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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has said a lot of the right things these last few weeks — and quite forcefully. I appreciate his tough stance!
He is, however, a person with a long history of inaction, foot-dragging, administrative bungling, and generally disappointing follow-through. He also does not appear to have Minneapolis Police under his thumb: despite being legally forbidden from assisting ICE, they’ve been clearing a wide path for them while giving them fist bumps (literally).
So: what •action• is Frey taking? What action can / should we demand of his government?
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"What has not changed in 50 years is the fact we are still using centralized architectures, prone to government intrusion and privacy leaks. Maybe it is time to think about a “Post Cloud” era where information is distributed instead of centralized. Of course this raises questions of trust, cryptography, security and collaboration, but the technology to build such systems already exists. It is more of a question of policy and education than of technology."

Somebody Else's Computer As A Service
On November 12, 1990, a 35 year-old Bill Gates introduced his "Information at your Fingertips" concept during his keynote at COMDEX. The PC, he said, would become "more personal," integrating "fax, voice and electronic mail," and providing "easy access to a broad range of information." More or less at the same time, Tim Berners-Lee was giving the final touches to the first web browser and web server software ever put in production. Bill Gates was right; as any Internet user can easily confirm 3…

Series C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
ULTRA 1: We have collected a great deal of information about earth and its dominant species, with one important omission. We intend to rectify that deficiency.
DAYNA: And if we agree?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/310/505 B7B5

People and parties in the EU will probably try again to argue that we should start a "dialogue" with Trump, but about what? How can we have a dialogue about giving up sovereignty? Because it is clear Trump is only interested in ownership and acquiring Greenland. Not in other measures.
#Trump #Greenland

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 07 - Assassin
AVON: And reduce our chances of finding Cancer by a third. Out of the question.
SOOLIN: Why don't we lock her in here?
TARRANT: He got out of the hold, he can get into it.
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