On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 06:24:35PM +0200, Georgi Guninski wrote:
communications. In order to achieve a society where we can expect privacy we need more hackers and
This appears utopia to me.
We need more JUSTICE as well.
accountability i like. there's so much talk about transparency, but none about accountability. i mean, transparency without accountability is like being raped, when you have accountability that's like you have a chance to kick the fucker in the balls. but transparency is like "enjoying" the "act" in the mirror....
There is a principle GIGO ~ Garbage In Garbage Out.
what does that principle tell us, and how is this relevant here?
Last time I tried to explain to a sheeple she is a sheeple she asked something like "You crazy anti-establishment? I have loans to the bank to pay".
ah, the stockholm syndrome. i really like some research on psychological effects on victims of blue collar crimes, and then published widely in msm (i know another utopia, but then i'm writing mails not code). i have no clue but if there is a research community around this topic, but it should be goldrush times for them now. ;/
hackerspaces to embrace the broader political challenges of building a more equal society.
I am a bit paranoid about HACKERSPACE, since likely the dear NSA might have infiltrated it.
well i believe this is a reference to maxigas' paper about the political and social differences between hacklabs, hackerspaces and other maker/fab/etc-labs. this is a bit in conflict with the opening argument (medicines sans frontiers not healing the world, but it being a societal responsibility) and here it the argumentation falls back to the "hackers have to save us all". i agree with maxigas, hackerspaces should take more responsibility though. -- otr fp: https://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/otr.txt