“For all the grandiose talk about The Light Of Consciousness and The Future Of
Humanity that has come out of Silicon Valley during its ascent, what it has
delivered has mostly been spectacularly useless, lifeless, and anti-human. In
this sense, it reflects its owners perfectly.”
David Roth ,
Everything Is Silicon Valley Now
(Defector November 14, 2022 ,
via Nick Heer )
posted 11/21/2022 8:00pm ∞
“Twitter encourages a very extractive attitude from everyone it touches. The
people re-publishing my Mastodon posts on Twitter didn’t think to ask whether I
was ok with them doing that. The librarians wondering loudly about how this
‘new’ social media environment could be systematically archived didn’t ask
anyone whether they want their fediverse posts to be captured and stored by
government institutions.”
Hugh Rundle ,
Home invasion
(November 8, 2022 ,
via Andy Baio )
posted 11/16/2022 8:00pm ∞
“Because the drought had worsened since the quotas were set, conservancy members
had voluntarily left most of them unfilled. While wildlife surveys earlier in
the year had suggested that 75 oryx could be killed without harming the
population, for example, only three had been shot so far.”
Michelle Nijhuis ,
The miracle of the commons
(Aeon May 4, 2021 )
“[W]hoever’s running these art theft bots found a much more profitable way of
generating leads: by scanning Twitter for people specifically telling artists
they’d buy a shirt with an illustration on it.”
“Ironically, the Times reports that Crossover’s own employees so resented the
company’s intrusive monitoring of them (as they created and sold intrusive
monitoring tools) that Crossover hemorrhaged employees and struggled to hire
replacements. Eventually, Crossover had to turn off its most intrusive features
so that it could keep the employees needed to make and sell its bossware
product.”
posted 12/17/2022 3:19pm ∞