To Alex Neve, the core promise behind human rights is that they are applied universally: to everyone, everywhere, at all times, without exception. But in this year's Massey Lectures, he argues that universality is dual-edged.
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* Build your own #PatekPhilippe-style #Chronograph using this DIY Wooden Watchmaking Kit https://www.yankodesign.com/2023/11/19/build-your-own-patek-philippe-style-chronograph-using-this-diy-wooden-watchmaking-kit/
* 2023 CBC #MasseyLectures: Astra Taylor https://www.cbc.ca/radiointeractives/ideas/2023-cbc-massey-lectures-astra-taylor
* The main risk of #MachineLearning is not that it's good at what it does https://mamot.fr/@[email protected]/111443798898077800
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpxYJhnc8n4 Not everyone can afford a Breguet, Rolex, Richard Mille, or Audemars Piguet. Not only are they ridiculously expensive, they're also gatekept from us regular folk by an arduously long waiting and approval process. You don't simply go buy a Patek Philippe, you need to be 'approved' to buy one. This artificial scarcity makes it
Which is all to say: *I have tickets for the Talking Heads event at TIFF and I could *not* be more excited.*
Continuing on the Canadian theme, one of the annual highlights of Canadian media is the #MasseyLectures, a series of public lectures given around the country and rebroadcast on #CBC. These are always great, but recent years have been *superb* - @rondeibert's 2020 series was unmissable:
https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/10/dark-matter/#citizenlab
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@liaizon Always boost (and tag) #StaffordBeer and #MasseyLectures
Oh, and if you're looking for an excellent curation of nonfiction reading, the CBC Massey Lectures series is a great place to start:
https://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=kw%3A%22cbc%20massey%20lectures%22
I was listening to "Revenge of the Chickenized Reverse-Centuars" wondering if @pluralistic was familiar with Ursula Franklin, who spoke to this issue 30 years ago.
Of course he is:
https://boingboing.net/2016/05/24/technologys-culture-of-com.html
She's a Candian national treasure.
https://www.worldcat.org/title/real-world-of-technology/oclc/781487284&referer=brief_results
Original Massey Lecture audio:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-1989-cbc-massey-lectures-the-real-world-of-technology-1.2946845
#UrsulaFranklin #UrsulaKFranklin #MasseyLectures #RealWorldOfTechnology #ReverseCentuars #Chickenification #CoryDoctorow
Ideas: CBC Massey Lecture # 2: The Market for Our Minds https://cbc.mc.tritondigital.com/CBC_IDEAS_P/media/ideas-GUCjZU14-20201110.mp3
#masseylectures #cbc #citizenlab #ideas #surveillancecaptilism
The 1989 CBC Massey Lectures, "The Real World of Technology"
Technology has always been a part of human existence. Today though, says the experimental physicist, Ursula M. Franklin, technology has large-scale effects on culture itself.
Direct audio:
https://mp3.cbc.ca/radio/CBC_Radio_VMS/793/967/Masseys_1989_01.mp3
https://mp3.cbc.ca/radio/CBC_Radio_VMS/796/395/Masseys_1989_02.mp3
https://mp3.cbc.ca/radio/CBC_Radio_VMS/664/155/ideas_20171016_84064_uploaded.mp3
https://mp3.cbc.ca/radio/CBC_Radio_VMS/665/631/ideas_20171016_87526_uploaded.mp3
https://mp3.cbc.ca/radio/CBC_Radio_VMS/341/254/ideas_20171018_59377_uploaded.mp3
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-1989-cbc-massey-lectures-the-real-world-of-technology-1.2946845
#UrsulaKFranklin #technology #TechOntology #CBC #MasseyLectures
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