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The Communist Revolution Was Caused By The Sun:
https://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/2016/02_programm_2016/02_Filmdatenblatt_2016_201607681.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Chizhevsky
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Patronicity "brining together local citizens and sponsors to support great initiatives in their communities": https://www.patronicity.com #Regenerative #Urban #Politics #Infrastructure
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"Flying University was an underground educational enterprise that operated from 1885 to 1905": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_University #Politics
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The U.S. Is Purging Chinese Americans From Top Cancer Research:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-06-13/the-u-s-is-purging-chinese-americans-from-top-cancer-research #Science #PoliticsWhat is that loud sound you ask? It's millions of visiting Asian academics leaving the US permanently,
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Illustration from Joseph Needham's 'The roles of Europe and China in the evolution of oecumenical science' (1966) #Politics #Culture #Technology
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Inside Huawei’s secretive plans to develop an operating system to rival Google’s Android:
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3013813/inside-huaweis-secretive-plans-develop-operating-system-rival-googles #OS #Technology #PoliticsKey info: the OS will not be based on Linux but a microkernel; the OS hasn’t been largely tested for a commercial release; it is highly secretive even inside Huawei
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The Coalition Out to Kill Tech as We Know It:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/06/how-politicians-and-scholars-turned-against-big-tech/591052/ #Technology #Politics"Second, the mythology of tech as the carrier of progress has imploded, just as it did for the robber barons of the late 19th century, ushering in the trust-busting era. "
"At a broad ideological level, two things have happened. First, the idea of cyberspace, a transnational, individualistic, largely unregulated, and free place that was not exactly located in any governmental domain, has completely collapsed."
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How Big Tech funds the debate on AI ethics: https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/technology/2019/06/how-big-tech-funds-debate-ai-ethics #ML #Politics #Ethics
The Silicon Valley giants are spending billions developing AI, but they are also funding the people setting the technology’s most fundamental principles.
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"The hidden empire": https://interaktiv.tagesspiegel.de/lab/das-verdeckte-imperium/ (DE only). Excellent investigative journalism by @Tagesspiegel on how the UK-based Billionaire family "Pears" has been using a network of shell companies, to buy up thousands of apartment in Berlin and pay zero tax. Corruption 100x. #Infrastructure #Politics
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"Surveillance capitalism: critic urges Toronto to abandon smart city project. Google’s Sidewalk Labs comes under increasing scrutiny amid concerns over privacy & data harvesting": https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/06/toronto-smart-city-google-project-privacy-concerns https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/06/toronto-smart-city-google-project-privacy-concerns << Big Tech's push to privatise & dominate the basic infrastructure of life is a shit show & insane. #Urban #Technology #Politics
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"Tech Giants Amass a Lobbying Army for an Epic Washington Battle": https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/us/politics/amazon-apple-facebook-google-lobbying.html #Technology #Politics
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"Tech Companies Are Profiting Off ICE Deportations, Report Shows": http://amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2018/10/23/tech-companies-surveillance-ice-immigrants
"Amazon's helping police build a surveillance network with Ring doorbells": https://www.cnet.com/features/amazons-helping-police-build-a-surveillance-network-with-ring-doorbells/
US tech industry doing what it does best: Empowering fascistic military dictatorships. #Military #Technology #Politics
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Edward Snowden: With Technology, Institutions Have Made 'Most Effective Means of Social Control in the History of Our Species': #Technology #Politics #InfoSec #SE
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/05/31/edward-snowden-technology-institutions-have-made-most-effective-means-social-control -
Silicon Valley in Switzerland: Bilderberg 2019 and the high-tech future of transatlantic power - by @deYook: https://www.newsweek.com/silicon-valley-switzerland-bilderberg-2019-and-high-tech-future-transatlantic-1441259 #Politics #Technology
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Deforestation in Amazon has risen by 20% this year, monitoring group warns: https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/deforestation-amazon-20-jair-bolsonaro-a8932746.html #ClimateChange #Politics #Regenerative
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"Am I a denier, a human extinction denier?": https://mikehulme.org/am-i-a-denier-a-human-extinction-denier/ #Regenerative #Politics #SE
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'Call their bluff': Shut down social media platforms, ex-Facebook adviser urges:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/facebook-grand-committee-tuesday-1.5152436
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Paul Robeson: The First Black Star: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Robeson
https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/CIA-Robeson.html #Culture #Politics -
Is Facebook Already Working On An Encryption Backdoor?
https://it.slashdot.org/story/19/06/01/0035255/a-german-minister-wants-to-ban-end-to-end-chat-encryption #Technology #Politics #InfoSec #ComedyHorst Seehofer, Germany's federal interior minister, wants to require encryption companies to provide the government with plain text transcripts. One security expert says Facebook is already working on a way to make it happen.
