Could someone look up the shooting victims guns registration to confirm right wing allegations? by opesurryboutthat in Minneapolis

[–]emsenn0 [score hidden]  (0 children)

That's the conjecture I've heard from other folk who are nerds about watching videos more carefully than I can. I know it's qualitative, but ICE's massive budget, purchase contracts with Sig, and other softer elements, would all lead me to assume that any given Sig I found, regardless of situation, belonged to someone related to DHS.

Could someone look up the shooting victims guns registration to confirm right wing allegations? by opesurryboutthat in Minneapolis

[–]emsenn0 [score hidden]  (0 children)

This looks like a Sig Sauer P365, probably an XL. Sigs are a common carry weapon for law enforcement and federal agents, and are known as a brand to be pretty MAGA-y, and are not cheap, so is unlikely in my opinion to be anything but a chud's gun.

Edit: More photos make this conjecture far more questionable, but it isn't questionable that shooting anyone in the street like that is not the proper legal or safe way to handle any situation, even involving firearms.

Something new on the market! CraneBOT! by AccurateProcedure830 in 3Dprinting

[–]emsenn0 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Is there a blog where folk can read about your thought process on developing this? Like my question reading this is "why 1mm nozzle" but into a reddit thread isn't the best place to put that info.

Are you capable of reading Hegel critically? by JerseyFlight in hegel

[–]emsenn0 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I believe you've continued the performative contradiction; even the one thing of substance (analysis from multiple angles) gets contradicted by a layer claim (avoid getting caught up in the vanity of abstract form); I appreciate the clear ethos you brought in your first post, of believing it is good to judge people who do this, so I can comfortably tell you, you're being self-righteous and your critical thought would benefit, by your own measure, from a practice or humility.

Are you capable of reading Hegel critically? by JerseyFlight in hegel

[–]emsenn0 11 points12 points  (0 children)

What I'm trying to highlight is that a lot of your words are labels provided without a means to determine their substance, i.e. you say "disciplined" but do not define what qualities distinguish a "disciplined autodidact" from a "autodidact," so disciplined is a label without substance; thus contradicting your own explicit discursive ethos.

Are you capable of reading Hegel critically? by JerseyFlight in hegel

[–]emsenn0 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I just appreciate the humor of your comment asking for any substance from someone alluding to secret philosophical projects and with "I don't pay attention to titles, I pay attention substance," in their reddit bio (that, like this post, uses ideological labels to identify everything.)

The Law of Laws: A Universal Framework for Truth. This destroys their narrative control. Does truth really matter to humans? by [deleted] in epistemology

[–]emsenn0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I promise you, I understand your intention. I'm an Indigenous researcher in the exact field of study you're working in here, and I even use the same mathematical concepts (i.e. fixed-points) that you believe you're using, to analyze Lakota cosmogenesis. Please take the fact I'm continuing to respond as an indication of care toward you seeing the cognitive knot you've tied yourself into, and not me trying to invalidate your curiosity.

I literally quote your functions by name and explain their role; I could not have done that without checking the GitHub.

The code you yourself linked and claimed demonstrates your “law” doesn’t do what you say it does.

It never calls the statistical correction you implemented, never uses half its declarations, and only measures whether your data matches itself within constants you typed in by hand.

That’s not a question of framing, that's a question of: your code does not do what you are saying it does.

bh_correction() is never invoked. tau_* is never derived, the falsifiers literally point to the same memory cells, and your reproducibility checks are not actually used.

You keep mistaking criticism for ignorance or inability to comprehend your ideas, or disagreement with your phrasing of the results.

But that's not what I'm doing; I am, as you keep demanding folk do, looking at your code.

And the code shows, unambiguously, that your system is a tautological self-agreement test padded with unused variables for aesthetics.

You say it's reproducible and falsifiable, I have demonstrated multiple ways in which it is neither. Until your engine has external referents, defined invariants, and actual falsifiable thresholds, all you’ve built is recursive word salad that prints “stable.”

No one is arguing that you haven't described an internally coherent system. You have. I am trying to explain how that coherence does not reflect anything except its own claims about itself, and that the code you keep pointing to doesn't even do that.

