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

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

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

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

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

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alojapan.com/1308014/japan-exe Japan executes man dubbed the “Twitter killer,” convicted serial killer who murdered and dismembered 9 people #DEATHPENALTY #execution #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #news Japan on Friday executed a man dubbed the “Twitter killer” who murdered and dismembered nine people he met online, in the nation’s first enactment of the death penalty since 2022. Takahiro Shiraishi, 34, was hanged for killing his young victims, all b…

alojapan.com/1307857/japan-exe Japan executes ‘Twitter killer’ for 2017 serial murders #execution #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #news #TwitterKiller Japan has carried out its first execution since 2022, putting to death Takahiro Shiraishi, the man behind the infamous 2017 “Twitter killer” case that shocked the nation. Shiraishi, then 30, lured his victims – most of them young women between the ages of 15 and 26 – to his apartment, before strangling and dismembe…

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

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

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

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