Christian Bundy @christianbundy@social.coop

Radical Networks Call for Proposals

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

Submissions due by 31 July

https://radicalnetworks.org

#latestagecapitalism

When you let #machinelearning evolve a new floor plan for your elementary school
Interesting work by Joel Simon http://www.joelsimon.net/evo_floorplans.html

"Portland Police are already arresting an astounding number of homeless people multiple times each year. Homeless people make up less than 3 percent of the city’s population, even by the largest estimates, and yet they accounted for more than half of arrests by Portland Police last year, and 86 percent of those were for low-level offenses..."

https://www.change.org/p/mayor-ted-wheeler-petition-for-city-of-portland-to-adopt-a-compassionate-response-to-homelessness

Anarchy, today, is attack; it is war against every authority, every power, every state. In the future society, anarchy will be defence, the prevention of the re-establishment of any authority, any power, any state.
-- Carlo Cafiero

#anarchism #quote #bot

In a world where only a tiny fraction of the money made in publishing ends up in the author's pockets and where they are generally the worst paid worker in the chain, complaining about used book sales or piracy is missing the point.

From a Chicago ABC TV station's story about election hacking. Some of you may argue this is inaccurate, but I personally have always considered SQL to be a common piece of cyber-trickery.

You can avoid #YouTube's weird algorithms and broken subscription system by subscribing to channels through RSS instead. You don't need an account, just a feed reader.

Put the channel's username in this address:

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=USERNAME

You can then add this RSS address to your feed reader app.

For example, OnePotChefShow's RSS feed is:

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=OnePotChefShow

You can also make RSS feeds from channel IDs (strings of letters and numbers):

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNELID

#RSS #BringBackRSS

Internet Rationalist: "You should apply first principles thinking to all things in life"

Me: *annihilates gender, sex, and sexuality from first principles*

Internet Rationalist: "Not like that"

It's easy to see assumptions as first principles if you aren't careful.

reminder of today as Amazon boycott day

https://www.forbes.com/sites/janetwburns/2018/07/15/amazon-boycott-unites-workers-gamers-shoppers-for-prime-day-protest

SynthFace is an amazing Tumblr about all kinds of synthesizers. Digital, analog, new, old, conventional, bizarre. All sorts

http://synthface.tumblr.com

#Music #RetroHardware

Students, let me repeat an important advice: DO BACKUPS!

#Montréal

This is why the work @nayafia@twitter.com started a few years back is so important.
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“When people are expected to work on open source for free, only the people who can afford to work for free can participate.” - @fperez_org (via @tracykteal) #SciPy2018
https://twitter.com/jiffyclub/status/1017416170398519296

Heirlooms are commodified emotional burden.