Last night, the city of Boston, Massachusetts and some surrounding suburbs shut down. The only people on the streets were heavily armed police and…
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Let's Reform Copyright. With A Sledgehammer. Into Smithereens.
There are many ways we could reform the copyright monopoly to solve some of its problems. This is politically doable. But long-term, we really…
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Religion is big business. The Christian Bible, like any other book, is under copyright monopoly – or, to be precise, any translation of it…
Read MoreWhat We Learn From This Bitcoin Correction
Bitcoin is correcting sharply, as expected. From this episode, we learn (again) that bitcoin is not magic and is not a get-rich-quick scheme, and…
Read MoreEU President, IT Staff Don’t Understand Democracy, Maths, Truth
Last month there were revelations about the EU Parliament IT system, and the arbitrary way in which email blocks on legitimate topics can be…
Read MoreIcelandic Píratar On Final Approach To Election Victory
A new poll today places the Icelandic Pirate Party in parliament, with their election three weeks out. This follows a continuous and rapid ascent…
Read MoreBitcoin és társadalmi átalakulás
Csúcsra járatva tombol a bitcoin-őrület, az árfolyam az egekbe szökött; és bár a Bitcoin még mindig nem áll készen az igazi befutásra, ahogy egyre…
Read MoreWhy Bitcoin Is Poised To Change Society Much More Than The Internet Did
There is a bitcoin craze at the moment, with prices of bitcoin skyrocketing. Bitcoin is still far from ready for prime time, but as…
Read MoreSwarmwise – taktická příručka jak změnit svět. Kapitola třetí.
I když se správné hejno skládá v drtivé většině z volně sdružených aktivistů, v jeho středu je centrální skupinka lidí — kostra hejna —…
Read MoreSwarmwise – The Tactical Manual To Changing The World. Chapter Three.
While the effective swarm consists almost entirely of loosely knit activists, there is a core of people — a scaffolding for the swarm —…
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