William Gillis 🏴
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Anarchist "exuberant." Really into exploring the roots of things and expanding degrees of freedom. Incurable woke moralist. Floating metal sphere. “Radically uncool.”
https://humaniterations.net/
Anarchist "exuberant." Really into exploring the roots of things and expanding degrees of freedom. Incurable woke moralist. Floating metal sphere. “Radically uncool.”
https://humaniterations.net/
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Hey, I wrote a book.
Did The Science Wars Take Place?
Covers the history and philosophy of a fight in the 80s & 90s between some postmodernists and scientists, with an eye to anarchist interests and lasting political influences among the far-right.
Pre-order here: store.c4ss.org/index.php/pr...
Did The Science Wars Take Place?
Covers the history and philosophy of a fight in the 80s & 90s between some postmodernists and scientists, with an eye to anarchist interests and lasting political influences among the far-right.
Pre-order here: store.c4ss.org/index.php/pr...
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Not beating the “America invades countries to grab their oil” allegations
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Not beating the “America invades countries to grab their oil” allegations
What it's strange that everyone commenting on this seems to miss is that this obsession of Thiel is a direct response to Bostrom's argument that we should stop technology (AI) by building a global totalitarian state.
Thiel is viewing the entire world through the lens of the rationalist civil war.
Thiel is viewing the entire world through the lens of the rationalist civil war.
He claims the default political solution people have for existential risks is one world governance. Isn't that weird, how when we have global issues we think hey maybe some global cooperation would be the best way to address global issues. You want nuclear nonproliferation? Antichrist.
November 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
What it's strange that everyone commenting on this seems to miss is that this obsession of Thiel is a direct response to Bostrom's argument that we should stop technology (AI) by building a global totalitarian state.
Thiel is viewing the entire world through the lens of the rationalist civil war.
Thiel is viewing the entire world through the lens of the rationalist civil war.
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reactionaries see "science" as brute technology, and "history/philosophy" as a navel-gaze hobby
science for them is about creating advanced tools to augment their power and control, and humanities about generating airs of superiority and intellectualized justifications for their power and privilege
science for them is about creating advanced tools to augment their power and control, and humanities about generating airs of superiority and intellectualized justifications for their power and privilege
I’ve been noodling over Thiel’s use of “science” in his antichrist crap. First: as we see here, it sounds super weird and off, every time. Second: I think he means “technology”, but for some reason he avoids saying it.
"We need to stop science" is the creed of "one world" antichrists he claims. So, the people pointing to science to argue for addressing climate change also want us to stop science. No nuance, they want to stop "Science". Sure, buddy.
November 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
reactionaries see "science" as brute technology, and "history/philosophy" as a navel-gaze hobby
science for them is about creating advanced tools to augment their power and control, and humanities about generating airs of superiority and intellectualized justifications for their power and privilege
science for them is about creating advanced tools to augment their power and control, and humanities about generating airs of superiority and intellectualized justifications for their power and privilege
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I wrote for @theintercept.com about how prosecuting transportation of these pamphlets is a danger to all writers, journalists, and Americans.
Possession of words is not a crime, even with intent to distribute.
Possession of words is not a crime, even with intent to distribute.
November 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I wrote for @theintercept.com about how prosecuting transportation of these pamphlets is a danger to all writers, journalists, and Americans.
Possession of words is not a crime, even with intent to distribute.
Possession of words is not a crime, even with intent to distribute.
I dunno, it depends. I think there *can* be an appreciable quantity of sales lost, even if just 2% or whatever. Nothing like what these losers claim, but I think we should be clear that rejecting intellectual property is a moral obligation REGARDLESS of impact upon an author's bottom line.
The point of "people who pirate books/movies can't afford to buy them" isn't poormouthing, it's that people who pirate literally WOULD NOT have bought, so the content industry propagandists' "Lost Sale Doctrine" is horseshit. If anything, downloads are free advertising that increases sales.
November 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I dunno, it depends. I think there *can* be an appreciable quantity of sales lost, even if just 2% or whatever. Nothing like what these losers claim, but I think we should be clear that rejecting intellectual property is a moral obligation REGARDLESS of impact upon an author's bottom line.
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If you’ve ever taken a zine from any of our tabling events then you NEED to give a shit about Daniel Rolando Sanchez Estrada, aka Des Revol.
They are being charged for simply having a box of zines. If you write, print, or simply read zines, WRITE TO DES.
theintercept.com/2025/11/23/p...
They are being charged for simply having a box of zines. If you write, print, or simply read zines, WRITE TO DES.
theintercept.com/2025/11/23/p...
The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an Anarchist Zine
Daniel Sanchez is facing federal charges for what free speech advocates say is a clear attack on the First Amendment.
theintercept.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
If you’ve ever taken a zine from any of our tabling events then you NEED to give a shit about Daniel Rolando Sanchez Estrada, aka Des Revol.
