RAW semantics
@rawsemantics.bsky.social
Robert Anton Wilson & related blog. Semantic maps, masks, models & muddles. Frames & metaphors. Author of 'Lazy Person's Guide to Framing' (Futura Press, 2023).
http://rawsemantics.home.blog / https://newsframes.wordpress.com/
http://rawsemantics.home.blog / https://newsframes.wordpress.com/
Pinned
Cosmic Trigger 4 “is” you
RAW’s “blueprint” analogy for different kinds of “truth”, analogues in Buddhism & current political relevance…
rawsemantics.home.blog
So far, my most "successful" post - but also, according to blog stats, one of the least read (which isn't saying much, but it says something about my non-"market" success criteria). rawsemantics.home.blog/2025/03/20/c...
The incomparable Robert Anton Wilson died on this day (11 January) nineteen years ago. More than ever, read his books!
January 11, 2026 at 6:42 PM
The incomparable Robert Anton Wilson died on this day (11 January) nineteen years ago. More than ever, read his books!
Reposted by RAW semantics
January 9, 2026 at 7:58 PM
This is a footnote from my last blog post (rawsemantics.home.blog/2025/12/04/r...) comparing 𝗪𝗶𝗸𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 & 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮. (Wikipedia has been under attack by some conservatives, who regard it as biased. But I trust its decentralized *reliability* model a million times more than I trust Musk's Grok).
![TEXT: Wikipedia – highly decentralized, community-edited, consensus-based, transparent. Some centralised elements, eg non-profit Wikimedia Foundation owns the site’s servers; some admins, elected by the community, have special privileges. This piece [link] details a recent campaign of “right-wing attacks” on Wikipedia’s credibility.
Grokipedia – top-down, AI-run, no community editing or public edit logs, its internal decision-making considered opaque. Musk is widely reported as being the main lever-puller when it comes to things like political tone. Jimmy Wales has some interesting things to say about Wikipedia and Grokipedia in his interview with Lawfare [link]. Meanwhile, this piece [link] claims “a majority of Grokipedia’s entries are just cribbed from Creative Commons Wikipedia articles, [while] much of its user-created content is based on absurdly unreliable rightwing sources like InfoWars, The Gateway Pundit, Natural News, and VDare.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3amwq43wzgo7cbdxxtb6lnoa/bafkreih5mtxvkfo24hgahcelpe37fhg5ckvugys53y4qwx3fiickgfcf5e@jpeg)
January 11, 2026 at 4:31 PM
This is a footnote from my last blog post (rawsemantics.home.blog/2025/12/04/r...) comparing 𝗪𝗶𝗸𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 & 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮. (Wikipedia has been under attack by some conservatives, who regard it as biased. But I trust its decentralized *reliability* model a million times more than I trust Musk's Grok).
Many things that aren't censorship or which don't fit into a "free speech" vs censorship EITHER/OR logic can be dishonestly framed as censorship. This seems one of the main games of Musk, Vance et al. And some US "libertarian" media (eg @reason.com) tend to swallow it whole bsky.app/profile/noup...
The pushback against this is to continue to enforce regulation and to explain the framing game for what it is: an effort to delegitimize any effort to push back against private corporate power.
open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...
open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...
Transparency is Censorship
The EU fined X for transparency violations. Guess what happened next.
open.substack.com
January 10, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Many things that aren't censorship or which don't fit into a "free speech" vs censorship EITHER/OR logic can be dishonestly framed as censorship. This seems one of the main games of Musk, Vance et al. And some US "libertarian" media (eg @reason.com) tend to swallow it whole bsky.app/profile/noup...
January 9, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Reposted by RAW semantics
Multimillionaire Taibbi has little to lose by frivolously suing. He gets to hurt a critic & dissuade others from speaking out. And it does seem frivolous: his case is that he received no money from Musk. But that wasn't Higgins' claim in the book! A lawsuit built on a straw man? To silence someone.
January 7, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Multimillionaire Taibbi has little to lose by frivolously suing. He gets to hurt a critic & dissuade others from speaking out. And it does seem frivolous: his case is that he received no money from Musk. But that wasn't Higgins' claim in the book! A lawsuit built on a straw man? To silence someone.
