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Robustness principle / postel's law: "_Be conservative in what you produce/output while being liberal in what you accept from others_" [^]{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle}
Postel's law is now considered harmful.
[^]{The Robustness Principle Reconsidered. Eric Allman. doi:10.1145/1978542.1978557  http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2011/8/114933-the-robustness-principle-reconsidered/fulltext}
[^]{The Harmful Consequences of Postel's Maxim https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-thomson-postel-was-wrong-00}
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> 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._"
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% SCION: Forgiveness
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> 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._"
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% SCION: failing
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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?)
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> 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.
> [@[p.9]krausse:2001:fuller]
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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 all[^]{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite}
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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
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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 agency 
[^]{paper computer science 'Reflections on trusting trust' https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf}
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