Robustness notes_day1
Robustness principle / postel’s law: “Be conservative in what you produce/output while being liberal in what you accept from others”1 Postel’s law is now considered harmful.23
mercy notes_day1
Hackerspace: “easier to beg for forgiveness than ask for permission”
Anonymous: “We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.”
Forgiveness notes_day1
Hackerspace: “easier to beg for forgiveness than ask for permission”
Anonymous: “We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.”
failing some_thoughts_on_modularity...
How can our questions be our politics. How we build the question, through apparatus. How can we fail well at politics (because most of our experiments don’t work most of the time; RATHER THAN THINKING ABOUT A SUPREME POLiTICS that’s always right, we should think about a how do we fail well in politics, so we should accept that this happens, not look for politics that are universally right) (is this all a quote, and from who?)
endurance modules
For Fuller it was a great enigma why one form should endure while another does not, especially because he disclaimed both the term “bodies” and the concept of “building blocks” that lead one to believe that it is obvious that a form will be retained. Today every physicist affirms that the concept of “building blocks of material” has been rejected once and for all.4
breaking anticolonialhacking
Machine -breaking in the uk : sabotage because their craft was challenged during/by the industrial revolution artisans of sabotage, against a certain form of technology (looms), but not all5
sabotage anticolonialhacking
Not using the masters tools to bring down the masters house but tactics of sabotage were chosen then by the MK operatives (targetting infrastructure, not people) as result of this Mandela was arrested
Cascading trust dark_mountain
cascading trusts (What establishes the trust of the pre -determined “trusted” certificates in a system … and so on down to OS / System / hardware/chip …) at the end failure of trust - not solved yet with pipelines, implied flow. with piplines, implied discussion about container, commodification, legibility content includes container / system + power of control ex money as infrastructure, liquid agency6