Documentary Smart City. In search of the Smart Citizen. It shows the lifeworlds of public-private organizations seeking to brand Amsterdam internationally as a Smart City; of citizens wanting to measure air quality around their homes, and of citizens who are not at all comfortable with ICTs.
Goodbye CopperheadOS
Autism and Polyamory Guess Culture, the kryptonite of clear communication, is rampant and heavily encouraged. People are taught that having needs, especially non-mainstream needs, is wrong and makes you unlikable. Honest, direct communication is often punished. Toxic masculinity opposes almost every good communication norm.
Against the Logic of Submission

jgeboski’s Facebook protocol plugin for libpurple. Purple Facebook implements the Facebook Messenger protocol into pidgin, finch, and libpurple. Current maintainer: @dequis.
DeWereldMorgen.be: Mei ‘68: Onder het spektakel, de geschiedenissen and Mei ‘68: een flirt met de revolutie (lang: nl_BE)
Why OpenStreetMap is in Serious Trouble
Tired of texting? It’ll just be robots talking to robots, and by then should we even bother?

Data doom: 5 steps from Davos to digital dystopia Once technology has taken our data, our political rights, our jobs and our free will, it will come for our souls..
A Computational Introduction to Number Theory and Algebra, PDF, Version 2 (6/16/2008)
DIGITALDECEIT: The Technologies Behind Precision Propaganda on the Internet PDF, 1.2 MB

The lineage isn’t a theory. Fact. The Wolfenstein hero is Commander Keen’s grandfather, while Keen is Doomguy’s dad.
Nothing to hide The documentary about surveillance and you (2017)
Everything That’s Wrong With Social Media And Big Internet Companies: Part 1 and Part 2.
On elections, political violence and WikiLeaks

THE EX - “That’s not a virus” - Festival Hors Pistes 2015
Dutch agencies provide crucial intel about Russia’s interference in US-elections
Big Brother on wheels: Why your car company may know more about you than your spouse.
Analog Equivalent Rights: Our parents used anonymous cash and Our parents bought things untracked, their footsteps in store weren’t recorded by Rick Falkvinge.

No Wonder Millennials Hate Capitalism. It’s the raw exercise of power by a tiny unaccountable minority that believes in its own superiority..
The Web began dying in 2014, here’s how What has changed over the last four years is market share of traffic on the Web. It looks like nothing has changed, but GOOG and FB now have direct influence over 70 percent of internet traffic.
Fuck Your Feelings Acting based on our feelings is easy. You feel it. Then you do it. It’s like scratching an itch.
20 years on, open source hasn’t changed the world as promised Most code remains closed and proprietary, even though open source now dominates enterprise platforms. How can that be?
little rules for working life + more little rules for working life …over time I’ve create quite a few silly and some serious rules that help me navigate the day-to-day work of software development or simply working with people.

Fred Cole, Leader of Garage-Rock Band Dead Moon, Dies at 69. RIP.
How to Do Everything (Lifehacking Considered Harmful) by Cory Doctorow

I Check My Phone While Out With People and If You Don’t Like That Please Don’t Hang Out With Me. The fact that some people find it rude is not an argument against my own choice to not find it rude, and my own choice to try to associate with people who feel similarly.
The Noise-Arch Archive. This collection is a compilation of underground/independently-released cassette tapes from the days when the audio cassette was the standard method of music sharing… generally the mid-eighties through early-nineties. The material represented includes tape experimentation, industrial, avant-garde, indy, rock, diy, subvertainment and auto-hypnotic materials.
What Is the Future of Art? by Douglas Coupland

What if There’s No Next Big Thing?. By Douglas Coupland.
Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt. In spite of some fuzziness regarding the difference between various historical forms of fascism, I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism. These features cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism. But it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it. By Umberto Eco.
Social Organization Of The Computer Underground (1989) This paper examines the social organization of the “computer underground” (CU). The CU is composed of actors in three roles, “computer hackers,” “phone phreaks,” and “software pirates.”