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  • Save the world?

    #diy #facebook #foundprivacy #gaengenviertel #plakat #poster

  • The crypto dream

    We’re living in a world where it’s possible to visit Tokyo without ever leaving your bed, and where governments go to war with software rather than tanks. Yet in some ways the real future is more Stephen King than William Gibson. The plane landed; nobody was on board.[…]There are a few amazingly bright spots in […]

  • Amanda Todd’s mother responds to bullied teen’s video as suicide probe grows

    Todd’s notes said the man ordered her to “put on a show for me,” or he would send around the webcam pictures. Todd said he knew her address, her school, her friends and her family.She said she was later alerted by police that he had followed through with the threat. “I then got really sick,” […]

  • PREAMBLE I recognize technology as a product of human effort, a product serving no other purpose than to benefit man in general, not merely some men; man in the totality of his humanity, encompassing all his manifold interests and needs, not merely some one particular concem of his. Humanistically viewed, technology is not an end […]

  • Tent.is the new twitter?

    Ten.is is a new distributed social network. A diaspora-ish idea, but more focused on simplicity and on the protocol then trying to be al full-featured app. Find me at https://dosch.tent.is #lookingforsolutions #software

  • Christopher Steiner on algorithms

    Christopher Steiner, author of Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule the World, discusses his new book. Steiner originally set about studying the prevalence of algorithms in Wall Street stock trading but soon found they were everywhere. Stock traders were the first to use algorithms as a substitute for human judgment to make trades automatically, […]

  • Democratie is…

    #comic #image #lawandpolitics

  • BitTorrent study finds most file-sharers are monitored

    The study also revealed that so-called blocklists, used by some illegal file-sharers to prevent monitors from connecting to their computers, might not be much use. Read the article at its source #bittorrent #lawandpolitics #security #surveillance #trackers

  • Fooling Facebook: Telling Lies To Protect Your Privacy

    Sounds like a hopelessly naive idea to me… “With a nod toward Bayes theorem, Ludlow basically wants to confuse the advertisers trying to profile him and the algorithmic machines that are trying to make predictions about him by throwing lots of false information about himself onto their radars. So he’s become a digital Scheherazade, weaving […]

  • Owning it

    In many ways, the whole ownership model just seems poorly suited to duplicable technology. Square peg, pentalobe hole. When we try to force new technology into the old model, our contracts end up sounding really, well, creepy. In fact, some licensing contracts stipulate that the people who sign them are not allowed to talk about […]

The collapse is already here. It is just not evenly distributed.