The City as a Commons - talk by @davidbollier
The City as a Commons - talk by @davidbollier
To Find Alternatives to Capitalism, Think Small - Why co-ops, regional currencies, and hackerspaces are pointing the way toward a new economic vision. - by @davidbollier:
https://www.thenation.com/article/to-find-alternatives-to-capitalism-think-small/
#OpenSource #P2P #Politics #Infrastructure
Is China’s corruption-busting AI system ‘Zero Trust’ being turned off for being too efficient?
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/2184857/chinas-corruption-busting-ai-system-zero-trust-being-turned-being #ML #Politics
Despite being restricted to just 30 counties and cities, artificial intelligence system has already helped snare 8,721 officials.
System cross-references big data to evaluate work and personal lives of millions of government workers.
"Neurotech: Existential Hope Scenarios - Anders Sandberg, Mary Lou Jepsen, Zarinah Agnew, Dan Barcay"
Pseudo "we are SO progressive, rational & interesting" type of ideas - but essentially regressive, boring bullshit. Mindless techno-chatter from a highly none-diverse, privileged group of people, clearly driven by personal angst - not even noticing who's PR agent they have become. An excellent example how the "Avantgarde" of Western techno-culture is end-to-end bankrupt now - Jacques Ellul & Lewis Mumford are laughing from their graves. The panellists should go and work on a farm or birth clinic for a few years.
An India-China maneouvre could soon leave world's oil powers toothless:
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/et-explains/an-india-china-maneouvre-could-soon-leave-worlds-oil-powers-toothless/articleshow/69095599.cms
#Politics #ClimateChange #Military
How the Anonymous Hive Works Through Stigmergy: Secret Revealed:
https://medium.com/your-anon-central/anonymous-on-stigmergy-cd5e448f9214
Censored Oxford Union Whistleblowing Panel - talk by Heather Marsh
The evolution of democracy: Explaining Trump, Brexit & the Colombia peace deal
The State of Globalization in 2019, and What It Means for Strategists: https://hbr.org/2019/02/the-state-of-globalization-in-2019-and-what-it-means-for-strategists
Art By Stephanie McMillan. #Politics
Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals - by Derek Wall (@Anothergreen). https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745399355/elinor-ostroms-rules-for-radicals/
Mixing Politics with (dis)Pleasure: Patrick Geddes, Architecture, Evolution and the New Right: https://mfareview.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/the-evolutionary-fitness-of-architecture-and-urbanism-patrick-geddes-and-the-new-right/
Lewis Mumford from BBC documentary Towards Tomorrow A Utopia (1968):
Lewis Mumford - Interview with Modern Visionary (1973)
Lewis Mumford - Authoritarian and Democratic Technics (1972):
Futuring, the City & Sustainment - the Remaking of Design - talk by Tony Fry
Third Industrial Revolution? - Slides by Peter Troxler:
https://www.slideshare.net/ptroxler/third-industrial-revolution-13934632
Open Source Circular Design Ist Unfassbar Hässlich!
http://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-3377-1/die-welt-reparieren/
http://mifactori.de/die-welt-reparieren-buchkapitel-open-source
http://larszimmermann.de/open-source-circular-design-ist-unfassbar-haesslich-ein-briefwechsel-zwischen-andre-wendler-und-lars-zimmermann/
"Die smarten Open-Source-Akteure sind gerade wegen ihrer Kapazität der technisch hochentwickelten zielorientierten algorithmisierten Technopraxis sehr ernstzunehmende Kontrahenten* ihrer „systemkonformen“ Zwillingsbrüder und -schwestern in Softwareunternehmen und Überwachungsbehörden. Gerade aufgrund ihrer Fähigkeit des Hackens von Codes des kapitalistischen Establishments, also eben weil sie die Sprache ihres Zwillings verstehen, können sie dessen Spiele stören, umleiten, parasitieren, reversieren, mit eigenen Regeln weiterspielen oder auch leaken."