nutball

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by nutball 10y ago
I think the "sabotage" techniques suggested by the author actually benefit companies whose main product is built by intellectual labor. Companies care a great deal about controlling workers: to get them in line, to squeeze labor f
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by nutball 10y ago
Yup, open offices primary benefit is surveillance and control. Management is happy to sacrifice individual productivity for more control over workers. Surveillance is a useful tool for sucking surplus value from our minds. Open offices make
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by nutball 10y ago
Every kid knows that school sucks. A prison for their minds and bodies. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-toward-the...
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by nutball 13y ago
Social media is work, just like housework is work, and it's about as dull as waged work too. Work is a relationship where some entity extracts surplus value off your unpaid labor. I like the forced, scrolling text: makes you slow down
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An Antagonist’s Guide To Destroying The Surveillance State(anarchistnews.org)
16 points by nutball 13y ago|5 comments
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by nutball 13y ago
Yeah! Math Prof has definitely chosen a side. He obscures that move in a fluff of "politics is complex, decisions are difficult." But politics is everything, and he's engaged in politics knee-deep while pretending not to be.
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by nutball 13y ago
There's a weird fetishism of education. Yeah, optimize yourself for education, remain constantly, obsessively learning so you can become a more valuable commodity. It's that entrepreneurial spirit! The spirit of life itself! (What
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by nutball 13y ago
Send Jeremy books! http://freejeremy.net/updates/send-jeremy-books/
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by nutball 13y ago
Yeah, get it! Shoplifting is also worthy challenge, though, that I feel the author underrates. Scams and shoplifting are two ways toward the same goal: exiting the store with goods without paying for them or getting caught. Sticking stuff i
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by nutball 13y ago
Woah, I followed pretty much the same roadmap as you, except I took the (Python-based) CS600 class at OpenMIT instead of Udacity's CS101. And my year was 2013. I really enjoyed Udacity's CS253 on web development, even if the parti
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by nutball 13y ago
You think thieves stab people? Why would they do that?
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by nutball 13y ago
Wasn't intending to argue with you, I was just using your comment as a springboard for a comment. I agree with all your points! I'm not inclined towards a pure conflict against the state without a currently-unfathomable communist
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by nutball 13y ago
Humans have lived for nearly 200,000 years without states. States, which for their ~10,000 year history have been very ephemeral. Civilization keeps barreling on while states collapse and begin again. The forces that lead to the flux of sta
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by nutball 13y ago
Systemic violence so drastically outweighs "individual violence" in quantity and affect that there's just no real comparison. Me smacking a dude for talking shit doesn't even come close to the totality of systemic violen
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by nutball 13y ago
Good question. Early anarchists use the words 'freedom' and 'liberty' in a vague manner. This is OK, because anarchy isn't a theory that needs to be based on logical assumptions. It's not a theory at all, but a
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by nutball 13y ago
That U curve makes sense. It aligns with when people usually work.
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by nutball 13y ago
I'm not sure of an alternative. That needs to be experimental, I think. An analysis of the problem of prisons doesn't require an alternative to be suggested, though. Let me explain. Prisons are awful places that aren't design
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by nutball 13y ago
Or get rid of all the prisons. Stop locking people up in cages.
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by nutball 13y ago
Guy's a far right 'neoreactionary.' Fuck him.