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Matija :books:Feb 5, 2018

Karl Blumenthal Feb 5, 2018

Very proud of this new #webarchiving partnership with the Freedom of the Press Foundation and well impressed by their effort already to thwart historical revisionist capitalists with digipres 💪 https://freedom.press/news/archiving-alternative-press-threatened-wealthy-buyers/

Archiving the alternative press threatened by wealthy buyers

Freedom of the Press Foundation is launching an online archives collection in partnership with Archive-It, a service developed by the Internet Archive to help organizations preserve online content. Our collection, focusing on news outlets we deem to be especially vulnerable to

Matija :books:Jan 30, 2018

bkinetic Jan 27, 2018

My review of Naomi Klein's book No Logo.
https://www.librarything.com/work/8244/reviews/150665169

Reviews: No LOGO: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies [NO LOGO REV/E] by Naomi(Author) Klein

Modern corporate avarice takes many different forms and all are brought into the light of day in No Logo. Naomi Klein illustrates how corporate entities have ceased to be factories that make things and have instead transformed themselves into brands they slap on outsourced materials. Klein gives many examples of the way in which advertisers condition people to respond favorably to brand labels by associating those labels with positive stimuli, such as music, concerts, sports events, and sports venues. This results in the brands themselves becoming cherished symbols of delight, worn on clothing, transforming people themselves into advertising media. She gives many examples of how corporations have shut factories in North America and opened vastly lower-paying sweatshops in impoverished countries. She shows how companies have increasingly ceased paying anything close to a full-time living wage, forcing people to give up searching for work or accepting low-paying part-time work. She also covers grass-roots movements that have risen up to challenge these forms of corporate exploitation. No Logo is now 18 years but remains an eye-opening catalog of what has gone wrong in corporate America and how to begin to solve these problems.

Matija :books:Jan 30, 2018

aqsalose (books)Jan 24, 2018

Sad day indeed:

NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obituaries/ursula-k-le-guin-acclaimed-for-her-fantasy-fiction-is-dead-at-88.html

File770: http://file770.com/?p=40158

Reading A Wizard of #Earthsea and The Tombs of Atuan were highly influential esxperiences when I was a teenager. "Who knew that fantasy could be like *this*"

David Mitchell on Wizard of Earthsea: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/23/david-mitchell-wizard-of-earthsea-tolkien-george-rr-martin

#fantasy #LeGuin

Ursula K. Le Guin, Acclaimed for Her Fantasy Fiction, Is Dead at 88

Ms. Le Guin brought literary elegance and a feminist sensibility to science fiction and fantasy tales, drawing millions of readers around the world.

Matija :books:Jan 29, 2018

Mark Nelson Dec 8, 2017

While I'm inventing conspiracy theory origins for recent technologies, here's another one:

Bitcoin was invented by an unknown person pseudonamed "Satoshi Nakamoto". Before people used their spare computing time to mine bitcoins, one of the big things they did with spare compute was to run the SETI@Home client, helping to search for extraterrestrials. Who might have a vested interest in redirecting resources away from the search for extraterrestrials? Is "Satoshi Nakamoto" really a /person/?

Matija :books:Jan 4, 2018

Nolan Lawson Jan 3, 2018

"Meet Mastodon" by @webinista https://webinista.com/updates/meet-mastodon/

Fantastic, no-nonsense introduction to Mastodon and the fediverse. Lots of good advice on privacy, security, and how to choose your instance.

Meet Mastodon

Mastodon was created explicitly as an open source, non-commercial, decentralized alternative to Twitter. Find out what's so amazing about this burgeoning social network.

Matija :books:Jan 2, 2018

I DReaM Free Jan 2, 2018

Humble Book Bundle: Python by Packt> https://tinyurl.com/ydf3ss2e

Humble Book Bundle: Python by Packt>

This Humble Book Bundle is valid from 1/1/2018 to 1/15/2018.

Matija :books:Dec 22, 2017

panoramix Dec 19, 2017

Ted Chiang: Silicon Valley Is Turning Into Its Own Worst Fear https://www.buzzfeed.com/tedchiang/the-real-danger-to-civilization-isnt-ai-its-runaway

Silicon Valley Is Turning Into Its Own Worst Fear

We asked a group of writers to consider the forces that have shaped our lives in 2017. Here, science fiction writer Ted Chiang looks at capitalism, Silicon Valley, and its fear of superintelligent AI.

Matija :books:Nov 15, 2017