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@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange Why do so many people still use instagram!? Then there's an infiltration scare on signal, combined with the prairieland terrorism enhancement charges -- just for kicking someone from a signal chat, and the repeated threats by state officials. So people use signal less, but Instagram is still significantly more compromising!

@Aphelion@mastodon.sdf.org Reminds me of a somewhat relatable Meshuggah song: "Break Those Bones Whose Sinews Gave It Motion" https://youtu.be/P68fmKQJ-6g

@Aphelion@mastodon.sdf.org Stumbled upon a philosophical essay on repetoire that seems relevant. "In this most controlled of environments, everything the picker does is monitored and then modified only to be monitored and modified again in the endless cycles of networked oversight and management. Precisely how many degrees an Amazon picker must lean over to reach a bin, how quickly they must depart and return to their station during bathroom breaks, and how many microtasks they must complete every hour is thus organized online in relation to all of the other pickers laboring away nearby. Lives and their gestures are taken as discrete variables to be balanced and adjusted in relation to every other life and gesture, synthesizing the kinetic and the cybernetic so as to further subsume life, and eventually breaking bodies as the relentless acceleration and repetition of tasks erode tendons, joints, and muscles as well as any existential sense of being. This structure ultimately effectuates and sustains the reticulation of life’s gestures, capturing them within networked systems that control the order and the form within which they are enacted. One’s own gestures are reserved for some imaginary time off the clock as more and more of life is spent struggling to complete gestures that are determined by a repertoire of the enemy. The poetry of the gesture is slowly suffocated within this online economy of gestures, within these networked forms of social domination that impose their algorithmic order on the creative capacities of life. ... ... ... Counterposed to these forms of domination that take the repertoire as their material are practices that take the gesture as something radically opposed to order and constraint, as that which has the potential to liberate and spread disorder rather than dominate and impose order. Across the revolts of the twenty-first century, a wide diversity of repertoires has taken shape, which has then gone on to circulate between revolts, passing back and forth across constellations of struggles. Paradigmatic in this regard were the uprisings in Hong Kong in 2018, which culminated in an astonishingly creative process of invention and experimentation. New shape was given to repertoires that were concerned with creating multilayered lines of defense at the front of marches, rapidly assembling and dispersing in response to police deployments, dearresting people when they were grabbed by the police, and using lasers and throwing projectiles to defend space. Emerging physically on the streets in the tumult of conflict and also emerging sensually as a multiplication of images shared between friends across neighborhoods and cities and then jumping across borders, the gestures and techniques of this uprising would later reappear and take on new shape in uprisings in the United States, Lebanon, Thailand, France, Iran, and other sites of social explosion in the months and years that followed. While in the economy the appearance of the gesture as an image emerges as a means of control, in the context of uprisings a gesture’s appearance as an image takes on a different potential as it contagiously spreads to disparate places where people perceive what is unfolding elsewhere and then begin to experiment with it wherever they are. These images rapidly multiply and spread across the network form of society, just as they rapidly jump offline and crash into the streets as they struggle to find new shape and form in relation to the specificities of their context." https://illwill.com/repertoire

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@f4grx@chaos.social @yiorgos@techhub.social @peter@thepit.social This a good example of how a project of popular retribution can creep towards terror, since difference is easily othered and lumped in with the enemy just for dissenting or not conforming.

@DBG3D@masto.es @Azarilh@mastodon.social @ariarhythmic@ohai.social @peter@thepit.social For an anarchist perspective against state terror and public executions i suggest the essay: "Against the Logic of the Guillotine Why the Paris Commune Burned the Guillotine—and We Should Too" https://crimethinc.com/2019/04/08/against-the-logic-of-the-guillotine-why-the-paris-commune-burned-the-guillotine-and-we-should-too Also tiqqun's book The Imaginary Party theorizes the pitfalls of people's courts, if the goal is legit freedom and revolution. "Foucault, too, made a decisive contribution to the theory of the Imaginary Party: his interviews dealing with the plebs. Foucault evokes the theme for the first time in a “Discussion with Maoists” on “popular justice” in 1972. Criticizing the Maoist practice of popular courts, he reminds us that all popular revolts since the Middles Ages have been anti-judicial, that the constitution of people’s courts during the French Revolution occurred at precisely the moment when the bourgeoisie regained control, and, finally, that the tribunal form, by reintroducing a neutral authority between the people and its enemies, reincorporated the principle of the state in the struggle against the state. “When we talk about courts we’re talking about a place where the struggle between contending forces is willy-nilly suspended.” According to Foucault, the function of justice following the Middles Ages was to separate the proletarianized plebs-the plebs integrated as a proletariat, included by way of their exclusion-from the non-proletarianized plebs, from the plebs proper. By isolating within the mass of the poor the “criminals,” the “violent,” the “insane,” the “vagrants,” the “perverted,” the “gangsters,” the “underworld,” THEY would not only remove what was for power the most dangerous segment of the population, that which was always ready for armed, Insurrectionary action, THEY would also enable themselves to turn the people’s most offensive elements against the people themselves. This would be the permanent threat of “either you go to prison or you join the army,” “either you go to prison or you leave for the colonies,” “either you go to prison or you join the police,” etc. All the effort of the workers’ movement to distinguish between honest, strike-ready workers from “agitators,” “rioters,” and other “uncontrollable elements” is an extension of this opposition between the plebs and the proletariat. The same logic is at work today when gangsters become security guards: in order to neutralize the Imaginary Party by playing one of its parts off the others." https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/tiqqun-this-is-not-a-program In other words, destroy the apparatuses, not the people.

@DBG3D@masto.es @Azarilh@mastodon.social @ariarhythmic@ohai.social @peter@thepit.social Glad to read the feedback about the form of my communicating. The important part imho, is the bit about the French Revolution, how eventually the struggle was reincorporating "the principle of the state in the struggle against the state", by judicial executions.

Anyways, the term bourgeoisie still kinda mystifies me, and if that terminology isn't clarifying anymore then... ... So I imagine it meaning apparatusses like center-right Parties of electoral politics.

In the current moment its not possible really. This opens up another can of worms about ideas (and practices) of dual power and/or living outside the zones of control of a State. Such as among the hills, deep forests, mountains, and swamps of the world, until technology of all-terrain-vehicles and roads (such as in 1950s SE Asia), and like actually draining a swamp (such as in Iraq by Sudein). But we live in an era of a grand scope of control by the institutions of dominations reaching seemingly all of the Globe*, at a time when the backloop of the Anthropocene is occuring, during this ongoing great sixth extinction event on Earth that we're living through now.

• A global conception symbolized by maps and a defined finiteness on Earth, pushing the conceptual boundaries of infinity out into the universe, from what is sensually experienced by gazing out at the infinite horizons of the Oceans.

@FoxesInLove@social.neonpaws.digital If noise is an issue then stop driving combustion engines. I refuse to shut out the senses of the world while staring at a phone screen, detached from reality.