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Water scarcity and interstate conflict - Neo-Malthusianism vs. resource optimism – a social capital approach: http://www.awa.asn.au/AWA_MBRR/Publications/Water_e-Journal/03_Kosovac_Water_Security.aspx #Regenerative #Politics
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Demography not Democracy is the Future - Lee Kuan Yew
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Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action - by Elinor Ostrom (1990) (PDF, alt-PDF, Buy). Related: Summary of "Governing the Commons" - by T.A. O'Lonergan,
A map of identified new commons and new commons issues.
SOURCE: Ostrom, E. 1990. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Collection Action. Cambridge University Press. -
The key objective of tech-giants in the next 10 years is to "disrupt" critical urban infrastructure globally. For fully privatised post-national "public" service providers (Google, Amazon & co), dominating Water, Electricity, Food, Transportation, Logistic, Health, Money, Housing, etc. systems is the missing piece for end-2-end society management. In this context, "AI for Climate Change" is simply a useful Trojan PR horse.
Microsoft wants to unleash its AI expertise on climate change: https://www.fastcompany.com/90334623/microsoft-wants-to-unleash-its-ai-expertise-on-climate-change
What’s critical about critical infrastructure?:
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Vectorialist Class: "Those who own & control the vectors of information/data":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hacker_Manifesto http://www.publicseminar.org/2016/05/the-sublime-language-of-my-century/ #Ideas #Technology #Politics
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The most terrifying conspiracy theory of all, is that there is no conspiracy at all.
A world governed by pure chance (and maybe some greed & stupidity)"We're living on the Planet of the Apes. Is that funny or serious?"
- Robert Anton WilsonFacebook accidentally shipped "tens of thousands" of VR controllers with hidden messages like "Big Brother is Watching" and "The Masons Were Here":
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Ted Nelson and Doug Engelbart come to dinner
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"China Plans to Ban Cryptocurrency Mining in Renewed Clampdown": https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-09/china-plans-to-ban-cryptocurrency-mining-in-renewed-clampdown #Crypto #Politics
"National Development Reform Commission listed crypto-mining among a plethora of industries it intends to eliminate because they “seriously wasted resources” or polluted the environment".
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Theory: All systems are non-reformable, once their time has passed: Feudalism, Slavery, Colonialism - non abolished via reforms, but via collapse. Our current system - dominated by transnational techno-capital - will be no exception. The end is nigh! Rejoice! Seeds are germinating.
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Konzept des Tages: Die Planetarische Zivilgesellschaft (planetary civil society)
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"Meeting with Jean Ziegler": Great discussion (1h 20min) with the Swiss sociologists & globalisation critic. A hero of mine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Ziegler (DE only)
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Theory: The spreadsheet (Excel etc.) has cause more damage to society than the atomic bomb: It enabled accountants, lawyers, economists & bankers to radically expand their power and scale their cold totalitarian logic to all aspects of human life & ecology.
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While western "users" (replacement for legacy terms such as 'citizen' or 'human') are permanently hypnotised by vain technological conveniences which enable them to suffocate their existence in consumerism - consumerism is suffocating our planets eco-systems.
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"Amazon Is Aggressively Pursuing Big Oil as It Stalls Out on Clean Energy": https://gizmodo.com/amazon-is-aggressively-pursuing-big-oil-as-it-stalls-ou-1833875828
The rise of Amazon (the company) is inextricably linked with the fall of Amazon (the rainforest).
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"To quibble with this kind of system [capitalism] about its values, to frighten it with visions about the consequences of growth, is to quarrel with its very metabolism" - Murray Bookchin, (Toward an Ecological Society, 1980)
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"You can’t maintain rigid digital borders and assert cyberpower influence at the same time, so nations have to “cooperate to compete”. The result is a global ecosystem perpetually close to the threshold of war":
http://theconversation.com/the-internet-is-now-an-arena-for-conflict-and-were-all-caught-up-in-it-101736 #Politics #Technology
