Gregor May ⚡
@gregormay.com
uncertainty explorer | cosmopolitan localist | generalist working for climate tech adaption
formerly known as @syndikalista
formerly known as @syndikalista
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With this collective artistic research project initiated by Arndt Beck, YIDDISH.BERLIN is honoring an extraordinary figure: the feminist and anarchist activist Milly Witkop (1877–1955).
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October 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
With this collective artistic research project initiated by Arndt Beck, YIDDISH.BERLIN is honoring an extraordinary figure: the feminist and anarchist activist Milly Witkop (1877–1955).
yiddish.berlin/wp/en/2025/1...
yiddish.berlin/wp/en/2025/1...
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I'm so proud of everyone from my old neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago. I see what you have been and are doing. I am so proud of how organized the community is and how much more so everyone is becoming. It is inspiring. Just one example... And this is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone.
October 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I'm so proud of everyone from my old neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago. I see what you have been and are doing. I am so proud of how organized the community is and how much more so everyone is becoming. It is inspiring. Just one example... And this is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone.
"Either we regain our moral and spiritual dignity, or we fall into a cesspool."
October 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
"Either we regain our moral and spiritual dignity, or we fall into a cesspool."
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In this SEDI session, anarchist writer and editor Iain McKay delivers a brisk, idea-dense tour of Peter Kropotkin’s science, ethics, and revolutionary politics—showing how the famed geographer’s fieldwork and evolutionary arguments undergird a living anarchist program www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvYc...
Peter Kropotkin: Science, Ethics, and Class Struggle – SEDI Hosts Iain McKay
YouTube video by Cyber Dandy
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September 8, 2025 at 10:18 AM
In this SEDI session, anarchist writer and editor Iain McKay delivers a brisk, idea-dense tour of Peter Kropotkin’s science, ethics, and revolutionary politics—showing how the famed geographer’s fieldwork and evolutionary arguments undergird a living anarchist program www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvYc...
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"A living visual archive on cybernetics in the expanded field. Browse and contribute images of all kinds: diagrams, schematics, photos, graphic elements, and other visual fragments."
Cybernetics Image Library
A living visual archive on cybernetics in the expanded field.
cyberneticsimagelibrary.dev
August 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
"A living visual archive on cybernetics in the expanded field. Browse and contribute images of all kinds: diagrams, schematics, photos, graphic elements, and other visual fragments."
@ssp.sh I guess you moved over to arch completely, but if you are still using MacOS, have you played with KindaVim? www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NpE...
KindaVim Is Probably The Best MacOS Vim Mode I've Ever Used
YouTube video by DevOps Toolbox
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August 13, 2025 at 11:41 AM
@ssp.sh I guess you moved over to arch completely, but if you are still using MacOS, have you played with KindaVim? www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NpE...
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“Terror is not, as Western intellectuals imagine, monumental; it is abject, it has a furtive glance, it destroys the fabric of human society and changes the relationships of millions of individuals into channels for blackmail.”--Czesław Miłosz, Native Realm
August 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
“Terror is not, as Western intellectuals imagine, monumental; it is abject, it has a furtive glance, it destroys the fabric of human society and changes the relationships of millions of individuals into channels for blackmail.”--Czesław Miłosz, Native Realm
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Das ist richtig gute linke Kommunikation.
Die Wut ist berechtigt.
Menschen sind nicht so, sie werden böse gemacht.
Die Probleme sind systemisch.
Kulturkämpfe sind Ablenkung und Sündenböcke.
Labour ist Teil der Problems.
Alles hängt zusammen.
Es muss so nicht sein, es kann besser sein.
Die Wut ist berechtigt.
Menschen sind nicht so, sie werden böse gemacht.
Die Probleme sind systemisch.
Kulturkämpfe sind Ablenkung und Sündenböcke.
Labour ist Teil der Problems.
Alles hängt zusammen.
Es muss so nicht sein, es kann besser sein.
⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
July 23, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Das ist richtig gute linke Kommunikation.
Die Wut ist berechtigt.
