Religion for the Hell of It - lecture by Robert Anton Wilson. #Comedy #Religion #Politics
"The great paradox of anarchism: If laws are outlawed only outlaws will have laws" - R.A.Wilson
#Book of the week: "Government of the Shadows : Parapolitics and Criminal Sovereignty": https://ia802301.us.archive.org/18/items/pdfy-NGH3JN1XdVae36t7/Government%20of%20the%20Shadows%20-%20Wilson%20%28ed%29%202009.pdf Chapter 2 by Ola Tunander is especially insightful: https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:Democratic_State_v_Deep_State #Politics
Apple and Samsung fined for deliberately slowing down phones:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/24/apple-samsung-fined-for-slowing-down-phones
New study claims data harvesting among Android apps is "out of control":
https://www.techspot.com/news/77077-new-study-claims-data-harvesting-among-android-apps.html #Technology #Politics
'The Day After' Nuclear War/Deterrence Discussion Panel - ABC News 'Viewpoint' (1983):
Interview with Jeremy Rifkin (1976) on "Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr":
Every day, computers are making people easier to use. - David Temkin
Stafford Beer's initial sketch of how Marx's Capital could be mapped with cybernetic language. #Politics #Automation #Augmentation
Return rate of Chinese students studying abroad: https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/asia/article/2157081/how-chinese-students-who-return-home-after-studying
1987: 5%
2007: 30%
2017: 79%
"The open source revolution is coming and it will conquer the 1% - ex CIA spy" - article about Robert David Steele, by @NafeezAhmed (2014):
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jun/19/open-source-revolution-conquer-one-percent-cia-spy
Interview with Robert David Steele
"From a car-friendly to a human-friendly city". Image shows work by the association for "verkehrspolitische Bewusstseinsbildung" in Salzburg Austria, which transforms parking-lots into green areas: http://www.fairkehr.net/ #Regenerative #ClimateChange #Politics
The Julian Assange Show: Cypherpunks Uncut (2012). Discussion Feat. Andy Müller-Maguhn, Jeremie Zimmermann, and Jacob Appelbaum.
"We are now at the stage where the capacity of surveillance is doubling every 18 months. The ability to surveil everyone on the planet is going to occur sometime in the next 15 years" - Julian Assange
Anderson's Rule: "You cannot construct a database with scale, functionality & security because if you design a large system for ease of access it becomes insecure, while if you make it watertight it becomes impossible to use"
"Act always so as to increase the total number of choices" - Heinz von Foerster (1984). Comment: A good example of the kind of interesting sounding, but ultimately naive bibliomancy many of the cybernetics movement leaders engaged in.
While the west likes to point out how china & co are deeply engaged in heavy handed (internet) censorship to silence critics - the west is most certainly on par in capabilities & practices, just differs in style. While the analogy is flawed, it's 1984 VS Brave New World
"Filtering should be handled in the end user and in the end device of the end user" - Wau Holland