The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
“From SOPA and PIPA to ACTA to CISPA to the TPP and now back to CISPA, internet activists have been caught up in a deliberately bewildering game of whack-a-mole with freedom-crushing legislation. Now, ISPs are doing an end run around the whole legislative process altogether and voluntarily collaborating with the entertainment industry to spy on …
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Good thinking. Foreign Policy is getting better. The New Westphalian Web The future of the Internet may lie in the past. And that’s not a good thing. Nearly 365 years ago, more than 100 warring diplomats and princes got together in the cities of Münster and Osnabrück, in what is now northwestern Germany. There they …
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Life in a Networked Age Posted: 02 Mar 2013 02:08 PM PST Here’s some idle thinking for a sunny afternoon at the end of winter. To access it, let’s make a simple assumption that economics, politics, and warfare are all a function of the dominant technological substrate. A technological substrate is the family of related …
The Structural Communality of the Commons Thus, commons structurally generate responsibility on the part of their participants for preserving the resource and the collective relationships, while markets generally do not. Commoners are in charge of shaping the social relationships involved; therefore, they can take responsibility for their actions. However, this also entails their responsibility to …
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NEW 28 June 2016: FREE: Digital copy of the book to anyone willing to arrange for its translation into any language (already in Chinese), and posting to Amazon as a book in that language. Keep the money. Spread the ideas. Proposed to Nordics: Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE) — a Nordic Manifesto Proposed to UN: …
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Open Access: a remedy against bad science Who has never been in the situation that he had a set of data where some of them just didn’t seem to fit. A simple adjusting of the numbers or omitting of strange ones could solve the problem. Or so you would think. I certainly have been in …
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