I am a huge fan of Philip K. Dick. His short stories have always been my favorite science fiction of all time. In high school, I read through my big volume of his short stories so many times that the binding literally fell apart. Recently, I decided to read through...
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Techno-Agorist: Broken Security Is No Security
by Ryan Burgett | Nov 9, 2020 | Blog
Every few years, we once again hear about the federal government discussing ways to get around encryption. Usually, thankfully, it doesn't head anywhere. The most spectacular failure was in the nineties when the federal government tried to get tech companies to use...
Techno-Agorist: Whoever Wins… We Live
by Ryan Burgett | Nov 4, 2020 | Blog
I don't know if you have heard, but we just experienced the most important election of our lifetime. At least, that's what I have been told by friends and family from all political persuasions. The funny thing is that I have heard the same about every election that...
$60 Keycaps
by Ryan Burgett | Oct 26, 2020 | Blog
My name is Ryan and I am an agorist. Today we are talking about free markets and $60 keycaps. I am kind've a keyboard snob. Ever since I began working full time at a computer, I have been extremely particular about what keyboard I use. My favorite brand is called Das...
19 Years After 9/11 Americans Still Live in Fear
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 11, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
On Conflicts of Interest #6, Kyle and Will outline the legacy of the September 11 attacks on their 19th anniversary, including years of war, torture, and mass surveillance carried out in their wake. The Pentagon has awarded a $13.3 billion contract to Northrop Grumman...
Episode 463: The Commons, the Panopticon and Your ‘Society of Control’ w/ Bird from Friends Against Government
by Peter R. Quiñones | Aug 27, 2020 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
107 Minutes PG-13 Bird is one-third of the hosts of the Friends Against Government podcast Bird joins Pete to discuss various concepts but especially those of the Panopticon and Societies of Sovereignty, Discipline and Control while concentrating on the technology and...
Episode 460: An Overview Of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thought w/ Daniel Coffeen
by Peter R. Quiñones | Aug 21, 2020 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
62 Minutes Some Strong Language Daniel got his PhD in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley in 1998. He taught adjunct in the department for many years but after becoming displeased with academia, he started writing independently and doing a series of podcasts. He wrote a little...
Open Source Money – New Documentary Features Ross Ulbricht
by Steven Woskow | Jul 31, 2020 | Blog
The Silk road served as the first proof of concept for Bitcoin and consequently cryptocurrency and one author (Brian Iha) in his book said, "that was why Ross was the second most important figure in Bitcoin history after Satoshi." See the documentary for free here...
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Pour One Out for Will Grigg
We miss ya, pal.
George Carlin Imitating a Nice Lady Voice: ‘Well, thank God for that.’
Nearly 90% of feds' office space in D.C. going to waste, government report finds
The Wigan Pier of the Periphery
I just finished some work in the city. I was working with a pair of carpenters, men in dirty clothes with splinters in their hands. As we worked the nicely dressed office class ignored those building the world around them, the delivery drivers, the cleaners, the...
Friends Don’t Let Friends Ally with the USA
Osama bin Laden like Saddam Hussein and Manuel Noriega and a legion of other malefactors discovered that alliance with the US and its coalition partners can be a mercurial and potentially lethal relationship.
A Home into a House
It’s a modest house, a unit trapped inside of a suburb within a suburb. Mostly elderly live here. A woman in her late seventies greets me, “I’m Rosanne, the neighbour.” She takes me through the house and shows me what needs to be carried out. Heavy furniture and the...
Ben Shapiro Shows Why He Can’t Be Taken Seriously
Dave Smith highlights another reason why Ben Shapiro’s attempts to defend Israel’s genocide in Gaza cannot be taken seriously.