Menschen sind nicht so, sie werden böse gemacht.
Die Probleme sind systemisch.
Kulturkämpfe sind Ablenkung und Sündenböcke.
Labour ist Teil der Problems.
Alles hängt zusammen.
Es muss so nicht sein, es kann besser sein.
Die Wut ist berechtigt.
Menschen sind nicht so, sie werden böse gemacht.
Die Probleme sind systemisch.
Kulturkämpfe sind Ablenkung und Sündenböcke.
Labour ist Teil der Problems.
Alles hängt zusammen.
Es muss so nicht sein, es kann besser sein.
how do we stand on "green left populism" as one tactic to move forward?
July 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
how do we stand on "green left populism" as one tactic to move forward?
@ungated.life hey rob, you were looking for a word starting with P to displace "the underworld"
How about these?
- Perdition (means eternal damnation or hell — often used as a synonym for the underworld in a Christian context)
- Pit (as in “bottomless pit”)
- Phantom realm
How about these?
- Perdition (means eternal damnation or hell — often used as a synonym for the underworld in a Christian context)
- Pit (as in “bottomless pit”)
- Phantom realm
June 27, 2025 at 6:31 PM
@ungated.life hey rob, you were looking for a word starting with P to displace "the underworld"
How about these?
- Perdition (means eternal damnation or hell — often used as a synonym for the underworld in a Christian context)
- Pit (as in “bottomless pit”)
- Phantom realm
How about these?
- Perdition (means eternal damnation or hell — often used as a synonym for the underworld in a Christian context)
- Pit (as in “bottomless pit”)
- Phantom realm
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I’ve spent the last year reading, thinking, and talking with workers about AI and I’ve concluded that AI is not a technology—it’s an *ideology*, and it must be engaged with as such. https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/toolmen
Toolmen
Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool.
aworkinglibrary.com
May 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I’ve spent the last year reading, thinking, and talking with workers about AI and I’ve concluded that AI is not a technology—it’s an *ideology*, and it must be engaged with as such. https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/toolmen
The main reason why I am not concerned with AGI-AI shit, is that we know how bad the current Mechanic Parrots are with executing Prompts and this will not change soon with the rapidly Degradation of work environments and knowledge, plus devaluation of skills.
May 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The main reason why I am not concerned with AGI-AI shit, is that we know how bad the current Mechanic Parrots are with executing Prompts and this will not change soon with the rapidly Degradation of work environments and knowledge, plus devaluation of skills.
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I showed Andrei Kureichik's documentary, "Voices of the New Belarus" to my students today to demonstrate protest in authoritarian regimes. The testimonies from protesters are so powerful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKkp...
Voices of the New Belarus | 2022 | Full Mini-Series
YouTube video by Rogue Machine Theatre
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May 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I showed Andrei Kureichik's documentary, "Voices of the New Belarus" to my students today to demonstrate protest in authoritarian regimes. The testimonies from protesters are so powerful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKkp...
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This feminist anti-natalist piece is a chilling, eye-opening read - all the reasons in one place why pregnancy and child-rearing in the US is now so risky and damaging to life-chances
And it doesn't even cover the risk for young cis women of hitching bodily autonomy to a red-pilled Gen Z misogynist
And it doesn't even cover the risk for young cis women of hitching bodily autonomy to a red-pilled Gen Z misogynist
April 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
This feminist anti-natalist piece is a chilling, eye-opening read - all the reasons in one place why pregnancy and child-rearing in the US is now so risky and damaging to life-chances
And it doesn't even cover the risk for young cis women of hitching bodily autonomy to a red-pilled Gen Z misogynist
And it doesn't even cover the risk for young cis women of hitching bodily autonomy to a red-pilled Gen Z misogynist
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Question for #energysky - Can you point me to some experts on EU NCCS (Network Codes on Cyber Sec) for electricity grids?
Would love to get a more "on the ground" picture beyond the legal texts & EU publications.
→ Actual efficacy
→ Preparedness
...etc.