They are being charged for simply having a box of zines. If you write, print, or simply read zines, WRITE TO DES.
theintercept.com/2025/11/23/p...
They are being charged for simply having a box of zines. If you write, print, or simply read zines, WRITE TO DES.
theintercept.com/2025/11/23/p...
Look, there may be a case that sex got drained out of film during the Marvel decade, but surely we all agree that pop music has more than made up any gap with its own increased explicitness. Bypassing radio censorship moved us from semi-deniable innuendo to "cum in my ass" level lyrics.
November 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Look, there may be a case that sex got drained out of film during the Marvel decade, but surely we all agree that pop music has more than made up any gap with its own increased explicitness. Bypassing radio censorship moved us from semi-deniable innuendo to "cum in my ass" level lyrics.
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ICE Agents in Oregon Violently Abduct 17-Year-Old High School Student on Lunch Break
ICE Agents in Oregon Violently Abduct 17-Year-Old High School Student on Lunch Break
In Oregon, federal immigration agents forced a 17-year-old high school student…
www.democracynow.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
ICE Agents in Oregon Violently Abduct 17-Year-Old High School Student on Lunch Break
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The rate at which staff members have used force against inmates has been climbing steadily for the past decade. But interviews with watchdog officials, prisoners’ advocates and prisoners suggest that instances of the most egregious abuse have increased significantly in just the past three years.
Restrained, Beaten, Asphyxiated: New York Prison Guards’ Brutality Grows
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The rate at which staff members have used force against inmates has been climbing steadily for the past decade. But interviews with watchdog officials, prisoners’ advocates and prisoners suggest that instances of the most egregious abuse have increased significantly in just the past three years.
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There are many lines that stood out to me while reading "Did The Science Wars Take Place?" (my physical copy is already dog-eared and full of highlighter ink), but I feel this hints at something I've been trying to articulate for a while as an artist.
November 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
There are many lines that stood out to me while reading "Did The Science Wars Take Place?" (my physical copy is already dog-eared and full of highlighter ink), but I feel this hints at something I've been trying to articulate for a while as an artist.
A bajillion years ago (around 2016), I was desperate for work and a client asked me to write an ad-lib listicle generator for a defunct news site he still owned and hoped to juice some last ad dollars out of. "11 times Jennifer Aniston was on fleek" ...just inane shit like that. Well...
November 24, 2025 at 9:05 AM
A bajillion years ago (around 2016), I was desperate for work and a client asked me to write an ad-lib listicle generator for a defunct news site he still owned and hoped to juice some last ad dollars out of. "11 times Jennifer Aniston was on fleek" ...just inane shit like that. Well...
Free trade is communist. Having a girlfriend is gay.
They're so desperate for a powerful single unifying slur that functionally just means "capable of caring about other people."
They're so desperate for a powerful single unifying slur that functionally just means "capable of caring about other people."
November 24, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Free trade is communist. Having a girlfriend is gay.
They're so desperate for a powerful single unifying slur that functionally just means "capable of caring about other people."
They're so desperate for a powerful single unifying slur that functionally just means "capable of caring about other people."
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ACP now doing "Marxism is not woke" tabling at Ontario universities. *cringe*
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 AM
ACP now doing "Marxism is not woke" tabling at Ontario universities. *cringe*
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“Once, after the group bought out a tamale vendor’s cart, that man found them days later to say immigration agents were spotted on his block just hours after. ‘You saved my life,’ Rosales said the man told them.” apnews.com/article/chic...
Chicagoans buy out street vendors amid a federal immigration crackdown
Across Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods, fear of a federal immigration crackdown has emptied the streets.
apnews.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
“Once, after the group bought out a tamale vendor’s cart, that man found them days later to say immigration agents were spotted on his block just hours after. ‘You saved my life,’ Rosales said the man told them.” apnews.com/article/chic...
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One fascinating and yet expected thing is that none of the big foreign accounts pretending to be American are left of center, or even anti-Trump. Not a single one. Says something about the economics and geopolitics of political grifting
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
One fascinating and yet expected thing is that none of the big foreign accounts pretending to be American are left of center, or even anti-Trump. Not a single one. Says something about the economics and geopolitics of political grifting
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Apparently, possessing anarchist zines makes someone “antifa.” Further proof that this is just a war on the left. The administration is going for more radical and marginalized activists before it turns its attention on more mainstream ones.
The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an Anarchist Zine
Daniel Sanchez is facing federal charges for what free speech advocates say is a clear attack on the First Amendment.
theintercept.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Apparently, possessing anarchist zines makes someone “antifa.” Further proof that this is just a war on the left. The administration is going for more radical and marginalized activists before it turns its attention on more mainstream ones.
