I wrote down some thoughts about #35C3 and why this year's congress resonated with me: https://spacekookie.de/blog/hacking-is-political/
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Kookie likes Trains :anar: (spacekookie@octodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Jan-2019 12:56:09 UTC Kookie likes Trains :anar: - MMN-o ✅⃠ repeated this.
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MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Thursday, 03-Jan-2019 00:21:16 UTC MMN-o ✅⃠ Except that I don't think my motivation for hacking is "to do crime" - though I kind of get what you're getting at and agree enough to applaude - I thought it was an awesome text and I'm very happy (as a non-goer unfortunately) that C3 is taking a more explicit political stance.
The last half year I've tried to seed !umehack into discussing these things more and making sure we have a common baseline for activism in the hackerspace. For example we've participated in Umeå's anarchist bookfaire etc. -
MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Thursday, 03-Jan-2019 08:33:24 UTC MMN-o ✅⃠ Oh maybe it's a reference! I'm so ahistorical.