How Guatemala is Sliding into Chaos in the Fight for Land and Water
Environmental Aggressions Unfolding in Ericeira World Surfing Reserve, NGOs Claim.
Major plan to deal with climate change by geoengineering the Earth would not work, scientists reveal
Drummer uses analog reel-to-reel tapes for freaky percussion
(this is for digital design professionals):
Why I’m losing faith in UX
Why The Web Is Such A Mess
It was only a matter of time until Cory Doctorow joined this collection.
Aral Balkan on Corona measures by Google and Apple
Seeing how companies like Facebook are driving the potential of information technology into the ground here are two three four some videos on the background of the industry.
link to Richard Barbrook: Californian Ideology 20.2 on vimeo
Further reading at The Jacobin.
Google’s true origin partly lies in CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance
link to Sleeping Through a Revolution – Jonathan Taplin on vimeo
link to How the Internet Became a Battlefield on Bitchute
‘One Has This Feeling of Having Contributed to Something That’s Gone Very Wrong’
An Alternative History of Silicon Valley Disruption
What Has Google Ever Done for Us?
This Is How We Radicalized The World
‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the World a Worse Place’
‘Zucked: Waking up to the Facebook Catastrophe,’ by Roger McNamee
Why do people believe the Earth is flat?
European Internet “Self-Governing” Body Ignores Own Report and Continues to Serve Criminals
The Internet Is Overrun With Images of Child Sexual Abuse. What Went Wrong?
Revealed: Google made large contributions to climate change deniers
Sacha Baron Cohen’s scathing attack on Facebook
Evil is Baked into Big Tech’s Business Plan. Now What?
Alienated, Alone And Angry: What the Digital Revolution Really Did To Us
Scraping the Web Is a Powerful Tool. Clearview AI Abused It
Wayback Machine Latest Victim of Big Tech Consolidation and Censorship
Facebook Is Patenting Technology to Spy on You Through Your Smartphone Camera and Microphone
How SEO Is Gentrifying the Internet
Techno-feudalism (link goes to Vimeo)
We need to rethink social media before it’s too late. We’ve accepted a Faustian bargain
link to Take Back Your Web – Tantek Çelik
The Revolt of the Public: Martin Gurri
Putting a price on our data won’t make the platforms stop abusing our privacy
The American Conservative and free speech without public spaces
How I fell out of love with the internet
Let’s talk about ride-sharing.
After 6 Years in Exile, Edward Snowden Explains Himself
The Pentagon Wants More Control Over the News. What Could Go Wrong?
Bruce Schneier makes the case for “public interest technologists”
Evgeny Morozov: Competition and Cooperation in Digital Capitalism
Mensch sein in Zeiten digitaler Entmenschlichung
We’ve spent the decade letting our tech define us. It’s out of control
some thoughts on what to do about (tech) monopolies
Once developers are concerned: The cult of the free must die
Kommentar: Digitale Souveränität zum Schnäppchenpreis – von Europa und Mozilla
To Mend a Broken Internet, Create Online Parks
‘Do Not Track’ Is Back, and This Time It Might Work
Opinion | Facebook and the Surveillance Society: The Other Coup
The Case for Digital Public Infrastructure
A New Union of Musicians Is Taking on Spotify
Update:
What would the web look like without big tech companies?
And even furtherer reading and viewing:
He Who Must Not Be Mentioned! (Moment of Clarity)
And here is a guy doing a somewhat proper analysis, while pulling odd examples such as doctors in rural Africa (good luck finding one), while ignoring the harm YouTube did to recording musicians everywhere:
How “philanthropy” is a way for rich people to preserve the inequality that benefits them
Ethan Marcotte on the consequences of design on the web
The Epstein scandal at MIT shows the moral bankruptcy of techno-elites
And slightly related a new round of funding for future self made tech pioneers:
Trump signs ‘American AI Initiative’ executive order to prioritize federal funding for artificial intelligence research
Also the the web versus the climate:
and YouTube versus the artist:
Follow the Money: YouTube’s Failure to Pay Retroactively Gives “Conversion Rate” a Whole New Meaning
related: How We Analyzed Google’s Search Results
Young people and social media dependency:
Are the Kids Alright?
A game that plays people:
A Game Designer’s Analysis Of QAnon
Find more tech related talking points under the technology tag.
This teeny tiny fern may hold a key to lowering global temperatures
A Warming World Creates Desperate People
World Champion 2018 Aboubakry Sadikh Seck, ‘So You Can Longboard Dance?’ world cup freestyle and dance
Teaser: An inner Indo Journey “Ilmu Hitam” – Luke Flanders, Jye Byrnes Surfboards
Evan Anderson – My Blue Heaven
Beautiful film on the colorful diversity of nudibranchs
1950s American Vacations In Kodachrome
A New Golden Age for the Tiki Bar
Flooding From Sea Level Rise Threatens Over 300,000 US Coastal Homes
Alaia-Surfbrettbau-Projekt an der Inselschule Borkum
If 95 per cent of the Aztecs were killed by European diseases, why weren’t Europeans killed by Aztec diseases?
“Carbon bubble” coming that could wipe trillions from the global economy: study
The best way to save the planet? Drop meat and dairy
Authentic Wave | Surf Photography by Tatsuo Takei
Visiting the Outer Banks of North Carolina
A lot of rubbish is talked about plastics…
“Neither Mars nor Gliese 581g nor any other exoplanet could become… Planet B”
Paris Agreement goals could save trillions in avoided climate damages
Chervelle Fryer tackles ocean waste with the Ocean Plastic Book.
“We burned the forest”: the indigenous Chileans fighting loggers with arson
The Deep Sea May Soon Be Up for Grabs
Keeping Global Warming to 1.5 Degrees Could Spare Millions Pain of Dengue Fever
KLOS Carbon Fiber Ukulele – World’s Best Ukulele