Welcome Maya :)
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Em seg., 7 de out. de 2024 às 11:43, marija nikolic <
nikolic.a.marija@???> escreveu:
> Sorry for the missing photo of the meme :(
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> [image: Screenshot 2024-10-07 at 1.49.49 PM.png]
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> On Mon, Oct 7, 2024 at 3:14 PM marija nikolic <nikolic.a.marija@???>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello Bricolabsers,
>>
>> I have no idea how big the group is nor who are the members, I've just
>> been invited to the group by my dear friend Rob and I'm thankful for that.
>>
>> I recalled recently this meme:
>>
>> [image: Screenshot 2024-10-07 at 1.49.49 PM.png]
>> Being a sociologist by education, I found it very accurate. Of course,
>> I'm not against studying science and technology; en contraire, I spent a
>> long time trying to communicate its value and necessity to a wider audience
>> (first to the youngest, but also to adults). I completely agree with Carl
>> Sagan's statement: 'We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science
>> and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and
>> technology.' But this is also becoming true for other spheres of
>> reality—social, political, and philosophical concepts. This is largely why
>> history keeps repeating itself.
>>
>> It has become obvious that we have been in an ideological crisis for some
>> time, that postmodernism is unraveling, and that attempts to sustain it
>> through neocolonialism will likely fail—but only if advancements in ICT are
>> not fully controlled by corporations.
>>
>> I love Christina's quote:
>>
>> *“I am always interested in who controls technology in any given society
>> at a particular time."..*
>>
>> And what might also be important to consider is where the energy and
>> material resources necessary for technology come from. Because we won’t
>> achieve real change if only parts of the process are transparent. Let’s at
>> least be honest with ourselves and acknowledge our anarchistic
>> revolutionary tendencies by asking this question. These resources as we all
>> know, come from neocolonized, severely exploited countries far enough away
>> that consumers are not bothered to think about them. It's getting too
>> complicated.
>>
>> Perhaps we can contemplate some tech degrowth strategies that align with
>> our values of protecting people's freedoms (which people?! - I guess all
>> around the globe), digital identities, and their right to resist and exist
>> both virtually and in this heavy, yet beautiful, material reality worth
>> preserving.
>>
>> I'm looking forward to engaging discussions and valuable resources in the
>> mailing group.
>>
>> Best,
>> Maya
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 29, 2024 at 3:52 PM Rob van Kranenburg <kranenbu@???>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Good afternoon, (I resend as I am not sure if this passed, apologies if
>>> you receive this twice),
>>>
>>> On the matter of dream projects that may become real I have been working
>>> for the past decade on the idea of regaining back control/agency over the
>>> big tech world and that is building a full European phone, running a EU OS
>>> and the #Eurostack.
>>>
>>> Christina Caffara wrote:
>>>
>>> -The path to independence: given that we cannot Big Bang our way from
>>> today’s captured vertically integrated infrastructures to full
>>> independence, what are the steps and priorities to follow to get there?
>>>
>>> Actually I think that there is a way and that is embedding the Eurostack
>>> in a European phone. We can regulate the wallet, we can also regulate
>>> requirements for the phone. We have excellent chips -ASML - excellent
>>> security PUF - and the ability to run an European Operating System with
>>> apps and services on search, friends, shopping... As a dedicated and
>>> trusted device we can also control the supply chain fully (re: pagers) and
>>> vouch for the validity. The device is a focus for new EU research. We can
>>> embed an AI layer and hardcode the AI Act, simply running AI that is sound
>>> and 'vetted'.
>>> We can bring trillions of euros home (GAFAM is worth 7 trillion) because
>>> the services are in the EU cloud where analysis and feedback is placed. The
>>> EU cloud is the edge of 500 million phones primarily.
>>> At the moment we have about 17 Acts and Directives regulating data,
>>> information, chip, cloud, data spaces, AI, devices (CRA)..... All of these
>>> are run on compliance alone (and fines) A 500 million zone must have other
>>> tools than fines. The Acts are missing the obvious - while it is staring in
>>> our face - the carrier itself! Also no rocketsciennce.
