Hey @arcadefire. I made you an art project. Sort of. facebook.com/marcel.ogorman/…
Recalling Jaron Lanier's guest talk in Waterloo, where he made fun of Canadians for letting Google walk in and take over. True. Sidewalk Labs’s Ambitious Smart City Plans Now Face a Legal Battle by @FastCompany link.medium.com/T3BrNX77ZV
As with all big tech interventions in schools, “There has not been enough research” to justify the disruption.
Eight months after public schools near Wichita, Kan., adopted online tools developed by Facebook engineers to teach their children, parents and students are rebelling. nyti.ms/2ZokW7L
Calling out "the gods of Silicon Valley"? More please.
"My question to you is, is this what you want? Is this how you want history to remember you? As the handmaidens to authoritarianism?"
Watch as @carolecadwalla calls out the "gods of Silicon Valley" for being on the wrong side of history: t.ted.com/OuxHYs3 #TED2019
Smartphone use in class needs more research, says University of Waterloo prof therecord.com/news-story/923…
Incredible.
Ontario to ban cellphones in classrooms next school year | CBC News cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/o…
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Good trend of thought here.
“Natural infrastructure” deserves emergent usage as a term and idea to conjure with.
Nature As An Infrastructure Solution: W/ better infrastructure, US could significantly reduce devastating extreme weather damage. Congress is now turning bipartisan attention to enhancing infrastructure resilience. Nature itself is a solution. bit.ly/2Sv0XzD Via @thehill
The Scientists Who Make Apps Addictive by 1843 Magazine link.medium.com/1ilFPDKlmU
Digital sins? Yep. Also this. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
Note the focus on "interdisciplinary" solutions, which include the humanities. I was expecting a hint of toxic e-waste and unsustainable mining here too...
"Choking on Digital Pollution" in Washington Monthly repeats what @HumaneTech_ has advocated since last year with our Ledger of Harms. Tech attention companies privately profit while harms/pollution show up on balance sheets of society: washingtonmonthly.com/magazi…
Amazing to watch Tim Cook weighing in on shadowy data brokers. Let's see where he can take it: @FastCompany link.medium.com/j1g6T6kUHT
Including a #UWaterloo researcher
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How Tech Workers Became Activists, Leading a Resistance Movement That Is Shaking Up Silicon Valley by @FastCompany link.medium.com/FPHPL3KIQT
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Looking for UX designers available immediately in SF to help @HumaneTech_ collect, mock up and organize a "humane" design patterns library for solutions that re-align tech w/ our paleolithic instincts. Respond w/ links to your work… and meet each other too :)
Tristan Harris proclaims that technoculture is "philosophically impoverished." Wait until he discovers Bernard Stiegler and Paul Virilio. wired.com/story/artificial-i… via @WIRED
We need more digital rituals. Even in Texas.
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Check out "Data Hub Sessions: Responsible Artificial Intelligence" eventbrite.ca/e/data-hub-ses… @Eventbrite