Reposted by RAW semantics
Staggering that Taibbi is suing a book's author over passages like this. Matt claims his lawsuit *protects* free speech, but I think it has a chilling effect on legitimate criticism. I recommend @eoinhiggins.bsky.social's book. I've read Taibbi's complaint (its ironies seem off-the-scale to me).
January 7, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Staggering that Taibbi is suing a book's author over passages like this. Matt claims his lawsuit *protects* free speech, but I think it has a chilling effect on legitimate criticism. I recommend @eoinhiggins.bsky.social's book. I've read Taibbi's complaint (its ironies seem off-the-scale to me).
Reposted by RAW semantics
Timothy Leary was a huge fan & early promoter of William Gibson's novels. (There's a dedication to Gibson in Leary's 'Info-Psychology', and Tim interviews Gibson in his book, 'Chaos & Cyber Culture'. Robert Anton Wilson was also a fan...
November 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Timothy Leary was a huge fan & early promoter of William Gibson's novels. (There's a dedication to Gibson in Leary's 'Info-Psychology', and Tim interviews Gibson in his book, 'Chaos & Cyber Culture'. Robert Anton Wilson was also a fan...
I had 'Mind Mirror' on floppy disk, way back when. From Tim's 'KnoWare Cyber Deli'. youtu.be/oE0lviWmZQo?...
Playing Timothy Leary's Lost Games
YouTube video by Kotaku
youtu.be
January 8, 2026 at 2:12 PM
I had 'Mind Mirror' on floppy disk, way back when. From Tim's 'KnoWare Cyber Deli'. youtu.be/oE0lviWmZQo?...
Wild! A very early Tim Leary computer game based on William Gibson's (@greatdismal.bsky.social) novel Neuromancer. And it's playable. bsky.app/profile/srem...
you can play the game here (Leary had already left when the final version was released, if I understand correctly):
archive.org/details/msdo...
archive.org/details/msdo...
Neuromancer : Interplay Productions, Inc. : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive
Also ForAmiga, Apple II, Apple IIgs, Commodore 64Developed byInterplay Productions, Inc.Published byInterplay Productions, Inc.Released1989PerspectiveSide...
archive.org
January 8, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Wild! A very early Tim Leary computer game based on William Gibson's (@greatdismal.bsky.social) novel Neuromancer. And it's playable. bsky.app/profile/srem...
Staggering that Taibbi is suing a book's author over passages like this. Matt claims his lawsuit *protects* free speech, but I think it has a chilling effect on legitimate criticism. I recommend @eoinhiggins.bsky.social's book. I've read Taibbi's complaint (its ironies seem off-the-scale to me).
January 7, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Staggering that Taibbi is suing a book's author over passages like this. Matt claims his lawsuit *protects* free speech, but I think it has a chilling effect on legitimate criticism. I recommend @eoinhiggins.bsky.social's book. I've read Taibbi's complaint (its ironies seem off-the-scale to me).
Reposted by RAW semantics
21st Dec - Maybe Night 2025: write your own script! (will be offline 'til after Xmas, myself). Check out @bobbycampbell.net's site: maybeday.net/night/
(montage pic: rawsemantics.home.blog/wp-content/u...)
(montage pic: rawsemantics.home.blog/wp-content/u...)
December 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
21st Dec - Maybe Night 2025: write your own script! (will be offline 'til after Xmas, myself). Check out @bobbycampbell.net's site: maybeday.net/night/
(montage pic: rawsemantics.home.blog/wp-content/u...)
(montage pic: rawsemantics.home.blog/wp-content/u...)
21st Dec - Maybe Night 2025: write your own script! (will be offline 'til after Xmas, myself). Check out @bobbycampbell.net's site: maybeday.net/night/
(montage pic: rawsemantics.home.blog/wp-content/u...)
(montage pic: rawsemantics.home.blog/wp-content/u...)
December 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
21st Dec - Maybe Night 2025: write your own script! (will be offline 'til after Xmas, myself). Check out @bobbycampbell.net's site: maybeday.net/night/
(montage pic: rawsemantics.home.blog/wp-content/u...)