>>> Such a framework would run Self Sovereign Identity and disposable
>>> identities (an identity for a service; for example if you rent a house you
>>> send a token to the landlord that you can pay, that is all he/she needs to
>>> know - if you do not pay the token unlocks a phone number). This secures
>>> privacy for people.
>>>
>>> We have a Telegram Group on Disposable Identities:
>>> Disposable Identities <https://t.me/+T6YMHcJxH4Iy5LUa>
>>> t.me <https://t.me/+T6YMHcJxH4Iy5LUa>
>>> [image: apple-touch-icon.png] <https://t.me/+T6YMHcJxH4Iy5LUa>
>>> <https://t.me/+T6YMHcJxH4Iy5LUa>
>>>
>>>
>>> The framework enablers new forms of decision making. We have to
>>> negotiate referenda and citizen input.
>>> This might sound quite Chinese. In 2010 out of their twelve top
>>> politicians 9 were engineers and scientists. They understood that the
>>> hybrid - the merging of analogue and digital - is a new ontology that needs
>>> decision making systems tuned to the new drivers: techne - but the mindset
>>> is fully OCD. From a cybernetic point of view this system is quite stable
>>> in the short and mid term but untenable in the longer turn.
>>> We can work on a more balanced system.
>>> Taking control on the phone also means we can renegotiate the digital
>>> turn that just happened top us. We need a time out to rethink what kind of
>>> a hybrid world that we want. That should be a European discussion that we
>>> can not have in the current tech set up.
>>>
>>> I am happy to say that my small book on this New forms of governance for
>>> your hybrid reality has been accepted by Springer, and I hope it kan
>>> kickstart a debate.
>>>
>>> The way can conceive our phone is as a truly trusted device that can
>>> share moods, run our own AI and as the primary could is the edge of 500
>>> million phones we have an instant EU cloud.
>>>
>>> I see it as an example of doing extreme centralisation and extreme
>>> decentralisation at the same time.
>>>
>>> The Kenner
>>>
>>>
>>> *The kenner lives in hot spots and cold spots through disposable
>>> identities.*
>>> *We need governance for the hot spots and governance for the cold spots.*
>>>
>>> *“Uncanny is in reality nothing new or alien, but something which is
>>> familiar and old-established in the mind and which has become alienated
>>> from it only through the process of repression.” - Sigmund Freud*
>>>
>>> *"The number of people seeking NHS treatment for psychotic symptoms
>>> including hallucinations and delusional thinking has soared in the past two
>>> years, new figures show....According to NHS data, referrals to mental
>>> health services in England for first suspected episodes of psychosis rose
>>> by 75% in the two years up until April 2021, amid what The Guardian
>>> described as “the stresses of the Covid-19 pandemic”."[1]*
>>>
>>> *"Rates of those at risk for psychotic experiences have continued to
>>> increase compared with pre-pandemic rates, growing from 73% at risk in 2019
>>> to a staggering 80% in 2023." (US figures)[2]*
>>>
>>>
>>> The main premise of this text is that the democratic apparatus in
>>> Western countries is no longer tuned to the hybrid world that this
>>> seamlessness puts forward. Our current conceptual toolbox is no longer
>>> equipped to address new challenges: “We grasp reality through concepts.
>>> When reality changes too quickly and dramatically, as it is happening
>>> nowadays because of ICTs, we are conceptually wrong-footed.” (Gligoric et
>>> al., 2017) The most important characteristic of ubicomp, pervasive
>>> computing, ambient intelligence, and IoT is its promise of seamless
>>> connectivity. We perceive seamlessness in the same category as ‘harmonious’
>>> because it is without rupture, questions and conflict. As such it can
>>> appear as a smooth surface of an object, a well designed situation or
>>> service or a natural setting. As it sets out to disappear into the fabric
>>> of everyday life, it obscures the fact that infrastructural, hardware,
>>> software and interface design decisions were made that can not be analyzed,
>>> discussed and contested. It becomes next nature, the next surface on which
>>> to read, write, act and build on. This process underlies the main
>>> innovations of our time: the internet hides the fact that it created the
>>> notion of data with the tcp/ip protocol - it creates it -, the web hides
>>> the fact that although html won there were competing visions that stated
>>> that to link to something that potentially did not exist (Error 404) should
>>> not be possible and reciprocity[3] not linkability should drive this
>>> information layer, the smartphone hides the business model beneath it with
>>> the iphone controlling what goes in and what goes out through the app store
>>> and their designers and ChatGPT hides the fact what it has been trained on
>>> and what machine learning and AI algorithms it runs . It could have all
>>> been different. This is not a lament, saying things could have been better
>>> but a statement meant to draw attention to the fact that with the
>>> integration of AI we need a different approach.
