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Useful Links & Downloadable Content

Useful Links:

Magna Carta:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta

Electronic Frontier Foundation:
https://www.eff.org/work

Palantir Principles - Privacy & Civil Liberties:
https://www.palantir.com/pcl/principles/

The Citizen Lab:
https://citizenlab.ca/

Psst:
https://psst.org/support

Aaron Swartz Quotes:
https://www.azquotes.com/author/41774-Aaron_Swartz

Cyber Collective:
https://www.cybercollective.org/resources

What Is Money Media:
https://breedlove.io/reading/

Information Is Beautiful:
https://informationisbeautiful.net/

Electronic Privacy Information Center:
https://epic.org/

Dyne:
https://dyne.org/

Moxie:
https://moxie.org/

Misinformation Research:
https://www.airtable.com/universe/expPeddCpX0wOeNNE/misinformation-research

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists:
https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/

Transparency International:
https://www.transparency.org/en/

Signal:
https://signal.org/blog/

The TOR Project:
https://www.torproject.org/

Downloads

Earth Democracy: Connecting Rights Of Mother Earth To Human Rights And Well-being Of All

A New Direction For Students in An AI World

Spiral Of Silence

Crystallizing Public Opinion

Our Universe Is But One Page In A Large Book

Conventions And Protocol Relating To The Status of Refugees

The Defence Reformation

Meditations On Moloch

Toward Perpetual Peace

Propaganda

From Visibility To Vulnerability: When Social Media Fails Human Rights Defenders

What Is Public Narrative?

Mind Control: Past And Future

The Masculine Birth Of Time

The Hidden Persuaders

Secret Of The Golden Flower

Sowing Hunger, Reaping Profits

The Child's Conception of the World

Disruption and Harms in Online Gaming Framework

Education And The Significance Of Life

Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture To Technology

Who Audits The Auditors?

The Tacit Dimension

I, Pencil

Understanding Media

Free Culture

Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System

Ends and Means - An Enquiry into the Nature of Ideals and into the Methods employed for their Realisation

Raw Thought Raw Nerve

Freedom From The Known

Palantir Human Rights Policy

Praxeology as the Method of the Social Sciences

The Bushido of Bitcoin

Why Ain'cha Rich

The Educationist As Painkiller

The Denial Of Death

Understanding Media: Extensions of Man

The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society

A CERN Model for Studying The Information Environment

Truth And Power

Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance Between The Vatican, The CIA and The Mafia

Rockefeller Medicine Men: Medicine& Capitalism In America

You Are Not A Gadget - A Manifesto

Lateral Reading and the Nature of Expertise: Reading Less and Learning More When Evaluating Digital Information

Objectivity In Journalism

Permanent Record

Battle for the Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and Brainwashing - How Evangelists, Psychiatrists, Politicians, and Medicine Men Can Change Your Beliefs and Behavior

The Paradox Of Choice: Why More Is Less

Change-Centric Journalism: Reframing The Value Proposition Of News For The AI age

Predicting Game Difficulty And Churn Without Players

The Metamorphosis Of Prime Intellect

The Free Speech Recession Hits Home

The Real World Of Technology

The Wisdom Of The Crowds

“The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (1974)