Notices by 無 Mu (mu@ni.hil.ist)

@abolisyonista
Scott Crow likes dual power, and I think, "Can't we avoid that term and still have the abandoned school building?" I'm not a fan of the word, power, but there is "power with", which sits a bit nicer with me.

@hellomiakoda
His writings show that he wanted to shoot officers.

The Texas shooter was "someone with a vaguely libertarian bent who despised both major parties and politicians generally. He was a fan of first-person shooter video games and the message board 4chan. He once flooded the comment sections of his friends’ social media pages with rape jokes." (Trump Blames “Radical Left Democrats” After Video Game Enthusiast Fires on Dallas ICE Facility)

@MediaActivist
"is that Fidel Castro" or Peter Gelderloos? 🤡

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"Vandals Destroy Two More Central New York Golf Courses"

"From tire tracks ["deep ruts"] on [2 greens] to a cart in the pond."

“These greens cost between 50 to 60 thousand dollars.”

"A few weeks ago, someone drove a vehicle onto the Skenandoa Club in Clinton, causing similar destruction.... The vehicle reportedly tore through the fairway and tees on hole 9, ripped through a bunker, and even left tracks across the green on hole 8." ⛳

https://neversleep.noblogs.org/post/2025/08/17/vandals-destroy-two-more-central-new-york-golf-courses-causing-extensive-damage/

ICE has been systematically abducting sex workers too. For example, massage parlors, all year, but people are neither defending nor supporting these workers like the street vendor buyouts and "Adopt a Day Laborer" campaigns. From New York to Louisiana. https://truthout.org/articles/sex-workers-are-being-abducted-by-ice-and-abandoned-by-respectability-politics/

Over 90 days in January and February, nearly 1,000 arrests in Queens, New York, targeted immigrant sex workers and street vendors. In Arizona, over 200 arrests were made. In Texas, 11 parlors were closed in February and May under emergency powers that bypass criminal charges. Across 20+ cities this year, police collaborated with ICE in similar raids.

"DecrimSexWorkCA ... has organized ICE patrols, and distributed over $20,000 in emergency relief to undocumented and other sex workers since 2023. Their model is mutual aid, not charity." Other migrant sex worker support mainly comes from other sex workers in other underfunded grassroots groups like Red Canary Song and Trans Immigrant Project.

@mattl
Libro.fm is a little ironic considering libre.fm.

The convention of placing the operator to the left of the operands is known as prefix notation, and it may be somewhat confusing at first because it departs significantly from the customary mathematical convention. Prefix notation has several advantages, however. One of them is that it can accommodate procedures that may take an arbitrary number of arguments, as in the following examples:

(+ 21 35 12 7)

75

(* 25 4 12)

1200

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, 2nd edition, Abelson and Sussman, 2010.

@houseofxyz
Slightly into programming, I think we should help @cwebber program the next social media technology.

@houseofxyz
Here is the excellent talk that turned me on to their vision: https://social.coop/@cwebber/114688242964109365
@joemama

“How to Survive the Broligarchy”: Carole Cadwalladr on Tech Titans & Rising U.S. Authoritarianism
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/5/how_to_survive_the_broligarchy#transcript

@antiaall3s

GRETA THUNBERG: My message is that right now international law is failing us. International institutions, our governments are failing us. Media, our companies are all failing us. Or “failing us” is a diplomatic way of saying that our system seems to be designed in a way that is built upon exploitation and oppression of people. And so, there’s no one to turn to. There’s no one we can turn to to rescue the situation, but it falls on us to step up, to continue flooding the streets, to continue organizing, boycotting, to speak up on all platforms to try to send a clear message that we will not stand for what is happening right now.

Virtually everything about these people’s livelihoods, social organization, ideologies, and (more controversially) even their largely oral cultures, can be read as strategic positionings designed to keep the state at arm’s length. Their physical dispersion in rugged terrain, their mobility, their cropping practices, their kinship structure, their pliable ethnic identities, and their devotion to prophetic, millenarian leaders effectively serve to avoid incorporation into states and to prevent states from springing up among them.

The Art of Not Being Governed by James C. Scott

the history of deliberate and reactive statelessness ... is the history of those who got away, and statemaking cannot be understood apart from it. This is also what makes this an anarchist history.

