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Like It or Not, We're Already Cyborgs

https://www.pcmag.com/news/368457/like-it-or-not-were-already-cyborgs

Our interview with @laura for PC Magazine was published today.

“To privacy activists Aral Balkan and Laura Kalbag, we don't need brain implants to become cyborgs; we're already jacked in. And we need a Universal Declaration of Cyborg Rights.”

> The economists of the early 20th century did not foresee that work might evolve from a means of material production to a means of identity production. They failed to anticipate that, for the poor and middle class, work would remain a necessity; but for the college-educated elite, it would morph into a kind of religion, promising identity, transcendence, and community. Call it workism.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/religion-workism-making-americans-miserable/583441/

#qotd

“Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.”

― Plato

Twitter will be experimenting with ways to give people more control over their conversations next month.

We will be following the Twitter experiment closely. #pixelfed #pixelfedLabs

https://twitter.com/thechelleshock/status/1101266585107365888

#accessibility #android
Did you know there's an app to help you check the accessiblity of your Android apps? It's called Accessiblity Scanner and it's quite helpful
https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/faq/6376582?hl=en-GB

@kensanata

you say exclusionary like its a bad thing. i don't let every random person off the street into my house for a reason: i don't know or trust them. same goes for future inter-networks. you aren't going to find any routes to my machines unless you are inside of a trust network that i know about.

"Most people want to opt-in to what they want to follow, be that a news feed, a celebrity, a friend, or family. Most people do not want to be force-fed a constant stream of manipulated content to catch and keep their attention." #LibremOne

https://puri.sm/posts/opt-in-no-ads-and-no-tracking-solve-a-lot-of-problems-in-society/

Do yourself a favour and watch Knock Down The House. Parts heartbreaking, parts unbelievably inspirational; an injection of hope. And if you weren’t already in love with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, you will be.

Russia: Russian universities are embarking in UBI discussions | BIEN https://basicincome.org/news/2019/05/russia-russian-universities-are-embarking-in-ubi-discussions/
#ubi #basicincome #russia #university #academia #lomonosov #moscow #plekhanov

60 Profitable Fortune 500 Companies Avoided All Federal Income Taxes in 2018.

$0 paid on $79 billion, (no) thanks to the new tax plan.

https://itep.org/notadime/

I'm really inspired by the anti-harassment approach @GinnyMcQueen is leading with the @funkwhale project.

Something for all #freesoftware projects to learn from

https://governance.funkwhale.audio/tags/4/anti-abuse

Well, at least some of the bad issues with 5G are being talked about...

The Terrifying Potential of the 5G Network | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/the-terrifying-potential-of-the-5g-network

#the_internet #cybersecurity #hacking #federal_communications commission fcc #china #surveillance

FINLAND: further results from the famous Finnish UBI experiment published | BIEN https://basicincome.org/news/2019/04/finland-further-results-from-the-famous-finnish-ubi-experiment-published/
#ubi #basicincome #finland #KELA

Florence Nightingale Saved Lives by Creating Revolutionary Visualizations of Statistics (1855) http://www.openculture.com/?p=1016554 https://t.co/yYWPW40G7E

How Michael Tubbs is launching a basic income program in Stockton - Business Insider Deutschland https://www.businessinsider.de/michael-tubbs-launching-basic-income-program-stockton-2019-4
#ubi #basicincome #stockton #california #SEED

Arguments stack up in favor of universal basic income | Arab News http://www.arabnews.com/node/1486221
#ubi #basicincome #finland #india #kenya #KELA #givedirectly

#GeorgeMonbiot has decided #Capitalism is the problem:

"The economic system is incompatible with the survival of life on Earth. It is time to design a new one."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/25/capitalism-economic-system-survival-earth

Animated Maps Reveal the True Size of Countries (and Show How Traditional Maps Distort Our World) http://www.openculture.com/?p=1064003 https://t.co/dj1JLQrzCe

"When you’re logging in to a Starbucks account, booking an Airbnb or making a reservation on OpenTable, loads of information about you is crunched instantly into a single score, then evaluated along with other personal data..." #SurveillanceCapitalism https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-secret-trust-scores-companies-use-to-judge-us-all-11554523206

https://archive.is/iUVrw

If there is a future worth living: what will it look like?

I think answering this, personally, will be the topic of my workshop next Saturday at #hacktheearth in #calafou, for @solnascente_eu, on fostering #communities of #trees and people. https://cloud.dokterbob.net/s/KJMFZYLj5ZGbGQm