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@httpsterio @krenaud @DickPicLocator All I really want to do - more and more - is write without having the tech get in the way. From my experience with Ghost it’s letting me do that to a much larger extent than Wordpress. I’ve considered a lot of options, but hosted also relieves pain points :)
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@krenaud @httpsterio @DickPicLocator Thanks. Still, makes me more confident I’m making the right choice by moving to Ghost. :)
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@krenaud @httpsterio @DickPicLocator What the devil…. it’s a Wordpress-hosted blog… wondering if they’re having issues… thank you!
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@httpsterio @DickPicLocator What? The blog site?
I was interviewed this morning about @DickPicLocator, as Finland is debating a law that targets sending of unsolicited content of a sexual nature - a dick pic could lead to 6 months in prison.
Here’s a reminder of how designers should be thinking:
axbom.blog/social-harassm…
Here’s more on the proposed law. I’m actually quoted here but that was before the journalist, Teri, had a chance to talk to me ;) — which I am fine with, ’tis the power of blogging.
dw.com/en/in-finland-…
True to my way of working I made a #mindmap prior to my interview this morning. I was thinking broadly around photos-related harm. Thought I’d share it with you all.
(sorry about the inaccessible format)
I can identify with Noah. Also he needs to be provided a Do Not Disturb sign. x.com/Blairmonique/s…
This was a really good interview with @amplifydot about outrage on social media. She was interviewed by @PaulBarclay.
overcast.fm/+CYnt7tj4
And here's Dotty's book: x.com/amplifydot/sta…
I drew this pandemic system map on April 17, basing it on current reporting. I see the same things playing out now, often more clearly, more intensely and on a greater scale, looking at all of the parameters. People are hurting. There are many arrows towards social unrest. x.com/axbom/status/1…
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@kazarnowicz @Beastankar @emanuelkarlsten Jodå, de har så smått bekräftat. x.com/GreiderDD/stat…
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@Beastankar @emanuelkarlsten Exakt!
@Beastankar @emanuelkarlsten Och se'n kollar man en gång till och inser att det fortfarande är mycket möjligt att det är deepfake... bara rösterna de behöver ordna och när de sjunger kan det förstås vara lättare... men jag gissar att det är bekräftat av de medverkande.
@Beastankar @emanuelkarlsten Tänker närmast på Sassy Justice och att det är så lätt att glömma hur dessa deepfakes inte kräver så himla mycket längre i produktionskostnader... youtube.com/watch
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@emanuelkarlsten Wow. Första sekundrarna trodde jag det var deepfake, men näe...
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@ProfSunnySingh Imagining the private chatrooms of groups of legal scholars blowing up across the US. Oh how I would love to listen in on some of these conversations.
Debunked myths are a good thing. Repetition of myths keeps us from progress. Mothers are not favored in custody hearings. x.com/theasianfmnst/…
"Hundreds of Western companies are directly involved in suppling authoritarian governments around the world with equipment that is used to filter the internet to block sites that are objectionable to them on social, political or security grounds."
theafricareport.com/50500/how-west…
In one cited example, Vodafone Group's local presence in Tanzania, Vodacom, agreed to block any text messages containing terms related to the opposition party, including the name of the main opposition leader.
Yes, you read that right.
"When stagnating economies make it harder to sustain popular support and patronage networks, they also face fewer obstacles to using repression to remain in power."
theafricareport.com/42006/the-rise…
"Transfers of power are not a silver bullet of course – they may just involve replacing a good and upstanding leader with a dubious one. But they have been shown to disrupt corruption networks, encourage leaders to respect the rule of law, and boost public support for democracy."
"Failure to halt the production line of dictators will mean that in twenty years’ time there will be more young people standing on cars across Africa trying to rid their countries of a new generation of authoritarian old men."
Good piece. 'Authoritarian old men' all all over.
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@augmentedrobot I have but I'd forgotten about it! Thank you for sharing.
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@ilovegraphics Exactly! I'm going to be thinking about all these threads for weeks. I almost read it as a journalist's version of a systems thinking map.
Please read this intense story by @sarahzhang. It's for everyone to read, because it is about the moral dilemmas of being human in a society of changing norms and options. The number of emotions I went through reading it was exhausting, but worth it.
theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
"Recent advances in genetics provoke anxieties about a future where parents choose what kind of child to have, or not have. But that hypothetical future is already here. It’s been here for an entire generation."
«He must be aware of the debate?” I asked, which felt perverse to even say. *So he’s aware there are people who don’t want people like him to be born?* Yes, she said; her family has always been open with him.»
"Down syndrome is defined and diagnosed by a medical system made up of people who have to be highly successful to get there, who likely base part of their identity on their intelligence. This is the system giving parents the tools to decide what kind of children to have."
Gah. There's no quote I could pull that would give the richness of this piece justice. Just read it.
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@WolfgangBremer It's an anagram of "Immortal Lost Empire Sudo". Sudo of course is the Unix command "superuser do" which allows one user to execute code as if they were another user. This alludes to the immortal, but covert, mind control power of words: putting thoughts in the heads of others.
