What we are going to have to do in the coming years is build out a whole lot of parallel institutions that can do the work previously assigned to the state, most especially civic education.

Eventually I will find my way to excitement for that project but right now the prospect exhausts me

“An animal with the right to make promises enslaves the unanticipated to signs in the past, caging time-lagged life within a script.”

Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people

“Where was _crime_victim_’s due process?”

THAT’S ONE OF THE CHIEF CHARACTERISTICS OF CRIME YOU MORONS

DUE PROCESS UNDER THE LAW IS WHAT (barely) SEPARATES THE DEMOCRATIC STATE FROM A CRIME SYNDICATE

we’re going to look back at how we designed the world around computers with the same regret that we look at how we’ve designed cities around cars

Every Tesla is a surveillance device. This is worth knowing regardless of whether you engage in protest activity.

This chart shows the locations and ranges of the cameras, presuming they have an unobstructed view.

Fashion tips for preserving your privacy around Teslas:

crimethinc.com/fashiontips

People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.

SEEING LIKE A TECH BRO

HOW CERTAIN SCHEMES TO MAKE THE HUMAN CONDITION WORSE HAVE FAILED

Dear Tim Apple: keyboard cleaning mode for MacBooks, please, where the thing is the dead, bricked, inert, for exactly two minutes

(Is sweat gland removal part of onboarding at Apple? Or is the Apple Way to throw it away and buy a new one)

But social democracy, which is committed to capitalism, resolves the tension through imperialism.Social democratic states appropriate cheap labour and nature from the global South, thus allowing them to offer good wages and public services at home while maintaining capital accumulation.

I may not believe in a God, as conventionally understood. But I believe in the future so deeply, it might as well be the same thing: not as an inevitability, but as a sacredness worthy of personal sacrifice. And I reserve the right to apply a mythopoetic user interface in service to that Future.

“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”

The greatest trick memeplex egregores ever pulled was letting humanity believe it’s still the apex predator.