Written by an anonymous friend who also senses the arrival of the long night of networked tyranny:
"Today is the final day of 2018. As years go, it was adequate to its purpose, which was delivering us in one complete orbit about the Sun. Enough with retrospectives: let us understand what is coming in 2019.
Yesterday, on the 19th of December at 9 PM GMT, a drone overflight shut down Gatwick airport, the UK's second busiest, stranding tens of thousands of holiday travellers.
Over the last several weeks we've seen a rapid diminishment in the fictive kinship that unites us as Americans. In fact, many of us don't just disagree with other Americans. We see them as existential threats.
Over the last several weeks we've seen a rapid diminishment in the fictive kinship that unites us as Americans. In fact, many of us don't just disagree with other Americans. We see them as existential threats.
Over the last several weeks we've seen a rapid diminishment in the fictive kinship that unites us as Americans. In fact, many of us don't just disagree with other Americans. We see them as existential threats.
Here's a good example of global guerrilla tinkering and decentralized defense.
Fire Kites
Palestinian guerrillas in the Gaza strip have developed a simple and effective weapon for disrupting Israel. It's a fire kite. Here are the details (reuters video report):
Here's a good example of global guerrilla tinkering and decentralized defense.
Fire Kites
Palestinian guerrillas in the Gaza strip have developed a simple and effective weapon for disrupting Israel. It's a fire kite. Here are the details (reuters video report):
Here's a good example of global guerrilla tinkering and decentralized defense.
Fire Kites
Palestinian guerrillas in the Gaza strip have developed a simple and effective weapon for disrupting Israel. It's a fire kite. Here are the details (reuters video report):
Here's a question you should be asking yourself:
What does 21st Century authoritarianism look like?
Given what we've seen so far, it isn't likely that we're going to see a return to the 20th Century model, with its absolute dictators, industrial scale bureaucracies, paramilitaries, ideologies, ubiquitous/vicious secret police, relentless propaganda, etc...
That model died when globalization and the Internet hollowed out the nation-state.
Here's a question you should be asking yourself:
What does 21st Century authoritarianism look like?
Given what we've seen so far, it isn't likely that we're going to see a return to the 20th Century model, with its absolute dictators, industrial scale bureaucracies, paramilitaries, ideologies, ubiquitous/vicious secret police, relentless propaganda, etc...
That model died when globalization and the Internet hollowed out the nation-state.