"We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want."
"We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable."
"We work with being, but non-being is what we use."
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
It is aesthetic, and probably a metaphor but not sure for what. I could probably come up with something if you gave me a minute. Maybe about the futility of life, or its overlooked common beauty, it's usually something about one of those. We had a downstairs bathroom window that was overlooked.
Why does the FBI still have it sitting in an office somewhere? Does the US government usually just save everything related to cases, even long after the subject is dead?
Huh, the article implies that the FBI still owns it... or am I misunderstanding?
While the cabin itself now sits in the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., Barnes’s photos are housed in the collections of major museums throughout the country, including the Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Nope, I was out of date. The private Newseum museum had it for years but closed and the FBI took back the cabin and put it on public display along with other notable items relating to the FBI.
Because they absolutely love Ted Kaczynski, they didn't just take his cabin and put it in a warehouse, they painstakingly took it apart and built it back to exactly how it was before , all the way down to the placement of pens.
This is pure speculation and has no basis in the case:
Unibomber was a very smart guy. Math PhD. He was cryptic and went to great lengths to stay hidden
He alluded the police for a decade plus. Numerous psych profiles were totally wrong. He was untraceable. His bombs were built from used scrap parts or simple manufactured parts. No tractability to point of purchase.
Here is my speculation.
They might have been looking for keys coded writing. Having the cabin intact to the nail would allow them to go back and look for the keys to read codes. A good key wouldn't be too hidden, it would be accessible and have a dual purpose. Book cyfer, I'd say a solar sun dial but that would be so complicated. Again the guy was a literal genus.
If you read the beginning of his manifesto, he was way ahead of the curve for where we are now. Meaning the over use of technology and it destroying a sense of community.
I want a canvas painting of this image nicely framed to hang inside my small warehouse that I built inside my wooden cabin. As a reminder that things aren't always as they seem.
In the article linked to the post, it explains that Kaczynski's lawyers were the ones who wanted it originally removed from its location and preserved.
In an effort to protect it from snoops and vandals, lawyers requested to have the cabin moved from its original site outside of Lincoln, Montana, to a nearby Air Force base.
As the trial approached, the cabin became the focal point of his lawyers’ planned insanity defense. Only a madman, they argued, could have lived in such primitive conditions.
If you think the reason is stupid, sure, but it wasn't the FBI that made it so important to a potential trial.
51 Comments
littletranspunk@lemmus.org · 100 pts · 64d
This image makes it look like an SCP
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 64d
I don’t know why you’re implying it isn’t, it drove Ted nuts
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 64d
That’s the government? I would have expected a fancier building, tbh.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 64d
They save the fancy stuff for Keter class threats
BucketBong@p.hobo.social · 18 pts · 64d
That would make a great scp, a cabin that turns you into the Unabomber .
the_mighty_kracken@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 64d
Aren't we all shaped by the spaces we occupy?
"We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want." "We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable." "We work with being, but non-being is what we use." — Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Agent641@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 64d
Weird, nothing changed when I walked in.
eyelevel@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 64d
darkmogool@feddit.org · 4 pts · 64d
Had the exact same thought…
Miller@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 64d
That is not an effective use of space.
itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 64d
But does it spark joy
Miller@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 64d
It is aesthetic, and probably a metaphor but not sure for what. I could probably come up with something if you gave me a minute. Maybe about the futility of life, or its overlooked common beauty, it's usually something about one of those. We had a downstairs bathroom window that was overlooked.
Agent641@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 64d
You can fit 17 of them in there though.
kungen@feddit.nu · 36 pts · 65d
Why does the FBI still have it sitting in an office somewhere? Does the US government usually just save everything related to cases, even long after the subject is dead?
skooma_king@piefed.social · 42 pts · 65d
Maybe they just think it’s neat
ZeroCool@piefed.ca · 59 pts · 64d
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 65d
2026 and 1998 are different times. Kaczynski's pled guilty in 1998. The cabin is currently owned by a privately run museum.
kungen@feddit.nu · 12 pts · 65d
Huh, the article implies that the FBI still owns it... or am I misunderstanding?
