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Quotebag #119
Rick Falkvinge: Information hygiene means that you’re aware not of what somebody claims to do with your data, but that you understand what they are able to do. Michael O. Church: Value capture: people who are good at creating value tend to be below average in the social skills involved in capturing value. So, the…
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What is covert cobbling?
Covert Cobbling is an idea from sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom. It appears to be a suite of strategies for reverse engineering engines of information asymmetry. This is basically what Josie and I would like to see accomplished with what we call pubwan. I have my thought leader, Frank Pasquale, to thank for bringing this concept…
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Is libertarianism a gateway drug that can lead to alt-right affinity?
Back (say in the 1970s) when libertarianism was understood as “left on social issues, right on economic issues” libertarianism was, if anything, an antidote to tendencies such as alt-right and other forms of nationalism. Somewhere along the way, libertarianism became the philosophy of “private sector good, public sector bad.” Has this affected the libertarian position…
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Income as gift from the past
This. (h/t Jack Saturday) A good starting point is the simple reality that most of what we all receive as “income” far, far exceeds what anyone can claim as the result of the “work” they actually do in the here and now. Once this fully documented reality is understood, the moral case for a basic…
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All cars to come with a location beacon
It says in the always-recommended Freedom to Tinker blog that The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is proposing a requirement that every car should broadcast a cleartext message specifying its exact position, speed, and heading ten times per second. In comments filed in April, during the 90-day comment period, we (specifically, Leo Reyzin,…
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Data donor cards
I propose we create a new category of consumer. The way we do that is by some of us announcing that we are, in fact, consumers of this new type. I propose that some number of us (myself included) proclaim ourselves to the world (on the public record) that we are the type of consumers…
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Stingray devices and the seeming paucity of civilian countermeasures
Kevin Collier: This Is How Many Stingray Devices Exist in Trump’s America Surely there must be at least the theoretical possibility of a warchalking technique capable of differentiating spoofs from legit transponders. Are there still people who apply hacker ethic to solving technical problems, though? It seems we’re living in very careerist times, in which…
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Post-autistic economics meets the competition ethic
There’s workplace accommodations for disabilities, but making extroversion (“excellent communication skills”) no longer a prerequisite for employability (in virtually any occupation) would be pulling the thread that unravels the whole fabric of capitalist society. That’s my pet hypothesis, anyway. I don’t have anything against extroverts. I’m just sick of extroversion being the ticket of admission,…
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Quotebag #118
Gail Tverberg: Unfortunately, Adam Smith was right; there is an invisible hand guiding the economy. Mike Konczal: Those that would trade decommodification and worker power for basic income deserve neither. Stephanie: Choice is a fuzzy concept. TheAncientGeekAKA1Z: The obsession with IQ is one of the great irrationalites of the rationalsphere. Rick Falkvinge: The way governments…
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