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The Story of Morgan Hill
Bruce Person has a nice short article on how Morgan Hill coped with being forcibly firewalled from the internet. In short, they did well because of embedded resiliency – public/private partnerships coupled with actually useful government services focused on other … Continue reading
TweetBombs as Social Engineering
SingularityHub describes the potential of Twitter to direct the actions of millions (or even billions) of voluntary zombies (a la a flashmob). The idea is interesting, and one I’ve written about before, but Keith Kleiner gets lost in issues of … Continue reading
Scrip!
CNN has a pretty long article on the topic. BerkShares, Ithaca Hours have the focus: But creating a local currency isn’t easy. First, there are the start-up costs. Witt’s group spent $250,000 in grant money to create the BerkShares. There … Continue reading
Sterling’s ‘White Fungus’
Excellent read about a 20-something-on life in a post-education-bubble-Orlovian world impacted by climate, financial, and energy crises. (Link is to the teaser, whole thing is in Beyond. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.
LOL: Pirates as Part of a Grand Jihadi Conspiracy
Look, Walid’s a nice guy but this is a laughable caricature of institutional legacy thinking: Here is why: these so-called Somali pirates are strategically different from their historical predecessors in the Caribbean, or from their contemporary colleagues in archipelagoes around … Continue reading