Quotations with links

"The narrowminded variety of libertarians, who can see only one threat to markets and freedom - bureaucrats. Ignoring all of human history, this oversimplifying silliness has rendered libertarianism a joke, in the one country where it had a chance."--David Brin

"People don't look for allies when they love, but they do when they hate or become obsessed with a cause."--..::*Sunnely*::..

"Thus, the academe becomes the ideological home for the rationalizations and analyses for the 'free markets,' 'free trade,' and 'deregulation and privatization' which are relentlessly hammered home by the U.P. School of Economics. But our neo-liberal friends neglect to tell us that their prescription is based on freedom for business but discrimination against and repression for the laboring poor."--Roland G. Simbulan

"I've heard more than one activist posit that technology is a creature of the capitalist state. Bullshit. That's like saying reading, writing and basic mathematics are tools of the state and we should reject them."--antisocialite

"The dominance of players like Google is not a fact of nature, but a design decision, so this investigation into the realism of distributed alternatives is very important."--Michel Bauwens

"In particular I direct your attention to the latter parts of the letter where [Samuel] Konkin explicitly claims that there is nothing at all wrong with torture, cops, jails, chains, whips, etc. He says that, as Anarchists, people like myself should have no problem with such things per se, but should object to them only when people are jailed, whipped etc., by some state or government."--Fred Woodworth

"Think of Kerry denying he supported gay marriage -- and recognize that the same sort of people who thought that would win him support are now inside the control room at ClintonHQ"--Lawrence Lessig

"Today, institutionalized education is nothing more than an occupational army standing in a country formerly called education, and its main order is to prevent that something happens. It does not create something, it does not even try to teach anything. It only >shows the instruments< of today's society, the crude and cruel rules of sheer competition, and exterminates any spaces and processes that could get out of control, that could create something dangerous."--Christoph Spehr

"There is no liberty where the outcome is already determined; under such a presumptive and authoritarian logic, security always trumps freedom."--Michael

"As a practice, detournement reflected a contradiction between the recognition that fighting on the same terrain as the enemy is a seductive but inevitable trap, and the desire to occupy the buildings of power under a new name. This contradiction crystallized in the hijacking metaphor: detourne was a verb commonly used to describe the hijacking of a plane."--Joanne Richardson

"What we need to make clear is: in the war between [the] US and Islamists, between the two poles of terrorism, we do not need to support either. We must condemn both. We should form a third pole, a third voice to oppose both."--Azar Majedi

"Progressives have ceded the physical world to 'markets' and technocratic experts--never a good strategy. Technology has become a democracy-free zone."--Christopher Csikszentmihalyi

"There's nothing like having a good repository, and keeping a good lookout, not waiting at home for things to fall into the lap, but prowling about like a wolf for the prey."--Jeremy Belknap

"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority."--Thomas Huxley

"If people who hold views that the candidate doesn't agree with, and they give to us, that's their loss."--a spokesperson for the Ron Paul campaign

"If all have plenty, then interaction can be of a solely noneconomic nature, and economics as a science is mere stupidity."--trhurler

"It is likely that genetic engineering will remain unpopular and controversial so long as it remains a centralized activity in the hands of large corporations."--Freeman Dyson

"the people who control institutions care first and foremost about their power within the institution rather than the power of the institution itself. Thus, they would rather the institution 'fail' while they remain in power within the institution than for the institution to 'succeed' if that requires them to lose power within the institution."--Jon Schwartz, quoted by Woody

Web "to do" list

A file in which I accumulate links and searches to check out next time I manage to get my hands on a public access computer...

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"asperger technical"

tvo autism

biz

10 stupid mistakes of newly self-employed

blog

free blogspot templates

blogdigger local

free blogspot templates

comp

how flash memory works

debian grimoire

dissent

"404 willis"

lansing infoshop

radgeek

gaba

antiauthoritarian

tiny revolution

earth

autumn ridge detention dam

econ

futurist economics

trade & inequality

edu

feral scholar

capital & universities (pdf)

fash

un chapeau sur ma tête

finance

insurance tips

predatory lending association

folkx

joe vialls

patrick flanagan

thomas mulholland

tovarishch tony

penguin of doom

onion volcano

john robb

joanne richardson

junnever

food

eating less meat

hasty pastry

gt

female brains in male bodies

hood

work & finding a job

using nurudin jauhari's degree

(expletive deleted) no-compete clauses

info

gapminder

open content

open knowledge initiative

sheeple beware

avoiding data centralization

p2p in a nutshell

how buying a sell phone works

how municipal wi-fi works

disrespect copyrights!

the neurocommons

public knowledge

michigan community information corps

"privacy is dead" dvd

"cypherpunks anti license"

electro hippies collective

transparency@sunclipse

lex

solove on exhibitionist law

collateral sanctions

med

longevity medicine=basic healthcare

music

guide to buying riaa-free cd's

f*ck guitar center

binary detroit

net

peek-a-booty

mg2

nethack

barney the dinosaur

spellbook of create familiar

opinion

strange death of liberal america

evil liberal propaganda network

sick of survival

mutualist

why capitalism & democracy don't mix

antifa portal

alan de smet's quotebag

call me lefty

paranoia

sousveillance

surveillance

privacy redefined

war on photography

national security archive

philanthropy

give one get one

physics

everett vindicated

politics

notes on 21st century socialism

"pendulum swing"

retire joe knollenberg

to err is truman

feinstein the new lieberman

social democracy in benin

2 party system=criminal conspiracy

communalism

"interstitial strategy"

psych

decognition

radio

sirius vs. xm

how hd radio works

progressive talk in san diego

realestate

san francisco community land trust

religion

atheist experience

challenge religion

pietism not simple anti-sacerdotalism

lalon phokir

bible@wikiality

sf

nesci community

earth hits wiki

soc

cooperation eventually trumps conflict

design your own utopia

are you a sheeple?

stigma net

endarkenment

don't call me generation x

space

chronos

ephemeris 1.0

o'neill colonies

tech

product hacking

new tech benefit only rich & powerful?

timmins technologies

tv

dvd recorder

neuros osd

war

information about the private army

wmd

doomsday weapon

nuking nukes

wymyn

why i am a feminist