http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron text@machinemachine.net http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/jan/27/is-democracy-chinese-chang-ping-interview//is-democracy-chinese-an-interview-with-journalist-chang-ping-by-ian-johnson-nyrblog-the-new-york-review-of-books Is Democracy Chinese? @iandenisjohnson’s interview series (Liao Yiwu, Yang Jisheng) continues with @chang_ping http://t.co/t27Dz6wW ]]> Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:06:32 -0700 http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/jan/27/is-democracy-chinese-chang-ping-interview//is-democracy-chinese-an-interview-with-journalist-chang-ping-by-ian-johnson-nyrblog-the-new-york-review-of-books http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/b2004496-41c1-11e1-a1bf-00144feab49a.html#axzz1keb5eZxX/the-god-gap-ftcom The God Gap: http://t.co/gkEY64dU ]]> Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:35:55 -0700 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/b2004496-41c1-11e1-a1bf-00144feab49a.html#axzz1keb5eZxX/the-god-gap-ftcom http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2012/01/nature-nurture-and-liberal-values-roger-scruton-jesse-prinz-david-eagleman-neuroscience/ Biology determines our behaviour more than it suits many to acknowledge. But people—and politics and morality—cannot be described just by neural impulses ]]> Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:35:21 -0700 http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2012/01/nature-nurture-and-liberal-values-roger-scruton-jesse-prinz-david-eagleman-neuroscience/ http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/internet-regulation-the-economics-of-piracy//internet-regulation-amp-the-economics-of-piracy-cato-liberty Internet Regulation & the Economics of Piracy http://t.co/CXiWp8I0 ]]> Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:08:17 -0700 http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/internet-regulation-the-economics-of-piracy//internet-regulation-amp-the-economics-of-piracy-cato-liberty http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21334-kopimism-the-worlds-newest-religion-explained.html Isak Gerson is spiritual leader of the world's newest religion, Kopimism, devoted to file-sharing. On 5 January the Church of Kopimism was formally recognised as a religion by the Swedish government. Tell me about this new file-sharing religion, Kopimism. We were founded about 15 months ago and we believe that information is holy and that the act of copying is holy. Why make a religion out of file-sharing? Why not just be an ordinary club without defining yourselves as being a religious community? Because we see ourselves as a religious group, a church seems like a good way of organising… ]]> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:32:57 -0700 http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21334-kopimism-the-worlds-newest-religion-explained.html http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/111586 Alan Moore and David Lloyd designed it 30 years ago. The V for Vendetta mask appropriated by Occupy protesters the world over. The Guardian recently asked Alan what he thought about the masks. Now Channel 4 news takes him into Occupy territory to face that face. But who is the true anarchist? ]]> Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:20:01 -0700 http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/111586 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/09/texas-police-schools/the-us-schools-with-their-own-police-world-news-the-guardian One of the most shocking stories I've ever read: the criminalisation of childhood in #Texas. http://t.co/uqiuR9Il ]]> Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:36:45 -0700 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/09/texas-police-schools/the-us-schools-with-their-own-police-world-news-the-guardian http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-p2p-foundation-book-of-the-year-2011-our-annual-top-ten-list-of-p2p-books/2012/01/09/p2p-foundation-blog-archive-the-p2p-foundation-books-of-the-year-2011-our-annual-top-ten-list-of-p2p-books the ten best p2p books of 2011, our annual selection at the P2P Foundation, David Graeber's Debt is #1 http://t.co/RM8ZMuWh ]]> Mon, 09 Jan 2012 02:36:05 -0700 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-p2p-foundation-book-of-the-year-2011-our-annual-top-ten-list-of-p2p-books/2012/01/09/p2p-foundation-blog-archive-the-p2p-foundation-books-of-the-year-2011-our-annual-top-ten-list-of-p2p-books http://gizmodo.com/5873001/file-sharing-is-now-an-official-religion-in-sweden/file-sharing-is-now-an-official-religion-in-sweden File Sharing Is now an official Religion In Sweden: The Missionary Church of Kopimism http://t.co/Fq8kKFKr #CtrlC #CtrlV #copying #Piracy ]]> Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:52:39 -0700 http://gizmodo.com/5873001/file-sharing-is-now-an-official-religion-in-sweden/file-sharing-is-now-an-official-religion-in-sweden http://www.theemotionmachine.com/the-dark-sides-of-our-digital-self/the-dark-sides-of-our-digital-self RT @furtherfield: The Dark Sides of Our #Digital Self - http://t.co/C9JyB0O9 ]]> Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:51:26 -0700 http://www.theemotionmachine.com/the-dark-sides-of-our-digital-self/the-dark-sides-of-our-digital-self http://www.city-journal.org/2011/21_4_otbie-british-riots.html/barbarians-on-the-thames-by-theodore-dalrymple-city-journal Barbarians on the Thames : A postmortem of the British riots http://t.co/WzF5lhtZ ]]> Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:36:18 -0700 