Miasma in the House of Bite Me

Saturday, September 7, 2002

Since I am a fan of C. Douglas Lummis and his ideas on radical democracy, my main question for this proposal is: Is it radical enough?

This is the Lummis book:

Radical Democracy by C. Douglas Lummis (Paperback - September 1997) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/102-7164761-6680907

kuro5hin.org has a neat way of handling long articles, with the abstract below, and the longer piece beneath it. With there were an abstract feature in RSS and Radio Userland, to tell you the truth. An author field would be nice too. Anyway, reading the entire well-thought out proposal is satisfying in a way I can't explain, except to say, hey, go read it. Plain language. Simple system. Possibly brilliant, if it is radical enough (radical as in ROOT).

Miasma

Practical democracy for the 21st century. Feeling disenfranchised? Sick of contributing a measly few bits per year to your state's "democratic" process? Is your legislature a bunch of professional smiling faces? Do you get a hint they might be serving big business or other lobby needs? Do you laugh, or cringe when they are called your "representatives"? Might there be a barrier to entry into the political process, perchance? When did your views last get raised in formal debate? Do you even conceive that your interests might affect policy? It doesn't have to be like this. Here is straightforward proposal for practical, truly representative democracy, which depends on just a modest amount of proven late-20th-century technology. [kuro5hin.org]
8:08:25 PM

The Karma of Literature... BookCrossing.com
6:52:11 PM

An NRA for Communication Technology. In a recent discussion with a number of influential people in the digital freedom community, and inspired by a recent speech by Lawrence Lessig (who also participated in this discussion), the idea of an advocacy group, analogous to lobbying groups such as the National Rifle Association, was discussed. The purpose of this group would be to provide a counterbalance to groups such as the RIAA and MPAA, by presenting lawmakers with the pro-digital freedom perspective. I was asked to produce an initial draft for a statement of purpose for such an organization, and I would like to take advantage of the Kuro5hin hive-mind to obtain some initial feedback on this short piece of text. [kuro5hin.org]
2:49:38 PM

No comment necessary. Read and tremble. And remember that in Kabbala Pythagorean numerology, WWW = 666. [SEG] Happy New Year!

Miasma <---eating shit

BBC NEWS | Technology | Terror laws 'eat away at privacy'.
The UK is one of the worse places in the world for privacy with the internet playing a huge part in the erosion of rights, a report has found.

[ ... ]

"The internet is being turned into a surveillance device and eventually surveillance will be a core design component of computers," warned Simon Davies, head of Privacy International.

Privacy advocates have been shocked by the swift introduction of terror legislation following the 11 September attacks.
[Privacy Digest]

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