On this day in 1911, the Japanese government executed twelve anarchists, including radical journalists Kanno Sugako and Kōtoku Shūsui (shown), as part of a widespread crackdown on left-wing activism. Among those executed were Uchiyama Gudō, a Buddhist priest and socialist who spoke out against the Meiji government for its imperialism and advocated for conscripted soldiers to desert en masse.
The pretext for this crackdown was the "High Treason Incident", a plot to assassinate the Emperor of Japan. The incident began when police searched the room of Miyashita Takichi, a young lumbermill employee, and found materials which could be used to construct bombs, concluding that there was a broader conspiracy to harm the imperial family.
On the basis of this plot, the Japanese government rounded up leftist activists from all over the country. 24 of the 26 defendants actually brought to trial were sentenced to death, despite the evidence against nearly all of them being circumstantial.
Among those executed anarcha-feminist journalist Kanno Sugako (some sources say she was executed on January 25th). At the age of 29, Kanno became the first woman with the status of political prisoner to be executed in the history of modern Japan.
Prior to his execution, Kōtoku Shūsui etched this message on the wall of his cell: "How has it come about that I have committed this grave crime? Today my trial is hidden from outside observers and I have even less liberty than previously to speak about these events. Perhaps in 100 years someone will speak out about them on my behalf."
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actual incoherent rant post idk why i wrote this
CISC? RISC? How about NISC? Abolish coherent instruction sets entirely and let compilers control processor functional units and datapaths directlyOh? That would increase compiler complexity? Have you seen GCC or LLVM lately? BILLIONS MUST -MTUNE
Complexity would probably go down if we stopped keeping up the illusion that all processors implementing a certain instruction set are actually the same processor (not even getting into x86 and how an Intel chip from 2024 can pretend to be a chip from the 70s still)
What about compatibility? If you're an operating system developer, stop writing unportable code and just maintain and update code that has to be unportable (niche machine-specific stuff). Someone somewhere was expending the effort to keep that code running whether it's you or some Intel engineer. It's not like there are no resources available for this, capitalists (who employ people to write software) just don't want to pay. Idk let's make the state pay for this and we can all benefit from better, less-constrained computer architecture. And if you're anyone else, just share your code with the people who have to run it so they recompile/reinterpret/whatever the code for their machine. Obviously, this will not work in a market-based society but whatever. We need a revolution anyway. Or not even that, JIT compilers work great these days.
We don't even have to get rid of all traditional ISCs, they can still be useful. But look at what we have to do to keep this illusion of sequentially executing, unchanging, yet high-performance and always getting faster, processors going. All manner of complicated speculative execution, out-of-order execution, branch prediction, whatever tf else techniques implemented in hardware (or microcode) when we could just stop pretending and move all of it into compilers (which can always be patched when these performance techniques cause total breakdown of security guarantees, for example). Spectre/Meltdown melted my brain and I have never recovered.
I'm pressing post before I talk myself out of posting this
Also transport triggered architectures are cool