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Friendly reminder: I’m still seeking submissions for the next zine I’m curating, titled “Ritual as Resistance: Defending the Sacred.”
Length: 125 words, give or take
Deadline: May 11
Email to: cbmilstein {at} yahoo [dot] comPlease share this “call” far and wide!
I’m looking for concrete examples of rituals you’ve held space for and/or participated in; that draw on your own cultural practices and/or ancestral traditions; that blur the lines between sacred and rebellious, or shake up what the spiritual+political feels like; and especially, that are collectively and/or publicly done. (See fuller description in my previous post.)
Here’s a sample of one that I’ll be using in the zine, as inspiration and to offer a sense of what I want (though please note, I am NOT only looking for Jewish rituals—though we anarchist Jews love our rad rituals!):
“Fascists sticker-bomb your neighborhood. This hurts. Not merely because the memory of eleven people killed at the Tree of Life building—your childhood shul—still lingers, but they’re crafty bigots. They deliberately drop provocative flyers on people’s doorsteps to try to break solidarity between Palestinians and Jews. This inspires you to counter with agitprop. The ritual technology of prayer, in Judaism, allows us to make the most mundane moments holy. The eating of bread and sipping wine. Through the language of our ancestors, we make these acts sacred, connecting us with all who’ve performed them across the axis of time. You arm yourself with new ritual implements: a paint scraper, sharpies, and wheat paste, along with an extending pole for higher spots. Kadosh, kadosh, kadosh, even these moments where we cover up white supremacist drek can be holy!”
—Anastasia bat Lilith (@stormbringer_press)(photo: glimpse of an elaborate, bilingual grief and ritual space that I and three beautifully caring anarchists set up for the whole weekend during the May 2023 @montrealanarchist)
#RitualAsResistance
#DefendingTheSacred
#TryAnarchismForLife
#NoSpiritualSurrender (with love and blessed remembrance to Klee Benally) -
Friendly reminder: I’m still seeking submissions for the next zine I’m curating, titled “Ritual as Resistance: Defending the Sacred.”
Length: 125 words, give or take
Deadline: May 11
Email to: cbmilstein {at} yahoo [dot] comPlease share this “call” far and wide!
I’m looking for concrete examples of rituals you’ve held space for and/or participated in; that draw on your own cultural practices and/or ancestral traditions; that blur the lines between sacred and rebellious, or shake up what the spiritual+political feels like; and especially, that are collectively and/or publicly done. (See fuller description in my previous post.)
Here’s a sample of one that I’ll be using in the zine, as inspiration and to offer a sense of what I want (though please note, I am NOT only looking for Jewish rituals—though we anarchist Jews love our rad rituals!):
“Fascists sticker-bomb your neighborhood. This hurts. Not merely because the memory of eleven people killed at the Tree of Life building—your childhood shul—still lingers, but they’re crafty bigots. They deliberately drop provocative flyers on people’s doorsteps to try to break solidarity between Palestinians and Jews. This inspires you to counter with agitprop. The ritual technology of prayer, in Judaism, allows us to make the most mundane moments holy. The eating of bread and sipping wine. Through the language of our ancestors, we make these acts sacred, connecting us with all who’ve performed them across the axis of time. You arm yourself with new ritual implements: a paint scraper, sharpies, and wheat paste, along with an extending pole for higher spots. Kadosh, kadosh, kadosh, even these moments where we cover up white supremacist drek can be holy!”
—Anastasia bat Lilith (@stormbringer_press)(photo: glimpse of an elaborate, bilingual grief and ritual space that I and three beautifully caring anarchists set up for the whole weekend during the May 2023 @montrealanarchist)
#RitualAsResistance
#DefendingTheSacred
#TryAnarchismForLife
#NoSpiritualSurrender (with love and blessed remembrance to Klee Benally) -
Building a virtual neuron – part 2
Image credit: Ionut Stefan
It’s been a tad longer than I intended since our intro on differential equations came out, but hopefully that means you had some extra time for memory consolidation. Otherwise, you can refresh your memory here. Today it’s finally time to tackle the long-awaited virtual neuron. But before we jump in, we need to have a quick housekeeping chat. As you can already glimpse from the list below, we mean business this time, so I strongly recommend that you read this article in chunks. Then again, I’m just a disembodied voice on the Internet and I can’t tell you what to do.
- Defining the goal
- The plurality of virtual neurons
- The foundation model
- From cats to neurons
- From neurons to circuits
- From measurements to interventions
- Virtual neuron 1 – linear, boring, and instructive
- Virtual neuron 2 – to the moon and beyond
- Virtual neuron 3 – other ions have joined the party
- The full model – everybody gets a function
- Still alive?
Defining the goal
First, we need to understand what we want to do. “Building a virtual neuron” sounds cool (well, about as cool as math can ever sound), but it tells us surprisingly little about the task. We need to define the level at which we build this neuron. Do we want to simulate every protein and ion, and all their interactions? I mean, maybe. I admit that does sound pretty cool, but would we be able to interpret the results? My computational neuroscience professor used to say: “If you build a simulation as complex as the system you’re studying, you now have two systems you don’t understand.” And leaving that aside, could we even construct such a simulation right now? Well, no, not really. So instead we need to define three things:
- what we want to do;
- what we can and want to get out of it;
- what we can realistically accomplish.
For today, we want to build a model capable of producing action potentials, just like real neurons (1). We want to use this model to understand how neurons produce these potentials and how they are affected by both external stimuli and ion channel properties (2). And we can realistically accomplish this with a run-of-the-mill laptop and our own brains (3).
The plurality of virtual neurons
There isn’t just one single way to simulate a neuron. In fact, there are a lot of options. If you don’t believe me, have a look here. Choosing a computational model is an act of balance between complexity and efficiency. On the one hand, we want something complex enough to capture what we’re interested in: for example, if we want to know what happens to a neuron when we mess with its calcium channels, we need a model that includes them. On the other hand, this model needs to run on the available hardware and we should be able to make some sense of its results. So if we only care about calcium channels, it’s not such a good idea to include 300 other types of ion channels.
The foundation model
For today, I’ve chosen the Hodgkin-Huxley (HH) model. As some of you might already know, this is kind of the bedrock of modern computational modeling, and often the first boss you will encounter if you ever attend such a course.
While arguably not the first computational model, the HH was pioneering as a quantitative, dynamic, biologically grounded one, and it remains remarkably elegant to this day. Of course, now it’s quite easy to look at it and think “well, big whoop, we already know how action potentials work”. But given the limited amount of information Hodgkin and Huxley had available at the time, it’s nothing short of fascinating how well the model reproduced empirical data and what predictions they were able to derive from it.
At the same time, coming from the biology side, I always had a bunch of questions about action potentials that remained largely unanswered until I made my way through the math jungle. For example, why do sodium (Na+) channels open slowly at first, then all at once? Why does the threshold for spike generation have that value and not another one? Why do potassium (K+) channels take so long to open? And why is it that we don’t always get one spike after another?
As we work our way through the model, we will be answering these questions and more. But similar to the previous article, we’ll start with a series of small, made-up examples (the code to follow along is here) and work our way up to the main beast. I hope that these examples bring clarity, but if they have the opposite effect, please let me know in the comments. That way, I can improve this guide (and future ones).
Throughout, I’ll try to highlight the underlying biology, as well as what Hodgkin and Huxley actually knew at the time. If you’d like a refresher on neuron structure and function, we do have this older post covering the basics, but I’ll try to weave those concepts in as we go.
From cats to neurons
Abstracting the movements of a cat to math is somewhat straightforward. If we get stuck in the equation, we have something tangible to go back to. So before we start with the math, let’s try to build the same kind of concreteness for neurons and action potentials.
We can begin from the same information Hodgkin and Huxley had available at the time. Neurons are enclosed by membranes, which usually block the movement of ions. Since the membrane is typically sealed, we can have different concentrations of ions on both sides: more Na+ outside, more K+ inside. While they didn’t yet know how these concentration gradients were maintained, HH recognized their importance.
They also observed that, if one were to place an electrode outside of the neuron and stick another one inside, a potential difference in voltage of about -65 mV could be measured (by the way, these days it’s also known the exact voltage difference varies by neuron type). In other words, the inside of the cell is more negative compared to the outside. Importantly, the value and its sign don’t matter that much, at least not for understanding the general principles. What matters is that there is a measurable difference and that sometimes there is a change in this difference.
If the membrane were forever sealed to the passage of any and all ions, then that would be the end of the story. We’d have no action potential to talk about (and we couldn’t anyway, because no intelligence, language, movement, nothing). But sometimes, the membrane allows ions to flow through it. You can imagine the ion concentrations we mentioned above as water stored in a tank. There’s much more Na+ outside the neuron than inside, so when the Na+ “tap” (i.e., ion channels) opens, Na+ rushes into the neuron, like water gushing into an empty chamber. This happens very fast and leads to a temporary reversal of the voltage difference sign: the inside becomes more positive than the outside. Then the Na⁺ tap closes and the K+ tap opens, allowing K+ to flow out and bring things back to normal.
This information is pretty much all we need for the HH model, although I’m sure you still have some questions.
Small detour # 1: hypothesized, but not modeled
We mentioned above that Hodgkin and Huxley didn’t know how the Na+ and K+ gradients were maintained. However, they hypothesized there must be some active mechanism that pushes Na+ out and brings K+ into the neuron, thus working to maintain the concentration gradients. Otherwise, each neuron would only have a few action potentials to fire before the ion concentration on both sides of the membrane equalizes.
And they were right. Years later, we found out that there are proteins embedded in the membrane, called ion pumps, that are open only on one side of the neuron at a time. They act kind of like a shuttle bus that only allows Na+ to board from the inside going out and K+ from the outside going in.
Small detour # 2: positive, yet negative?
I’m sure it’s not lost on any of you that: 1) both Na+ and K+ are positive ions, and 2) cells, including neurons, aren’t electrically charged. So how can we talk about a voltage difference?
There are a few key points here:
- overall, the amount of positive and negative charges is equal both inside and outside the membrane, but it’s the distribution of these charges close to the membrane that makes a difference;
- inside the neuron, there are also large negatively charged proteins which can’t leave the cell and tend to cluster close to the membrane;
- even though both Na+ and K+ each carry a +1 charge, the concentration of Na+ outside the cell is larger than that of K+ inside the cell (around 150 mM for Na+ vs 100 mM for K+, depending on neuron type). Additionally, the pump we mentioned earlier throws out 3 Na+ ions for every 2 K+ brought in, thus maintaining the imbalance;
- there are also some K+ channels that remain open at rest. Due to the K+ concentration gradient, some of it flows out of the neuron, which means that some positive charge trickles outward, leaving the inside slightly more negative relative to the outside.
The combination of these factors generates the voltage difference measured by Hodgkin and Huxley.
From neurons to circuits
Coming back to our neuron model, now that we have the biology basics, we can begin to abstract. But instead of inventing an entirely new mathematical framework to describe how neurons behave, Hodgkin and Huxley realized that it was easier to repurpose what was already in the physics of electric circuits.
All the elements we described above have an equivalent in a circuit:
- since the membrane stores charge, it behaves like something called a capacitor, i.e. a device which stores charge by accumulating it on two closely spaced surfaces insulated from each other;
- the only way for ions to passively go through the membrane is through ion channels, which are typically closed. In other words, the channels provide resistance to the flow of ions, so we can represent them through resistors;
- we also explained that there are differences in the concentration of ions between the inside and the outside of the neuron and that these differences drive the ion flow, so the ion concentration differences are our voltage sources or batteries;
- and finally, although not explicitly included in the HH model, the ion pumps which restore the concentration gradients represent the current sources in our circuit, pushing ions in a specific direction to keep the system going.
As I said, even at the time, there was already a lot of math for how to work with electrical circuits. And that’s the key for cracking our simulations.
