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A fablab burned down in France by anarchists: Makery
- em3rgent0rdr 9y agoInstead of burning things down, how about building things instead?
- trophycase 9y agoBecause they are opposed to technology and ever increasing systemic stability/tyranny
- kwoff 9y agoThey're childish cowards. Childish because like young children they're not able to express themselves reasonably, so they resort to throwing tantrums. Cowards because they do it anonymously. Instead of opposing "systemic stability", they're encouraging it to harden.
- rasz 9y agoanarchists, or insurance fraud
- mc32 9y agoIf you read the article, it makes it difficult to imagine it was fraud. While it's possible there could have been a "cover-up" motive, it looks unlikely, but at least more likely than outright insurance fraud.
- tsomctl 9y agoFor anyone that was confused while reading it, by fablab they mean a general workshop to build things, not a place to produce semiconductors.
- VeejayRampay 9y agoIndeed. In that context, it's fab as in fabrication, which is the French word for the process of making / building something.
- sitkack 9y agoSeems like a French thing, create a deconstruction space. Unmaker? Razer Space!
- VeejayRampay 9y agoNot sure why they're labeled anarchists though. If you burn something because it doesn't align with your own personal view of the world, you're a thug with authoritarian / violent tendencies and that's about it, no need to embellish idiots' actions with fancy ideology.
- totalZero 9y agoArsonists are simply agitators with incendiary ideas.
- Dowwie 9y agoFurther within the article is the message from the alleged arsonists: "City managers cater to start-ups greedy for money and the fashionably geek masses by opening fablabs in trendy neighborhoods. These extremely diverse measures on the surface all aim to accelerate the general social acceptance and usage of the technologies of our sinister era. (…) And we couldn’t care less whether these fablabs came out of the stale imagination of a revered hacker, which isn’t the case, or whether they’re participating in fruitful scientific collaborations with one of the temples of technocracy, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), which is the case—because they are a nuisance, we destroyed one"