Notices by صفر (charlyblack@mastodon.social)

'Apps on the P2P Web - DatSplit'
https://gabrielpoca.com/2018-08-25-apps-on-the-p2p-web-datsplit/

«Computing history shows us that the “computer revolution” was never really meant to be a revolution in any social or political sense. People who were not seen as worthy of wielding power were deliberately excluded, even when they had the required technical skills. To a great extent, that process continues today. Now, as then, hierarchies are constructed through high tech to preserve powerful social and political structures.»

(from "How to Kill Your Tech Industry" by Marie Hick)

"Through efforts around the world, we use new information and communication technologies, especially mobile telephony, to facilitate well-being, community organization and personal and collective autonomy. Our approach combines regulatory activism and reform, development of decentralized telecommunications infrastructure, direct community involvement and participation, and critical engagement with new technologies."

https://www.rhizomatica.org/about/

in response to another piece on climate change, fixing some points...
https://theintercept.com/2018/08/03/climate-change-new-york-times-magazine/

"The future of human flourishing depends upon facial recognition technology being banned before the systems become too entrenched in our lives."

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"All computing networks have a political system which gains in importance as the userbase scales. This makes the design of the network a civic practice as much as it is technical. The developers must consider the political ramifications of their designs."

I'm not a ruster but I like the idea of software as gardening

https://www.yoshuawuyts.com/software-gardening/

"Imagine This: A Web Without Servers"
Tara Vancil - JSConf EU 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ_WvfF3FN8&feature=youtu.be

enoki
"An experimental tool for peer-to-peer publishing"
https://enoki.site/
dat://enoki.site/

"The Media’s Failure to Connect the Dots on Climate Change"

https://newrepublic.com/article/150124/medias-failure-connect-dots-climate-change

review of "The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America" by Sarah Igo

"The midcentury fear that a subliminally designed newspaper advertisement could invade your headspace seems laughable compared to Facebook ads tailored to your browsing history, friends, and previous clicks."

http://www.publicbooks.org/privacy-cultures/

Radical Networks is running an instance on Mastodon
https://social.radicalnetworks.org/about

"How Data Is Used to Ensnare People"

https://truthout.org/audio/data-needs-to-serve-a-public-safety-purpose/

the “hydra-headed” imagery fits perfectly

"Where Cities Help Detain Immigrants -
Contracts that rent local beds to ICE for immigrant detention are spread out across the country—including in liberal counties."

by Tanvi Misra

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/07/where-cities-help-detain-immigrants-mapped/563531/

"From mass surveillance to the over-commercialization of the World Wide Web, the concept of a free and open Internet is continously threatened by corporate interests and over-reaching governments. Radical Networks is a festival and a conference, designed to foster critical discussions around these issues and to create opportunities to learn more about policy, DIY networking and the future of the Internet."
https://radicalnetworks.org/

interesting projects/research by "Art is Open Source"

http://www.artisopensource.net/projects/
http://www.artisopensource.net/research-and-publications/

"Why Sci-Hub is illegal, and what you can do about it"

https://engineuring.wordpress.com/2018/07/07/why-sci-hub-is-illegal-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/

" The borders that separate one country from another are an artifact of politics and history: They have no material reality in themselves but were born of violence; their maintenance demands violence, increasingly so as the cycles of capitalism drive both mass migration and repression. "

RE-FUTURE
https://www.re-future.eu/en/default.aspx

preview of the documentary realized within the project, "Tumaranké", realized with smartphones by 38 young migrants

https://video.repubblica.it/spettacoli-e-cultura/tumaranke-il-doc-girato-con-lo-smartphone-da-38-giovani-migranti/308953/309587

"Privatizing Poverty
How the poor became an alien population"

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/privatizing-poverty-phillips-fein