[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- Speculative direct democracy: the cybernetic tax-allocation feedback loop
- [Futurismic - Paul Raven]
Here’s a really interesting thought-experiment from Adam Rothstein, riffing off the no-fee-no-fire-brigade story and the receipt-for-your-taxes idea…
"What if after seeing this receipt, taxpayers were allowed to shift where their taxes went?…"
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- Google Launches Contest to Encourage Kids to Code
- … a new outreach effort, aimed at 13 to 18 year old students around the world. Google Code-in will operate in a similar fashion to Google's Summer of Code…
…will match students to mentoring organizations and will give them a chance to do real-world development on open source projects. Tasks for participating students can include writing code, creating documentation, training others, testing code, UI research and design, and community outreach. …
Building Future Programmers, Building the Open Source Community
- Chaos by digby
- [Hullabaloo - digby]
Ayeyayay, it just doesn't stop. The foreclosure fraud story is gaining steam with new allegations and more AGs throughout the country freezing the system. Today we find out that the bill awaiting signature on the president's desk may contain certain provisions that would exacerbate the problem and nobody seems to know how it got in the bill.
But the big picture is even more daunting. This is a crisis that just seems to have no end….
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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