Lights Out: Cyberattacks, Unprepared Nations, Survival, and Adaptation

from Fairytales from Ecotopia
September 17, 2024

“Without ready access to electricity, we are thrust back into another age—an age in which many of us would lack both the experience and the resources to survive.”

― Ted Koppel,

Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath

TOTW: 20 Years of Anarchist News

Topic of the Week – Around 20 years ago the Anarchist News (ANews) website launched on the Internet with the header tagline of “even anarchists get the news.” Since then, a lot has changed with the website, but much of ANews also remains the same. This week we’re celebrating 20 years of Anarchist News and having a conversation about this website, anarchist news, and the Internet.

New Year, Same Shit

From Inferno Urbano

Having nothing to celebrate we decided to attack, taking advantage of the chaotic new year’s eve festivities. So in the night of the 31st we set fire to a fibre optic pole in the hope that this would jam the dense network of connections that now pervades cities. An ever tightening network, between control and social anesthesia, but which also means that its links and nodes are everywhere therefore everywhere attackable.

Attack on Nuclear Infrastructure in Solidarity w/ Alfredo Cospito

From Abolition Media

Full title: Attack on Nuclear Infrastructure in Grand Est Region, France in Solidarity with Alfredo Cospito

It was in this spirit that on Sunday December 11, during a night-time sabotage action, we went to a pylon of the Fessenheim-Paris EHV (Extra High Voltage) line and unscrewed the bolts. The pylon is still standing, but its structure is clearly compromised. Let our revolutionary anger act in alliance with nature, and let a winter storm do the rest!

Liaizon Wakest on Autonomous Social Media and the Fediverse

from The Final Straw Radio

This week, we spoke with Liaizon Wakest. Liaizon grew up in an anarchist commune in rural America. They can be found climbing into dumpsters from Mexico to Kazakhstan looking for trash to make art with. In recent years they have been focused on research into ethical technology and infrastructural anarchism. For the hour we speak about the interoperable, open source ensemble of federated online publishing servers and platforms known as the Fediverse and its most popular component, Mastodon.

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