Hypersurveillance Turbocapitalism.
Infiltrating Amazon: What I learned going undercover at the corporate giant.
Every day as I started my shift, I would don our robotic armature. We would grab what’s called a TCI device—which looks like a giant smartphone—and strap it to one arm, and with the other hand pick up a scanner. We’d log into our device, and from that moment on no longer be in control of our actions. Instead, this device would determine where we would go, what tasks we would be doing, and how good an employee we were.
Illusory Material is a design methodology, computational workflow that breaks down design medium into 'matters', restructuring and reinventing materiality to create unique expressions, forms, properties and experiences.
How the Internet really works, meanwhile.
Digging Deeper: Assessing Big Tech’s Capture of the Internet’s Infrastructure (via steadyhq.com).
By 2022, it is estimated that the annual global internet traffic will reach 4.8 zettabytes or 4,800,000,000,000 GB. That is the equivalent of 150,000 full-length movies flowing through the internet in a single second – a 1,000 percent increase in web traffic from just 20 years ago.
Solidarity with the Other – and your future self.
I hurt therefore I am: a new approach to our shared vulnerability.
The good things associated with disability do not balance or outweigh the bad things for me. They are not commensurate. I can experience solidarity in many areas of my life, but I would prefer it to come without pain and restriction.
Let's use technology that doesn't use us. We publish regular in-depth series about friendly & effective technology, and how it could change our lives.
When crushes become crushing – how to know if you’re in a ‘limerent episode’.
How to diagnose and then counter ‘limerance’, or the debilitating psychological disorder suffered by hopeless romantics.
How Many Plants – Indoor and House Plant Resource.
So, how many plants... are too many?
We trawled the scientific literature for data about the likelihood of getting COVID from different situations, and combined the data into a model that people can use. We estimate COVID risk in units of microCOVIDs, where 1 microCOVID = a one-in-a-million chance of getting COVID.
Relevant: Micromort.
Sue them into oblivion.
The forgotten oil ads that told us climate change was nothing.
As recently as last month, six big oil CEOs were summoned to US Congress to answer for the industry’s history of discrediting climate science – yet they lied under oath about it. In other words, the fossil fuel industry is now misleading the public about its history of misleading the public.
