Mark A. Matienzo @anarchivist@chaos.social
Recalcitrant archivist, information scientist, and ambient musician.
Joined Nov 2017
blown away by the magic that is digitalocean yet again
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On authors who were publishing information technology panopticon concerns in the 1980s, or earlier
A quickie dump.
Paul Baran / RAND
"On the Engineer's Responsibility in Protecting Privacy"
"On the Future Computer Era: Modification of the American Character and the Role of the Engineer, or, A Little Caution in the Haste to Number"
"The Coming Computer Utility -- Laissez-Faire, Licensing, or Regulation?"
"Remarks on the Question of Privacy Raised by the Automation of Mental Health Records"
"Some Caveats on the Contribution of Technology to Law Enforcement"
Largely written/published 1967--1969.
https://www.rand.org/pubs/authors/b/baran_paul.html
Willis Ware / RAND
Too numerous to list fully, 1960s --1990s. Highlights:
"Security and Privacy in Computer Systems" (1967)
"Computers in Society's Future" (1971)
"Records, Computers and the Rights of Citizens" (1973
"Privacy and Security Issues in Information Systems" (1976)
"Information Systems, Security, and Privacy" (1983)
"The new faces of privacy" (1993)
https://www.rand.org/pubs/authors/w/ware_willis_h.html
Misc
Shoshana Zuboff, In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power (1988) Notably reviewed in the Whole Earth Catalog's Signal: Communication Tools for the Information Age (1988).
https://www.worldcat.org/title/in-the-age-of-the-smart-machine-the-future-of-work-and-power/oclc/60966402 https://archive.org/details/inageofsmartmach00zubo/page/n7/mode/2up
"Danger to Civil Rights?", 80 Microcomputing (1982)
https://archive.org/stream/80_Microcomputing_Issue_26_1982-02_1001001_US#page/n295/mode/2up (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14329877)
"Computer-Based National Information Systems: Technology and Public Policy", NTIS (September 1981)
http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/ota/Ota_5/DATA/1981/8109.PDF
"23 to Study Computer ‘Threat’" (1970)
https://www.nytimes.com/1970/03/12/archives/23-to-study-computer-threat.html
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
"Privacy and Information Technology" bibliography is largely 1990--present, but contains some earlier references.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/it-privacy/#Bib
Similarly "Privacy"
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/privacy/
Credit Reporting / Legislation
US Privacy Act of 1974
https://www.justice.gov/opcl/privacy-act-1974
Invasion of Privacy Act 1971 - Queensland Government, Australia
https://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/view/pdf/inforce/current/act-1971-050
Arthur R. Miller, The assault on privacy: computers, data banks, and dossiers
https://archive.org/details/assaultonprivacy00mill/page/n7/mode/2up
"The Computer, the Consumer and Privacy" (1984)
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/04/weekinreview/the-computer-the-consumer-and-privacy.html
Richard Boeth / Newsweek
The specific item I'd had in mind:
Richard Boeth, "Is Privacy Dead", Newsweek, July 27, 1970
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/11/is-privacy-dead.html%EF%BB%BF
Direct PDF: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/712228/1970-newsweek-coverstory-privacy.pdf
Based on an HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24851736
#privacy #surveillance #panopticon #PaulBaran #WillisWare #RAND #ShoshanaZuboff #RichardBoeth #CreditReporting
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I am absolutely floored by the Ethical Web and Consentful Communications panels at #w3cTPAC. I hope the recordings are easily available cos there are so many people I want to share these with. Visions of hope for a better Web! https://rhiaro.co.uk/2020/10/absolutely
https://www.w3.org/2020/10/TPAC/breakout-schedule.html#ethical-web
https://www.w3.org/2020/10/TPAC/breakout-schedule.html#consentful-comm
🔖 Rodrigo Ochigame, "Informatics of the Oppressed" –
> [F]rom the very beginnings of informatics—the science of information—as an institutionalized field in the 1960s, anti-capitalists have tried to imagine less oppressive, perhaps even liberatory, ways of indexing and searching information. Two Latin American social movements in particular—Cuban socialism and liberation theology—inspired experiments with different approaches to informatics from the 1960s to the… https://matienzo.org/2020/293/ochigame/
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Jean Tinguely's kinetic sculptures are still really relevant these days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MqsWqBX4wQ&ab_channel=GiselleZatonyl
food
Tavuk köfte. Added some roasted peppers and chard to increase the veg.
