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A presentation which challenges money users to examine their love hate relationship with money, highlighting its capacity to sideline considerations of ethics and morality, and motivates and briefly introduces an alternative, fully decentralised economic system which does not make such cynical assumptions about what it means to be human.

2014-12-17T19:00:00Z Robin http://RobinUpton.com 5151 2014-05-27T19:00:00Z

Au audiobook of an essay by Mark Gorton which summarises this essential and much censored topic.

2014-05-27T19:00:00Z Robin http://RobinUpton.com 5150 2013-04-26T19:00:00Z

My latest presentation, which faces up to the end of money as we know it, is now online.

2013-04-26T19:00:00Z Robin http://RobinUpton.com 5149 2013-02-11T19:00:00Z

A presentation on how money affects its users.

2013-02-11T19:00:00Z Robin http://RobinUpton.com 5148 2013-02-11T19:00:00Z

I just posted a summary of several years of experience teaching English in Bangladesh.

2013-02-11T19:00:00Z Robin http://RobinUpton.com 5147 2013-02-11T19:00:00Z

A presentation I gave on plutocracy to a hacking conference in Berlin.

2013-02-11T19:00:00Z Robin http://RobinUpton.com 5146 2013-02-11T19:00:00Z

An essay I published on the Daily Kos which summarizes my opinions on schooling.

2013-02-11T19:00:00Z Robin http://RobinUpton.com 5145 2011-07-20T19:00:00Z

I have just published Wikipedia+, a browser extension for Firefox to augment Wikipedia with alternative opinions.

2013-02-11T19:00:00Z Robin http://RobinUpton.com 5144 2011-04-09T19:00:00Z

I don't twitter myself, but my Radio shows now do, thanks to indy.im.

2011-04-09T19:00:00Z Robin http://RobinUpton.com 5143 2011-04-04T17:00:01Z

I've been getting into guerilla gardening lately, fuelled by my love for papaya and a desire to start to balance my account.

2011-04-09T17:00:01Z Robin http://RobinUpton.com 5142 2011-04-04T17:00:01Z

I just made an audio version of my presentation on the corruption of money, for the radio show, UnwelcomeGuests. The message is amplified by contributions from John Taylor Gatto, Vivien Stern and George Lakoff.

2011-04-04T17:00:01Z Robin http://RobinUpton.com 5141 2010-12-25T17:00:01Z

What is called the financial 'crisis' is not an accident. The corporate media makes many misleading comparisons with earlier depressions, since this is no matter of accounting. Behind the fiction is the real ecological crisis, which will create increasingly acute pressure for change.

2010-12-25T17:00:01Z Robin http://RobinUpton.com 5140 2010-10-12T17:00:01Z

I've spent most of the last 3 months on this. I wrote a script to copy episode descriptions from Radio4all.net and post them to Mediawiki. We have 200+ topics, 100 speakers, and 500+ episodes with images plus writeups. Phew! It's a wiki, so you're welcome to join the fun by peer reviewing episodes etc.

2010-10-12T17:00:01Z Robin http://RobinUpton.com 5139 2010-08-12T17:00:00Z

This short presentation summarises some results about money which contradict the basic assumptions of economics.

2010-10-12T17:00:00Z Robin http://RobinUpton.com 5138 2010-07-25T17:00:00Z

The Corruption of Money is a long presentation which uses examples to give a graphic overview of the pattern of how money corrupts thoughts, words and deeds, firstly of individuals, then of societies and finally on a global level.

2010-08-12T17:00:00Z Robin http://RobinUpton.com 5137 2010-07-21T17:00:00Z

Unwelcome Guests has been my favourite series of MP3s for many years now. When the previous producer, <a href="http://UnwelcomeGuests.net/Lyn_Gerry">Lyn Gerry</a>, retired, it only took me a few months to realise that I wanted to continue where she left off. The show is 2 hours/weekly, and downloadable from <a href="http://UnwelcomeGuests.net">UnwelcomeGuests.net</a>

2010-07-21T17:00:00Z Robin http://RobinUpton.com 5136 2010-06-18T17:00:00Z

A standard to facilitate data migration from WWW to emerging systems such as F2F systems.

