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I regard myself as a “Basic Income” advocate. I think that some form of socialized (state nationalized?) income will become necessary. I am of the conviction that in the next few decades there will be such severe technological unemployment that (insofar we retain democracy) the state will be forced by an electorate to “take” resources…

I have been active in transhumanism for several years and in most cases I find myself in agreement with many preferences, values and assumptions prevalent in Transhumanism. Transhumanism is an ideology of plausibles, arguables and fictionals. In other words – Transhumanists make statements on future developments that can be commonly regarded to be likely, debatable…

It was well received. It was only half the recording, they ran into the 15 minute limit. I was quite actually tired, my presentation was pushed back 90 minutes. I should have taken a modafinil I suppose.

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I invite interested parties in the area to attend meetups. These MeetUps will wander around the The Hague area. I would be delighted hosting people with an active interest in Trans-humanism, Technoprogresisve Values, Futurism, Futurology, Singularity, Science Fiction, Existential Risk, Long View, Future Scenario-building and Future (Trend) Analysis. The format will initially be open, emphasizing…

The USBIG NewsFlash is both the newsletter of the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee (USBIG) Network and the U.S. edition of the Basic Income Earth Network’s NewsFlash. The USBIG Network (www.usbig.net) promotes the discussion of the basic income guarantee (BIG) in the United States. BIG is a policy that would unconditionally guarantee at least a subsistence-level…

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I just had quite a vacation in Croatia. I was on a boat. This was the skipper our boat. He is quite the character!

Update Links 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28!, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, (etc…) I had the pleasure to be invited by the SHARE people last year 2012 in Belgrade. For…

They are Kelly and Alex, sisters. . . . .

Originally from reddit: Pretext: A lot of people are analyzing this recent PRISM surveillance thing and speculating on what’s going on. It’s not a mystery. A lot of people are construing this to be explicitly a privacy issue. While I agree that privacy is a fundamental part of a democracy, I am inclined to disagree…

This is how you deal with them. Mastery, I can only aspire to such power. Charisma.

Source!!! A score of recent defense department and other official documents warn that climate change, energy shocks and economic crisis could trigger waves of civil unrest. The understanding seems to explain the proliferation of security and surveillance programs over the last decade. The preparation makes sense from the perspective of governments (four of which—the U.K.,…

Better Source / 5.0 Pretext: A lot of people are analyzing this recent PRISM thing and speculating on what’s going on. It’s not a mystery. A lot of people are construing this as a privacy issue. While I agree that privacy is an integral part of a democracy, I am inclined to disagree that this…

(source!!) We have all heard about young men (and they do seem to be almost all men) who it is said have become anti-social, who spend most of their time at computers, on the internet, with few friends, seeming of little value to greater society. But is this really a correct view of these men?…

* Scraping the barrel for revenues: Private Prison Profits Skyrocket, As Executives Assure Investors Of ‘Growing Offender Population’; Titans; * Snoopgate: Surveillance Can be Used to Frame You, If Someone In Government “Happens to Take a Dislike to You”; America’s New Normal: Mass Surveillance, Secret Courts and Death to Whistleblowers; “If They Want to Get…

Large segments of society are embracing a cadaver willingly, full of desire. The Cadaver is Thanatos, the will to embrace death itself. Division was created based on the works of Clancy, not a moral human being to start with, and this game revels in the adoration of a world where millions have died under horrible…

I wrote an article about “Eugenics” several years ago, and at the time I didn’t fully appreciate how insidiously tainted the term “eugneics” has become. Eugenics is a curse word. The very idea of Eugenics can no longer be disassociated from the atrocities waged in its name. On account of this idea people were imprisoned,…

Space: Elon Musk Goes Full Mars; Us Foreign Policy: Ex CIA Chief Debunks US Foreign Policy Myths (Hint: is too expensive); Sociology: Atheism Reloaded; Oil: Seven Sisters 1; Dangerous Times As Energy Sources Get Costlier To Extract; Scary Shit: Insidious 2; Japan: Places where no people are born; Dystopia: NK; Authoritarian NeoLiberalism; The Death of…