Society

Society

6107 bookmarks
Custom sorting
“Laborsaving”
“Laborsaving”
Things that were heralded as “laborsaving” devices gave rise to a whole new industry, and to more labor.
·aworkinglibrary.com·
“Laborsaving”
Backfired: The Vaping Wars - 99% Invisible
Backfired: The Vaping Wars - 99% Invisible
For decades, people have been trying to figure out how to create a cigarette without many of the downsides. Cigarettes sans the things that make smoking the biggest cause of preventable death in America like tar, carcinogens, etc. Cigarette companies tried to create “safe,” combustion-free smoking devices as far back as the 1980s. They were
·99percentinvisible.org·
Backfired: The Vaping Wars - 99% Invisible
The Conspiracy Capitaliser – AI, Social Media, and Profit in the Age of Misinformation
The Conspiracy Capitaliser – AI, Social Media, and Profit in the Age of Misinformation
The Conspiracy Capitaliser is a research project by Robert Collins to investigate and understand the intersection between AI, social media and profit. Comprised of a device, as a non-human participant, it allows the user to explore a wide spectrum of untruths which can be produced by AI systems and to experience, first-hand, the ethical dilemmas ahead of us as a technologically entangled society.
·creativeapplications.net·
The Conspiracy Capitaliser – AI, Social Media, and Profit in the Age of Misinformation
What’s In A Slogan? “KYLR” and Militant Anarcha-feminism
What’s In A Slogan? “KYLR” and Militant Anarcha-feminism
An anarchist walks out of a punk show to smoke. On her vest are anarchist patches with various standard slogans, “No Gods No Masters,” “Death To Transphobes,” “Kill Your Local Rapist,” “All Cops Are Bastards,” “Punch Nazis,” “From The River To The Sea Palestine Will Be Free,” “Make Total Destroy,” “The Only Good Cop Is...
·c4ss.org·
What’s In A Slogan? “KYLR” and Militant Anarcha-feminism
The wrong kind of activism
The wrong kind of activism
As I start writing this, I am sitting in the inner courtyard of a beautiful hotel is Santiago (Chile); what I’m planning to write has been stirring in my mind for much too long… © 2019 …
·sergiograziosi.wordpress.com·
The wrong kind of activism
The Five Stages Of AI Grief | NOEMA
The Five Stages Of AI Grief | NOEMA
Grief-laden vitriol directed at AI fails to help us understand paths to better futures that are neither utopian nor dystopian, but open to radically weird possibilities.
·noemamag.com·
The Five Stages Of AI Grief | NOEMA
Why I love Underdogs
Why I love Underdogs
That was quite a night. Not surprisingly, I woke up late this morning. I simply couldn’t sleep because I was buzzing from what I had just witnessed—and I still am. On paper, it was a wild game of t…
·om.co·
Why I love Underdogs
The Warehouse
The Warehouse
The largest system of incarceration in human history
·welcometohellworld.com·
The Warehouse
Goodbye, Work Friends
Goodbye, Work Friends
After four years, as she prepares to hand off to her successor, our workplace advice columnist reflects on the rewards and the frustrations of office life.
·nytimes.com·
Goodbye, Work Friends
Fast Crimes at Lambda School
Fast Crimes at Lambda School
Two days after his company's downfall, Austen Allred wrote: I wish people could see how ugly it is to be envious, and how obvious it is to those around you when that's what's happening. There's not much uglier than trying to tear someone down because they achieved what you wish
·sandofsky.com·
Fast Crimes at Lambda School
Silicon Valley Is Turning Into Its Own Worst Fear
Silicon Valley Is Turning Into Its Own Worst Fear
We asked a group of writers to consider the forces that have shaped our lives in 2017. Here, science fiction writer Ted Chiang looks at capitalism, Silicon Valley, and its fear of superintelligent AI.
·buzzfeednews.com·
Silicon Valley Is Turning Into Its Own Worst Fear
What everyone gets wrong about the 2015 Ashley Madison scandal
What everyone gets wrong about the 2015 Ashley Madison scandal
Nine years after hackers targeted Ashley Madison, the dating site for wannabe adulterers, many people still don't grasp what was truly chilling about the scandal, says Annalee Newitz
·newscientist.com·
What everyone gets wrong about the 2015 Ashley Madison scandal
Beyond the Hero
Beyond the Hero
Beyond the myth of the white, male superhero. Into the world of diversity and effectiveness in the U.S. Fire Service.
·beyondthehero.mediaforchange.org·
Beyond the Hero
Category 6 - 99% Invisible
Category 6 - 99% Invisible
On the campus of Florida International University, in Miami, there’s a place ominously named “The Extreme Events Institute.” They map the risk of storm surge for the whole Caribbean, and study how the public perceives the threats from natural disasters. They’re also home to the International Hurricane Research Center. Their hangar houses a dozen giant
·99percentinvisible.org·
Category 6 - 99% Invisible
The Road to Neo-Feudalism
The Road to Neo-Feudalism
Western societies stand on the brink of a great reversion towards a demographically and economically stagnant society reminiscent of the Dark Ages.
·quillette.com·
The Road to Neo-Feudalism
Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise. Through a shady collaboration between the US and the EU.
Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise. Through a shady collaboration between the US and the EU.
Under the slogan ‘Think of the children’, the European Commission tried to introduce total surveillance of all EU citizens. When the scandal was revealed, it turned out that American tech companies and security services had been involved in the bill, generally known as ‘Chat Control’ – and that the whole thing had been directed by completely different interests. Now comes the next attempt. New battering rams have been brought out with the ‘Going Dark’ initiative. But the ambition is the same: to install state spyware on every European cell phone and computer.
·mullvad.net·
Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise. Through a shady collaboration between the US and the EU.