Aral Balkan @aral@mastodon.ar.al
Cyborg rights activist. Leading the Internet of People initiative at DiEM25. Making the web better.fyi
GitLab raises $20M from Google (Ventures) – the key word here is “fork”
Today, on Venture Capital Ruins Everything, we have the lovely folks at GitLab (which we use and love at Ind.ie) raising $20M from GV (née Google Ventures).
Investors invest in the exit so imagine what GitLab’s exit will look like after this. If any competent folks are thinking of a fork, now is a good time to start doing prep work. Think ownCloud/Nextcloud…
https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/09/gitlab-raises-20m-series-c-round-led-by-gv/ https://mastodon.ar.al/media/6ESFuEQKOl2W3uqLqcs
On AI, Big Data, and its effects on society
A brief piece I wrote for my recent talk for the students at Copenhagen Business School.
https://www.marketinglab.dk/blog/2017/10/9/the-power-of-data-and-its-effects-on-society
AI in the age of surveillance capitalism: who’s getting smarter about whom?
Will be engaging 500 students today at Copenhagen Business School on ethics in AI.
http://cbswire.dk/events/ai-ai-affecting-future/ https://mastodon.ar.al/media/YBLB1hr2wmSmHRNKMbA
Silicon Valley Dictionary
Onboarding (n): the process by which the livestock are introduced into the factory farm.
#SurveillanceCapitalism https://mastodon.ar.al/media/w1v-hPZW8s-j5g2Zw-E
Save Code Share
Current EU Copyright Review threatens Free and Open Source Software. Take action now to preserve the ability to collaboratively build software online!
Sign the open letter:
Digital cooperation: platform cooperativism
Attending the panel before ours at Ecopolis with Aleksandra Przegalinska, Josef Davies-Coates, and Joachim Jacob. https://mastodon.ar.al/media/1fC91dng1MyV4-5gDGw
Dear Tim O’Reilly,
You’re like the doctor in those old-time tobacco ads…
Please stop legitimising #SurveillanceCapitalism https://mastodon.ar.al/media/3wcA6dSpJFZC76GR7GY https://mastodon.ar.al/media/qYeWG_fmy96v5wn4IFc
All Your Content Are Belong To Us
Article 13 of the current copyright legislation proposal from the European Commission would result in de facto ubiquitous Internet content filtering. Basically, this would kill the Internet as we know and empower autocratic institutions – whether corporations or governments – with absolute control over nearly all human communication.
All Your Content Is Belong To Us
Article 13 of the current copyright legislation proposal from the European Commission would result in de facto ubiquitous Internet content filtering. Basically, this would kill the Internet as we know and empower autocratic institutions – whether corporations or governments – with absolute control over nearly all human communication. #fnf17
Freedom To Tinker
Sebastian, assistant to MEP Julia Reda, presents at #fnf17 https://mastodon.ar.al/media/NZRZi3wv1fgWb2otTwA
Freedom Not Fear Session Wall
It’s filling up with really interesting sessions.
Freedom Not Fear Day 2 Kick Off
Setting up the session wall.
Tegenlicht Documentary on Smart Cities: The English Bits
@Marjoline extracted the English bits from last year’s Tegenlicht program on Smart Cities. Thank you so much! :)
https://youtu.be/ZcdzJeqR8Co https://mastodon.ar.al/media/2abrbWi55WrShRgHxtw
🛫 Next stop: Brussels
Thoughts and Prayers: the Game: https://www.thoughtsandprayersthegame.com/
Freedom Not Fear & Ecopolis
Looking forward to my opening keynote at Freedom Not Fear and to speaking at Ecopolis this weekend in Brussels.
• Freedom Not Fear: https://www.freedomnotfear.org/fnf-2017/opening-keynote-by-aral-balkan
• Ecopolis: http://ecopolis.be/
https://mastodon.ar.al/media/KRbvAuv6h-MEKKplFMY https://mastodon.ar.al/media/bDki3yt1MjYW-9iGMS4
Capitalism is dying. The only question is, is it going to take us with it?
so the privacy concern for citizens is growing among scholars here, it's a good thing...
here is an article (in NL) about the problem of data gathering by the public services and so called "smart cities", specialy when keeping all those data for advertising and commercial use, citing @aral about distributed and "open source" systems more respectfull...
http://www.knack.be/nieuws/belgie/is-dit-dan-de-zogenaamde-keuzevrijheid-meneer-de-backer/article-opinion-906227.html
#privacy #iot #indieweb #distributed #belgium #gent #smartcity #mivb-stib