"From Soapy Smith in the 1880s to James Hogue in the 2020s, scammers are a staple of Colorado."
"Mathias Rust (born 1 June 1968) is a German aviator known for his flight that ended with a landing near Red Square in Moscow on 28 May 1987. A teenage amateur pilot, he flew from Helsinki, Finland, to Moscow, without authorization."
"In the early hours of February 4, 1999, an unarmed 23-year-old Guinean student named Amadou Diallo (born September 2, 1975) was fired upon with 41 rounds and shot a total of 19 times by four New York City Police Department plainclothes officers: Sean Carroll, Richard Murphy, Edward McMellon, and Kenneth Boss."
"Although Congress instructed the Attorney General in 1994 to compile and publish annual statistics on police use of excessive force, this was never carried out, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation does not collect these data."
I thought it could be interesting to discuss some what-ifs, trying to imagine what the future of technology will look like in the face of this strong global anti-democratic trend. What technologies will we all be asked to make and what concessions will be forced upon us?
"The Uihleins have used their wealth to funnel millions of dollars into the most extreme right-wing politicians and movements in the United States."
Crypto For The Homeless is a non-profit that uses cryptocurrency to reimburse volunteers who deliver supplies and food to homeless and houseless humans around the world.
Listen to it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sfnwFV92XY
"This form of Christianity with no justice and no compassion must be rejected. It’s not worth preserving and it is not liberative, prophetic, and Christ-centered to emancipate Black people and people of color in this nation. Its basic premise is the denial of Black humanity and dignity, and Black rights and future possibilities in this society."
"Dolge is an anarchist, an atheist and a communist." – Judge Hardin
Somehow I have never heard of Alfred Dolge -- an inventor of musical instruments and an industrial-socialist who built a utopian town in New York around a felt factory. This audio program by Dave Hilowitz tells the story of the the rise and fall of Dolgeville.
I didn't listen to this whole thing (almost 6 hours!) but it seems comprehensive!
Here's a link to my own AT hike in 2011/2012:
https://mretc.net/~cris/AT2011/
Transcript: https://anarchopac.com/2022/02/28/anarchists-are-not-naive-about-human-nature/
Good 2018 talk by Cory Doctorow on the impossibility of crypto-anarchy (or at least of crypto-anarchy alone).
This is the article where I first learned about Kurt Steiner
"I did make a bunch of money by winning the Netscape Startup Lottery, it's true. So did most of the early engineers. But the people who made 100x as much as the engineers did? I can tell you for a fact that none of them slept under their desk. If you look at a list of financially successful people from the software industry, I'll bet you get a very different view of what kind of sleep habits and office hours are successful than the one presented here."
I met this guy on my 2013 Colorado Trail thru hike when he was doing a section he skipped. He also has a good journal of his Northville-Placid Trail thru hike (https://trailjournals.com/journal/entry/477698)
"Over 40 people delayed the sweeping of a South Dallas homeless encampment on Friday morning, blocking off the camp with their bodies and cars. Some were armed with rifles."
"We are abolitionists fighting for the rights of unhoused people through mutual aid and direct action."
an essay on nostalgia
On the JIS ghost characters
video essay comparing EZLN to anarchist thought of Magon.
good guys FIF
I found this helpful for an aran sweater I'm about to start
For almost 40 years Ken Smith has shunned conventional life and lived without electricity or running water in a hand-made log cabin on the banks of a remote loch in the Scottish Highlands.
This blogger took a tour of the ecovillage founded by Gabriel of Urantia (who I've written about previously: https://americancynic.net/log/2012/6/7/gabriel_of_urantia/). It looks pretty nice.
An interview with the Russian anarchists who run antijob.net
How Life Imitates Chess, by Garry Kasparov
Larisa Arap (Russian: Лари́са Ива́новна Ара́п; born in 1958) is a Russian opposition activist who became a victim of involuntary commitment in the psychiatric facilities of Murmansk and Apatity, soon after publishing her article about mistreatment of patients in the same hospital where she was committed in July, 2007. She was released after 46 days of confinement, on August 20, 2007.
John Pike ("Pepper Spray Cop," "Pepper Spraying Cop" or "Casually Pepper Spraying Everything Cop") was a lieutenant in the UC Davis Police Department. He gained notoriety for pepper spraying peaceful, sitting protesters during the UC Davis protest on Friday November 18.
See also the documentary "God's Cartoonist - The Comic Crusade of Jack Chick":
A readable summary of Advaita Vedanta theology and epistemology.
[Philosophy East and West, Vol. 11, No. 4 (Jan., 1962), pp. 231-237.]
An interview with Sarah Kernochan about making and later finding the negatives for the Marjoe documentary.
Putting all of these movies on my to-watch list.
Check out this hipster doofus.
Vera Ivanovna Zasulich (1851 – 8 May 1919) was a Russian revolutionary. She was friends with the nihilist Sergei Nechaev, tried to kill the governor of St. Petersburg, and co-founded the first Russian Marxist group.
Obviously chess and tetris are both very leaky metaphors for life, but I liked the comparison and the emphasis on inner life of tetris over external struggle of chess.
Police don't prevent mass shootings, though they do maintain a society where they regularly happen and then use them to try to justify their own existence.
See also my article "SWAT Team Fife" that focuses on the Columbine response: https://americancynic.net/log/2018/6/7/swat_team_fife/
Chess players in Myanmar protest the military coup and arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi by playing without their queens.
microRevolt projects investigate the dawn of sweatshops in early industrial capitalism to inform the current crisis of global expansion and the feminization of labor