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Ahnenerbe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahnenerbe
http://thirdreichocculthistory.blogspot.com/2013/02/atlantis-und-das-dritte-reich.htmlDeutsches Ahnenerbe und die Wewelsburg:
Schwarze Magie im braunen Hemd Teil 1 Okkultismus und die Nazis:
Nazi International: The Nazis' Postwar Plan to Control the Worlds of Science, Finance, Space, and Conflict: https://www.amazon.com/Nazi-International-Postwar-Control-Conflict/dp/1931882932
Nazi International with Joseph Farrell
Theodor Kaluza: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Kaluza
Gabriel Kron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Kron -
Jan Boelen in dialog with Indy Johar / 150 Years of the MAK
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_BoelenThe eclectic Jan Boelen, director of the Z33 Arts Centre in Hasselt and of the Ljubljana Biennial of Design (BIO), presents the 50th edition, where a team approach will triumph:
https://www.domusweb.it/en/interviews/2014/04/18/the_biennial_turnedcollectiveworkshop.html
Time School or a School of Time:
https://z33research.be/2018/10/time-school-or-a-school-of-time/
Margaret McCurry Lectureship in the Design Arts: Jan Boelen, “Design as Learning”
Opening Talk "Victor Papanek - The Politics of Design" 28 September 2018
Z33 debates: Designing Futures - future thinking with Tobias Revell and Jan Boelen:
CTMBRU - Jan BOELEN, Z33, Atelier Luma
#Urban #P2P #Design #Politics #Technology #Art #Architecture #Regenerative #FFHCI
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Designing Nature - talk by Dr. Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg (The Conference 2018)
Resurrecting the Sublime: https://www.daisyginsberg.com/work/resurrecting-the-sublime
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Technology Dystopia Weekly Update:
Big tech firms are racing to track climate refugees: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613531/big-tech-firms-are-racing-to-track-climate-refugees/
'Disastrous' lack of diversity in AI industry perpetuates bias, study finds: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/16/artificial-intelligence-lack-diversity-new-york-university-study?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Tweet
Swarms of drones, piloted by artificial intelligence, may soon patrol europe’s borders:
https://theintercept.com/2019/05/11/drones-artificial-intelligence-europe-roborder/Peter Thiel’s stealth start-up Palantir has unlocked a new opportunity to sell to the US military as revenue tops $1 billion: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/15/palantir-unlocks-a-new-opportunity-to-sell-to-us-military-ahead-of-ipo.html
Facebook busts Israeli influence campaign that targeted elections on 3 continents: https://www.rt.com/news/459542-facebook-israeli-influence-campaign-elections/
Facebook shuts down an Israeli firm’s effort to influence politics in West Africa: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/16/18627776/facebook-election-interference-shut-down-west-africa-instagram-pages-groups-israeli-firm
Europe’s two-faced authoritarian right: ‘anti-elite’ parties serving big business interests: https://corporateeurope.org/en/2019/05/europes-two-faced-authoritarian-right-anti-elite-parties-serving-big-business-interests
Why Russia Wants to Break the Internet: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/05/14/why-russia-wants-to-break-the-internet-a65570
Burger King To Deliver Food To Drivers Stuck In LA Traffic: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-16/burger-king-deliver-food-drivers-stuck-la-traffic
KISS frontman Gene Simmons delivers briefing at Pentagon podium that has not seen a spokesperson in almost a year: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/16/media/gene-simmons-pentagon-briefing/index.html
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http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/14.html
"ORIGINS is a movement that started on this computer (Santa Cruz, 408-475-7101). Origins began on the START-A-RELIGION conference, but we don't call it a religion. ORIGINS is partly a religion, partly like a westernized form of yoga society, partly a peace movement. It is a framework for improving your life and improving the world at the same time.
The movement centers on "practices" — actions you can use in everyday life to build effective human relationships, strength of community, and self-awareness. All the practices are based on action. None require any special equipment, settings, leaders, theories or social status. The human universals of the ordinary, everyday moment, and the personal relationship, form the basis for this training.
ORIGINS has no leaders, no official existence, nothing for sale. Because it started in an open computer conference, no one knows who all the creators are.
This movement has just begun. The brochure mentioned above recommends seven practices (Leverage a favor, Ask for help and get it, Use charisma, Finish a job, Use magic, Observe yourself, Share Grace), but these suggestions are only starters. The idea is to continually develop new training/action methods, as a community project, then discuss and share them through whatever communications media are available. This movement will never be finished, because it seeks a community of permanent innovation.
The hope is to build something which can make a better world. The first step is to make your own life better. For a more detailed overview of ORIGINS, get the brochure from the address above. To see how the movement developed, read the START-A-RELIGION message and its submessages."Weizenbaum's argument, in part, points out that the aspect of human nature that was externalized by the invention and evolution of computers was precisely the most machine-like aspect. The machines that embody this aspect can do some very impressive things that humans cannot do, and at present can do very little of the more sophisticated intellectual feats humans can accomplish. Even so, they are taking over the management of our civilization. Before we begin to give more decision-making responsibility over to the machines, Weizenbaum warns that it is a terrible mistake to believe that all human problems and all important aspects of human life are computable.