http://www.city-journal.org/2011/21_4_otbie-british-riots.html/barbarians-on-the-thames-by-theodore-dalrymple-city-journal http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=big-data-future-knowledge-internet-age/what-is-the-future-of-knowledge-in-the-internet-age-scientific-american What Is the Future of Knowledge in the Internet Age? http://t.co/sRP1qCUf ]]> Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:37:06 -0700 http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=big-data-future-knowledge-internet-age/what-is-the-future-of-knowledge-in-the-internet-age-scientific-american http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/160/tech-wars-2012-amazon-apple-google-facebook And as every sci-fi nerd knows, you totally need a tricked-out battleship if you're about to engage in serious battle. To state this as clearly as possible: The four American companies that have come to define 21st-century information technology and entertainment are on the verge of war. Over the next two years, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google will increasingly collide in the markets for mobile phones and tablets, mobile apps, social networking, and more. This competition will be intense. ]]> Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:25:13 -0700 http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/160/tech-wars-2012-amazon-apple-google-facebook http://www.themillions.com/2011/10/bartleby%E2%80%99s-occupation-of-wall-street.html I was getting annoyed at the way Occupy Wall Street was being covered — as if it was insane to gather in a public space and protest. As if it had never happened in America before. Wasn’t the whole point of passive resistance to just be there? To not make any demands? As I tried to come up with a good parallel, I found myself thinking of Bartleby, the Scrivener, Herman Melville’s short story about an office worker, Bartleby, who decides out of nowhere that he doesn’t feel like working anymore, but continues to show up at the office every… ]]> Sun, 16 Oct 2011 11:38:56 -0700 http://www.themillions.com/2011/10/bartleby%E2%80%99s-occupation-of-wall-street.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street A trap street is a fictitious entry in the form of a misrepresented street on a map, often outside the area the map nominally covers, for the purpose of "trapping" potential copyright violators of the map, who will be unable to justify the inclusion of the "trap street" on their map. On maps that are not of streets, other "copyright trap" features (such as non-existent towns or mountains with the wrong elevations) may be inserted or altered for the same purpose.[1] Trap streets are often nonexistent streets; but sometimes, rather than actually depicting a street where none exists, a map… ]]> Sun, 16 Oct 2011 09:10:08 -0700 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2011/09/john-gray-steven-pinker-violence-review//untitled John Gray vs Steven Pinker : Evolutionary psychology is mere speculation http://t.co/tfJcvHD5 #fb ]]> Thu, 06 Oct 2011 02:37:06 -0700 http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2011/09/john-gray-steven-pinker-violence-review//untitled http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WveI_vgmPz8&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Sun, 02 Oct 2011 14:40:12 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WveI_vgmPz8&feature=youtube_gdata http://www.worldpolicy.org/journal/fall2011/innovation-starvation SF has changed over the span of time I am talking about—from the 1950s (the era of the development of nuclear power, jet airplanes, the space race, and the computer) to now. Speaking broadly, the techno-optimism of the Golden Age of SF has given way to fiction written in a generally darker, more skeptical and ambiguous tone. I myself have tended to write a lot about hackers—trickster archetypes who exploit the arcane capabilities of complex systems devised by faceless others. ]]> Sun, 02 Oct 2011 04:47:54 -0700 http://www.worldpolicy.org/journal/fall2011/innovation-starvation http://aminotes.tumblr.com/post/10416268270/steven-pinker-on-the-history-and-decline-of Some of the evidence has been under our nose all along. Conventional history has long shown that, in many ways, we have been getting kinder and gentler. Cruelty as entertainment, human sacrifice to indulge superstition, slavery as a labor-saving device, conquest as the mission statement of government, genocide as a means of acquiring real estate, torture and mutilation as routine punishment, the death penalty for misdemeanors and differences of opinion, assassination as the mechanism of political succession, rape as the spoils of war, pogroms as outlets for frustration, homicide as the major form of conflict resolution—all were unexceptionable features of… ]]> Tue, 20 Sep 2011 03:05:16 -0700 http://aminotes.tumblr.com/post/10416268270/steven-pinker-on-the-history-and-decline-of http://chronicle.com/article/The-Battle-Over-Zomia/128845/ Over the past two millennia, "runaway" communities have put the "friction of terrain" between themselves and the people who remained in the lowlands, he writes. The highland groups adopted a swidden agriculture system (sometimes known, pejoratively, as "slash and burn"), shifting fields from place to place, staggering harvests, and relying on root crops to hide their yields from any visiting tax collectors. They formed egalitarian societies so as not to have leaders who might sell them out to the state. And they turned their backs on literacy to avoid creating records that central governments could use to carry out onerous… ]]> Mon, 05 Sep 2011 05:20:41 -0700 http://chronicle.com/article/The-Battle-Over-Zomia/128845/