Bookmarks tagged internet and dystopia

"It’s no surprise that tech billionaires like Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg have rushed to kiss the ring of the twice-ascendent Trump. The marriage of big tech and Trumpworld should make clear that Silicon Valley and authoritarians share the same goal: to crush dissent by keeping their would-be opponents spinning on an endless hamster wheel of reactive anger. And just like in the classic 1983 thriller WarGames, the only winning move is not to play."

"An exposé no one will read, about the widespread falsification of user posts in PhysicsForums, a scientific community founded in 2001. This is a microcosm of the death of the human-written Internet."

"I’m gravitating away from the discourse of measuring and fixing unfair algorithmic systems, or making them more transparent, or accountable. Instead, I’m finding myself fixated on articulating the moral case for sabotaging, circumventing, and destroying “AI”, machine learning systems, and their surrounding political projects as valid responses to harm."

This talk is 🔥 and talks about the attacks on public libraries already underway, and all the things libraries do for us, and how amazing it is that you can get "that weird and wonderful thing that cannot be found anywhere else"

Matt explains how he set his aunt up with access to his streaming apps, using Tailscale to ensure that surveillance tech would not prevent him from sharing with his family.

this is hilarious and deadly accurate

In my effort to rid my life of as many major internet companies as possible, I have built my own photo stream tool! Check it out and maybe subscribe to the feed.

""You are no longer licensed to use the software," Adobe told them. "

"Ownership rights are buried in the fine print and downloading or buying physical copies may be the only ways to keep your favourites"

"An exploration of the problems and possible futures of flooding the web with generative AI content"