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The Post-Human World

What is tr@nshumanism? How do we understand the push for a post-industrial world? In this video I outline the meaning of terms, who invented them, what circles they were part of and how to understand their writings in terms of future projections. We cover Charles Galton Darwin, Bernays, the Huxleys and more. Please be sure to like, share, comment and subscribe.

Analog Equivalent Rights (20/21): Your analog boss couldn’t read your mail, ever

Europe: Slack has updated its Terms of Service to let your manager read your private conversations in private channels. Our analog parents would have been shocked and horrified at the very idea that their bosses would open packages and read personal messages that were addressed to them. For our digital children, it’s another shrugworthy part of everyday life.
The analog plain old telephone system, sometimes abbreviated POTS, is a good template for how things should be even in the digital world. This is something that lawmakers got mostly right in the old analog world.

Once again: Privacy promises from a company are worth nothing, because companies can’t promise anything

Global: In the last post, I recalled that the only thing that matter whether data collection is taking place is whether it's technically possible, and that if you carry an electronic sensor, you must assume it to be active. Here's why it doesn't matter one bit if the sensor was made with "good guys" with exemplary and outstanding Terms and Conditions.

Once again: If you carry a sensor of any kind, you must assume it to be active and collecting data, you can’t trust pinky promises

Global: As Quartz revealed, Google has been tracking your location since the start of 2017. At this point, the story should not be about why Google did this, but why, with all the experience at hand, anybody expected otherwise. Privacy is your own responsibility today.

How did the free sharing of scientific knowledge and culture become the worst crime our justice systems could think of?

Corruption: Sci-Hub is starting to get judgments and censorship applied against it. It’s noteworthy that not even murder or genocide is considered cause for such Internet censorship as is now being applied to Sci-Hub. How and when did the free sharing of scientific knowledge become the worst conceivable crime?

A suggested definition for “Bitcoin to the Moon”

Bitcoin: “Bitcoin to the Moon” has long been a common saying, but nobody knows what it really means. I propose it is time to define “bitcoin to the Moon” to mean the most literal interpretation possible.
In the bitcoin community — and I mean that in the most inclusive sense, in all communities that call themselves the bitcoin community, regardless of whether they are the Judean People’s Front or the People’s Front of Judea — there is a saying of “bitcoin to the moon”, meaning it will rise above the normally-scaled financial charts so high it will touch the moon.