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 65d
Nope, I was out of date. The private Newseum museum had it for years but closed and the FBI took back the cabin and put it on public display along with other notable items relating to the FBI.
procrastitron@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 64d
Wow, so @skooma_king@piefed.social was actually right.
tidderuuf@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 64d
We have top men working on it right now.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 64d
Top...men...
BucketBong@p.hobo.social · 6 pts · 64d
Because they absolutely love Ted Kaczynski, they didn't just take his cabin and put it in a warehouse, they painstakingly took it apart and built it back to exactly how it was before , all the way down to the placement of pens.
tdawg@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 64d
but why tho
Typotyper@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 64d
This is pure speculation and has no basis in the case: Unibomber was a very smart guy. Math PhD. He was cryptic and went to great lengths to stay hidden He alluded the police for a decade plus. Numerous psych profiles were totally wrong. He was untraceable. His bombs were built from used scrap parts or simple manufactured parts. No tractability to point of purchase.
Here is my speculation.
They might have been looking for keys coded writing. Having the cabin intact to the nail would allow them to go back and look for the keys to read codes. A good key wouldn't be too hidden, it would be accessible and have a dual purpose. Book cyfer, I'd say a solar sun dial but that would be so complicated. Again the guy was a literal genus.
BucketBong@p.hobo.social · 6 pts · 64d
Game recognise game.
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 64d
Patel’s new Whisky Bar
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 64d
See? The government would rather lock away a perfectly good cabin than help the homeless!
wrinkle2409@lemmy.cafe · 27 pts · 64d
What backrooms level is this?
Chais@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 64d
Might also be an SCP.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 22 pts · 64d
I think I seen this in Control.
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 64d
That's definitely an object of power
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 64d
Youse did?
BillyClark@piefed.social · 20 pts · 64d
This Unabomber guy was ahead of the curve in the tiny house trend. /s
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 64d
If you read the beginning of his manifesto, he was way ahead of the curve for where we are now. Meaning the over use of technology and it destroying a sense of community.
mech@feddit.org · 4 pts · 64d
But if you read it all, he was also pretty fucking nuts.
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 64d
Oh, obviously. Subjected to terrible psychological abuse which probably contributed to his decline https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/impromptu-man/201205/harvards-experiment-on-the-unabomber-class-of-62
agentTeiko@piefed.social · 15 pts · 65d
Or Lumon Industries maybe?
toynbee@piefed.social · 12 pts · 64d
Reminds me of The Cabin Factory.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 64d
This government is so fucking stupid
Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org · 10 pts · 64d
I want a canvas painting of this image nicely framed to hang inside my small warehouse that I built inside my wooden cabin. As a reminder that things aren't always as they seem.
Etterra@discuss.online · 10 pts · 64d
They relocated the whole cabin? Why?
filcuk@feddit.uk · 9 pts · 64d
'You know what would look sick in our massive, empty warehouse?'
sepi@piefed.social · 8 pts · 65d
Why would Benihana-ing the place to a storage facility be of value? I get the sense that police, detectives, and the FBI are stupid.
pentastarm@piefed.ca · 18 pts · 64d
If the X-Files has taught me anything, it will be important for solving another case later related to the black oil.
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 65d
In the article linked to the post, it explains that Kaczynski's lawyers were the ones who wanted it originally removed from its location and preserved.
If you think the reason is stupid, sure, but it wasn't the FBI that made it so important to a potential trial.
sepi@piefed.social · 2 pts · 63d
Thank you for correcting me. The lawyers were the idiots.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 64d
Celebrity home! Rustic! Only $1.8M!
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 64d
"Let's go visit Uncle Ted's Cabin." they said.
"It'll be a blast!" They said.
greenbit@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 64d
Exit through the gift shop
shrodes@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 64d
New season of the Rehearsal is looking stramge
blueamigafan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 64d
Is it still there?!