This video gives a tour of open government projects around the world: Open Government from The Academy on Vimeo.
#CryptoParty is go!
Born out of the attempts by governments worldwide to gain greater powers to monitor communications, the idea of #CryptoParty meetups to share and learn basic cryptographic tools quickly has gained traction on twitter. There are currently 15 meetups planned around the world and requets for far more. The event website sez: CryptoParties are meetups to… Continue reading
The Relational Shift – Part 1: The Relational Shift in Psychology
Source: PRN.FM The Relational Shift in Psychology: a talk with Judith V. Jordan, director of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute (housed at Wellesley College), about the Relational-Cultural Model of the self and human development, which she co-developed beginning in 1978; the relational shift in the field of clinical psychology from a Freudian model (the… Continue reading
Is there a decline of solidarity?
I believe that what pessimistic analysts like Kurt Cobb fail to see is that while the mainstream system is indeed decomposing, and with the counter-mechanisms that provided solidarity with a context of a industrial-labour society, at the same time, new structures are emerging that are creating new compulsions and affordances for sharing, cooperation and expressions… Continue reading
The rapid emergence of a commons-based alternative economy
Excerpted from Derek Wall in STIR: “What is emerging fast is the alternative of a commons based economy. Peer to peer, social sharing, collaborative consumption, commons, economic democracy are all terms that cover economic activity that moves beyond the market and the state, based on cooperation and harnessing human creativity. The economics of sharing is… Continue reading
Dale Carrico’s Open Letter To The Transhumanist Robot Cultists
Republished from Dale Carrico: (from: An Open Letter To The Robot Cultists) “Any child of two can indulge in wish fulfillment fantasizing. It’s not a philosophy. It’s not a movement. And the way you Robot Cultists do it makes you a kind of techno-transcendental New Age cult too hype-notized to notice you are functioning as… Continue reading
Book of the Day: The Emerging Ownership Revolution
“ownership design is the most foundational” (David Korten) * Book: Majorie Kelly. Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution. Journeys to a Generative Economy. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2012 Here is the summary from the publisher: “As long as businesses are set up to focus exclusively on maximizing financial income for the few, our economy will be… Continue reading
Herman Daly’s proposal for 100% reserve banking
Via Paul Craig Roberts: In the article below, Herman Daly, a University of Maryland and former World Bank economist, makes the case for 100% reserves. This reform, once a principle goal of important economists, would terminate the ability of the banking system to create credit to finance its own speculations and return the power over… Continue reading
P2P Innovation from the Periphery: an interview on Smari McCarthy’s Iceland
Metahaven talks to Smári McCarthy about his agenda, urgencies, and interests. “In October 2008, the Icelandic banking sector collapsed. This momentous event was, relative to country size, the largest banking crisis ever suffered by a single state. Iceland’s recovery has been a case of democratic and ethical reforms. A 25-strong Constitutional Assembly re-wrote the constitution,… Continue reading
The enclosure of innovation and intellectual property by the Singularity University
A word of warning to naive students, by Wired magazine: “As it draws up plans to become a for-profit corporation, Singularity University has significantly tightened the terms under which its students may use the intellectual property they develop in their courses. When it was created four years ago with support from neighboring Google and Google’s… Continue reading