I understand the justified stigma of STEMlords but that doesn’t mean we should completely abandon STEM in favor of the humanities. Then of course you’ve got the more expressly political cyber attacks on private corporations and so on-it’s a reactive approach, of questionable effectiveness, but that’s genuine resistance. Just the existence of open source software, or efforts to circumvent censorship and intellectual property, etc., suggests there are plenty of skilled individuals who, while perhaps not classifying themselves as anarchists, are at least broadly aligned with such principles. It would be nice to see a few more of you in the maths department, but I think it’s unfair to say the domain of modern technology has been completely unexploited. Too many theory anarchists, not enough STEM anarchists.
It’s a crime we on the far/ultra left have barely exploited this technological golden age. I mean it’s a little embarrassing because even ancaps are better at this than us. We should be *doing* more (not to be ableist or exclusionary there’s a role or job for everyone out there regardless of ability or able-bodiedness) and theorizing less.
We’re in an age where we can produce our own high tech circuitry with programmable Raspberry Pi’s, there’s drones, open source software, there’s TOR, I mean, this stuff is a dream but we’re failing utterly to exploit it. We’re gifted with an amazing technological capacity and are sitting on tumblr not exploiting it. There’s tons of applications and reasons where this could be beneficial especially for anarchists but there’s not enough technologically inclined anarchists tbh. And the beautiful thing is you don’t even need RFID tag or GPS locators, you could use hidden cameras/license plate readers, or even networks of drones to monitor them. There’s a potentially revolutionary benefit to being able to track the police and their every move. Like putting stealth RFID tags on police vehicles and tracking them for example. Been thinking a lot lately about counter-police methods and technology recently.
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