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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"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.
Oh yeah, we were always a mess, but *less* of a mess than anyone else and with more potential.
February 10, 2026 at 1:32 AM
Oh yeah, we were always a mess, but *less* of a mess than anyone else and with more potential.
Everyone rightfully decries this as utterly bullshit, given how many libertarians -- very much including Reason -- were utterly blind and/or complicit re Trump, but it's also true that liberals ignorantly and studiously built the state power he then seized.
Anarchists are the only ones without sin.
Anarchists are the only ones without sin.
February 10, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Everyone rightfully decries this as utterly bullshit, given how many libertarians -- very much including Reason -- were utterly blind and/or complicit re Trump, but it's also true that liberals ignorantly and studiously built the state power he then seized.
Anarchists are the only ones without sin.
Anarchists are the only ones without sin.
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Woof
ICE’s pending $30 billion budget exceeds the military spending of nearly every country, including Canada, Brazil, Mexico, and Iran.
ICE + CBP funding for 2026 would total $66 billion, higher than all but 7 militaries worldwide.
ICE + CBP funding for 2026 would total $66 billion, higher than all but 7 militaries worldwide.
After a string of ICE murders, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries proposed reforms — and $11 billion more for ICE.
Including reconciliation bill funding, the Schumer-Jeffries plan would give ICE a $30 billion budget, higher than all but 15 militaries worldwide:
www.stephensemler.com/p/democratic...
Including reconciliation bill funding, the Schumer-Jeffries plan would give ICE a $30 billion budget, higher than all but 15 militaries worldwide:
www.stephensemler.com/p/democratic...
February 9, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Woof
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@rechelon.bsky.social is an anarchist who has never identified with libertarians, but as a @c4ssdotorg.bsky.social market anarchist they've been adjacent to the movement. They've done great work on how libertarians failed on crucial issues of fascist creep. humaniterations.net/2025/12/30/2...
February 10, 2026 at 12:34 AM
@rechelon.bsky.social is an anarchist who has never identified with libertarians, but as a @c4ssdotorg.bsky.social market anarchist they've been adjacent to the movement. They've done great work on how libertarians failed on crucial issues of fascist creep. humaniterations.net/2025/12/30/2...
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The golden rice situation makes me *SO* sad.
It's estimated a THIRD of people worldwide are Vitamin A deficient, which can cause permanent damage to the eyes — in many cases full-on blindness.
We created a perfect solution to this problem, but oh no, it's "unnatural"
It's estimated a THIRD of people worldwide are Vitamin A deficient, which can cause permanent damage to the eyes — in many cases full-on blindness.
We created a perfect solution to this problem, but oh no, it's "unnatural"
Same anti-science people who'd rather see people starve, than endorse GMOs. Because, hurr durr, Capitalism bad, science bad, therefore, hurr durr, golden rice bad and an unnatural abomination!
February 9, 2026 at 9:12 PM
The golden rice situation makes me *SO* sad.
It's estimated a THIRD of people worldwide are Vitamin A deficient, which can cause permanent damage to the eyes — in many cases full-on blindness.
We created a perfect solution to this problem, but oh no, it's "unnatural"
It's estimated a THIRD of people worldwide are Vitamin A deficient, which can cause permanent damage to the eyes — in many cases full-on blindness.
We created a perfect solution to this problem, but oh no, it's "unnatural"
Anyway, Huemer being Huemer, I just want to note he literally said "if there are cases that almost never happen then it's not worth it to put the exception in there." and I'm just screaming about him proving my stuff in my book on him right.
February 9, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Anyway, Huemer being Huemer, I just want to note he literally said "if there are cases that almost never happen then it's not worth it to put the exception in there." and I'm just screaming about him proving my stuff in my book on him right.
Titles are both gifts we grant others in respect for them and detentes recognized in light of a thousand contingencies. A critical check-and-balance in anarchy is individuals dynamically reevaluating when a detente (granting a rich man his sweeping claims) becomes suicidal.
February 9, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Titles are both gifts we grant others in respect for them and detentes recognized in light of a thousand contingencies. A critical check-and-balance in anarchy is individuals dynamically reevaluating when a detente (granting a rich man his sweeping claims) becomes suicidal.
Huemer wants there to be fixed enunciable universal social norms in the same way he wants there to be a single public registry of title that's "objective." And this reactionary brained instinct is simply not how anything works in reality; it's ultimately catastrophic.
February 9, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Huemer wants there to be fixed enunciable universal social norms in the same way he wants there to be a single public registry of title that's "objective." And this reactionary brained instinct is simply not how anything works in reality; it's ultimately catastrophic.
It's a mistake to use one word "property" to try to encapsulate all these considerations into some dead set of fixed acontextual rules. A freed market would see constant contestation and dynamic pressures along all dimensions.
February 9, 2026 at 11:26 PM
It's a mistake to use one word "property" to try to encapsulate all these considerations into some dead set of fixed acontextual rules. A freed market would see constant contestation and dynamic pressures along all dimensions.
Anyway, property needs to be understood as a collapse of many dynamics around 1) autonomy, 2) agency, 3) utility re conflict, 4) utility re net capacity 5) utility re checks on power, as evaluated A) individually, and B) thru emergent social pressures.
February 9, 2026 at 11:25 PM
Anyway, property needs to be understood as a collapse of many dynamics around 1) autonomy, 2) agency, 3) utility re conflict, 4) utility re net capacity 5) utility re checks on power, as evaluated A) individually, and B) thru emergent social pressures.
I dunk on Huemer a lot but he gets points for turning to rule utilitarianism (and endorsement of theft in extreme cases), yet it's a pretty severe backdoor for egalitarian considerations... including my insane "there are no objective titles, disagreement is inherent, fine, and necessary" stuff.
February 9, 2026 at 11:23 PM
I dunk on Huemer a lot but he gets points for turning to rule utilitarianism (and endorsement of theft in extreme cases), yet it's a pretty severe backdoor for egalitarian considerations... including my insane "there are no objective titles, disagreement is inherent, fine, and necessary" stuff.
This is the most productive public debate between an ancom and an ancap in all of human history so far.
But of course I have to interject that I already solved property a decade ago, and they're both clearly just groping towards my evaluation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Yl0...
But of course I have to interject that I already solved property a decade ago, and they're both clearly just groping towards my evaluation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Yl0...
DEBATE: What Rights do We Have Over Resources? | Michael Huemer vs. Jesse Spafford
YouTube video by Discourse
www.youtube.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:21 PM
This is the most productive public debate between an ancom and an ancap in all of human history so far.
But of course I have to interject that I already solved property a decade ago, and they're both clearly just groping towards my evaluation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Yl0...
But of course I have to interject that I already solved property a decade ago, and they're both clearly just groping towards my evaluation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Yl0...
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The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.”
The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
They're Coming for Our Daughters
The conservative plan to shrink girls’ futures
jessica.substack.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:22 PM
The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.”
The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
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Bari Weiss bravely invites us to focus on the real fascism in Minneapolis
www.thefp.com/p/mob-rule-c...
www.thefp.com/p/mob-rule-c...
February 9, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Bari Weiss bravely invites us to focus on the real fascism in Minneapolis
www.thefp.com/p/mob-rule-c...
www.thefp.com/p/mob-rule-c...
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Best response to our study yet: The nativist equation is: Not hearing Spanish > infinite $$.
February 8, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Best response to our study yet: The nativist equation is: Not hearing Spanish > infinite $$.