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Normalize talking about how much you're paid with your co-workers.
It is the only way people will truly realize the income disparity between themselves and their just-as-qualified queer and/or BIPoC friends and colleagues.
This should be normal in ever industry. The fact it isn't is actively aiding executives in systemically discriminating against minority groups.
Starting to have some illformed thoughts about decentralization and #hamradio. Somewhat unsurprised to see #indieweb folks who are also hams but still a little excited to see that.
Also, really interested to think about how to have "political" conversations about the hobby in one that focuses on 'tolerance' and avoiding 'impolite topics' on air.
food
Before this totally awesome ham radio chat I made refried beans with these beautiful ayocote mirador beans, and had them on scrambled egg tacos with avocado and homemade curtido
🔖 Skills for Revolutionary Survival: 5. Communications Equipment for Rebels –
> Face the facts. We are tied to our devices in ways that are incredibly useful for organizing, but that also expose us to isolation should the state and companies take away these technologies. Cell phones and the internet rely on corporate infrastructure and is subject to both government surveillance and service denial. What do we do when social media bans anti-capitalists and… https://matienzo.org/2020/291/iaf-radio/
🔖 Step Inside The Museum of Obsolete Library Science –
It takes a special kind of confidence to call your company Innovative Interfaces, especially when your innovation seems to be to just take a regular keyboard and make a bunch of the keys not do anything. (https://matienzo.org/2020/290/molisci/)
food, mh
work/
anxiety is leading to stress baking. made chocolate chip cookies with muesli and 100% brown sugar. would recommend.
🔖 WR: Mysteries of the Organism—Beyond the Liberation of Desire –
> On the occasion of the birthday of Yugoslavian director Dušan Makavejev, who passed away last year, we explore what his classic 1971 film _WR: Mysteries of the Organism_ has to offer today’s struggles against nationalism, fascism, and dogmatism. (https://matienzo.org/2020/288/makavejev/)
feelings
i'm angry, that's all
🔖 Kelly Pendergrast, "Disassembly Required" –
> Instead, what would it look like relate to today’s machines as the 19th century weavers did, and make decisions about technology in the present? To look past the false promise of the future, and straight at what the robot embodies now, who it serves, and how it works for or against us. (https://matienzo.org/2020/287/pendergrast/)
Last night’s AX.25 failures turned into success! I followed K1CHN’s second post on using the TH-D74A’s TNC over Bluetooth, and successfully made my first connection to a packet BBS, N6ZX-4 on Kings Mountain. #hamradio
I bought a second-hand Kenwood TH-D74A recently (through Craigslist). I’ve messed about with APRS on it, used it for my first SOTA activation, and now am trying to get it hooked up to my Raspberry Pi to use its built-in KISS TNC for Winlink and packet BBSes. K1CHN’s post has been useful. However, shortly after connecting something is leading to it “disconnecting” over USB, with `cdc_acm ...: failed to set dtr/rts` showing up in the kernel message and adding a new device… https://matienzo.org/2020/281/th-d74a-packet/
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@platypus @hugh man consider being an American who moves and naturalizes. Like I use pounds for body weight but grams for other things. Inches when I'm trying to estimate how long something is but centimetres when I go to measure. Fortunately I'm all Celsius now except I gotta do hurried conversions in my head when I talk to my parents etc
🔖 Julia Viebach, "Transitional archives: towards a conceptualisation of archives in transitional justice", *International Journal of Human Rights*, 2020 –
> This paper seeks to trouble and complicate core assumptions about transitional justice and archives and to critically examine the relationship between them. Records about conflict and dictatorship are like records in general never only a reflection of realities, but they constitute these realities. Following… https://matienzo.org/2020/276/viebach/
Recalcitrant archivist, information scientist, and ambient musician.
Joined Nov 2017
