We need to make a new version of the anarchist's cookbook that still tells you how to do "naughty" things as a hook, while discouraging adventure-time and guiding young susceptable edgeladies and edgelads toward collective and organized action in support of their CLASS INTERESTS instead of whatever racist incel shit the right is selling them. It would have new sections about hacking, drones, gardening in urban settings, and primers on other things that work better for group organizations and recruitment than the original was geared towards.

It could be primarily distributed in a portable executable which is self encrypting for plausible deniability (I'm thinking something like tomb if you're familiar) and when your password is entered, lets you access the contents like a Wikipedia page.

People will read it because it makes them feel like a naughty hackerman/woman, but will be getting a healthy dose of communism on every page. I would say "without being too larpy" but I think maximum LARP is appropriate for this.

It would also greatly improve our ability to covertly fedposting by alluding to sections of the book withoutdiscussing exact plans. We can talk about things broadly and deniably while literally being on the same page.

Thoughts? Criticism?

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    3 months ago

    Larping is fun and more people should do it.

    There's lots of useful stuff to teach people without any adventure-time

    You can find all the adventure-time stuff on the internet if you want it.

    • The_sleepy_woke_dialectic [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      I want to pull it all together and put a name on it. Give it some noteriety and word of mouth advertising as a good source, and have that source push a left agenda. It's also a lot more of an opsec issue to be looking around for things rather than download one file from your local Walmart WiFi.

  • thebartermyth [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    I always did like the mystique of the anarchist cookbook in that it was maybe not even real, but the magic around hacking was so fun in that era. You could just download a ddos program on like limewire that was actually a keylogger and be like "I'm doing crimes!" IIRC there was a whole section on payphone hacking and how to dial at unlisted numbers (they just immediately disconnect you lol). Everyone botted runescape and there was that dubdub website that shook your computer windows.

    Ideologically, I feel like getting info from many sources is better than a secret tome because it's more participatory. I kinda hate that someone published a real 'anarchist cookbook'. Security stuff always kinda reads like larping to me, but I'm also not really into computers. Presumably tails or kali devs have a guide on modern hacking stuff, but idk maybe not.

    An anarchist 'anarchist cookbook' would unironically have some great bean recipes though

  • BobDole [none/use name]
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    3 months ago

    https://crimethinc.com/books/recipes-for-disaster

    This is a good start, IMO. Everything from vandalism to banner drops to starting a Food Not Bombs chapter to black bloc tactics.