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Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Splendide mendax.




The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behavior; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently toward one another....We are the state, and we shall continue to be the state until we have created the institutions that form a real community and society of men. Gustav Landauer,

Democratic societies need a strong media and WikiLeaks is part of that media. The media helps keep government honest. WikiLeaks has revealed some hard truths about the Iraq and Afghan wars, and broken stories about corporate corruption. //J. Assange


This demonstrates the fundamental flaw in web-mediated services. While the Internet itself may have a high immunity to attacks, a monoculture hosted on it does not. We might be able to survive a technical outage, but a political outage or a full-fledged termination of service are likely to put a company that's relied on the cloud for critical infrastructure out of business.
The problem is that we have a society with the governments that it deserves, ready to encourage summary judgement rather than consider matters deeply. The only protection we can even hope to trust today is to take contractual measures and to be ready to self-host in the age of the digital lynch-mob. Software freedom never mattered more.



But, unlike authoritarian regimes, democratic governments hold secrets largely because citizens agree that they should, in order to protect legitimate policy. In liberal societies, the site’s strengths are its weaknesses. Lawsuits, if they are fair, are a form of deterrence against abuse. Soon enough, Assange must confront the paradox of his creation: the thing that he seems to detest most—power without accountability—is encoded in the site’s DNA, and will only become more pronounced as WikiLeaks evolves into a real institution.

“I am the heart and soul of this organization, its founder, philosopher, spokesperson, original coder, organizer, financier and all the rest.”



"prestige" was in play in management of the Kunduz DynCorp matter and another recent event in which Blackwater contractors mistakenly killed several Afghan citizens.understood that within DynCorp there were many "wonderful" people working hard, and he was keen to see proper action taken to protect them; but, these contractor companies do not have many friends.

Despite their evil looks and repellant behaviour, they are just being reptiles, doing what reptiles do. Working with them is not a matter of relying on their goodwill. It’s all down to understanding their instincts – and learning to stand in the right place.


Monday, November 29, 2010

Does you mind wander regularly

"As a movement, cyberpunk denies progress towards a better society - there is only technological progress, which repeals utopia and threatens to undo the man himself."//tgdaily


Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality

"Several threats to the Web’s universality have arisen recently," he says.
He briefly warns of cable giants who may prevent the free flow of content across the net. "Cable television companies that sell internet connectivity are considering whether to limit their Internet users to downloading only the company’s mix of entertainment," he says. //the_register

Maybe you rarely celebrate the fact that you can think, but according to my inside sources, the flash of mercurial codes through your brain is among the universe's most dazzling accomplishments.//Rob Brezsny


This is not a website



The fact is, as I see it, that you are in the thick of the Season of Mixed Emotions. The more graciously you accept that -- the more you invite it to hone your soul's intelligence -- the better able you'll be to capitalize on the rich and fertile contradictions that are headed your way. //freewillastrology

They found that males do maintain social relationships with other males in which both members spend time together and groom one another. Those bonds aren't confined to potential kin. Males with stronger bonds to other males tended to form coalitions, and those coalitions predicted future social dominance, the researchers report. //esciencenews



„Melodyne scheint alle glücklicher zu machen – ohne alles grauenhaft zu zerquetschen.“ //celemony

Can't carry a tune?
They'll make a robot make a robot in a lab
and robots won't need man.
After all, human pop stars already seem like they were created in a science lab, why not just take the next step?



Sie ist deftig und sinnlich dazu

Currently my work focuses on a simple, practical step we could take to learn more about both games and society: I am trying to create a multi-user game that researchers could use to study real-world problems like pollution, inflation, and conflict. Right now we don't have a lab big enough to study such macro-scale problems. I am trying to use platforms like the web and Facebook to build a game with hundreds of thousands of users, interacting in complex economic, political, and social games, for months at a time. Such a game would be the big lab we need.//Castronova


Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Are you up for some deep eye gazing?

5 Futurists on the Single Most Significant Technologic Development of the Next 20 Years

He boasts that his safety testing method is foolproof: He and several colleagues sit in a room and take a new product "almost to overdose levels" to see what happens.
EFF is the leading civil liberties group defending your rights in the digital world.

Perhaps, just perhaps, this is actually a Dadaist show masquerading as a pop art show. Perhaps the point is to titillate us with the delicious irony of celebrating copyright infringement while simultaneously taking the view that even the "No Photography" sign is a form of property not to be reproduced without the permission that can never be had.//CoryD/Guardian
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the goal of the cyberpunk network is to build bridges

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"When you confront your worst fears, that is when you get to know who you are. We all have fear in our lives that we must confront each and every day. It is okay and natural to feel fear, but it is when fear controls your life that you may miss reaching your full potential. Feel the fear, get to know fear and respect it, but when it rises, look fear in the eyes and let it know that it does not control your life."//Darren Wise

Serial War -- the American Way of Life





The R. Buckminster Fuller FAQ

Contrary Brin

Noisebridge

Strange Loops

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The Constitution of No Authority

"...positive about sex itself, open to the idea of people engaging in the widest range of consensual sex acts, but concerned about the industrialisation of sex and where this leads."//guardian


Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property.

Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another.

Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.

In vices, the very essence of crime - that is, the design to injure the person or property of another - is wanting.

It is a maxim of the law that there can be no crime without a criminal intent; that is, without the intent to invade the person or property of another. But no one ever practises a vice with any such criminal intent. He practices his vice for his own happiness solely, and not from any malice toward others.//Lysander Spooner::Vices are not Crimes



Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Are you up for some deep eye gazing?





The Constitution of No Authority

"...positive about sex itself, open to the idea of people engaging in the widest range of consensual sex acts, but concerned about the industrialisation of sex and where this leads."//guardian


Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property.

Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another.

Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.

In vices, the very essence of crime - that is, the design to injure the person or property of another - is wanting.

It is a maxim of the law that there can be no crime without a criminal intent; that is, without the intent to invade the person or property of another. But no one ever practises a vice with any such criminal intent. He practices his vice for his own happiness solely, and not from any malice toward others.//Lysander Spooner::Vices are not Crimes

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