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Let the accelerating AI annexation stay regulation-free as ‘it’s just version 2.0 of the Industrial Revolution’? Geoffrey Hinton, the newest physics Nobelist, is telling us why that’s a fool’s argument 03/01/2025
for 25. 12. 2024 25/12/2024
Christo preceded Banksy in wresting material security or ‘business models’ from ephemeral, unshackled art — offered to all with no admission fee 01/09/2024
for 31. 3. 2024 31/03/2024
Proofs of concept for a keiretsu-cooperative to succeed the data collection and ad-dependent legacy publishing model— from TikTok, the online Daily Mail … and Shakespeare 12/03/2024
The proof that newspapers’ reader-commenters are data-collection gold is in site-owners’ tightening restrictions; attempts to control the historical record; and seizing gifts to the commons for themselves 01/01/2024
for 25. 12. 2023 25/12/2023
Tech power has gone bully-boy, part 3: Gen Z knows that apps are feeding into early command-and-control AI. It must stop feeling powerless and act 03/06/2023
for 9. 4. 2023 09/04/2023
Tech power has gone bully-boy, part 2: as they shove apps, QR codes and their spying tool siblings onto us, why are the technologically unskilled more thuggish than tech insiders? 25/01/2023
for 1. 1. 2023 01/01/2023
Tech power has gone bully-boy since its spread beyond Big Tech and Silicon Valley to traditional enterprises. For the fightback, we want a super-app that puts our choices first 30/12/2022
for 25. 12. 2022 25/12/2022
The let’s-hear-from-everyone media revolution needs Elon Musk as much as he needs Twitter. His guides would be Robert Oppenheimer, Michelangelo and King Crimson 05/10/2022
for 17. 4. 2022 16/04/2022
A backward glance at a digital future foretold — and in Silicon Valley’s north, an icon of ultra-Luddite resistance in the California legal system 07/03/2022
for 31. 12. 2021 30/12/2021
for 25. 12. 2021 25/12/2021
for 4. 4. 2021 03/04/2021
for 1. 1. 2021 01/01/2021
for 25. 12. 2020 25/12/2020
Pssst! It’s almost a secret, but Britain’s House of Lords wants your opinion about protecting your freedom to speak your mind online 23/12/2020
Notes on a U.S. congressional hearing: turning antitrust guns on Big Tech will not shield us from Orwellian puppeteering. Why did the politician-legislators choose the wrong focus? 31/07/2020
Big Tech dangers we are not talking about — especially, how the theft of our personal data is opening the way to future subjugation and control at the scale of masses, not just individuals 30/06/2020
¡Hola! Here comes the Micrashell pandemic futuresuit — a stage-designer’s computerised protective costume from Spain and L.A., … and cyber life’s next leap? 27/05/2020
A parallel in contraception for the mass-produceable, anti-Covid-19 garment we need to end the lockdown — with or without help from Silicon Valley — while waiting for vaccines 30/04/2020
for 12. 4. 2020 12/04/2020
Will Covid-19 add a new occasional garment to our wardrobes — the flusuit, an equivalent of swimsuits and raincoats for lethal flu season viruses threatening to turn pandemic? 01/04/2020
How do you discover the actual origin of a bug — such as ‘surveillance capitalism’ — when its history as a feature is all but lost? Could a better Wikipedia help? 05/03/2020
Social media critics who do not separate their objections are cooking up an anti-Big Tech jambalaya confusing regulators about the ‘surveillance capitalism’ that Google did not pioneer 06/02/2020
Do drugs explain George Orwell’s ability to ‘communicate with the future’ from 1949 — and if so, have micro-dosing technologists or other intellectuals shown any sign of matching it? 16/01/2020
for 1. 1. 2020 01/01/2020
for 25. 12. 2019 25/12/2019
How a well-meaning Angela Merkel choosing the wrong tactic for protecting Europe from Big (U.S.) Tech’s incursions could make Orwell’s dystopia our reality 18/11/2019
Mystery solved? Famous newspapers that ignored the Social Media Strike of 2019 have agreed to accept regular payments of millions of dollars from Facebook 30/10/2019
Who is trying to write the Social Media Strike of 2019 out of today’s most widely relied-on historical record? And why did so many of the most powerful traditional news sites ignore it? 30/09/2019
Join the social media strike. Sign the Declaration of Digital Independence 04/07/2019
Daring, risky innovation by a famously conservative — notoriously hidebound — public service institution leaves old print ‘legacy’ media trailing far in its wake 30/06/2019
Wanted: a brave newspaper, for an experiment in which readers become stakeholders ( updated, 25.5.2019 ). The keiretsu-cooperative is a kind of platform cooperative — an idea getting closer to takeoff 25/05/2019
for 21. 4. 2019 21/04/2019
In Jeff Bezos’s nasty fight with a tabloid, a hint of how transparency in e-commerce is guiding the design of online courts in the litigation revolution 25/02/2019
Rich America is still the bizarre laggard in the — anti-inequality — litigation revolution. Should this be on 2020 presidential campaign posters? 30/01/2019
Neuroscience says that the power of faces is unique and crucial: should Facebook be allowed to effectively own it, with or without regulation? 16/01/2019
for 1. 1. 2019 01/01/2019
for 25. 12. 2018 25/12/2018
O happy day! The ‘free’ surveillance/advertising-centred/data-cow business model has been superseded by the pay-to-be-spied-on contract for e-commerce 02/12/2018
Big Brother takes an alarming step past watching us — and shows why Tim Berners-Lee’s plan for resurrecting his open web needs all our support 30/10/2018
Why O hushed October morning mild … ? 03/10/2018

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