anyways im radicalized now
aeon ginsberg
I’m not funding a war if I pretend the money in my taxes are only going toward the roads that are actively collapsing.
Did you hear about the soldiers who stole all of those tractors? Did you hear the company that makes those tractors, founded in a country not “fighting” in the war, was able to brick the tractors before they were at all functional?
There are in-built kill switches in our devices.
Think about your debts and how much they weigh.
US company sends a shipment of bricks equal to the weight of the hard drives they develop to Singapore because they can get away with it.
Do you think if the bulldozer used to build the Killdozer was an American make it would have been stopped before it was rendered inert too? Maybe the make made the autonomy possible.
I’m not funding a war, I’m in one.
There’s no recourse to repair what we own within legality. Amazon acquires OneMedical healthcare, Amazon sells medical information to the police. It hasn’t happened yet but the Ring Doorbells send footage to the police without the consent and the knowledge of the “owners,” and who makes the doorbells?
User on twitter finds out the company that they got their printer from can disable its functionality from afar because their debit card had expired. A friend can have their CPAP machine forcibly taken away from them if they aren’t using it “enough.” John Deere pioneered the addition of remote kill switches being installed in technology and now the idea of one being installed into a pacemaker is not
so far off.
Rendering a piece of technology inert is called “bricking” it. Are you excited to talk to a friend and because of the status of their debts a brick is weighed into their body?
Think about what you owe and how much it weighs, think about what you give away and where it goes, think about how much choice you really have,
if you have choice at all. Marvin Heemeyer’s choices were diminished until there was nothing left but to build Killdozer but even so he was allowed to build it without the only options he had left becoming bricks.
It’s called a siege when you decide to wait for your enemy to run out of resources. It’s called “scorched earth” to destroy anything that might be useful to whomever you’re fighting against. Who was the first brick at Stonewall? We got past Act Up and now you can’t get a monkeypox vaccine unless you can prove you’re a gay man who has sex with other men.
Did you know you can be arrested for sodomy still? Did you know some John Deere tractors only work if the same farmer is buying Monsanto approved seed?
Marvin Heemeyer said “It is interesting to observe that I was never caught.” Maybe we will get a justified right to repair, maybe the earth will die before then. Scorched Earth.
We’re in an overwhelming heat wave, we’re in the coldest summer of the rest of our lives. They don’t make the tools we need to become autonomous anymore because they can ship us our weight in debts instead.
What happens when we learn that we can’t use our refrigerators because we’re late on rent? What are you going to do if you’re trying to shoot yourself in the head and the gun won’t go off because your sold healthcare data informed the manufacturer that because of severe depression
the guns you own will become bricked?
What are you going to do when you can’t do anything else but lower the DIY armour over the caddy of your killdozer, only to find that it’s been rendered a series of bricks?
“It is interesting to observe that I was never caught ... somehow their vision was clouded”
