I’m shutting down this instance today. Thanks to all of you that took part. You can keep following me, if you like, at @aral
See you elsewhere on the fediverse :)
Aral Balkan
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Helping lead the Internet of People initiative to draft a decentralised & interoperable progressive counter-narrative to Silicon Valley surveillance capitalism.
Hi all,
Just a reminder that 2 weeks ago I announced that d25.community will be shut down today.
In case you haven’t had a chance to backup your followers list, I’m going to give a grace period until end of day (CET) on Sunday (Dec 17th).
To backup your followers, please go to Settings (https://d25.community/settings/preferences) → Data export and use the CSV link to download your followers list. You can then import them into any other Mastodon instance. https://d25.community/media/yx6uKEPN8hKsKMV_Oro https://d25.community/media/JEv215AWyPMIeOPXXNo
jd Ⓐ★😼🚀🌍🇪🇺🇭🇺India’s National ID Program May Be Turning The Country Into A Surveillance State
https://www.buzzfeed.com/pranavdixit/one-id-to-rule-them-all-controversy-plagues-indias-aadhaar
'...In February 2017, Microsoft announced Skype Lite, a brand-new edition of Skype just for India. A more spartan version of Microsoft’s marquee messaging service, Skype Lite is designed to run well on cheap Android phones and to handle calls over flaky 2G data networks — the trappings of an app made by a large, wealthy corporation for a large and largely poor emerging market. But that’s not all it does.
Skype Lite also taps into a giant government-owned database filled with the demographic and biometric records — names, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers, photographs, iris and fingerprint scans — of more than a billion Indian citizens...'
Hey folks,
As I’m no longer involved with the Internet of People initiative at DiEM25 & since this Mastodon was not adopted by the CC, I’m going to be shutting down d25.community in 2 weeks (December 13, 2017) unless someone else wants to take it over.
It’s hosted on CloudScale, on their smallest instance (1CHF/day). You will also need to be familiar with SSH and Git to carry out regular maintenance tasks like updates, etc.
Email me if interested: [email protected]
Aral Balkan“Women, I will let you in on a male secret. Men know that constantly self-proclaiming male 'feminists' are often predatory sleaze bags … they are viewed to be sex traitors.“—Julian Assange, DiEM25 Advisory Panel
“I am utterly a feminist in my disposition.”—Yanis Varoufakis, DiEM25 Coordinating Collective
These two statements are incompatible. DiEM members have a right to know where DiEM stands on this.
https://mastodon.ar.al/media/MyC8IEQXYw8O4Zi26HQ https://mastodon.ar.al/media/0GlFtjqfsnJMH71OgfI https://mastodon.ar.al/media/_uKEW_AjWOuKVY6N-KY
So @Marjoline from DiEM25 extracted the English bits from last year’s Tegenlicht program on Smart Cities. Thank you so much! :)
Aral Balkan & his views on Data, Security & Smart Cities
Re: internal tech at DiEM25 (an issue I’m not directly involved in & never had authority for), as I mentioned in my talk in Passau, the next step you have to take is simple:
1. Put all DiEM25 code on public source control (including the code for the voting systems). Ideally, a GitLab instance under source.diem25.org.
This will reduce the truck factor, provide transparency (especially essential for voting code), and allow others to help.
Once this is done, let’s chat about step 2.
The Internet of People: next steps
Our policies will be developed independently in a new not-for-profit dedicated to the purpose with input from DiEM25 (& implemented in DiEM’s 7th pillar).
It will also have input from (and the legitimacy of) a panel of respected experts in the field of ethical tech and be open to input & adoption by any progressive political movement should they choose to get involved.
Read the full post and reply at:
Had a wonderful reception for my proposal to kick off the Internet of People with a City of People in Ghent last week. (Watch this space—this is momentous!)
Next week is going to be busy: flying to Malaga on Monday to be interviewed at EmpoderaLive (http://empodera.org/en/empoderalive-2017/#agenda) and then I’m off to Vienna on Wednesday to present the opening keynote at Internet Summit Austria (http://thelink.is/internet-summit-austria-2017).
