To Find Alternatives to Capitalism, Think Small - Why co-ops, regional currencies, and hackerspaces are pointing the way toward a new economic vision. - by @davidbollier:
https://www.thenation.com/article/to-find-alternatives-to-capitalism-think-small/
#OpenSource #P2P #Politics #Infrastructure
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Software-Rebellen: Die Macht des Teilens - New Docu by ARTE on OpenSource (DE Only)
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Is China’s corruption-busting AI system ‘Zero Trust’ being turned off for being too efficient?
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/2184857/chinas-corruption-busting-ai-system-zero-trust-being-turned-being #ML #PoliticsDespite being restricted to just 30 counties and cities, artificial intelligence system has already helped snare 8,721 officials.
System cross-references big data to evaluate work and personal lives of millions of government workers. -
Do it ourselves: Digital platform for self-organisation in urban planning - research through design - by Herman Mitish:
https://dspace.cc.tut.fi/dpub/bitstream/handle/123456789/26735/Mitish.pdf
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Always On - Technologies that mediate the self heighten consciousness, but that doesn’t mean they are empowering - by L. M. Sacasas: https://reallifemag.com/always-on/
#Augmentation Technology #Culture
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“There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.” - Marshall McLuhan
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Borg Complex: A Primer - by L. M. SACASAS (2013):
https://thefrailestthing.com/2013/03/01/borg-complex-a-primer/ -
The future’s so bright, I gotta wear blinders - by Nicholas Carr:
http://www.roughtype.com/?p=8557 #Technology #Augmentation #Culture #MediaIn his books Empire and Communication (1950) and The Bias of Communication (1951), the Canadian historian Harold Innis argued that all communication systems incorporate biases, which shape how people communicate and hence how they think. These biases can, in the long run, exert a profound influence over the organization of society and the course of history.
Is there an overarching bias to the advance of communication systems? Technology enthusiasts like Kelly would argue that there is — a bias toward greater freedom, democracy, and social harmony. As a society, we’ve largely embraced this sunny view. Harold Innis had a very different take. “Improvements in communication,” he wrote in The Bias of Communication, “make for increased difficulties of understanding.” He continued: “The large-scale mechanization of knowledge is characterized by imperfect competition and the active creation of monopolies in language which prevent understanding and hasten appeals to force.” Looking over recent events, I sense that Innis may turn out to be the more reliable prophet. -
"Google filters out serendipity in favor of insularity. It douses the infectious messiness of a city with an algorithmic antiseptic." https://longreads.com/2014/09/30/your-inner-drone-the-politics-of-the-automated-future/ #Augmentation #Technology
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The World Is Not the Screen - talk by Nicholas Carr:
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The dehumanization of the city: the car and the invasion of public space:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277008105_The_dehumanization_of_the_city_the_car_and_the_invasion_of_public_space #Augmentation #Infrastructure -
Aggressive Drivers See Cyclists as ‘Less than Human’: #Augmentation
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2019/03/28/study-aggressive-driving-is-linked-to-seeing-cyclists-as-less-than-human/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1369847818308593 http://sci-hub.tw/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1369847818308593
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"Neurotech: Existential Hope Scenarios - Anders Sandberg, Mary Lou Jepsen, Zarinah Agnew, Dan Barcay"
Pseudo "we are SO progressive, rational & interesting" type of ideas - but essentially regressive, boring bullshit. Mindless techno-chatter from a highly none-diverse, privileged group of people, clearly driven by personal angst - not even noticing who's PR agent they have become. An excellent example how the "Avantgarde" of Western techno-culture is end-to-end bankrupt now - Jacques Ellul & Lewis Mumford are laughing from their graves. The panellists should go and work on a farm or birth clinic for a few years.
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Qi Gong & Tai Chi - Evidence Based Medicine
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An India-China maneouvre could soon leave world's oil powers toothless:
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/et-explains/an-india-china-maneouvre-could-soon-leave-worlds-oil-powers-toothless/articleshow/69095599.cms
#Politics #ClimateChange #Military
