- Jan 2024
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www.jstor.org www.jstor.org
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Horwitz, Morton J. The Transformation of American Law, 1780–1860. Harvard University Press, 1977. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1smjvd6.
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- Dec 2021
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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In order to truly have checks and balances, we should not have the same people setting the agendas of big tech, research, government and the non-profit sector. We need alternatives. We need governments around the world to invest in communities building technology that genuinely benefits them, rather than pursuing an agenda that is set by big tech or the military. Contrary to big tech executives’ cold-war style rhetoric about an arms race, what truly stifles innovation is the current arrangement where a few people build harmful technology and others constantly work to prevent harm, unable to find the time, space or resources to implement their own vision of the future.
She's talking about monopolies here. How can we break the monopolies of big tech?
Here again is an example of the extreme power of granting corporations the ability to be protected as "people".
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- Jun 2021
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docdrop.org docdrop.org
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it is not about the product
it is not about the product, but about the process—Christopher R. Rogers
In humanity there is no product. We're collectively about the process.
Similar to the idea of human "being" not human "doing".
Sadly corporations have been exerting power over people and turning us into products or inputs in their processes and dramatically devaluing and erasing our humanity.
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- May 2021
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harpers.org harpers.org
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It occurs to me that the Clubhouse management actually cares very little about the long-term fates of these kids.
Twas ever thus in corporate America
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- Mar 2021
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davidgerard.co.uk davidgerard.co.uk
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An NFT is a crypto-token on a blockchain. The token is virtual — the thing you own is a cryptographic key to a particular address on the blockchain — but legally, it’s property that you can buy, own or sell like any other property.
It's already caused society a lot of harm to treat corporations as people. Turning digital assets into property seems like a similar mistake in the making.
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taup.org taup.org
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Will it also help accomplish another goal — communicating to my students that a classroom of learners is, in my mind, a sort of family?
I like the broader idea of a classroom itself being a community.
I do worry that without the appropriate follow up after the fact that this sort of statement, if put on as simple boilerplate, will eventually turn into the corporate message that companies put out about the office and the company being a tight knit family. It's easy to see what a lie this is when the corporation hits hard times and it's first reaction is to fire family members without any care or compassion.
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- Feb 2021
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onezero.medium.com onezero.medium.com
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identity theft
Saw this while scrolling through quickly. Since I can't meta highlight another hypothesis annotation
identity theft
I hate this term. Banks use it to blame the victims for their failure to authenticate people properly. I wish we had another term. —via > mcr314 Aug 29, 2020 (Public) on "How to Destroy ‘Surveillance C…" (onezero.medium.com)
This is a fantastic observation and something that isn't often noticed. Victim blaming while simultaneously passing the buck is particularly harmful. Corporations should be held to a much higher standard of care. If corporations are treated as people in the legal system, then they should be held to the same standards.
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