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Not that funny, but still a good video on why we need right to repair legislation:
Can hacking be justified? An analysis of Kenneth Himma’s argument on hacking as civil disobedience, and a discussion on how risks for security are distributed between who decides, who receives benefit and who the cost. Great lecture with @KMacnish on computer ethics today!
Today’s lecture with @Nisa00 on the “Politics of problem definition: the co-production of institutions, migrants and technologies”.
Agree with this article from the Washington Post on how it seems that so much classical is being promoted as soothing or something to fall asleep too: “This is a deeply unsatisfying way to describe one of our most storied art forms. Even music that is superficially calm and slow can contain depth, tension and difficult themes. The industry sells classical music as a mellow monolith when it is in fact capable of stirring any and all emotions, serving any and all ends — divine and hellish. The way we talk about culture, any culture, shapes how we think about it, so we should not be so narrow in our choice of language.”.
Article on Chomsky’s thoughts on individual choice: “Chomsky has written extensively about how a ‘rational’ debate can be so constructed as to completely undermine – indeed, subvert – the irreducible moral values implicit in a choice.”.
From @ProtonMail on a new Autralian anti-encryption law: “There is nothing new about a government seeking to break encryption. From the British Investigatory Powers law to the NSA’s possible decryption programs, law enforcement agencies around the world are working hard to gain an edge over information security technology. But Australia’s new law goes much further, deputizing tech businesses as accomplices in a surveillance scheme so loosely conceived that no one really knows its limits.” .
This article from The Guardian presents an interesting case on if a company can fire a worker for refusing to use biometrics, in this case for time clocking.
Selling awkward tech is a form of art. Check out this weird body measuring suit for clothes.
Fascinating film on operation, social negotiations, etiquette,… of old tech, the “party line”, where a single telephone line was shared in a community. See the video on The Internet Archive.