ryanI don’t want public agencies to set up Mastodon accounts in the wake of Twitter’s ongoing implosion, I want them to set up functioning RSS feeds
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Alex ChaffeeI'm not worried about the AI apocalypse. I'm worried about the "VCs subsidize AI tech and sell it at a loss just long enough to make everyone rely on them (aka 'disrupting the knowledge worker industry') before bumping the price up and quality down just like Uber and Amazon and the rest" apocalypse. #ai #vc
Derek Caelin is writing a bookThis was a great read. https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-for-everyone/
I've often scratched my head at Signal's decision-making. Stickers? Stories? I'd rarely use them, if ever. But Signal describes how they are specifically making features for users outside U.S. culture and infrastructural contexts.
Signal is for everyone, and everyone is different
The tech industry–its products, conceptual frameworks, linguistic conventions, and cultural norms–is largely centered in the US (and, increasingly, China. But we’re focused here on the US, where Signal is based). This is not because the US has better programmers or more visionary entrepreneurs, b...
GlastomichelleI'm a bit late posting today's sunrise photograph but here we go. Today In Glastonbury.
#glastonbury #glastonburytor #somerset #sunrise #sunrisephotography #ponies
#glastonbury #glastonburytor #somerset #sunrise #sunrisephotography #ponies
luddite 🇵🇸 computer
Tom Critchlow"database publishing" is really hard to indie publishers without a strong technical background.
But I want to see a million small weird libraries and collections exist.
Wrote up my thoughts here: https://tomcritchlow.com/2023/01/27/small-databases/
Cory DoctorowHistory is written by the winners, which is why #Luddite is a slur meaning "technophobe" and not a badge of honor meaning, "Person who goes beyond asking what technology does, to asking who it does it *for* and who it does it *to*."
https://locusmag.com/2022/01/cory-doctorow-science-fiction-is-a-luddite-literature/
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/07/full-stack-luddites/#subsidiarity
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Kate CrawfordNEW: Today we release a 'Critical Field Guide for Working With Machine Learning Datasets' led by
Sarah Ciston. It's a practical guide to navigating datasets. If you're an engineer, designer, journalist, artist, or a student (or teacher) who uses datasets, it's here for you. https://knowingmachines.org/critical-field-guide
Sarah Ciston. It's a practical guide to navigating datasets. If you're an engineer, designer, journalist, artist, or a student (or teacher) who uses datasets, it's here for you. https://knowingmachines.org/critical-field-guide
Gavin Freeguard🚨 #IFGDATABITES KLAXON 🚨
Interested in better use of data and/or social mobility?
Join me at the Institute for Government at 6pm, next Weds 25 Jan, for a special Data Bites with the Social Mobility Commission
We'll hear from:
- Alun Francis & Michael Pandazis on SMC's new report, https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/data-for-social-mobility-improving-the-collection-and-availability-of-data-across-government
- Anna Powell-Smith on Centre for Public Data's work on missing numbers
- Oliver Anderson on DfE's LEO dataset & post-16 education/labour market outcomes
Sign up: https://bit.ly/IFGDataBites37
A cappella 
Why are ethics questions always like:
"is it ethical to steal bread to feed your starving family?"
And not:
"is it ethical to sell bread when families are starving?"
@quoteme