At the end of the day, there are no rules. The “law” and “justice” in this country are all in support of empire and capital. Buck v. Bell (1927) The court ruled that the state has the “right” to control the “genetic stock”, roughly speaking of a place/people. More accurately, “we will do it; shut up about it or we will kill you too.” We have seen more than once that the public welfare may call upon the best citizens for their lives....

My first course in complex analysis involved almost no pictures. This is the first post in a series dedicated to distilling a few neat properties of analytic and meromorphic functions by letting pictures and videos do as much heavy lifting as possible. A survey of complex functions We begin with the identity function $f(z) = z$. This form of domain coloring is essentially a kind of polar coordinates where the “base color/shade” is an angular coordinate and the “darkness” is the distance from the origin....

Imperialism Who Is That You All Are Going to Whip, Mr. Legree by Robert Minor This one always makes me laugh. Even when I know it is coming and I try to not laugh. As far as I can tell (and it is somewhat difficult), it was drawn by Robert Minor for the Daily Worker . I don’t know why the main place I can find it is the Marxist library ....

A review of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States TLDR: This book was an absolute banger that I don’t think 98% of Americans have the heart to read. To be clear, any literate and educated adult who wants to seriously engage with the history and trajectory of the United States in the scheme of the past 5000 years of history must understand and internalize these lenses. In atleast one lens “Everything in US history is about the land – who oversaw and cultivated it, fished its waters, maintained its wildlife; who invaded and stole it; how it became a commodity broken into peices to be bought and sold on the market”1....

Today I was walking through some of the deserts roughly 1 hour south of Dubai. This was my first time in a desert and I wanted to know what it feels like to walk for a while with no water in sight. As I got to the top of a sand hill and felt how powerful the sun really is in a desert, the following hit me: Drinking alcohol frequently leads to dehydration, which can be a death sentence in the desert, or atleast divert limited water from more important uses....

Hikikomari Kyuuketsuki no Monmon is my favorite anime of Fall 2023. The Jujutsu Kaisen Shibuya arc had some good scenes this season, but is kinda settling into not having much of a plot, pushing it further into just some teenage power fantasy. The Tokyo Revengers Tenjiku arc is…fine but I am just getting a bit sick of Takemishi’s main redeeming quality being limited to having unlimited HP. The geniuses at MyAnimeList convinced me to check this out from an email describing this show as “Clumsy Vampires, Pervy Maids, and Politics Galore!...

This is the first of many posts that react to/discuss the History of the Indian People and Culture series. I plan to write roughly one every hundred pages or so, mainly to make sure I understand the claims in the series. The first few chapters of Volume One were rather dull, insofar as we mainly focussed on the scope of the series, dicussed which sources were most valuable and worth considering, and described the geography, flora, and fauna of India....

Summary I think that I, a technically skilled modern man, “need” ~$2000 of computer over 4 devices. I can walk around those machines before the sun sets. Server I bought the core setup consisting of a Supermicro X10SLL-F motherboard , an Intel Xeon E3-1271 v3 cpu , a used 480GB Samsung SM883 SSD with only 2% of its rated TBW (so very lightly used), and two 8Gb Kingston 1600Mhz unbuffered DDR3 ECC RAM sticks for a total of $100 from a local computer parts reseller....

HTML is a verbose lisp – and that’s great but awful Therefore is JSX basically a shitty LISP embedded in JS? To bridge the gap between “LISP” for data and “not LISP” for the programming (Javascript). But for a LISP to work, especially in a setting as dynamic as that of Clojure or HTML, one needs to understand the structure of the domain (libraries/frameworks vs DOM). And that…requires work. It’s all for the best, but it requires lots of work, presumably by lots of people....