(On Eden Ahbez's "Nature Boy")
Zoe Baker traces historical meanings of the word proletariat and it uses by 19th century socialists.
A recording of Zoe reading the essay here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnxpfpXF_es
Today I learned that Shepard Fairey designed the Soviet-style Mozilla poster/mascot.
"So that was the time that I somehow convinced a multi-billion dollar corporation to give away the source code to their flagship product and re-brand it using propaganda art by the world's most notorious graffiti artist." -jwz
"Jesse Stewart survived from ad revenues on YouTube, but fame came at a cost"
"From Soapy Smith in the 1880s to James Hogue in the 2020s, scammers are a staple of Colorado."
"Mathias Rust (born 1 June 1968) is a German aviator known for his flight that ended with a landing near Red Square in Moscow on 28 May 1987. A teenage amateur pilot, he flew from Helsinki, Finland, to Moscow, without authorization."
"In the early hours of February 4, 1999, an unarmed 23-year-old Guinean student named Amadou Diallo (born September 2, 1975) was fired upon with 41 rounds and shot a total of 19 times by four New York City Police Department plainclothes officers: Sean Carroll, Richard Murphy, Edward McMellon, and Kenneth Boss."
"Although Congress instructed the Attorney General in 1994 to compile and publish annual statistics on police use of excessive force, this was never carried out, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation does not collect these data."
I thought it could be interesting to discuss some what-ifs, trying to imagine what the future of technology will look like in the face of this strong global anti-democratic trend. What technologies will we all be asked to make and what concessions will be forced upon us?