Jun 25, 2024
There is an interesting paper from earlier this month called “Software in the natural world: A computational approach to hierarchical emergence” by Rosas, Geiger, Luppi, Seth, Polani, Gastapar, and …
May 29, 2024
I added a page to the site of books I am reading, have read, or want to read. If you’re interested in reading or discussing any of them with me please get in touch.
May 6, 2024
This past Saturday (May 4th) we held the first event in a new series called “Seeing Red”. I opened the event with a speech describing the aim of the series. This speech is reproduced below, …
May 6, 2024
This Pesach, I helped organize a Seder for lefty Jews. For this we wrote a haggadah, which focuses on the actual history of the Jews with an eye toward understanding the phenomenon of Zionism.
You can find the …
Mar 1, 2024
Dialectical materialism is the philosophical foundation of Marxism, and historical materialism is its scientific foundation. Both concepts are thus very important for communists1 to understand. Their claims are …
Feb 14, 2024
Mondragón is a famous complex of cooperatives, primarily based in the Basque country. It has been widely acclaimed for providing stable employment to tens of thousands, a degree of internal democracy, and …
Nov 28, 2023
Poetry flows from the fingertips like threads of silk
Birds have nests and spiders webs
And humans friendships.
But webs too. And nests come to think of it.
Looking a little closer we see a big blender of some …
Sep 29, 2023
Soren Mau’s ‘Mute Compulsion’ does an excellent job of calling attention to the ways that our environment – physical, social, technological – mutely compels us to act in certain …
Sep 25, 2023
To start, two quotes:
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed …
Aug 30, 2023
Several interesting properties of the human mode of history:
Humanity has the capacity for surplus labor. I.e., in $N$ hours, a group of humans can act on its environment to procure sufficient material …