This Is How To Change Someone’s Mind.
Facts are the enemy.
plink-plonk.js – Listen to your web pages.
/*
Copy this into the console of any web page that is interactive and doesn't
do hard reloads. You will hear your DOM changes as different pitches of
audio.
I have found this interesting for debugging, but also fun to hear web pages
render like UIs do in movies.
*/
Lauren Lee McCarthy is an LA-based artist examining social relationships in the midst of surveillance, automation, and algorithmic living.
This week, we look at the ways the internet could have been—and could be—different.
Relevant: Let‘s build a better internet. An Internet powered by the people and for the people.
The Stigmergic Myth of Social Media, or Why Thinking About Radicalization Without Thinking About Radicalizers Doesn't Work.
In areas where cooperation and equality prevails, the Stigmergic Myth is useful. But in areas of conflict and inequality, it can be a real hindrance to understanding what is going on. It can be far less less an expression of collective will or desire than other less distributed approaches, and while fixing the signals and the system is crucial, it’s worth asking if the underlying myth is holding our understanding back.
Markdown, bidirectional graphs, outlines!
Roam Research – A note taking tool for networked thought. (Via ribbonfarm.com.)
As easy to use as a word document or bulleted list, and as powerful for finding, collecting, and connecting related ideas as a graph database. Collaborate with others in real time, or store all your data locally.
This CDC “Respirators and Facial Hair” Infographic: Useful, Darkly Hilarious.
From the Making Sense of the Digital Society lecture series.
Scholar and activist Shoshana Zuboff’s outlook on the future is grim. For her, governments need to outlaw the collection and selling of human data (data that captures internet users online behaviour) and the trade in these data to business consumers (advertising firms, etc.). Otherwise, she predicts that online users will be remotely controlled on a vast scale. Enough data in the “wrong” hands – she predicts – will make it possible to manage individuals as human systems, stripping them of their autonomy.
Veterinary behavior expert demystifyies feline behavior.
"If you need to hug something, get a stuffed toy."