Notices by Ecologia Digital (josemurilo@ecodigital.social)

'There is a form of #privacy being violated— activist Maciej Cegłowski calls it #ambientprivacy: “the understanding that there is value in having our everyday interactions with one another remain outside the reach of #monitoring, and that the small details of our daily lives should pass by unremembered. What we do at home, work, church, school or in our leisure time does not belong in a #permanentrecord.

Not every #conversation needs to be a #deposition.”'

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/11/can-we-talk-in-confidence-the-death-of-candour-in-the-age-of-surveillance

"The #farright does not seize power. It is invited in to power by mainstream #conservatives, who boast of their commitment to #freesocieties. They do it for partisan gain…because they hate and fear the #left more than they hate and fear the far right."

https://theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/06/far-right-invited-conservatives-boris-johnson

"On 10 April, astrophysicists announced that they had captured the 1st ever image of a #blackhole.

No headlines mentioned that the image would have been impossible without open-source software: #Matplotlib, a #Python library for graphing data.

Just 5 days later, the NSF rejected a grant to support that ecosystem, saying that the software lacked sufficient impact.

#opensource is widely acknowledged as crucially important in science, yet it is funded non-sustainably."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02046-0

VICE News applied to buy #Facebook fake ads on behalf of all 100 sitting U.S. senators, including ads “Paid for by” by Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer

#Facebook's #PaidForBy feature is easily manipulated & allow anyone to lie about who is paying for a political ad, or to pose as someone else paying for the ad.

100% of entirely fake content in experiment was approved by FB.

How protected are the elections?

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/xw9n3q/we-posed-as-100-senators-to-run-ads-on-facebook-facebook-approved-all-of-them

Zuckerberg believes that Facebook’s problems can be solved. Many experts do not.
users, politicians, and governments rarely agree on the rules in the first place. The issue, experts say, is that Facebook's audience is now so large and so diverse that it's nearly impossible to govern every possible interaction on the site.
https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/xwk9zd/how-facebook-content-moderation-works

Faking #Nigeria’s iconic #football shirt: A how-to guide

"If #Wakanda had a #footballteam, this is the kit they would wear.
It’s cool. And I want one.

For better and worse, this is a country where #counterfeit is king. In a sense, the knock-off version of the #Nigerian kit may be a more authentic expression of national identity than the real thing."

https://mg.co.za/article/2018-07-20-00-faking-nigerias-iconic-football-shirt-a-how-to-guide

#MustRead: Becoming Someone

"How can we jam the current architecture of #socialmedia? How do we design technologies that are identity-proof, that prevent the #identity from broadcasting itself unlimitedly?

Social media may be using us as “human shields” to protect itself.

We believe that harnessing tendencies for collective problem solving will pave the next revolution.

The network society must stop feeding identity and give rise to the problem-solving society."

https://medium.com/mit-media-lab/becoming-someone-54ed1798a1b7

https://ecodigital.social/media/kbsomWnDGD5N5s2QShc
Via @kengarex

"The Metropolitan #Museum of Art and the #Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that supports #Wikipedia and its sister projects, are partners on a simple shared mission: connecting audiences to #openknowledge, ideas, and creativity on a global scale.

#Data from #culturalinstitutions can be seamlessly ingested by #Wikidata, and synchronized to the #Commons on an ongoing basis, removing the need for time-intensive, manual data upload and update processes."

https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/wikimedia-and-the-met-a-shared-digital-vision-f91b59eab2e9

#RightToBeForgotten
#Google must delete links

"It is quite likely that that there will be an increase in the number of successful requests for delisting, as individuals take note of the court's analysis, and assert their strong and potentially enforceable rights to have out-of-date or inaccurate information about them on the internet made more difficult, at least, to find."

#privacy #personaldata
#digitalmemory

https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/law/google-must-delete-links-in-right-to-be-forgotten-case/5065677.article

"#Information wants to be #free." ~Stewart Brand
Did he really say that? YES
"I did say it. I said a little more about information wanting to be expensive as well.
All quotes are partial quotes, missing the sentences before and after, the context, the date in history, etc.
I made the remark in reply to #Wozniak opining that software engineers should be properly paid for their creations. The topic was #softwarepiracy, at the 1984 #HackersConference, which I co-organized."
https://ecodigital.social/media/AtXR_LBTSkkdQTAdWH0

"#Barcelona is experimenting with socializing data in order to promote new cooperative approaches to solving common urban problems.

