"We therefore suggest that one of the most pragmatic anti-capitalist things that one can do is to push for any organizations that you might be involved with to participate in the standards development process. Encouraging organizations within a capitalist system to participate in a process that rests on openness, consensus, and lack of dominance erodes the power of that very system. It ensures that information — which, as we know, is power — is a public good."
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-anti-capitalist-case-for-standards/
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Here's a very fundamental question about #AUKUS: https://nickcohen.substack.com/p/trumps-true-enemy-isnt-china-or-russia #auspol
"Does anyone seriously believe that an America that won’t defend Ukraine will go to war to defend Taiwan."
It's Groundhog Day. And allegedly some museum folks are feeling pressure to erase pioneering contributions to the history of computing made by women again?
Here's a gender-neutral test: if you remove the contributions of the people in this museum, what would be lost? www.pilotlab.org/herstoryus