Evan @darth_mall@vis.social

“Surveillance capitalism” isn’t a corruption of (an otherwise virtuous) capitalism. It is a precise means of describing modern-day capitalism. Opposing it doesn’t mean simply opposing surveillance, it means opposing capitalism.

#FLA_UXR "If participants go off script, it's fine, let it go, you are here to watch and to learn how THEY would use it, and you will learn something even when they go off script". Soooo true! And yet, so hard to "let go" and embrace it when things don't go as planned.

Abolish the fucking police

Pleased to report that @jomc and I are speaking at a free online event hosted by the Internet Archive and Library Futures on Apr 28. We will be discussing her book Lurking, and what happened when "in the 1990's and early aughts, people became users, and users put their trust in a corporation to do the job of a library."

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/why-trust-a-corporation-to-do-a-librarys-job-tickets-149802797199

“The Signal for Help (or the Violence at Home Signal for Help) is a single-handed gesture that can be used by an individual to alert others that they feel threatened and need help over a video call, or in-person.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_for_Help

Psst, pass it on: “AI ethics” that isn’t critical of surveillance capitalism is simply PR for surveillance capitalists.

“the Larry transaction used the equivalent of about 11 kilowatt-hours. That’s equivalent to the average electrical consumption of a European Union resident for an entire day”

https://earther.gizmodo.com/i-sold-a-tweet-about-my-future-cat-on-the-blockchain-an-1846442763

😡 NFT - I'm in total ideological conflict with the idea AND the technic.
Today I saw my art " Yin and Yang of world hunger" (license: CC non commercial/non derivative) on OpenSea platform posted by someone. What a shame. #nftart is open door to all type of scam...

#nft #capitalismenumérique #cryptoart #nfts #blockchain

Running git 2.28 or later? Take 10 seconds and enter the following into your terminal to set the default branch in new projects to main not master:

git config --global init.defaultBranch main

Actions matter more than words. So here’s a simple action you can take to show that you care.

You shouldn't be able to make a bunch of money passively just for having money and contributing literally nothing else to the situation. But that's what people are feeling a ton of FOMO about. It's a fucking gold rush.

tbh what this NFT/cryptocurrency/$GME/etc speculation points at for me is that we have a bunch of folks who finally have some level of access to the money making schemes usually reserved for the upper middle to upper classes and it's just exposing how awful the whole idea is.