>>>
>>>
>>> I believe that the day is not far off when all people will have some
>>> tool, call it a wallet, a router, a phone, a crypto mining device (maybe
>>> all of that) that runs all computation locally on that device and gives out
>>> only contextual, time-limited and scope-based information; a companion to
>>> assist you in educating yourself and others in living together on a small
>>> planet that is tumbling about in vast space. In fact, the 1976 novel* Woman
>>> on the Edge of Time *by Marge Piercy, describes this tool in her
>>> ‘utopia’ of a society combining local bio food and resilient communities
>>> running on high tech renewables and distributed ledgers provisioning
>>> services. Maybe it was not a utopia but just a vision? She calls the device
>>> a* kenner*. I want to bring her vision alive in an actionable way.
>>>
>>>
>>> *This time she saw that what she had taken for a watch on Luciente's
>>> wrist was not only that, or not that at all. He was not lifting it to his
>>> ear to hear it tick, but it spoke almost inaudibly. "What's that?" My
>>> kenner. Computer link? Actually it is a computer as well, my own memory
>>> annex (p52)....It ties into an encyclopedia - a knowledge computer. Also
>>> into transport and storage. Can serve as locator-speaker. (P 64)*
>>>
>>> *NINO: Nonsense In, Nonsense Out- that's the motto on every kenner. It
>>> means your theory is no better than your practice, or your body than your
>>> nutrition. Your encyclopedia only produces the information or
>>> misinformation fed to it. So on (p67)*
>>>
>>> *Allright, you have all these things on your wrist. Somewhere there is a
>>> big computer. How does it recognise you? " My own memory annex is in my
>>> computer", Lucent said. " With the transport of an encyclopedia, you just
>>> call for what you want." " But what about the police? What about the
>>> government? How do they keep track of you if you keep changing names?"Again
>>> a great buzz of confusion and kenner checking passed around the table, with
>>> half of them turning to each other instead. " This is complicated." The old
>>> woman, Sojourner shook her head. " Government I think I can grasp. Lucent
>>> can show you the government, but nobody's working there today." (p*0)*
>>>
>>> *"Our technology did not develop in a straight line from yours", Lucent
>>> said seriously, looking with shiny black gaze, merry, alert in a way that
>>> cast grace notes around her words. " We have limited resources. We plan
>>> cooperatively. We can afford to waste...nothing. You could say our
>>> religion? - ideas make us see ourselves as partners with water, air, birds,
>>> fish, trees." " We learned a lot from societies people used to call
>>> primitive. Primitive technically. But socially sophisticated...We tried to
>>> learn from cultures that dealt well with handling conflict, promoting
>>> cooperation, coming of age, growing a sense of community, getting sick,
>>> aging, going mad, dying, - (p132)*
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ➔ The vision of Marge Piercy on computing can only be characterized
>>> as very advanced is we look at what was actually happening in 1976:
>>>
>>>
>>> ● “Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak demonstrated the first Apple
>>> computer at the Home Brew Computer Club in April 1976. The Apple I had 6502
>>> MOS (Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor), 1 MHz processor, 8 kB of onboard memory,
>>> and 1 kB of VRAM (Video Random-Access Memory) for $666.66.
>>> ● Intel introduced the 8085 processor in March 1976.
>>> ● Steve Wozniak designed the first Apple, the Apple I computer, in
>>> 1976; later, Wozniak and Steve Jobs co-founded Apple Computers on April
>>> Fools' Day.
