Please watch this. 25 minutes about the threat to democracies and the planet at large, by the "silicon six" and their Idiological Imperialism. All this hate and violence is being facilitated by a handful of internet companies that amount to the greatest propaganda machine in history (…) a sewer of hatred and bigottry and vile…
Archiv für "Fundsachen" (Seite 5)
WebrockerI want no quid pro quo - Ramones*
My twitter timeline is on fire: somebody on twitter today: trump's weird hand-scrawled denial today sounds like a ramones song. me: pic.twitter.com/mynZjx0E0M — Alex Kliment (@SaoSasha) November 21, 2019 Background here. __ * not really
The Special AKA - Racist Friend
If you have a racist friend Now is the Time Now is the Time Now is the time for your friendship to end
Escaping The Social Media Trap - Kiki Thaerigen
Social Media wants your constant attention. Social Media wants your time. Social Media is stealing your time, time you could better be using for your creative work and/or well-being. But Social Media also today is the way to advertise and display said work, and possibly get feedback, recognition even. And once you have kind of…
2050: The Fight For Earth - Bill McKibben | time.com
How the earth would look in 2050 if we solved climate change - What if the US came around and acted swiftly on climate change?
Simplicity (II) - Bastian Allgeier
Bastian reflects on a topic that's very close to (my) home -- the supposedly unavoidable Tooliganismn that is involved with working on the "modern" web.
Skating Polly - Stop Digging
Die 90er sind wieder da und ich feiere das! (und who needs guitars anyway?)
All your face are belong to us
Imagine you'd like to build a database with not only every data you usually can get through user interaction with your service and the device where your app has been installed on, but with pictures of your user's faces, too. What a treasure trove in times of face recognition software. But surely after all those…
Die Zerstörung der CDU - Rezo
Ein Stunde über die zukunfts-fähigkeit und -willen der Altparteien, abgearbeitet an der Union, die in den letzten 36 Jahren 29 Jahre in der Regierung war und, das muss man anhand der hier präsentierten Faktenlage sagen, eine Politik fährt, die unsere Gesellschaft und den Planeten zerstört. Ansehen, auch wenn Du über 30 bist. Und nächsten Sonntag…
Can “Indie” Social Media Save Us? – Cal Newport, The New Yorker
A nice article about the IndieWeb, published on a paywalled site ("you have three articles left this month") 🤷🏼♂️. I find it a bit too focussed on servers and social media platforms, but with the right angle about 'engineered adictiveness'.