Fumiko Kaneko sits on her knees wearing a striped kimono with her hands clasped in front of her, staring intently ahead. c. 1925, author unknown [Wikipedia]
Fumiko Kaneko, born on this day in 1903, was a Japanese anarchist, nihilist, and opponent to Japanese imperialism in Korea. Fumiko is perhaps best remembered for her “The Prison Memoirs Of A Japanese Woman”, written while imprisoned after being convicted of high treason against the Japanese government.
Together, Fumiko and her Korean partner Pak Yol published two magazines which highlighted the problems Koreans faced under Japanese imperialism and showed influences of their radical politics. Sometime between 1922 and 1923, they also established a group called “F"utei-sha (Society of Malcontents)”, which Fumiko identified as a group for direct action against the government.
These activities soon brought Pak and Fumiko under government scrutiny. In September 1923, the Japanese government therefore made a number of arrests, mostly Koreans, on limited evidence, and among those arrested were Pak and Fumiko.
After lengthy judicial proceedings, Fumiko and Pak were convicted of high treason for attempting to obtain bombs with the intention of killing the emperor or his son. They were both sentenced to life in prison, however Fumiko allegedly committed suicide in her cell in 1926.
Here is a short excerpt from one of Fumiko’s interrogations while imprisoned (text by Max Res from theanarchistlibrary.org):
Q: Your class?
A: A divine commoner.
Q: How are you employed?
A: My job is tearing down everything that currently exists.
The Prison Memoirs Of A Japanese Woman
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Footage of the hyperloop. Probably the biggest waste of time and money for the most inefficient bs I could imagine lol. Once you get past the futuristic entrance tunnel it’s just a fuckin underground road with stop lights and everything 😭
Build. Trains!!
lmfao, half of the video is waiting at a traffic light and the rest is immense claustrophobia.
You may not like it, but this is peak transport infrastructure
lol but honestly, imagine someone gets a flat tire or something
spending billions of dollars on my new invention: colored lights in an unsafely narrow tunnel
Technical point. This it the Loop, hyperloop is something different. Still stupid, but more train like than this.
They’re doing TWO inefficient systems?? Lol
Hyperloop is more impractical than inefficient. Just do trains lol.
What is the advantage over a normal car tunnel even supposed to be?! One with multiple lanes (so that you can actually go both directions!), emergency exits at the sides, and where the lights don’t change colour all the time (it’s so distracting even in the video). This doesn’t make sense even if you’re car-brained, there surely are more efficient roads for cars…
That money would have much better been spent on
Las Vegas is really building out a “public transit” system using The Loop. Gonna be fun to see how much they can spin what a gigantic failure this is going to be.
God we’re never going to have anything nice in this country
Have we considered that vegas people might be sewer guys/gals/non-binary pals? Might change calculus of revolution