Microsoft’s Kate Crawford: ‘AI is neither artificial nor intelligent’
Fishers and plunderers: The tragedy of the commodity
In big tech’s dystopia, cat videos earn millions while real artists beg for tips
“Summertime Wine” John Stamatis “Sporos” From the Film, “Dirty Feet” 1965
The ORA Punk Cat Is a Four-Door VW Beetle EV Knockoff With an Insane Interior
/Video Tells You All You Need to Know About Spotify’s Attitude Toward Artists
The real urban jungle: how ancient societies reimagined what cities could be
The battle for Mount Rushmore: ‘It should be turned into something like the Holocaust Museum’
Tribeca Review: Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road is an Intimate Documentary Replete with Love and Mercy
Massive human head in Chinese well forces scientists to rethink evolution
Rattlesnakes everywhere: the odd consequences of California’s drought
Why a Thriving Civilization in Malta Collapsed 4,000 Years Ago
The mice that roared: how eight tiny countries took on foreign fishing fleets
‘We’re causing our own misery’: oceanographer Sylvia Earle on the need for sea conservation
How To Set Up An Online Release Party
Modern life is rubbish! The people whose homes are portals to the past
New research shows how many important links on the web get lost to time
If Only 19th-Century America Had Listened to a Woman Scientist
“This Is The BIGGEST SCAM of The Century” – Edward Snowden (NEW)
Cameroonian maestro Francis Bebey explains “pygmy” flute music
Son makes a documentary about his QAnon-infected mother
Carbon Pricing is a False – Solution to Climate Chaos
A world map that shows borders and absolutely nothing else
Why was the ancient city of Cahokia abandoned? New clues rule out one theory.
Surfing New York with David Arganda
The fight to save 100 years of Black history in gentrifying Los Angeles
The rise, fall and rediscovery of the Fender Jaguar
A Climate Dystopia in Northern California
»Die Deutschen zerstörten ein Paradies – und behaupten bis heute das Gegenteil«
Joe Quigg – Father of the Modern Surfboard
Want To Know About Google’s Anti-competitive Behavior? Just Ask Yelp.
A thousand teardrops: how doo-wop kickstarted Jamaica’s pop revolution
Hawaiian shirts are returning – but ‘people want to think twice’, says expert
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Online Communities
The Real Buddy Holly Story (1987)
Let’s talk about ethics and music promotion – MTT – Music Think Tank
Hemp is the New Oak: America’s First Hemp “Wood” Factory is Being Built
Bitcoin, Easter Island-ism, and the Cowardice of Green New Dealers | naked capitalism
California Has A New Idea For Homes At Risk From Rising Seas: Buy, Rent, Retreat
Nuclear Fuel Buried 108 Feet From the Sea
The Case for Digital Public Infrastructure
This Black Family Ran a Thriving Beach Resort 100 Years Ago. They Want Their Land Back.
Oil firms should disclose carbon output, says BlackRock
California to consider buying back private beachfront properties
The unexpected benefits of surfing
Beaver believers: Native Americans promote resurgence of ‘nature’s engineers’
Special brew: eco-friendly Peruvian coffee leaves others in the shade
Smile for the camera: the dark side of China’s emotion-recognition tech
Changes in Atlantic currents may have dire climate implications for the next century
6 Echo Chambers That Shaped the Sound of Pop Music
China is scaling up its weather modification programme – here’s why we should be worried
Music historian delves into LA’s rich jazz scene and how clubs were an ‘oasis from racism’
(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
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