It is 1945, and an unlikely wartime discovery changed the concept of digital ownership, before digital even existed. Heavily guarded for years, and eventually pulled from a captured German radio station by an American engineer at the end of WWII. This bleeding edge discovery was stripped down to the bare chassis, and the pieces packed into into crates where it was shipped back to America. To the winner go the spoils. In 1948, Bing Crosby dropped a fortune to reverse-engineer that captured military technology. He wanted the physical autonomy to...
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If you've been tracking my movements lately, you know I’ve been scouring pawn shops across the Pacific Northwest. I am hunting for very specific vintage tech to outfit the bunker studio. I am looking for artifacts of an era when we actually owned what we bought. You are looking at my latest acquisition. I walked out the door with it for $80. This is a Yamaha G50-112. It was manufactured in Hamamatsu, Japan, in 1975. Serial Number 1731: This makes it one of the first 2,000 units ever built. The...
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The government didn't need to rewrite the Constitution to strip away your Fourth Amendment rights. They just outsourced the job to a private corporation. Flock Safety is actively constructing a nationwide mass-surveillance infrastructure, and local municipalities are eagerly paying the subscription fees. By using a corporate vendor to capture billions of data points each month, the state has found a permanent loophole to bypass warrant requirements. It is an absolute, undeniable attack on your right to move freely. Right now, there are hundreds of thousands of automated license plate readers...
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