Thanks in advance 🙏
Would love to get a more "on the ground" picture beyond the legal texts & EU publications.
→ Actual efficacy
→ Preparedness
...etc.
Thanks in advance 🙏
April 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Question for #energysky - Can you point me to some experts on EU NCCS (Network Codes on Cyber Sec) for electricity grids?
Would love to get a more "on the ground" picture beyond the legal texts & EU publications.
→ Actual efficacy
→ Preparedness
...etc.
Thanks in advance 🙏
Would love to get a more "on the ground" picture beyond the legal texts & EU publications.
→ Actual efficacy
→ Preparedness
...etc.
Thanks in advance 🙏
Rejection of Collective Narratives is a danger to imagination
April 3, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Rejection of Collective Narratives is a danger to imagination
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Chuck Palahniuk, goddamn
March 31, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Chuck Palahniuk, goddamn
"Once you’ve accepted that you’re not going to find a magic bullet, you’re free to stop looking for one. With all the time you’re not wasting on that, you can work on multiple Options for Action instead. And that means you can tackle multiple conditions at the same time." via Tom Kerwin
March 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"Once you’ve accepted that you’re not going to find a magic bullet, you’re free to stop looking for one. With all the time you’re not wasting on that, you can work on multiple Options for Action instead. And that means you can tackle multiple conditions at the same time." via Tom Kerwin
So....the US Government is now targeting libraries directly?
March 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
So....the US Government is now targeting libraries directly?
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Does anyone have experience in uploading periodicals to archive.org? I want to upload a tranche of old Danish anarchist periodicals, but the scans are not excellent (they're good). I'm not sure about the quality requirements.
March 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Does anyone have experience in uploading periodicals to archive.org? I want to upload a tranche of old Danish anarchist periodicals, but the scans are not excellent (they're good). I'm not sure about the quality requirements.
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Das war ein ganz besonderer Abend: Der 85. Geburtstag von Wolf Biermann im Berliner Ensemble am 17.11.2021 mit vielen Gästen - nun endlich auch komplett zum Nachschauen und Nachhören und mit einer Festrede, die die Familie Biermann würdigte. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pstv...
Wolf Biermanns 85. Geburtstag mit Freunden
YouTube video by Wolf Biermann
www.youtube.com
March 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Das war ein ganz besonderer Abend: Der 85. Geburtstag von Wolf Biermann im Berliner Ensemble am 17.11.2021 mit vielen Gästen - nun endlich auch komplett zum Nachschauen und Nachhören und mit einer Festrede, die die Familie Biermann würdigte. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pstv...
@noahpinion.blogsky.venki.dev hey, one point you made in talking about Musk is his capability for organisation-building. Have you assembled a reading list for that, that I can go through? The examples you are stating I do understand, but not the approach in which you describe them.
March 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
@noahpinion.blogsky.venki.dev hey, one point you made in talking about Musk is his capability for organisation-building. Have you assembled a reading list for that, that I can go through? The examples you are stating I do understand, but not the approach in which you describe them.
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Ich fänds gut, wenn ihr dieses Interview schaut. Ich habe darin viele Sachen gesagt, die ich derzeit wichtig finde.
Was würde ich tun, wenn es mir wirklich darauf ankäme?
Mit dieser großen, radikalen Frage endete heute mein Gespräch mit Marina Weisband @afelia.bsky.social.
Eigentlich wollte ich „nur“ von ihr wissen, wie wir als Gesellschaft lernen, besser mit sozialen Medien umzugehen... youtu.be/CD5G-JB47yk
Mit dieser großen, radikalen Frage endete heute mein Gespräch mit Marina Weisband @afelia.bsky.social.
Eigentlich wollte ich „nur“ von ihr wissen, wie wir als Gesellschaft lernen, besser mit sozialen Medien umzugehen... youtu.be/CD5G-JB47yk
SMWB meets Marina Weisband
YouTube video by Social Media Watchblog
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February 27, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Ich fänds gut, wenn ihr dieses Interview schaut. Ich habe darin viele Sachen gesagt, die ich derzeit wichtig finde.