Noam Chomsky denounces old friend Hugo Chávez for \’assault\’ on democracy | World news | The Observer
Kudos to Chomsky.
It’s easy to imagine justice is on your side to right wrongs longstanding, and then to forget that justice ought not to lean or bend to favour.
Joi Ito: How to Save the Internet from its Success | Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
Joi Ito: How to Save the Internet from its Success | Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon.
Am in China, for COPU, but had the pleasure of listening to this rather good interview of Ito.
US police smash camera for recording killing – Features – Al Jazeera English
US police smash camera for recording killing – Features – Al Jazeera English.
For every operation of authority, I am sure an argument can be erected to justify it. So we deal in economics, and look not simply to the immediate cause and effect but to the economics of the longterm: what anglophonic jurisprudence established. Precedence weighs down the present but even more the future. And then we must keep in mind, to make it actually make sense, whether the reasonable man–not really society, but rather a tortable embodiment–would be affected, and if so, how badly.
Corporal punishment: Mothers self-recorded audio gives unique real-time view of spanking
Corporal punishment: Mothers self-recorded audio gives unique real-time view of spanking.
This is an extraordinary study.
NY Velocity – New York bike racing culture, news and events
I should add NY Velocity to my blogroll… by far the wittiest account of the subject and especially of the Lance. I think without question The Lance was a prodigy.
Open Cures: A Protocol Outline for Mitochondrial Protofection
Open Cures: A Protocol Outline for Mitochondrial Protofection.
The model advocated for open (source) development is predicated for the authors and biologists on the software industry. Good! But at the same time, as a historian, I cannot help but recall prior instances where peer production and collaboration have occurred. But the difference is this: never before has so much of our culture (“our”) been “owned” or faceted by the claims of property. It’s as if the Lockean promise of America (land of no property, just land) has evaporated, leaving only the claims to what was and is and will be there. (Thus goeth the future, too: it’s been commodified into the present banality of expectation.)
What is left, of course–for there is no and never has been a land without property (remember not the Alamo but the Indians? They were here, in America, even before the Europeans named them so wrongly and then killed them disease, slavery, war.)–what is left is the need to consider property as the domain of collaboration, not a patent for exclusion, with the thing available only as a bracketed commodity on the market, to those who can afford it.
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