If our goal is to change the world, we should try changing a party as a trial run. If it doesn't work this time, then we create a new one.
Occupy the Party: the Sanders campaign as a site of struggle
Author NoneckPosted on February 17, 2016 Format QuoteCategories UncategorizedLeave a comment on Occupy the Party
The Crunchies reinforce the certainty that they've already made a difference, which may explain the lackluster response to the civics segment of the show. Angel investor and philanthropist Ron Conway, the white-haired "godfather of Silicon Valley" reprimanded the crowd like a disappointed principal for shirking their duties as a citizen of San Francisco or the South Bay (for him, the East Bay doesn't exist). After Conway scolds the audience, he touts the achievements of Sf.citi, a civic group for tech companies, that's widely regarded to be a dud, despite his efforts. Last year, Conway took the podium with Mayor Ed Lee, a man-sized political puppet. This time, the local official was London Breed, the first female president of San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 16 years.
Breed talked about growing up down the street in a public housing development in an apartment with five people that cost $700 per month. She appealed to the bootstrappers in the audience — the presenters for "Best Bootstrapped Startup" acknowledged that the days of self-sufficiency are over. "You have created new jobs and new revenues for the city," she said, "Yet right or wrong your success has also created tension." Breed acknowledged the protestors outside, and she almost had me until she added, "But to them I say, 'What is your solution?'"
Silicon Valley prides itself on a solutionist worldview. Founders are told to think of a problem and then build a company that solves it. They invent problems no one has just to say it's been fixed. She should have asked the auditorium.
http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/9/8004101/sexism-and-consequences-at-techcrunch-s-annual-award-show
Author NoneckPosted on February 9, 2015 Format QuoteCategories UncategorizedTags epic fail, equalityLeave a comment on
There is something very wrong with [Uber]. It's like Richard Nixon came back from the grave and is running a startup.
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The report will say nearly three-quarters of all Airbnb rentals in the city are illegal, violating zoning or other laws. Commercial operators, not hard-luck residents, supply more than a third of the units and generate more than a third of the revenue. At least a handful of landlords are running what amount to illegal hostels.
Airbnb Listings Mostly Illegal, New York State Contends – NYTimes.com
Author NoneckPosted on October 16, 2014 Format QuoteCategories UncategorizedTags Affordable Housing, AirBnB, Sharing Economy, Smart GovernmentLeave a comment on
Competing visions of the future of the city's digital engagement with the public came to light Wednesday morning in a hearing on proposed legislation to create a city petition platform similar to the White House's We The People site.
NY City Council pushes Obama petition model, City Hall resists | Capital New York (via betanyc)
Author NoneckPosted on October 2, 2014 Format QuoteCategories UncategorizedTags BetaNYC, open government, PetitioNYC, Smart GovernmentLeave a comment on
You can set a message like "!Gather 7pm at 1st and Main" or "@press please don't photo faces" or "#Legal Aid is 2125551212″, or even just motivational messages "#staycalm #noviolence" or "#theworldiswatching". If people like what you have written, they can change their status that message, and rebroadcast another 30 feet in whatever direction they are headed. Again, it is basically Twitter combined with doing "the wave" at a football game, except the wave is powered by these little super computers radio stations we have in our pockets.
Hacking on a basic Bluetooth mesh-y concept – n∞fr∞'s open web
Author NoneckPosted on October 2, 2014 Format QuoteCategories UncategorizedTags Culture jamming, Ideas, Liberation TechLeave a comment on
In the summer of 2009, The New York Senate was the first government organization to post code to GitHub, and that fall, Washington DC quickly followed suit. By 2011, cities like Miami, Chicago, and New York; Australian, Canadian, and British government initiatives like GOV.UK; and US Federal agencies like the Federal Communications Commission, General Services Administration, NASA, and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were all coding in the open as they began to reimagine government for the 21st century.
Government opens up: 10k active government users on GitHub
Author NoneckPosted on August 15, 2014 Format QuoteCategories UncategorizedTags github, gov 2.0, history, ny senate, open source, Smart GovernmentLeave a comment on
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