Notices by dust (sifr@anticapitalist.party)

'Oil is the New Data'
https://logicmag.io/nature/oil-is-the-new-data/

'Letter from GitHub employees to CEO about the company's ICE contract'
https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/letter-from-github-employees-to-ceo-about-the-company-s-ice-contract/fb280de9-2bc3-40d5-b1a5-e3b954bf0d25/

'Pittsburgh Association of Tech Professionals Files for Union Election at HCL'
https://www.pghtechprofessionals.org/news

"The Amazon is Burning- How, Why & What Can We Do?"
https://medium.com/digital-democracy/the-amazon-is-burning-how-why-what-can-we-do-17ab6dcd2755

'decentralized'
'public good'
'ethical actors'
'nonprofit'

among other gems in the product list, "Augmented Betting with Insights"

"Engage & Retain your Customers with Augmented Reality experiences, Measure their Emotional Responses, Gather Insights
Betting Apps focus on optimizing the user experience so that placing bets is done in 1 click."

please let's burn this shit down

'AirPods Are a Tragedy'
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/neaz3d/airpods-are-a-tragedy

"A conversation about the intrisic problems with the term 'Surveillance Capitalism' "
https://soundcloud.com/garagen/replica-a-conversation-about-the-problems-with-the-term-surveallance-capitalism

'Beyond the Trend of Decolonizing Science'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_dZuzNi6dM

'This webinar features a conversation led by Indigenous and Black scholars around what it means to "decolonize science." Using the controversy over the Thirty Meter Telescope and the sacred mountain of Mauna Kea as a case study, speakers share examples of the role of colonialism in science.'

'Google and other tech giants are quietly buying up the most important part of the internet'

https://venturebeat.com/2019/04/06/google-and-other-tech-giants-are-quietly-buying-up-the-most-important-part-of-the-internet/

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'EU’s Parliament Signs Off on Disastrous Internet Law: What Happens Next?'
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/03/eus-parliament-signs-disastrous-internet-law-what-happens-next

"How do we encrypt our bodies from bullets?"

'A Socialisme Ou Barbarie Anthology -
Autonomy, Critique, and Revolutionin the Age of Bureaucratic Capitalism'
pdf http://soubtrans.org/SouBA.pdf

"However, this trend towards social engineering and "nudging" individuals towards "better" behavior is also part of the Silicon Valley approach that holds that human problems can be solved once and for all through the disruptive power of technology."

"In that sense, perhaps the most shocking element of the story is not the Chinese government's agenda, but how similar it is to the path technology is taking elsewhere."

https://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/27/opinions/china-social-credit-score-creemers/index.html

From Oppression to Liberation: Reclaiming the Right to Privacy
https://privacyinternational.org/report/2457/report-oppression-liberation-reclaiming-right-privacy

there's amazing work being done in exposing and critiquing technology and its intersection with society, politics, economics, environmental impact etc.. but the subset of it done by women, and with an explicit feminist decolonial approach? that's the very best

'This paper presents an empirical study of the prevalence of third-party trackers on 959,000 apps from the US and UK Google Play stores.'

'The extent of tracking [...] differs between categories of apps; in particular, news apps and apps targeted at children appear to be among the worst in terms of the number of third party trackers associated with them.'

https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03603

'Why bother with P2P when you still need to guarantee uptime?'

https://pfrazee.hashbase.io/blog/why-bother-with-p2p

provocation article (cw: dystopia)
'Fashion Is Surveillance Is Technology'
https://www.ssense.com/en-us/editorial/fashion/fashion-is-surveillance-is-technology

"Beyond Growth
Imagining an economy based in environmental reality"

https://longreads.com/2018/09/27/beyond-growth/