Event: 13-15 July NYC Hackers on Planet Earth

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HOPE Number Nine Call for Hackerspaces seeks participation

Keynote announced! The Yes Men will talk about their approach to hacking corporations and saving the world. See the press release at 2600.com.

About HOPE

HOPE Number Nine will be taking place on July 13, 14, and 15, 2012 at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City. H.O.P.E. stands for Hackers On Planet Earth, one of the most creative and diverse hacker events in the world that's been happening since 1994.

We're planning three full days and nights of activities, including more of the provocative and enlightening speakers that the HOPE conferences are known for. In addition, we have access to a massive amount of space to put together all sorts of hacker projects and assorted fun stuff. In the past we've had huge hackerspace villages, film festivals, Segway rides, lockpicking villages, a wide variety of vendors, art installations, live radio, vintage computers, robots, ham radio installations, electronics workshops, book signings, and the country's biggest supply of Club-Mate.

Now imagine all of that happening right in the middle of New York City, across the street from Penn Station and down the block from the Empire State Building. It seems impossible, but with the hard work and dedication of our huge volunteer staff, we're able to pull it off. You can also become part of the magic, whether by attending or volunteering to help run the event with us. We also encourage attendees to submit ideas for talks or to suggest projects that we may not have ever thought of before.

We'll be adding more information to the various sections of this site as it develops. Please explore and spread the word!

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2012/06/112012/06/11

Reference: Leverage Points – Places to Intervene in a System by Donella Meadows

Advanced Cyber/IO, Cultural Intelligence, Knowledge

1999 Leverage_Points Donella Meadows

Tip of the Hat to Venessa Miemis!

Below the Line: 12 Intervention Points in Ascending Order of Effectiveness

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2012/06/112012/06/14

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 4 Philosophical Concepts Extract II

Manifesto Extracts

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 4 Philosophical Concepts Extract II

The sharing of truth in the form of widely available information creates a foundation for cost-effective transparent decisions that are inherently anti-corrupt in nature.

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Where the philosophy gets interesting, even challenging, is when it confronts the reality that dogma, opinion, and deception can create in the mind a view of reality that is not real, but that one considers to be truthful. This gets to the heart of why education is the root requirement and right of each individual in any true democracy, and why democracy dies when dogma, ideology, and propaganda flourish. Truth is our best effort to see reality as it really is, and make the most of it. And please note that science, faith, and philosophy should not be considered antithetical to one another.

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The moral truth is worth dying for–sometimes a burning monk (Viet-Nam) or fruit seller (Tunesia) is the catalyst needed to illuminate the culture of fear and lies such that the public reconnects to its own power to be the truth, to define the truth, to demand the truth. How we seek, sense, and share with one another is a function of, among many variables, on constant: whether we are in a state of grace such that the truth is the primary attribute of all that we see, smell, touch, and sense.

Review of the Book by Ralph Peters … Manifesto Extracts at Phi Beta Iota … Book Page at Amazon . Book Page at Barnes & Noble . Book Page at McNallyRobinson . Book Page at North Atlantic Books (Publisher) . Book Page at Powell’s Books . Book Page at Random House . Book Page at Super Book Depot

2012/06/102012/06/11

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 4 Philosophical Concepts Extract I

Manifesto Extracts

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 4 Philosophical Concepts Extract I

Truth, Coin of Collective Consciousness

When things are not going well, until you get the truth on the table, no matter how ugly, you are not in a position to deal with it.

Bob Seelert

Truth is the foundation for all discourse and wise decision-making. There is no such thing as truth in isolation. The definition of meaning is a contextual and communal process, as the following two statements communicate succinctly:

Put enough eyeballs on it, no bug is invisible.

The truth at any cost lowers all other costs.

The first concept makes clear the role of community in arriving at the truth of any matter. The second makes clear the moral and financial value of truth, reducing all manner of costs across all domains including time and space. Neither of these concepts matter to the greedy, selfish one percent–they matter very much to the ninety-nine percent.

Book Page at Amazon . Book Page at Barnes & Noble . Book Page at McNallyRobinson . Book Page at North Atlantic Books (Publisher) . Book Page at Powell’s Books . Book Page at Random House . Book Page at Super Book Depot

2012/06/092012/06/09

Tom Atlee: From Stuck in the Game, to Liberating Public Wisdom

Cultural Intelligence, Politics

From Stuck in the Game, to Liberating Public Wisdom

Dear friends,

What's going on with our politics?

On the one hand, we in the US are watching grotesque income inequality and extreme wealth being used to buy power and more wealth to further control our political and economic systems. On the other hand, we have a grotesque collective failure to formulate and promote a compelling and sustainable moral vision for our country. These two factors go hand in hand, magnifying and enabling each other and driving the US to ruin, at great cost to the international community, to the biosphere, and to future generations.

The 2008 election cycle cost more than 5 billion dollars. This year's US election costs are estimated to top 6 billion dollars – maybe even $7,000,000,000 or more. Remember that a billion is a thousand million. This is not a problem for the ultrarich. The US has 403 billionaires. Together their net worth exceeds that of half of America's households combined. In other words, the net worth of almost 60,000,000 households, all added up all together, is less than the net worth of 403 very rich people.

Just as a mind-bending factoid, this is pretty amazing. As a social reality, it is a tsunami wreaking havoc on our capacity to govern ourselves.

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2012/06/092012/06/11

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 3 Manifesto Extract III

Manifesto Extracts

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 3 Manifesto Extract III

Sharing, not secrecy, is the means by which we realize such as lofty destiny as well as create infinite wealth. The wealth of networks, the wealth of knowledge, revolutionary wealth–all can create a nonzero win-win Earth that works for one hundred percent of humanity. This is the “utopia” that Buckminster Fuller foresaw, now within our reach.

Context matters. Context creates coherence and restores the missing connections that the fragmentation of knowledge into academic specializations has caused. Economy needs to be reimagined in terms of a whole-systems approach–the “true costs” of human action need to be measured holistically, in terms of effects on the regenerative capacity of the biosphere as a whole. If we as Homo sapiens fail to connect the dots and make decisions on the basis of truthful, true-cost information, we will self-destruct.

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Integrity is how we enter a “state of grace” and become “one with God,” however you choose to define and understsand these broad terms. This manifesto defines “God” as an experience of collective solidarity that extends from the human realm to the universe as a whole.

2012/06/082012/06/11

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 3 Manifesto Extract II

Manifesto Extracts

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 3 Manifesto Extract II

History is a narrative we construct and a tool we can shape. Our model of history has been corrupted by “information pathologies” that include weapons of distortion and deception; suppression of alternatives and repression of inconvenient knowledge; and manufactured consent, propaganda, secrecy, and outright ideologically justified lies that go unchallenged by most journalists and scholars.

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We find ourselves at the end of centuries of isolation and alienation. The evolution of social technologies and communications media appears to align with prophecies of indigenous cultures like the classic Maya, who looked toward our epoch [and 22 December 2012 specifically] as the end of one great cycle and the beginning of another. It's a window of opportunity for us, potentially the threshhold of transformation of humanity into a new psychic collectivity, a new global civilization that can attain galactic citizenship.