Remembering Earth-that-was
Originally shared by Make:
It’s DIY Music week at #MakerCamp and on Friday we’ll take a look at the Raspberry Pirate Radio. With just one wire and some open-source code, easily modify a Raspberry Pi into a FM radio transmitter! Check it out: http://m8k.me/1lbQZgs and join us at all week at http://makercamp.com/ !
John Kenneth Galbraith’s “The Age of Uncertainty”
A 1977 miniseries on economic history.
1. The Prophets and Promise of Classical Capitalism
2. The Manners and Morals of High Capitalism
3. The Dissent of Karl Marx
4. The Colonial Idea
5. Lenin and the Great Ungluing
6. The Rise and Fall of Money
7. The Mandarin Revolution
8. The Fatal Competition
9. The Big Corporation
10. Land and People
11. The Metropolis
12. Democracy, Leadership, Commitment
13. Weekend in Vermont (three one hour programmes in which Galbraith discusses economics, politics and international relations with guests such as Henry Kissinger, Georgy Arbatov and Edward Heath). These interviews are not covered in the book.
Milton Friedman’s Free to Choose was in part a response to and rebuttal of Galbraith’s series.
From FixYT:
http://fixyt.com/watch?v=KGSID_Uyw7w
http://fixyt.com/watch?v=Hb_leVNwyg8
http://fixyt.com/watch?v=kFdK8zqZMEo
http://fixyt.com/watch?v=0CFY7_WHuUc
http://fixyt.com/watch?v=sxAoymq_SEA
http://fixyt.com/watch?v=McW2aFpJxsM
http://fixyt.com/watch?v=cUKGhjnOSuY
http://fixyt.com/watch?v=c7WCOepX2bo
http://fixyt.com/watch?v=HofggHfMjh8
http://fixyt.com/watch?v=Rv8b_ou-NQM
http://fixyt.com/watch?v=zIVp1uzC9zk
http://fixyt.com/watch?v=v_mGDrG3l5k
http://fixyt.com/watch?v=QaZ8x-rQwD0
http://fixyt.com/watch?v=Ml1Y60Qu9Vw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Uncertainty
Originally shared by Brent Kerlin
Originally shared by Jonathan White (Slashazard)
There is a book coming out about Joss Whedon. This is a good chapter about the beginnings of Firefly. Hopefully this hasn’t already been posted here.
Originally shared by Will Hill
Can we have distributed communications systems or not? A conversation on Diaspora has gone so wrong, that I suspect impersonation. Edward Morbius continues to tell me that port blocks and other technical measures against people running mail servers are justified by the high volume of spam that large mail ops receive. I think that leads to unacceptable spying and censorship and that the same reasoning will be used to dismantle any effective, distributed communications method. If I can’t be trusted to run a mail server, why should I be trusted to run a Friendica pod? Is this really Ed that I’m talking to?
If anything the cost of spam to large providers proves that email and other services are better done small. Small servers don’t have enough readers to be worth while. Damage to one server impacts fewer people. An abundance of choices gives everyone redundancy, and so on and so forth. There is an analogous security argument for an abundance of free software distributions. Freedom leads to cooperation, abundance, diversity and security. Centralization leads to monopoly, censorship and neutralization of dissidence. I thought these were bedrock concepts of free computing and networking.
Is there something I’ve missed here?