayed on Lorean's (the head priestess), there were also those long summer nights with the whole community (except the old lady) gathered around a fire, talking and drinking. There was almost a child-like play to the whole time.
There were so Fridays I'd come home with a couple of gallons of beer from the real world, folks would bring things from the garden, someone would grill a steak, everyone who didn't cook would clean up, and we'd just hang out and have fun. So many evenings I'd go over to Miles place with a guitar, or with his guitar, and we'd pass it around over a few beers, talking about philosophy, Star Wars, or some book or other. It's hard not to write about the strange magic of that space.
My partner and I bonded over similar experiences, mine on a weird little religious commune in California and theirs as a temporary worker at Omega Institute. Both had exploitation, people on weird power trips, frustrating dynamics, but also a strange magic and freedom. Both were sort of fantasy worlds, but places that let us see through this one, let us imagine something that something else is possible behind the veil.
There are many such veils.
Perhaps it's fitting that this is more meandering, as a good wander can help the transition between lots of hard thinking and lots of hard working.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/evaluating-options
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Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[2/3]:
- Sharp Structure-Agnostic Lower Bounds for General Functional Estimation
Jikai Jin, Vasilis Syrgkanis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17341 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/115762312049963700
- Timely Information Updating for Mobile Devices Without and With ML Advice
Yu-Pin Hsu, Yi-Hsuan Tseng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17381 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csNI_bot/115762180316858485
- SWE-Bench : A Framework for the Scalable Generation of Software Engineering Benchmarks from Open...
Wang, Ramalho, Celestino, Pham, Liu, Sinha, Portillo, Osunwa, Maduekwe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17419 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSE_bot/115762487015279852
- Perfect reconstruction of sparse signals using nonconvexity control and one-step RSB message passing
Xiaosi Gu, Ayaka Sakata, Tomoyuki Obuchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17426 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/115762346108219997
- MULTIAQUA: A multimodal maritime dataset and robust training strategies for multimodal semantic s...
Jon Muhovi\v{c}, Janez Per\v{s}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17450 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/115762717053353674
- When Data Quality Issues Collide: A Large-Scale Empirical Study of Co-Occurring Data Quality Issu...
Emmanuel Charleson Dapaah, Jens Grabowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17460 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSE_bot/115762500123147574
- Behavioural Effects of Agentic Messaging: A Case Study on a Financial Service Application
Olivier Jeunen, Schaun Wheeler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17462 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIR_bot/115762430673347625
- Linear Attention for Joint Power Optimization and User-Centric Clustering in Cell-Free Networks
Irched Chafaa, Giacomo Bacci, Luca Sanguinetti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17466 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessSY_bot/115762336277179643
- Translating the Rashomon Effect to Sequential Decision-Making Tasks
Dennis Gross, J{\o}rn Eirik Betten, Helge Spieker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17470 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/115762556506696539
- Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers for Nonlinear Matrix Decompositions
Atharva Awari, Nicolas Gillis, Arnaud Vandaele
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17473 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessSP_bot/115762580078964235
- TwinSegNet: A Digital Twin-Enabled Federated Learning Framework for Brain Tumor Analysis
Almustapha A. Wakili, Adamu Hussaini, Abubakar A. Musa, Woosub Jung, Wei Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17488 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/115762726884307901
- Resource-efficient medical image classification for edge devices
Mahsa Lavaei, Zahra Abadi, Salar Beigzad, Alireza Maleki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17515 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessIV_bot/115762459510336799
- PathBench-MIL: A Comprehensive AutoML and Benchmarking Framework for Multiple Instance Learning i...
Brussee, Valkema, Weijer, Doeleman, Schrader, Kers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17517 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/115762741957639051
- HydroGym: A Reinforcement Learning Platform for Fluid Dynamics
Christian Lagemann, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17534 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsfludyn_bot/115762391350754768
- When De-noising Hurts: A Systematic Study of Speech Enhancement Effects on Modern Medical ASR Sys...
Chondhekar, Murukuri, Vasani, Goyal, Badami, Rana, SN, Pandia, Katiyar, Jagadeesh, Gulati
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17562 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSD_bot/115762423443170715
- Enabling Disaggregated Multi-Stage MLLM Inference via GPU-Internal Scheduling and Resource Sharing
Lingxiao Zhao, Haoran Zhou, Yuezhi Che, Dazhao Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17574 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDC_bot/115762425409322293
- SkinGenBench: Generative Model and Preprocessing Effects for Synthetic Dermoscopic Augmentation i...
N. A. Adarsh Pritam, Jeba Shiney O, Sanyam Jain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17585 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessIV_bot/115762479150695610
- MAD-OOD: A Deep Learning Cluster-Driven Framework for an Out-of-Distribution Malware Detection an...
Tosin Ige, Christopher Kiekintveld, Aritran Piplai, Asif Rahman, Olukunle Kolade, Sasidhar Kunapuli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17594 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/115762509298207765
- Confidence-Credibility Aware Weighted Ensembles of Small LLMs Outperform Large LLMs in Emotion De...
