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WATCH: Take Back Our Tech – #SolutionsWatch

Ramiro Romani of TakeBackOurTech.org and AbovePhone.com joins James Corbett on the latest edition of SolutionsWatch to discuss technology: what it is, how it works, and how we can make it work for us. They discuss how governments and big tech corporations are collaborating to undermine our rights to privacy, free expression and even freedom of …

WATCH: The Dutch School of Understanding – #SolutionsWatch

Tjeerd Andringa joins James Corbett on #SolutionsWatch to discuss his cancellation from his former position at the University of Groningen and, more importantly, how that prompted him to create the School of Understanding. Designed as a small-scale, decentralized, effective, and cheap solution to the problems of our current schooling, the School of Understanding that Andringa …

This Week in the New Normal #69

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. Government-backed house sharing The Provincial Government of Nova Scotia is investing 1.3 million dollars in “Happipad”, a house sharing app. The public-private partnership is …

22 Memes to Get You Through the Day – Aliens R Real Edition

Our first memes in many a moon, and it’s fittingly space-themed. As expected, the US Congress’ “UFO hearings” sparked a rash of meme activity. Enough to spark this back to life. 1. Even the professional memers were getting in on the act. 2. Weirdly, nobody really seemed to care about the “revelations” very much… 3. …