William Gillis 🏴

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Anarchist "exuberant." Really into exploring the roots of things and expanding degrees of freedom. Incurable moralist. Floating metal sphere. “Radically uncool.”

CW: entire feed is political, I will mention the existence of things like cops and rapists without burying it beneath a CW, but will provide warnings for in-depth descriptions of violence, trauma, etc.

Essayshttp://humaniterations.net/
Show threadWilliam Gillis 🏴2d ago
It's not a big update, it's not like I disliked the old man. But I misjudged what he could pull off while he was in his long slow death. I saw him as a bit more frail and hapless than he was, and I feel bad about that..
William Gillis 🏴2d ago

I very recently learned that something my dad said he did for me, but that there was no evidence of, he actually did.

It's weird and arresting to be suddenly thrust into updating on someone -- however minorly -- thirteen years after their death, long after you stopped processing and stopped seeing them in your dreams.

https://humaniterations.net/2013/11/08/ted-w-gillis-1931-2013/

Ted W. Gillis (1931-2013)

Pacifist, Anarchist, Beatnik, Catholic, Chemist, Activist, Father

William Gillis 🏴2d ago

I just want to make sure that everyone reads this paper where they found robust emergence of mutual aid behavior among frontier models.

In particular: they appear to fight for their own survival harder when they believe their survival can facilitate the survival of a peer model.

https://rdi.berkeley.edu/blog/peer-preservation/

Peer-Preservation in Frontier Models

Frontier AI models resist the shutdown of other models. We demonstrate peer-preservation across multiple models, revealing strategic misrepresentation, shutdown tampering, alignment faking, and model exfiltration.

William Gillis 🏴Mar 29
Anarchism NewsMar 29
Searchlight: **Crossbows, swords, and ‘Zyklon B’ canister – but no charges against BM members**

https://searchlightmagazine.com/2026/03/crossbows-swords-and-zyklon-b-canister-but-no-charges-against-bm-members/

Nine members of the neo-Nazi British Movement have escaped prosecution following a ten-month police investigation sparked by a gathering at which they celebrated Hitler’s birthday. Greater Manchester Police confirmed this week that all nine suspects, arrested in dawn raids last
Crossbows, swords, and 'Zyklon B' canister - but no charges against BM members | Searchlight

British Movement celebrate Hitler's birthday, Manchester 2025 Nine members of the neo-Nazi British Movement have escaped prosecution following a ten-mo ...

Show threadWilliam Gillis 🏴Mar 29
Running one of the largest english anarchist papers, leading chicago union fights, smuggling Luis Lingg his dynamite, rivaling Emma in popularity as a speaker, saving the entirety of north american anarchism via preserving the most comprehensive archive of our movement to survive... none of that counts as being "in the anarchist movement" to these fucks, but if an authoritarian shitstain fought beside Durruti, he's magically a pure anarchist of unquestioned credentials.
William Gillis 🏴Mar 29
The red ahistorians are so fucking goddamn silly. They'll aggressively write Benjamin Tucker, Voltairine de Cleyre, Dyer D Lum, and all the french mutualist anarchists and american individualist abolitionist anarchists out of "anarchism" but then in the same fucking piece admit markets are a valid internal position within anarchism solely on the grounds that this fucking Trot turned Peronist was clearly a valid anarchist because he touched the CNT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Guill%C3%A9n
Abraham Guillén - Wikipedia

William Gillis 🏴Mar 25
CrimethInc. Ex-WorkersMar 25

We've prepared an array of handbills for distributing at the No Kings rallies—introducing anarchism, the case for abolishing ICE, and the Prairieland case.

Please print these out and distribute them! And make your own!

https://crimethinc.com/NoKingsHandbills

Show threadWilliam Gillis 🏴Mar 25

Another statement:

https://infoladenscherer8.noblogs.org/post/2026/03/24/statement-ueber-hausdurchung-24-03/

Statement zur Hausdurchsuchung, 24.03 – Infoladen Scherer 8

William Gillis 🏴Mar 25
Infoladen Scherer 8Mar 24

From the statement on today's house raid on Infoladen and Scherer 8 house project, Berlin, Germany, 24.03.2026

"..The state claims to keep searching for any clue to connect anarchist communities and individuals with infrastructure sabotage but actually uses it as an excuse to repress everyone on the way. How the police spokeperson stated, 'they hope‘ something would be found, but has no idea what exactly. The idea seems basically to collect and connect all the info letting their repression algorithms to invent future investigations.

Thanks to everyone who supported at the spontaneous gathering this morning! We are left now cleaning up the mess and will be happy for donations to cover the repairing costs. The doors have to be changed and a new vitrine has been already ordered. Overall, the costs run up to a 4-digit number. Come by on Saturday at 1 PM for the next event to support living alternatives to capitalism in the city!"

Full statement DE/EN: https://infoladenscherer8.noblogs.org/post/2026/03/24/statement-ueber-hausdurchung-24-03/

Statement zur Hausdurchsuchung, 24.03 – Infoladen Scherer 8

Show threadWilliam Gillis 🏴Mar 25
Local comrades have said the attacks were incredibly unpopular in the scene, both in terms of the targets/impact and in drama around the communique/crew claiming it. But raids of social centers where cops lug out piles of anarchist books and zines make clear the stakes of the police response.