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

#TIL about one of the many potentially important standards reports that seem to have been pushed onto the backburner by the pandemic.;

"The report, Ethically Aligned Design, was released today by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). It is the culmination of a year's work by 250 world leaders in technology, law, social science, business and government spanning six continents."

#IEEE, 2017

https://techxplore.com/news/2017-12-philosophers-sociologists-ethical-guidelines-future.html

#ethics #EthicalTech #EthicalDesign #EthicalStandards

The Camera Panopticon

How did we end up in technofascism? Watch this talk I gave over a decade ago warning of the dangers of Silicon Valley and Big Tech and urging us to embrace alternatives.

https://small-tech.org/videos/the-camera-panopticon/

(Transcript available in English, Español, and Nederlands, thanks to the community.)

#technofascism #BigTech #SiliconValley #startups #InternetOfThings #ventureCapital #web #decentralisation #ethicalDesign #design #diversity #inclusion #accessibility #FOSS #Zuckerberg #tech #society #USA #fascism #EU #theCameraPanopticon

I recently wrote an article on design tools and the status quo of proprietary software companies that have turned creative tools into money-grabbing slot machines.

I’ve provided some alternatives to #Adobe that aren’t necessarily open-source but have a more ethical approach to providing tools.

https://cosmonavt.studio/blog/the-future-of-design-tools-is-ethical
#design #designtools #creativetools #ethicaldesign #motiongraphics

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Defense against dishonest charts · How not to lie with data visualizations https://ilo.im/162ger

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