This "tyranny of instrumental reasoning" can lead to atrocities, Weizenbaum warns, and in the closing years of the twentieth century, it is not at all paranoid to have some healthy suspicions about what any shiny new technology that came from the Defense Department in the first place might do to our lives when they get around to mass producing it. And there is no dispute that war was the original motivation and has been the continuing source of support for the development of computer technology."
"Licklider believed that a human-computer symbiosis would be the means of steering our planet through the dangerous decades ahead. Others have used another biological metaphor for our future relationship with information processing technology — the concept of coevolution, an agreement between two different organisms to change together, to interact in such a way that improvements in the chances for survival for one species can lead to improvements in the chances for survival of the other species.
Perhaps yet another biological metaphor can help us foresee the transformation ahead. When a caterpillar transforms into a butterfly, it undergoes a biologically unique process. Ancient observers noticed the similarity between the changes undergone by a butterfly pupa and those of the human mind when it undergoes the kind of transformation associated with a radical new way of understanding the world — in fact the Greek word for both butterfly and soul is psyche.
After the caterpillar has wound itself with silk, extraordinary changes begin to happen within its body. Certain cells, known to biologists as imaginal cells, begin to behave very differently from their normal caterpillar cells. Soon, these unusual cells begin to affect cells in their immediate vicinity. The imaginal cells begin to grow into colonies throughout the body of the transforming pupa. Then, as the caterpillar cells begin to disintegrate, the new colonies link to form the structure of the butterfly's body.
At some point, an integrated supercolony of transformed cells that had once crawled along the ground emerges from the cocoon and flies off into the spring sky on multicolored wings. If there is a positive image of the future of human-computer relations, perhaps it is to be seen reflected in the shapes of the imaginal cells of the information culture — from eight-year-olds with fantasy amplifiers to knowledge engineers, from Ted Nelson to Murray Turoff, from Clyde Ghost Monster to Sourcevoid Dave, from ARPA to ORIGINS.
The flights of the infonauts are not the end of the journey begun by the patriarchs, but the beginning of the most dramatic software odyssey of them all. It is up to us to decide whether or not computers will be our masters, our servants, or our partners.
It is up to us to decide what human means, and exactly how it is different from machine, and what tasks ought and ought not to be trusted to either species of symbol-processing system. But some decisions must be made soon, while the technology is still young. And the deciding must be shared by as many citizens as possible, not just the experts. In that sense, the most important factor in whether we will all see the dawn of a humane, sustainable world in the twenty-first century will be how we deal with these machines a few of us thought up and a lot of us will be using." -
Technology in a Post-Growth World: Lessons from the 1970s AT Movement - by J. M. Korhonen: https://jmkorhonen.net/2019/05/13/technology-in-a-post-growth-world-lessons-from-the-1970s-at-movement/ #Technology #Politics #HCI #FFHCI #Economics
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The "totalitarian governance of science & technology and capital" project which is wrecking the planet is in free fall into madness: Tweet: "How mad is it that of the possible responses to climate change, taking on Shell, BP and ExxonMobil and decarbonising our economies are still presented as less realistic options than ‘refreezing’ the fucking North Pole":
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48069663 #ClimateChange #Technology -
Dmitry Orlov: How the Technosphere Threatens the Biosphere and our Freedoms:
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On Puerto Rico’s ‘Forgotten Island,’ Tesla’s Busted Solar Panels Tell A Cautionary Tale:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-tesla-puerto-rico-renewable-energy_n_5ca51e99e4b082d775dfec35
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John von Neumann is heavily overrated: Genius is another name for Insanity.
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Interesting presentation by Jacques F. Vallee - one of the inventors of ARPANET & close collaborator of Doug Engelbart at SRI: "Software of Consciousness: Intriguing Lessons & Lingering Puzzles on the far side of StarGate"
A Theory of Everything (else)... - talk by Jacques Vallée
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From Counterculture to Cyberculture: The Legacy of the Whole Earth Catalog
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High-Technology Vs. Appropriate Technology. #Technology #Regenerative
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Appropriate technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriate_technology
Open-source appropriate technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_appropriate_technology
Appropedia: https://www.appropedia.org/Welcome_to_Appropedia
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How to build a more organic internet (and stand up to corporations):
https://theconversation.com/how-to-build-a-more-organic-internet-and-stand-up-to-corporations-70815 #P2P #OpenSource #Technology #Regenerative -
"Technology In a post-growth world - Lessons from the 1970s AT Movement" - great presentation (slides) by @jmkorhonen on "Appropriate Technologies":
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1D1B-fynBkK77gJCiikfeXYGpRxyJinWKYudHjdMJ7QQ/
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The unbounded cult of measurability is suffocating humanity and nature. The very notion that we can only value and take serious that which we can "fully understand" (science & engineering culture) is delusional.
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"Dangerous exponentials - A radical take on the future - our core thesis" - by Dr.Tim Morgan:
https://www.tullettprebon.com/documents/strategyinsights/tp0510_tpsi_report_005_lr.pdfA fascinating read. Good to see some calling the problem by its name, while many (predominantly US based) lunatic thinkers still scream "exponentials are great, singularity!"
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https://www.medeas.eu/ "a new open-source energy model to guide the transition to a low carbon european socio-economy."
