Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org
Director of the Centre for Information Ethics and Public Policy
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#cyberethics #privacy #censorship #encryption #steganography #decentralised_internet #AI #philosophy #ethics #politics #psychedelic_research #music #film #symi #mycology
Joined Oct 2018
#music #bach #lute #YouTube #comedy #joke #greece #symi
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J.S.Bach - Sonatas & Partitas For Lute
Lutenist: Hopkinson Smith
Tony de Sukhanov
1 year ago
“Bach's music is the only argument proving the creation of the Universe cannot be regarded as a complete failure.”
Emil Cioran
Signal Service
2 hours ago
There's a subtle phrase, approx. 20 to 25 minutes in that sounds reminiscent of Aqua's "I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world".
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True tech nerddom utopia is thirty devs in a room all using different linux distros and arguing about which one is best
@freemo In one sense you are absolutely correct. The architects of Brexit still very much want to leave the EU without an agreement and thus have the freedom to become a sort of Singapore on the North. Sea. However, productivity in the UK has been dire for decades and the country also suffers from an extremely weak skills base. For these reasons (and they're obviously connected) the UK's ability to negotiate advantageous trade deals with other trade blocks and nations is, in my opinion, extremely limited. Also, if alighnment with EU rules is so burdensome and stifling, why doesn't this generate more debate in Norway or Switzerland? As far as I understand it, they also trade with other parts of the worfd!
@freemo In one sense you are absolutely correct. The architects of Brexit still very much want to leave the EU without an agreement and thus have the freedom to become a sort of Singapore on the North. Sea. However, productivity in the UK has been dire for decades and the country also suffers from an extremely weak skills base. For these reasons (and they're obviously connected) the UK's ability to negotiate advantageous trade deals with other trade blocks and nations is, in my opinion, extremely limited. Also, if alighnment with EU rules is so burdensome and stifling, why doesn't this generate more debate in Norway or Switzerland? As far as I understand it, they also trade with other parts of the worfd!
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@iankenway Isnt that sorta the point, that you use your own ethics to decide the rules and not be beholden to the ethics of the EU?
I'd say this is a good thing and the primary advantage of a Brexit, the fact that each entity can follow their own moral path and attempt their own social experiments internally to figure out what works.
#YouTube #misinformation #environment #ecology #climate_change #politics #democracy
YouTube’s Algorithm Keeps Suggesting Users Watch Climate Change Misinformation
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Capitalism can only justify labor which profits. Structures or institutions that cannot sufficiently monetize their operations whither and die except on a volunteer basis. Scarcity-immune goods and services, such as digital media, can then only be justified with the introduction of scarcity. A great deal of labor goes into introducing and maintaining scarcity where there is none, which can only exist by taking its own share of the wealth it extracts, cementing this gatekeeping as a shared interest between the owning class and this segment of the working class. Thus ads become a form of rent, the flicker of your eyeballs a form of payment for materials which have no per-use cost, and every plea to disable your ad-blocker comes from a hostage. Because capitalism charges us for survival, we find ourselves obliged to maintain the institutions that keep us employed, for in them we see the only means of living.
If you want a usable web, you want to end capitalism.
#IT #Microsoft #CryptpAPI #RSA #hacking
Exploiting the Windows CryptoAPI Vulnerability
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2020/01/16/exploiting-the-windows-cryptoapi-vulnerability/
#politics #eu #greece #symi #democracy
Progressive judge to become Greece's first female president
#politics #brexit #uk #eu #democracy
Toot Redux (first published 30th December 2016)
True then. Even truer now!
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British-Trinidadian dub poet Roger Robinson wins TS Eliot prize
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/13/roger-robinson-dub-poet-ts-eliot-prize
#Facebook #Zuckerberg #politics #democracy #usa #global
If you thought Zuckerberg would ever rein in rightwing demagogues, think again
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/10/2020-fixing-facebook-zuckerberg-election
#poltics #policing #surveillance #environment #ecology #climate_change #extinction_rebellion
#uk #democracy
Terrorism police list Extinction Rebellion as extremist ideology
Director of the Centre for Information Ethics and Public Policy
Personal website:
My interests include:
#cyberethics #privacy #censorship #encryption #steganography #decentralised_internet #AI #philosophy #ethics #politics #psychedelic_research #music #film #symi #mycology
Joined Oct 2018
