The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
I am cheerfully optimistic that truth and trust will be the common currency of the 21st Century. This effort out of Hungary offers useful reflections on the degree to which privacy and anonymnity are necessary to “out” the old sovereignty and achieve a new sovereignty of the whole. In Focus/data sovereignty Wikileaks and Freedom, Autonomy …
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OpenBeacon Press News Background information on OpenBeacon social networking features as used in our sister project SocioPatterns.org: Dynamics of Person-to-Person Interactions from Distributed RFID Sensor Networks Live Social Semantics Phi Beta Iota: This is the secret sauce for connecting the digital “virtual” revolutionary circles, and the same circles on the street face to face. It …
James Vasile, Counsel to the Software Freedom Law Foundation, holds a Juris Doctor (JD) from Columbia Law School, where he was a member of the law review and a Stone Scholar. He also has a bachelor’s degree in political science and economics from Fordham University. He spent several years in the litigation department of Cravath, …
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UPDATED: Robert Smith comment at Facebook: “WHAT? Dictators $10 billion, Democracy lovers $25 million, hypocrisy priceless.” Phi Beta Iota: It is actually much worse than that. Our estimate of the cost of US being best pals with 42 of 44 dictators is closer to 500 billion, and that is a very conservative estimate. The cost …
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Anonymous & Anthropology of Hacking (02/11/11, anthropology.net) Anthropology of Hackers (09/21/11, Atlantic Monthly) Hacker Culture and Politics (Draft Syllabus Spring 2010) course at NYU by Gabriella Coleman
Openmoko™ – Open. Mobile. Free. Openmoko™ is a project dedicated to delivering mobile phones with an open source software stack. Openmoko was earlier more directly associated with Openmoko Inc, but is nowadays a gathering of people with the shared goal of “Free Your Phone”. Distributors are currently selling updated versions of the Openmoko Inc’s phone …
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In Egypt, a Facebook page administrator known only by the handle El Shaheeed, or Martyr, is one of the driving forces behind the historic protests. Mike Giglio tracks down the mysterious figure, who talks about his crucial role in organizing the demonstrations. Iran’s Green Revolution had a martyr named Neda, a 26-year-old woman gunned down …
