[hackerspaces] Let's end the unnecessary joining of the words "food" and "hacking"

[Kevin Mitnick]

Please cite where I called anyone "bums". I do not deny the latter words, but putting "bums" in my mouth is not right.


Kevin Mitnick
(May or may not be the Kevin you think I am)

Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 11:18:32 -0300
From: floev22 at gmail.com
To: discuss at lists.hackerspaces.org
Subject: Re: [hackerspaces] Let's end the unnecessary joining of the words "food" and "hacking"

as Philip Im surprised that Kevin insulted a lot of people here calling them bums, sad, depressing, and nobody said anything back. Im trying to understand why. This topic is an excuse so people can say what they do in their hackerspacrs and get insulted back. Its a trap an2 still people answer things about food. Its as much of annoying that people keep arguing in this banal topic, not saying anything about the insults. 


El 30/01/2014 08:42, "Philip Poten" <philip.poten at gmail.com> escribió:

Kevin, you're seriously annoying the shit out of me.



Is it really YOU that is consistently trying to tell others how they

should behave in a normative way?



SERIOUSLY?



https://campaign.soylent.me/soylent-free-your-body



Please stop pissing around on everybody just trying to have fun and

regain some sort of creativity and control over their minds and lives

in this consumerist world.



This is almost as annoying as the "true artists" that do not wish

<craftsmanship> to be called an art.



What is it with you trying to impose on the inclusionist hackerspace

approach and the resulting self expression of others? Is it just the

word? Then fucking buy threrealhackerspaces.org and do your thing!

Nobody's stopping you! But the word does not belong to you, and all

you're accomplishing is telling a lot of involved people that you

think they are beneath your definition of hacker. The message was

received. Now move on.



Other than that, you're really not contributing *anything* with this lament.



FFS.





2014-01-30 Kevin Mitnick <kevin.mitnick at outlook.com>:

> And yet you have failed to define "food hacker" other than some ideals that

> any person could crank out. The only reason why people tack "hacker" on to

> things is to sound edgy in what would otherwise not be in the first place.

> It's just to inflate one's ego so they can feel like they're out of the

> mainstream when really they are just as much in it as the next person.

>

>

> If anything, defining yourself as a "food hacker" or "civic hacker" for

> example is nothing more than "ego hacking" and that is loose at best.

>

>

> Quite pathetic and sad to say the least.

>

>

>

> Kevin Mitnick

> (May or may not be the Kevin you think I am)

>

> ________________________________

> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 03:32:11 -0800

> From: lishevita at gmail.com

> To: discuss at lists.hackerspaces.org

>

> Subject: Re: [hackerspaces] Let's end the unnecessary joining of the words

> "food" and "hacking"

>

> Jumping into the discussion realllllllly late, but since I didn't see my

> favorite definition of hacking and since I haven't seen anyone point out how

> fucked up the exclusionary definition of hacking is, I'm going to go ahead

> and jump...

>

> So, first off, the definition of hacking that I always share with people in

> my talks is the one given by the hacker Jude Milhon who was hacking from the

> late 1960s until her death in 2003:

>

> "Hacking is the clever circumvention of imposed limits, whether imposed by

> your government, your IP server, your own personality, or the laws of

> physics."

>

> In the context of food hacking, I'd like to suggest that at least some of

> the imposed limits are those of culture. Food ways are a major aspect of

> culture. There is also a technical aspect of food hacking which has to do

> with chemistry and physics.

>

> Moving on to the issue of exclusion, please remember that the ones who

> limited "hacking" to unauthorized use of computers were movie makers,

> journalists and politicians, especially in the hysteria after the success of

> the movie War Games in the 1980s. The community of hackers has been much

> wider and more diverse than that from the start.

>

> As for the question of whether a thing is hacking or not, do not ask only

> what the activity is, but what the philosophy and intent behind the activity

> may be. It's the "food hacker" or "civic hacker" or "textile hacker"

> subverting a dominant paradigm? Are they pushing their area of activity

> beyond the usual boundaries? Are they, in the process of doing that

> activity, adding to their own knowledge and understanding of how the thing

> works, having at least sometimes bent the thing so far out of shape to break

> it? (For how else can you know the difference between real limits and

> artificial ones?)

>

> Let's keep hacking food, at Noisebridge and beyond.

>

> - Lisha Sterling

>

>

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