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...
But of course my dad wasn't diagnosed back in his day because autism was invented by vaccines.
February 11, 2026 at 6:06 AM
But of course my dad wasn't diagnosed back in his day because autism was invented by vaccines.
It's not like I didn't always know my parents were both .... unique... in how their brains worked, but it's amazing how much more grace I feel the moment the rage tantrum about being around too many people is recontextualized as a neurological architectural issue rather than entitled quirk.
February 11, 2026 at 6:05 AM
It's not like I didn't always know my parents were both .... unique... in how their brains worked, but it's amazing how much more grace I feel the moment the rage tantrum about being around too many people is recontextualized as a neurological architectural issue rather than entitled quirk.
As a child I was constantly annoyed at my dad's inability to tolerate crowds and most socializing, even just five other people on the same city block could make him freeze up and twitch. Only very recently did I finally recognize he was having autistic breakdowns and it changes my attitude entirely.
February 11, 2026 at 6:02 AM
As a child I was constantly annoyed at my dad's inability to tolerate crowds and most socializing, even just five other people on the same city block could make him freeze up and twitch. Only very recently did I finally recognize he was having autistic breakdowns and it changes my attitude entirely.
Those libertarians that didn't become outright nazis virtually all refused to take a stand, were nearly all fucking weaksauce on "bordertarians" etc and are utterly blood drenched.
you can control-f to the libertarian section
humaniterations.net/2025/12/30/2...
you can control-f to the libertarian section
humaniterations.net/2025/12/30/2...
2015 In Review: A Memoir On The Fascist Resurgence
It’s 2015 and I’m sitting on a couch with my roommate, gazing down on another Fuck The Police riot turned street party. The day has been long, the bars have ...
humaniterations.net
February 11, 2026 at 5:40 AM
Those libertarians that didn't become outright nazis virtually all refused to take a stand, were nearly all fucking weaksauce on "bordertarians" etc and are utterly blood drenched.
you can control-f to the libertarian section
humaniterations.net/2025/12/30/2...
you can control-f to the libertarian section
humaniterations.net/2025/12/30/2...
Naw. It's politely underemphasized if anything. The sheer number of libertarians that happily abetted their ranks being recruited into the nazis. The fucking Mises Caucus? The nonstop widespread rejection of antifa?
February 11, 2026 at 5:38 AM
Naw. It's politely underemphasized if anything. The sheer number of libertarians that happily abetted their ranks being recruited into the nazis. The fucking Mises Caucus? The nonstop widespread rejection of antifa?
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Like I said a couple years ago, leftist antisemitism is getting worse. Like, we're at the Naming The Jew stage and next I guess will be the triple parentheses
February 11, 2026 at 5:12 AM
Like I said a couple years ago, leftist antisemitism is getting worse. Like, we're at the Naming The Jew stage and next I guess will be the triple parentheses
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This is what I’m talking about when I talk about technologies of liberation
This required careful measurement and design
This required careful measurement and design
“Historians call this passageway a masterwork of deliberate concealment, designed to be absolutely invisible to slave catchers or city marshals during the 19th-century”
Safe house linked to Underground Railroad discovered in Manhattan
The Merchant's House is the first landmarked building in Manhattan.
ny1.com
February 11, 2026 at 4:32 AM
This is what I’m talking about when I talk about technologies of liberation
This required careful measurement and design
This required careful measurement and design
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A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
February 11, 2026 at 3:43 AM
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
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A universal tale. Doesn’t matter the city, county, or state.
“The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office said it was not involved in Thursday’s arrests, nor in a similar incident at the building last week.”
Sheriffs were literally on scene pushing people out of the way to let these goons rush this kid outside. Just own your decision to collaborate.
Sheriffs were literally on scene pushing people out of the way to let these goons rush this kid outside. Just own your decision to collaborate.
A man facing felony drug charges was taken into custody by ICE while he was at the Hennepin County Government Center.
February 11, 2026 at 4:49 AM
A universal tale. Doesn’t matter the city, county, or state.
Hah, yeah. For decades he's been public enemy #1 to disability/crip activists, and this eventually leaked out into the animal liberation side of the left, with folks just kinda bypassing direct reference to him.
