Surveillance State / Surveillance Capitalism
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The authorities can see everything people do, every move they make. This situation is comparable to George Orwell’s 1984...
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If you look at the MeToo and BLM movements and ask Why Now? What was different this time?, it’s clear some key...
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What is the capitalist algorithm after all but a machine that runs on money?
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Do we still have it? Can we invent new aesthetics, design sustainable products and rid our cities of waste . . ....
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In the beginning there was logic... then measurement, geometry and mathematics . . . then, for a few hundred years, we...
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Covid-19 turned from an outbreak into a pandemic because of airplanes. The virus shot around the world, instantly found...
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Underlying any viable aesthetic movement is a broader philosophy, a loosely unifying worldview that connects the artists...
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When does life begin? This question might mean different things to, say, a teen-ager, yearning for excitement; or to a...
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After learning my flight had been detained four hours, I heard an announcement : “If anyone in the vicinity of Gate A-4...
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At its start, the internet was still relatively scarce, in the sense that we generally wanted more of it everywhere....
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They are almost always nasty, messy, dirty affairs, very much like political revolutions. They unfold like vindictive...
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OUR PLATFORM Immediate implementation of a 1% Robin Hood Tax on all stock-market transactions and currency...
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I have no memory of my birthplace of Tallinn, Estonia. I was two years old when Red Army busted through the Leningrad...
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As a once-and-future free-range human, I’ve been thinking about how to shake off the commercial algorithms that have...
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The only thing that gives me satisfaction lately is going out and getting my nose dirty. Pulling off some little act of...
Read moreIt is a long way from the west coast of Canada to central New Jersey. In August, I moved from the Lower Mainland to...
Read moreI’ve never quite understood finance. It’s a nut I just can’t crack. I don’t get why the stock market goes up when...
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Nat Turner was born in Virginia in 1800, the son of slaves and the property of plantation owners.His rebellion, which...
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