From Gothamist by Elizabeth Kim
Williamsburg’s anarchist bookstore is called “Property Is Theft.” But in a city with skyrocketing costs, patrons said having the co-chair of the local Democratic Socialists of America chapter live in a $1.5 million home in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn bought by his parents is relatable.
From It's Going Down
Why Moxie’s Departure is Not the End of Signal
Technical discourse almost always generates an odd sort of distortion when it collides with life outside of disciplinary separations. This is very much the case when it comes to radicals and information security. Communications, computer science and cryptography are highly complex, to the point that even people working in the security industry full time have difficulty grasping the complexities from time to time. As we saw with the Snowden leaks, the combination of highly complex technical content and the possibility of danger in the form of surveillance, tended to generate a discourse grounded in hyperbole and conspiracizing. This approach often led people to either attempt to completely go dark, or to modify their practices base on false, misconstrued or misunderstood information.