The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
#Bitcoin as a Publishing System: From Wikileaks to Pedophile Links Bitcoin is an open source software system. That means nobody owns it. Up until now, it’s been used as a decentralized currency system. Bitcoin makes it possible to make non-reversible decentralized transactions on a global scale. It’s visibility as a currency has been good for …
OPEN SOURCE WARFARE never goes away Boston is a reminder that: Open source warfare doesn’t ever go away. It can be revived with a terrible suddenness, as we saw at the Boston Marathon. The grievances and motivations for attacks never die. They can always find a corner of the Web to fester and grow, in …
Here’s How to Build a More Resilient Food System… By John Robb Want to get a glimpse of the future of food? This is the page from Gulf Wild program. When you buy a fish that has a Gulf Wild ID number on it, you can find out everything about it. Simply enter this ID …
Community Supported Everything! By John Robb How do you build resilient infrastructure in the 21st Century? One good answer: make it opt-in. It’s already happening. Farmers are doing it with CSA programs. Businesses and artists are doing it with Kickstarter. We’re finding that once you cut out the middleman (Wall Street and Big Box Retail) …
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A Natural Swimming Pool That Works for You By John Robb >When I was a pilot, I spent years surveying the built environment from above. One thing that amazed me is how many people own swimming pools. In some areas of the country, it seems that nearly everyone has a pool (in some cases, the …
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How Drones Can Live off the Land for Years Cyberweapons and synthetic biological weapons (GMOs) can self provision. They have the ability to live off the land (hosts, like human bodies and PCs) once they are unleashed. NOTE: In many cases, they can also make perfect copies of themselves (copies in the trillions). But what …
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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 …
