{"id":7590,"date":"2020-08-10T18:29:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T18:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7590"},"modified":"2020-08-10T18:29:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T18:29:37","slug":"oss-advise-on-how-to-sabotage-organizations-or-conferences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7590","title":{"rendered":"OSS advise on how to sabotage organizations or conferences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Twitter someone posted a link to a 1944 OSS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/news-information\/featured-story-archive\/2012-featured-story-archive\/CleanedUOSSSimpleSabotage_sm.pdf\">Simple Sabotage Field Manual<\/a>. This includes simple, but brilliant advice on how to sabotage organizations or conferences.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/OSS-Sabotage.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7591 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/OSS-Sabotage-235x300-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"393\" height=\"511\" \/><\/a>This sounds a lot like what we all do when we academics normally do as a matter of principle. I particularly like the advice to &#8220;Make &#8216;speeches.'&#8221; I imagine many will see themselves in their less cooperative moments in this list of actions or their committee meetings.<\/p>\n<p>The OSS (Office of Strategic Services) was the US office that turned into the CIA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Twitter someone posted a link to a 1944 OSS Simple Sabotage Field Manual. This includes simple, but brilliant advice on how to sabotage organizations or conferences. This sounds a lot like what we all do when we academics normally do as a matter of principle. I particularly like the advice to &#8220;Make &#8216;speeches.&#8217;&#8221; I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7590\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OSS advise on how to sabotage organizations or conferences<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,26,58,5,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","category-education-and-administration","category-ethics-of-data-science","category-history-of-computing-and-multimedia","category-methods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7594,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7590\/revisions\/7594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}