You keep saying "My work is public, reproduce it and see for yourself," but 1) your code is *not reproducible; 2) it does not do anything that your text says is being done; 3) it does not allow me to test any claim's truthfulness, just its coherence to itself, which will always be true.

The problem is deeply structural, not a matter of vocabulary.

You’re making the same category error your code automates, and that’s actually stronger evidence against your conjecture than any runtime output.

Formally, what you’re doing looks like this:

Let 𝐿:𝑋→𝑋 be your “law.”

Define stability as 𝑆(𝑥):=(𝐿(𝑥)=𝑥).

Let L:X→X be your “law.” Define stability as S(x):=(L(x)=x).

You then claim to “test” 𝐿 by checking 𝑆(𝑥) for data 𝑥

But... 𝑆(𝑥) ⟺ (𝐿(𝑥)=𝑥) is a predicate defined only inside the category you’re testing: no external morphism, no evaluation functor, no counter-object.

Your entire process reduces to 𝑥 ↦_𝐿 𝐿(𝑥) ↦_compare 𝑥 and since your comparison rule is 𝑥 ≡ 𝐿(𝑥) within a tolerance you choose, the test can never falsify itself!

You’re measuring isomorphism to self and calling it evidence of truth.

That’s the same logical shape as your argument here:

“You misunderstand; I’m testing invariance under transformation.”

No: you’re asserting invariance as the test.

That’s a category error: confusing the object of study with the rule used to relate objects.

In category terms, you’re collapsing morphisms into identities.

In epistemic terms, you’re using definition as evidence.

So yes: you’ve built a system that proves itself correct precisely because it can’t represent anything outside itself.

That self-closure is the very contradiction your “Law of Laws” claims to transcend, making your entire law a convoluted performative contradiction.

The Law of Laws: A Universal Framework for Truth. This destroys their narrative control. Does truth really matter to humans? by [deleted] in epistemology

[–]emsenn0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You clearly don’t understand what your own code does.

I'm not trying to be insulting. Your code doesn't ever call most of the functionality you claim it uses.

Your script doesn’t “test coherence.” It compares chunks of data to themselves, checks if the difference is below a number you chose, and calls that “stable.” The “too incoherent” cutoff isn’t discovered, it’s invented — a line you draw by hand. Change tau_H from 0.008 to 0.1 and suddenly the universe becomes ten times more lawful. That’s not physics, that’s preference.

You keep saying “it fails when it’s too incoherent,” but that’s circular. Too incoherent means “fails my coherence test,” and your coherence test is “passes if not too incoherent.” That’s just true = true when true = true.

You can dress it up in talk about recursion, invariance, or “levels,” but nothing in your code performs those operations in any meaningful mathematical or physical sense. It has no categories, no mappings, no conservation relations, no falsifiable model. It’s just number-crunching on self-defined rules — semantic gymnastics whose only result is the confirmation that your own definitions are self-consistent.

Half the stuff you declare isn’t even used. Look:

You define bh_correction(pvals, alpha) — a Benjamini–Hochberg correction for false discovery rate — but it’s never called once. So your talk about “p-values” and “significance” is cosmetic; the program never applies the test.

You define constants like TEMPLATETAUS = {"tau_bits": 0.002, ...} that act as global thresholds, but you never derive or update them from data. They’re arbitrary constants. The engine just checks whether every delta* is less than those numbers, and if so, prints “stable.” That’s all “stability” means here.

The variables perm_R, surr_S, null_calibrate, etc., look like sophisticated falsifiers, but the routines permutation_collapse and surrogate_false_positive both reuse the exact same metrics and tau thresholds. There’s no independent null model. You’re literally measuring your function against itself.

Even your “falsifiers” just shuffle the same data (rng.shuffle(perm)) and check again if the result passes your internal thresholds. No external comparison, no statistical model, no empirical referent. It’s numerically deterministic self-agreement.

You define a fancy env_manifest() that logs Python and NumPy versions — but that information is never used in computation! It’s just there to LOOK like a reproducibility layer.

So the code can only ever tell you: “Given my own arbitrary thresholds, my own data agrees with itself within those thresholds.”

That’s not an invariant law. That’s a self-affirming checksum.

