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Micah Lee"In a world where Elon Musk seems to have proven that practically no privately owned communication forum is immune from a single rich person’s whims, Signal stands as a counterfactual: evidence that venture capitalism and surveillance capitalism—hell, capitalism, period—are not the only paths forward for the future of technology." https://www.wired.com/story/meredith-whittaker-signal/
Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong
On its 10th anniversary, Signal’s president wants to remind you that the world’s most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. It’s free. It doesn’t track you or serve you ads. It pays its engineers very well. And it’s a go-to app for hundreds of millions of people.
Rob ChristopherI think about this quote several times a day.
"If you think technology will solve your problems, you don’t understand technology and you don’t understand your problems." --Laurie Anderson, 2020
Jack RusherSadly, I have heard that the author of this absolute classic died last week. If you somehow haven’t read it, today is your day…
https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html
John OverholtOptometrist George Mayerle’s 1907 multicultural eye chart is a fabulous piece of graphic design in its own right. https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2023/08/03/mayerles-lithographed-international-test-chart-1907/
Mayerle’s Lithographed International Test Chart, 1907
By Stephen P. Rice ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. This multilingual eye-test chart, published in 1907, was the creation of the optometrist George…
Radical Graffiti"The only dangerous minority is the rich"
Sticker seen in New Orleans, Louisiana
Sticker seen in New Orleans, Louisiana
Mark HughesFor anyone with a million quid to burn, an ice cream van and a Mu Mu headdress, there's always #TheKLF Re-enactment Society...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5pkU3hRouao&feature=youtu.be
#TheKLFRS #KLFRS
DESTROY OR DESTRUCT
Dr. Casey FieslerThis article on is an excellent deep dive on known AI harms, via profiles of women who should have been listened to long before everyone started talking about ChatGPT. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/women-warnings-ai-danger-risk-before-chatgpt-1234804367/
Richard Littler🧵 A lifelong 1930s-phile and fan of the British Dance Bands of the period, I have become mildly obsessed with picture discs of the 1930s. I had no idea the technology was possible so early in the 20th century. Such wonderful designs and colours. Here's a small selection...
#artdeco #1930s #graphicdesign #design #vinyl #music
#artdeco #1930s #graphicdesign #design #vinyl #music
Maria Popova30 springs ago, the poetic neurologist Oliver Sacks wrote brilliantly about so many of the questions we're reckoning with in the age of ChatGPT – questions of consciousness, AI, and our search for meaning https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/05/02/oliver-sacks-making-up-the-mind/