From measurements to interventions
In the circuit above, we could measure the voltage difference of the inside compared to the outside of the membrane. In fact, that’s what Hodgkin and Huxley did at first. They used giant axons from squids and silver electrodes to measure the so-called membrane or resting potential, which we said sits at around -65 mV.
But measurements alone aren’t enough. And by itself, the neuron and its membrane potential at rest aren’t that exciting. We want action…potentials. Those happen when neurons receive stimuli or input. One could try to do these measurements in vivo, that is when the one neuron we measure receives input naturally, either from other neurons or from the environment. But in this particular situation, Hodgkin and Huxley wanted to have precise control over the neuron’s input and they wanted to use the circuit framework from above. So instead, they used another set of electrodes to directly inject current into the axon of an isolated neuron.
Now, looking at the circuit diagram, physics tells us that if we inject some external current (we’ll call it ) into this system before the point where the individual elements (capacitor and resistors) are branching out, this current will split to flow through each available path. So we’ll have a capacitive current and, for each type of channel, ionic currents, which for now we’ll lump under a generic . As nothing is lost in this idealized circuit, our original will be the sum of the currents flowing through the individual elements, so: .
Cool, but we actually care about voltage, right? That’s what the action potential is, a change in voltage difference between the inside and the outside of the neuron over time. Yes, and here’s how physics helps us again: it tells us that – our capacitive or membrane current, can be expressed in terms of the rate of change of the voltage, i.e. our old friend . Since we’re talking about membrane voltage, we’ll just rename x to . And the full formula is , where represents something called the membrane capacitance, and it’s just a constant, a number that we normally determine experimentally or read from a paper that already measured it. In this case, Hodgkin and Huxley measured and found it equal to 1 (, but don’t stress about the units yet; by the way, what you’ve just heard is the collective shudder of all the world’s physicists at the idea of not stressing about units).
With that, we can rewrite , and shifting the terms, we get . Since is a constant, you will often see it written on the same side as (basically, constant = we don’t care much about it), but to make it clearer, we can also isolate . This will be our stepping stone for the full model. The lefthand side of the equation won’t change anymore. That’s the potential we’ve been wanting to simulate for a while now. The righthand side will gradually expand in complexity until it allows us to get something looking like the image below:
Virtual neuron 1 – linear, boring, and instructive
In the equation , we already know that is a constant equal to 1 . is what we pump into the system and we have full control over it. For now, we will try out three values: 0, 1, and 2 mA/. tells us about how ions, like Na+ and K+, behave, but for now, we will completely ignore it by setting it to zero. So our equation reduces to or 0, 1 or 2 (mV), depending on which we pick. This is very similar to the first cat example from last time, except that our starting point, , is -65 mV.
But just because this example is so simple, it doesn’t mean we can’t extract any information from it. We observe that the higher the input current is, the faster our membrane voltage increases. And of course, if there is no input whatsoever, nothing happens.
We can also check what happens if we start from different values at (in this case, -100 mV, -65 mV, and 10 mV). And we’ll look at just one external input value, = 1 mA/. As you see below, not much. The line looks exactly the same, except that it starts from different values of . We’ll check this again in the more complex model and see if it holds.
Virtual neuron 2 – to the moon and beyond
Now it’s time to tackle . Instead of zero, we could give it another random value, like 3. But no matter what fixed value we give it, the only thing that would change in our equation would be how fast the membrane voltage increases. More importantly, we know this is unrealistic in neurons because when Na+ and K+ channels open and the ions travel from one side of the membrane to the other, the ionic currents also change.
That means needs to be not a constant, but a function. More specifically, a function which changes over time (and later, over voltage too). One such example would be – at every time step, our ionic current would be equal to the negative value of that time step. Our base equation would then transform into . For mA/, we would get the following:
We see that the membrane voltage now rises much faster, up to very unrealistic values (in practice, if we actually injected the current necessary for reaching such voltages, we’d fry the neuron long before getting there). And if we were to slightly vary either or as we did above, there would be barely any noticeable difference in the result.
But remember how we represented our ion channels through resistors? Similar to capacitors, there is also a formula that relates current and voltage for these elements: . is our membrane voltage, the one we’ve been plotting so far. So our base equation now expands into (I’ve moved to the lefthand side to avoid using too many brackets). is the conductance for that ion. Conductance is a measure of how easily electric current flows through a material. In our case, this means how easily the ions pass through their respective channels. For now, we will pretend that is a constant, like 0.1 (mS/).
And is our battery from the circuit above. It represents the equilibrium potential of each ion, what they aspire to, and the voltage at which the membrane would settle if there were no other ions around and if the membrane were permeable all the time. In this case, we don’t need to pretend: is always constant for a given ion type. For example, for Na+, is about +45 mV. If the membrane potential, , were equal to +45 mV, we would say that Na+ is at equilibrium and there would be no movement of Na+ ions across the membrane. In real neurons, this is never reached, since other ions have different equilibrium potentials (for example, K+ sits at around -82 mV), but we’ll learn more about that later.
Small detour # 3: that Nernst guy
But hold up: what does ion concentration have to do with voltage? And where do ion equilibrium potentials actually come from? Well, in practice, from neat little tables.
But conceptually, we need to make something clear, using Na+ as an example: we said that there are more Na+ ions outside than inside the neuron, so there is a higher concentration of Na+ on the outside of the membrane. If we open the tap, this concentration difference will push Na+ inside. But when does the pushing stop? Is it when the Na+ concentration is exactly equal on both sides of the membrane? It would be, if only Na+ were the only one around and there were no voltage difference between the two sides of the membrane.
But let’s imagine that we also have those negatively charged proteins from earlier. This changes the game, because even though the concentration of Na+ ions might equalize at some point, there would be another force pulling it in: the negative charge of the proteins, or the electrical gradient. Because these two forces compete, the actual voltage at which no Na+ moves around anymore is the one given above.
We can calculate this number from yet another equation that some guy named Nernst came up with: . R, T, z, and F are constants, so we again ignore them. What matters is that this formula allows us to relate the ion concentrations (outside) and (inside) the neuron to voltage, thus giving us the equilibrium potential of each ion.
Bonus: this nifty formula tells us why sudden influxes of K+ can kill you. When the concentration of K+ outside the neuron increases a lot, the equilibrium potential of K+ ends up being much higher than -82 mV. In turn, this messes with the generation of action potentials, thus impairing communication between neurons. Once we have the full HH model, we’ll be able to check exactly how this happens.
Back to virtual neuron 2
For now, we see that if we were to model just Na+ currents and assume a constant conductance (in this example, mS/), the membrane potential would eventually settle to the equilibrium potential of Na+.
This time, if we change our starting point , we observe a different behavior compared to the first virtual neuron: here, the membrane potential always settles at the Na+ equilibrium, regardless of whether we start from a value above or below that.
But what happens if we keep the resting state voltage the same and change the conductance ? A higher conductance means that Na+ ions barrel through channels quicker (because more channels are open, not because the ions move any faster). That translates into the equilibrium potential being reached sooner.
I want to stress here that conductance isn’t just an abstract thing that makes the graph sharper. In real life, alterations in Na+ channel conductance can have devastating effects. For example, tetrodotoxin, a powerful toxin derived from pufferfish, effectively decreases Na+ conductance to zero by blocking Na+ channels and preventing its influx into the cell. This is deadly. And in different types of epilepsy, Na+ conductance is again affected: either too high or too low, depending on the type of epilepsy. As we’ll see later, changes in conductance affect the properties of action potentials, such as shape and timing. At the level of the whole brain, this results in abnormal communication between neurons and can lead to the symptoms observed in epilepsy.
Moving on to varying the external input current , we see that the membrane potential no longer settles at the ion’s equilibrium potential, but at another value that changes with the strength of the external input . Looking again at our equation , we see that when is zero, the membrane voltage is only governed by . But once we inject a steady flow of current into this system, the balance point shifts higher or lower, depending on the sign of . This will be important for action potential generation later on.
Virtual neuron 3 – other ions have joined the party
Alright, but we know Na+ doesn’t act alone. There is at least a K+ current. There are other ions as well, but Hodgkin and Huxley lumped everything else that might act in a neuron under a so-called “leak” current that is modeled as an additional resistor.
Once we add the K+ and leak currents in our model ( and ), we now have a slightly longer differential equation for the membrane voltage:
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Simulating this allows us to see that, like before, the membrane voltage settles at an equilibrium point. But this point is no longer equal to the equilibrium voltage of any single ion. Instead, it sits somewhere in-between. This in-between value is nothing more than the weighted average of the contributions of all ions to the membrane potential. The contribution of an ion is given by the product between its equilibrium potential and its conductance, so the full equation reads like this: .
We saw above that changing the Na+ conductance when only Na+ is present allows us to manipulate how fast we reach the equilibrium potential. But the equilibrium potential itself remains unchanged. But now we have more than one ion, each with their own conductance, and we see in the equation above that the membrane equilibrium potential takes into account conductances as well. So what happens if we change each ionic conductance individually?
We should be able to deduce this from the equation, but we’ll check it against the simulation results below. The blue line represents our original case from above. Since the K+ equilibrium potential is more negative than our original resting state potential , increasing the K+ conductance while keeping the Na+ conductance the same means that the membrane will settle at a new, more negative potential (orange line). In contrast, since the Na+ equilibrium potential is positive, increasing the ionic conductance while keeping the same means that our neuron’s equilibrium potential goes up and we also reach it faster (green line). Now, if we increase while maintaining this higher , our membrane resting potential comes down, closer to that of K+. But we still get there fast, since the Na+ conductance is so high (red line).
In principle, we could also play around with the leak conductance . However, as we will see later, in the HH model, the leak conductance is always assumed to be static, whereas and do change under certain conditions.
The full model – everybody gets a function
We’ve already added quite a few details to our model, but there’s still a bit to go on. So far, we have a simulation of the membrane potential which includes multiple ion channels. This model is capable of settling at an equilibrium point, the resting state potential, but it still doesn’t produce spikes yet. So let’s fix that. Fair warning, this next part is the trickiest (I know! As if the novel before was soooo easy!), so go slowly, pause often, and don’t worry if things take a few reads to click.
Key takeaway # 1: conductances are voltage-dependent
Let’s bridge biology and math now: we said that when the Na+ conductance increases (i.e. Na+ channels open), the membrane voltage also increases. But we also know from experiments that when the membrane voltage increases, K+ channels open. In other words, the K+ conductance increases. In math terms, that suggests conductance (for both Na+ and K+) is voltage-dependent.Key takeaway # 2: there is a maximum conductance
Imagine all Na+ channels are open. Even then, there is still a limit to how much Na+ can pass through the membrane at every time step, because the ions need to wait for their turn to go through the channels, just like cars have to wait to pass through a crowded tunnel. That means conductance has a maximum value, which we can call . When all channels are open, for Na+ and similarly, for K+.Key takeaway # 3: we can work directly with proportions of open channels
But what if only 50% of the channels were open? Well, the limit would be half of the maximum: . Why is it this relevant? Because instead of directly relating conductance to voltage, we can relate proportion of open (or closed) channels to voltage. The math is easier and it’s a bit more intuitive.Putting it all together
First of all, since conductances are voltage-dependent and the membrane voltage changes over time, we actually have voltage- and time-dependent conductances. Important to note, only for Na+ and K+; we assume the leak conductance to be fixed.Secondly, we work with the proportion of open channels, not with conductances directly. Let’s pause for a moment and think about what we want to model. We basically want a sort of push-pull mechanism, such that when the voltage goes up, the proportion of open Na+ channels goes up, and when the voltage decreases, the proportion of closed channels increases. And the same way for K+.
