Cory Doctorow
Alissa Azarالإمبراطوريات لا تحرر
يستبدلون قفص واحد بآخر
Empires do not liberate. They replace one cage with that of another
| website | https://www.maurabrewer.com/ |
Maura Brewer
@mqbrewer
- 5 Followers
- 15 Following
- 12 Posts
Visual artist / video essayist
Hey look at this
* Enshittificator https://vimeo.com/1168468796
* Digital products are worsening but the trend can be reversed https://www.forbrukerradet.no/news-in-english/digital-products-and-services-are-getting-worse-but-the-trend-can-be-reversed/
* Distribution of US Wealth 1989- https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distribute/chart/#quarter:144;series:Corporate equities and mutual fund shares;demographic:networth;population:1,3,5,7,9;units:shares;range:1990.4,2023.1
* After decades of debating the scientific publishing crisis, it's time to decide https://bjoern.brembs.net/2026/02/after-decades-of-debating-the-scientific-publishing-crisis-the-time-as-come-to-decide/
* Disney Parks History in Documents https://www.disneydocs.net/
3/
“Art is not a luxury. It is a necessity. It is a fact of human history that in the worst conditions of slavery, imprisonment and starvation people have persisted to make art. If we can imagine an egalitarian system for art, we can imagine a better structure by which to administer our lives.” - Nizan Shaked, from Museums and Wealth. #NizanShaked #MuseumsandWealth #art
McNadoMD
internetarchiveRodell Warner’s "Ghosts of the Internet Archive" creates generative “ghosts” from Web 1.0 blog fragments.
The work was created for the Internet Archive x Gray Area: Trillionth Webpage Commission, which invited artists to create new works from archived materials.
Learn more about the project and artists ⤵️
https://blog.archive.org/internet-archive-x-gray-area-trillionth-webpage-net-art-commissions/
Amazing diagrams I found in a patent for “creating exalted video games” Pub. No. US 2009/0017886 A1, published Jan 15, 2009 #diagram
Order of the Illuminati, V. 1, 2024. Lost in the Eaton Fire, Jan 2025. Pastel on paper, the image is based on a found #conspiracy #diagram from the internet.
This is the source of enshittification: when a company can move value from its users and customers to itself without risking their departure, it *does*.
People stay on bad platforms because the value they provide to one another is greater than the costs the platform extracts from them.
18/
jamesbridle"The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means." ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
Realising the Epstein emails are basically Snowden all over again. Drip-drip feed of revelations over months, vertigo-inducing visibility into horror and abuse, total lack of accountability; feelings of helplessness, eventual exhaustion, and another gaping void in our collective agency.