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
Patronicity "brining together local citizens and sponsors to support great initiatives in their communities": https://www.patronicity.com #Regenerative #Urban #Politics #Infrastructure
"Flying University was an underground educational enterprise that operated from 1885 to 1905": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_University #Politics
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 #Politics
What is that loud sound you ask? It's millions of visiting Asian academics leaving the US permanently,
Illustration from Joseph Needham's 'The roles of Europe and China in the evolution of oecumenical science' (1966) #Politics #Culture #Technology
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 #Politics
Key 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
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."
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.
"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
"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
"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
"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
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
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
"Am I a denier, a human extinction denier?": https://mikehulme.org/am-i-a-denier-a-human-extinction-denier/ #Regenerative #Politics #SE
'Call their bluff': Shut down social media platforms, ex-Facebook adviser urges:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/facebook-grand-committee-tuesday-1.5152436
#Technology #Politics #Military
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 #Comedy
Horst 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.