Let me start by stating: I believe we can change the future of computing for the better. However, currently something is wrong with our digital world; something basic, something is rotten at the core. I want to talk to you about what that is, how it came to be, and why we must change it
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Reading more Iain M. Banks. Use of Weapons. It’s good. His writing style has gone from super linear and rip roaring to totally nonlinear and introspective in the space of a couple of books. I’ve enjoyed all of them so far. This one is much more comical too. The Culture is getting more morally ambiguous by the book as well, which I like. Love a bit of moral ambiguity.
Went to a talk by Shoshana Zuboff today about surveillance capitalism and her book on it. I would like to read the book. Anyone read it? From the talk I got the impression that she has provided a very rigorous analysis of the problem, but less of a prescription on how to resist and change. But I think that’s acknowledged, as she herself said ‘naming is a first step towards taming’.
Public ownership is a better term than nationalisation.
One reason being that we should think of public ownership at the local level, as well as the national.
https://neweconomics.org/2019/02/weekly-economics-podcast-public-ownership-2.0
I made a little embed handler for WordPress so you can just paste a link to videos on invidio.us and have the embed pulled in automatically to your post. You could easily just add the iframe in manually each time you post a video, too. Either way – no youtube links.
https://gist.github.com/ngm/868e7ae1617fd41a185eddc4599681f0
Really nice account of someone feeling a lot better, in the face of universal credit and housing issues, after coming to a Restart Party (community repair events that we run), getting something fixed, and feeling involved in the community.
https://therestartproject.org/community/hope-in-the-dark-an-account-from-a-restart-party/
Proud to be part of Restart.