Lookout ("An Angled Smartphone Camera That Instantly Streams Steps Ahead So You Can Keep Looking Down") is a PERFECT example of contemporary western technology design: https://laughingsquid.com/lookout-angled-smartphone-camera/ Tragic and Stupid, but everyone is too distracted to notice. #Mindful #Technology #Design
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Interview with Giulio Quaggiotto @gquaggiotto. #Politics #P2P
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The growing outrage about rampant economic inequalities and rise of total surveillance police states run by mega-corps more powerful than nations, is largely wasted energy if no practical actions follow: It's time for a p2p take-over of infrastructure - the kleptocrats bank.
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Appropriate Technology for the Smart Era - talk by Paul Polak at SDF2012:
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Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation - EU Policy: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/collective-awareness
Collective Awareness In The European Union by Fabrizio Sestini at CSW Europe 2016:
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The P2Pvalue Project Promoting the Tech Commons: https://p2pvalue.eu
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Thinking of this quote every time i see yet another project using ultra-complex machine learning/robotics to "optimise" mindless mass consumerism - so people can "buy things they don't need with money they don't have to impress people they don't like".
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Leopold Kohr: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Kohr (1909 - 1994)
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The price of plenty: how beef changed America: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/07/the-price-of-plenty-how-beef-changed-america #Regenerative #Biology #Health
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E. F. Schumacher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._F._Schumacher
E.F. Schumacher on Buddhist Economics:
Small is beautiful impressions of Fritz Schumacher:
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Geppetto: "Enabling Semantic Design of Expressive Robot Behaviours": https://www.autodeskresearch.com/publications/geppetto #Robot #ML #ALife
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DeepBehavior: A Deep Learning Toolbox for Automated Analysis of Animal and Human Behavior Imaging Data: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnsys.2019.00020/full
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"The bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created. Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon." —Bill Strickland
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Percent of Germans considering refugees major problem fell by 12 percent in 4 months; while concern for environment rose by 16 percent. Ecology UP = Nazis DOWN. Sensible Outcomes.
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"Mapping Digital Social Innovation. 3: Food, Environment & Climate Change" - report by @waag: https://digitalsocial.eu/images/upload/32-Food%20and%20environment.pdf https://digitalsocial.eu/ #Regenerative #OpenSource #P2P #ClimateChange
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Meet the People Building Their Own Internet in Detroit:
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Interview with Lorenzo Tripodi
