Listening to a thing about populism. Interesting to delve into it.
In a nutshell: it’s a political strategy rather than an ideology, where the people’s interests are juxtaposed against a supposed elite. It can have various host ideologies. Personalist leaders claim to represent the people. It’s hard to roll back populist attitudes once activated.
ORGCon was very enjoyable. In a nutshell, you could sum it up as: there’s some bad shit happening when it comes to misuse of technology, but also there’s plenty of people trying to push back. I’ll try to jot down a few of my notes and thoughts from it while they’re reasonably fresh. First up, Snowden’s keynote.
Adversarial Interoperability, a useful concept to keep in mind. In part the IndieWeb is a form of this, as it offers a way of staying outside walled gardens, while still being able to pass messages back and forth through its gates (i.e. API’s), through POSSE / sometimes PESOS. Though some platform…
Took out a subscription to the Italian, English language, monthly Renewable Matter, on bio-economics and circular economy. Came across it earlier this week. As part of my open data work I am currently involved in a circular economy project focused on building a longterm oriented and wide ranging das…