is "autistici" a plural of "austistic"?
it's interesting that registering it as a domain seems to be a way of reclaiming something that is becoming derogatory - as a badge of honour instead. like civil rights movements.
it's interesting that registering it as a domain seems to be a way of reclaiming something that is becoming derogatory - as a badge of honour instead. like civil rights movements.
> We called ourselves Autistici, instead, for the passion we have for understanding the technical tools and for exposing the politics implicit in the digital world; even if software is created in a virtual world it doesn't mean it doesn't have a political impact on reality. Starting from the technical tools we use we came to develop a clear array of political stances, crucial to both cyber and material world and lives: privacy, anonymity, free sharing of knowledge just to mention a few.
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> Autism with invention generates sharing
So uh, yeah, that actually seems to kind of be the case. Inasmuch as "passion for understanding technical tools" is about autism.
i find it fascinating that it's become so hopelessly broad now that a group have felt the need to do that.
maybe they are taking the piss, but i don't think so.
EDIT: ...and they did so in 2002? they must have seen the whole thing coming a mile off.
the etymology is interesting anyway.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&searc...