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• How to make a call tree that still works when people flake Apr 17, 2025
• Capital in Transit Mar 31, 2025
• Contradiction Mar 11, 2025
• Math is about managing your emotions Feb 26, 2025
• Badiou in the world Feb 17, 2025
• Prints of late Feb 17, 2025
• A short piece of music Feb 10, 2025
• More organic cave automata Jan 3, 2025
• The Sacrifice Nov 13, 2024
• Hyperbolic Geometry, Berkeley Math Circle Oct 31, 2024
• Zero Knowledege Proofs, Berkeley Math Circle Oct 31, 2024
• I renamed the blog again Oct 9, 2024
• A Mark-Shaped Hole Sep 10, 2024
• What is computation? Aug 30, 2024
• What is human nature? Aug 24, 2024
• Why are ideas from computer science absent from Marxist discourse? Aug 6, 2024
• Brief critique on the species of utilitarianism found in Bay Area “rationalists” Jul 29, 2024
• Prints! 2023–2024 Jul 1, 2024
• A vision for bathing in the Bay Jul 1, 2024
• Imperfect abstractions: On “Software in the natural world” Jun 25, 2024
• Read a book with me May 29, 2024
• “Seeing Red” intro speech May 6, 2024
• Red Seder Haggadah May 6, 2024
• Concise definitions of dialectical & historical materialsm Mar 1, 2024
• Mondragón 1: More an island of kinder capitalism, than an aircraft carrier for communism Feb 14, 2024
• Poem: Blenders Nov 28, 2023
• Specifying communism: autonomous access to the means of subsistence Sep 29, 2023
• Everybody Knows, but should they? Sep 25, 2023
• On the human mode of history (001) Aug 30, 2023
• Time After Time Aug 30, 2023
• Book release: “The Elementary Concepts of Historical Materialism” Aug 29, 2023
• “Parametricity” is now “It’s Dusk Somewhere” Aug 27, 2023
• Walking Past the Apocalypse: The Material Roots of Anti-Human Philosophy in 2020s San Francisco Aug 10, 2023
• Poem for eternity and the social nature of the human Aug 4, 2023
• First thoughts on ‘Mute Compulsion’ Jul 26, 2023
• The Social-mediafication of Working Class Organizing Jun 7, 2023
• To face the coming climate crisis, a new vision and a new spirituality Jun 1, 2023
• Cuba’s Struggle for the Full Dignity of the Human Being May 30, 2023
• Jewishness Abstractly and Concretely May 18, 2023
• Will Socialism End Racism? May 18, 2023
• Class and Race May 18, 2023
• Skipping past the nasty part Apr 15, 2023
• Breakdown as a law of physics Apr 10, 2023
• What is nature? Mar 9, 2023
• Punting on the core contradictions Mar 8, 2023
• Life on the Virtual Commune Jan 12, 2023
• Class Struggle Voltron: Let’s invent new organizational forms Jan 12, 2023
• Theorem on co-option Jan 12, 2023
• The Communist Hypothesis (poem) Nov 21, 2022
• Towards making correct decisions: Against moralism Oct 27, 2022
• What is fascism, and what does it have to do with capitalism? Oct 17, 2022
• Magic is indistinguishable from sufficiently advanced technology: Rain dances of the future Oct 9, 2022
• Burritos and Distributed Domination in the App Era Sep 16, 2022
• An honest techno-Utopianism Sep 15, 2022
• Why “Socially Responsible Investing”, divestment campaings, and other schemes are doomed to fail Jul 16, 2022
• The 7 coordinates of human society Mar 24, 2022
• The capitalist class is not the primary enemy Feb 8, 2022
• Using mathematical language to strengthen the movement towards communism Jan 1, 2022
• Words and ideas are material Jan 1, 2022
• Marx and Engel’s theorem on the inevitability of revolution Dec 29, 2021
• NFTNFTNFT: Nice For Traders, Non-Functional Technology for Nurturing Fertile Talent Aug 28, 2021
• The Coinbase post was 100% right. Here’s what you can do about it Sep 29, 2020
• The political economy of platforms May 3, 2020
• Dubious Arguments May 25, 2016
• Notes on Social Ecology (1) Jan 18, 2016
• One reason why the interaction between addition and multiplication is the interesting part of number theory Jan 18, 2016
• Infinite Games in Hyperbolic Groups Jul 9, 2014
• 2001 Frames: Markov model movie Jan 21, 2013