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The Sierra Adventure tells the story of legendary computer game company Sierra On-Line, developers of industry defining titles such as …
In this expanded edition of her bestselling 1989 CBC Massey Lectures, renowned scientist and humanitarian Ursula M. Franklin examines the …
Part-biography, part-political thriller, The Unaccountability Machine is a rousing exposé of how management failures lead organisations to make catastrophic errors. …
The Sierra Adventure tells the story of legendary computer game company Sierra On-Line, developers of industry defining titles such as …
@DrFerrous@hachyderm.io Yes! I watched that one! I’ve been thinking a lot about how our collective obsession with doing things at scale is screwing us over left and right!
A concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from—for the first time—the point of view of the user
In …
A concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from—for the first time—the point of view of the user
In …
A concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from—for the first time—the point of …
A "Facebook killer" isn't the right way to image Facebook's demise; it would just mean moving on to a new set of problems on another platform. The only solution to Facebook is for Facebook not to exist and for nothing Facebook-like to pick up in its absence.
— Lurking: How a Person Became a User by Joanne McNeil (Page 218)
A concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from—for the first time—the point of …
To deter scrutiny, many tech founders and insiders assumed the mantle of responsibility and attempted to diversify their teams (rather than turning to existing feminist organizers in Silicon Valley, like Double Union). They prioritized capitalism-compliant optics over real solutions, the polite over the combative, and the conciliatory over the activist, just like Lean In. Championing "diversity" was also a diversion tactic. Throwing money at diversity programs was less fraught than examining the causes for the lack of it (patriarchy, white su-premacy, and capitalism). Heartwarming images of ten-year-old girls learning Python could temporarily overshadow other issues that Silicon Valley was increasingly held accountable for, like the vast and growing economic inequality in the Bay Area, the omnisurveillance that Edward Snowden's disclosures brought to public attention, surveillance capitalism, and how the tech industry exacerbated lack of public trust in institutions.
— Lurking: How a Person Became a User by Joanne McNeil (Page 163)
A concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from—for the first time—the point of …
I never would have guessed the jaded, obscurantist humor I remember from AOL days could become something accessible to most; but it was internet humor —not specific to us or our time and place. Our jokes-like Dril's, some twenty years later—were the gallows humor of young people with a screen and no future.
— Lurking: How a Person Became a User by Joanne McNeil (Page 127)
We now live in an “ordinal society.” Nearly every aspect of our lives is measured, ranked, and processed into discrete, …
A concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from—for the first time—the point of view of the user
In …
The Entrepreneurial State: debunking public vs. private sector myths stirred up much-needed debate about the role of the state in …
The Entrepreneurial State: debunking public vs. private sector myths stirred up much-needed debate about the role of the state in …
@khinsen@scholar.social Illich only appears in a footnote, but his idea of "radical monopoly" makes an appearance there (not the tools for conviviality though!) It's a really interesting read, can recommend it if you can find time on your reading list!
