Jean Lievens: Think Global, Print Local — Commons Publishing

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Jean Lievens

Think Global, Print Local: A Campaign for a New Commons-Based Publishing Network

Have you ever wanted to share an inspiring book that you thought could help people and communities elsewhere, but in another language? Have you thought about combining decentralized online and offline ways of sharing information? Have you imagined more complex, layered projects crossing cultures and oceans, while also saving resources and building the commons? For years, these ideas have been stars on the horizon for us at Guerrilla Translation. And, now, we’ve created a project that does all that — with your help — and we’re ready to share our crowdfunding campaign on Goteo.

Donald Trump Take-Down — John Oliver Followed by Mike Lofgren — PBI Observes in Favor of Trump

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“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

H.L. Mencken

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Mongoose: Preview of Google’s Plan to Control Hate Speech

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Mongoose

We are not making this up.

Kiddle: Google-powered safe search engine for children

Kiddle combines Google's Safe Search filter with editorially controlled keyword and site blacklists. Basically, it prevents you from running searches for specific words or phrases, and blocks certain sites from appearing in the results at all.

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Jean Lievens: Social Costs of the 4th Industrial Revolution

Advanced Cyber/IO, Commerce, Corruption, Government, Ineptitude, IO Impotency
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Jean Lievens

Here Are The New Social Risks Of The Fourth Industrial Revolution

Christophe Degryse, Social Europe, 29 February 2016

But this 4th industrial revolution also contains its share of new risks in the world of labour, including the ‘remake’ of existing jobs, the destruction of many of them, the relocation of countless others. For society as a whole, it is a prospect accompanied by the threat of increased polarisation between the ‘winners’ and the ‘losers’ of the digital economy.

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Stephen E Arnold: Real Time Search?

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Stephen E. Arnold

Real Time: Maybe, Maybe Not

The general buzzy Teddy Bear notion of real time is that when new data are available to the system, the system processes the data and makes them available to other software processes and users.   . . .   Real time. Not now and not unless something magic happens to eliminate latencies, marketing baloney, and user misunderstanding of real time.  Read analysis with chart.

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Marcin Jakobowski: Survey on 3D Printer Workshops

Manufacturing
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Marcin Jakubowski

3D Printer Build Workshops Survey

This form is used to collect data on past and existing 3D printer build workshops. The goal is to gain insights on whether the DIY 3D Printer Build Workshops can scale to broader participation as a self-sustaining revenue model. The results of this form are public information, visible in the results spreadsheet (http://bit.ly/1TMVEcY). Test of form took 11 minutes to complete. This form is published under the CC-BY-SA license by Open Source Ecology (http://bit.ly/QixCrU).

3D Printer Build Workshops Survey

Owl: Explaining Trump — John Robb Plus UPDATE Evaluating Trump More Links

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Who? Who?
Who? Who?

Donald Trump, Open Source Insurgent and Ball Buster of Oligarch Politicians

So much has been written about Trump's primary election campaign, the “Trump Phenomenon.” I have read in the last few months hundreds of articles trying to explain it, but so far nothing rivals the three articles listed below for deep insight and explanatory power.

UPDATE: More analysis from Owl and many more links including comparisons of Trump to Teddy Roosevelt and Andrew Jackson

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