Last Friday of each month, I organized some of the observations and ideas shared on social networks. I call it Friday finds.
“I am in the body although considerably crumpled with mind” – Anne Shirley, Anne de Green Gables, via @Fecitysholders
“Perhaps one of the drawbacks at the level of the fame of all time was economists dressing their discipline as an exact science, a false nobel and everything.”–@brunoc
When I asked
for their analysis
my friend
(who read theory)
Cité Gramsci:
“The old world
is dying. And
The New World
struggles
born: now
is the moment
Monsters.So my friends,
in this time
monsters
stay human
Oh, my friends, please
Try to stay human.
–Playpoons
Decentralized social media “increases the empowerment of citizens,” explains Oxford's study
“Decentralized social media platforms represent a change towards user autonomy, where individuals can engage in a safer and more inclusive digital space without the constraints and biases imposed by traditional, centralized and focused networks.
The start of the end of Big Tech by Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal
This does not help the fact that the public and the regulators wake up on the dependence of the AI and the generation of sensitive data at a time when the appetite for privacy has never been higher – as evidenced by the persistent growth of signal users. AI, on the other hand, generally erodes privacy. We saw this in June when Microsoft announced a reminder, a product that, I do not make fun, screenshot everything you do on your device so that an AI system can give you a “perfect memory” of what you do on your computer (Doomscrolling? Porn-Watching?). The system required the capture of these sensitive images – which would not exist otherwise – to function.
Five years later: a cocovio retrospective
What do we forget about the pandemic? We forget how fascinated we were when nature bounced, to what extent the air was clean in the absence of human activity on an industrial scale. We forget that carbon emissions have dropped to the type of rhythm necessary to avoid cataclysmic climate change. We forget that cash payments without ropes have seen the poverty of children in America immerse themselves to record hollows, that the United Kingdom has reduced homelessness with programs that have found houses for people sleeping in the street (and CERB in Canada).
… It could not last because of capitalism. It is not a Glib statement, it is literally why such promises could never be held. Because such promises required redistribution and structural changes to the savings that billionaires do not want to change.
“If you get tired, learn to rest, not to stop.” —Banksy via @land of land
