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2014/09/11

Finn Jackson: Can Monasteries Be a Model for Reclaiming Tech Culture for Good?

This article describes an initiative more in line with the approach I would take: “find a place with unmet needs and unused space to lend a building to a group of young hackers. Live together cheaply, building open-source infrastructure for the commons. Repeat until it becomes a network.” Can Monasteries Be a Model for Reclaiming …

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2014/08/222014/08/22

Mongoose: End NSA (Yes) & CIA (No)

For some time now the US secret intelligence community has been pathologically deficient and in constant betrayal of the public trust. This has been in part because the political system in place is corrupt to the bone and uses the intelligence system to spend money and garner 5% kick-backs as well as insider trading advantage. …

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2014/08/032014/07/30

Yoda: The Open Source Identity Crisis

Tip of the Saber to Charles Yaker. The Open Source Identity Crisis As the diversity in tech movement gains traction, open source faces an identity crisis. EXTRACT The first story we must look at is: who exactly is an open source contributor? The answer to this seems obvious enough. Open source contributors are hackers. The …

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2014/07/272014/07/29

Robert Steele: Rebuilding National Intelligence – A 12-Step Plan

Rebuilding National Intelligence – A 12-Step Plan Why Barack Obama, Joe Biden, John Kerry, and Chuck Hagel Need to THINK….now. Robert David STEELE Vivas OpEdNews, 27 July 2014 DOC (21 Pages): Steele Rebuilding National Intelligence 1.9 SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-12-Steps As we begin the final two and a half years (less seven days) of the Obama-Biden …

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2014/07/242014/10/05

Review: Beautiful Trouble – A Toolbox for Revolution

Andrew Boyd and Dave Oswald Mitchell et al 5.0 out of 5 stars Common Sense Of, By, For the Community, July 23, 2014 EDIT of 5 October 2014 to add bullets (highlights) from a second reading after attending The New Story Summit at Findhorn Foundation in Scotland. QUOTE Stephan Duncombe (104): “”Ye shall know the …

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2014/07/122014/07/08

Nathan Schneider: Hacking the World – About Gabriella Coleman, Anthropologist and Aaron Swartz Among Others

Hacking the World An anthropologist in the midst of a geek insurgency The Chronicle Review, 1 April 2013 CONCLUSION The success that Anonymous and WikiLeaks have had in spooking the powerful is surely part of what motivated the scare tactics used against Aaron Swartz. Such tactics won’t necessarily work. Over the course of the memorial …

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