This article from Digital Trends describes how the “father of the internet”, Tim Berners-Lee, is trying to “de-centralize” the world-wide web, that is, take power back from a handful of companies who basically dominate huge portions of web activity and expropriate user’s personal data for their own private profits. This is the essence of “antidisambiguation,” a word […]
Orwell Never Dreamed of This
Just a quick sampling of some of the more invasive apparatuses of repression out there… FBI and US Marshals stock up on radar which can see through walls. The product known as Range-R can detect movement — even breathing — through one-foot thick concrete and takes only seconds to scan a house. http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/23/fbi-us-marshals-range-r- Here is […]
UK Copyright Extension Direct Assault on 3D Printing
Here’s another example of the fight taking shape between the old capitalist class and the emerging potentials of new technologies. Just a reminder: These are the days when the the old relations of production become fetters on the new productive forces. In order for these forces to fully develop, the fetters must burst. From […]
Universal Basic Income and the Politics of Production
“…UBI has the most yield when it is linked to a broader radical redistribution of productive property.” This post was originally published on the criticallegalthinking.com website: Universal Basic Income and the Politics of Production by Scott Timcke • 25 April 2016 Of late there have been a growing number of people who take seriously the promise of […]
Reactionary Forces
Reactionary forces are those forces in a society which seek to preserve the status quo or to return to a previous state of political economy and order. They are generally conservative and authoritarian and attempt to thwart progressive advances. During the time of social transition precipitated by the Rise of the Robots, we can be certain these […]
CIA Investing in Firms to Monitor Twitter and Instagram
The CIA’s venture capital arm, IN-Q-TEl is investing in companies which monitor social media sites. (Wait, what? The CIA has a venture capital arm?) Nothing to worry about here… https://theintercept.com/2016/04/14/in-undisclosed-cia-investments-social-media-mining-looms-large/
New Report Proves US Law Enforcement Preparing for Rioting on a National Scale
From theantimedia.org website: Claire Bernish April 22, 2016 (ANTIMEDIA) Fascism doesn’t often sweep in overnight and take over some hapless nation’s government; rather, it gradually seeps into the cultural fabric — as is quietly taking place all around the globe, evidenced by an upsurge in sales of riot equipment that has gone largely unnoticed. A […]
So It Begins: American Police Start Pushing to Weaponize Domestic Drones
From theantimedia.org website: Claire Bernish March 2, 2016 (ANTIMEDIA) Connecticut — Police are now voicing their concerns about domestic drone use — specifically, they want the option to be able to employ weaponized drones in the future, should the need arise. As if police brutality and aggression weren’t already an epidemic in the United States, […]
Glenn Greenwald on Why Privacy Matters; TED Talk
Video courtesy of NPR’s TED Radio Hour Thumbnail image courtesy of TED Conference via flickr
USA Today Report on Stingray Use (Audio)
USA Today report on Stingray use. Link to original article here