[hackerspaces] Hackerspace and hackerspace

[David Potocnik]

"First and foremost, some bitches need to get over the fact that
hackerspaces attract mostly male/white/IT careered/capitalist types."
"Anyway, we spent our youths avoiding being picked on and beat up as
much as possible. We are geeks and outcasts by virtue of the fact that
society rejected us at a young age."

Even though you and your colleagues in USA space X might truly be
"capitalist types" who used to get bullied as kids, and now want to
(not unlike "The Mentor") extend this resentimentality as the defining
attribute of the hackerspaces movement -- yeah, I'll pass.

I'd warrant that the CCC, biggest and eldest hackerspace scene
umbrella, did not spring from bullied capitalist geeks. So didn't the
European "hacklabs" of early 90s. The idea has been to explore the
technology for activist goals.

Ciao


On 19 March 2018 at 19:42, . <whipboi at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Wow, this lump bubbled back up to the top again. For once I'm not
> embarrassed by something I wrote years ago:
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> https://lists.hackerspaces.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-July/008163.html
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> There's a slightly older draft of that article still lurking on the wiki for
> the curious:
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> http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Rewriting_Hacking_the_Spaces
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> But yea, we're now middle-aged crusty white guys still doing our thing and
> trying to provide stable shoulders for the young bloods coming up.
>
>
> -boi
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>> Begin forwarded message:
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>> From: David Potocnik <david.potocnik at gmail.com>
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>> Subject: Re: [hackerspaces] Hackerspace and hackerspace
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>> Date: March 11, 2018 at 9:26:20 AM EDT
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>> To: Hackerspaces General Discussion List <discuss at lists.hackerspaces.org>
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>> Imo by far the best writeup on this topic:
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>> http://www.monochrom.at/hacking-the-spaces/
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>> Quite distinct from the politically libertarian and psychologically
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>> resentimental "manifesto" written by "The Mentor".
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>> It's written by these guys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monochrom
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>> And "The Mentor" is this guy:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyd_Blankenship
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>> There's probably a dash of Europe / USA hack scene distinction in the
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>> juxtaposition of the two there, as well.
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