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Συντάκτης: Amir Taaki
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Προς: unsystem
Αντικείμενο: Re: [unSYSTEM] Reappropriating our stigmatizing Dark labels
Opaque is horrible. We are not opaque people. We try to be true to
ourselves.

On 09/25/2014 01:47 AM, Nicolas Mendoza wrote:
> Probably the use of the "Dark" label is beyond the point of no return
> already, but my concern is that the word is rather innacurate. Please
> illuminate me if I am wrong, but my understanding is that these are
> privacy tools first and foremost. In that sense, probably a better label
> than 'dark' would have been 'opaque', with the added benefit that it
> does not carry the connotations of 'evil' that 'dark' undeniably has.
>
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 6:20 AM, Brian Hoffman <brian@???
> <mailto:brian@openbazaar.org>> wrote:
>
>     Like it or not people want to be happy not the truth. The truth
>     isn't always comfortable. It's much easier to ignore the
>     inconvenience of truth and fake happiness in our local McDonald's
>     and Starbucks handing over our plastic cards representing our mental
>     prisons to buy Shit we don't need.

>
>     On Sep 24, 2014, at 7:14 PM, Washington Sanchez
>     <washington.sanchez@??? <mailto:washington.sanchez@gmail.com>>
>     wrote:

>
>>     (55 upvotes for viking frat boys)/2... twins Basil!

>>
>>     On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Julia Tourianski
>>     <juliatourianski@??? <mailto:juliatourianski@gmail.com>> wrote:

>>
>>         55 upvotes for viking frat boys 

>>
>>         -1 for terrorist looking squatter 

>>
>>         reddit = the success of democracy 

>>
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>>
>>         For the secrets and lies, my PGP key:
>>         https://libbitcoin.dyne.org/julia_tourianski.pgp.asc

>>
>>         On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Amir Taaki <genjix@???
>>         <mailto:genjix@riseup.net>> wrote:

>>
>>             http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2hc34r/winklevoss_bitcoin_presentation_at_value/ckrlzci?context=3

>>
>>             I'm only talking about technology. Consensus is not truth.

>>
>>             On 09/24/2014 11:58 PM, Washington Sanchez wrote:
>>             > "We legitimise tools of power over us when we display cowardice."
>>             >
>>             > Tres awesome.

>>             >
>>             > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 3:21 AM, Amir Taaki <genjix@??? <mailto:genjix@riseup.net>
>>             > <mailto:genjix@riseup.net <mailto:genjix@riseup.net>>> wrote:

>>             >
>>             >     Whenever someone asks, just post this link:

>>             >
>>             >     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reappropriation

>>             >
>>             >     It's the nature of this type of activism that it is provocative.
>>             >     We legitimise tools of power over us when we display cowardice.
>>             >     The struggle is for more than just the technology.
>>             >     Bold moves shape the narrative.

>>             >

>>             >

>>             >
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>>             >

>>             >
>>             > --
>>             > -------------------------------------------
>>             > *Dr Washington Y. Sanchez*
>>             > Post-doctoral research officer
>>             > Therapeutics Research Centre
>>             > University of Queensland
>>             > Princess Alexandra Hospital
>>             > Woollongabba, 4102
>>             > Queensland, Australia

>>             >

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>>     -------------------------------------------
>>     *Dr Washington Y. Sanchez*
>>     Post-doctoral research officer
>>     Therapeutics Research Centre
>>     University of Queensland
>>     Princess Alexandra Hospital
>>     Woollongabba, 4102
>>     Queensland, Australia
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> --
> Nicolas Mendoza
>
> PhD Researcher
> School of Creative Media
> City University of Hong Kong
> China PDR - HKSAR
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