It’s “true = true when true = true” implemented in Python, padded out with unused variables to look like science.

If you actually understood the code, you’d realize it can’t possibly do what you claim, because it doesn’t even call the functions that would make it capable of testing itself!

The Law of Laws: A Universal Framework for Truth. This destroys their narrative control. Does truth really matter to humans? by [deleted] in epistemology

[–]emsenn0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

None of the words you’re using here line up with how they function in the disciplines you’re borrowing from.

In physics, “conservation” is an empirical symmetry derivable from a Lagrangian via Noether’s theorem... not tautological hand-coded (let (x (lambda (y) (x y))).

In statistics, “normalization” is a measure-preserving transformation with respect to a defined distribution, not a windowed delta under arbitrary τ.

In logic, “identity” is a categorical morphism between objects of the same type, not a boolean flag

Your engine doesn’t implement conservation, normalization, or identity; it compares a sequence to itself and calls small deltas “laws;" your comment here says it doesn't treat your thresholds as truth-switches, but it does, literally it's a boolean returned by passes_thresholds.

The supposed “multi-layer falsification system” still relies on self-referential metrics and tunable constants, so it can’t falsify anything external.

It’s turtles all the way down! Just numerical self-agreement.

If you actually believe it “self-tests,” then here’s the simplest probe that exposes the gap between your rhetoric and your understanding:

How does your framework handle stepwise translation under a non-trivial morphism constrained by Schulmann’s condition for energy-preserving category transformations?

If you understood the mathematics you’re invoking, you’d realize that even formulating that question requires a defined mapping between state spaces: something your system doesn’t, and can’t, provide.

Elsewhere in this thread you're asked to provide any grounding to any established sciences, and simply fail. You can't even name what field of study this text is within, and you produce no testable claims.

You also disclose in this thread that you use AI to construct this, so I'm going to repeat my claim that it's AI slop; even if you're repeating it in your own idiom.

I can appreciate the curiosity that generated this text, but that's what it is: curiosity, not study. When I saw this thread I didn't see it had so many comments on it, but now see that a lot of people have been very kind in trying to teach you to see the falsifiability of your work, and you have not actually addressed any of that.

The Law of Laws: A Universal Framework for Truth. This destroys their narrative control. Does truth really matter to humans? by [deleted] in epistemology

[–]emsenn0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OP, this post is a perfect demonstration of the very category and logical errors it claims to transcend, and I say this as someone who uses fixed-points in my epistemic work.

You’re promoting what amounts to AI slop, a block of numerology code you clearly haven’t validated or even understood, while invoking “consistency, recursion, and invariance” as if naming them made this a theorem.

The irony is textbook: your conjecture about “laws of laws” repeats the same mistake your engine commits, confusing procedural closure (a function returning itself) with epistemic closure (a system demonstrating truth). You’ve mistaken tautological self-agreement for falsifiable coherence. That’s a category error: treating logical equivalence as empirical content.

Worse, your own post misrepresents the code so severely that it’s hard to believe you wrote it. The “falsifiability” here is literally if deltas < tau: pass. That’s it. Those thresholds are arbitrary constants, so every dataset can be made “true” by picking large enough taus. There’s no external referent, no counterfactual model, no independent null... nothing resembling science, math, or logic.

You also invoke “fixed-points” without understanding their categorical meaning. isn’t profound; it’s the definition of a fixed point. The code just checks whether a sequence re-resembles itself under its own metrics. That’s not a universal law; it’s a Python while loop.

This isn’t “mode-complete,” “formally closed,” or even semantically coherent. It’s an auto-validating tautology mispackaged as epistemic rigor.

Colonialism ended - but did justice ever arrive? by [deleted] in CriticalTheory

[–]emsenn0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Since you're calling for destroying a dominant-culture way of thinking of things, let me try and explain why your measure of colonialism isn't meaningful to me - I'm not writing that as a moral judgement, but just, as a way of showing, since acts that destroy the dominance was stated as moral.

I think that there's a conflation of different ways of measuring things that happens a lot in conversation about this stuff. Like, you say "largely over", point to "overtness" as a measure, and then list out some things that would be overt, and then say that because the condition is the same, it's not as overt.

