RIAA DoS Attack

In hacking news someone took down the RIAA site.

Paramilitaries Attack Oaxaca University

Preempting a planned youth march for the abolition of prisons, urban paramilitaries opened fire on the Benito Juarez Autonomous University of Oaxaca.

Com Tech Bringing Us Together

From WIRED:

“But I think the truth is more profound than either of those glib explanations: Technology makes it more fun and more profitable to live and work close to the people who matter most to your life and work.”

“Curiosity is the Harbringer of Revolution”

From Why on Infoshop blogs:

 ”There are certain ideologies within the movement which are anti-curiosity…

“But I believe the state wants to suppress our curiosity, and indeed, our expression of that curiosity. It wants to keep us simplistic beings incapable of understanding anything more than being drones doing whatever specialized job it has shoved down our throats. Not in any sort of nefarious, covert, evil way, just part of a self-perpetuating system of, well, irrationality. It feeds us irrational religion, irrational mysticism, irrational consumerism, to the point that we are incapable of actually understanding our world, and indeed, not desiring to understand our world because that innate curiosity is fullfilled.”

DIY Science!

“The FBI swooped into a house in Rockwall, Texas when it emerged a gamer and physicist enthusiast was trying to create a small nuclear reaction in his house using Uranium.”

From Futurismic.

Resources on Asian Anarchism

Thanks to the wonderful folks at Negations, this archive of translated Japanese, Chinese and Korean anarchist texts are now available online and in English.

Crimethinc On Brad Will’s Martyrdom

Following the Rolling Stone’s coverage of Brad Will’s murder in Oaxaca, Rolling Thunder has a feature, now available online.

Isola nella Rete

Italian hacker haven.