Jean Lievens: A Typology of Openness (Tim Berners Lee via Michel Bauwens)

A typology of openness Tim Berners-Lee: “I was recently asked to talk about the idea of “open”, and I realized the term is used in at least eight different ways. The distinct interpretations are all important in different but interlocking ways. Getting them confused leads to a lot of misunderstanding, so it’s good to review …

SchwartzReport: Celibacy Syndrome in Japan — An End to Skin on Skin, Heart to Heart?

This is an extraordinary trend going on in Japan. It is a very clear example of how national beingness is shaped through unnumbered small seemingly mundane choices made by individuals. Why Have Young People in Japan Stopped Having Sex? Abigail Haworth – The Guardian/Observer (U.K.) Ai Aoyama is a sex and relationship counsellor who works …

4th Media: Looting the Pension Funds: Wall Street is Grabbing Money Meant for Public Workers + Pensions Lost RECAP

Looting the Pension Funds: Wall Street is Grabbing Money Meant for Public Workers Oct 21st, 2013 @ 10:13 pm › Kiyul Chung In the final months of 2011, almost two years before the city of Detroit would shock America by declaring bankruptcy in the face of what it claimed were insurmountable pension costs, the state …

SchwartzReport: Is Justice Scalia Insane? Or Merely Possessed by the Devil?

When I read this interview I was stunned. I have never thought much of Scalia. Like Clarence Thomas I have always thought of him as first and foremost an ideologue, and as with Thomas there are also growing ethical issues involving him. But I really had no idea how very inappropriate it is for this …

Rickard Falkvinge: SWARM – Chapter 9 in The Tactical Manual to CHanging the World

Swarmwise – The Tactical Manual To Changing The World. Chapter Nine. Posted: 01 Oct 2013 04:37 AM PDT Swarm Management:  As much as people would like to disrupt the world by going their own way entirely, you cannot change an existing system without also becoming a little part of it in order to change it …

Berto Jongman: John McAfee Vows to Make Internet “Impossible to Hack” + Internet/Human Intelligence Meta-RECAP [Bottom Line Up Front: Internet without Intelligence and Integrity is Noise]

John McAfee vows to make Internet ‘impossible to hack’ By Dan Nakaso dnakaso@mercurynews.com >Posted:   09/24/2013 05:38:37 PM PDT | Updated:   a day ago SAN JOSE — Anti-virus software pioneer John McAfee, who buried himself in the sand to hide from police in Belize, faked a heart attack in a Guatemalan detention center and …