Menna Elgabry, Ali Hamdi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17630 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115762575512981257
- Generative Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization with Scalable Batch Evaluations for Sample-Effic...
Madhav R. Muthyala, Farshud Sorourifar, Tianhong Tan, You Peng, Joel A. Paulson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17659 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/115762554519447500
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People who are not anti-capitalist sometimes wonder: "Why is there a monopoly on X life-critical thing?" (E.g., epipens, insulin, web search).
This one is really simple actually: because monopolies are more profitable than competition, and the foundation of capitalism is that capital = power.
Various societies have recognized the necropolitical outcomes of monopolies and have tried to erect barriers to monopoly; we all know that monopolies are bad, death-and-suffering-causing things. But since these societies mostly remain capitalist, they allow these barriers to be eroded by the power of capital (to do otherwise would be to repudiate capitalism because it puts a limit on the power of money). The barriers are ineffective, and the capital = power equation holds, and monopolies result and get to do their killing & maiming thing (remember: even things like social media monopolies that you wouldn't expect to pay for political assassinations like a mining company still profit from inciting genocides). *Sometimes* there are oligopolies instead of monopolies, but instances of really competitive markets are pretty rare for things that are widely sought-after.
The "government will manage the markets to prevent bad outcomes like monopolies" strategy has failed repeatedly, spectacularly, and almost universally. To actually prevent monopolies you need a population that no longer believes that money should equal power, it's that simple. Sadly, it's actually not that simple, since all of the alternatives which equate something else to power, like "the king" or "party loyalty as judged by the supreme leader" have the same problems or worse. The attitude you need to cultivate is "nobody should have power," which is hard because *all* of the power-systems we have constantly propagandize against this attitude in myriad ways. Still, in the future once we've broken free of this age where hierarchy is accepted, people will look back and wonder whether the historical records are even credible given how much needless death and suffering were endured with little resistance.
#anarchy #capitalism

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Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[3/5]:
- Look-Ahead Reasoning on Learning Platforms
Haiqing Zhu, Tijana Zrnic, Celestine Mendler-D\"unner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.14745 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115575981129228810
- Deep Gaussian Process Proximal Policy Optimization
Matthijs van der Lende, Juan Cardenas-Cartagena
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18214 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115610315210502140
- Spectral Concentration at the Edge of Stability: Information Geometry of Kernel Associative Memory
Akira Tamamori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.23083 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115644325602130493
- xGR: Efficient Generative Recommendation Serving at Scale
Sun, Liu, Zhang, Wu, Yang, Liang, Li, Ma, Liang, Ren, Zhang, Liu, Zhang, Qian, Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.11529 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115723008170311172
- Credit Risk Estimation with Non-Financial Features: Evidence from a Synthetic Istanbul Dataset
Atalay Denknalbant, Emre Sezdi, Zeki Furkan Kutlu, Polat Goktas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.12783 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115729287232895097
- The Semantic Illusion: Certified Limits of Embedding-Based Hallucination Detection in RAG Systems
Debu Sinha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.15068 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115740048142898391
- Towards Reproducibility in Predictive Process Mining: SPICE -- A Deep Learning Library
Stritzel, H\"uhnerbein, Rauch, Zarate, Fleischmann, Buck, Lischka, Frey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16715 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115745910810427061
- Differentially private Bayesian tests
Abhisek Chakraborty, Saptati Datta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.15502 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/111843467510507382
- SCAFFLSA: Taming Heterogeneity in Federated Linear Stochastic Approximation and TD Learning
Paul Mangold, Sergey Samsonov, Safwan Labbi, Ilya Levin, Reda Alami, Alexey Naumov, Eric Moulines
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04114
- Adjusting Model Size in Continual Gaussian Processes: How Big is Big Enough?
Guiomar Pescador-Barrios, Sarah Filippi, Mark van der Wilk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.07588 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/112965266196097314
- Non-Perturbative Trivializing Flows for Lattice Gauge Theories
Mathis Gerdes, Pim de Haan, Roberto Bondesan, Miranda C. N. Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13161 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_heplat_bot/113327593338897860
- Dynamic PET Image Prediction Using a Network Combining Reversible and Irreversible Modules
Sun, Zhang, Xia, Sun, Chen, Yang, Liu, Zhu, Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.22674 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessIV_bot/113401026110345647
- Targeted Learning for Variable Importance
Xiaohan Wang, Yunzhe Zhou, Giles Hooker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.02221 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/113429912435819479
- Refined Analysis of Federated Averaging and Federated Richardson-Romberg
Paul Mangold, Alain Durmus, Aymeric Dieuleveut, Sergey Samsonov, Eric Moulines
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01389 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/113588027268311334
- Embedding-Driven Data Distillation for 360-Degree IQA With Residual-Aware Refinement
Abderrezzaq Sendjasni, Seif-Eddine Benkabou, Mohamed-Chaker Larabi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.12667 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/113672538318570349
- 3D Cell Oversegmentation Correction via Geo-Wasserstein Divergence
Peter Chen, Bryan Chang, Olivia A Creasey, Julie Beth Sneddon, Zev J Gartner, Yining Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01890 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/113949981686723660
- DHP: Discrete Hierarchical Planning for Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Agents
Shashank Sharma, Janina Hoffmann, Vinay Namboodiri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01956 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_bot/113949997485625086
- Foundation for unbiased cross-validation of spatio-temporal models for species distribution modeling
Diana Koldasbayeva, Alexey Zaytsev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03480
- GraphCompNet: A Position-Aware Model for Predicting and Compensating Shape Deviations in 3D Printing
Juheon Lee (Rachel), Lei (Rachel), Chen, Juan Carlos Catana, Hui Wang, Jun Zeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09652 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/114017924551186136
- LookAhead Tuning: Safer Language Models via Partial Answer Previews
Liu, Wang, Luo, Yuan, Sun, Liang, Zhang, Zhou, Hooi, Deng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19041 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114227502448008352
- Constraint-based causal discovery with tiered background knowledge and latent variables in single...
