I had a wonderful time at LambdaConf 2019 in Boulder. Some of the concepts were familiar, and gave me an opportunity to go over them again and pick up on details I missed the first ime. And some of the concepts were very much over my head, yet they made…
Technology can be seen as the mediator, or the medium between man and nature. There are no other relationships between man and nature; the whole set of complex and fragile bonds that man has patiently fashioned-poetic, magic, mythical, symbolic bonds-vanishes. There is only the technological mediation, which imposes itself and…
This deliberate splitting of technology from imagined futures and from the environment from which is grows is designed to atomize and identify technology as a concept in itself, separate from our own consciousnesses, and seeing it as it is .…
The Ellul analysis reveals the essence of the current age as a misguided attempt to achieve grace through mass unconsciousness by way of a technological system installed over a human society.…
"...engineers as the high priests of technology, who cherish technology but cannot steer it."…
Narcotics trafficking touches the legitimate economy at all levels: from the street outside our houses to the banks we use. It's not possible to understand global politics and finance without understanding the vast and secret business of drugs. In 1999, that industry was $500 billion: we can imagine what it…
Your search engine queries are valuable data, and you can be in control of that data. This article is a brief review of Searx, an open-source and publicly-hosted search engine proxy and aggregator. I have been a Searx and DuckDuckGo user for more than a year now and have experienced…