Mark Zuckerberg’s manifesto might be well-spirited, but one thing in it is fundamentally wrong:
In times like these, the most important thing we at Facebook can do is develop the social infrastructure to give people the power to build a global community that works for all of us.
Facebook isn’t, and can never be, a platform where people have the power to build anything. Facebook doesn’t even have the pretense of a non-profit like Wikipedia or Mozilla; there is no doubt about the company’s main focus — extracting as much as possible from you — by analyzing your data and showing you ads in exchange for advertiser’s money.
Do you want the website, that displays the photos of your friends with the caption “they’ll miss you” when you’re trying to delete your account, to be in charge of a global community?
Black reconstruction; an essay toward a history of the part which black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880 : Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Collected Essays Vol. 2 : Woolf, Virginia : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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Meta collected children’s data from Instagram accounts, unsealed court document alleges | CNN Business
An unsealed complaint filed Wednesday by 33 states against Instagram parent company Meta claims that the social media platform routinely documented and collected data of children.
It's an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will "interact" with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it.
Can’t Be Fucked
Aussie slang for not wanting to, or not having the energy and motivation to do something.
“Man, i really can’t be fucked changing the channel, let’s just watch Springer.”
- Urban Dictionary
The Ultimate Vintage Design Collection – Tom Chalky
Over 1400 high-quality vintage design goods that have been sourced, restored, and repurposed from a private collection of century-old books and ephemera worth in excess of $2500. Use this collection of design goods within an unlimited number of commercial projects. This includes end products for sale, print and web work, social media, etc. Read the Extended Commercial License for more details (Oh, this also covers the bonus fonts too!). This collection contains PNG & JPEG images which will work within all graphics software (Including design apps on mobile and tablets). It also includes vector files (.AI & .EPS), these will work within Illustrator, Sketch, Afinnity, Corel Draw, Photoshop and more!