Kim Kardashev #BringBackŁink

the WWW being invented was a very different thing, a horse bolting from a stable, and an extremely new concept, though we (well, once I got old enough, “we”) recognized it was parallel to techs like literacy, the gutenberg press, movable type, free speech ideology, local access, shortwave, HAM etc

* the Web was not “the early internet”, just early internet _era_ as in the period where culture, politics, history, law etc are all highly influenced by specifically networked computers. it was actually invented in 1969 as a military/academic tool. the guys who landed on the moon all used it

(and, of course, Third Worldists had a massive impact on english language internet of the 80s* and 90s)

N30 was a turning point for me. Before then I mostly thought the internet rhetoric was apolitical as I was hearing about it just as often in the please-no-real-problems computer enthusiast media of the day as from the anarchist philosophers and debaters I grew up playing the diy videogames of

back then I had no concept for how new and strange it was. Now that I’ve read theory I know that it’s historically rare for them to merely talk to each other at that scale, nor to even begin to achieve ideological cohesion *internally* just within one of those groups. it signals big world changes

I can tell we have (small) subcultural and political differences, which is fine, but it was fascinating to hear about this era from R.U., who has an unusually good memory. I was a computer child growing up around that rhetoric being adopted by anarchists, libertarians and libcons simultaneously

It never escapes my notice anymore that Bey was an out and proud child sex exploiter/abuser, and argued it was anarchist and good to do

Police Make Mass Arrest at Whipple, Ending Week of Action Against ICE in MN At least 15 protesters were arrested during the last planned protest of the Bring the Heat Melt The Ice! week of action in Minnesota. A march against ICE to the…

NEW: At least 15 people were violently arrested by state police and Hennepin County sheriff's deputies after a march against ICE to the Whipple Federal Building on Sunday, March 1, during the last planned protest of the 'Bring the Heat Melt The Ice!' week of action in Minnesota.

Jill why don't you go do that and get back to us on the results?

Oh I’m sure you had a killer joke about German transsexual athletes back then

This is kinda like saying everyone needs to listen to your opinions because you were on a debate team in college

Even if it were true, it neatly sidesteps the fact that there is a world of difference between a college paper back when Jill was in college and the industry today

What a bad post

Wait LMAO Kash Patel's girlfriend is from fucking *Weymouth?* Girl, how are you from Boston going "I know what affected, poverty-cosplaying musical tradition I'm into--country!"

Someone with the time/inclination might find that a lot of Big Law websites and bios now omit info on DEI and immigration related pro bono work that was on those websites as recently as a year ago.

meritriciously*

I mean, as an ancom I agree that that doesn’t make them first rate, it’s just that they never qualified other than status quo/meriticiously. the real first rate were always some of the public defender offices plus all the enviro lawyers and imm defenders

Nah, they always agreed with either his policy preferences or sanewashed versions- at least since the Reagan era, which I was born near the end of. That’s why so many lawyers are Democrats since those times

Which had spillover effects far beyond the firms

Crampell is also lying to herself about accessibility. I’d normally interpret the evidence I have as tending toward malice, except I genuinely believe it’s closer to merely willful ignorance designed to try to epoxy incoherent politics together (many such libs)

It actually wasn’t a waste of money for Trump, he got what he wanted, a bunch of elite lawyers and firms pre-surrendering to him

poetry was invented so that people who read slow could feel pompous about something

wild ass take they're making which is basically,

'conservative voters are deranged because of their media diets, GOP electeds accurately represent those views, therefore democratic politicians should not represent the views of their voters'

it's nonsense

does it kill people irl? yes. does it force countries to go back on their climate commitments? of course. but if you think this ugly slop is artistic or that it was better for your decision to not hire an artist, then on a level where humanity is about more than exercising will, you’re already dead

Now is a great time to call Schumer and Gillibrand and tell them that you do not, under any circumstances, support military engagement with Iran, and you expect them to put an end to this immediately.

☎️: Schumer: (202) 224-6542
☎️: Gillibrand: (202) 224-4451

somebody needs to shoot him in the cheek with a peroxide AK

mutual aid fills community needs is written in yellow Alt: mutual aid fills community needs is written in yellow, hands facing each other as if to give each other a boost.

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Same Day/Immediate Help:

C/V/P mayasdivinedesigns

in between we have been smarmed down with a lot of: you’re being paranoid about the world’s most neutral provider of information, and it’s good info btw

This. This is why us internet anarchists (and back then, maoists also) were spelling the S’s with dollar signs 25+ years ago- AP’s always been this, because coming of age in a time of brutally expanding capitalism required the organization in its position to become this, even before those times

man, what

The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all | Taylor Lorenz Age-verification systems require collecting sensitive data to support the biometric information. In no time, the internet will become a fully surveilled digital panopticon, says technology journalist ...

I have a piece out in @theguardian.com today on how the internet is becoming a fully surveilled digital panopticon and why we need to fight back with everything we have

I have a long essay (hopefully) coming out soon spelling out the rationale, but, in a nutshell, if you think such a figure is acting, emoting, thinking, or doing anything else intentional you are deforming and degrading your own humanity. (Don't give it a click!)