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I think a young Harvard math professor wrote about this in the 90's.

The Panopticon is a marvelous machine which, whatever use one may wish to put it to, produces homogeneous effects of power.

Is it true that they got people to show up to the union meetings by offering baked ziti and weed? Is it that easy? What other collective goals can be accomplished this way?

Coroners bow to Bogdanoffs, in contact with morticians, possess cadaver-like abilities...

What kind of a Grinch would write such a hideous song. I'm willing to bet they weren't Christian.

"The specific distinction to which actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy."

Will this drive an increase traffic to things like the fediverse? If it drives people away, is this not good? If hegemonic tech-giants wish to over bureaucratize everything, is the…

I remember when Bush started all this and it was called "No child left behind" and all my teachers were calling it "No child left intact". Weird how that changed. Why is that?

Freedom is the degree to which you are able to navigate the power process. The power process is the ability to identify and change something within a system. For example, if there …

Consider the same theory applied to video game modding tools. In the 90s and early 2000's the freedom to work outside the scope of the authorized system created plenty of low quali…

Less activist, more puritan priest trained as a new institutional clergy.

"Okay google, show me graphs on SSRI prescriptions since 2008." "Siri, show me fastest growing cause of death among women ages 30+ who are unmarried without children." "Alexa, show…

Remember when a guy "Hacked" AT&T when the new iPad came out in 2010? I wonder what happened to that guy? lol

"The supreme luxury of the society of technical necessity will be to grant the bonus of Useless Revolt and of an acquiescent smile." - Jacques Ellul

I'd be more interested in calculating bias based on what they DO or DON'T report entirely. It's one thing to report on something with bias, it is more telling to note what they sel…

And? U.S. and key allies install backdoors in device firmware and imbedded chips from manufacturers to spy on their own citizens. Why should we care at this point? We've had over 2…

This article is funny because the author comes from a place that has no problem with identity when it comes to Palestinians. Curious!

You WILL live in the pod

Wouldn't the solution be jamming or EMP related? Of course, because the technological system must propagate itself at any cost this idea is counter-intuitive. Technological progres…

You guys really think people would do that? Lie about a crisis to consolidate power? Those WMDs were real, they HAVE to be! People with power over me wouldn't lie because that's wr…

Ukraine struggles with a sense of national identity because for the most of history it was a buffer region of roving cossack bands up until the 18th century. The concept of Ukraine…

It's not likes giving people anxiety, it's the gaze of the panopticon.

Jeremy Bentham and his consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

Gold is for the mistress -- silver for the maid -- Copper for the craftsman cunning at his trade." "Good!" said the Baron, sitting in his hall, "But Iron -- Cold Iron -- is master …