[Noisebridge-discuss] Noisebridge-discuss] [drama] My Hair Is On Fire - Current events that are shaping your rights as we speak

Brian Morris cymraegish at gmail.com
Sat Mar 12 02:11:09 UTC 2011


Now I know why I am so opposed to political demonstrations and slogans
and marketing

However IMHO express is an observable. More so if it is written or
made on audio/video media

And some political demonstrations do produce big results as we have seen lately.

Born in the show-me state I strongly sympathize with actions over
words, but I have learned slowly what "The answer is blowing in the
wind" refers to.

Techies have to work as hard at communicating as Socials to work at
actually doing Stuff.


On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Wladyslaw Zbikowski
<embeddedlinuxguy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 1:15 PM, jim <jim at systemateka.com> wrote:
>>    myself, i'm looking at this as a possible way to hack america.
>
> Jim, from now on I consider you San Francisco's hacker ambassador to
> the activist community, and bestow upon you:
>
> What Activists Can Learn from Hackers
>
> A hack by definition creates an observable result that is something
> cool. Expressing moral indignation is not hacking. Sending links to a
> mailing list is not hacking. Committee meetings are not hacking.
>
> If you have a problem that is so big, that you have no hope of
> achieving any real, observable result, consider reducing the scope of
> your problem until you find something you can actually do something
> about.
>
> A hack is self-empowering. A hack does not rely on the approval of 51%
> of the fuckwits in this country for validation.
>
> If your strategy is to preach at people until they are all convinced
> of your rightness, consider "showing" rather than "telling". Show me
> your fucking code. Show me your fucking better way of life.
>
> Hacking is fun. If I feel like I *should* care about what you're
> saying but I just don't, that's a shitty fucking hack.
>
> Happy hacking!
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