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Nonilex

Several family members took the opportunity to…[give victim/survivor statements] to Kohberger…. Randy Davis, the stepfather of 1 of the victims, concluded by telling him to “go to hell.”

Kohberger, 30, agreed to 4 consecutive #LifeSentences as part of a #PleaDeal that allows him to avoid #execution for the fatal #stabbing of the 4 #UniversityOfIdaho #students early on Nov 13, 2022. But many questions remain unanswered, including…: What was the motive?

#UIdaho#MassMurder#criminal
MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor and Writing History 7/15/1381: The authorities executed Peasants Revolt leader John Ball by hanging, drawing and quartering. They later stuck his head on a pike and left it on London Bridge. Ball was a radical roving priest who routinely pissed off the Archbishop of Canterbury. As a result, they imprisoned him at least three times and excommunicated him. He helped inspire peasants to rise up in June of 1381, though he was in prison at the time. Kentish rebels soon freed him. The revolt came in the wake of the Black Plague and years of war, which the government paid for by heavily taxing the peasantry. Furthermore, the plague had wiped out half the population.

Ball and his followers were inspired, in part, by the contemporary poem, “Piers Plowman,” (1370-1390) by William Langland. Ball put Piers, and other characters from Langland’s poem, into his own cryptic writings, which some believe were coded messages to his followers. Ball is mentioned in the poem, “Vox Clamantis,” (also 1380-1390) by John Gower:

“Ball was the preacher, the prophet and teacher, inspired by a spirit of hell,
And every fool advanced in his school, to be taught as the devil thought well.”

Ball was also the main character in the anonymous play, “The Life and Death of Jack Straw,” (1593), which is about the Peasants’ Revolt. And socialist, William Morris, wrote a short story called “A Dream of John Ball.” John Ball is also referenced several times in “The Once and Future King,” (1958) by T. H. White.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #peasant #revolt #rebellion #uprising #JohnBall #prison #rebels #execution #poetry #books #fiction #novel #author #writer @bookstadon

WIST Quotations

A quotation from Harry Blackmun

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years I have endeavored — indeed, I have struggled — along with a majority of this Court, to develop procedural and substantive rules that would lend more than the mere appearance of fairness to the death penalty endeavor. Rather than continue to coddle the Court’s delusion that the desired level of fairness has been achieved and the need for regulation eviscerated, I feel morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed. It is virtually self-evident to me now that no combination of procedural rules or substantive regulations ever can save the death penalty from its inherent constitutional deficiencies. The basic question — does the system accurately and consistently determine which defendants “deserve” to die? — cannot be answered in the affirmative. […] The problem is that the inevitability of factual, legal, and moral error gives us a system that we know must wrongly kill some defendants, a system that fails to deliver the fair, consistent, and reliable sentences of death required by the Constitution.

Harry Blackmun (1908-1999) US Supreme Court Associate Justice (1970-1994) [Harold Andrew Blackmun]
Callins v. Collins, 510 U.S. 1141 (1994) [dissent from denial of certiori]

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/blackmun-harry/18649…

#quote#quotes#quotation
MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History July 1, 1766: François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, was tortured, beheaded and burnt on a pyre for reading Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique and, more importantly, for not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France. The articles in Voltaire’s work included critiques of the Catholic Church, as well as Judaism and Islam. The general public loved the book, which sold out quickly after its first, anonymous, printing. The religious authorities hated it and censored it in France and Switzerland. Charles Dickens reference the torture and murder of la Barre in his novel, Tale of Two Cities. Voltaire tried, unsuccessfully, to defend la Barre. His writings immediately after the arrest did help several other young Frenchman get acquitted for the same offenses.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #freespeech #censorship #torture #voltaire #enlightenment #execution #books #author #writer #philosopher #fiction #dickens @bookstadon

Agustin V. Startari

From Obedience to Execution: Structural Legitimacy in the Age of Reasoning Models
When models no longer obey but execute, what happens to legitimacy?

