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Should we refuse grants from institutions in service to empire?
The Center for a Stateless Society advises us not to worry about DARPA’s involvement in what are otherwise projects with wholesome bottom-up implications. The Internet itself was spawned in the dark corridors of DARPA. I’m still undecided as to whether I consider the Internet itself to be a Trojan horse upon society. I’m not especially…
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Quotebag #83
“Just take anarcho-capitalism, perhaps tweak a few premises, change your semantics, and apparently you’re a ‘left-libertarian’!”—Shenlong “Death to the mainstream!”—Summerspeaker “Most people who blog on political or social issues, probably, fear what might turn up if the Human Resources Gestapo do a Google on them.”—Kevin Carson “♥ Embrace your desires, don’t discipline them.”—Summerspeaker “While some…
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Quotebag #82
“The difference between a university and a vocational school is precisely that a university offers you more than an insight into a single discipline. This is why I always say that there was good vocational training in the sciences in the USSR but there was no education.”—Clarissa “The central core of Communism is its one…
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Open letter to When Mitt Had A Spell
Here’s a probably-somehow-illegal deep link which probably won’t work anyway. Here’s the actual text (the inclusion of which here probably violates someone’s intellectual property rights, but I’m a literally worthless human being so what will they do, sue me? Ya can’t extract blood from a turnip, ya know. The names have been changed (albeit in…
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Prying apart life’s package deals…
Things that would be nice if they were possible: technology without technocracy opportunity without opportunism
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Core political beliefs
Following in the footsteps of Vox Corvegis (2012-08-04), Nominatissima (2012-07-30) and Clarissa (2012-06-25): These should be taken to pertain to me personally, not to the anagorist movement as a whole (very likely a distinction without a difference, but…) Anyway: Power corrupts Because power corrupts, I have no difficulty rooting for, and siding with, the…
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Quotebag #81
“Frankly, best theory? We exist in a cheap holodeck in 2043 on quarters that had been dropped in by a ninety year old George W Bush who wanted to live his chain of fantasy dream jobs. Fighter pilot! Oilman! Baseball team owner! Guv uf Texas! Pres-e-dent!… and he got fatigue[d?] before he could appoint himself…
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Random thinks
I’m not ready to jump on the democracy-denouncing bandwagon. In theory I’m against government, which implies being against democratic government. Off the record I’d say (to a co-religionist co-ideologist) that I’m against democracy in the sense of majority rule but for democracy in the sense of control from the bottom up. Assuming I’m against majority…
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Quotebag #80
“The ‘genius’ of capitalism is that premature death is regarded not as systemic failure but as a matter of personal choice. ”—Purple “If all the employers who’ll hire you will make you pee on camera, if all the municipalities have obnoxious zoning laws, then you don’t have much choice, other than who you’ll pee in…
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Quotebag #79
“If the human condition was immutable, we’d still be living in caves.”—Charlie Stross “A good piece of evidence that capitalism is in crisis are the increasingly loud exclamations to return to a ‘real’ capitalism. Reminds one of the cries that the USSR was not a ‘real’ communism.”—Purple “Capitalism, being based on a system of exchange,…