Crypto Wars
I’m sorry, another link post. If you’re a regular reader, you might wonder what this is. A bookmark? In way, yes. I find that I regularly search my blog for stuff I only half remember. I’ve used Google...
View ArticleProletariat, Precariat, Unnecessariat
The best explanation for the rise of Trump: Unnecessariat.The Unnecessariat is not like the Proletariat of old, the people who worked hard, nor the Precariat, the people who feared for their jobs but...
View ArticlePaper Ballot, Please
The very long article The Crisis of Election Security in the New York Times is just a very long “please don’t introduce electronic voting” for me. In Switzerland, we have an initiative coming up where...
View ArticleLies
🔥 Mark Zuckerberg did everything in his power to avoid Facebook becoming the next MySpace – but forgot one crucial detail…: they are on fire! The subtitle for this article: «No one likes a lying...
View ArticleNate White on Trump
I saw this quoted and shared on Google+, and all over the net once I went looking. As seen on Quora, someone asked “Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White wrote:“A few things...
View ArticleSocial Purpose Corporation
I just read The Future of Computing and Why You Should Care by Purism, the company that made my laptop.Interesting takeaways:Companies must exploit their users for every dollar or they might face...
View ArticleFrederick Douglass
I am reading What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? It’s a speech given in 1852 at the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Association by Frederick Douglass. It’s a long read. I recommend it.What, to the...
View ArticleJulian Assange
Assange in Court, by Craig Murray.In Belmarsh he is kept in complete isolation for 23 hours a day. He is permitted 45 minutes exercise. If he has to be moved, they clear the corridors before he walks...
View ArticleAssange Trial
Reading the blog posts by Craig Murray on the Julian Assange trials really does show you the naked power of the state and the torture regimes of the US and the UK at work. Just the description of some...
View ArticleThe long arm of the USA
The EFF post on DMCA 1201 (”anti-circumvention”) is a pretty clear description on how politics works. The copyright maximalists failed in the US in 1995, but then they succeeded at WIPO in 1996, then...
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