Let’s start with K+. We can denote the proportion of open K+ channels with n. The proportion of closed channels will be simply 1 – n (total minus how many are open). Since we’re interested in how this evolves over time, we need to bring back our differential equation friend, in this case . The push-pull mechanism we want can be written in the following form: or following the Hodgkin-Huxley convention: . There are two parts that matter here:
- the two functions A and B act like weights for the proportion of closed, respectively open, channels. A controls how fast closed channels open and B controls how fast open channels close;
- the above is not enough. A and B are voltage-dependent functions themselves and they need to be chosen in such a way that, when the voltage goes up, A goes up and B goes down, and vice-versa when the voltage goes down.
But how to choose them? Well, the equation above is called a first-order differential equation and has a known solution. Without going further into mathematical detail, Hodgkin and Huxley used that solution together with experimental measurements of K+ currents to derive specific formulas for and . I am including them here for completeness and because you will see them in the code, but there is no reason to stress over them. In practice, unless you use them on a daily basis, you’re just going to look them up when needed (and by the way, depending on the neuron type, the actual numerical values in these formulas will change): and .
(Side note: the sign convention. One thing to notice above is that we use both and V. That’s not a typo. Normally, we define the membrane voltage , so the membrane voltage is negative at rest. In the HH model, however, V is defined as . That means the voltage is shifted such that at rest, mV. And because all s and s were fitted to these shifted values, we need to take that into account when working with the original HH model.)
For Na+, they modeled the Na+ channel activation in a similar manner, except they called the proportion of activated channels m. Again, for completeness, the respective equations were and .
Now we almost have the full functioning HH model, but there are just a couple of minor tweaks left. Because Hodgkin and Huxley fitted their model to experimental data, they observed two interesting tidbits:
- the model fit better when the variable n was raised to the power of 4 and when m was raised to the power of 3. At the time, they didn’t know why that was the case, but in the meantime, we’ve found out that the K+ ion channel is made up of 4 subunits, each of which needs to be activated for the channel to allow the passage of K+. In that case, you can think of n as the proportion of channels where subunit 1 is activated (or the probability for this subunit to be activated). The proportion of channels where 2 subunits are activated is , and so on. Similarly, Na+ channels have 3 activation domains that need to be opened for Na+ to pass through the channel;
- when the membrane voltage was held constant at a high value, K+ kept flowing out of the cell until the voltage was allowed to return to normal. But for Na+, Hodgkin and Huxley observed a different behavior: Na+ flowed into the cell at first, then it stopped. The Na+ current sharply decreased and regardless of how long the voltage was kept high, the Na+ current didn’t increase anymore. To model this behavior, they introduced a second variable for Na+, called h, which they used to model the proportion of inactivated Na+ channels. This needed the same and functions, with and . Again, nowadays, we know that Na+ has an inactivation domain that rapidly blocks Na+ channels at high voltages and only unlocks them when the voltage goes down again. That’s also why action potentials cannot spread backwards from where they came from.
And that’s it, we now have a full HH model. Put all together, it looks like this:
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.Importantly, by itself, the model doesn’t really do anything. If the external input is zero and we start the model from an initial membrane voltage below a certain threshold (in this case, -60 mV), it quickly decays back to the resting state potential (which you can calculate yourself using the formula given above and the maximum conductances and ionic equilibrium potentials given in the code here.)
If we start the model above a certain threshold (for example, -50 mV), it will fire a single spike before going silent forever.
To get more than one spike, we need to drive it with external input current. So far, we’ve used constant current, and we’ll stick with that for today (in the next part, we’ll also try out time-varying currents). For a high enough current, we see that the model fires one action potential after the next. You can try it out for yourself to see what happens for different values of , and next time we’ll try a more systematic analysis as well.
Finally, we can inspect our gating variables m, h, and n, to see how they evolve over time. In the plot below, you see that the Na+ channel activation variable m (in blue), goes up really quickly – Na+ channels open fast; but it goes down just as quickly – they also close fast. The Na+ inactivation variable, h, quickly decreases during the spike – Na+ channels are blocked and cannot open again for some time. In the meantime, the K+ activation variable n goes up, lagging a bit behind m – K+ channels open more slowly and the membrane voltage goes back down.
Still alive?
I don’t know about you, but I’m tired. The good news is that now we have a functional HH model. Also good news is that we can do a lot of things with it, but unfortunately, that requires additional explanations, and I think we could all use a break. So I’ll see you for the next part. Until then, feel free to toy with the model parameters.
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Published in 1972, “Blood In My Eye” is a collection of writings by George Jackson, a political prisoner and a Black freedom fighter. He finished the writings shortly before prison guards murdered him in August 1971. George had been convicted over a decade prior at age 18 — taking $70 from a gas station resulted in a conviction with an indeterminate sentence – one year to life.
While California kept him imprisoned, he read extensively, learning history and economics, discovering Marx, Lenin, Mao, Engels, Trotsky, and developing a strong material analysis and solidarity lens that he shared with his comrades incarcerated alongside him.
Blood in My Eye considers more broadly questions of armed struggle, communism, and Black revolutionary thought, or put simply “it is a book about taking the revolution that George worked and died for inside prison out into society at large.”
“Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that generations more will die or live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revolution. Pass on the torch. Join us, give up your life for the people.”
George Jackson recognized his position as a member of the lumpenproletariat, and remained uncompromising in his approach to a revolutionary future; his view of the world from within the carceral system illuminated the depth of racism in the U.S., and its overlap with capitalist exploitation.
Behind bars he organized sit-ins against segregated cafeterias and taught martial arts to other inmates to fight back against the ever-present, abusive prison guards. He worked with the Oakland chapter of the Black Panthers to recruit members that were incarcerated, and he often highlighted the political consciousness of his comrades that were behind bars.
His work at organizing prisoners across race gained the attention of prison guards, wardens, and the FBI. The state falsely accused him (along with Fleeta Drumgo and John Clutchette), collectively known as the “Soledad Brothers,” of murdering a guard in retaliation to that guard’s murder of three Black people that were incarcerated (W. L. Nolen, Cleveland Edwards and Alvin Miller) at Soledad Prison in January 1970.
His younger brother, Jonathan Jackson, a high school student in Pasadena, staged a raid on the Marin County courthouse with a satchelful of handguns, an assault rifle, and a shotgun hidden under his coat, all registered to Angela Davis. Educated into a political revolutionary by George, Jonathan invaded the court during a hearing for three Black San Quentin inmates, not including his brother, and handed them weapons. As he left with the inmates and five hostages, including the judge, Jonathan demanded that the Soledad Brothers be released within thirty minutes. In the shootout that ensued, Jonathan was gunned down. Of Jonathan, George wrote, “He was free for a while. I guess that’s more than most of us can expect.” The state murdered Jonathan on August 7, 1970 at the Marin County Courthouse. He was 17. The sole accomplice that survived, Ruchell Magee, was imprisoned for over 50 years (released in July 2023); a manhunt for Angela Davis began, she was tried and ultimately found not guilty; the Weathermen (a militant leftist organization of students) bombed the courthouse in October 1970 in retaliation for the murders of Jonathan Jackson and his comrades.
His first publication, Soledad Brother, compiles letters he wrote between 1964 and 1970, most of which he spent in the most stringent forms of solitary confinement. George dedicated Soledad Brother to Jonathan, and many letters between them can be found within Blood in My Eye, as well as correspondence with Angela Davis.
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Fascism
An excerpt from Blood in My Eye by George Jackson
1971
Fascism
Its most advanced form is here in Amerika.
Comrade John,
I’ve just finished rereading Angela’s analysis of fascism (she’s a brilliant, “big,” beautiful revolutionary woman — ain’t she!!). I’ve studied your letters on the subject carefully. It could be productive for the three of us to get together at once and subject the whole question to a detailed historical analysis. There is some difference of opinion and interpreta- tion of history between us, but basically I think we are brought together on the principal points by the fact that the three of us could not meet without probably causing World War III.
Give her my deepest and warmest love and ask her to review these comments. This is not all that I will have to say on the subject. I’ll constantly return to myself and reexamine. I expect I will have to carry this on for another couple of hundred pages. We’ll deal with the questions as they come up, but for now this should provoke both of you to push me on to a greater effort.
The basis of Angela’s analysis is tied into several old left notions that are at least open to some question now. It is my view that out of the economic crisis of the last great depression fascism-corporativism did indeed emerge, develop and consolidate itself into its most advanced form here in Amerika. In the process, socialist consciousness suffered some very severe setbacks. Unlike Angela, I do not believe that this realization leads to a defeatist view of history. An understanding of the reality of our situation is essential to the success of future revolutionizing activity. To contend that corporativism has emerged and advanced is not to say that it has triumphed. We are not defeated. Pure fascism, absolute totalitarianism, is not possible.
Hierarchy has had six thousand years of trial. It will never succeed for long in any form. Fascism and its historical significance is the point of my whole philosophy on politics and its extension, war. My opinion is that we are at the historical climax (the flash point) of the totalitarian period. The analysis in depth that the subject deserves has yet to be done. Important as they are, both Wilhelm Reich’s and Franz Neumann’s works on the subject are limited. Reich tends to be over analytical to the point of idealism. I don’t think Neumann truly sensed the importance of the antisocialist movement. Behemoth is too narrowly based on the experience of German National Socialism. So there is so much to be done on the subject and time is running out. If I am correct, we will soon be forced into the same fight that the old left avoided.
6/20/71
It is not defeatist to acknowledge that we have lost a battle. How else can we “regroup” and even think of carrying on the fight. At the center of revolution is realism. To call one or two or a dozen setbacks defeat is to overlook the ebbing and flowing process of revolution, coming closer to our calculations and then receding, but never standing still. If a thing isn’t building, it must be decaying. As one force emerges, the opposite force must yield; as one advances, the other must retreat. There is a very significant difference between retreat and defeat. I am not saying that our parents were defeated when I contend that fascist-corporativism emerged and advanced in the U.S. At the same time it was making its advance, it caused, by its very nature, an advance in world-wide socialist consciousness: “When U.S. capitalism reached the stage of imperialism, the Western great powers had already divided among themselves almost all the important markets in the world. At the end of World War II when the other imperialist powers had been weakened, the U.S. became the most powerful and richest imperialist power. Meanwhile, the world situation was no longer the same: the balance of forces between imperialism and the socialist camps had fundamentally changed; imperialism no longer ruled over the world, nor did it play a decisive role in the development of the world situation” (Vo Nguyen Giap).
In my analysis, I’m simply taking into account the fact that the forces of reaction and counterrevolution were allowed to localize themselves and radiate their energy here in the U.S. The process has created the economic, political and cultural vortex of capitalism’s last reform. My views correspond with those of all the Third World revolutionaries. And nate in the seizure of state power. Our real purpose is to redeem not merely ourselves but the whole nation and the whole community of nations from colonial-community economic repression.
The U.S. has established itself as the mortal enemy of all people’s government, all scientific-socialist mobilization of consciousness everywhere on the globe, all anti-imperialist activity on earth. The history of this country in the last fifty years and more, the very nature of all its fundamental elements, and its economic, social, political and military mobilization distinguish it as the prototype of the international fascist counterrevolution. The U.S. is the Korean problem, the Vietnamese problem, the problem in the Congo, Angola, Mozambique, the Middle East. It’s the grease in the British and Latin Amerikan guns that operate against the masses of common people.
6/21/71
The nature of fascism, its characteristics and properties have been in dispute ever since it was first identified as a distinct phenomenon growing out of Italy’s state-supported and developed industries in 1922. Whole libraries have been written around the subject. There have been a hundred “party lines” on just exactly what fascism is. But both Marxists and non-Marxists agree on at least two of its general factors: its capitalist orientation and its anti-labor, anti-class nature. These two factors almost by themselves identify the U.S. as a fascist-corporative state.
