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2024 19
- The Sacrifice
- Hyperbolic Geometry, Berkeley Math Circle
- Zero Knowledege Proofs, Berkeley Math Circle
- I renamed the blog again
- A Mark-Shaped Hole
- What is computation?
- What is human nature?
- Why are ideas from computer science absent from Marxist discourse?
- Brief critique on the species of utilitarianism found in Bay Area "rationalists"
- Prints! 2023–2024
- A vision for bathing in the Bay
- Projects we could work on
- Imperfect abstractions: On "Software in the natural world"
- Read a book with me
- "Seeing Red" intro speech
- Red Seder Haggadah
- Read a book with me
- Concise definitions of dialectical & historical materialsm
- Mondragón 1: More an island of kinder capitalism, than an aircraft carrier for communism
2023 24
- Poem: Blenders
- Specifying communism: autonomous access to the means of subsistence
- Everybody Knows, but should they?
- On the human mode of history (001)
- Time After Time
- Book release: "The Elementary Concepts of Historical Materialism"
- "Parametricity" is now "It's Dusk Somewhere"
- Walking Past the Apocalypse: The Material Roots of Anti-Human Philosophy in 2020s San Francisco
- Poem for eternity and the social nature of the human
- First thoughts on 'Mute Compulsion'
- The Social-mediafication of Working Class Organizing
- To face the coming climate crisis, a new vision and a new spirituality
- Cuba’s Struggle for the Full Dignity of the Human Being
- Jewishness Abstractly and Concretely
- Will Socialism End Racism?
- Class and Race
- Skipping past the nasty part
- Breakdown as a law of physics
- What is nature?
- Punting on the core contradictions
- Stereolab and the Anarchy of Production
- Life on the Virtual Commune
- Class Struggle Voltron: Let's invent new organizational forms
- Theorem on co-option
2022 9
- The Communist Hypothesis (poem)
- Towards making correct decisions: Against moralism
- What is fascism, and what does it have to do with capitalism?
- Magic is indistinguishable from sufficiently advanced technology: Rain dances of the future
- Burritos and Distributed Domination in the App Era
- An honest techno-Utopianism
- Why "Socially Responsible Investing", divestment campaings, and other schemes are doomed to fail
- The 7 coordinates of human society
- The capitalist class is not the primary enemy