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

Cory Doctorow on GMErgate and why shorts are actually good.

I think one reason the GameStop thing is fun is because it is apocalyptic in the sense that it reveals the hypocrisy and opt-in delusions of capitalism. I like this take:

"And the Redditors said, “Who cares? I don’t care about your equations. I don’t care about your valuation models. I’m going to make the price go up because all it is to me is a number on the screen.” So they just stripped all the pretense out of Wall Street and used that to expose it and to screw it."

"So to sum it up, don’t be a fucking idiot and bypass White Metal because you don’t like what they’re saying because guaran-damn-teed you will miss out on some critically great stuff due to blind ignorance and…fear."

Photographs of Loukanikos, "sausage", the legendary stray "riot dog" who was present at nearly every outbreak of mass class struggle and social disorder in Athens up until 2012, when he was adopted and retired outside the city. He died peacefully in his sleep in 2014, aged around 10.

RIP Loukanikos (~2004-2014)

Very fair overview of [American] individualist anarchism on a libertarian website.

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

"There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

A review by Kristian Williams.

"Perhaps, then, Camus’ analogy may be borne out by reality: Perhaps the means of fighting pestilence will prove to be the same as those for fighting fascism."

Bakunin was right.

"To vote is to abdicate. To name one or several masters for a short or long period means renouncing one’s own sovereignty. Whether he becomes absolute monarch, constitutional prince or a simple elected representative bearing a small portion of royalty, the candidate you raise to the throne or the chair will be your superior. You name men who are above laws, since they write them and their mission is to make you obey."

Another good one from Bob Black. "If you’re not revolting against work, you’re working against revolt."

Black originally wrote this in 1982. It could have been written today.