@H+ :: Anarcho-Transhumanism

• How technology is making censorship irrelevant
• A new tool (Feed Over Email) to beat internet censorship
• Google releases censorship tools
• How to record the cops
• Court allows warrantless cell location tracking
• Schneier on wiretapping the internet
• Government uses social networking sites for more than investigation
• Open science as humanity’s best hope
• The Open Source Sensing Initiative
• Another reason to use Tor
• Movements for Climate Action: Towards Utopia or Apocalypse?
• Cheap plastic solar cells — “cheaply produced solar cells have the ability to transform poorer countries and their energy demands.”
• What are reproductive rights?
• More critique of the Singularity University by Cascio
• Religious bioconservatives react to transhumanism
• The conspiracy industry and the lure of fascism
• Cognitive slaves — Facebook, Google, etc profiting off of free labor

• July 31st Call to Action Against Racism and Fascism
• Chomsky’s advice for anarchists
• How politics rely on disgust
• Why misogynists make great informants
• Can technology bring on a worldwide social revolution?
• Free software as part of the anarchist toolkit
• Secure communication for Android
• Two new issues of Hack This Zine
• Why transhumanism is the best bet for avoiding extinction (from 2009, but good)
• Monopolists of the genetic code
• Google and CIA invest in future of web monitoring
• Obama’s Surveillance Power Grab
• Corporate profits return, but there’s zero hiring

• The Appleseed Project: an open-source distributed social networking project. An alternative to Facebook, and unlike Diaspora, is already running. Originated in anarchist circles. Development.  Drumbeat. Beta. Latest Source. Facebook. Twitter.
• IT in Developing Nations Makes Women and Poor Happier.
• Infoladies of Bangladesh Revolutionize Rural Life.
• Afrocyberpunk: “But here in Africa, development has been dangerously asymmetrical. By the time any product hits our soil it’s already fully-developed and ready to be abused by the imagination. Technology designed for vastly different societies invariably trickles down to our streets, re-sprayed, re-labeled, and hacked to fit whatever market will take it. Regulation? You can forget about regulation.”
• James Hughes on Beyond the Human Race — and “Human Racism”
• Nobody Encrypts Their Phone Calls. Some interesting links and talk in the comments.
• Google Launches Encrypted Search
• Twitter’s Role in Bangkok Conflict.
• Leaking Legitimacy. “… it’s become increasingly clear that there is a coordinated information operations campaign in place to downplay the impact of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill … eyt another body blow to the nation-state and the global market system as legitimate organizational constructs.”
• Interview with Meredith Patterson from DIYBio
• Craig Venter Creates Synthetic Life: This is major, major scientific news. The ETC calls for a moratorium on synthetic biology (ain’t going to happen). Ken MacLeod offers commentary.
• Open Letter to Glenn Beck from AK Press. “From what sense we can make of your show, you seem happy with “altering” rather than “abolishing” a screwed-up system. For you, replacing the old boss with a new one (Sarah Palin?) is good enough. We understand that you’re confused–these are confusing times. But, deep down, you and the tea partiers know that you can’t trust any politician, or banker, or corporate hack, or union bureaucrat…or anyone who makes their living sucking power and profit from ordinary people. Which, unfortunately, probably includes multi-millionaires like you.

Various items of interest that have crossed our paths in the last few weeks:

• Somalia: Failed State, Economic Success? An interesting perspective on how Somalia has in some ways done better despite a lack of central government.
• Using social ills of the future to bootstrap networked resilient communities.
• The Internet: Serving the Revolution? The internet as friend and foe.
• Fighting the fascists using direct action hacktivism.
• 1024-bit encryption cracked.
• The Brain Rejects Inequality: Physiological responses to unfairness.
• Using magnets to manipulate morality.
• Why I Won’t Be Buying an iPad, and Why It Doesn’t Matter as Much as You Think
• Standing orders for open-source warfare