An exact definition of fascism concerns me because it will help us identify our enemy and isolate the targets of revolution. Further, it should help us to understand the workings of the enemy’s methodology. Settling this question of whether or not a mature fascism has developed will finally clear away some of the fog in our liberation efforts. This will help us to broaden the effort. We will not succeed until we fully accept the fact that the enemy is aware, determined, disguised, totalitarian, and mercilessly counterrevolutionary. To fight effectively, we must be aware of the fact that the enemy has consolidated through reformist machination the greatest community of self-interest that has ever existed. Our insistence on military action, defensive and retaliatory, has nothing to do with romanticism or precipitous idealistic fervor. We want to be effective. We want to live. Our history teaches us that the successful liberation struggles require an armed people, a whole people, actively participating in the struggle for their liberty!
The final definition of fascism is still open, simply because it is still a developing movement. We have already discussed the defects of trying to analyze a movement outside of its process and its sequential relationships. You gain only a discolored glimpse of a dead past.
No one will fully comprehend the historical implications and strategy of fascist corporativism except the true fascist manipulator or the researcher who is able to slash through the smoke screens and disguises the fascists set up. Fascism was the product of class struggle. It is an obvious extension of capitalism, a higher form of the old struggle — capitalism versus socialism. I think our failure to clearly isolate and define it may have something to do with our insistence on a full definition — in other words, looking for exactly identical symptoms from nation to nation. We have been consistently misled by fascism’s nationalistic trappings.
We have failed to understand its basically international character. In fact, it has followed international socialism all around the globe. One of the most definite characteristics of fascism is its international quality.
6/22/71
The trends toward monopoly capital began effectively just after the close of the Civil War in Amerika. Prior to its emergence, bourgeois democratic rule could be said to have been the predominant political force inside Amerikan society. As monopoly capital matured, the role of the old bourgeois democracy faded in process. As monopoly capital forced out the small dispersed factory setup, the new corporativism assumed political supremacy. Monopoly capital can in no way be interpreted as an extension of old bourgeois democracy. The forces of monopoly capital swept across the Western world in the first half of this century. But they did not exist alone. Their opposite force was also at work, i.e., “international socialism” — Lenin’s and Fanon’s — national wars of liberation guided not by the national bourgeois but by the people, the ordinary working-class people.
At its core, fascism is an economic rearrangement. It is international capitalism’s response to the challenge of international scientific socialism. It developed from nation to nation out of differing levels of traditionalist capitalism’s dilapidation. The common feature of all instances of fascism is the opposition of a weak socialist revolution. When the fascist arrangement begins to emerge in any of the independent nation-states, it does so by default! It is simply an arrangement of an established capitalist economy, an attempt to renew, perpetuate and legitimize that economy’s rulers by circumflexing and weighing down, diffusing a revolutionary consciousness pushing from below. Fascism must be seen as an episodically logical stage in the socio-economic development of capitalism in a state of crisis. It is the result of a revolutionary thrust that was weak and miscarried — a consciousness that was compromised. “When revolution fails . . . it’s the fault of the vanguard parties.”
It is clear that class struggle is an ingredient of fascism.
It follows that where fascism emerges and develops, the anti-capitalist forces were weaker than the traditionalist forces. This weakness will become even more pronounced as fascism develops! The ultimate aim of fascism is the complete destruction of all revolutionary consciousness.
6/23/71
Our purpose here is to understand the essence of this living, moving thing so that we will understand how to move against it.
This observer is convinced that fascism not only exists in the U.S.A. but has risen out of the ruins of a once eroded and dying capitalism, phoenix-like, to its most advanced and logical arrangement.
One has to understand that the fascist arrangement tolerates the existence of no valid revolutionary activity. It has programmed into its very nature a massive, complex and automatic defense mechanism for all our old methods for raising the consciousness of a potentially revolutionary class of people. The essence of a U.S.A. totalitarian socio-political capitalism is concealed behind the illusion of a mass participatory society. We must rip away its mask. Then the debate can end, and we can enter a new phase of struggle based on the development of an armed revolutionary culture that will triumph.
On May 14, 1787, the Constitutional Convention with George Washington presiding officer, the work of framing the new nation’s constitution proceeded with fifty-five persons and only two were not employers!!!
There have been many booms and busts in the history of capitalism in this nation and across the Western Hemisphere since its formation. The accepted method of pulling the stricken economy out of its stupor has always been to expand. It was pretty clear from the outset that the surplus value factor eventually leads to a point in the business cycle when the existing implementation of the productive factors makes it impossible for the larger factor of production (labor) to buy back the “fruits of its labor.” This leads to what has been erroneously termed “overproduction.” It is, in fact, underconsumption. The remedy has always been to expand, to search out new markets and new sources of cheaper raw materials to recharge the economy (the imperialist syndrome).
Conflicts of interests develop, of course, between the various Western nations and eventually lead to competition for these markets. The result is always an ever-increasing international centralization of the various capitalists’ elites, world-wide cartels: International Telegraphic Unions (now International Tele-communications Union), universal postal union, transportation, agricultural, and scientific syndicates. Before World War I there were forty-five or fifty such international syndicates, not counting the purely business cartels. The international quality of capitalism is not happenstance.
It is clearly in the interests of the ruling class to expand and unite. I am one Marxist-Leninist-Maoist-Fanonist who does not completely accept the idea that the old capitalist competitive wars for colonial markets were actually willed by the various rulers of each nation, even though such wars stimulated their local economies and made it possible to promote nationalism among the lower classes. War taken to the point of diminishing returns weakens rather than strengthens the participants, and if the rulers of these nations were anything at all they were good businessmen. Expansion, then, which often led unavoidably to war, was the traditional recourse in the solving of problems created by a vacuous, uncontrollable system, which never considered any changes in its arrangement, its essential dynamics, until it came under a very real, directly threatening challenge from below to its very existence. Fascism in its early stages is a rearrangement of capitalist implementation in response to a sharpening, threatening, but weaker egalitarian socialist consciousness.
In regional or national economic crisis the traditional remedies also include measures which stop just short of massive expansion on the international level. Traditional controls short of expansion and war have always existed in the form of government intervention, tariffs, public expenditure, government export subsidy and limited control of the capital market and import licenses, and monopolies have always used government to help direct investment.
#BlackAugust #blackLiberation #blackPantherParty #bloodInMyEye #georgeJackson #northAmerica #soledadBrother
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Published in 1972, “Blood In My Eye” is a collection of writings by George Jackson, a political prisoner and a Black freedom fighter. He finished the writings shortly before prison guards murdered him in August 1971. George had been convicted over a decade prior at age 18 — taking $70 from a gas station resulted in a conviction with an indeterminate sentence – one year to life.
While California kept him imprisoned, he read extensively, learning history and economics, discovering Marx, Lenin, Mao, Engels, Trotsky, and developing a strong material analysis and solidarity lens that he shared with his comrades incarcerated alongside him.
Blood in My Eye considers more broadly questions of armed struggle, communism, and Black revolutionary thought, or put simply “it is a book about taking the revolution that George worked and died for inside prison out into society at large.”
“Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that generations more will die or live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revolution. Pass on the torch. Join us, give up your life for the people.”
George Jackson recognized his position as a member of the lumpenproletariat, and remained uncompromising in his approach to a revolutionary future; his view of the world from within the carceral system illuminated the depth of racism in the U.S., and its overlap with capitalist exploitation.
Behind bars he organized sit-ins against segregated cafeterias and taught martial arts to other inmates to fight back against the ever-present, abusive prison guards. He worked with the Oakland chapter of the Black Panthers to recruit members that were incarcerated, and he often highlighted the political consciousness of his comrades that were behind bars.
His work at organizing prisoners across race gained the attention of prison guards, wardens, and the FBI. The state falsely accused him (along with Fleeta Drumgo and John Clutchette), collectively known as the “Soledad Brothers,” of murdering a guard in retaliation to that guard’s murder of three Black people that were incarcerated (W. L. Nolen, Cleveland Edwards and Alvin Miller) at Soledad Prison in January 1970.
His younger brother, Jonathan Jackson, a high school student in Pasadena, staged a raid on the Marin County courthouse with a satchelful of handguns, an assault rifle, and a shotgun hidden under his coat, all registered to Angela Davis. Educated into a political revolutionary by George, Jonathan invaded the court during a hearing for three Black San Quentin inmates, not including his brother, and handed them weapons. As he left with the inmates and five hostages, including the judge, Jonathan demanded that the Soledad Brothers be released within thirty minutes. In the shootout that ensued, Jonathan was gunned down. Of Jonathan, George wrote, “He was free for a while. I guess that’s more than most of us can expect.” The state murdered Jonathan on August 7, 1970 at the Marin County Courthouse. He was 17. The sole accomplice that survived, Ruchell Magee, was imprisoned for over 50 years (released in July 2023); a manhunt for Angela Davis began, she was tried and ultimately found not guilty; the Weathermen (a militant leftist organization of students) bombed the courthouse in October 1970 in retaliation for the murders of Jonathan Jackson and his comrades.
His first publication, Soledad Brother, compiles letters he wrote between 1964 and 1970, most of which he spent in the most stringent forms of solitary confinement. George dedicated Soledad Brother to Jonathan, and many letters between them can be found within Blood in My Eye, as well as correspondence with Angela Davis.
—
Fascism
An excerpt from Blood in My Eye by George Jackson
1971
Fascism
Its most advanced form is here in Amerika.
Comrade John,
I’ve just finished rereading Angela’s analysis of fascism (she’s a brilliant, “big,” beautiful revolutionary woman — ain’t she!!). I’ve studied your letters on the subject carefully. It could be productive for the three of us to get together at once and subject the whole question to a detailed historical analysis. There is some difference of opinion and interpreta- tion of history between us, but basically I think we are brought together on the principal points by the fact that the three of us could not meet without probably causing World War III.
Give her my deepest and warmest love and ask her to review these comments. This is not all that I will have to say on the subject. I’ll constantly return to myself and reexamine. I expect I will have to carry this on for another couple of hundred pages. We’ll deal with the questions as they come up, but for now this should provoke both of you to push me on to a greater effort.
The basis of Angela’s analysis is tied into several old left notions that are at least open to some question now. It is my view that out of the economic crisis of the last great depression fascism-corporativism did indeed emerge, develop and consolidate itself into its most advanced form here in Amerika. In the process, socialist consciousness suffered some very severe setbacks. Unlike Angela, I do not believe that this realization leads to a defeatist view of history. An understanding of the reality of our situation is essential to the success of future revolutionizing activity. To contend that corporativism has emerged and advanced is not to say that it has triumphed. We are not defeated. Pure fascism, absolute totalitarianism, is not possible.
Hierarchy has had six thousand years of trial. It will never succeed for long in any form. Fascism and its historical significance is the point of my whole philosophy on politics and its extension, war. My opinion is that we are at the historical climax (the flash point) of the totalitarian period. The analysis in depth that the subject deserves has yet to be done. Important as they are, both Wilhelm Reich’s and Franz Neumann’s works on the subject are limited. Reich tends to be over analytical to the point of idealism. I don’t think Neumann truly sensed the importance of the antisocialist movement. Behemoth is too narrowly based on the experience of German National Socialism. So there is so much to be done on the subject and time is running out. If I am correct, we will soon be forced into the same fight that the old left avoided.
6/20/71
It is not defeatist to acknowledge that we have lost a battle. How else can we “regroup” and even think of carrying on the fight. At the center of revolution is realism. To call one or two or a dozen setbacks defeat is to overlook the ebbing and flowing process of revolution, coming closer to our calculations and then receding, but never standing still. If a thing isn’t building, it must be decaying. As one force emerges, the opposite force must yield; as one advances, the other must retreat. There is a very significant difference between retreat and defeat. I am not saying that our parents were defeated when I contend that fascist-corporativism emerged and advanced in the U.S. At the same time it was making its advance, it caused, by its very nature, an advance in world-wide socialist consciousness: “When U.S. capitalism reached the stage of imperialism, the Western great powers had already divided among themselves almost all the important markets in the world. At the end of World War II when the other imperialist powers had been weakened, the U.S. became the most powerful and richest imperialist power. Meanwhile, the world situation was no longer the same: the balance of forces between imperialism and the socialist camps had fundamentally changed; imperialism no longer ruled over the world, nor did it play a decisive role in the development of the world situation” (Vo Nguyen Giap).