>>> ● The first 5.25-inch floppy disk was invented in 1976.
>>> ● Zilog, Inc. introduced the Z80 eight-bit microprocessor.
>>> ● Microsoft introduced an improved version of BASIC.
>>> ● On February 3, 1976, David Bunnell published an article by Bill
>>> Gates complaining about software piracy in his Computer Notes Altair
>>> newsletter.
>>> ● Professor at Bowling Green State University first used the term
>>> "computer ethics."[4]
>>> ● In December 1976, Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard to devote
>>> all his time to Microsoft[5].”
>>>
>>>
>>> It is clear that there was no comprehensive framework at the time to
>>> reflect on the influence and repercussions on introducing computers into
>>> society. In hindsight it is easy to say that this was logical as it was
>>> introduced by computer scientists and engineers to gradually bring
>>> industrial machines and processes to individual citizens. However, Marge
>>> Piercy was able to imagine a world in which everyone was
>>> ‘person’ foreshadowing the gender and LQBTQ movement, a world full of
>>> mobile phones, and these mobile phones were instrumental and integrated
>>> into larger decision making processes as well as serving as real time
>>> feedback on actions, and sketches two trajectories of how the future can
>>> look: dystopian autocratic (the city of control) and utopian balanced (the
>>> city of trust). Her work is called feminist and in the 2016 Introduction to
>>> the reprint of the novel she calls it ‘profoundly anarchist and aimed at
>>> integrating people back into the natural world and eliminating power
>>> relationships:
>>>
>>>
>>> *“I am always interested in who controls technology at any given society
>>> at a particular time. Who decides that trolleys and passenger trains are
>>> obsolete but cars are all-important and our cities must be built around
>>> them as if they were the primary inhabitants? Who chooses which technology
>>> is explored?*
>>>
>>> In the 2012 *Transformational Technologies #4: Implications for an
>>> Expanding Threat Environment* Conference, there were several lectures,
>>> one of which was on the history of anarchism. The speaker went through a
>>> long list of bombings and attacks, only to end on one in particular to
>>> state that the reasons behind it were unknown and that no one knew why he
>>> actually threw that bomb.As I was sitting in the audience I was very
>>> surprised to hear this and to think that as no one on the room reacted, a
>>> lot of intelligence attendants felt the same. No doubt that there was no
>>> particular idiosyncratic reason for that attack, but that it symbolized
>>> some form of power structure. The real reason was a lifelong felt injustice
>>> for the entire political situation. This does not justify the attack, but
>>> it shows that law enforcement and intelligence seem to think these events
>>> somehow come out of the blue, whereas they evolve in a long process from
>>> deeply felt injustice and lack of being part of decision making
>>> processes. On July 1, 1910, in Tobolsk the Omsk Military Tribunal
>>> sentenced Sergei Vilkov to death. He was found at 9 o'clock that same
>>> evening, dead in his cell. “He had tied a length of rope to a ring in the
>>> wall tha supported his bed and while lying had slowly strangled himself to
>>> death.”[4] This process of radicalization can be guided towards more
>>> productive ends if individuals are recognized and followed up earlier in
>>> life.
>>>
>>>
>>> Current technological and socio-cultural reality could not have emerged
>>> nor evolved without tools from anarchist theory and praxis. These tools are
>>> currently not recognized. Anarchism still has a bad reputation. Yet without
>>> broadly educating citizens into self-organization on matters of data and
>>> identity (owning and using private and public keys) positive cybernetics
>>> will be impossible. Anarchism – “a political theory, which is skeptical of
>>> the justification of authority and power, especially political power”[1] is
>>> equated with chaos, unrest, violence, and terror[2]. Yet, without it
>>> blockchain, decentralization as a technical force favoring the ‘edge’ over
>>> the ‘cloud’, cryptocurrencies and p2p platforms, digital twins, and Proof
>>> of Work, Decentralization, Satoshi Nakamoto Consensus, Asset Tokenization,
>>> Freedom Blocks, Global Public Ledger [3], the Internet of Things,
>>> Industry 4.0 and Self Sovereign Identity could not have been conceived.