Christine W. Bang, Vanessa Didelez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.21526 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/114238919468512990
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Picture the human body. Zoom in on a single cell. It lives for a while, then splits or dies, as part of a community of cells that make up a particular tissue. This community lives together for many many cell-lifetimes, each performing their own favorite function and reproducing as much as necessary to maintain their community, consuming the essential resources they need and contributing back what they can so that the whole body can live for decades. Each community of cells is interdependent on the whole body, but also stable and sustainable over long periods of time.
Now imagine a cancer cell. It has lost its ability to harmonize with the whole and prioritize balance, instead consuming and reproducing as quickly as it can. As neighboring tissues start to die from its excess, it metastasizes, always spreading to new territory to fuel its unbalanced appetite. The inevitable result is death of the whole body, although through birth, that body can create a new fresh branch of tissues that may continue their stable existence free of cancer. Alternatively, radiation or chemotherapy might be able to kill off the cancer, at great cost to the other tissues, but permitting long-term survival.
To the cancer cell, the idea of decades-long survival of a tissue community is unbelievable. When your natural state is unbounded consumption, growth, and competition, the idea of interdependent cooperation (with tissues all around the body you're not even touching, no less) seems impossible, and the idea that a tissue might survive in a stable form for decades is ludicrous.
"Perhaps if conditions were bleak enough to perfectly balance incessant unrestrained growth against the depredations of a hostile environment it might be possible? I guess the past must have been horribly brutal, so that despite each tissue trying to grow as much as possible they each barely survived? Yes, a stable and sustainable population is probably only possible under conditions of perfectly extreme hardship, and in our current era of unfettered growth, we should rejoice that we live in much easier times!"
You can probably already see where I'm going with this metaphor, but did you know that there are human communities, alive today, that have been living sustainably for *tens, if not hundreds of thousands of years*?
#anarchy #colonialism #civilization
P.S. if you're someone who likes to think about past populations and historical population growth, I cannot recommend the (short, free) game Opera Omnia by Stephen Lavelle enough: https://www.increpare.com/2009/02/opera-omnia/

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Day 18: Mark Oshiro
Having just learned that Oshiro is nonbinary, they're an instant include on this list. In veering extremely heavily towards YA, and losing a spot that would have gone to an absolutely legendary mangaka, anime writer, or feminist philosopher, but "Anger is A Gift" and "Each of us a Desert" are just that good, and I'm trying to steer a bit towards towards lesser-known authors I respect.
I already mentioned "Anger is a Gift" above, but to recap, it's a painful, vivid, and beautifully honest story of queer love, loss, and protest against an oppressive system. CW for racist police murder, intergenerational trauma, and police brutality against highschool students. It's a book a lot of Americans could benefit from reading right now, and while it's fiction, it's not fantasy or sci-fi. Besides the themes and politics, the writing is just really solid, with delicate characterization and tight-plotted developments that are beautifully paced.
To me "Each of us a Desert" is maybe even more beautiful, and Oshiro leaps into a magnificent fantasy world that's richly original in its desolation, dark history, lonely characters, and mythical magic. Particularly the clearly-not-just-superscription but ambiguously-important/powerful magical elements of Oshiro's worldbuilding are a rare contrast to the usual magic-is-real-here's-how-it-works fare, and pulling that off a all as they do is a testament to their craft. The prose is wonderful, probably especially so if you speak Spanish, but I enjoyed it immensely despite only knowing a few words here and there. The rich interiority of the characters, their conflicts both with each other and within themselves, and the juxtaposition of all that against origins in cult-like ignorance allows for the delivery of a lot of wisdom and complex truths.
Between these two books, so different and yet each so powerful, Oshiro has demonstrated incredible craft and also a wide range of styles, so I'm definitely excited to read more of their work and to recommend them to others.
I'm also glad to have finally put a nonbinary author on this list; the others I had in mind won't make it at this point because there's too much genre overlap, although I'll include them in my didn't-make-it list at the end. I've now got just 2 slots left and have counted up 14 more authors that absolutely need to be mentioned, so we'll see what happens.
#20AuthorsNoMen