November 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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yep, it genuinely is racist to implicitly assume that Chinese people or Indians or some indigenous group are incapable of rigorous, reproducible science! Like it unironically is the soft bigotry of low expectations.
Reflecting further on this point: all cultures have produced revelationist (woo) and systematic-observational knowledge traditions. Any association in between woo and nonwestwern ideas is an artifact of western revelationists invoking nonwestwern traditions to appeal to secular westerners
This will be a battle because there’s a lot of well meaning anthropologist types who really do believe it‘s racist to say that eg: traditional chinese medicine is mostly bullshit, but it’s a fight well worth having.
November 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
yep, it genuinely is racist to implicitly assume that Chinese people or Indians or some indigenous group are incapable of rigorous, reproducible science! Like it unironically is the soft bigotry of low expectations.
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Reflecting further on this point: all cultures have produced revelationist (woo) and systematic-observational knowledge traditions. Any association in between woo and nonwestwern ideas is an artifact of western revelationists invoking nonwestwern traditions to appeal to secular westerners
This will be a battle because there’s a lot of well meaning anthropologist types who really do believe it‘s racist to say that eg: traditional chinese medicine is mostly bullshit, but it’s a fight well worth having.
I'm all for woke 2 as long as we agree woo-woo is out, I want aggressively pro-science and medicine thanks
November 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Reflecting further on this point: all cultures have produced revelationist (woo) and systematic-observational knowledge traditions. Any association in between woo and nonwestwern ideas is an artifact of western revelationists invoking nonwestwern traditions to appeal to secular westerners
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Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab warns the RSF is still disposing of bodies in El-Fasher, with satellite images showing empty markets and no civilian activity, raising fears that most residents have been killed, detained, or forced into hiding since the city fell in late October.
November 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab warns the RSF is still disposing of bodies in El-Fasher, with satellite images showing empty markets and no civilian activity, raising fears that most residents have been killed, detained, or forced into hiding since the city fell in late October.
The history of colonialism is a fucking bonechilling horrorshow whose extreme grotesqueries linger on as porn/ideology.
November 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM
The history of colonialism is a fucking bonechilling horrorshow whose extreme grotesqueries linger on as porn/ideology.
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“If you were able to get onto a jury, without getting pulled out, knowing what jury nullification is and the fullness of your rights. . .you can maybe save someone’s life.”
- @rechelon.bsky.social
🔗 youtu.be/6ER8q_ciSEI
@fijanational.bsky.social #law #legal
- @rechelon.bsky.social
🔗 youtu.be/6ER8q_ciSEI
@fijanational.bsky.social #law #legal
November 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
“If you were able to get onto a jury, without getting pulled out, knowing what jury nullification is and the fullness of your rights. . .you can maybe save someone’s life.”
- @rechelon.bsky.social
🔗 youtu.be/6ER8q_ciSEI
@fijanational.bsky.social #law #legal
- @rechelon.bsky.social
🔗 youtu.be/6ER8q_ciSEI
@fijanational.bsky.social #law #legal
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"You Have Arrived in Hell": New Evidence Confirms Torture of Deported Venezuelans in El Salvador. New report confirms my warnings in March: Venezuelans deported to El Salvador were tortured. Half had no criminal record. Many were asylum seekers.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/you-have-a...
austinkocher.substack.com/p/you-have-a...
"You Have Arrived in Hell": New Evidence Confirms Torture of Deported Venezuelans in El Salvador
A new HRW report confirms what I warned about in March: Venezuelans deported to El Salvador were systematically tortured. Half had no criminal record. Many were asylum seekers. We paid for this.
austinkocher.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
"You Have Arrived in Hell": New Evidence Confirms Torture of Deported Venezuelans in El Salvador. New report confirms my warnings in March: Venezuelans deported to El Salvador were tortured. Half had no criminal record. Many were asylum seekers.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/you-have-a...
austinkocher.substack.com/p/you-have-a...
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“The boxed materials aren’t Molotov cocktails, pipe bombs, or whatever MAGA officials claim ‘Antifa’ uses to wage its imaginary war on America. As prosecutors laid out in the July criminal complaint that led to the indictment, they were zines and pamphlets.”
"The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an Anarchist Zine" @theintercept.com - The Anarchist Library is linked in the article
read here:
theintercept.com/2025/11/23/p...
read here:
theintercept.com/2025/11/23/p...
The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an Anarchist Zine
Daniel Sanchez is facing federal charges for what free speech advocates say is a clear attack on the First Amendment.
theintercept.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
“The boxed materials aren’t Molotov cocktails, pipe bombs, or whatever MAGA officials claim ‘Antifa’ uses to wage its imaginary war on America. As prosecutors laid out in the July criminal complaint that led to the indictment, they were zines and pamphlets.”