Social media company executives frequently compare their platforms to a «town square», with notable examples including Elon Musk discussing Twitter/X, Steve Huffman of Reddit, and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook. However, this analogy is deeply flawed. A genuine implementation of this concept would result in a social media platform that bears little resemblance to what we …
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I just discovered Shoshana Zuboff’s news. I am more unsettled than ever, and I feel obliged to tell you about it. Announcement: I created a summary page to keep track of what is going on with this topic at «surveillance and privacy». Her book «The age of surveillance capitalism» asserts that the internet has ushered …
It is more obvious than ever: there seems to exist a benefit to lying in politics. Looking at the current midterm rallies of US president Donald Trump, it looks like there is an actual strategy of lying as a means to more votes and more voter turnout. Here is one random example of an article …
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I discovered the documentary «Century Of The Self» a few years ago. It is scary, fascinating, and thought-provoking. And above all, it solved a lot of my big questions about life all at once. I come back to it over and over since. The documentary describes the origins of today’s consumerist, «bigger, stronger, faster», growth-only, …
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Are you soon going to become a father? Is your husband or boyfriend soon going to be a father? Many friends of mine become fathers these days. I am one with two daughters. They are 3 years and 7 months old. My memories of the time before I was a father are still fresh. Yet …
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