Forwarded from Anti Tech Revolt 🌲
"Surveillance is the bussiness model of the internet. We build systems that spy on People in exchange for services. Corporations call it marketing."
-Bruce Schneier
@AntiTechTalk
-Bruce Schneier
@AntiTechTalk
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Forwarded from ANTI-TECH APOSTLES🛠️
"Finally, one learns that boredom is a disease of civilization. It seems to me that what boredom mostly is is that people have to keep themselves entertained or occupied, because if they aren’t, then certain anxieties, frustrations, discontents, and so forth, start coming to the surface, and it makes them uncomfortable. Boredom is almost nonexistent once you’ve become adapted to life in the woods. If you don’t have any work that needs to be done, you can sit for hours at a time just doing nothing, just listening to the birds or the wind or the silence, watching the shadows move as the sun travels, or simply looking at familiar objects. And you don’t get bored. You’re just at peace".
- Theodore John Kaczynski
- Theodore John Kaczynski
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Forwarded from Anti Tech Revolt 🌲
At this point, the only resolution is for something to wash it all away, forcing me into the nearest flush of woods, feeding on the land and the animals I kill. Wash me all the way, and this." -Mike Ma
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Forwarded from ANTI TECH TALK
”The system does not and cannot tolerate individual who try to question its values.” - Ted Kaczynski
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"Modern tech "saved" the ozone—so it could burn it up again"
https://www.wildernessfront.com/blog/starlink#:~:text=Modern%20tech%20%22saved%22%20the%20ozone%E2%80%94so%20it%20could%20burn%20it%20up%20again
https://www.wildernessfront.com/blog/starlink#:~:text=Modern%20tech%20%22saved%22%20the%20ozone%E2%80%94so%20it%20could%20burn%20it%20up%20again
Wilderness Front
Modern tech "saved" the ozone—so it could burn it up again — Wilderness Front
A case study in how technological progress inevitably violates nature Article by qpooqpoo
ANTI TECH TALK
"Modern tech "saved" the ozone—so it could burn it up again" https://www.wildernessfront.com/blog/starlink#:~:text=Modern%20tech%20%22saved%22%20the%20ozone%E2%80%94so%20it%20could%20burn%20it%20up%20again
For those of you who don't know Wilderness Front is peaceful Anti tech organisation dedicated to spread the message of Ted Kaczynski. They are one of the few sober groups in today's society that see beyond the everyday media propaganda and unimportant issues.
Forwarded from Anti Tech Revolt 🌲
In an article for Activist Post titled “7 Future Methods of Mind Control,”
Nicholas West explored some of the possible ways we might be manipulated in the future, by a small and elite group of people, most likely using the technology
of tomorrow to coerce, control and contain.
West writes, “The mind control of the future goes straight into direct
programming of the digital mind.” The seven methods West warns us about are:
1. Surveillance and gadgets: West sees both surveillance and the obsession
with gadgetry a means by which of controlling the masses, pointing to
television and video games as having massive impact on how we view our
world. He points to the Internet, computers, phones, tablets, and more as
the tools of direct manipulation of our lives. Mind/computer interfacing is
already happening now.
2. Mind-controlled robots and drones: The merging of man and machine,
as evident by brain mapping research. Are there possibly thoughtcontrolled drones in our future?
3. Magnetic manipulation: See Chapter 8 for the many means by which our
environment is effecting and influencing our thoughts, actions, and
behaviors.
4. Implants and ingestibles: Will we be controlled via implants and chips
that enter the human body through our food, medicines, and other means?
5. Genetic and neuro-engineering: A quote by MIT neuro-engineer Ed
Boyden sums it up: “If we take seriously the idea that our minds are
implemented in the circuits of our brains, then it becomes a top priority to
understand how to engineer brains for the better.” Maybe also for the
worse?
6. Neuroscience: The human brain is the final frontier—and controlling it is
the Holy Grail of research. Unfortunately, this can be used for evil as well
as good.
7. Direct upload/hack: Brain hacking is no longer the stuff of science fiction
novels, as we become the software-based humans that Ray Kurzweil,
author of The Singularity Is Near and current director of engineering at
Google, warned us about. “Humans will develop the means to instantly
create new portions of ourselves, either biological or nonbiological,”
Kurzweil writes in The Singularity Is Near."
Nicholas West explored some of the possible ways we might be manipulated in the future, by a small and elite group of people, most likely using the technology
of tomorrow to coerce, control and contain.
West writes, “The mind control of the future goes straight into direct
programming of the digital mind.” The seven methods West warns us about are:
1. Surveillance and gadgets: West sees both surveillance and the obsession
with gadgetry a means by which of controlling the masses, pointing to
television and video games as having massive impact on how we view our
world. He points to the Internet, computers, phones, tablets, and more as
the tools of direct manipulation of our lives. Mind/computer interfacing is
already happening now.
2. Mind-controlled robots and drones: The merging of man and machine,
as evident by brain mapping research. Are there possibly thoughtcontrolled drones in our future?