In my analysis, I’m simply taking into account the fact that the forces of reaction and counterrevolution were allowed to localize themselves and radiate their energy here in the U.S. The process has created the economic, political and cultural vortex of capitalism’s last reform. My views correspond with those of all the Third World revolutionaries. And nate in the seizure of state power. Our real purpose is to redeem not merely ourselves but the whole nation and the whole community of nations from colonial-community economic repression.
The U.S. has established itself as the mortal enemy of all people’s government, all scientific-socialist mobilization of consciousness everywhere on the globe, all anti-imperialist activity on earth. The history of this country in the last fifty years and more, the very nature of all its fundamental elements, and its economic, social, political and military mobilization distinguish it as the prototype of the international fascist counterrevolution. The U.S. is the Korean problem, the Vietnamese problem, the problem in the Congo, Angola, Mozambique, the Middle East. It’s the grease in the British and Latin Amerikan guns that operate against the masses of common people.
6/21/71
The nature of fascism, its characteristics and properties have been in dispute ever since it was first identified as a distinct phenomenon growing out of Italy’s state-supported and developed industries in 1922. Whole libraries have been written around the subject. There have been a hundred “party lines” on just exactly what fascism is. But both Marxists and non-Marxists agree on at least two of its general factors: its capitalist orientation and its anti-labor, anti-class nature. These two factors almost by themselves identify the U.S. as a fascist-corporative state.
An exact definition of fascism concerns me because it will help us identify our enemy and isolate the targets of revolution. Further, it should help us to understand the workings of the enemy’s methodology. Settling this question of whether or not a mature fascism has developed will finally clear away some of the fog in our liberation efforts. This will help us to broaden the effort. We will not succeed until we fully accept the fact that the enemy is aware, determined, disguised, totalitarian, and mercilessly counterrevolutionary. To fight effectively, we must be aware of the fact that the enemy has consolidated through reformist machination the greatest community of self-interest that has ever existed. Our insistence on military action, defensive and retaliatory, has nothing to do with romanticism or precipitous idealistic fervor. We want to be effective. We want to live. Our history teaches us that the successful liberation struggles require an armed people, a whole people, actively participating in the struggle for their liberty!
The final definition of fascism is still open, simply because it is still a developing movement. We have already discussed the defects of trying to analyze a movement outside of its process and its sequential relationships. You gain only a discolored glimpse of a dead past.
No one will fully comprehend the historical implications and strategy of fascist corporativism except the true fascist manipulator or the researcher who is able to slash through the smoke screens and disguises the fascists set up. Fascism was the product of class struggle. It is an obvious extension of capitalism, a higher form of the old struggle — capitalism versus socialism. I think our failure to clearly isolate and define it may have something to do with our insistence on a full definition — in other words, looking for exactly identical symptoms from nation to nation. We have been consistently misled by fascism’s nationalistic trappings.
We have failed to understand its basically international character. In fact, it has followed international socialism all around the globe. One of the most definite characteristics of fascism is its international quality.
6/22/71
The trends toward monopoly capital began effectively just after the close of the Civil War in Amerika. Prior to its emergence, bourgeois democratic rule could be said to have been the predominant political force inside Amerikan society. As monopoly capital matured, the role of the old bourgeois democracy faded in process. As monopoly capital forced out the small dispersed factory setup, the new corporativism assumed political supremacy. Monopoly capital can in no way be interpreted as an extension of old bourgeois democracy. The forces of monopoly capital swept across the Western world in the first half of this century. But they did not exist alone. Their opposite force was also at work, i.e., “international socialism” — Lenin’s and Fanon’s — national wars of liberation guided not by the national bourgeois but by the people, the ordinary working-class people.
At its core, fascism is an economic rearrangement. It is international capitalism’s response to the challenge of international scientific socialism. It developed from nation to nation out of differing levels of traditionalist capitalism’s dilapidation. The common feature of all instances of fascism is the opposition of a weak socialist revolution. When the fascist arrangement begins to emerge in any of the independent nation-states, it does so by default! It is simply an arrangement of an established capitalist economy, an attempt to renew, perpetuate and legitimize that economy’s rulers by circumflexing and weighing down, diffusing a revolutionary consciousness pushing from below. Fascism must be seen as an episodically logical stage in the socio-economic development of capitalism in a state of crisis. It is the result of a revolutionary thrust that was weak and miscarried — a consciousness that was compromised. “When revolution fails . . . it’s the fault of the vanguard parties.”
It is clear that class struggle is an ingredient of fascism.
It follows that where fascism emerges and develops, the anti-capitalist forces were weaker than the traditionalist forces. This weakness will become even more pronounced as fascism develops! The ultimate aim of fascism is the complete destruction of all revolutionary consciousness.
6/23/71
Our purpose here is to understand the essence of this living, moving thing so that we will understand how to move against it.
This observer is convinced that fascism not only exists in the U.S.A. but has risen out of the ruins of a once eroded and dying capitalism, phoenix-like, to its most advanced and logical arrangement.
One has to understand that the fascist arrangement tolerates the existence of no valid revolutionary activity. It has programmed into its very nature a massive, complex and automatic defense mechanism for all our old methods for raising the consciousness of a potentially revolutionary class of people. The essence of a U.S.A. totalitarian socio-political capitalism is concealed behind the illusion of a mass participatory society. We must rip away its mask. Then the debate can end, and we can enter a new phase of struggle based on the development of an armed revolutionary culture that will triumph.
On May 14, 1787, the Constitutional Convention with George Washington presiding officer, the work of framing the new nation’s constitution proceeded with fifty-five persons and only two were not employers!!!
There have been many booms and busts in the history of capitalism in this nation and across the Western Hemisphere since its formation. The accepted method of pulling the stricken economy out of its stupor has always been to expand. It was pretty clear from the outset that the surplus value factor eventually leads to a point in the business cycle when the existing implementation of the productive factors makes it impossible for the larger factor of production (labor) to buy back the “fruits of its labor.” This leads to what has been erroneously termed “overproduction.” It is, in fact, underconsumption. The remedy has always been to expand, to search out new markets and new sources of cheaper raw materials to recharge the economy (the imperialist syndrome).
Conflicts of interests develop, of course, between the various Western nations and eventually lead to competition for these markets. The result is always an ever-increasing international centralization of the various capitalists’ elites, world-wide cartels: International Telegraphic Unions (now International Tele-communications Union), universal postal union, transportation, agricultural, and scientific syndicates. Before World War I there were forty-five or fifty such international syndicates, not counting the purely business cartels. The international quality of capitalism is not happenstance.
It is clearly in the interests of the ruling class to expand and unite. I am one Marxist-Leninist-Maoist-Fanonist who does not completely accept the idea that the old capitalist competitive wars for colonial markets were actually willed by the various rulers of each nation, even though such wars stimulated their local economies and made it possible to promote nationalism among the lower classes. War taken to the point of diminishing returns weakens rather than strengthens the participants, and if the rulers of these nations were anything at all they were good businessmen. Expansion, then, which often led unavoidably to war, was the traditional recourse in the solving of problems created by a vacuous, uncontrollable system, which never considered any changes in its arrangement, its essential dynamics, until it came under a very real, directly threatening challenge from below to its very existence. Fascism in its early stages is a rearrangement of capitalist implementation in response to a sharpening, threatening, but weaker egalitarian socialist consciousness.
In regional or national economic crisis the traditional remedies also include measures which stop just short of massive expansion on the international level. Traditional controls short of expansion and war have always existed in the form of government intervention, tariffs, public expenditure, government export subsidy and limited control of the capital market and import licenses, and monopolies have always used government to help direct investment.
#BlackAugust #blackLiberation #blackPantherParty #bloodInMyEye #georgeJackson #northAmerica #soledadBrother
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This story was originally published Aug. 3, 2009. Kiilu Nyasha, legendary fighter for the freedom of political prisoners, often wrote a special tribute to other freedom fighters to commemorate Black August. She joined the ancestors in 2018 at the age of 78.
Black August is a month of great significance for Africans throughout the Diaspora, but particularly here in the U.S. where it originated. “August,” as Mumia Abu-Jamal noted, “is a month of meaning, of repression and radical resistance, of injustice and divine justice; of repression and righteous rebellion; of individual and collective efforts to free the slaves and break the chains that bind us.”
On this 30th [now 45th] anniversary of Black August, first organized to honor our fallen freedom fighters, Jonathan and George Jackson, Khatari Gaulden, James McClain, William Christmas and the sole survivor of the Aug. 7, 1970, Courthouse Slave Rebellion, Ruchell Cinque Magee, it is still a time to embrace the principles of unity, self-sacrifice, political education, physical fitness and/or training in martial arts, resistance and spiritual renewal.
The concept, Black August, grew out of the need to expose to the light of day the glorious and heroic deeds of those Afrikan women and men who recognized and struggled against the injustices heaped upon people of color on a daily basis in America.
One cannot tell the story of Black August without first providing the reader with a brief glimpse of the “Black Movement” behind California prison walls in the ‘60s, led by George Jackson and W.L. Nolen, among others.
As Jackson wrote: “[W]hen I was accused of robbing a gas station of $70, I accepted a deal … but when time came for sentencing, they tossed me into the penitentiary with one to life. It was 1960. I was 18 years old. … I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed me. For the first four years I studied nothing but economics and military ideas. I met Black guerrillas, George ‘Big Jake’ Lewis and James Carr, W.L. Nolen, Bill Christmas, Torry Gibson and many, many others. We attempted to transform the Black criminal mentality into a Black revolutionary mentality. As a result, each of us has been subject to years of the most vicious reactionary violence by the state. Our mortality rate is almost what you would expect to find in a history of Dachau. Three of us [Nolen, Sweet Jugs Miller and Cleve Edwards) were murdered several months ago [Jan. 13, 1969] by a pig shooting from 30 feet above their heads with a military rifle.” – “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”
When the brothers first demanded the killer guard be tried for murder, they were rebuffed. Upon their insistence, the administration held a kangaroo court and three days later returned a verdict of “justifiable homicide.” Shortly afterward, a white guard was found beaten to death and thrown from a tier. Six days later, three prisoners were accused of murder and became known as The Soledad Brothers.
“I am being tried in court right now with two other brothers, John Clutchette and Fleeta Drumgo, for the alleged slaying of a prison guard. This charge carries an automatic death penalty for me. I can’t get life. I already have it.”
On Aug. 7, 1970, just a few days after George was transferred to San Quentin, his younger brother Jonathan Jackson, 17, invaded Marin County Courthouse single-handed, with a satchel full of handguns, an assault rifle and a shotgun hidden under his raincoat. “Freeze,” he commanded as he tossed guns to William Christmas, James McClain and Ruchell Magee. Magee was on the witness stand testifying for McClain, on trial for assaulting a guard in the wake of a guard’s murder of another Black prisoner, Fred Billingsley, beaten and tear gassed to death.
A jailhouse lawyer, Magee had deluged the courts with petitions for seven years contesting his illegal conviction in ‘63. The courts had refused to listen, so Magee seized the hour and joined the guerrillas as they took the judge, prosecutor and three jurors hostage to a waiting van. To reporters gathering quickly outside the courthouse, Jonathan shouted, “You can take our pictures. We are the revolutionaries!”
