McFilter: March 2016 Archives

March 28, 2016

Hardening my Development Machine. A secure system is like the horizon - always further away when you think you've got there. But there's lots of value in chasing after it, so it's good to see Paul sharing how he's moved on with it.
what Thomas Hardy taught me. An excellent piece on education reform or efforts to "fix" education, and how they miss the point.

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Man 2 Man Meet Man Panel - “Male Speaker”. Nice policy to encourage fewer all-male speaker tracks.
Cameron, Corbyn, The City and Steampunk. The main article linked at the top is a good read, but the comments thread is (as you'd expect from MeFi) engaging too.
Use the words normal people would use. Wise words from Giles, on how to write for companies.
No Motive. Heh, my bank balance suffers for it, but as last Friday's performance at Liverpool Acoustic Festival testifies, there's still plenty of doing stuff for the hell of it around here.
Weeks 167-169. Tom, eloquent as ever in capturing a nebulous concept or feeling or whatever, on the importance of carrying on.
From Adam Smith to Duncan Smith. Text of Paul Mason's speech to the Adam Smith Business School. Interesting thoughts on how we de-financialise the economy and encourage more development in the open source and collaborative economy(NOT the gig economy that masquerades as that)

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Corbynism and Its Futures. Long interesting explanation and exploration of the state of the political left in the UK. If it's right in its assertion that "elections are almost entirely decided by the votes of a few hundred thousand swing voters in marginal constituencies", then is that an opportunity to focus attention for civic tech and/or new Internet-age institutions to help improve democracy?
In solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub. Charging so much for access to academic publishing in the modern age is ridiculous.
Design as Participation. Excellent proposal for how design should evolve, from Kevin Slavin.

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