GM ☕ Children learn what's normal from their daily experiences. When surveillance is omnipresent from age two onwards, it becomes invisible - not something to question or resist, but simply the way the world works.

@Marty Bent doing i buy the hardcover or paperback? @RABBIT HOLE RECAP

@Kudzai Kutukwa I decided to write it as a series. Let me know your thoughts on the first part 🙏🏻

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399 BC: an old man sits in the baking heat of the town square in Athens drinking a cup of thick, dark brew. His feet are bare and calloused, his beard white and unkempt. Socrates knows that he will die. We will all die, but he will die soon; the cup in his hand gives him a matter of minutes. He swirls the substance around and drains it, swallowing decisively. He does not know if he will be remembered. There are no writings that he will leave for posterity, curled up in a parchment or carved in stone. He does not approve of the modern technology of writing because he believes it rots the mind, robbing man of his capacity for memory and mental reflection. He came to the city to sting it awake, attaching himself to the cradle of democracy to provoke it. His job is done: 501 of his fellow citizens were so enraged by his ideas and their effect on the precious young minds of Athens that he has been sentenced to death by drinking the hemlock he holds in his hands.

Big Tech has dodged regulation by scaring policymakers with the threat that regulation would stifle innovation - no one wants to be branded a Luddite. Now that we have begun to wake up to reality, we are told that it is a done deal, something so complex and all-pervasive that we must learn to live with it. But we do not have to learn to live with a system that denies our dignity. We need to learn how to change the Internet into a system that contributes to our individual and collective liberty. In his open letter in 2019 celebrating 30 years of his invention, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: "Against the backdrop of news stories about how the web is misused, it's understandable that many people feel afraid and unsure if the web has changed in the past 30 years, it would be defeatist and unimaginative to assume that the web as we know it can't be changed in the next 30. If we give up on building a better web now, then the web will not have failed us. We will have failed the web."

World Wide Web Foundation - Founded by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web, the World Wide Web Foundation empowers people to bring about positive change.

30 years on, what’s next #ForTheWeb? - World Wide Web Foundation

On the World Wide Web’s 30th birthday, our founder and web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee reflects on how the web has changed our world and what we...

Merry Christmas Freedom Thinkers. I'm super grateful for the perspective you share with me, on Nostr everyday.

Am I smooth brained to think the idea of Santa, is to make the younger generation blindly please authority. And Christmas is an opportunity to artificially stimulate the economy?

Chinese on Christmas eve is always a good idea 🥠

GM ☕️ Santa's elves dropped off a console, - with access to games from PS1, PS2, Sega Megadrive, Super Nintendo, N64, Atari, Commodore 64, Gameboy, Gameboy colour and others with thousands of games - for the 'kids' 🤭 🎮

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Central Park during the great depression (1933) makes me think of Mandibles

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