"The incoming economy minister has addressed a rally organised by neo #Nazis, while the Speaker of Parliament has a decades-long track record of race-related court convictions and deeply disturbing blog postings."
But letting the #government decide who gets to #speak and who doesn't is NOT something you should be cheering for. #Censorship is a dangerous road; we've seen where it leads.
What if the next government decides that your#media is "#hate#speech" and #blocks it from airing, while letting Fox or OAN on-air?
Oh, I understand it alright; I've read the petition.
Regarding the government - that's exactly who would be doing this. The #CRTC is part of the #government.
As to it "comes down to the rules of conduct for business", that's #irrelevant. It's the justification for an action. The same action could be justified by any number of things.
What matters is the government's action. And letting them decide who gets to speak is dangerous.
I love programming and thinking and talking about thinking. I have an education (BS, MS, PhD) focused on artificial intelligence and neuroscience.
I'm an advocate of the public academic pursuit of knowledge, the scientific process, peer review, and I see open source software and hardware as an essential part of the scientific process.
I see software user rights, including security and privacy, to be protected mainly by free and open source software.
I see the democratizing effects of the Internet, including distributed journalism and social networking, to be largely the effect of the collaborative development of free and open source software.
I am interested in free and open source manufacturing, including open source 3D printers and CNC machines. I believe open source manufacturing will be important for distributed manufacturing, allowing local manufacturing and local labor.
I see worker-owned coops as the way to safely transition from a non-democratic authoritarian top-down power structure of a traditional corporation to a democratic work environment, where the workers own the company and elect the board of directors, transitioning to democracy in the workplace.
I believe that socialism is a regulatory response to capitalism.
I believe that laws, money, corporations, and government are social agreements, and I'm in favor of democratic social agreements.
I believe in the organized non-violent boycott as a way to control capitalists and change corrupt systems.
I try to eat plant-based / vegan foods to boycott the animal industry, to help with the climate crisis, to improve my health, to avoid animal cruelty, and to avoid the extinction of species of plants, animals and ecosystems.
I have been diagnosed with Retinitus Pigmentosa, which is a disease of progressive retinal degeneration. I am legally blind, although I have about 5-degrees of vision remaining in my fovea. I'm interested in researching and developing BCIs (Brain-Computer Interfaces), specifically BCIs that function as vision prostheses that may help with conditions like RP, or the more common degenerative retinal disease AMD (Age-related Macular Degeneration).
I enjoy playing computer games like Age of Empires and Rimworld. I used to program computer games when I was younger and would like to get back to it one day.
I love playing music, especially bass guitar. I've been listening to a lot of Rage Against the Machine and Enya recently.
I enjoy reading books, mostly non-fiction.
I enjoy studying religions. I've found a lot of value in Buddhism, and I meditate often daily.
Nina and I have recently had our first baby, a boy we named Tyoma.
I'm currently working at Apple on the Vision Pro headset team.
#NYT 📆 June 17, 2023 Estimated to be worth about $460 billion 💰, #SpaceBusinesses sometimes operate in legal black holes 🕳️
• In #theory, #space belongs to #everyone
• That perspective is about to collide with #reality
• #SpaceDebris 🗑️ : Since nobody owns space, it isn’t always clear whose #responsibility it is to clean it up
• The #US 🇺🇸 government has #deliberately left some holes
• Business leaders caution against creating so much regulation 👨⚖️ that it pushes #innovation#offshore while recognizing that we need rules
Democracy was never meant to be run by election bc it is too easily corrupted by oligarchs.
It was always meant to be by sortition & there is a longer history to that & it's success, than this version of 'democratic' elections which is failing us & fallen to #oligarchs as was known & expected by Athenians.
Aristotle said #elections were aristocratic & we're seeing that right down to dynasties.
It struck me today that #capitalism is something we have to survive. Because if we don't work and spend most of our waking time making money to put food on the table, we will be on the street and die.
Whereas #climate is the other big one we have to survive. But most of us spend virtually zero of our time and energy on the problem, largely because the levers of power to the solutions are not within our reach.
I think this is right. Capitalism reinforces a kind of feudal system in which those with capital do nothing and provide little service but rent-taking while everyone else toils in the conceptual fields dreaming of one day being a capitalist.
Few are empowered to do what is their gift but are rather told that markets will determine if anything they might do is of value. The system beats hope out of most, constantly churning jobs so it's hard to feel valued.
Most of us are too busy scrambling to make money for food or rent to stop and care about a planet the capitalists are content to let fall to ruin.
Democracy could and should be a counterbalance, distributing power not by wealth but by the notion that each person has intrinsic value. But we have let the capitalists gain control of what should be that counterbalance and they systematically disable any attempts to hold them in check.
We have given wealth a voice where it needed none. Money already speaks. It needs no voice at all in government. Democracy was supposed to be the rebuttal to wealth, not mere amplification of it.
New: "Sources tell ABC News that Meadows answered questions on both Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election and Trump's theft and concealment of national defense documents."
We all know Meadows is a criminal who was working to end democracy, end America. Mark Meadows a dirty seditious fascist republican. Death penalty for Meadows! Or there is no justice.
"In the US, supposedly a democracy where the decisions are ultimately made by “We the People,” we hear about the “public sector” and the “private sector” of our economy. What we call “the private sector” is really just the government “contracting out” the functions of managing society. Corporations are those contracts."
So even with these optimistic assumptions, I can't quite get to my destination, and there are no chargers between here and there.
So... even with an expensive EV, it can't do this trip. I doubt a cheaper EV would be any better.
The Canadian prairies are sparsely populated. It may never be practical to have everyone using EVs, no matter how much the #government wants to force it.
Welp, my extended vacation time has come to an end. It's been a fun couple of months, but today, I'm stoked to start at #CISA, aka the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. I'm very much looking forward to US #government service work.
While I've spent pretty much all of my career involved in #opensource, #public work in #cybersecurity, it's always been under the aegis of corporate sponsorship, so there was always some tension between giving away my work for free versus quarter over quarter earnings and profits and all that.
Now, I'm really leaning into living that #socialist lifestyle and taking a break from capitalism -- let's see how this #publicsector life goes!
CISA is a very, very young bureaucracy; it was founded in 2018, so we're just now figuring out how this whole "America's Cyber Defense" business works, and I'm excited to be a part of that.
Unfortunately, although I'm now a government official, I can't fix your parking tickets or get you out of jury duty. Please stop asking.
Is the global housing slump over? (www.economist.com)