Fascisme...

https://loma.ml/display/373ebf56-2069-3518-e25e-684690416221

Just liberated the video of one of my talks from YouTube and uploaded a copy to our Vimeo account:

Big Brother Awards 2014: Moving beyond the clouds (we need an ethical approach to design)

https://vimeo.com/1075963646

(Imagine what a different world we’d be living in today if folks in tech had heeded our warnings back then. But I guess they were too busy making mint.)

PS. yt-dlp is your friend (on Mac: brew install yt-dlp). Also make sure you have ffmpeg installed (brew install ffmpeg). Finally, I had to manually tell yt-dlp where to find ffmpeg although your mileage may vary based on installation method: yt-dlp "<URL>" --write-subs --ffmpeg-location=/opt/homebrew/bin/ffmpeg (--write-subs saves the subtitles if there are any to a file in a format you can use on the web).

#EthicalDesignManifesto #ethics #design #ethicalDesign #AralBalkan #SmallTech #BigBrotherAwards #BitsOfFreedom #technology #tech #BigTech #panopticon #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming #fascism #technofascism #Google #Facebook

L’Âge du capitalisme de surveillance. (2022)
https://www.informassue.tuxfamily.org/pages/rien_a_cacher.php#capitalisme_de_surveillance
[Rajout d'une vidéo entretien avec Pouhiou de Framasoft] La surveillance des GAFAM a un impact bien plus important qu'une #publicité intrusive...

#Informassue #RienÀCacher #NothingToHide #Capitalisme #Surveillance #Framasoft #Pouhiou #ShoshanaZuboff #AralBalkan #Youtube #Google #Bétail #Youtubeur #GAFAM

What fresh hell is this?

(Needless to say that, no, I did not embark on a solo sailing journey from Ireland to Portugal in 2018 and get shipwrecked in the Atlantic.)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bax_qHpe3hQ

#ai #bullshit #video #AralBalkan #shipwreck #atlantic #ireland #portugal

"The way we practice design today is colonial. It is no different than the ethnographer hiding behind their camouflaged screen, watching the natives."

@aral, 2018

https://davbot.media/w/45837668-4627-4a92-9147-5c053b7f761e

Ethnography, and anthropology in general, does have a dark past. But AFAIK ethnography is observing as a participant, not hiding in the bushes.

#video #PeerTube #design #UX #HX #AralBalkan #ethnography #anthropology

"The way we practice design today is colonial. It is no different than the ethnographer hiding behind their camouflaged screen, watching the natives."

@aral, 2018

https://davbot.media/w/45837668-4627-4a92-9147-5c053b7f761e

Ethnography, and anthropology in general, does have a dark past. But AFAIK ethnography is observing as a participant, not hiding in the bushes.

#video #PeerTube #design #UX #HX #AralBalkan #ethnography #anthropology

Aral Balkan: Speech at IxDA Berlin – Design or Decoration?

https://davbot.media/videos/watch/45837668-4627-4a92-9147-5c053b7f761e

Aral Balkan, who has 22,000 followers on the Fediverse and who recently had a birthday, has written about the influx of people from Twitter. As I’ve found, especially on my personal blog, you can essentially run a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on yourself by posting a link to your blog to the Fediverse. As each server pings it, the server can eventually buckle under the weight. What follows is a really useful post in terms of Aral’s journey towards what he calls the ‘Small Web’. While I don’t necessarily agree that we should all have our own instances, I do think it’s useful for organisations of every size to run them. If Elon Musk wanted to destroy mastodon.social, the flagship Mastodon instance, all he’d have to do is join it. Thank goodness Elon isn’t that smart. I jest, of course… Eugen would likely ban his account the moment he saw it. But it does illustrate a problem: Elon’s easy to ban. Stephen, not so much. He’s a national treasure for goodness’ sake. One does not simply ban Stephen Fry. And yet Stephen can similarly (yet unwittingly) cause untold expense to the folks running Mastodon instances just by joining one. The solution, for Stephen at least, is simple: he should run his own personal instance. (Or get someone else to run it for him, like I do.) Running his own instance would also give Stephen one additional benefit: he’d automatically get verified. After all, if you’re talking to, say, @[email protected], you can be sure it’s really him because you know he owns the domain. Source: Is the fediverse about to get Fryed? (Or, “Why every toot is also a potential denial of service attack”) | Aral Balkan

https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2022/11/10/decentralisation-begins-at-decentering-yourself/