On the final Friday of every month I curate a number of the observations and insights that have been shared on social media. I name these Friday’s Finds.
“I’m effectively in physique though significantly rumpled up in spirit” — Anne Shirley, Anne of Inexperienced Gables, by way of @FelicityShoulders
“Possibly one of many Corridor of Fame-level cons of all time was economists dressing up their self-discipline as a precise science, pretend Nobel and all.”—@brunoc
After I requested
for his or her evaluation
my pal
(who has learn concept)
quoted Gramsci:
“The outdated world
is dying. And
the brand new world
struggles
to be born: now
is the time
of monsters.”So, my associates,
on this time
of monsters
keep human
oh, my associates, please
attempt to keep human.
—PlaguePoems
Decentralised social media ‘will increase citizen empowerment’, says Oxford examine
‘Decentralised social media platforms symbolize a shift in direction of consumer autonomy, the place people can interact in a safer and extra inclusive digital area with out the constraints and biases imposed by conventional, centralised, algorithm-driven networks.’
The Starting of the Finish of Massive Tech by Meredith Whittaker, President of Sign
It doesn’t assist that the general public and regulators are waking as much as AI’s reliance on, and era of, delicate information at a time when the urge for food for privateness has by no means been greater—as evidenced, for one, by Sign’s persistent consumer progress. AI, then again, typically erodes privateness. We noticed this in June when Microsoft introduced Recall, a product that may, I child you not, screenshot every thing you do in your system so an AI system may offer you “excellent reminiscence” of what you have been doing in your pc (Doomscrolling? Porn-watching?). The system required the seize of these delicate photographs—which might not exist in any other case—with the intention to work.
5 Years On: A Covid Retrospective
What else can we neglect in regards to the pandemic? We neglect how mesmerised we have been as nature rebounded, how clear the air was within the absence of commercial scale human exercise. We neglect that carbon emissions fell on the type of tempo required to keep away from cataclysmic local weather change. We neglect that no-strings money funds noticed little one poverty in America plunge to report lows, that the UK slashed homelessness with schemes that discovered properties for folks sleeping on the road [and CERB in Canada].
… It couldn’t final due to capitalism. This isn’t some glib assertion, it’s actually why such guarantees may by no means be fulfilled. As a result of such guarantees required redistribution and structural shifts to economies that billionaires don’t need shifting.
“When you get drained, be taught to relaxation, to not give up.” —Banksy by way of @earthshine