Google euthanized the Auckland Cat. It wasn’t me, I swear.

Dave Winer nails it for the open self-propelled internet.

From entry # 51 on my reddit today: “Why We Should Give Free Money to Everyone”, a riff on the goodness of basic income.

From entry # 55, “2040’s America will be like 1840’s Britain, with robots?”, a despairing look at how AI will put us all out of work.

But: put the two ideas together, solution.  Automation makes the cost of making things lower, so more money generated.  Basic Income decouples the money you need to live from paid work.  We’re wealthy enough now to start a basic income scheme, and the cheaper things get to make the more our basic income provides.  Won’t be long ’til we’re all doing the Green Mars thing, working on what we’re good at and what interests us, and living on the shared wealth.  We’ve talked about this before on this blog.

Funny how those two complementary ideas ended up next to one another in my reddit feed.

Seeking a Level Playing Field. Serious discussion of issues relevant to both women, and women in general, and all of us in the universal. But relegated to the Style section, NYT? Really?

Networked Music Review.

Looking forward to spelunking through their archives.

For anyone else who’s run into this: the latest TastyPie assumes you’re running Django with built-in migrations. If you’re not (like me), you’ll get an error

from django.db import models, migrations
ImportError: cannot import name migrations

Simple fix: in /lib/python2.7/site-packages/tastypie/, rename “migrations” to something else (I used “django_migrations”) and “south_migrations” to “migrations”.

13 Principles Week of Action: Secret Law is Not Law | Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Oh, right. If it’s a “law”, we need to be able to know about it and understand it. Otherwise, as the author says, it’s law as in Kafka’s “The Trial”.

Hate to say it, but searching “Seattle Sounders” on Google brings up exactly what I need, every time: next game, when, where, where I can watch it, with ways to get to more info easily. Somebody figured this one out perfectly, for me.

I’m supporting Lessig’s action to get big money out of Congress. The MayDay PAC is an attempt to use the tools that exist to change the system.

http://mayday.us

Setting Palestinians up in a Bantustan like Gaza exacerbates the problems that Israel and the world are trying (not very hard) to solve. By separating Palestinian and Israeli territory, you’re inviting ongoing disputes about where that territory starts and ends. You make likely continuing military action from both sides against concentrations of the other sides’ civilian population, which wouldn’t even be possible if the populations were commingled into one geographic area. You’re setting up two systems of property rights, so Israelis feel legally justified in taking Palestinian land.

Chomsky pointed out a few years ago that the right solution is a one-state, pluralistic, non-theologically-based one. A multicultural liberal democracy, like the rest of the civilized world. Some parts of the Israeli population see that as betraying the idea of a Jewish state. Some worry that the higher birth rates amongst Palestinians mean that over time power in Israel would naturally transfer away from what would become the Jewish minority. So be it. Theocracies are relics of an older era, and bring nothing but conflict. South Africa tried preserving the rights of the minority by oppressing the majority, and we wouldn’t stand for it then.