Operating with courage and calm even their enemies had to respect, the four Black freedom fighters commandeered their hostages out of the courthouse without a hitch. The plan was to use the hostages to take over a radio station and broadcast the racist, murderous prison conditions and demand the immediate release of The Soledad Brothers. But before Jonathan could drive the van out of the parking lot, the San Quentin guards arrived and opened fire. When the shooting stopped, Jonathan, Christmas, McClain and the judge lay dead. Magee and the prosecutor were critically wounded, and one juror suffered a minor arm wound.
Magee survived his wounds and was tried originally with co-defendant Angela Davis. Their trials were later severed and Davis was eventually acquitted of all charges. Magee was convicted of simple kidnap and remains in prison to date – 46 years with no physical assaults on his record. An incredible jailhouse lawyer, Magee has been responsible for countless prisoners being released – the main reason he was kept for nearly 20 years in one lockup after another. Currently at Corcoran State Prison, he remains strong and determined to win his freedom and that of all oppressed peoples. [Ruchell was finally freed July 21, 2023, but lived only until Oct. 17, 2023, when he joined the ancestors.]
In his second book, “Blood in My Eye,” published posthumously, George Jackson noted: “Reformism is an old story in Amerika. There have been depressions and socio-economic political crises throughout the period that marked the formation of the present upper-class ruling circle and their controlling elites. But the parties of the left were too committed to reformism to exploit their revolutionary potential. … Fascism has temporarily succeeded under the guise of reform.” Those words ring even truer today as we witness a form of fascism that has replaced gas ovens with executions and torture chambers: plantations with prison industrial complexes deployed in rural white communities to perpetuate white supremacy and Black and Brown slavery.
The concentration of wealth at the top is worse than ever: One percent now owns more wealth than that of the combined 95 percent of the U.S. population; individuals are so rich their wealth exceeds the total budgets of numerous nations – as they plunder the globe in the quest for more.
“The fascist must expand to live. Consequently he has pushed his frontiers to the farthest lands and peoples. … I’m going to bust my heart trying to stop these smug, degenerate, primitive, omnivorous, uncivil – and anyone who would aid me, I embrace you.
“International capitalism cannot be destroyed without the extremes of struggle … We are the only ones … who can get at the monster’s heart without subjecting the world to nuclear fire. We have a momentous historical role to act out if we will. The whole world for all time in the future will love us and remember us as the righteous people who made it possible for the world to live on. … I don’t want to die and leave a few sad songs and a hump in the ground as my only monument. I want to leave a world that is liberated from trash, pollution, racism, nation-states, nation-state wars and armies, from pomp, bigotry, parochialism, a thousand different brands of untruth and licentious, usurious economics.” – George Jackson, “Soledad Brother”
On Aug. 21, 1971, after numerous failed attempts on his life, the state finally succeeded in assassinating George Jackson, then field marshal of the Black Panther Party, in what was described by prison officials as an escape attempt in which Jackson allegedly smuggled a gun into San Quentin in a wig. That feat was proven impossible, and evidence subsequently suggested a setup designed by prison officials to eliminate Jackson once and for all.
However, they didn’t count on losing any of their own in the process. On that fateful day, three notoriously racist prison guards and two inmate turnkeys were also killed, presumably by Jackson, who was shot and killed by guards as he drew fire away from the other prisoners in the Adjustment Center (lockup) of San Quentin.
Subsequently, six A/C prisoners were singled out and put on trial – wearing 30 pounds of chains in Marin Courthouse – for various charges of murder and assault: Fleeta Drumgo, David Johnson, Hugo L.A. Pinell (Yogi), Luis Talamantez, Johnny Spain and Willie Sundiata Tate. Only one was convicted of murder, Johnny Spain. The others were either acquitted or convicted of assault.
Pinell is the only one remaining in prison and has suffered prolonged torture in lockups since 1969. He is currently serving his 19th year in Pelican Bay’s SHU, a torture chamber if ever there was one. A true warrior, Pinell would put his life on the line to defend his fellow captives. [Only two weeks after Yogi was released to the yard after 26 years in solitary confinement, he was killed on Aug. 12, 2015, by two white prisoners.]
As decades passed, our Black scholars, like Mumia Abu-Jamal, learned of other liberation moves that happened in Black August. For example, the first and only armed revolution whereby Africans freed themselves from chattel slavery commenced in Haiti on Aug. 21, 1791. Nat Turner’s slave rebellion began on Aug. 21, 1831 (coincidence?) and Harriet Tubman’s Underground Railroad started in August. As Mumia stated, “Their sacrifice, their despair, their determination and their blood has painted the month black for all time.”
Let us honor our martyred freedom fighters as George Jackson counseled: “Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are dying who could be saved, that generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done; discover your humanity and your love in revolution.”
Kiilu Nyasha, Black Panther veteran, revolutionary journalist and Bay View columnist, beloved by activists worldwide, joined the ancestors on April 10, 2018. She is sorely missed.
source: SF Bayview
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/08/05/black-august-a-story-of-african-freedom-fighters/
#BlackAugust #blackLiberation #blackPantherParty #georgeJackson #northAmerica #us
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This story was originally published Aug. 3, 2009. Kiilu Nyasha, legendary fighter for the freedom of political prisoners, often wrote a special tribute to other freedom fighters to commemorate Black August. She joined the ancestors in 2018 at the age of 78.
Black August is a month of great significance for Africans throughout the Diaspora, but particularly here in the U.S. where it originated. “August,” as Mumia Abu-Jamal noted, “is a month of meaning, of repression and radical resistance, of injustice and divine justice; of repression and righteous rebellion; of individual and collective efforts to free the slaves and break the chains that bind us.”
On this 30th [now 45th] anniversary of Black August, first organized to honor our fallen freedom fighters, Jonathan and George Jackson, Khatari Gaulden, James McClain, William Christmas and the sole survivor of the Aug. 7, 1970, Courthouse Slave Rebellion, Ruchell Cinque Magee, it is still a time to embrace the principles of unity, self-sacrifice, political education, physical fitness and/or training in martial arts, resistance and spiritual renewal.
The concept, Black August, grew out of the need to expose to the light of day the glorious and heroic deeds of those Afrikan women and men who recognized and struggled against the injustices heaped upon people of color on a daily basis in America.
One cannot tell the story of Black August without first providing the reader with a brief glimpse of the “Black Movement” behind California prison walls in the ‘60s, led by George Jackson and W.L. Nolen, among others.
As Jackson wrote: “[W]hen I was accused of robbing a gas station of $70, I accepted a deal … but when time came for sentencing, they tossed me into the penitentiary with one to life. It was 1960. I was 18 years old. … I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed me. For the first four years I studied nothing but economics and military ideas. I met Black guerrillas, George ‘Big Jake’ Lewis and James Carr, W.L. Nolen, Bill Christmas, Torry Gibson and many, many others. We attempted to transform the Black criminal mentality into a Black revolutionary mentality. As a result, each of us has been subject to years of the most vicious reactionary violence by the state. Our mortality rate is almost what you would expect to find in a history of Dachau. Three of us [Nolen, Sweet Jugs Miller and Cleve Edwards) were murdered several months ago [Jan. 13, 1969] by a pig shooting from 30 feet above their heads with a military rifle.” – “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”
When the brothers first demanded the killer guard be tried for murder, they were rebuffed. Upon their insistence, the administration held a kangaroo court and three days later returned a verdict of “justifiable homicide.” Shortly afterward, a white guard was found beaten to death and thrown from a tier. Six days later, three prisoners were accused of murder and became known as The Soledad Brothers.
“I am being tried in court right now with two other brothers, John Clutchette and Fleeta Drumgo, for the alleged slaying of a prison guard. This charge carries an automatic death penalty for me. I can’t get life. I already have it.”
On Aug. 7, 1970, just a few days after George was transferred to San Quentin, his younger brother Jonathan Jackson, 17, invaded Marin County Courthouse single-handed, with a satchel full of handguns, an assault rifle and a shotgun hidden under his raincoat. “Freeze,” he commanded as he tossed guns to William Christmas, James McClain and Ruchell Magee. Magee was on the witness stand testifying for McClain, on trial for assaulting a guard in the wake of a guard’s murder of another Black prisoner, Fred Billingsley, beaten and tear gassed to death.
A jailhouse lawyer, Magee had deluged the courts with petitions for seven years contesting his illegal conviction in ‘63. The courts had refused to listen, so Magee seized the hour and joined the guerrillas as they took the judge, prosecutor and three jurors hostage to a waiting van. To reporters gathering quickly outside the courthouse, Jonathan shouted, “You can take our pictures. We are the revolutionaries!”
Operating with courage and calm even their enemies had to respect, the four Black freedom fighters commandeered their hostages out of the courthouse without a hitch. The plan was to use the hostages to take over a radio station and broadcast the racist, murderous prison conditions and demand the immediate release of The Soledad Brothers. But before Jonathan could drive the van out of the parking lot, the San Quentin guards arrived and opened fire. When the shooting stopped, Jonathan, Christmas, McClain and the judge lay dead. Magee and the prosecutor were critically wounded, and one juror suffered a minor arm wound.
Magee survived his wounds and was tried originally with co-defendant Angela Davis. Their trials were later severed and Davis was eventually acquitted of all charges. Magee was convicted of simple kidnap and remains in prison to date – 46 years with no physical assaults on his record. An incredible jailhouse lawyer, Magee has been responsible for countless prisoners being released – the main reason he was kept for nearly 20 years in one lockup after another. Currently at Corcoran State Prison, he remains strong and determined to win his freedom and that of all oppressed peoples. [Ruchell was finally freed July 21, 2023, but lived only until Oct. 17, 2023, when he joined the ancestors.]
In his second book, “Blood in My Eye,” published posthumously, George Jackson noted: “Reformism is an old story in Amerika. There have been depressions and socio-economic political crises throughout the period that marked the formation of the present upper-class ruling circle and their controlling elites. But the parties of the left were too committed to reformism to exploit their revolutionary potential. … Fascism has temporarily succeeded under the guise of reform.” Those words ring even truer today as we witness a form of fascism that has replaced gas ovens with executions and torture chambers: plantations with prison industrial complexes deployed in rural white communities to perpetuate white supremacy and Black and Brown slavery.
The concentration of wealth at the top is worse than ever: One percent now owns more wealth than that of the combined 95 percent of the U.S. population; individuals are so rich their wealth exceeds the total budgets of numerous nations – as they plunder the globe in the quest for more.
“The fascist must expand to live. Consequently he has pushed his frontiers to the farthest lands and peoples. … I’m going to bust my heart trying to stop these smug, degenerate, primitive, omnivorous, uncivil – and anyone who would aid me, I embrace you.
“International capitalism cannot be destroyed without the extremes of struggle … We are the only ones … who can get at the monster’s heart without subjecting the world to nuclear fire. We have a momentous historical role to act out if we will. The whole world for all time in the future will love us and remember us as the righteous people who made it possible for the world to live on. … I don’t want to die and leave a few sad songs and a hump in the ground as my only monument. I want to leave a world that is liberated from trash, pollution, racism, nation-states, nation-state wars and armies, from pomp, bigotry, parochialism, a thousand different brands of untruth and licentious, usurious economics.” – George Jackson, “Soledad Brother”
On Aug. 21, 1971, after numerous failed attempts on his life, the state finally succeeded in assassinating George Jackson, then field marshal of the Black Panther Party, in what was described by prison officials as an escape attempt in which Jackson allegedly smuggled a gun into San Quentin in a wig. That feat was proven impossible, and evidence subsequently suggested a setup designed by prison officials to eliminate Jackson once and for all.
However, they didn’t count on losing any of their own in the process. On that fateful day, three notoriously racist prison guards and two inmate turnkeys were also killed, presumably by Jackson, who was shot and killed by guards as he drew fire away from the other prisoners in the Adjustment Center (lockup) of San Quentin.