(montage pic: rawsemantics.home.blog/wp-content/u...)
Reposted by RAW semantics
'RAW political #5 – global / local / po' - NEW substantial post on the global-local axis in #RobertAntonWilson writings. With Po & SNAFU & Scandinavian model. rawsemantics.home.blog/2025/12/04/r...
RAW political #5 – global / local / po
Some thoughts on the global-local axis in RAW’s “political” writings. Considered in practical, po & SNAFU terms…
rawsemantics.home.blog
December 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
'RAW political #5 – global / local / po' - NEW substantial post on the global-local axis in #RobertAntonWilson writings. With Po & SNAFU & Scandinavian model. rawsemantics.home.blog/2025/12/04/r...
I discuss, with Reason mag's Jesse Walker, a point of slight disagreement on the new RAW anthology - in comments under this post. (Btw, unlike Substack, NO algorithm showing unrelated "related notes" & NO stupid FB-style "see more" clicking for hidden comments) rawsemantics.home.blog/2025/12/04/r...
December 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I discuss, with Reason mag's Jesse Walker, a point of slight disagreement on the new RAW anthology - in comments under this post. (Btw, unlike Substack, NO algorithm showing unrelated "related notes" & NO stupid FB-style "see more" clicking for hidden comments) rawsemantics.home.blog/2025/12/04/r...
Reposted by RAW semantics
RAWIllumination.net: RAW Semantics on globalism and Scandinavian systems @rawsemantics.bsky.social - www.rawillumination.net/2025/12/raw-...
RAW Semantics on globalism and Scandinavian systems
Artwork by Brian Dean at RAW Semantics RAW Semantics has a new blog post up, "RAW political #5 – global / local / po," which further wrest...
www.rawillumination.net
December 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
RAWIllumination.net: RAW Semantics on globalism and Scandinavian systems @rawsemantics.bsky.social - www.rawillumination.net/2025/12/raw-...
'RAW political #5 – global / local / po' - NEW substantial post on the global-local axis in #RobertAntonWilson writings. With Po & SNAFU & Scandinavian model. rawsemantics.home.blog/2025/12/04/r...
RAW political #5 – global / local / po
Some thoughts on the global-local axis in RAW’s “political” writings. Considered in practical, po & SNAFU terms…
rawsemantics.home.blog
December 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
'RAW political #5 – global / local / po' - NEW substantial post on the global-local axis in #RobertAntonWilson writings. With Po & SNAFU & Scandinavian model. rawsemantics.home.blog/2025/12/04/r...
Reposted by RAW semantics
Status Update! talesofilluminatus.substack.com/p/walking-th...
November 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Status Update! talesofilluminatus.substack.com/p/walking-th...
Reposted by RAW semantics
"Have you said thank you once?"
December 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"Have you said thank you once?"
"Have you said thank you once?"
December 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"Have you said thank you once?"
Reposted by RAW semantics
Biggest ORWELLIAN propaganda coup in my lifetime? The widely held belief in the USA that helping Ukraine survive & defend itself = war(mongering). And that helping Russia achieve the aims of its military invasion unhindered = peace/"negotiation". War is peace. Ignorance is strength.
November 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Biggest ORWELLIAN propaganda coup in my lifetime? The widely held belief in the USA that helping Ukraine survive & defend itself = war(mongering). And that helping Russia achieve the aims of its military invasion unhindered = peace/"negotiation". War is peace. Ignorance is strength.
Biggest ORWELLIAN propaganda coup in my lifetime? The widely held belief in the USA that helping Ukraine survive & defend itself = war(mongering). And that helping Russia achieve the aims of its military invasion unhindered = peace/"negotiation". War is peace. Ignorance is strength.
November 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Biggest ORWELLIAN propaganda coup in my lifetime? The widely held belief in the USA that helping Ukraine survive & defend itself = war(mongering). And that helping Russia achieve the aims of its military invasion unhindered = peace/"negotiation". War is peace. Ignorance is strength.
Reposted by RAW semantics
