Tag: Ethics

The Importance of Principle

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“All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” Is a rather famous aphorism.

But how do you know that you are a good man? How do you know what you should do?

I use this aphorism and the resultant questions to highlight the importance of preparation. That is of preparing ones mind for struggle and moral quandries through establishing and examining principles.

The establishment and examination of principles is perhaps the most important function of philosophy.

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Their Product? | Who owns the Internet?

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The internet is not a trendy cafe and you are not the Grand Barista. 

Technology is a cumulative collaborative process. Ideas form all round the world, needs arise, and information converges – pens are made with ball points! And internets!

So at the end of this millenia long cycle whose product is it? Sundar’s, Dorsey’s? Is it a product at all?

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Fractal Radio | Episode 17 – Should Taser/Axon be a public utility?

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Should Axon a SaaS company that emerged from Taser the LTL manufacturer of tasers be regulated? How so? Should it be considered a public utility? I frame such questions in this brief vlog.

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Fractal Radio| Episode 13 – Taser, Axon, SKYNET?

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Dana Goodyear (The New Yorker) recently visited Axon, formerly Taser. I use this story as a springboard for a discussion on policing, surveillance, and citizenship.

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https://www.policeone.com/patrol-issues/articles/60959006-7-of-the-biggest-issues-facing-law-enforcement-in-2016/

Read the Reed

https://fredoneverything.org/tales-from-the-street-trades-things-you-probably-dont-want-to-know/

https://fredoneverything.org/squad-car-dreams/

https://fredoneverything.org/christmas-in-the-street-trades/

https://fredoneverything.org/test-yourself-in-a-dark-alley/

https://fredoneverything.org/my-biochemistry-made-me-do-it-confessions-of-a-genetic-subroutine/

https://fredoneverything.org/lynching-zimmerman-and-the-coming-race-war-in-america/

https://fredoneverything.org/some-things-detwaddled-cops-race-that-sort-of-tlhings/

https://fredoneverything.org/community-policing-rounds-and-around-and-back-again/

https://fredoneverything.org/racial-profiling-the-view-from-a-squad-car/

Fractal Radio | Episode 12 – Public Safety Nervous System?

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A brief overview of some grim realities of the street trades and one companies proposed solution to violence.

The connection between Mr. Reed’s points and The New Yorker article by Mr. Goodyear will become more apparent in later videos.

Apologies for the ‘minimalist’ approach today but I’m pressed for time.

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Fractal Radio| Episode 11 – Tim Berners-Lee, Solid, and the Future of the Internet

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I review and discuss an article in Vanity Fair about internet luminary Tim Berners-Lee. Who according to livescience.com is responsible for HTML and as far as I understand, the general outline and process of WWW as we know it.

He has always favored decentralization and fears that human rights are threatened by unethical implementations of the technology he helped foster. I discuss some of these issues and his proposed solutions.

Sources

Vanity Fair (Katrina Brookers, August 2018)

https://www.livescience.com/20727-internet-history.html

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jul/23/news/la-mo-who-invented-internet-20120723

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July 4th 2018 – Celebrating the Constitution (Vlog)

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This Independence Day finds me stumbling across a recounting of a letter Washington wrote home during the Revolutionary War. I use the content of that letter as a springboard to discuss the merits of the revolution, the value of the constitution, and what it means to truly esteem those things.

Celebrations and fireworks are great but true appreciation and real patriotism can only come from the daily informed participation of citizens.

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