The Facebook Oversight Board is itself an Information Operation.
By merging mass surveillance, psychographic profiling, and micro-targeted advertising, Facebook has created a platform that not only enables profit-making from the theft and exploitation of personal data, but also allows your data to be used in ways that take your power away as a citizen and a voter, and gives that power to corporations and political campaigns. The consequences of this business model will continue to mount as long as accountability lags.
Relevant: The emotion business: who's cashing in on your emotions.
The harmful ableist language you unknowingly use.
This kind of ‘ableist’ language is omnipresent in conversation: making a “dumb” choice, turning a “blind eye” to a problem, acting “crazy”, calling a boss “psychopathic”, having a “bipolar” day. And, for the most part, people who utter these phrases aren’t intending to hurt anyone – more commonly, they don’t have any idea they’re engaging in anything hurtful at all.
The way you make a large world without storing much data is by having some code generate it for you.
Bash is great, but when it comes to writing scripts, people usually choose a more convenient programming language. JavaScript is a perfect choice, but standard Node.js library requires additional hassle before using. The zx package provides useful wrappers around child_process, escapes arguments and gives sensible defaults.
Legalizing Gay Marriage in Crusader Kings III with Ghidra.
Now while the game does allow the player to reform a variety of medieval cultures to be accepting of same-sex couples, as of CK3 version 1.3.1 it currently does not allow a reformer to permit same-sex marriage. That should be fine though; that’s what mods are for!
Make Way for the ‘One-Minute City’.
While the “15-minute city” model promotes neighborhood-level urban planning, Sweden is pursuing a hyper-local twist: a scheme to redesign every street in the nation.
Meanwhile in Vienna, Austria, we will hear about this 50 years later.
Update: Maybe sooner? Wien will bei Grünraum nachrüsten.
Update to the update.
Even before Hardin’s ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’ was published, however, the young political scientist Elinor Ostrom had proven him wrong.
Ignored non-male research all the way down.
Andew Yang and the Age of Blah.
The idea is don’t take the bait and then you can remain superior to it all. But, see, that’s how they get you. Then you’re in on their little game where everyone is having “a good time.” Yes, you too are now part of the most boring carnival in human history.
Once there were computers. Then there was batch processing, and renting out computer time. Then there was timesharing, with billing-on-demand. Then there were personal computers. Then there was the cloud. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
Tech Lives Matter – Diversity in the Technology Industry.
It's great to see the moral compass evolve when we talk about how technology affects the environment. Because if the government will not hold big technology companies accountable then we have to—the workers.