The Cut
My Mind Is a Palace Stuffed With Exquisite Garbage
3 min · · And yours can be, too. · Shared by 280, including Matthias Lampe, Rick Powell
The Guardian
Internet 'is not working for women and girls', says Berners-Lee
2 min · · Inventor of world wide web calls for urgent action to make cyberspace safer for women and girls · Shared by 117, including Rick Powell, Brian Ahier, Jennifer Stirrup #MBA Topics: #AI #Data #Strategy, Connie Ragen Green, @grzewap@mastodon.social, Dr Jim Walsh, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Katja Evertz
WIRED
Inside Mark Zuckerberg's Lost Notebook
4 min · · In the early days of Facebook, Zuck kept his plans for world domination in handwritten journals. He destroyed them. But a few revealing pages survived. · Shared by 422, including John Battelle, Liliane Ferrari ™, Marsha Collier, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, elpocas, Katja Evertz, Josh Elman, Martin Varsavsky, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Mark Kaigwa, Backchannel, John Koetsier, Mathew Ingram, Matthias Lampe, Bill Johnston, Johannes Lenz, Esther Schindler, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Vikram Dutt, Claudia Sommer
The Guardian
Revealed: quarter of all tweets about climate crisis produced by bots
5 min · · Draft of Brown study says findings suggest ‘substantial impact of mechanized bots in amplifying denialist messages’ · Shared by 476, including Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Dr. Alec Couros, The Real Prof. Katharine Hayhoe, Carl Robinson 🎙️, Prof Michael E. Mann, Steve Faktor, Bill McKibben, Andres Oppenheimer, Dr. Jacquelyn Gill, Deborah Blum, marco iacoboni, Thomas Power, Mathew Ingram, Matt Navarra, Ray Monk, Claudia Sommer, Bethany Brookshire, W. David Stephenson, Tristan Harris, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
WIRED
Signal Is Finally Bringing Its Secure Messaging to the Masses
6 min · · The encryption app is putting a $50 million infusion from WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton to good use, building out features to help it go mainstream. · Shared by 158, including Matthias Lampe, Jennifer Ouellette, 瑞拿頭, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Backchannel, Matthew Green, mastodon.social/@renestalder, Philippe, Charlie O'Keefe @charlieok@hachyderm.io, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Johannes Lenz, Axel Rauschmayer (INACTIVE), Ben Lorica 罗瑞卡, Michael Arrington 🏴☠️ 🛡️, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Rick Powell
Engadget
Qualcomm's new mobile chipsets pack more features for the non-5G crowd
2 min · · In other words, they're meant for most of the world. · Shared by 38, including Rick Powell, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
TNW
Facebook and Zuckerberg keep getting ‘freedom of expression’ wrong
3 min · · Facebook's digital panopticon creates a “chilling effect,” where people are afraid to exercise their freedom of expression. · Shared by 20, including Ayala Sherbow, TNW Top Stories, Neal Schaffer | ニール・シェーファー, Rick Powell, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
MIT Technology Review
Why an internet that never forgets is especially bad for young people
7 min · · As past identities become stickier for those entering adulthood, it’s not just individuals who will suffer. Society will too. · Shared by 211, including Liliane Ferrari ™, Casie Gillette, Kelsey D. Atherton, now available on Bluesky, Mike Butcher, ΛLΞX TRΞJʘ, Remo Uherek, Brad Brooks, Mark Kaigwa, Rick Powell, Neeraj K Agrawal, Anthony Hamelle, Brian Roemmele, Mars Rebello, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Hugo Amsellem, Chris Gledhill
The Guardian
Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak ‘shows global manipulation is out of control’
4 min · · Company’s work in 68 countries laid bare with release of more than 100,000 documents · Shared by 339, including Carl Zimmer, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Scott Galloway, A C Grayling #FBPE #Reform #Rejoin #FBPR, Joy Harjo, Axel Rauschmayer (INACTIVE), Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Shoshana Zuboff, Guy Kawasaki, Susan Krauss Whitbourne PhD, ABPP, Pippa Malmgren, Gregg Caruso, Chris Isak, Carla Gentry 🎶, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Emmy van Deurzen☀️🌍 🌻🌹🌳🇪🇺🇫🇷🇳🇱🇬🇧🇺🇸⭐️, John Battelle, Steve Silberman, Chris Messina, 艾未未 Ai Weiwei
The Guardian
A brutal year: how the 'techlash' caught up with Facebook, Google and Amazon
6 min · · Privacy scandals and antitrust issues dogged Facebook and Google and Amazon saw a rise in employee organizing · Shared by 148, including Dean Anthony Gratton, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, luis antónio santos, Faik Ersoy, Katja Evertz, Mark Kaigwa, Rick Powell, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
snopes.com
A Message to Our Community Regarding the Facebook Fact-Checking Partnership
1 min · · After two years, Snopes.com has withdrawn from a fact-checking partnership with Facebook. · Shared by 4, including Rick Powell
ELLE Magazine (US)
Google Loved Me, Until I Pointed Out Everything That Sucked About It
13+ min · · Claire Stapleton didn't just buy into the lore of Google—she helped write it. What happened when the bard of Google became one of its most vocal critics? · Shared by 163, including Gianluca Diegoli, Claudia Sommer, Mark Kaigwa, Katja Evertz, Gisele Navarro, Florian Hanke 🍎, Nilofer Merchant, Rick Powell
The Guardian
'I am going to say quiet words in your face just like I did with Trump': a conversation with the…
5 min · · Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg won’t talk to the Guardian. So we fed everything he says into an algorithm, built a Zuckerbot, and interviewed it · Shared by 90, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Carolina A. Miranda, Mina Markham, Rick Powell, Matthias Lampe, John Koetsier, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Mathew Ingram, Gengo 🦁, Luke Robert Mason, Clemens M. Schuster
The New York Times
It Seemed Like a Popular Chat App. It’s Secretly a Spy Tool.
7 min · · ToTok, an Emirati messaging app that has been downloaded to millions of phones, is the latest escalation of a digital arms race. · Shared by 162, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Michael S. Schmidt, Adam Singer, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Azeem Azhar, J. P. Gownder (கவுண்டர்), Aral Balkan, Marc R Gagné MAPP, John Keefe, Peter Steinberger, Michael (मुकेश), Bilal Zuberi, M. Serdar Kuzuloğlu, Josh Wolfe, The Indian Express, Carla Gentry 🎶, Mathew Ingram, Liliane Ferrari ™, Chris Brogan/Chief of Staff, SwiftOnSecurity
Vox
Google’s Larry Page gave $400 million in Christmas donations. Not a penny went straight to charity.
10 min · · Google’s founder gave $400 million in Christmas donations. Not a penny went straight to charity. · Shared by 28, including Rand Fishkin, Josh Wolfe, Philanthropy News Digest, Steve Faktor, Rick Powell
The Intercept
In Court, Facebook Blames Users for Destroying Their Own Right to Privacy
6 min · · “The whole premise of Facebook is to render not private” your activity, said company lawyer, fighting off lawsuits over Cambridge Analytica data collection. · Shared by 58, including Sam DeZerga, Dominik Grolimund, Matt Navarra, Rick Powell, Charles Baldwin, Christian Müller, Adrienne Fichter, Mohamed Azazy