Robert Steele: Should Open Source Code Have a PayPal Address & AON Sliding Scale Rate Sheet? UPDATE 2

Robert Steele: Should Open Source Code Have a PayPal Address & AON Sliding Scale Rate Sheet? UPDATE 2 Creative Commons remains the single most brilliant contribution to the licensing conversation surrounding open source code, but it is not good enough. Anything that requires direct reach-back from a user to a coder will not scale, and …

Robert Steele: Democracy Riots – We are all black now, deal with it! (Trump Revolution 02)

Democracy Riots We are all black now, deal with it. Robert David Steele Short URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-All-Black The only people actually inciting violence at Donald Trump rallies are the organized agitators, including convicted felon and terrorist Bill Ayers, who are violating – with malice aforethought – the First Amendment rights of the participants in these private …

Robert James Beckett: John Stanton on Data Imperialism & Digital Slavery

Ethics? We don’t need no stinkin’ ethics. Imperialism via Data: The Digitization of Human Behavior, “Social Radar”, Sensors and Neuroscience John Stanton, Global Research, 13 March 2016 In 2007 I wrote and presented a conceptual paper to an international studies group in Portugal. The subject matter was, generally, the use of Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience (ECN) …

Jean Lievens: Hope for Democratic Wealth

Hope For Imagining a World Beyond Corporate Control Finding ways to democratically control our common wealth, from Quebec to India An excerpt from the recent book SOS: Alternatives to Capitalism (New Internationalist Publications). The commons is not just a battlefield between corporate predators and those who resist them – it is also a source of hope for …