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De-privatizing the intelligentsia?
David Brin, in a recent blog post, proposes that web browsing software be the locus of implementation for micropayments: But back to my own obsession. Micro-payments. I have been poking at ideas with others, that boil down to this: we need a way for internet browsers to empower surfers pay a nickel for an article they…
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I’ve never run anything other than my mouth
I don’t think it’s any coincidence that “executive” and “executioner” have a root word in common. As no good deed goes unpunished, conversely, there are lucrative rewards for many antisocial acts. There’s a certain school of thought that emerges in a whole range of discussion topics, such as the question of whether one CEO is…
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Deleted “No More Sunsets” from blogroll
Seems the blogspot address of that blog has been taken over by a spamblog. A similar thing happened to “Polycentric Order.”
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Quotebag #102
“That’s why I’m concerned over the irony of the net generation, which has spawned a number of anti-Wall-Street movements and sentiments, to see people in this generation intuitively picking up trading practices that carry on every bit of foul legacy that offline traders have practiced before the net generation. It seems the more things change,…
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Bluehost Honors a Copyright Take Down of Islamaphobic Facebook Post
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It had to happen
Not that I’m complaining. Just observing.
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Quotebag #101
“Just keep in mind that, as an individual, you won’t know what they really think they know about you, but as a corporation you can buy complete information about anyone who hasn’t opted out.”—Cathy O’Neil “Anarcho-capitalism is like running an MMORPG, finding a game-breaking exploit, and being all ‘Well nobody would do that to all…
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“U SIGH”
This acronym comes to us courtesy of Antoine Williams, an aspiring criminologist educated at Carleton University, who appeared on The Agenda with Steve Paikin in the first installment of the “Dude, where’s my future?” series. It describes social interactions between the marginally employed (precarious) and the gainfully employed (Antoine’s term: “stable,” meaning full time permanently…
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Quotebag #100
“The sharing economy is not an alternative to capitalism, it’s the ultimate end point of capitalism in which we are all reduced to temporary labourers and expected to smile about it because we are interested in the experience not the money. Jobs become ‘extra money’ just like women’s jobs used to be ‘extra money’, and…
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Crowdsourcing paranoia
Gaius Publius has posted at America Blog asking readers to share their most imaginative speculations as to what might be inside the black box that Gaius refers to as “data trafficking” (and Julian Assange refers to as “data laundering”). Being a speculator is of course not the same thing as being a conspiracy theorist. I…