SparkToro
The Tyranny of Optimizing for Amplification
3 min · · Every day, when I log into Twitter, open up LinkedIn, read my email, browse Trending or HN or Pocket, I'm in a perpetual statement of harsh, unrelenting · Shared by 48, including Rand Fishkin, Katja Evertz, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Cyrus, Daniel Schwarz, Alberto Dafonte, Ian Lurie 🇺🇦 @ianlurie@mastodon.social
Süddeutsche Zeitung
“We have at most a year to defend American democracy, perhaps less“
19+ min · · Timothy Snyder is a professor of history at Yale University and the author of numerous books of European history, including „Bloodlands“ and „Black Earth“. His most recent book, “On Tyranny: Twenty... · Shared by 16, including Ryan Boren
Salon
Historian Timothy Snyder: “It’s pretty much inevitable” that Trump will try to stage a coup and overthrow democracy
9 min · · Yale historian and author of the new book "On Tyranny" says we may have one year left to save American democracy VIDEO · Shared by 36, including ...und meine Frau ist auch Elon Musk!, Mathew Ingram, Simon Wüthrich, Mark Kaigwa
WIRED
Edward Snowden on Protecting Activists Against Surveillance
4 min · · “Turnkey tyranny” has never been closer. For some communities, it feels like it’s already here. · Shared by 22, including Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor
medium.com
The Tyranny of Agile
5 min · · “The tyranny of agile.” Never thought you’d hear me say that, did you? · Shared by 33, including Ryan Boren, Dominik Grolimund, Pat Kua, shishir das, Patrick Walsh
jofreeman.com
The Tyranny of Stuctureless
20+ min · · For everyone to have the opportunity to be involved in a given group and to participate in its activities the structure must be explicit, not implicit. The rules of decision-making must be open and… · Shared by 126, including Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Aniyia ❤️, Eli Pariser | @elipariser@mastodon.social, Kevin Marks 🏠kevinmarks.com xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks, tante, Marc Andreessen -- e/acc, Esther Schindler, ɯoɔ ʇop pןɐʍuɐƃɐɹ uo ǝɯ puıɟ, Mark Needham, Balaji, Pat Kua, Christopher Allen, your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐀 🐍👑 🌷, Russ Cox, zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓, Daniel Mezick, Carl Morris, Thomas Power, Vinny Lingham, Mark Kaigwa
WIRED
The Educational Tyranny of the Neurotypicals
9 min · · The current school system is too rigid, and it’s designed for a different world anyway. · Shared by 78, including Joi Ito, Zachary Becker, Tauno, 🏳️🌈☕Suzannah Is Being Incorrectly Female☕🏳️🌈
The New Yorker
When Tyranny Takes Hold
4 min · · Xu Hongci’s experiences in China show that autocracy demands collaborators. · Shared by 29, including Esther Schindler, Florian Jungnikl-Gossy 🦋, Serge K. Keller ❦
The New York Times
The Tyranny of Convenience
2 min · · All the personal tasks in our lives are being made easier. But at what cost? · Shared by 255, including Clemens M. Schuster, Oscar MacDonald, Paulo Gaspar, Francis Wade at JumpLeap, John Zeratsky, Dominik Grolimund, Mark Kaigwa, John ʕ꘠ ͟ʖ꘠ʔ Ford, Pieter van Diggele, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Katja Evertz, Florian Hanke 🍎, Chris Schultz✌️ & ❤️, Paddy Zab, Andreia Costa 🇵🇹, Daron Larson, Rodrigo Franco (Caffo), 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Neil Lee, Christian P. Stobbe
New York Magazine
The Republic Repeals Itself
8 min · · A country designed to resist tyranny has now embraced it. · Shared by 39, including Jens-Christian Fischer, Michael Robinson, Rico Grimm, Michael Schilliger, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
The New York Times
Opinion | Cars Are Ruining Our Cities
4 min · · That’s why more and more towns are deciding to wrest control of their streets from the tyranny of the automobile. · Shared by 35, including Andrzej Jóźwik, Martina Grolimund
TNW
Watch out Google! Blockchain will set us free from data tyranny
8 min · · Do you know how much data you actually own? You would think it would be a lot, right? We’re constantly feeding the internet with our personal information, traits, habits, and characteristics — so at… · Shared by 100, including Thomas Power, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Education Architects, Helmi, Agustin, Vikram Dutt, Andrzej Jóźwik, Stefan Diepolder
Insider Business
The 9 terms and phrases you need to know if you think you're being manipulated
11+ min · · Simply knowing the terms may give you strength. · Shared by 7
The New Yorker
The Unimaginable Reality of American Concentration Camps
4 min · · The debate over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s use of the term “concentration camp” is not about language or facts. It is about how we perceive history, ourselves, and ourselves in history. · Shared by 51, including luis antónio santos, Jane, Carly, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Charles Baldwin, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr