Tactical Tech ✅ @info_activism@mastodon.cc

Plague Fatigue
The pandemic changed our lives but not our societies https://thebaffler.com/alienated/plague-fatigue-zakaria

Young Americans are more likely to understand how news works on Google and Facebookhttps://www.niemanlab.org/2021/03/young-americans-are-more-likely-to-understand-how-news-works-on-google-and-facebook/

At a time of anxiety about fake news and conspiracy theories, philosophy can contribute to our most urgent cultural and political questions about how we come to believe what we think we know https://bostonreview.net/philosophy-religion/michael-patrick-lynch-value-truth

Environmental Bike, pollution sound http://neural.it/2021/03/environmental-bike-pollution-sound/

Activating the Glitch: A Conversation with Legacy Russell https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/activating-the-glitch-a-conversation-with-legacy-russell/

Support for QAnon is hard to measure — and polls may overestimate it https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/03/support-for-qanon-is-hard-to-measure-and-polls-may-overestimate-it/

Now Accepting Applications for the OTF Usability Lab https://www.opentech.fund/news/now-accepting-applications-again-for-the-otf-usability-lab/

No to the new Google Cloud in Saudi Arabia: Access Now, CIPPIC flag serious human rights concerns https://www.accessnow.org/google-cloud-in-saudi-arabia-human-rights-concerns/

Sudan's revised cybercrime law falls short on its promise https://advox.globalvoices.org/2021/03/04/sudans-revised-cybercrime-law-falls-short-on-its-promise/

Digital colonialism
The evolution of US empire https://longreads.tni.org/digital-colonialism-the-evolution-of-us-empire

The corporate capture of global governance and what we are doing about it https://www.tni.org/en/article/the-corporate-capture-of-global-governance-and-what-we-are-doing-about-it

This list aggregates open-source projects that are directly related to humane tech topics https://github.com/humanetech-community/awesome-humane-tech

A Leading Critic of Big Tech Will Join the White House https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/05/technology/tim-wu-white-house.html

New Extractivism - An assemblage of concepts and allegories @TheCreaturesLab@twitter.com

Machine Diagnosis
https://onlineopen.org/machine-diagnosis

Facebook's news ban 'experiment' is almost over. Here's what we've learnt
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-02-24/facebook-news-ban-experiment-australia-what-we-have-learnt/13183828

"blank" spreads http://www.kerrymansfield.com/blanks

How Not to Know Ourselves
Platform data do not provide a direct window into human behavior. Rather, they are direct records of how we behave under platforms’ influence https://points.datasociety.net/how-not-to-know-ourselves-5227c185569

Civil Society Groups Oppose Plans foraBig Tech Dominated Body for Global Digital Governance https://justnetcoalition.org/big-tech-governing-big-tech.pdf