Alberto Velázquez (beto)

Alberto Velázquez

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion" -Albert Camus #quote

Alberto Velázquez

"I am not willing to sacrifice this generation's great artists on the altar of Hollywood. I'm not willing to have the next Bach, Beethoven, or Shakespeare post their work online, only to have it taken down because they haven't paid off a bunch of executives who think they own creativity." http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/01/on-pirates-and-piracy.html #copyfight

Alberto Velázquez

How Copyright Industries Con Congress: http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/how-copyright-industries-con-congress/ #copyfight

Alberto Velázquez

The Pirate Bay's statement on SOPA: http://static.thepiratebay.org/legal/sopa.txt #copyfight

Alberto Velázquez

The guy from Khan Academy made an incredible explanation of the dangers of SOPA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzqMoOk9NWc #copyfight

Alberto Velázquez

NYT piece by Lakhdar Boumediene, who unjustly spent seven years in Guantanamo: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/opinion/sunday/my-guantanamo-nightmare.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all #politics #freedom

Alberto Velázquez

Humor para personas inteligentes: http://www.cinismoilustrado.com/2012/01/humor-para-personas-inteligentes.html #geek #humor

Alberto Velázquez

Air Space (by Jacob Appelbaum): http://boingboing.net/2011/10/31/air-space-a-trip-through-an-airport-detention-center.html #security

Alberto Velázquez

"If you want to find out how a society feels about its technology, read its science fiction." -Cory Doctorow #quote

Alberto Velázquez

Cory Doctorow's keynote at 28C3 has been transcribed: The Coming War on General Computation: http://joshuawise.com/28c3-transcript A great talk, and an excellent last paragraph #freedom #politics

Alberto Velázquez

10 Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice): http://blog.fogus.me/2011/09/08/10-technical-papers-every-programmer-should-read-at-least-twice/ #programming

Alberto Velázquez

Don't Break the Internet: http://www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/dont-break-internet #copyfight #politics

Alberto Velázquez

A successful Git branching model: http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ #programming

Alberto Velázquez

HTTP Status Cats: http://httpcats.herokuapp.com/ #web #humor

Alberto Velázquez

jQuery Performance Tips Cheat Sheet: http://dumitruglavan.com/jquery-performance-tips-cheat-sheet/ #javascript

Alberto Velázquez

The Facebook Resisters: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/technology/shunning-facebook-and-living-to-tell-about-it.htm?_r=1

Alberto Velázquez

Generator Tricks For Systems Programmer: http://www.dabeaz.com/generators/Generators.pdf #python #programming

Alberto Velázquez

Triptychs of Strangers: http://www.flickr.com/photos/theblackstar/sets/72157626117942754/detail/ #photography

Alberto Velázquez

Gallery: how the surveillance industry markets spyware to governments: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/gallery-how-the-surveillance-industry-markets-spyware-to-governments.ars #privacy

Alberto Velázquez

The Spy Files: http://spyfiles.org/ #wikileaks