A Wonderfully Gregarious Iraqi Man Who Has Traveled to 70 Countries With Passport That Only Allows 30. #Politics
A Wonderfully Gregarious Iraqi Man Who Has Traveled to 70 Countries With Passport That Only Allows 30. #Politics
The Betrayal by Technology - A Portrait of Jacques Ellul
Amazon Has Gone From Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Competitor, Say Open Source Developers: https://onezero.medium.com/open-source-betrayed-industry-leaders-accuse-amazon-of-playing-a-rigged-game-with-aws-67177bc748b7 #OpenSource #Politics
Projective Views on Urban Metabolism - talk by Jason W. Moore: https://jasonwmoore.com/
"Five Problems with Speculative Design" - by @tobias_revell: http://blog.tobiasrevell.com/2019/04/five-problems-with-speculative-design.html
World Council on City Data - Created by Cities for Cities: https://www.dataforcities.org/
Science and the Future of Cities:
https://www.nature.com/documents/Science_and_the_future_of_cites.pdf
Cities are central to life on our planet. Urban areas generate more than 75% of global GDP, contribute to about 75% of carbon emissions from global final energy use, and are home to the majority of the world population, including over 863 million urban dwellers living in slums and informal settlements. Understanding how cities work, what opportunities and challenges they afford humanity, and how we can harness these for a sustainable continuation of our societies is key. Knowledge about our planet from an urban perspective has become central in understanding the present and possible future of our living conditions.
China deploys 60,000 soldiers to plant trees in bid to grow 6 million hectares of new forest this year: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-tree-plant-soldiers-reassign-climate-change-global-warming-deforestation-a8208836.html
Elinor Ostrom on managing "common pool" resources:
Elinor Ostrom on resilient social-ecological systems:
Edith Maryon Foundation: https://maryon.ch - "works to remove land from speculation so that we or others can use it in a socially responsible manner." Highly sane foundation. They own two properties on my street. 👍#Infrastructure #Politics
Digital Fabrication, Circular Systems & the Future of Cities - interview with Tomás Díez:
Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy - talk by Saskia Sassen:
John Zerzan on the Dehumanizations of Modernity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Zerzan
John Zerzan: On Modernity and the Technosphere
China’s Rise as a Global Science and Technology Power – Implications for Germany - talk by Dr. Schüller. #Technology #Politics
"China Vitae is a resource of biographical information on more than 5000 Chinese leaders in government, politics, the military, education, business, and the media":
http://www.chinavitae.com/ #Politics #SE #Research
"Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization" - talk by Parag Khanna:
Smart, interesting, even compassionate analysis. And yet, getting fundamentals very wrong.
#Politics #Technology #Culture
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says tech companies can regulate themselves:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/former-google-ceo-eric-schmidt-tech-regulation-122224156.html #Technology #Politics A creepy, deeply scared man with a creepy agenda