Statement from the TOR Foundation

2016-07-29 Thread nettime's sub-committee
Statement Posted July 27th, 2016 by ssteele https://blog.torproject.org/blog/statement-0 Seven weeks ago, I published a blog post saying that Jacob Appelbaum had left the Tor Project, and I invited people to contact me as the Tor Project began an investigation into allegations regarding his

Re: WG: Fwd: Re: Forms of decisionism

2016-07-29 Thread Adrian McEwen
[I'm really enjoying the discussion in this thread, thanks all!] If we do end up with a new vastly distributed factory then the question becomes how do we build a similarly distributed and decentralised system to orchestrate it? There are already many startups (3dhubs.com, WikiFactory,

Re: Fwd: Re: Forms of decisionism

2016-07-29 Thread Alex Foti
Dear Brian, Felix, and all the Schumpeterian state is already with us (e.g. The Entrepreneurial State by Mazzuccato). The crisis has brought industrial policy back into fashion, and today this means innovation policy, or rather incentives and subsidies for digital innovation. So in a sense, all