Subsequently, six A/C prisoners were singled out and put on trial – wearing 30 pounds of chains in Marin Courthouse – for various charges of murder and assault: Fleeta Drumgo, David Johnson, Hugo L.A. Pinell (Yogi), Luis Talamantez, Johnny Spain and Willie Sundiata Tate. Only one was convicted of murder, Johnny Spain. The others were either acquitted or convicted of assault.
Pinell is the only one remaining in prison and has suffered prolonged torture in lockups since 1969. He is currently serving his 19th year in Pelican Bay’s SHU, a torture chamber if ever there was one. A true warrior, Pinell would put his life on the line to defend his fellow captives. [Only two weeks after Yogi was released to the yard after 26 years in solitary confinement, he was killed on Aug. 12, 2015, by two white prisoners.]
As decades passed, our Black scholars, like Mumia Abu-Jamal, learned of other liberation moves that happened in Black August. For example, the first and only armed revolution whereby Africans freed themselves from chattel slavery commenced in Haiti on Aug. 21, 1791. Nat Turner’s slave rebellion began on Aug. 21, 1831 (coincidence?) and Harriet Tubman’s Underground Railroad started in August. As Mumia stated, “Their sacrifice, their despair, their determination and their blood has painted the month black for all time.”
Let us honor our martyred freedom fighters as George Jackson counseled: “Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are dying who could be saved, that generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done; discover your humanity and your love in revolution.”
Kiilu Nyasha, Black Panther veteran, revolutionary journalist and Bay View columnist, beloved by activists worldwide, joined the ancestors on April 10, 2018. She is sorely missed.
source: SF Bayview
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/08/05/black-august-a-story-of-african-freedom-fighters/
#BlackAugust #blackLiberation #blackPantherParty #georgeJackson #northAmerica #us
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https://www.alojapan.com/1419359/camille-prats-and-vj-yambaos-japan-trip-with-friends/ Camille Prats and VJ Yambao’s Japan trip with friends #CamillePrats #Entertainment #EntertainmentNews #FilipinoCelebrities #friends #GmaEntertainment #instarrazzi #Japan #JapanTravel #OnlineExclusive #photos #primetime #ShowbizNews #ShowbizNewsToday #travel #VjYambao Photos In a joint Instagram post, ‘Mommy Dearest’ star, Camille Prats and husband VJ Yambao, shared glimpses of their group vacation in Hiroshima, Japan. Following their tr
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https://www.alojapan.com/1419359/camille-prats-and-vj-yambaos-japan-trip-with-friends/ Camille Prats and VJ Yambao’s Japan trip with friends #CamillePrats #Entertainment #EntertainmentNews #FilipinoCelebrities #friends #GmaEntertainment #instarrazzi #Japan #JapanTravel #OnlineExclusive #photos #primetime #ShowbizNews #ShowbizNewsToday #travel #VjYambao Photos In a joint Instagram post, ‘Mommy Dearest’ star, Camille Prats and husband VJ Yambao, shared glimpses of their group vacation in Hiroshima, Japan. Following their tr
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Trend Micro reports on the fallout from the international law enforcement takedown of LockBit ransomware platforms. "Contrary to what the group themselves have stated, activities observed post-disruption would indicate that Operation Chronos has a significant impact on the group's activities. The leak of LockBit's back-end information offered a glimpse into its internal workings and disclosed affiliate identities and victim data, potentially leading to a drop in trust and collaboration within the cybercriminal network." No IOC. 🔗 https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/24/d/operation-cronos-aftermath.html
#LockBit #OperationCronos #ransomware #cybercrime #threatintel
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Trend Micro reports on the fallout from the international law enforcement takedown of LockBit ransomware platforms. "Contrary to what the group themselves have stated, activities observed post-disruption would indicate that Operation Chronos has a significant impact on the group's activities. The leak of LockBit's back-end information offered a glimpse into its internal workings and disclosed affiliate identities and victim data, potentially leading to a drop in trust and collaboration within the cybercriminal network." No IOC. 🔗 https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/24/d/operation-cronos-aftermath.html
#LockBit #OperationCronos #ransomware #cybercrime #threatintel
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Trend Micro reports on the fallout from the international law enforcement takedown of LockBit ransomware platforms. "Contrary to what the group themselves have stated, activities observed post-disruption would indicate that Operation Chronos has a significant impact on the group's activities. The leak of LockBit's back-end information offered a glimpse into its internal workings and disclosed affiliate identities and victim data, potentially leading to a drop in trust and collaboration within the cybercriminal network." No IOC. 🔗 https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/24/d/operation-cronos-aftermath.html
#LockBit #OperationCronos #ransomware #cybercrime #threatintel
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Trend Micro reports on the fallout from the international law enforcement takedown of LockBit ransomware platforms. "Contrary to what the group themselves have stated, activities observed post-disruption would indicate that Operation Chronos has a significant impact on the group's activities. The leak of LockBit's back-end information offered a glimpse into its internal workings and disclosed affiliate identities and victim data, potentially leading to a drop in trust and collaboration within the cybercriminal network." No IOC. 🔗 https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/24/d/operation-cronos-aftermath.html
#LockBit #OperationCronos #ransomware #cybercrime #threatintel
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A glimpse from the Valentine's Retro-Gaming LUV at our museum ❤️ See you next year! 🎉 #visitljubljana #luvfest #ljubljana
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Topic: Exploring Themes of Love, Betrayal, and Human Nature in "The Wings of the Dove" Play
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99 years later, “The Sun Also Rises” is still delicious – Salon.com
essay
99 years later, “The Sun Also Rises” is still delicious
A modern traveler retraces Hemingway’s footsteps through Spain, one glass of vermút and Basque pintxo at a time
By Howie Southworth, Author of “Hemingway’s Spanish Table”
Published November 8, 2025 10:30AM (EST)
Roast suckling pig at Botin in Madrid (Howie Southworth) Facebook X Reddit EmailAct 1: The Road to Hemingway’s Spain
Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” begins in Paris but it doesn’t stay there. It follows a group of post-World War I expatriates, led by the emotionally distant narrator Jake Barnes and the captivating Lady Brett Ashley, with whom he shares a deep, impossible love. Their chaotic summer journey is joined by Brett’s fiancé, the troubled Mike Campbell, the charming but cynical Bill Gorton and the perpetually lost Robert Cohn, who is hopelessly infatuated with Brett.
The novel finds its messy center in Pamplona during the festival of San Fermín and the running of the bulls, a story of camaraderie, longing, and disillusionment. Beneath the clipped prose and bullfight bravado is a meditation on appetite, both emotional and physical. Food and drink mark the rhythm of the novel, from an early evening absinthe to trout beside the Irati River. What the characters eat reveals who they are, or who they wish they weren’t.
We begin our own journey in Bayonne, not Paris.
Related: I drank like Hemingway in Hong Kong
The city is rather overrun now than in the roaring 1920s, but the bones of Hemingway’s Europe remain if you know where to glance over coffee. “It’s the caffeine in it. Caffeine, we are here. Caffeine puts a man on her horse and a woman in his grave,” writes Jake Barnes. Coffee in the novel means moments of grounding, clarity, normalcy and lays a foundation for our day. Within view from where we enjoy a buttered baguette and sip our café au lait, the cathedral’s twin towers rise above the tiled roofs, and just beside us, tucked behind faded red shutters, is the ghost of the Hotel Panier Fleuri, where Jake stayed en route to Pamplona.
We stroll across the Pont Neuf, its international flags snapping in the morning breeze. The Nive and the Adour meet beneath our feet. It’s barely 10 a.m. and already the day promises heat. At the midpoint of the bridge, we hesitate. Ahead is the rest of France. Behind us, a story yet to be told. We turn back toward the car. Time to head to Spain.
(Howie Southworth) Cafe au lait in BayonneIt’s mid-morning and the car hums past the border and into Navarra. The road winds through the foothills like a prelude, each turn offering a sharper light and a deeper green. We stop to appreciate the color and a local omelet. Our first glimpse of Pamplona’s sandstone walls is a jolt. This city may be small, but in 1926 it became immortal, the place where a fiesta, thundering hooves, and a novel collided to shape modern legend.
We’ve come for the smaller festival, San Fermín Txikito, held each Fall to commemorate the saint’s original canonization, before the Summer celebrations stole Hemingway’s heart and the international spotlight. No bulls. No fireworks or colored kerchiefs just yet. Castillo Square is hushed, the anticipation almost audible.
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
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99 years later, “The Sun Also Rises” is still delicious – Salon.com
essay
99 years later, “The Sun Also Rises” is still delicious
A modern traveler retraces Hemingway’s footsteps through Spain, one glass of vermút and Basque pintxo at a time
By Howie Southworth, Author of “Hemingway’s Spanish Table”
Published November 8, 2025 10:30AM (EST)
Roast suckling pig at Botin in Madrid (Howie Southworth) Facebook X Reddit EmailAct 1: The Road to Hemingway’s Spain
Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” begins in Paris but it doesn’t stay there. It follows a group of post-World War I expatriates, led by the emotionally distant narrator Jake Barnes and the captivating Lady Brett Ashley, with whom he shares a deep, impossible love. Their chaotic summer journey is joined by Brett’s fiancé, the troubled Mike Campbell, the charming but cynical Bill Gorton and the perpetually lost Robert Cohn, who is hopelessly infatuated with Brett.
The novel finds its messy center in Pamplona during the festival of San Fermín and the running of the bulls, a story of camaraderie, longing, and disillusionment. Beneath the clipped prose and bullfight bravado is a meditation on appetite, both emotional and physical. Food and drink mark the rhythm of the novel, from an early evening absinthe to trout beside the Irati River. What the characters eat reveals who they are, or who they wish they weren’t.
We begin our own journey in Bayonne, not Paris.
Related: I drank like Hemingway in Hong Kong
The city is rather overrun now than in the roaring 1920s, but the bones of Hemingway’s Europe remain if you know where to glance over coffee. “It’s the caffeine in it. Caffeine, we are here. Caffeine puts a man on her horse and a woman in his grave,” writes Jake Barnes. Coffee in the novel means moments of grounding, clarity, normalcy and lays a foundation for our day. Within view from where we enjoy a buttered baguette and sip our café au lait, the cathedral’s twin towers rise above the tiled roofs, and just beside us, tucked behind faded red shutters, is the ghost of the Hotel Panier Fleuri, where Jake stayed en route to Pamplona.
We stroll across the Pont Neuf, its international flags snapping in the morning breeze. The Nive and the Adour meet beneath our feet. It’s barely 10 a.m. and already the day promises heat. At the midpoint of the bridge, we hesitate. Ahead is the rest of France. Behind us, a story yet to be told. We turn back toward the car. Time to head to Spain.
(Howie Southworth) Cafe au lait in BayonneIt’s mid-morning and the car hums past the border and into Navarra. The road winds through the foothills like a prelude, each turn offering a sharper light and a deeper green. We stop to appreciate the color and a local omelet. Our first glimpse of Pamplona’s sandstone walls is a jolt. This city may be small, but in 1926 it became immortal, the place where a fiesta, thundering hooves, and a novel collided to shape modern legend.
We’ve come for the smaller festival, San Fermín Txikito, held each Fall to commemorate the saint’s original canonization, before the Summer celebrations stole Hemingway’s heart and the international spotlight. No bulls. No fireworks or colored kerchiefs just yet. Castillo Square is hushed, the anticipation almost audible.