Incubating such innovative approaches that encourage the creation of new social rights to data is the objective of #Decode.

This common data infrastructure will remain open to local companies, co-ops and social organizations that can build data-driven services and create long-term public value."

http://nzzl.us/30v0K5o

"When Mark #Zuckerberg started #Facebook, a friend of his expressed surprise that people were surrendering so much personal data to the platform. “I don’t know why,” Zuckerberg said. “They trust me. Dumb ...”

We may have been dumb to trust Facebook with our data in the first place. Now we know they've been using the data to make us even dumber."

@Rushkoff

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-rushkoff-leaving-facebook-20180325-story.html

https://ecodigital.social/media/ld53uaubmEPkPUZjoD0

#ACLU:
The #CloudAct Is a Sinister Piece of Legislation

It "represents a major change in the law — and a major #threat to our #freedoms. Congress should not try to sneak it by the American people by hiding it inside of a giant #spendingbill.

There has not been even one minute devoted to considering #amendments to this proposal. #Congress should robustly debate this bill and take steps to fix its many flaws, instead of trying to pull a fast one on the American people."

https://medium.com/aclu/the-cloud-act-is-a-sinister-piece-of-legislation-816f7e1fdac4

"#MarielleFranco’s death–a carefully targeted shooting by apparently professional killers–sent shockwaves across the world..
On Friday, Brazilian media reported that the bullets that killed her were part of a batch sold to federal police in Brasília in 2006.
EU parliament deputies condemned the killing, #Brazil’s prosecutor general, Raquel Dodge, called it an attack on #democracy. The great Brazilian music star #CaetanoVeloso wrote a song for her"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/18/marielle-franco-brazil-favelas-mourn-death-champion https://ecodigital.social/media/G2YA2rUFdRHHKzgmtl4

"#MarielleFranco was elected with the leftist Socialist and Freedom Party (#PSOL) in 2016 as the fifth most voted councillor in #RiodeJaneiro, #Brazil's second-largest city with a population of over six million.

As a #young, #black, favela-bred #lesbian woman #activist, she championed several #underrepresented demographics in Brazil's institutional politics and was beloved by activists across the country."

https://globalvoices.org/2018/03/15/city-councillor-and-leading-rights-activist-shot-dead-in-downtown-rio-de-janeiro/

#Data #Capitalism: "#bigdata produces #externalities. The extractors reap profits, while the rest of us are left with the personal, social, and #environmental consequences –from the annihilation of #privacy to algorithmic #racism to a rapidly warming #climate."
https://t.co/o0zX2hhLNi

#Telegram plans to launch its own #blockchain platform and native #cryptocurrency, powering #payments on its chat app and beyond…
“Telegram Open Network #TON will be ‘3rd gen' blockchain with new capabilities, after #Bitcoin and #Ethereum paved the way."

https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/08/telegram-open-network/

“The whole point of #distributed #ledgers is to have a group of computers coming to consensus in such a way that we don’t have to #trust any one person,” Dr. Baird [#holochain creator] says, but such “#consensus #algorithms” can be built a number of other ways than with #blockchain, a technology, he argues, still lacks in #fairness.

"Beneath bitcoin: the quest for a new layer of Internet technology"

https://www.theworldweekly.com/reader/view/magazine/2017-12-14/beneath-bitcoin-the-quest-for-a-new-layer-of-internet-technology/10418/

Why #WordPress matters?

Because @Photomatt (Matt Mullenweg) is a principled guy.

#React is back to the project, along with other options (#Preact, #Polymer, or #Vue), after #Facebook u-turn on the patent clause issue.

(09/14/2017)
"On React and Wordpress"
https://ma.tt/2017/09/on-react-and-wordpress/

(09/24/2017)
"Facebook Dropping Patent Clause"
https://ma.tt/2017/09/facebook-dropping-patent-clause/ https://ecodigital.social/media/uHneeMYKmJ4ZBz_oqMg