the equivalent would be like anytime anyone ever even thought about using a phone someone has to chime in & say "phones are cool BUT NO PHREAKING THAT'S ILLEGAL" or, "yeah, the web is cool BUT DON'T USE IT TO BUY DRUGS THAT'S ILLEGAL but sure, go have fun with your 'web'" #amateurradio
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oh look, the dudes have begun their fear mongering already. finger-wagging about the potential criminality of using mini FM transmitters under the guise of "expertise" is a popular tactic to keep people away from amateur radio. build the device as we suggest, check your country's guidelines for low power radio, and have fun! ours transmits less than a watt over less than 100 feet. @mediaarchaeologylab @rose_alibi
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if you've been wondering how you YES YOU might go about building small networks outside of the internet or if you've been wondering abt the untapped potential of good ol' fashioned amateur radio, check out our website for #othernetworks and pamphlet Build Your Own Mini FM Transmitter https://othernetworks.net/2024/08/20/build-your-own-mini-fm-transmitter/ @rose_alibi @mediaarchaeologylab
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friends in or near Philly! the Digital Scholars Studio at the Charles Library and the Music Technology Department at Temple U are seeking proposals for their Low Tech Electronics Faire! March 13-14. I will be there giving a talk and would love to see you. @DialupDownload @philtel https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTcmiwQPKHbnqPQ4AjWwnuRrGaEJlvdBppnYs3v6bFVepUv7itZzPZInajl8IlLiUPAMWhrqGea2VbZ/pub
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after discovering in the late 19th century that antisemitic slogans were highly effective in mobilizing "the mob," the first antisemitic member of German parliament "owed his seat to votes of the peasants whom he defended against 'Junkers and Jews,' that is against the nobility which owned too much land and against the Jews upon whose credit the peasants depended." #Arendt #fascism
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ahem. over and over again, as Arendt relays the long history of the rise of antisemitism, she lands on key moments of naivete, "inhuman innocence," gullibility, self-induced and externally mandated ignorance, at just about every level of society...occasionally, workers and Marxists are exempt. #Arendt #fascism
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"...the last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility." #Arendt #fascism
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Elon's support of various international right-wing nationalist regimes is not a coincidence or a mere obsession with tinkering with power: "The Nazis had a genuine and never revoked contempt for the narrowness of nationalism...and they repeated time and again that their 'movement,' international in scope..., was more important to them than any state which would necessarily be bound to a specific territory." #Arendt #fascism
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"...the measures taken by Stalin with the introduction of the First Five Year Plan in 1928...prove that transformation of classes into masses and the concomitant elimination of all group solidarity are the condition sine qua non of total domination." #Arendt, 1966 #fascism
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"Totalitarian politics--far from being simply antisemitic or racist or imperialist or communist--use and abuse their own ideological and political elements until the basis of factual reality, from which the ideologies originally derived their strength and their propaganda value...have all but disappeared." #Arendt #fascism [I'm just going to keep posting the most astute observations from Arendt, also now with hashtag in case anyone wants to mute]
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I can't think of a better way to articulate how to approach the present moment than this: "Comprehension, in short, means the unpremeditated, attentive facing up to, and resisting of, reality--whatever it may be." --Hannah Arendt, 1950
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just preparing, nbd.
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"'Algorithmic Sabotage' is a figure of techno-disobedience for the militancy that’s absent from technology critique." from the Manifesto on 'Algorithmic Sabotage'---> https://algorithmic-sabotage.github.io/asrg/manifesto-on-algorithmic_sabotage/
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just here to publicly note: almost every woman in my life is struggling with low-level, ongoing health niggles that no medical professional is helping them with. I am a witness & participant in endless texts about "I tried this weird alt therapy and maybe it's working and maybe you can try it too". (it was strangely affirming to have a mid-wife respond to my many questions with "I'm sorry, I just don't know and no one seems to know because no money has been spent on women's health.")
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just started reading psychiatrist Ross Ashby's Design for A Brain from 1952 which WAS enormously influential at the time and tries to create specifications for building an artificial brain (i.e. artificial intelligence). it is curious to think that contemporary AI comes out of psychiatry! #cybernetics
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I still think that in some ways earlier eras were much more progressive than ours--i.e., this completely delightful but matter-of-fact and not actually that cutesy "The Woman and the Car: A Chatty Little Handbook for all Women who Motor or Who Want to Motor" from 1909 https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-120928-1526/page/n9/mode/2up?view=theater
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mayyyybe, thanks to MZ's (otherwise known just as "🤢") now very public allegiance to all things evil and destructive, we really are witnessing an acceleration in the death of huge social media platforms #stilldreaming
#othernetworks
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and sometimes your late night snack is just so delicious that you become convinced it surely augurs a wonderful day tomorrow---ipso facto.
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pardon me but there are some fantastic sentences in this piece - exhibit A: "Pierre Poilievre [is] a politician who looks like if Toad became an incel because Princess Peach didn’t put out after he helped save her from Bowser’s Castle." and exhibit B which I can personally attest to: "there’s nothing a Canadian loves more than being mistaken for an American. Try it. Go to any bar in the shittiest part of Edmonton and try it. The ensuing hospital visit will at least be free." https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/01/justin-trudeau-resignation-canadas-trump-next.html
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ok, apparently I need to actually say more explicitly: this should not have to be an individual burden we each have to bear. we should not have to individually choose to "be the change" and cut ourselves off from one of the only or very few ways to belong to a community in this glorious day and age. regulation, "my dudes."
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