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: 99 years later, “The Sun Also Rises” is still delicious – Salon.com
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99 years later, “The Sun Also Rises” is still delicious – Salon.com
essay
99 years later, “The Sun Also Rises” is still delicious
A modern traveler retraces Hemingway’s footsteps through Spain, one glass of vermút and Basque pintxo at a time
By Howie Southworth, Author of “Hemingway’s Spanish Table”
Published November 8, 2025 10:30AM (EST)
Roast suckling pig at Botin in Madrid (Howie Southworth) Facebook X Reddit EmailAct 1: The Road to Hemingway’s Spain
Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” begins in Paris but it doesn’t stay there. It follows a group of post-World War I expatriates, led by the emotionally distant narrator Jake Barnes and the captivating Lady Brett Ashley, with whom he shares a deep, impossible love. Their chaotic summer journey is joined by Brett’s fiancé, the troubled Mike Campbell, the charming but cynical Bill Gorton and the perpetually lost Robert Cohn, who is hopelessly infatuated with Brett.
The novel finds its messy center in Pamplona during the festival of San Fermín and the running of the bulls, a story of camaraderie, longing, and disillusionment. Beneath the clipped prose and bullfight bravado is a meditation on appetite, both emotional and physical. Food and drink mark the rhythm of the novel, from an early evening absinthe to trout beside the Irati River. What the characters eat reveals who they are, or who they wish they weren’t.
We begin our own journey in Bayonne, not Paris.
Related: I drank like Hemingway in Hong Kong
The city is rather overrun now than in the roaring 1920s, but the bones of Hemingway’s Europe remain if you know where to glance over coffee. “It’s the caffeine in it. Caffeine, we are here. Caffeine puts a man on her horse and a woman in his grave,” writes Jake Barnes. Coffee in the novel means moments of grounding, clarity, normalcy and lays a foundation for our day. Within view from where we enjoy a buttered baguette and sip our café au lait, the cathedral’s twin towers rise above the tiled roofs, and just beside us, tucked behind faded red shutters, is the ghost of the Hotel Panier Fleuri, where Jake stayed en route to Pamplona.
We stroll across the Pont Neuf, its international flags snapping in the morning breeze. The Nive and the Adour meet beneath our feet. It’s barely 10 a.m. and already the day promises heat. At the midpoint of the bridge, we hesitate. Ahead is the rest of France. Behind us, a story yet to be told. We turn back toward the car. Time to head to Spain.
(Howie Southworth) Cafe au lait in BayonneIt’s mid-morning and the car hums past the border and into Navarra. The road winds through the foothills like a prelude, each turn offering a sharper light and a deeper green. We stop to appreciate the color and a local omelet. Our first glimpse of Pamplona’s sandstone walls is a jolt. This city may be small, but in 1926 it became immortal, the place where a fiesta, thundering hooves, and a novel collided to shape modern legend.
We’ve come for the smaller festival, San Fermín Txikito, held each Fall to commemorate the saint’s original canonization, before the Summer celebrations stole Hemingway’s heart and the international spotlight. No bulls. No fireworks or colored kerchiefs just yet. Castillo Square is hushed, the anticipation almost audible.
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: 99 years later, “The Sun Also Rises” is still delicious – Salon.com
#BasquePintxo #Books #Delicious #ErnestHemingway #Food #HemingwaySDrinks #HemingwaySSpanishTable #JakeBarnes #LadyBrettAshley #Navarra #Pamplona #Paris #Salon #SanFermin #Spain #TheSunAlsoRises #Traveler #Vermut
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99 years later, “The Sun Also Rises” is still delicious – Salon.com
essay
99 years later, “The Sun Also Rises” is still delicious
A modern traveler retraces Hemingway’s footsteps through Spain, one glass of vermút and Basque pintxo at a time
By Howie Southworth, Author of “Hemingway’s Spanish Table”
Published November 8, 2025 10:30AM (EST)
Roast suckling pig at Botin in Madrid (Howie Southworth) Facebook X Reddit EmailAct 1: The Road to Hemingway’s Spain
Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” begins in Paris but it doesn’t stay there. It follows a group of post-World War I expatriates, led by the emotionally distant narrator Jake Barnes and the captivating Lady Brett Ashley, with whom he shares a deep, impossible love. Their chaotic summer journey is joined by Brett’s fiancé, the troubled Mike Campbell, the charming but cynical Bill Gorton and the perpetually lost Robert Cohn, who is hopelessly infatuated with Brett.
The novel finds its messy center in Pamplona during the festival of San Fermín and the running of the bulls, a story of camaraderie, longing, and disillusionment. Beneath the clipped prose and bullfight bravado is a meditation on appetite, both emotional and physical. Food and drink mark the rhythm of the novel, from an early evening absinthe to trout beside the Irati River. What the characters eat reveals who they are, or who they wish they weren’t.
We begin our own journey in Bayonne, not Paris.
Related: I drank like Hemingway in Hong Kong
The city is rather overrun now than in the roaring 1920s, but the bones of Hemingway’s Europe remain if you know where to glance over coffee. “It’s the caffeine in it. Caffeine, we are here. Caffeine puts a man on her horse and a woman in his grave,” writes Jake Barnes. Coffee in the novel means moments of grounding, clarity, normalcy and lays a foundation for our day. Within view from where we enjoy a buttered baguette and sip our café au lait, the cathedral’s twin towers rise above the tiled roofs, and just beside us, tucked behind faded red shutters, is the ghost of the Hotel Panier Fleuri, where Jake stayed en route to Pamplona.
We stroll across the Pont Neuf, its international flags snapping in the morning breeze. The Nive and the Adour meet beneath our feet. It’s barely 10 a.m. and already the day promises heat. At the midpoint of the bridge, we hesitate. Ahead is the rest of France. Behind us, a story yet to be told. We turn back toward the car. Time to head to Spain.
(Howie Southworth) Cafe au lait in BayonneIt’s mid-morning and the car hums past the border and into Navarra. The road winds through the foothills like a prelude, each turn offering a sharper light and a deeper green. We stop to appreciate the color and a local omelet. Our first glimpse of Pamplona’s sandstone walls is a jolt. This city may be small, but in 1926 it became immortal, the place where a fiesta, thundering hooves, and a novel collided to shape modern legend.
We’ve come for the smaller festival, San Fermín Txikito, held each Fall to commemorate the saint’s original canonization, before the Summer celebrations stole Hemingway’s heart and the international spotlight. No bulls. No fireworks or colored kerchiefs just yet. Castillo Square is hushed, the anticipation almost audible.
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: 99 years later, “The Sun Also Rises” is still delicious – Salon.com
#BasquePintxo #Books #Delicious #ErnestHemingway #Food #HemingwaySDrinks #HemingwaySSpanishTable #JakeBarnes #LadyBrettAshley #Navarra #Pamplona #Paris #Salon #SanFermin #Spain #TheSunAlsoRises #Traveler #Vermut
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#Lakota people #LOSTbyICE. Unfinished story - last updates I find are this - Jan 15th. Chase Iron Eyes, speaking here. Founder or founding member of @[email protected] Remember #StandingRock?... Check here for a glimpse of their broad impact: action.lakotalaw.org/impact
Oglala Sioux tribal members de... -
Lee's 'More Glimpses' includes a great first-hand description of a banshee from 17th Century Limerick in #Ireland. The witness was one Lady Fanshaw. I shall write it out verbatim, because it's worth it, but I don't think the thread will be terribly long. [Cont: #PhantomsFriday #banshee #folklore
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Lee's 'More Glimpses' includes a great first-hand description of a banshee from 17th Century Limerick in #Ireland. The witness was one Lady Fanshaw. I shall write it out verbatim, because it's worth it, but I don't think the thread will be terribly long. [Cont: #PhantomsFriday #banshee #folklore
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Lee's 'More Glimpses' includes a great first-hand description of a banshee from 17th Century Limerick in #Ireland. The witness was one Lady Fanshaw. I shall write it out verbatim, because it's worth it, but I don't think the thread will be terribly long. [Cont: #PhantomsFriday #banshee #folklore
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Lee's 'More Glimpses' includes a great first-hand description of a banshee from 17th Century Limerick in #Ireland. The witness was one Lady Fanshaw. I shall write it out verbatim, because it's worth it, but I don't think the thread will be terribly long. [Cont: #PhantomsFriday #banshee #folklore
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#TimeTravelingGhost EP 8: Post 89: 2025 Arkham 2 of 2
#Wss366 Rabbit / Easter #MastoPrompt Boredom #TimeTravelAuthors 04/5. Games in your story
[Continued from previous post]
Once I was out of sight, I whispered, “We need to head Ms. Dubois off before they learn about the letter cache. Be ready to time-trip if the #rabbits spot us.”
It didn’t come to that. The rabbits were focused on the professor.
We were also fortunate that the path the professor was on curved down into a ravine and then backtracked to the statue. That meant we could dive straight through the woods using an unofficial trail. The extra time allowed us to be cautious.
Periodically, we glimpsed ICE-nine uniforms and hid. It was a grim game of hide-and-seek. It kept #boredom at bay but was nowhere near as fun as playing pinochle or bezique with Emily.
While on our way, I came up with a plan and manifested a loose-fitting trench coat, fedora, and surgical mask. I also doused myself with Old Clipper cologne to hide any unique smells. Sus, I am sure, but I figured in the dim light I would pass as a man, someone clearly not Henrietta Bijou.
I was ready by the time we stumbled out of the ravine onto the path. I leaned against a tree, panting. A new idea occurred to me, and I hurriedly manifested an empty bottle of cheap vodka. Then I waited for my living counterpart to arrive. As she drew near, she moved to the far side of the trail. Yeah, I was suspicious, definitely creepy.
A look of terror came over Ms. Dubois’ face as I lurched across the trail. “Flee! The rabbits are on to you,” I whispered. Finished, I staggered away, dropping the liquor bottle. Lurching explained.
To my relief, the professor turned back, hurrying in the direction she had come from.
I turned in the other way and rushed to the tree to fetch the notes that were already there.
Emily drifted up as I shoved the papers into a pocket of my coat. “That was a plucky move,” she said.
#TootFic #MicroFiction #NMFic #TimeTravel #HistoricalFantasy #UrbanFantasy #Mythpunk #Serial #Slowburn #Yuri
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Baby ‘cosmic fossil’ galaxy brings JWST closer to glimpsing the universe’s first stars
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=baby-cosmic-fossil-galaxy-brings-jwst-closer-to-glimpsing-the-universes-first-stars
Quick take: <p>Seen just 800 million years after the big bang
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Baby ‘cosmic fossil’ galaxy brings JWST closer to glimpsing the universe’s first stars
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=baby-cosmic-fossil-galaxy-brings-jwst-closer-to-glimpsing-the-universes-first-stars
Quick take: <p>Seen just 800 million years after the big bang
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Actually this is….what make me gonna read this manhua in the first case lol It was just a peek of an non-existent chapter, or a chapter being made in another dimension, the Mandella effect whatever…i tried my best bringing it into that dimension….so let us say the story of Demon King who lost his job might differ a bit in another dimension, i just had a glimse there, a part where Merlin with some others (Not Alice) where having a mission into an unknown city…jumping from building to building & Merlin says "I'm an adventurer" it was somehow like this & so i tried my best bring this one here…..
#theDemonKingWhoLostHisJob #theUnemployedDemonKing #unemployedDemonKing #merlinLuciferIII #merlinLucifer #merlin #lucifer #manhua #myFanart #fanart #edited -
Actually this is….what make me gonna read this manhua in the first case lol It was just a peek of an non-existent chapter, or a chapter being made in another dimension, the Mandella effect whatever…i tried my best bringing it into that dimension….so let us say the story of Demon King who lost his job might differ a bit in another dimension, i just had a glimse there, a part where Merlin with some others (Not Alice) where having a mission into an unknown city…jumping from building to building & Merlin says "I'm an adventurer" it was somehow like this & so i tried my best bring this one here…..
#theDemonKingWhoLostHisJob #theUnemployedDemonKing #unemployedDemonKing #merlinLuciferIII #merlinLucifer #merlin #lucifer #manhua #myFanart #fanart #edited