Read the Community

The broader skill of understanding the collective identity, shared values, history, and sensitive issues of any defined group, online or offline, from a fanbase for a TV show to a local neighborhood association. It involves recognizing the community's sacred cows, its common enemies, its generational divides, and the appropriate language to use to be seen as an insider rather than a disruptive outsider.

Example: Walking into a tightly-knit fan convention for a niche anime and loudly proclaiming the reboot is superior to the original without testing the waters is a failure to Read the Community. The adept fan knows the community reveres the original, understands the specific grievances with the reboot, and phrases any critique within the accepted framework of shared love.

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 3, 2026

Victims of Anti-communism Memorial Foundation

An institution that inverts the typical Western memorialization of communism's victims. It documents those killed, persecuted, or whose progressive social projects were destroyed by anti-communist violence: victims of US-backed right-wing dictatorships in Latin America and Asia, victims of the Red Scares and blacklisting, and casualties of wars (like in Korea and Vietnam) framed as necessary to "contain" communism. It argues anti-communism has been a more prolific and less-accounted-for killer.

Victims of Anti-communism Memorial Foundation Example: The foundation's archive would highlight figures like Salvador Allende of Chile or Patrice Lumumba of the Congo, not as failed leaders, but as primary Victims of Anti-communism, assassinated with Western complicity to crush socialist experiments, with the subsequent dictatorships producing millions more victims in their wake.

by Dumu The Void February 5, 2026

Foundation for Communist Education

A more ideologically specific and radical institution focused on the theories of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and later thinkers, with the explicit aim of preparing cadres for revolutionary struggle and the construction of a communist society. Education is rigorous, dialectical, and combines theory with practical organizing skills. It is unapologetically partisan, seeing education as a key front in the class war.

Foundation for Communist Education Example: The foundation's flagship program could be a clandestine, intensive "Cadre School," where students live communally, studying Capital by day and practicing digital security, community defense, and agitational propaganda techniques by night, viewing themselves as future architects of a revolution.

by Dumu The Void February 5, 2026

Foundation for Communal Education

An educational project rooted in anarchist and libertarian socialist traditions, focusing on the practical and philosophical knowledge needed to build and sustain autonomous communes, intentional communities, and directly democratic assemblies. It teaches conflict resolution, consensus decision-making, ecological stewardship, and communal economics, emphasizing prefigurative politics—building the new society in the shell of the old.

Foundation for Communal Education Example: The foundation might operate a "Communal Lab"—a network of rural and urban land projects where participants learn hands-on skills in permaculture, off-grid energy, cooperative management, and horizontal assembly governance, embodying the education it preaches.

by Dumu The Void February 5, 2026

Confirmation Bias of Common Ground

The shared, tacit assumptions that enable communication and cooperation within a group, maintained by collective confirmation. When everyone in a community starts from the same axioms and continually reinforces them through discourse, the axioms become "common ground"—so obvious they need not be stated. This bias is functional: it reduces negotiation costs and enables coordinated action. It is also a prison: it makes the group's foundational premises invisible and unassailable from within.

Confirmation Bias of Common Ground Example: In a corporate meeting, everyone confirms that "shareholder value" is the ultimate goal. This common ground is never debated; it's the platform upon which all other debates happen. An outsider asking "Why maximize shareholder value?" is met with confused silence—they've violated the Confirmation Bias of Common Ground. The group's bias is so deeply shared they've forgotten it's a bias.

by Dumu The Void February 11, 2026

Confirmation Bias of Common Sense

The process by which certain beliefs become elevated to the status of "common sense" precisely because they have been confirmed so often, by so many, for so long, that their confirmation is no longer visible as an active process. Common sense feels like direct perception of reality, not a hypothesis, because its confirmation history is buried in cultural memory. This bias hides the contingency of these beliefs, making alternatives seem not just wrong, but insane. Common sense is the ghost of confirmation bias after it has become invisible.

Confirmation Bias of Common Sense Example: In 1700, it was common sense that the Earth was young and that kings ruled by divine right. These weren't beliefs; they were the backdrop of reality. Questioning them was folly. Today, common sense includes human rights and germ theory. Confirmation Bias of Common Sense reveals that yesterday's common sense was just a massively confirmed hypothesis, and today's will be tomorrow's historical curiosity. The bias is in forgetting that all sense was once nonsense.

by Dumu The Void February 11, 2026

Spacetime Crystals Communication

A speculative method of information transfer using the temporal structure of spacetime crystals as a carrier wave. Unlike radio, which modulates amplitude or frequency, spacetime crystal communication would modulate the phase of time itself—the relative timing of the crystal's eternal ticks. Such a signal would be extraordinarily robust, difficult to jam, and potentially capable of operating in environments where conventional electromagnetic transmission fails (deep underground, in plasma, across vast interstellar distances).

Spacetime Crystals Communication *Example: A deep-space probe powered down for centuries wakes up. Its only active component is a tiny spacetime crystal, oscillating in perfect phase since launch. Earth sends a signal: a precisely timed pulse that shifts the probe's crystal phase by π/2. The probe reads this shift. This single bit—"wake up and transmit"—required no power to maintain, could not be intercepted without detection (any measurement would disturb the phase), and will remain readable for millennia. This is communication through the geometry of time.*

by Dumu The Void February 11, 2026