3. Magnetic manipulation: See Chapter 8 for the many means by which our
environment is effecting and influencing our thoughts, actions, and
behaviors.
4. Implants and ingestibles: Will we be controlled via implants and chips
that enter the human body through our food, medicines, and other means?
5. Genetic and neuro-engineering: A quote by MIT neuro-engineer Ed
Boyden sums it up: “If we take seriously the idea that our minds are
implemented in the circuits of our brains, then it becomes a top priority to
understand how to engineer brains for the better.” Maybe also for the
worse?
6. Neuroscience: The human brain is the final frontier—and controlling it is
the Holy Grail of research. Unfortunately, this can be used for evil as well
as good.
7. Direct upload/hack: Brain hacking is no longer the stuff of science fiction
novels, as we become the software-based humans that Ray Kurzweil,
author of The Singularity Is Near and current director of engineering at
Google, warned us about. “Humans will develop the means to instantly
create new portions of ourselves, either biological or nonbiological,”
Kurzweil writes in The Singularity Is Near."
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Forwarded from KACZYNSKISM
“Finally, one learns that boredom is a disease of civilization. It seems to me that what boredom mostly is is that people have to keep themselves entertained or occupied, because if they aren’t, then certain anxieties, frustrations, discontents, and so forth, start coming to the surface, and it makes them uncomfortable. Boredom is almost nonexistent once you’ve become adapted to life in the woods. If you don’t have any work that needs to be done, you can sit for hours at a time just doing nothing, just listening to the birds or the wind or the silence, watching the shadows move as the sun travels, or simply looking at familiar objects. And you don’t get bored. You’re just at peace.”
-Ted Kaczynski
-Ted Kaczynski
Forwarded from ANTI-TECH APOSTLES🛠️
SHOULD WE FEAR ACCELERATIONISM? - WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ANTI-TECH REVOLUTION AND ACCELERATIONISM?
There is a distinguishable difference the anti-tech movement must learn to understand. Deliberately trying to speed up the collapse of industrial society already in the early stages of revolution through chaos, violence, or destabilization is reckless and counterproductive. The technological system is fragile but also highly adaptive, and that shocks which mean to “accelerate” its breakdown would more likely strengthen it by giving governments justification to expand surveillance, repression, and technological control.
Uncontrolled collapse without ideological direction is also to be feared if our goal is to reclaim our autonomy.
WHAT DO WE DO INSTEAD?
Hit when and where it hurts. When the system presents itself most vulnerable, is when we strike against the core of technological and institutional power. For example, targeting the power grid, corporations et cetera.
There is a distinguishable difference the anti-tech movement must learn to understand. Deliberately trying to speed up the collapse of industrial society already in the early stages of revolution through chaos, violence, or destabilization is reckless and counterproductive. The technological system is fragile but also highly adaptive, and that shocks which mean to “accelerate” its breakdown would more likely strengthen it by giving governments justification to expand surveillance, repression, and technological control.
Uncontrolled collapse without ideological direction is also to be feared if our goal is to reclaim our autonomy.
WHAT DO WE DO INSTEAD?
Hit when and where it hurts. When the system presents itself most vulnerable, is when we strike against the core of technological and institutional power. For example, targeting the power grid, corporations et cetera.
"No, what worries me is that I might in a sense adapt to this environment and come to be comfortable here and not resent it anymore. And I am afraid that as the years go by that I may forget, I may begin to lose my memories of the mountains and the woods and that's what really worries me, that I might lose those memories, and lose that sense of contact with wild nature in general. But I am not afraid they are going to break my spirit." -Ted Kaczynski
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"We too are disgusted at the present grossly overpopulated state of the world and we agree that it is necessary to reduce the earth’s population as much as possible. But the best way to reach a goal is not always to head directly toward it.
What the earth’s population will be 50 or 100 years from now depends mainly on the form of society that will then exist. The present economically oriented form of society, based on industrialism, tends inexorably to grow to the limit of the available resources. By creating new genetically altered plants, or maybe through some type of artificial photosynthesis, this form of society will greatly increase the world’s food producing capacity and will allow or encourage its population to grow to the limit of that capacity[...]. So if the present form of society survives, the world that it creates will be a horrible one.
Therefore the important goal is to destroy the present form of society and its industrial base." - Ted Kaczynski, Letters on Population Control
What the earth’s population will be 50 or 100 years from now depends mainly on the form of society that will then exist. The present economically oriented form of society, based on industrialism, tends inexorably to grow to the limit of the available resources. By creating new genetically altered plants, or maybe through some type of artificial photosynthesis, this form of society will greatly increase the world’s food producing capacity and will allow or encourage its population to grow to the limit of that capacity[...]. So if the present form of society survives, the world that it creates will be a horrible one.
Therefore the important goal is to destroy the present form of society and its industrial base." - Ted Kaczynski, Letters on Population Control
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