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no longer can i sit idly by and do nothing as this languishes in the faily shrimp barn

littlegreenpills posted:

tears posted:

arrghshell owns and im sorry she blocked you. shes one of the select few whos fallen into the well labeled "computers were deeloped out of the vietnam counterinsurgency programme to turn the imperialist-core population into compliant and broken adult babies". which is an extremely rare and shiny conspiracy theory that i love to bits

yasha levine from the exile crew has just written an entire book about this




shriekingviolet posted:

they reposted a podcast related to it recently for non-subscribers:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/radio-war-nerd-17088250



https://surveillancevalley.com/

A reporter unearths the true history of the internet: it was built by the government to spy on citizens, at home and abroad.

In Surveillance Valley, Yasha Levine traces the history of the internet back to its beginnings as a Vietnam-era tool for spying on guerrilla fighters and antiwar protesters–a military computer networking project that ultimately envisioned the creation of a global system of surveillance and prediction. Levine shows how the same military objectives that drove the development of early internet technology are still at the heart of Silicon Valley today. Spies, counterinsurgency campaigns, hippie entrepreneurs, privacy apps funded by the CIA. From the 1960s to the 2010s — this revelatory and sweeping story will make you reconsider what you know about the most powerful, ubiquitous tool ever created.



this is it, youve hit it, the book youve been waiting your whole life for has just been published and it comes with a free podcast, with special thanks to forums posters littlegreenpill and shrinkingviolets

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Poronto
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im reading it right now!!!! it's okay i guess!!!!!!!!!!!
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UNUSUALY COOL
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it's a good book and the work he's done leading up to it is the sort of stuff that will be taught in universities decades from now as the obvious truth in hindsight while we all either enjoy the fruits of a socialist stage of development or breathe through machines attached to our faces
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*dives into a bag of cheddar bugles with a hand shaped like scrooge mcduck, loads up Max Payne 3*

I'm in.
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bleeding edge came out in 2013 didn’t it
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I posted about it in the reading thread like a week ago lol
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elias posted:

bleeding edge came out in 2013 didn’t it


gamers in the house forever

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elias posted:

bleeding edge came out in 2013 didn’t it



also Inherent Vice gestures towards this... I think Doc goes to see his hippie hacker friend for a lead, and the guy warns him about the nascent internet being a trap? pynchon's been on this tip for a while. also, if anyone can find the hidden Adventure Time allusion in Bleeding Edge that I found once when I was reading it drunk and that I've never been able to locate since, please help

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the internet is the Schwarzgerat

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bit188 posted:

I posted about it in the reading thread like a week ago lol


yet by neglecting to even name the book let alone its contents you failed us all

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"privacy apps funded by the CIA"

considering the defense dept connections the tor guys have ended up having, yep it's all a trap.
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aerdil posted:

"privacy apps funded by the CIA"

considering the defense dept connections the tor guys have ended up having, yep it's all a trap.


No it's an app.

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chickeon
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trapp