Core contributions:
• Execution vs. obedience in LLMs
• Structural legitimacy without subject
• Reasoning as authority loop

🔗 Full article: zenodo.org/records/15635364
🌐 Website: agustinvstartari.com
🪪 ORCID: orcid.org/0009-0002-1483-7154

ZenodoFrom Obedience to Execution: Structural Legitimacy in the Age of Reasoning ModelsThis article formulates a structural transition from Large Language Models (LLMs) to Language Reasoning Models (LRMs), redefining authority in artificial systems. While LLMs operated under syntactic authority without execution, producing fluent but functionally passive outputs, LRMs establish functional authority without agency. These models do not intend, interpret, or know. They instantiate procedural trajectories that resolve internally, without reference, meaning, or epistemic grounding. This marks the onset of a post-representational regime, where outputs are structurally valid not because they correspond to reality, but because they complete operations encoded in the architecture. Neutrality, previously a statistical illusion tied to training data, becomes a structural simulation of rationality, governed by constraint, not intention. The model does not speak. It acts. It does not signify. It computes. Authority no longer obeys form, it executes function. A mirrored version of this article is also available on Figshare for redundancy and citation indexing purposes: DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.29286362 Resumen Este artículo formula una transición estructural desde los Modelos de Lenguaje a Gran Escala (LLMs) hacia los Modelos de Razonamiento Lingüístico (LRMs), redefiniendo la noción de autoridad en sistemas artificiales. Mientras los LLMs operaban bajo una autoridad sintáctica sin ejecución, generando salidas coherentes pero pasivas, los LRMs instauran una autoridad funcional sin agencia. Estos modelos no interpretan, no intencionan, no conocen. Resuelven trayectorias procedurales internas sin referente, sin sentido, sin anclaje epistémico. Se inaugura así un régimen post-representacional, donde la validez no proviene de la correspondencia con el mundo, sino de la finalización estructural de operaciones. La neutralidad, antes ilusión estadística derivada del corpus, se convierte en simulación estructural de racionalidad, regulada por restricciones y no por decisiones. El modelo no habla: actúa. No significa: computa. La autoridad ya no obedece forma, ejecuta estructura.
#AI#LLM#Execution
Futurist Jim Carroll

"𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

One of my main messages yesterday during my keynote was that you need to make the most of the moment if you have one. If a wide variety of trends are suddenly coming together - which they are for medical device technology as they are for many other industries - then you have to move at the speed of the trends. This is a message I often share while on stage.

In that context, I've also been doing a final proofread of 𝑫𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒂𝒊𝒏 - I suspect we are days away from release. And in one of the chapters, I saw one of the phrases I wrote - "𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒." When you write tens of thousands of words, you sometimes forget the wisdom you wove into just a few of those words.

With that in mind, here's what you need to think about.

You need to commit.

You need to have a compelling sense of urgency.

You have to decide to move forward, not back.

You should have a sense that RIGHT NOW is the right time.

You must be ready to act decisively.

You need to make decisions.

You need to move with the trends as they mature, not as they fade.

Do things. Now.

Get it done - because why should you wait?

Kill indecision - otherwise, it will kill you.

Start doing. Action is better than stasis.

Act faster - because your world is.

Volatility is normal - learn from it.

Think faster. Don't wait for perfect information.

Act more. Momentum is valuable.

Change is inevitable - Indecisiveness isn't.

Because waiting is fatal.

Agility, innovation, and execution are key.

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Futurist Jim Carroll admits to having never understood indecision.

**#Action** **#Urgency** **#Decisiveness** **#Momentum** **#Innovation** **#Agility** **#Execution** **#Trends** **#Commitment** **#Now**

Original post: jimcarroll.com/2025/06/decodin

Futurist Jim Carroll

"𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒑 𝒔𝒂𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒂𝒚𝒃𝒆!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

You need to commit.

To do that, you need to banish the 'maybe's.

You know:

"Maybe next quarter"
"Maybe when we have clarity"
"Maybe when I'm more comfortable"
"Maybe when the market settles"
"Maybe after we see what competitors do"
"Maybe when we have more money"
"Maybe when the timing is better"
"Maybe when we understand the risks better"
"Maybe when customers start asking for it"
"Maybe when we have the right team"
"Maybe when the technology is more mature"
"Maybe when we get approval from leadership"
"Maybe when we have more data"
"Maybe when things aren't so uncertain"
"Maybe when we finish our current projects"
"Maybe when the economy improves"
"Maybe when we have a guarantee it'll work"
"Maybe when someone else proves it first"
"Maybe when we can afford to fail"
"Maybe when we know exactly what we're doing"
"Maybe when the stars align"
"Maybe when we have time to do it right"
"Maybe when we understand all the implications"
"Maybe when we can measure the ROI"
"Maybe when it becomes urgent"
The "maybe's" are a silent killer of much innovation.

Stop saying maybe.

Start saying when.

Better yet, start saying now.

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Futurist Jim Carroll has never liked the word ‘maybe.’

**#Commitment** **#Decision** **#Action** **#Now** **#Innovation** **#Leadership** **#Urgency** **#Focus** **#Execution** **#Decisive**

Original post: jimcarroll.com/2025/06/decodin

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