Post B5X6qNpCgKnsIQQUnQ by amsomniac@mastodon.mit.edu
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 (DIR) Post #B5X6qNNCMSOytZK892 by amsomniac@mastodon.mit.edu
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       when I was a kid I tried to sell people 5.25" floppies with a BASIC program on it that just counted up forever called INFINITY.BAS. infinity could be yours on this diskI don't think anyone else on my block had a drive
       
 (DIR) Post #B5X6qNZxb0btX9IK2K by amsomniac@mastodon.mit.edu
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       anyway I dodged a bullet I wasn't doing that by the time I was going to hackathons
       
 (DIR) Post #B5X6qNpCgKnsIQQUnQ by amsomniac@mastodon.mit.edu
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       startups are always trying to align themselves with "hackers" and like. s1l3nc3, br4nd. hacking doesn't happen under corporate sponsorship, at "athons". hacking isn't something you do for e-corp. it's something you do *about* e-corp.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5X6qO1FxWRcto47aC by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
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       @amsomniac there is literally an entire TV series about hacking in relation to "E Corp" specifically
       
 (DIR) Post #B5X6qQbULmcCul25Kq by amsomniac@mastodon.mit.edu
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       hackers don't become CEOs. you're thinking of "hacks"
       
 (DIR) Post #B5X6qRWYvaGjlljfIO by amsomniac@mastodon.mit.edu
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       also hackers as far as I can tell are still pretty zine-oriented? that might have finally changed, the media always change but the message is pretty consistent. information liberation