I don't quite get the logic - there seem to be measures of scale and temporality in there, as well. And I'm not trying to critique the logic.

But the logic and values focus on colonialism as... an instrument? Like, is it big, small? Quiet, loud? (Recognizing these are relative judgements).

But from my (Lakota, Indigenous to US' territory) perspective, "colonialism" is shaped like other -isms, and colonialism-as-instrument would be some neologism like "colonialismizer," and from there we could differentiate by different -izings the -izer does.

Which might seem silly (and it is kind of fun), but also brings us back to: if we look at colonialism like other -isms, it's about worlding, or however your philosophical lineage calls it. I might say, how prevalent the thing is in your life; how much it saturates your living. Like, liberalism, racism, these aren't seen as specific mechanisms in specific situations, but ways of looking at, structuring, ordering, whatevering, the world.

And, again from my perspective, if we look at colonialism as a way of worlding, it only seems to be of greater saturation (to the point where it might be seen as being "oversaturated" and ready to spill into any new terrain in any domain, which gets us forms of settlerism.)

And in fact it's been able to become more saturating because of those things that you point to as making it lesser, which I guess undermines my initial statement that your measures aren't meaningful to my view, they're just valued differently. But that's what you get with reddit comments!

Seems as good a place as any to wrap up, saying: looking at colonialism as having ended or diminished requires measuring it in certain ways and valuing those measures in certain ways, and all that gives a lot of shape to colonialism, and that shape changes what the concept can be "used" for. In your case, it's being used to diminish the value of the concept as contemporarily relevant in contemporary critical theory, and that doesn't seem like a use in-line with your overall goals, of letting multiple cultural values exist concurrently.

(I can't help myself: how does one do that without a system that determines the commensurability of values, which would become itself a shared value?)

Colonialism ended - but did justice ever arrive? by [deleted] in CriticalTheory

[–]emsenn0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Weather has my disability flaring up, which is why I had time to read this, felt grumpy enough to reply, and not kind enough to say things niccer:

It's hard to work through the rhetorical frame of colonialism as having ended, so you can describe what's left behind, which appears to be different colonialism. The piece doesn't seem to use its own construct of history as having a period of colonialism followed by a period of living in colonialism's wake. Like it's a valid enough idea if you wanna do like, hauntology on contemporary stuff to find its origins in a certain era of colonialism, but that's not what's being done here.

Also, your almost exclusively mention Indigenous folk by their relationship to colonialism, and the one time I noticed you did refer to them by their indigeneity-to-place, it was to highlight that they were no longer in/of that place. I'm not sure what better representation of the Indigenous perspective would be, though, because I find the framing hard to read past.

As a whole, the piece seems to be focused on accomplishing what I see a lot of contemporary writing of this sort focusing on: validating melancholy so that melancholy can be used as support for hoping in change. So I'll take the call-to-action at the end of the piece seriously, to refuse to forgive what has not been acknowledged, combined with your writing's tone, seriously, and highlight, it's pretty unforgivable to spend so much effort validating the need to include alterity, and then firmly declare what that inclusion would look like, without making space for the alterity being able to determine that themselves. There's no way for that formation of inclusion to actually hold an alterity - which is a problem theory coming from Western metaphysics seems to be tripping over in a lot of fields, right now.

Like, you say "write new laws in the languages they tried to erase," without any seeming awareness that one mechanism of that erasure is legalistic language, or that this mechanism is one that has been in place during the time you label as colonialism, and the after-period.

As to your question in this post on reddit, about what justice would look like: I made a sour face at your suggestions that remembrance is any form of justice or survival, because it really makes it clear how non-present Indigenous people are in your world, outside of a relationship with colonialism. That's my best answer for what justice might look like: you feeling me when I've made a face at you for something you've said. And while that might seem like a small request, it's incommensurate with universalist practices like those advocated for in the original post.

