Tag: decentralization

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networkcultures.org > Silvia Dal Dosso
Cats, Frogs and Cryptoartists: What if Auteur .jpgs Become a Luxury Good
11 mar. 2021 - When in July 2013 I met Andreas Schildbach, the first developer to write the Bitcoin Wallet for mobile, one Bitcoin was worth around 80 euros. We were sitting at a table in a bar, the Room 77, which had recently hit the headlines because the owner, Joerg Platzer, had been interviewed by the BBC for the insane act of accepting Bitcoin as a form of direct payment. Still not satisfied, Joerg had managed to convince many shops on the street, Graefestraße, to do the same, and for this reason the area was dubbed by the few nerds who knew about it and by the owners of those same shops, Bitcoin Kiez. While I was interviewing Andreas (for a documentary I was shooting), around us a bunch of developers and crypto anarchists were chatting and drinking, but Andreas was so focused on his story and I was consequently so busy trying to understand what he was saying that the voices around us had disappeared.
 · 4chan · art · blockchain · climate-change · copyright · crypto-art · decentralization · digital-art · memes · nft-s

www.ftm.nl > Daan Appels, Lucien Hordijk and Tim Robbe
De jeugdzorgadviseur van 1,5 miljard is het adviseren moe
2 apr. 2021 - Tim Robbe adviseerde honderden gemeenten over de inkoop en predikte jarenlang het evangelie van keuzevrijheid. Inmiddels zijn er duizenden zorgbedrijven bijgekomen en geeft bijna elke gemeente meer geld uit aan jeugdzorg dan er binnenkomt. Dat was niet wat consultant Robbe voor ogen had. ‘Ik vraag me steeds vaker af of ik niet ook maar een van de vele poppetjes ben die uit deze ruif eet, maar geen noemenswaardig verschil maakt.’
 · decentralization · freedom-of-choice · healthcare · netherlands · youth

www.nrc.nl > Marleen Stikker and Sander van der Waal
Politiek moet eindelijk Big Tech mores leren
15 jan. 2021 - Internet: Het beschaafd houden van conversaties tussen mensen kunnen we niet uitbesteden aan technologie en enkele multimiljardairs, schrijven Marleen Stikker en Sander van der Waal.
 · algorithmic-regulation · antitrust · big-tech · content-moderation · decentralization · democracy · deplatforming · disinformation · freedom-of-expression · parler · public-domain · public-spaces · public-values · safe-harbor

medium.com > Tim Pastoor
Fixing Orwellian Reputation Systems
29 mar. 2017 - Reputation systems on the Internet are very helpful, very powerful, and can sometimes become very scary. In this article, I will explain traditional reputation systems (based on blacklisting), and propose a system that works completely counter-wise (based on whitelisting), which gives the user more relevant search results, and more control over his/her own data.
 · decentralization · identity · peer-to-peer · reputation · trust

www.groene.nl > Belia Heilbron, Emiel Woutersen, Karlijn Kuijpers and Thomas Muntz
Door een gebrek aan visie en regie bij VWS tuimelde Nederland onvoorbereid de tweede golf in
16 dec. 2020 - Het ministerie van VWS dat Nederland door de coronacrisis moet leiden, had ook na de eerste golf geen visie, geen regie, geen plan. Terwijl zorgorganisaties smeekten om sturing was VWS afwezig en tuimelden we onvoorbereid de tweede golf in. ‘Je hebt een overheid nodig die knopen durft door te hakken.’
 · covid-19 · decentralization · netherlands

onezero.medium.com > Cory Doctorow
How to Destroy ‘Surveillance Capitalism’
26 aug. 2020 - Surveillance capitalism is just capitalism — with surveillance. Here’s how to beat it.
 · advertising · amazon · antitrust · apple · attention · big-tech · black-struggle · capitalism · collective-action-problems · conspiracy-thinking · copyright · cybercrime · dark-patterns · data-breaches · data-protection · decentralization · digital-rights · disinformation · domination · drm · epistemology · facebook · false-positives · free-will · google · identity-theft · inequality · instagram · interoperability · machine-learning · mass-surveillance · monopolies · network-effects · patents · persuasion · privacy · privatized-enforcement · regulation · regulatory-capture · ring-doorbell · security · snapchat · surveillance-capitalism · targeting · technical-debt

newleftreview.org > Evgeny Morozov
Digital Socialism?
24 may. 2019 - What opportunities does the new feedback infrastructure of data capitalism offer for non-market forms of social coordination? Hayek and the Calculation Debate revisited in the age of big data.
 · algorithmic-regulation · amazon · artificial-intelligence · capitalism · cold-war · complexity · cybernetics · decentralization · deliberative-democracy · digital-socialism · feedback-infrastructure · fintech · friedrich-hayek · inequality · institutions · marxism · nudging · power · solidarity · uber