Notices by ⚒️Thor, the Norseman⚒️ (thor@snabeltann.no)

One major weakness that hackers have is that we are terrible at organising ourselves.

To the degree that we do so, it takes the shape of social spaces (conventions, hackerspaces, hamfests) and foundations (FSF, Apache, Mozilla) that promote the sharing of knowledge.

We rarely organise in ways that give us power in the real world. We end up working for the sort of people who were popular in high school, and they get all the money and power.

Why are we such fools?

Software engineers versus other engineers.

Norwegian newspaper clipping from 1966 mentioning "the greenhouse effect" and "defrosting of the Arctic" and how we may already be causing such an effect through "negligence" (the topic of the article is apprently how one might go about defrosting the Arctic on purpose).

We've known about global warming for ages. The problem is that public opinion isn't coherent enough to force political action. We are blind fools fighting over the deck chairs on the Titanic.

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LiberaPay's situation, and the situation of many so many others who have been cut off from their card processor, once again demonstrates the need to escape the grip of centralised financial institutions.

Standard cryptocurrencies are not the solution. They are only useful to cyber-libertarian speculators. What do we need? Traceable decentralised fiat-pegged tokens that can operate outside of the banking system without being useful to criminals.

This article is an attempt to equate all pornography to the violent sexual perversions of a murderer. Did they even read her article before publishing it? Everyone knows that normal people don't watch "porn" like that. (If you are "normal" and enjoy beheading videos, I'm sorry, but you're the worst kind of fucked up.)
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/kim-wall-peter-madsen-snuff-porn-submarine-inventor-submarine-swedish-journalist-a8322076.html

Facebook just kicked its affected users figure for Cambridge Analytica up from 50 million to 87 million.

On the #Catalonia protests and the arrests following them: Frankly, if your riot is large enough, it should be legal to do stuff like blocking the way of the police. If thousands of people are trying to stop the police, the police likely has the wrong orders, and should also disobey them, for the same reasons that Nazi officers didn't get away with saying "I was just following orders" in the Nuremberg trials.

Norwegian archeology.

https://snabeltann.no/media/8kF-4Pj5yAJ-fnLzcE4

The Magnus Ladulas underground restaurant in Stockholm. I took this photo in 2015.
https://snabeltann.no/media/sdevvKpY0K9kb3YeN30