February 11, 2026 at 4:50 AM
Hah, yeah. For decades he's been public enemy #1 to disability/crip activists, and this eventually leaked out into the animal liberation side of the left, with folks just kinda bypassing direct reference to him.
Well Huemer has always been the exemplar of a far worse type of analytic philosopher: the reactionary who dismisses all complexities, exceptions, and deeper questions to defend common sense and intuitions.
February 11, 2026 at 4:46 AM
Well Huemer has always been the exemplar of a far worse type of analytic philosopher: the reactionary who dismisses all complexities, exceptions, and deeper questions to defend common sense and intuitions.
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One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.
A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
Congresswoman Uses Simple Math To Show How Broken ICE Is
www.huffpost.com
February 10, 2026 at 9:11 PM
One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.
"Peter Singer was canceled??!!" --A very earnest punk (with dreads) from twenty five years ago, upon reaching the present.
February 10, 2026 at 11:43 PM
"Peter Singer was canceled??!!" --A very earnest punk (with dreads) from twenty five years ago, upon reaching the present.
This was an entire era:
February 10, 2026 at 11:41 PM
This was an entire era:
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NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
www.wired.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:07 PM
NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
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"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
February 10, 2026 at 10:09 AM
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
The very first linux command line tool I learned was pdftk (to make zines) and two decades later, after long periods without using it, I'm kinda proud that I can immediately pound out lengthy operations with it perfectly memorized.
February 10, 2026 at 8:47 AM
The very first linux command line tool I learned was pdftk (to make zines) and two decades later, after long periods without using it, I'm kinda proud that I can immediately pound out lengthy operations with it perfectly memorized.
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i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:56 AM
i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.
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A tale told in two screenshots :)
February 9, 2026 at 2:40 PM
A tale told in two screenshots :)
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An immigration court dropped its case against Turkish graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a little less than a year after federal agents arrested her on a street near Tufts University
Immigration Court Drops Case Against Tufts Student Rumeysa Ozturk
The Turkish national had been arrested by plainclothes federal officers outside her apartment.
on.wsj.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:53 PM
An immigration court dropped its case against Turkish graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a little less than a year after federal agents arrested her on a street near Tufts University
Some might read this as a political critique of the dire lack of security and corporate backdoors, or mere cultural nostalgia for IRC, but in reality Andrea only surfs the web using Lynx and Discord won't load on GNU Hurd. :P
February 10, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Some might read this as a political critique of the dire lack of security and corporate backdoors, or mere cultural nostalgia for IRC, but in reality Andrea only surfs the web using Lynx and Discord won't load on GNU Hurd. :P
I'm forever Team Nerd, but it's deathly embarrassing to watch nerds forever get sniped by "rules are the only thing that stop bullies, so we've got to cling to existing rules lest bullies eat everyone; society is complicated, so everything is a precious Chesterton's fence that must be preserved."
February 10, 2026 at 1:55 AM
I'm forever Team Nerd, but it's deathly embarrassing to watch nerds forever get sniped by "rules are the only thing that stop bullies, so we've got to cling to existing rules lest bullies eat everyone; society is complicated, so everything is a precious Chesterton's fence that must be preserved."
The one thing you've got to give to rationalists is they'll often be sufficiently earnest to post their astonishing ignorance in public view.
That said I still struggle to imagine someone too incurious to grasp "vast wealth centralization = power centralization."
www.lesswrong.com/posts/BW89Bu...
That said I still struggle to imagine someone too incurious to grasp "vast wealth centralization = power centralization."
www.lesswrong.com/posts/BW89Bu...
Stone Age Billionaire Can't Words Good — LessWrong
I was at the Pro-Billionaire march, unironically. Here’s why, what happened there, and how I think it went. • • Me on the far left. From WSJ. …
www.lesswrong.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:52 AM
The one thing you've got to give to rationalists is they'll often be sufficiently earnest to post their astonishing ignorance in public view.
That said I still struggle to imagine someone too incurious to grasp "vast wealth centralization = power centralization."
www.lesswrong.com/posts/BW89Bu...
That said I still struggle to imagine someone too incurious to grasp "vast wealth centralization = power centralization."
www.lesswrong.com/posts/BW89Bu...
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This is what we’re doing to people. We are the bad guys.
February 9, 2026 at 11:48 AM
This is what we’re doing to people. We are the bad guys.