MickyMetts @FreeScholar@social.coop

Call to dialogue Encuentro Mexico City 2018 http://bit.ly/2y9xtjm
Novembre 8-10th 2018
Social and labour movements and indigenous groups are organizing self-determined alternatives.

"Boston Police want to use a fleet of up to fifty surveillance drones to fly in public airspace, take twenty-four-hour video footage, and simultaneously follow up to fifty people whom the BPD suspects may be involved in illegal drug sales. No BPD officer would monitor the auto-piloted drones, which would “lock on” to their targets using facial recognition software and soft biometric factors."
http://bit.ly/2ZmUXh3

States that legalized marijuana see dramatic drop in police traffic searches:
https://www.alternet.org/2019/04/states-that-legalized-marijuana-see-dramatic-drop-in-police-traffic-searches/

A FANTASTIC resource - https://ethical.net

Anyone using - https://www.hoopladigital.com/
To listen to audiobooks?

In Seattle taking local taxis... 4 out of 5 taxi drivers told me they believe they are being HACKED. When events happen their radios go down and customers tell them they have been over charged by as much as 20x and it takes weeks to reverse this so they do not choose local taxis and go with Uber and Lyft. Any ideas how to suss this out?

Agaric's team of six was at DrupalCon in Seattle all last week, where we led a very successful training of 45 people (!) in migrating content to Drupal 8 and we gave six additional presentations and facilitations between us. JOY!!!!

I love this - How to remove Youtube Tracking- from Dries Buyteart of Drupal - https://dri.es/how-to-remove-youtube-tracking

It happened... and naught can be done this time. You can still sign up to be notified before it happens again- http://bit.ly/2JURtyJ

Radical Connections Network is a group of folks exploring how to create synergy between social change initiatives and technology. We are planning an event in NYC early May - interested? Contact me micky@agaric.com for an invite to the list!
May 2-3, 2019
@ The People's Forum, NYC
Event registration fee: $25

Agaric is looking into getting more seats for our migration training at DrupalCon Seattle - http://bit.ly/2WtNt9S

Intercept senior correspondent Naomi Klein and Harvard Business School professor Shoshana Zuboff, author of “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power,” for an engaging discussion about the unprecedented form of power called “surveillance capitalism” and the quest by corporations to predict and control our behavior. http://bit.ly/2HWFluv

How to share work with multiple cooperatives - http://bit.ly/2U6tjVH
Show and Tell with Agaric was awesome this week as Nicolas Dimarco shared the process his cooperative Fiqus.coop uses to share work with others - in a Federation! It is a game changer!!!

It is disturbing that students have to interrupt learning to strike against the very institutions they are paying to teach them. It is great that students do have the power to collectively strike!

Why do Students still have to strike in 2019? https://youtu.be/X5j7XHa1tGY?t=932
Organized learning has been a fertile pork barrel since inception. It is the role of those with knowledge to assist disenfranchised people in getting a seat on the bus. If traditional education was working, would we have such a large group of intelligent under-served and mis-educated people?

Cooperative Sci-fi writer Cadwell Turnbull is taking the story to levels we have not seen! https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/23/18175285/cadwell-turnbull-sci-fi-story-common-ai-climate-change-better-worlds

UNICORN RIOT http://unicornriot.ninja rocks the world again! They have helped to shine a light on Indentity Evropa. https://unicornriot.ninja/2019/marketing-hate-inside-identity-evropas-neo-nazi-messaging/

How can we prevent the Orwellian 1984 digital world?

I will provide an answer in my keynote at MIT - http://libreplanet.org/2019 event March 23rd - 24th