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This year I've inadvertently started a habit of learning about/engaging an offline creator or 20+ year old media every day, so no one day is useless..  Felt refreshing, and I want to memorialize it in hopes that this streak will continue. Maybe this can be a weekly thing?

1 - Dead Kennedys'
♪ You call yourselves the Moral Majority
We call ourselves the people in the real world
Trying to rub us out, but we're going to survive
God must be dead, if you're alive ♪

One of the few groups counted on one hand that has instantaneously given me that oh-so-pleasurably tingly 'live wire' feeling. Jello Biafra is cemented as one of my private icons.

2 - Aphrodite's Pavilion

I brought (and received) some porn for my sleezy zine collection. Very lovely, ridiculously detailed, and ridiculously lewd-with-body-fluids 8 page zine. Can be found on etsy when the shop re-opens.



3 - Revolutionary Girl Utena

• On episode two. "Hella gay" as described to the girlfriend.

4 - Hacker Ethics & Words On

• When you read what the founding fathers had to say for themselves, they sound more like hackers. "The spirit of resistance to government," Jefferson wrote, "is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive." Imagine an American president saying that today. Like the remarks of an outspoken old grandmother, the sayings of the founding fathers have embarrassed generations of their less confident successors. They remind us where we come from. They remind us that it is the people who break rules that are the source of America's wealth and power. Those in a position to impose rules naturally want them to be obeyed. But be careful what you ask for. You might get it.  The Word "Hacker" by Paul Graham
• Legacy by Aaron Swartz
• Some Thoughts on the Real World by One Who Glimpsed It and Fled by Bill Watterson
• The Hacker's Ethics
• Old and New Hacker Ethics by Steven Mizrach
• "If you’re automatically sure that you know what reality is, and you are operating on your default setting, then you, like me, probably won’t consider possibilities that aren’t annoying and miserable. But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down. Not that that mystical stuff is necessarily true. The only thing that’s capital-T True is that you get to decide how you’re gonna try to see it." Life and Work by David Foster Wallace
• hacker ethic, Jargon File entry