This account implicitly brings together the histories of all those peoples extruded by coercive state-making and unfree labor systems: Gypsies, Cossacks, polyglot tribes made up of refugees from Spanish reducciones in the New World and the Philippines, fugitive slave communities, the Marsh Arabs, San-Bushmen, and so on.

Pastoralism, foraging, shifting cultivation, and segmentary lineage systems are often a “secondary adaptation,” a kind of “selfbarbarianization” adopted by peoples whose location, subsistence, and social structure are adapted to state evasion.

Chinese and other civilizational discourses about the “barbarian,” the “raw,” the “primitive” ... practically mean ungoverned, not-yet-incorporated. Ethnicity and “tribe” begin exactly where taxes and sovereignty end—in the Roman Empire as in the Chinese.

The southern pea stood up, and a bean germinated.

Here are 2 pictures of 2 germinating seeds on the seed bed pictured above. One is a watermelon seed from Palestine. The other is probably a southern pea. There is also a corn seed kernel and a tree seed that I might need to remove.

I made a garden bed by my newly planted pepper friend. I have about 2 dozen seeds I can put here for the remainder of May/spring. I haven't made one of these beds since autumn 🙂

the three sources of our suffering: the superior power of nature, the frailty of our bodies, and the inadequacy of the institutions that regulate people’s relations with one another in the family, the state and society. Our attitude to the third source of suffering, the social source, is different. We refuse to recognize it at all; we cannot see why institutions that we ourselves have created should not protect and benefit us all. However, when we consider how unsuccessful we have been at preventing suffering in this very sphere, the suspicion arises that here too an element of unconquerable nature may be at work in the background – this time our own psyche.

It is contended that much of the blame for our misery lies with what we call our civilization, and that we should be far happier if we were to abandon it and revert to primitive conditions. all the means we use in our attempts to protect ourselves against the threat of suffering belong to this very civilization.

Some such hostility to civilization must have been involved already in the victory of Christianity over paganism. After all, this hostility was very close to the devaluation of earthly life that came about through Christian teaching. The penultimate cause arose when voyages of discovery brought us into contact with primitive peoples and tribes. Owing to inadequate observation and the misinterpretation of their manners and customs, they appeared to the Europeans to lead a simple, happy life, involving few needs, which was beyond the reach of their culturally superior visitors. Subsequent experience has corrected several such judgements; the fact that these peoples found life so much easier was mistakenly ascribed to the absence of complicated cultural requirements, when in fact it was due to nature’s bounty and the ease with which their major needs could be satisfied. people became neurotic because they could not endure the degree of privation that society imposed on them in the service of its cultural ideals, and it was inferred that a suspension or a substantial reduction of its demands would mean a return to possibilities of happiness.

newly won mastery over space and time, this subjugation of the forces of nature – the fulfilment of an age-old longing – has not increased the amount of pleasure they can expect from life or made them feel any happier. We ought to be content to infer from this observation that power over nature is not the sole condition of human happiness, just as it is not the sole aim of cultural endeavours, rather than to conclude that technical progress is of no value in the economy of our happiness. Is it of no importance that medicine has succeeded in significantly reducing infant mortality and the risk of infection to women in childbirth, and in adding a good many years to the average life-span of civilized man? We can cite many such benefits that we owe to the much-despised era of scientific and technical advances. At this point, however, the voice of pessimistic criticism makes itself heard.... What is the good of the reduction of infant mortality if it forces us to practise extreme restraint in the procreation of children, with the result that on the whole we rear no more children than we did before hygiene became all-important, but have imposed restraints on sexual life within marriage and probably worked against the benefits of natural selection? And finally, what good is a long life to us if it is hard, joyless and so full of suffering that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?

We will content ourselves with repeating that the word ‘civilization’ designates the sum total of those achievements and institutions that distinguish our life from that of our animal ancestors and serve the dual purpose of protecting human beings against nature and regulating their mutual relations.

"it is essential that you find your local health department and follow the guidance you get from them." County and state? (uspol) https://open.substack.com/pub/peoplescdc/p/peoples-cdc-covid-19-weather-report-ad3