Life read in ones and zeroes
Information systems will be born from the ashes of the media obliterated by digital, a broader, decentralised, reshuffled replacement. But that won’t come easily.
Two stakeholders determined the whole Western post-industrial agenda: the elites and the media.
Last week, Apple and Facebook, once again, starred controversial events that, theoretically, they should be entitled to do. Facebook shut down a project to allow researchers to study political ads. Read+ “About duty and responsibility”
The break of news raising doubts over the security of open-source software sent shockwaves through the technology realm, more specifically for the communities developing it. Read+ “The sky is no longer blue”
“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Dawn, 1881
Last week, The Economist brought a jaw-dropping report that shows that the Covid death tally is much bigger than the awful 3.5 million stated today. Read+ “Fighting ideas, welcoming dissent and other things”
Whenever some disinformation event, agent or consequence comes into question, it’s very unlikely that the scapegoats are not the technology companies, politicians or the state. This is a too-narrow vision. Read+ “Communities are the foundation stone of disinformation tackling”
Russians. UKIP. Trump. Marine Le Pen. Bolsonaro. These are some of the names we often relate to disinformation, frequently accused of manipulating data. The shady, right-wing, unscrupulous, tyrant-wannabe actors are definitely guilty. Read+ “Inequality, the unsung trigger of disinformation”
Read+ “Voiding words as a disinformation process”“We have to cease to think, if we refuse to do it in the prison house of language; for we cannot reach further than the doubt which asks whether the limit we see is really a limit.”
The right to information is one where the will of the individual has little value. Societies have the responsibility to ensure — or even enforce — this right because the subject’s unwillingness to accept such a right compromises others’ rights. Read+ “Right to information”
Any intellectual output has a strong human fingerprint all over it, even if produced by machines. This fingerprint can be made out of authorship, context, meaning, lots of things. Read+ “Audience and content are defined by each other”
Wiping out the newspapers’ ad business, Google killed journalism. Western culture is built on guilt, but this is a natural, comfortable conclusion – especially for journalists, to have a scapegoat. Read+ “Google can be no evil”