Upon2020 (archive)
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A new blog for 2020
2020 has arrived, and a blog titled “Upon 2020” has outlived its usefulness. (Happy New Year!) Check out the new one: Reb00ted.org — We can sustainably, fairly, do better. It’s built with Hugo, and a bunch of custom scripts, and hopefully it will let me post more things, faster, and better, than good ol WordPress.…
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“By visiting this digital property, you consent to any indignity that increases my utility.”
Without comment — except that I want that popup, too :-)
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Notes from IndieWebCamp San Francisco 2019
This is my second IndieWebCamp SF, and Nth IndieWebCamp in total (where N probably > 4 ). Tantek is hosting at Mozilla San Francisco. I’m counting about a dozen people so far. I’ll keep adding during the day(s). Just hosted an excellent session, if I may say so, asking: what are the core technology choices…
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Data Moves Differently Now
It used to be that anybody could just grab anybody’s personal data, and used it for whatever purpose they wished. Millions and millions at a time. And could get away with it. That’s why there is a multi-hundred billion dollar data broker industry. Why Google is worth almost a trillion dollars as of today. Why…
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Venture Capital not just for maximum financial returns, the world be damned — some investors try to do better
What do you think when you hear this: “Value creation requires investing in companies that design for people; manage for trust and accountability; build products that benefit people fairly, and thereby grow sustainably. We want to invest in companies that aim to become the gold standard in building privacy, security, fairness, and inclusivity into their…