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Penguin: Forbes on Internet and Tim Berners-Lee “Take the Power Back”

Enough Is Enough: The World Wide Web’s Creator Is Taking The Power Back In an interview with Fast Times, Berners-Lee demonstrated an early version of an app running on Solid. Author Katrina Brooker describes it as “a mashup of Google Drive, Microsoft Outlook, Slack, Spotify, and WhatsApp.” The difference, she explains, is that every every …

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Penguin: Open Source Starting Point for Post #GoogleGestapo Internet? (Designed by Tim Berners-Lee) UPDATE 1 Stephen E. Arnold Comments

Exclusive: Tim Berners-Lee tells us his radical new plan to upend the World Wide Web With an ambitious decentralized platform, the father of the web hopes it’s game on for corporate tech giants like Facebook and Google. For years now, Berners-Lee and other internet activists have been dreaming of a digital utopia where individuals control …

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Thierry Meyssan: Open Letter to President Trump on 9/11

Open letter to President Trump concerning the consequences of 11 September 2001 Mister President, The crimes of 11 September 2001 have never been judged in your country. I am writing to you as a French citizen, the first person to denounce the inconsistencies of the official version and to open the world to the debate and the search for …

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Penguin: Should All Bio-Tech (e.g. Pacemakers) Be Open Source? Should “Right to Repair” Cover ALL Software & Hardware?

Who controls the tech inside us? Budding biohackers are shaping ‘cyborg law’ Karen Sandler has a complicated relationship with her pacemaker. On the one hand, the device has the power to save her life. On the other, it sometimes suddenly and unnecessarily shocks her, mistaking a slight aberration in her heartbeat as a call for …

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Steven Aftergood: JCS on Strategy — Directing All the Instruments of National Power

STRATEGY: DIRECTING THE INSTRUMENTS OF NATIONAL POWER The tools that can be used to assert national power and influence have often been summarized by the acronym DIME — Diplomatic, Informational, Military, and Economic. But “US policy makers and strategists have long understood that there are many more instruments involved in national security policy development and …

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