And once again, tech folks use the fact that we collectively and purposely destroyed African public health provision, to posit use cases for dodgy tech. Stop with this, it’s historically ignorant and morally bankrupt.
Google's new 'ad privacy feature' on Chrome looks amazingly like asking users to help advertisers profile them more precisely:
The Dutch weather site has shown me nothing but racist ads since election season began. Is this:
a) because I search for ‘racism’ on Google scholar?
b) because people who like to prepare for rain are also prepping for a race war?
c) because of the state of politics in NL?
Excited that Lisa Herzog will join us at TILT for a seminar on March 3 to talk about her new book, sign up here if you'd like to join us online:
https://lnkd.in/eQwPZP6H
TILT seminar: Prof. Lisa Herzog, University of Groningen | Tilburg University
Citizen Knowledge: Markets, Experts, and the Infrastructure of Democracy
Tilburg UniversityBecause what refugees really need is blockchain.
Schiphol: it’ll take an indefinite amount of time to get anywhere near security. Bogotá airport: hold my beer.
welcome to a beta-testing environment for a major part of the public political sphere in the US/EU.