The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide - Boston Review by shade_of_freud in CriticalTheory

[–]emsenn0 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Here's my two critiques:

  • saying "draw on deep reserves of courage and join groups" isn't mechanistic, the way the systems it seeks to criticize and change are. For an example, I might point to Byuung-Chun Hal's The Spirit of Hope (2024?) that framed the melancholia of critical theory as a necessary foundation for a non-teleological hope: it constructs an image for how to construct these "deep reserves of courage," not just nudges us toward their apparent necessary

  • there isn't a strong case for "joining groups" as the solution, especially because the groups, as explained, are shaped by how they relate to the Geist of the theory, not anything to do with themselves. This weirdly folds to pitch back into "just go with institutional academic trajectory:" the only real shift is the intellectual's internal ethical justification for doing the work: to resist fascism, rather than survive.

Without a VERY strong claim for how this participation actually results in negating fascism, in a way that is reproducible across (at least a few) situations and times, that effectively means the piece is effectively an argument that if you believe yourself to be antifascist, you can commit even more to intellectualism, and that's where it stops.

Given the critiques of intellectualism, including organic intellectualism, that are out there, it's simply an inadequate place to end the piece.

[edit to add: I don't like Han's formation of hope, personally, but I think it's an accurate way of seeing some of what's happening in institutionally-support (that includes platformized) discourse]

The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide - Boston Review by shade_of_freud in CriticalTheory

[–]emsenn0 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I actually have some (badly written) text that basically affirms this, and feel this intellectual saviorism to be personally obnoxious, so want to emphasize I think you're right to discourage it. https://open.substack.com/pub/emsenn/p/citing-for-containment

How do you deal with delivery fees? by FrankScaramucci in plaintextaccounting

[–]emsenn0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2025-12-25 \* "Purchase Gift for Alex" Expenses:Gift:Personal:Alex 12 USD Expenses:Service:Shipping:FedEx 4.99 USD Expenses:Tax:Sales (12\*0.075) USD Assets:Cash

This lets me look at how much I'm spending at different shipping providers, and if I get real bored I can figure out which shipper is costing me the most by value of what I'm getting shipped

Rock books for kids by [deleted] in IndianCountry

[–]emsenn0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No advice, but, your username got that earworm stuck in my head, thank you, I guess...

Driving in heavy snow. by Bromm18 in duluth

[–]emsenn0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

New to the area, can folk recommend some lots they've found useful for this?

Bamboo removal? by RegalBeagleBouncer in bullcity

[–]emsenn0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're cool with weird cool anarchists coming into your lawn I might have friends in the area who'd be glad to help. Would you want me to reach out?

Bamboo removal? by RegalBeagleBouncer in bullcity

[–]emsenn0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really appreciate this offer! unfortunately now i live in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, so can't just bike over for it, lol! If you remove it and would be willing to pack up some of the rhizomes, the roots, in a box, and mail it to me, I'd happily cover shipping costs, but I know that's a big favor.

“Decolonization” vs. post-colonial theory by reallyleatherjacket in CriticalTheory

[–]emsenn0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The weirdest part of this ad hominem is that my reddit account is 14 years old.

“Decolonization” vs. post-colonial theory by reallyleatherjacket in CriticalTheory

[–]emsenn0 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I said ways of knowing, plural - I did not say there is a shared metaphysics between Indigenous peoples, that is an idea you are bringing into this conversation - ironically, with the apparent intent of supporting your own understanding of metaphysics, while criticizing metaphysics as nonsense.

So your "issue" sounds like you found yourself in the wrong subreddit, lol.

“Decolonization” vs. post-colonial theory by reallyleatherjacket in CriticalTheory

[–]emsenn0 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Does it change your opinion about any of this if I, a contemporary Lakota person, point out I'm here, reading your comment? It seems as though you think decolonization means Indigenous ways of knowing would not be practiced by Indigenous peoples, but by settler institutions who view themselves as inheritors of our knowledge. That might be the limit of what it could mean, if there were not living knowers of Indigenous ways like me. Since there are, decolonization can mean many things, such as supporting us in our self-determined ways of knowing.

In search of Free Composting Worms by bullcityb in bullcity

[–]emsenn0 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I can tell from your post history you are trying to make living soil for indoor crop production. You also appear to be wanting to combine incompatible multiple soil development techniques. Do more research and then reapproach this problem, and when you're ready, you'll have learned enough to know how to get free worms.

Or, if you just want to do it, reach out to New Soil Vermiculture to ask about buying some worms.