>>>
>>>
>>> As humans are equal, generic infrastructures should support all of them
>>> equally in their basic (food, shelter, care, education) and intellectual
>>> (no blockades in any information flow) needs. How simple can it be, how
>>> true this is and how absurd we are not living this reality now.
>>>
>>>
>>> The most fundamental anarchist protocol is the protocol of the internet
>>> itself, as it simply says: pass on the packet. It is a radically new way of
>>> organizing data and information. It has created industrial giants and a
>>> political system, but it has not yet created a fair, social and just system
>>> making use of all current technological resources.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> [1] Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,
>>> https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/anarchism/
>>> [2] Lucy Parsons: “I am an anarchist. I suppose you came here, the
>>> most of you, to see what a real, live anarchist looked like. I suppose some
>>> of you expected to see me with a bomb in one hand and a flaming torch in
>>> the other but are disappointed in seeing neither. If such has been your
>>> ideas regarding an anarchist, you deserved to be disappointed. Anarchists
>>> are peaceable, law-abiding people. What do anarchists mean when they speak
>>> of anarchy? Webster gives the term two definitions chaos and the state of
>>> being without political rule. We cling to the latter definition. Our
>>> enemies hold that we believe only in the former.”
>>> https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1886-lucy-parsons-i-am-anarchist/
>>> [3] Listed in a Tweet Blockchaintiger.rvn – Joshua
>>> @blockchaintiger
>>> Aug 23
>>> “Ravolutoion!” $RVN Gem stone
>>>
>>> Proof of Work
>>> Decentralization
>>> Satoshi Nakamoto Consensus
>>> Asset Tokenization
>>> Freedom Blocks
>>> Global Public Ledger
>>>
>>> $RVN Gem stone aka #Bitcoin 3.0 is entering the first
>>> halving.
>>>
>>> [4] Daniel Beer, The House of the Dead, Siberian Exiles under the
>>> Tsars, Allen Lane, 2016, p 381.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> [1]
>>> https://theweek.com/news/science-health/954485/why-psychosis-is-on-the-rise
>>> [2] Mental Health America releases analysis of its 2023 online mental
>>> health screens; U.S. sees continued rise of anxiety, psychosis and ADHD risk
>>> https://mhanational.org/news/2023-online-mental-health-screens-analysis
>>>
>>>
>>> [3] Project Xanadu (/ˈzænəduː/ ZAN-ə-doo) was the first hypertext
>>> project, founded in 1960 by Ted Nelson. Administrators of Project Xanadu
>>> have declared it superior to the World Wide Web, with the mission
>>> statement: "Today's popular software simulates paper. The World Wide Web
>>> (another imitation of paper) trivialises our original hypertext model with
>>> one-way ever-breaking links and no management of version or contents."
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu
>>> [4] Walter Maner, a philosopher who teaches computer science at Bowling
>>> Green University, is credited with coin- ing the actual term "computer
>>> ethics" in 1976, although he states that it is still too early to provide a
>>> formal definition for the term. He observes that when the computer is in-
>>> volved in moral problems, the problems tend to be exacer- bated and new
>>> ones may even be created [1]. Deborah Johnson, a philosopher at Rensselaer
>>> Polytechnic Institute who wrote one of the first books about computer
>>> ethics [2], states that the ethical problems related to computers are not
>>> unique. They are the same old problems of privacy, power and property, but
>>> they tend to occur on a much larger scale because of computers. She calls
>>> computer ethics a "new species of generic moral problems [1]."
>>>
>>> https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/271125.271138#:~:text=Walter%20Maner%2C%20a%20philosopher%20who,formal%20definition%20for%20the%20term
>>> .
>>> [5]
>>> https://www.computerhope.com/history/1976.htm#:~:text=printer%20in%201976.-,New%20computer%20products%20and%20services%20introduced%20in%201976,disk%20was%20invented%20in%201976.
>>>
>>>
>>> —
>>>
>>> Wishing you all a good Sunday! Rob
>>>
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