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   novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ (anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 04:43:51 JST novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

   When I refer to myself as a "hacker", I don't mean I'm invading people's systems to steal personal information or plant ransomware or whatever. I'm referring to Steven Levy's hacker ethic, and the attitudes of the MIT AI Lab people, who kinda remain my software heroes: http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/hacker_ethics.html

   "Access to computers - and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works - should be unlimited and total. Always yield to the Hands-On imperative!

   All information should be free.

   Mistrust authority - promote decentralization.

   Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race, or position.

   You can create art and beauty on a computer.

   Computers can change your life for the better."

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     novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ (anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 10:50:14 JST novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

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     • SpeakerToManagers

     @SpeakerToManagers yup... that's sad. I wish we could bring that kind of culture into existence again, take tech back from the tech bros and vulture capitalists, turn it back into a freewheeling artistic counterculture instead of a get rich quick scheme or a technocrats social planning project.

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     SpeakerToManagers (speakertomanagers@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 10:50:15 JST SpeakerToManagers

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     I entered the tech world by sort of sliding sidewise into a group of the kind of hackers you’re talking about in the Bay Area in the mid 70s. Within 5 years most of them had fled to other places, and the vulture capitalists had descended and grabbed everybody else by the greed.

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     novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ (anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 10:55:24 JST novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Ramsipamsi ​:cv_purple: :revengeday:

     The blog post I'll probably be writing for the next few months is going to be an attempt to fuse this hacker ethic with the cyber-*punk* subculture that existed for a brief period in the 90s and attempt to revitalize it, because I think that kind of technologically-enabled, technologically-savvy antiautoritarian, antitradition, anticapitalist, pro-DIY, pro-self-expression radical sociopolitical ethos/critique fueled by an empowering and *cool* aesthetic is more relevant now than it has ever been. We need a punk movement "for the 22nd century." And I see the seeds of its resurgence in stuff like what @revengeday is doing, even if it hasn't actually hit praxis and the "streets" yet. Here are a few links about the cyberpunk/hacker punk ethos I'll be drawing from:

     http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/philosophy.html

     http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/worldview.html

     http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/cyber_punk.html