Michel Bauwens: Life of the Internet or Internet as Our Life?

Below by Nick Mendoza is recommended! Up front extract: With the decline of state capitalism, capitalist governments and corporations now dream of the internet as the tool for corporate growth through ontological colonialism, free to expand within the mind and the planet, exploiting everyone alike. Metal, code, flesh: Why we need a ‘Rights of the …

Venessa Miemis: Infrastructure for Resilient Internet Systems

Am reviving the Autonomous Internet Roadmap at the P2P Foundation. Found this in passing. Infrastructure for Resilient Internet Systems (IRIS) at MIT Directly Related Projects Chord: Scalable Peer-to-Peer Lookup Open DHT: A Publicly Accessible DHT Service Kademlia: XOR metric-based routing Coral: The NYU Distribution Network Ocean Store: Providing Global-Scale Persistent Data Pastry: An infrastructure for …

Marcus Aurelius: Col Paul Yingling, Departing

I’ve never met COL Yingling, but he is somewhat famous (infamous?) within the Army.  He has survived his earlier article, provided second below, and even gotten promoted, apparently recently.  So now he’s sitting in a somewhat idyllic spot, specifically Garmisch, a couple of years short of qualifying to retire as a colonel.  He’s again frustrated …