2010-07-05T17:00:00Z Robin http://RobinUpton.com 5135 2010-06-16T17:00:00Z

What does it say about US society that <i>aggressive</i> has become an accolade? A look at this and two related shifts in US English relate to wider changes in society, the rise of 'professionalism' and the redefinition of 'security' as something that flows out of the barrel of a gun.

2010-10-12T17:00:00Z Robin http://RobinUpton.com 5134 2010-06-09T17:00:00Z

Acer rate the Aspire 5810TG Timeline battery life at "8+ hours". The default install of Ubuntu 10.4 gave it just over 3 hours in ordinary use. After many days messing around... the battery now gives 6-7 hours and runs much cooler, with no noticeable performance drop. Thanks <a rel="nofollow" href="http://lesswatts.org/">lesswatts.org</a>!

2010-06-15T17:00:00Z Robin http://RobinUpton.com 5133 2010-05-17T17:00:00Z

A simple presentation I gave to answer a question that overpaid people sometimes ask me: <i>“What is wrong with money?”</i<br/>A good starter presentation to this area, which avoids details but gives an overview to my objections to the system.

2010-06-26T17:00:00Z Robin http://RobinUpton.com 5132 2010-05-13T17:00:00Z

Earth is termed "overpopulated" by people who have been conditioned to see the destructive way in which so many people now live as essential. Our destruction of nature is far from inevitable, but due to ideas of competition & conflict, which are not only ecocidally (hence suicidally) destructive, but also unnecessary. Let us abandon notions of competition, and work together to amplify the planet's natural abundance. Everyone can help!

2010-05-13T17:00:00Z Robin http://RobinUpton.com 5131 2010-04-07T17:00:00Z

A technical and wide ranging presentation I gave to <a href="http://geekup.org/events/201/">Sheffield Geek Up</a> about my work on an Internet Gift Economy, introducing for the first time my ideas about an RFC for F2F systems, but also including thoughts about centralised currencies and a range of technical content about the F2F XML-VM.

2010-05-07T17:00:00Z Robin http://RobinUpton.com 5130 2010-05-05T17:00:00Z

On 2010-02-02 I gave a presentation about how and why to create an Internet Gift Economy:   * How forced schooling prepares people for forced labour,   * Why many adults think money is necessary, and why it isn't,   * How money users pay rent on it to the money masters,   * Why a gift economy is superior to barter,   * How money warps our conception of profitability,   * How software could offer an alternative,   * An introduction to Altruistic Economics.

2010-06-26T17:00:00Z Robin http://RobinUpton.com 5129 2010-03-09T17:00:00Z

A technical manual explanation of how to run a Friend2Friend server.

2010-03-09T17:00:00Z Robin http://RobinUpton.com 5128 2010-02-25T17:00:00Z

A fifteen minute recording I gave to <a href="http://radiofreebrighton.org.uk/">Radio Free Brighton</a> about how I came up with the idea of altruistic economics.

2010-02-25T17:00:00Z Robin http://RobinUpton.com 5127 2010-01-08T17:00:00Z

Traces the origins of hierarchy, highlighting the role of the international financier clique in financing European wars. Continues by explaining the importance of hierarchy in education and other social structures such as politics, law and business. It highlights its weaknesses such as wastefulness, proneness to subversion by secret societies & general lack of resilience to disruptions. It examines the role of psychopathic ideologies in furthering sociopathic behaviour, and looks at the hold they have over normal people. In the light of ever more free flowing information, this presentation concludes that the tactics of false flag terror are increasingly risky in the 21st century, and that resource depletion - especially energy - mean that centralised power is becoming infeasible. It concludes with a look at decentralised, local alternatives, and gives some hints about how to resist the collapse of hierarchical power.

2010-05-05T17:00:00Z Robin http://RobinUpton.com 5126 2005-11-25T17:00:00Z

A presentation I originally gave in 2005 to Dhaka University Computer Science department, explaining the technical steps needed for creation of an internet gift economy. I revised it 4 years later for presentation at C-base during the 2009 CCC Hacking conference.

2010-01-12T17:00:00Z