[sudo-discuss] my transmitter design on the cover of a book

Ben Burke benjaminburke at me.com
Fri Nov 7 13:58:43 PST 2014


also, congratulations!

> On Nov 7, 2014, at 1:57 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
> 
> yes i'll carry it with me for a few days in my bag, it's pretty neat.
> 
> On Fri, 7 Nov 2014, Ben Burke wrote:
> 
>> Do you have a copy of the book that you can bring to omni for reading purposes?
>> 
>> 
>>> On Nov 7, 2014, at 1:32 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> look at the cover of this book (you can click on the image)
>>> 
>>> http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/low-power-people
>>> 
>>> the text in the back cover says:
>>> 
>>> Jake designed this transmitter with the help of wizened elders, to
>>> provide a reliable and repairable communications device for noncapitalist
>>> communities around the world.  At that time, cheap and effective
>>> transmitters from China were not yet available on eBay, found by
>>> searching for ST-15B in "consumer electronics".
>>> 
>>> you'll notice that there are pictures of Mandela and Ghandi on there.  The circuitboards were fabbed eight at a time, so we put a transparency over the whole thing with EIGHT different pairs of dead revolutionaries:
>>> 
>>> Mandela and Ghandi
>>> Nina Simone and Rosa Parks
>>> Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.
>>> Rachel Corrie and Judi Bari
>>> Fidel Castro and Che Guevarra
>>> Emma Goldman and Mother Jones
>>> Ernesto Zapata and Ricardo Flores Magon
>>> Annie Oakley and Lyudmila Pavlichenko
>>> 
>>> you might notice a pattern of dichotomy in rhetoric vs. direct action, that was accidental.
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